Impactful projects like clearing the mosquito breeding sites at a community during visits double as community service because they improve the health status of community members directly; it is done pro bono alongside the execution of the students projects at the field with no broadcast or repots.

During the execution of a final year research project, organizing Focus group discussions on how to dispose waste so that the environment is not littered and artificial breeding sites are not created within the dwellings of humans double as community service.

During field visits, teaching livestock, or domestic or companion animals' owners how to maintain their animals healthy and their habitats clean to prevent zoonoses and yield loss or enhance benefits through integrated approach to farming is community service.

Creating awareness among community members on vector borne diseases prior to indoor residual fauna collections or outdoor inventory of breeding sites plus immature sampling is a very impactful community service because it changes the behaviours of those who still assigned vector borne diseases to some black magic while contributing to increased probabilities of vector species and host species interactions.

Empowering women and youths at field collection sites with the knowledge of insects involvement in decomposition of trash, soil porosity hills and mounds construction so they develop good practices and take informed decisions while building houses or farms or destroy wasp, ant, termite or spider nests within their perimeters as soin as they sight these double community service.

Teaching nursing mothers or other community members how to effectively use the bednets distributed or purchased, treated or not to protect babies or households from insect bites is community service

Educating farmers on the pollinating roles of insects towards their bountiful harvest during field trips to catch insects is community service. There is a report of a farmer who covered his crops with nets to prevent insect pests from eating his crops but was alarmed that plants grew very well yet did not yield anything. Obviously this farmer sees the damages by insects but never appreciated the ecosystem services rendered by these insects and evidently has not regard for Entomologists.

Most times these activities are prior to insect collections which are the main purpose of visits at the study sites.

Wether it is in environmental management or vector borne diseases control/prevention or biodiversity conservation or even agricultural practices promotion or protection of stored products in silos, granaries or on the shelves of supermarkets, the contributions of Entomology to community development is profusely undermined and consequently the discipline is poorly embraced as a field of study.

Unfortunately most life forms are insects (75%) and insects don't require permissions to invade us. A drop of milk, a grain of sugar, an abandoned fruit, a water receptacle, a piece of fish or meat in store, cereals of any sort, etc, a corpse, a cadaver, are enough to attract them.

I really wish more attention is given to the contributions of expert Entomologists, especially those who make multiple visits to the field sites for collections because the guys do a lot of ground work for many projects for which they don't qualify to compete for sponsorship to conduct research.

Defending a national research fund, but for my collaborator, I almost walked out of the federal government representatives who slashed 7 million from our budget, funds meant for field trips, at a moment when transportation costs surged, only because they did not understand why we had too many visits for the same field sites.

Educating these experts in their fields of study on parameters like distribution over time, seasons and in space during entomological investigations to obtain reliable data became a service rendered to the community of experts selected by the federal government to viva the grantees. These challenges make entomological research complex and physically demanding.