Our faculty in this program mainly conducts research in the following areas: interactions of agricultural insects and plants, causes and epidemic patterns of pest damage, harmful effects of pest damage, mechanisms of plant resistance to pests, and theories and techniques of pest prevention and control. The program includes five research areas, including insect ecology and integrated pest management, insect physiology and toxicology, insect genetics and genomics, insect taxonomy and evolution, as well as insect behavior and the biological control of pests.
General information: The Department of Entomology at the China Agricultural University (CAU) was founded in 1905, and is one of the top entomology departments in China. The Department was authorized to train Ph.D students in 1981. In 1988, The Department welcomed the first batch of the national work station of post-doctoral fellows. The Department has also been included in the ‘211’ and ‘985’national plans, and had a key laboratory of insect physiology, biological, and chemical ecology.
The main aim of our research is the development and advancement of entomological knowledge for sustainable integrated crop production systems in China. The major research areas within the Department are insect pest management (especially of field crops, greenhouse, and vegetable insects, plant resistance to insect pests), biological control, ecology, pathology, toxicology and physiology, morphology and systematics, evolutionary biology and behavior, and apiculture. The department's research productivity, based on publications per faculty member, is the highest in CAU during past 50 years. Faculty members have earned numerous local, regional, and national awards for their accomplishments in entomology.