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ALT A flyer showing the cover for the book Wild Work, Adventures of Women Field Biologists. Photos of the author and 3 discussion panelists. Hosted by Delta Scholars in Thompson Hall Annex 100 (Tully auditorium) on the campus of Mississippi State University on Monday, November 16, 2026 from 2:00-3:00 pm.
ALT A hand clad in a blue nitrile glove holds a 4-inch cup cutter plug of bermudagrass over a white basin filled with sand that is sitting atop a red tray. Roots hang down several inches below the plug.
ALT A microscopic sideview of a mealybug showing legs and mouthparts.
ALT A magnified view of a bermudagrass plant showing pink mealy bugs concentrated under the leaf sheath with a white powdery coating on some of the nearby leaf surfaces.
ALT A bermudagrass variety turf trial showing a field with blocks of green grass surrounded by lanes of brown grass. A white sign on a short woodend stake in the foreground identifies the cultivar of grass as Celebration Plus MSU/Sod Solutions
ALT A woman in a gray shirt and tan baseball cap sits at a table, looking up at a man in a blue shirt with a black and gray baseball cap. They are under a white tent. A field of grass is in the background.
ALT Four people pose for a group selfie in a field of grass.
ALT A white tent with a banner attached to the tent poles. The banner header says 2026 Turfgrass research field day sponsors and is printed in white font on a maroon background. The logos of various commercial sponsors of the field day are shown on white background.
ALT A green bermudagrass lawn with brown blighted areas that are about 5cm in diameter. A black ruler in the center of the photo provides a size reference.
ALT A close up of a clump of zoysia grass. The green leaf blades are covered in tan spots with dark reddish-brown borders typical of the disease dollar spot.
ALT A circular green spore print from a gilled mushroom on a white background.
ALT White mushrooms with tan circles in the centers of their caps warts scattered across the cap surface. The mushrooms are growing in a green bermuda grass lawn. Behind the mushrooms is a circle of brown hardwood mulch surrounding the base of a 3 to 31/2 inch tree trunk.
ALT A mushroom laying on its side on top of a green bermudagrass lawn. The bottom of the mushroom stem is covered in brown soil. The exposed gills of the mushroom are a dingy white. The black handle of a pocket knife is next to the mushroom.
ALT Watermelon cultivar Royal Golden growing in the field on black plastic. Leaves have bright yellow spots with brown centers from infection with the anthracnose fungus.
ALT Watermelon leaves on a red tray. Leaves have brown leaf spots from infection by the anthracnose fungus. There is some faint yellowing associated with the leaf spots.
ALT Spindle shaped brown lesions on a green watermelon vine. A black ruler is in the background. The lesions are caused by the anthracnose fungus.
ALT A green pepper leaf with yellow flecks or black spots surrounded by yellow halos. on a white background adjacent to a gray ruler.
ALT Stolons of St. Augustine grass on a red tray with a black ruler. Leaves are bright green with gray leaf spots surrounded by red borders. Roots are stunted and have swollen root tips. Black lesions are present on the yellow stolons.
ALT Microscopic image showing orange cane tissue with black fungal fruiting structures called pycnidia on the edge of the tissue. Fungal spores that are stained blue are releasing from the broken pycnidia.
ALT Microscopic image showing orange cane tissue with black fungal fruiting structures called pycnidia on the edge of the tissue. Fungal spores of Botryosphaeria dothidea that are stained blue are releasing from the broken pycnidia.
ALT 40x magnification of spores of the fungus Botryosphaeria dothidea that have been stained blue.
ALT Excised pieces of a blackberry cane sitting on a red tray. The cane on the left has an orange canker, caused by the fungus Botryosphaeria dothidea, running up 80% of the length of the cane. To the right of the orange cane is a black ruler with color reference markings. To the right of the ruler is a small section of cane that is dark brown and has splits in epidermis.
ALT Peggy Martin climbing roses on a trellis. Numerous pink blooms interspersed with green foliage. Small brown fungal leaf spots surrounded by purple borders on some leaves.
ALT The crown of a St. Augustinegrass plant attached to a green stolong. The crown has a water-soaked, necrotic lesion at the base of the leaf sheath with strands of brown fungal mycelium of Rhizoctonia solani growing on it. Roots are attached to the stolon and are white and healthy looking.
ALT Golden brown hyphae of Rhizoctonia solani shown at 20x magnification under a microscope. The hyphae branch at right angles and have strong septations.
ALT A green lawn with large circles of beige grass due to infection by the large patch fungus Rhizoctonia solani. The grass in the centers of the circles is green or starting to turn beige.
ALT A crown of a grass plant showing brown strands of Rhizoctonia solani branching at right angles on a necrotic leaf sheath.
ALT A single female reniform nematode
ALT Microscopic view of an ascomycete fungus on a pine needle. Shown are bitunicate asci containing long, filamentous spores. Bitunicate asci appear as a sac within a sac.
ALT A magnified view of a brown section on a green pine needle. Apothecia of the Lophodermium fungus appear in the brown section of the needle as black, elongated slits that have split open down their centers to reveal a creamy white spore mass within.
ALT Loblolly pine needles showing brown needle tips and small yellow or brown spots on green needle tissue.
ALT A landscape view of a loblolly pine stand along a forest access road. Pine needles in the lower half of the tree canopy are brown because of fungal needle blight.
ALT Flat, round, pinkish white armored scale insects on the surface of a bermudagrass rhizome under peeled back leaves in the leaf sheath.
ALT Oval, pinkish-white adult bermudagrass scale insect on a metric ruler. The scale insect measures about 1.5 millimeters.
ALT Yellowing and brown pile of bermudagrass in a plastic tray.
ALT Long rhizomes of yellowing and brown bermudagrass on a cutting board.
ALT Gray caterpillar with black triangles on each segment tightly curled up in an outstretched hand. Green leaves with holes eaten in them.
ALT Outstretched green caterpillar showing its belly and legs. A brown stripe runs down its side.
ALT Brownish-green caterpillar with tan stripes on its back.
ALT Green maple leaves with brown spots.
ALT Green water oak leaves with pinpoint brown dots surrounded by a yellow halo, and brown curled leaf tips.
