Author: Zsofia Szendrei
Rob received third place in the MSU Plant Science Graduate Student Symposium’s Oral Competition in Applied Research for his presentation on asparagus miner research. Congratulations!
New publication
Our manuscript on “Cover crop mulches influence biological control of the imported cabbageworm (Pieris rapae L., Lepidoptera: Pieridae) in cabbage” by Alex Bryant, Tom Coudron, Dan Brainard and Zsofia Szendrei was accepted for publication in Biological Control.
ESA award for Youtube video
Youtube ESA award for the ‘Tritrophic Interactions’ video made by students in the Fall 2012 class.
Trichogramma egg parasitoids in celery leaftier eggs
Click on the picture to see the slide show.
Onion harvest 2013
After a hard day’s work…
Celery leaftier
Here are some photos of celery leaftiers emerging from eggs, taken through the microscope.
Travel Award to Rob
Congratulations to Rob for receiving the Monsanto Student Travel Award, which will provide funds for his travel to this year’s Annual Meeting of the Entomological Society of America in Austin, TX in November.
Asparagus miner degree-day model publication
Rob is the lead author on a new publication on the degree-day model of the asparagus miner. The paper is currently in press in Pest Management Science.
New video on asparagus miner
Learn about Rob’s graduate research project in less than 5 minutes through this video.
New video on onion thrips
Here is a new YouTube video that Ben Werling and Zsofia made on onion thrips identification, scouting and management.