Search Results - "Cowles, Richard S"

What's under the Christmas Tree? A Soil Sulfur Amendment Lowers Soil pH and Alters Fir Tree Rhizosphere Bacterial and Eukaryotic Communities, Their Interactions, and Functional Traits by Steven, Blaire, LaReau, Jacquelyn C, Taerum, Stephen J, Zuverza-Mena, Nubia, Cowles, Richard S

“…In this study, we describe the legacy effects of a soil sulfur amendment experiment performed 6 years prior and the resulting alterations to the rhizosphere…”
Get full text

Tracking Pesticide Residues to a Plant Genus Using Palynology in Pollen Trapped from Honey Bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae) at Ornamental Plant Nurseries by Stoner, Kimberly A, Cowles, Richard S, Nurse, Andrea, Eitzer, Brian D

“…Worldwide studies have used the technique of pollen trapping, collecting pollen loads from returning honey bee (Apis mellifera L.) (Hymenoptera: Apidae)…”
Get full text

Use of Early Ripening Cultivars to Avoid Infestation and Mass Trapping to Manage Drosophila suzukii (Diptera: Drosophilidae) in Vaccinium corymbosum (Ericales: Ericaceae) by Hampton, Emily, Koski, Carissa, Barsoian, Olivia, Faubert, Heather, Cowles, Richard S., Alm, Steven R.

“…Use of early ripening highbush blueberry cultivars to avoid infestation and mass trapping were evaluated for managing spotted wing drosophila, Drosophila…”
Get full text

Sucrose Improves Insecticide Activity Against Drosophila suzukii (Diptera: Drosophilidae) by Cowles, Richard S, Rodriguez-Saona, Cesar, Holdcraft, Robert, Loeb, Gregory M, Elsensohn, Johanna E, Hesler, Steven P

“…The addition of sucrose to insecticides targeting spotted wing drosophila, Drosophila suzukii (Matsumura), enhanced lethality in laboratory, semifield, and…”
Get full text

Susceptibility of Cimex lectularius (Hemiptera: Cimicidae) to Pyrethroid Insecticides and to Insecticidal Dusts with or without Pyrethroid Insecticides by Anderson, John F, Cowles, Richard S

“…Relative increases of bed bug, Cimex lectularius L., populations are probably due in large measure to their resistance to pyrethroids, which have been used…”
Get full text

Optimizing dosage and preventing leaching of imidacloprid for management of hemlock woolly adelgid in forests by Cowles, Richard S.

“…Hemlock woolly adelgid ( Adelges tsugae Annand) threatens native hemlock ( Tsuga canadensis and T. caroliniana) in the eastern United States. Imidacloprid used…”
Get full text

Comparison of a Synthetic Chemical Lure and Standard Fermented Baits for Trapping Drosophila suzukii (Diptera: Drosophilidae) by Cha, Dong H, Hesler, Stephen P, Cowles, Richard S, Vogt, Heidrun, Loeb, Gregory M, Landolt, Peter J

“…We determined the attractiveness of a new chemical lure compared with fermented food baits in use for trapping Drosophila suzukii Matsumura, spotted wing…”
Get full text

Optimizing a Basal Bark Spray of Dinotefuran to Manage Armored Scales (Hemiptera: Diaspididae) in Christmas Tree Plantations by Cowles, Richard S

“…The armored scales Fiorinia externa Ferris and Aspidiotus cryptomeriae Kuwana (Hemiptera: Diaspididae) are increasingly damaging to Christmas tree plantings in…”
Get full text

Pyrethroid Resistance in Populations of Listronotus maculicollis (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) From Southern New England Golf Courses by Ramoutar, Darryl, Alm, Steven R, Cowles, Richard S

“…Topical application bioassays of bifenthrin and λ-cyhalothrin were conducted on field-collected populations of Listronotus maculicollis Kirby (Coleoptera:…”
Get full text

Effect of neonicotinoid synergists on entomopathogenic nematode fitness by Koppenhöfer, Albrecht M., Cowles, Richard S., Cowles, Elizabeth A., Fuzy, Eugene M., Kaya, Harry K.

