Section Leader Resources

As you embark on your leadership year, ESA Headquarters has compiled this evolving resource center. This will familiarize you with the resources available to you from ESA Headquarters to make your leadership year effective, efficient and enjoyable. Acquaint yourself with the contents and refer back to them throughout your administration.

ESA Sections

ESA membership is organized by four subject matter-oriented Sections which offer members opportunities to network and interact with others sharing their specific interests. ESA membership automatically includes membership in one Section; members may join additional sections for a small fee. Wondering why you should join a section?

Medical, Urban, and Veterinary Entomology

The MUVE Section is for people with an interest in how insects affect humans, domestic and wild animals, and our urban environment. Topics include medical entomology, urban entomology, veterinary entomology, forensic entomology, epidemiology, integrated disease management, human and veterinary parasitology, public health pest management, mosquito control, management of structural pests (e.g., termites, ants), and others.

Section F: Crop and Urban Pest Management

Subsection Fa: Host Plant Resistance
Subsection Fb: Urban Entomology

With the approval of new ESA Bylaws in 2007, this Section ceased to exist at the end of that year.

Section C: Biology, Ecology, and Behavior

Subsection Ca: Biological Control
Subsection Cb: Apiculture and Social Insects
Subsection Cc: Insect Vectors in Relation to Plant Disease
Subsection Cd: Behavior and Ecology
Subsection Ce: Insect Pathology and Microbial Control
Subsection Cf: Quantitative Ecology

With the approval of new ESA Bylaws in 2007, this Section ceased to exist at the end of that year.

Section A: Systematics, Morphology, and Evolution

With the approval of new ESA Bylaws in 2007, this Section ceased to exist at the end of that year.

The topics covered by Section A included phylogeny,nomenclature, bio-geography, and comparative aspects of behavior; genetics;ecology; and population, organismal, developmental, cellular, and molecular biology.

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Reports from the 2006 Business Meetings: