Manage Insects On Your Farm: A Guide to Ecological Strategies

	General Information | Publications | Websites | Regional Experts Resources: Regional Experts These individuals are willing to respond to specific questions in their area of expertise, or to provide referral to others in the pest management field. Please respect their schedules and limited ability to respond. Consider visiting their web-sites before contacting them directly. One important source of information is your local Cooperative Extension Service office. Each U.S. state and territory has a state office at its land-grant university and a network of local or regional offices. See http://www.csrees.usda.gov/Extension/ for a listing of all offices. Select a Region: Northeast | North Central | Southern | Western Northeast Region Mary Barbercheck Department of Entomology 516 ASI Building Penn State University University Park, PA 16802 (814) 863-2982 (814) 865-3048 – fax meb34@psu.edu http://www.ento.psu.edu/Personnel/Faculty/barbercheck.htm Soil quality and arthropod diversity as it relates to management of insect pests. Biology and ecology of entomopathogenic (insect-parasitic) nematodes for management of soil-dwelling insect pests. Brian Caldwell NOFA-NY Farm Education Coordinator Northeast Organic Farming Association of New York education@nofany.org www.nofany.org Organic pest management for vegetables and fruit. Ruth V. Hazzard University of Massachusetts Amherst Extension Agriculture and Landscape Program, Vegetable Team rhazzard@umext.umass.edu www.umassvegetable.org IPM, ecological and organic pest management in vegetables. Fred Magdoff Department of Plant and Soil Sciences University of Vermont frederick.magdoff@uvm.edu Soil quality, soil testing, ecological soil management. Abby Seaman New York State Integrated Pest Management Program Cornell Cooperative Extension ajs32@cornell.edu www.nysipm.cornell.edu Integrating biological controls into vegetable IPM systems Kimberly Stoner The Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station Kimberly.Stoner@po.state.ct.us http://www.caes.state.ct.us/ Alternatives to insecticides for managing vegetable insects John R. Teasdale USDA-ARS Beltsville, MD teasdale@ba.ars.usda.gov http://www.barc.usda.gov/anri/sasl/sasl.html Integrated weed management, cover crop management North Central Region Dale R. Mutch Michigan State University Mutchd@msue.msu.edu www.kbs.msu.edu/extension Pest management in farming systems utilizing cover crops Southern Region W. Joe Lewis Research Entomologist USDA - ARS Tifton, Georgia wjl@tifton.usda.gov http://sacs.cpes.peachnet.edu/lewis/ Sustainable pest management, understanding and enhancing the parasitic and predacious insects that attack plant feeding insects. David B. Orr Dept. of Entomology North Carolina State University Raleigh, NC 27695-7613 david_orr@ncsu.edu http://cipm.ncsu.edu/ent/biocontrol/ Biological control of insects in field crops and organic production systems Sharad C. Phatak, Ph.D. Professor of Horticulture 100 Horticulture Building 4604 Research Way University of Georgia Tifton, GA 31793 (229) 386-3901 (229) 386-3356 – fax phatak@.uga.edu Sustainable farming systems, cropping systems, cover crops, conservation tillage and pest management, soil quality and pest management, non-chemical weed management. Debbie Roos Agricultural Extension Agent North Carolina State University Post Office Box 279 Pittsboro, NC 27312 debbie_roos@ncsu.edu (919) 542-8202 (919) 542-8246 – fax http://www.ces.ncsu.edu/chatham/ag/SustAg/index.html Organic and sustainable agriculture and pest management Glynn Tillman USDA-ARS Tifton, Georgia pgt@tifton.usda.gov Biological control of insect pests in cotton Western Region Miguel Altieri, Ph.D. Professor of Agroecology Division of Insect Biology University of California, Berkeley agroeco3@nature.berkeley.edu www.agroeco.org Agroecosystem design, biodiversity, ecological pest management Robert L. Bugg, Ph.D. Senior Analyst Agricultural Ecology U.C. Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Program University of California One Shields Avenue Davis, CA 95616-8716 (530) 754-8549 (530) 754-8550 – fax rlbugg@ucdavis.edu http://www.sarep.ucdavis.edu Biological control, on-farm restoration ecology, earthworms, pollinators, California native plants, cover crops, hedgerows. Clara I. Nicholls, Ph.D. Research Fellow Divison of Insect Biology University of California, Berkeley nicholls@berkeley.edu www.agroeco.org Habitat management, biological control Select a Region: Northeast | North Central | Southern | Western General Information | Publications | Websites | Regional Experts