“…In previous greenhouse and field studies, the neonicotinoid insecticide imidacloprid interacted synergistically with five entomopathogenic nematode species…”
Get full text

Pyrethroid Resistance Mediated by Enzyme Detoxification in Listronotus maculicollis (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) From Connecticut by Ramoutar, Darryl, Cowles, Richard S, Alm, Steven R

“…In 2009, pyrethroid resistance was confirmed for seven “annual bluegrass weevil” Listronotus maculicollis Kirby (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) adult populations…”
Get full text

Clothianidin and Imidacloprid Residues in Poa annua (Poales: Poaceae) and Their Effects on Listronotus maculicollis (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) by Clavet, Christopher, Requintina, Matthew, Hampton, Emily, Cowles, Richard S., Byrne, Frank J., Alm, Steven R.

“…Competitive enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay was used to quantify the amounts of the neonicotinoids clothianidin and imidacloprid in Poa annua L. clippings…”
Get full text

Field evaluation of entomopathogenic nematodes for the biological control of the annual bluegrass weevil, Listronotus maculicollis (Coleoptera: Curculionidae), in golf course turfgrass by McGraw, Benjamin A., Vittum, Patricia J., Cowles, Richard S., Koppenhöfer, Albrecht M.

“…The ability of entomopathogenic nematodes to suppress larval populations of the annual bluegrass weevil, Listronotus maculicollis, was investigated under field…”
Get full text

Metarhiziopsis microspora gen. et sp. nov. associated with the elongate hemlock scale by Li, De-Wei, Cowles, Richard S., Vossbrinck, Charles R.

“…A sporodochial fungus collected from the elongate hemlock scale, Fiorinia externa (Ferris) in Coventry, Connecticut, is described. This fungus has…”
Get full text

Impact of azadirachtin on vine weevil (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) reproduction by Cowles, R.S

“…1 The dose–response of azadirachtin on vine weevil, Otiorhynchus sulcatus (Fabricius), reproduction is investigated by confining adults to feed on treated…”
Get full text

Integrated management of strawberry pests by rotation and intercropping by LaMondia, James A., Elmer, Wade H., Mervosh, Todd L., Cowles, Richard S.

“…‘Saia’ oats ( Avena strigosa) and ‘Triple S’ sorgho-sudangrass ( Sorghum bicolor x S. sudanense) were investigated as rotation crops and as interplanted…”
Get full text

Susceptibility of strawberry cultivars to the vine weevil Otiorhynchus sulcatus (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) by Cowles, R.S

“…1 The feeding preference of vine weevil, Otiorhynchus sulcatus (Fabricius), adults for foliage from 21 commercial cultivars of strawberries is investigated…”
Get full text

Prevalence and potential impact of soil-dwelling pests and insect pathogenic nematodes in strawberry fields by LaMondia, J.A, Cowles, R.S, Los, L

“…Surveys mailed to strawberry growers in 1999 determined the state of nematode and root weevil awareness and practices for their management. Based on the survey…”
Get full text

Effects of Turfgrass Endophytes (Clavicipitaceae: Ascomycetes) on White Grub (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) Larval Development and Field Populations by Koppenhöfer, Albrecht M, Cowles, Richard S, Fuzy, Eugene M

“…Previous observations on the effect of endophyte infection in turfgrass on white grub development and natural incidence have been variable and contradictory…”
Get full text

Selective toxicity of halofenozide to exotic white grubs (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) by COWLES, R. S, ALM, S. R, VILLANI, M. G

“…Field populations of Japanese beetle, Popillia japonica Newman; European chafer, Rhizotrogus (Amphimallon) majalis (Razoumowsky); oriental beetle, Exomala…”
Get full text