My responsibilities are in the areas of research and education in integrated pest management. Pest resistance poses a constant threat to the economics of agricultural production in major agricultural crops in Arizona and it destabilizes hard-earned advances in IPM and especially in biological control. I direct the efforts of a facility based at the University of Arizona that strives to minimize such losses resulting from resistant insects and mites.
Current programs focus on whiteflies, pink bollworm, beet armyworm and twospotted spider mites.