Department of Entomology Faculty

Casey W. Hoy

• e-mail: Hoy.1@osu.edu
• Department of Entomology, OARDC
  1680 Madison Ave.
  Wooster, OH 44691
  
• phone: (330) 263-3611
• fax: (330) 263-3686

• Professor
• Associate Chair, Department of Entomology

• Ph.D. 1988 Cornell University

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 and systems analysis in agriculture. 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 insect-vectored disease epidemics in vegetable crops, including a detailed mathematical model of temporal and spatial dynamics of vectors at the landscape scale; 3.) in collaboration with Parwinder Grewal, entomopathogenic nematode ecology and control of soil insect pests in vegetable crops; 4.) landscape ecology and agroecosystem health modeling in collaboration with the Agroecosystems Management Program. I also teach graduate and upper-division courses entitled "Quantitative methods in agriculture and applied biology" and "Simulation modeling in applied insect ecology". My wife and I have a 9 year old son and a 12 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.

Graduate student advisees::

• Janet Lawrence

• Krishna Prasad
• Mustapha Jallow

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

Zhou, X., C. W. Hoy, S. A. Miller, L. R. Nault. 2002. Spatially explicit simulation of aster yellows epidemics and control on lettuce. Ecological Modeling. 151: 293-307.