RESEARCH INTEREST :
Dissertation research will focus on the red-banded stink bug, Piezodorus guildinii, an emerging pest of soybeans in Louisiana. Other projects include adapting precision agricultural techniques in southern row crops and variable rate applications of pesticides with an aircraft. Insecticide resistance monitoring of bollworm, tobacco budworm, and tarnished plant bugs in Louisiana. I also conduct laboratory insecticide bioassays on current and novel insecticides for use in Louisiana cotton pest management. I also maintain three species of laboratory reference colonies including tobacco budworm, bollworm and fall armyworm. Conduct small plot insecticide trials in cotton, corn, grain sorghum, and soybeans.
Memberships
Entomological Society of America
Louisiana Plant Protection Association
LSU Entomology Club
Mississippi Entomological Association
Louisiana Agricultural Sciences Association
National Alliance of Independent Crop Consultants
LSU Entomology Club
Treasurer, 2003-2004
Vice President, 2004-2005
President, 2006-2007
Awards
J. Bennett Johnston Science Foundation Research Support award, $4,470, 2003
LA Plant Protection Association 2004. Second place student paper competition M.S. division
Insect Control Conference of the Beltwide Cotton Conferences 2005. First place student paper competition M.S. division
LA Plant Protection Association 2005. First place student paper competition M.S. division
Southeastern Branch of The Entomological Society of America meeting 2005. Second place student paper competition M.S. division
Team Tipton Research Award 2006, LSU AgCenter 2006 Annual Conference
L. D. Newsom Memorial Award 2007, Outstanding M.S. Student in Entomology.
Refereed Publications
Cook, D. R., B. R. Leonard, J. Gore, and J. Temple. 2005. Responses of laboratory and field colonies of selected Lepidopteran insect pests to indoxacarb and pyridalyl and spinosad. J. Agric. and Urban Entom. (Submitted May 2005).
Willrich, M. M., B.R. Leonard, and J. Temple. 2004. Injury to pre-flowering and flowering cotton, Gossypium hirsutum (L.), by brown stink bug, Euschistus servus (Say), and southern green stink Bug, Nezara viridula (L.). J. Econ. Entomol. 97:924-933.
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