Purdue University Entomologist Dr. Tom Turpin Presents Program to Ag Alumni

Dr. Turpin takes time to pose with Dakota Cook, an Oregon-Davis advisor and Danielle Marsh, Oregon-Davis reporter

Dr. Tom Turpin, an Entomology professor at Purdue University, provided the program this week at the Purdue Ag. Alumni Annual Meeting held at the Toto Cafe.

“Many of them are pests, of course,” said Dr. Turpin. “We have many disease carrying insects like mosquitoes and then we have those that feed on our crops and those who feed on our possessions like termites in our homes. The pest status of some of them makes us concerned about them but that’s a very small percentage. Less than three percent of all the species are actually problem insects.”

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