David G Riley

Current research emphasis is on vegetable crop pests, specifically in plant-insect interaction, sampling, population dynamics, economic thresholds, host plant resistance, cultural controls, insecticide efficacy/resistance, and general integrated pest management. Recent research projects have focused on thrips, Frankliniella occidentalis and Frankliniella fusca, both as direct pests of onions and vectors of tomato spotted wilt virus (TSWV) in tomato. Also, I have projects in insecticides resistance management in diamondback moth and whiteflies, sampling and management of cowpea curculio in southern pea, and surveys of invasive pests, such as European pepper moth.