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Ongoing endophyte research in the lab featured on TV station KBTX (Bryan/College Station, TX):

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(Direct link here. Trouble embedding this one)

Significant yield gains with Indigo Cotton:

 

Here’s a Mormon cricket migratory band in action.

I shot it near Dinosaur National Monument in NE Utah while conducting fieldwork with Pat Lorch and Darryl Gwynne. Even though the quality isn’t that great, it has been used lots of times on various TV and online news reports.

It doesn’t get much cooler than this:

Unless, perhaps, you are in Australia and get the chance to see a migratory band of Australian Plague locusts like this:

***Thanks to Jerome Buhl for the Australian Plague locust video.

Here’s a video from National Geographic about our Mormon cricket radiotracking efforts.
(Direct link here. This one doesn’t play well sometimes.)

 

This is a neat one about Mormon crickets produced by New Scientist. It features some of the actual videos we used to quantify the nutritional state of Mormon crickets while marching in migratory bands.

Recent Posts

  • New paper in Science changes the way we think about locust swarming
  • Sword Lab students win big at 2025 Beltwide Cotton Conference
  • Sword lab students win again at 2024 Entomological Society of America meeting!
  • Sword lab students win big at 2023 Entomological Society of America meeting!
  • Cotton gene-editing project paves a new path for plant protection
  • New PNAS paper about density-dependent warning coloration in adult locusts

Lab contact information

Gregory Sword

Professor & Charles R. Parencia Chair in Cotton Entomology

Department of Entomology,
Interdisciplinary Ecology & Evolutionary Biology (EEB) Degree Program, and
Molecular & Environmental Plant Sciences Program
Texas A&M University
TAMU 2475
College Station, TX, 77843, USA

Directions to lab: (Google map)
Entomology Research Lab Rm. 112-120

Email: gasword[at]tamu.edu
Phone: (979) 862-1702
Fax: (979) 845-6305

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