Expertise

Areas:

  • Urban Landscape Insects
  • Insect Pests of Ornamentals & Turfgrass
  • Toxicology, Chemical Ecology of Urban Landscape Pests

The ecology and management of phytophagous insects particularly those pest attacking turfgrass and ornamental plants. Research interests include plant-insect interactions, insect behavior, and ecotoxicology.

Communities
Plant Pathology, Entomology
Degrees
PhD, University of Kentucky, Entomology, 2003
MS, University of Kentucky, Entomology, 2000
BS, University of Kentucky, Horticulture, 1994
Keywords
entomology