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Lygus Bug Management Workgroup Member List

Jay Bancroft
Title: Entomologist
Specialties: Entomology
Affiliation: USDA-ARS Shafter
Email: jsbancroft@pw.ars.usda.gov
Phone: 661-746-8004

Tiffany Bensen
Title: Graduate Student
Specialties: Lygus host preference
Affiliation: UCD Agronomy

Kent Brittan
Title: Yolo County Director & Farm Advisor for Field Crops
Specialty: Small grains, corn and biofuel crops
70 Cottonwood ST
Woodland, 95695
Email: klbrittan@ucdavis.edu
Phone: (530) 666-8733

Michael D Cahn
Title: Farm Advisor
Specialty: Irrigation & Water Resources
Email: mdcahn@ucdavis.edu
Phone: (831) 759-7377

Jeff Elhers
Title: Plant Breeder
Specialties: Breeding resistance to lygus
Affiliation: UCR Botany/Plant Science

Carol A Frate
Title: Farm Advisor
Specialty: Alfalfa, dry beans, sugarbeets, corn, plant pathology
4437 S. Laspina St.
Email: cafrate@ucdavis.edu
Phone: (559) 684-3314

Kris Godfrey
Affiliation: CDFA

Larry Godfrey
Title: CE Specialist
Specialty: Extension Cotton Specialist
Email: ldgodfrey@ucdavis.edu
Phone: (530) 752-0473

Polly Goldman
Title: SRA
Specialties: Sustainable/Organic Production
Affiliation: UCSC SARE

Peter Goodell
Title: State IPM Coord., Regional IPM Entomologist/Nematologist
Affiliation: UC IPM

Peter B Goodell Ph.D.
Title: IPM Advisor, Statewide IPM Program
Specialty: Development and delivery of IPM tactics, nematode and insect pest management in field crops, (cotton, alfalfa, melon) developing IPM strategies at the ecological landscape level
Email: ipmpbg@uckac.edu
Phone: (559) 646-6515

Tony Hall
Title: Professor & Crop Ecologist
Specialties: host plant resistance in blackeye beans
Affiliation: Botany, Plant Sciences UCR

Brian Marsh
Title: Farm Advisor / Center Director
Specialty: Agronomy, cotton, small grains, corn and silage
1031 South Mount Vernon Avenue
Bakersfield, CA, 93307
Email: bhmarsh@ucdavis.edu
Phone: (661) 868-6210

Micheal McGuire
Title: Entomologist
Specialties: Augmentative bioloigcal control
Affiliation: USDA ARS Shafter REC

Jocelyn G Millar
Title: Entomologist   Professor
Specialty: Insect behavior; identification, synthesis, and testing of insect kairomones and pheromones; insect acoustic signaling
Dept of Entomology, University of California, Riverside
Riverside, 92521
Email: jocelyn.millar@ucr.edu
Phone: (951) 827-5821

Shannon C. Mueller Ph.D
Title: Farm Advisor
Specialty: Agronomy, alfalfa seed, hay production, seed certification, forage crops, pollination and honeybee management, oil seed crop production, and dry beans.
Email: scmueller@ucdavis.edu
Phone: (559) 456-7261

Douglas J Munier
Title: Farm Advisor
Specialty: Agronomy-cotton, corn, wheat, clover seed, safflower, sunflower, and dry beans
PO Box 697
Email: djmunier@ucdavis.edu
Phone: (530) 865-1153

Daniel S. Munk M.S.
Title: Farm Advisor
Specialty: Cotton Production Systems, Irrigation and Drainage, Soil Quality and Tillage
Email: dsmunk@ucdavis.edu
Phone: (559) 456-7561

Stephen Peterson
Title: Partner
Specialties: Management in seed alfalfa
Affiliation: International Pollination Systems

Charlie Pickett
Title: Assoc. Environmental Research Scientist
Specialties: arthropod and weed pests BC
Affiliation: CDFA-Biological Control Program/ Sacramento

Bruce Roberts
Title: Professor, CA State University Fresno
Specialties: agronomy / fertility mgmt / precision agriculture
Affiliation: CA State University Fresno
Email: baroberts@csufresno.edu
Phone: 559-278-1758

Jay Rosenhiem
Title: Entomologist
Specialties: Host mediated predator-prey interactions
Affiliation: UCD Entomology

Charles G Summers Ph.D.
Title: Entomologist
Specialty: Pest management of field and vegetable crops, biology, ecology and management of aphids, aphids as virus vectors
Email: chasum@uckac.edu
Phone: (559) 646-6564

Sean Swezey
Title: Specialist
Specialties: sustainable agriculture, biological control, organic agriculture
Affiliation: UC Santa Cruz Center for Agroecology & Sustainable Food Systems
Email: findit@cats.ucsc.edu

Steven R Temple
Title: WOS   CE Specialist III & Lecturer
Specialty: Agronomy and host plant resistance breeding of grain legumes, legume cover crops, sustainable farming systems; fluent in Spanish.
Email: srtemple@ucdavis.edu
Phone: (530) 752-8216

Larry R Teuber
Title: Professor IV
Specialty: Genetics and biology of: floral characters influencing alfalfa pollination by honey bees, gene flow in honey bee cross pollinated crops, resistance to lygus bugs and whiteflies, Director University of California Foundation Seed Progarm
One Shields Avenue
Davis, 95616-8780
Email: lrteuber@ucdavis.edu
Phone: (530) 752-2461

Larry R Teuber
Title: Professor
Specialties: host plant resistance - alfalfa, cotton, and other species
Affiliation: AES UCD

Nick Toscano
Title: Extension Entomologist
Specialty: Integrated pest management involving insects, mites and other invertebrates in field and vegetable crops with emphasis on resistance management and alternatives to synthetic insecticides
131 Entomology Building
Email: nick.toscano@ucr.edu
Phone: (951) 827-5826

Jesus Valencia
Title: CE Advisor
Specialties: Production
Affiliation: UCCE Stanislaus County

Ronald N. Vargas
Title: Farm Advisor, Emeritus
Specialty: Field crops, cotton production, weed control
Notes: Ron Vargas retired effective 6/30/06.
Email: rnvargas@ucdavis.edu
Phone: (559) 675-7879

Earl Williams
Title: President & CEO
Affiliation: Ca. Cotton & Ginners Assn
Email: earl@ccgga.org
Phone: 559-252-0684

Steven D Wright
Title: Farm Advisor- Tulare and Kings Counties
Specialty: Cotton, small grains, weed control
4437 S. Laspina St.
Tulare, 93274-9537
Email: sdwright@ucdavis.edu
Phone: (559) 684-3315

Frank G Zalom
Title: CE Specialist, Entomologist in the Agricultural Experiment Station and Professor
Specialty: Fruit and Vegetable Crop Entomology; Integrated Pest Management
One Shields Avenue
Davis, 95616-8621
Email: fgzalom@ucdavis.edu
Phone: (530) 752-3687