Focus Area: URBAN ENTOMOLOGY (See the 2000 and 2007 Articles in CALS Perspectives Magazine

EXTENSION (82%)

Management strategies for residential, industrial and wood-destroying pests, including cockroaches, ants, rodents and termites. I provide direct assistance to pest management professionals and other industrial clients to solve pest problem situations. Educational programs emphasize IPM in the residential and industrial settings are offered to pest management professionals, state and municipal agencies, the business community and to general public through the county Cooperative Extension Service programs, such as ServSafe^®. Other activities include Pesticide applicator certification training in structural pest control for pest management professionals and non-commercial applicators in the Household Pests (P), Wood Destroying Pests (W), and Structural Fumigation (F) phases.

• Field trials of new insect management products, particularly termiticides.
• Formosan subterranean termite in western NC.

TEACHING (18%)

ENT063 - Ornamental and Turf Insects (Spring Semester)
ZO/ENT072 - Vertebrate Pest Management (Spring Semester, even years)
ENT801M - Extension Entomology (seminar offered every 5 years with R. Brandenburg and S. Southern)

Current schedule [pdf]
Insect Notes (Pest Information)

IPM in North Carolina Schools

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