Areas:
- Toxicology, Chemical Ecology of Vegetable Pests
- Vegetable Entomology
Program Areas: Agronomic Crops (Coordinator); Commercial Horticulture (Coordinator)
Specialty Areas: Vegetable and peanut entomology
Research projects:
- Focus on conventional and organic vegetable ipm statewide
- Trap cropping in tomato and squash production explore more
- High tunnel pest exclusion (htpe) system explore more
- Appropriate use of biorational and conventional insecticides to prevent insecticide resistance and resurgence
- Focus on peanut production and ipm systems
- Spider mite reduction in peanuts
- Caterpillar control
- Snail management in peanuts