Institution: Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture
Description of Expertise:
My research centers around the protection of plant industries from insect pests. We often collaborate with members of the research community to help develop new monitoring or control strategies for pests that impact plant industried in Pennsylvania. In addition we are tasked with the development and implementation of responses to newly introduced pests. My team is strong in surviellance and insect identification, and we can be a good source for specimen material, and have a strong insect reference collection which focuses on plant pests.