Casey W. Hoy

Updated: 17 April , 2000

My research responsibilities include insect pest management for vegetable crops and systems analysis in applied ecology. Applied research projects on Ohio vegetable pests focus on sampling, decision guidelines, and the biology needed to develop alternative control strategies. More fundamental research tends to focus on insect dispersal at various spatial scales. Some current projects are: 1.) quantitative genetics of behavioral and physiological responses to toxins in insect pests, particularly diamondback moth and Colorado potato beetle, and how behavioral responses of either larvae or adults impact physiological adaptation to insecticides and resistant cultivars; 2.) epidemiological modeling of aster yellows epidemics in vegetable crops, including a detailed mathematical model of temporal and spatial dynamics of the vector, aster leafhopper, at the landscape scale; 3.) in collaboration with Parwinder Grewal, entomopathogenic nematode control of soil insect pests in vegetable crops. I also teach graduate and upper-division courses entitiled "Quantitative methods in agriculture and applied biology" and "Simulation modeling in applied insect ecology". My wife and I have a 5 year old son and an 8 year old daughter, and I try to make time for soccer, skiing, brewing beer, and a long-term project in learning to play the fiddle, mostly Irish but other styles as time and ability permit.

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Recent and Selected Citations:

Hoy, C. W. 1991. Variable-intensity sampling for proportion of plants infested with pests. J. Econ Entomol. 84: 148-157.

Hoy, C. W., G. Head, and F. R. Hall. 1998. Spatial heterogeneity and insect adaptation to toxins. Ann. Rev. Entomol. 43: 571-594.

Hoy, C. W. , X. Zhou, L. R. Nault, S. A. Miller, and J. Styer. 1999. Host plant, phytoplasma, reproductive status, and aster leafhopper (Homoptera: Cicadellidae) flight behavior. Annals Entomol. Soc. Am. 92: 523-528.

Hoy, C. W. 1999. Colorado potato beetle resistance management strategies for transgenic potatoes. Am. J. Pot. Res. 76: 215-219.

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