On July 1, 2025, Vinisha Singh Basnet successfully defended her Master’s thesis in Entomology at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Her thesis, titled “Evaluating Behavioral Avoidance and Horizontal Transmission of Beauveria bassiana in Bed Bugs (Cimex lectularius) Across Spatially Complex Environments”, investigates how bed bugs interact with fungal biopesticides in spatially complex arenas. Her work advances […]