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Allison Floyd

The Asian tiger mosquito (Aedes albopictus) is the most common mosquito in Georgia and, while it doesn’t travel very far, can spread some nasty diseases. Experts advise suburban and urban residents to root out standing water around their homes and to be aware that the risk of diseases like West Nile Virus increases in late summer and early fall. (Photo: Contributed)

 Health & Medicine July 21, 2025

Mosquitos are more than a nuisance

The laurel dace lives only in a few streams in southeastern Tennessee and faced extinction as a 2024 drought dried up its habitat. Conservation biologists conducted an emergency rescue, and today two Odum School of Ecology graduate students are working with the Tennessee Aquarium to give the minnow a better chance at long-term survival. (Photo: Doug Strickland, Tennessee Aquarium)

 Ecology July 10, 2025

Endangered minnow rallies conservationists in race to save laurel dace

Meet the Tapir Valley tree frog, measuring just 2 centimeters and categorized as a critically endangered species in the journal Zootaxa. Thought to exist only in a single wetland in Costa Rica, it was first identified in 2018 by herpetologist Donald Varela-Soto, who discovered a male of the species that year. (Photo: Twan Leenders)

 Ecology June 26, 2025

Sounds of survival: A grad student’s quest to protect the Tapir Valley tree frog

Researchers working with fire ants are trying to understand how a small group of ants can convince a larger group to change a fundamental aspect of their behavior—whether they kill or nurture multiple queens. Their work was published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

 Entomology May 07, 2025

A minority can influence whole group to change, study finds

With technical guidance and organizational support from UGA and other U.S. institutions, the Groundnut Improvement Network for Africa, or GINA, is developing peanut varieties that help African farmers adapt to threats of plant disease and climate change.

 Agriculture July 24, 2024

UGA supports African research network breeding climate-adapted peanuts

 Agriculture October 13, 2023

Peanut Innovation Lab at UGA receives $2.5M grant to help farmers in Madagascar

 Awards & Honors July 24, 2023

Peanut Innovation Lab takes home research award

Farmers standing in a row of crops

 Agriculture April 20, 2022

Innovation Lab uses power of peanuts to fight hunger

UGA horticulture scientist Ye Juliet Chu is the latest peanut researcher in the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences to produce three breeding lines from peanut’s wild relatives

 Plant Science January 20, 2022

Peanut researchers create disease-resistant hybrids

David and Soraya Leal-Bertioli in a greenhouse

 Genetics September 13, 2021

Tracking wild peanut genes to improve crop resilience