Ring Cardé, a distinguished professor of entomology and the Alfred M. Boyce chair in Entomology, was one of three scientists who received a Certificate of Distinction for Outstanding Achievements at the XXV Congress of Entomology the last week of September in Orlando.
At the event, he delivered a lecture called “Finding source of wind-borne odor in moths and mosquitoes: known mechanisms and outstanding issues” and received a $5,000 award.
Cardé’s main research interests are in basic and applied aspects of odor-mediated behavior of insects, focusing on communication by pheromones in moths and host-finding by female mosquitoes.
His contributions to the fundamental understanding of insect orientation and semiochemicals, and the methods used to study these phenomena have set a high standard in this broad field of research. They are published in over 250 peer-reviewed scientific publications or book chapters and eight books, including The Encyclopedia of Insects and A World of Insects, which make insects understandable to a lay audience.