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Program Area: Applied Insect Ecology and Pest Management

RESEARCH (50%)

Development of integrated pest management tactics (IPM) for commercial growers of peaches and small fruit.

Research and Demonstration:

Peaches

• Ground cover management and its impact on populations of arthropd pests (especially mites and catfacing insects) and beneficials.

Blueberries

• Epidemiology of blueberry stunt disease as vectored by sharpnosed leafhoppers.
• Natural host plant resistance to foliar pests.
• Classical biological control of terrapin scale using three endemic species of hymenopteran parasites.
• Population dynamics of blueberry bud mites.

  Grapes

• Behavior and development of grape root borers.
• Use of synthetic sex pheromones for mass trapping or mating disruption.

  Strawberries

• Population dynamics and control of twospotted spider mites infesting fruit grown on black plastic.

  Current Activities:

• Screen blueberry cultivars for resistance to foliar insect pests.
• Develop and test a new bioassay procedure for evaluating host plant resistance to blueberry bud mites.
• Determine phenology and generations per year for parasites of terrapin scale on blueberries.
• Continue long-term experiment to determine development time for larval stages of the grape root borer.

TEACHING (40%)

ENT 425 - General Entomology
ENT 525 - Entomology for Educators

Seminars:

Current Issues in Pest Management
Horticultural Entomology
Entomology Teaching Technique

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