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Degree
Ph.D. 1986 University of Rhode Island
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Research Topic
Insect quantitative ecology, pest management, population dynamics, simulation modeling, biostatistics, pollination ecology
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Research Program
My research interests are in insect epizootiology, pollination ecology, and integrated pest management of blueberry pests in
Maine. Currently, my research interests are as follows: development of stage-structured simulation models to elucidate the spatial and temporal
dynamics of disease epizootiology in insect populations, development of multi-time step numerical methods for solving cascaded differential equations
with an Erlang output distribution, comparative foraging behavior of bees visiting lowbush blueberry, conservation of native bees, effects of
weediness on beneficial insects associated with blueberry ecosystems, microbial control of blueberry insect pests, and development of economic
threshold models for pest management decision making.
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Publications
Smagula, J.M., D.E. Yarborough, F.A. Drummond, and S. Annis. 2009. Organic Production of Wild Blueberries II. Fertility and Weed Management. Acta Horticulturae 810: 673-684.
Yarborough, D.E., J.M. Smagula, F.A. Drummond, and S. Annis. 2009. Organic Production of Wild Blueberries III. Fruit Quality. Acta Horticulturae 810: 847-852. Peshlov, B.N., F.E. Dowell, F.A. Drummond, and D.W. Donahue. 2009. Comparison of three NIR spectrophotometers for infestation detection in wild blueberries using multivariate calibration models. Journal of NIR Spectroscopy 17: 203-212. Arevalo, H.A., J. Collins, E. Groden, F. Drummond, K. Simon. 2009. Marking blueberry maggot flies (Diptera: Tephritidae) using fluorescent diet for recapture studies. Fl. Entomologist 92(2): 379-381. Drummond, F., S. Annis, J. M. Smagula and D.E. Yarborough. 2009. Organic Production of Wild Blueberries. I. Insects and Disease. Acta Horticulturae 810: 275-286. Samson, P.R., K.J. Chandler, M.N. Sallam, and F.A. Drummond. 2009. A proposed monitoring system for greyback canegrub, Dermolepida albohirtum, to aid growers' management decisions. Australia Society of Sugarcane Technologists 29: 91-93. Horsfield, A., M. N. Sallam, and F.A. Drummond. 2008. Role of climatic factors on damage incidence by greyback canegrub, Dermolepida albohirtum (Waterhouse) (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae), in Burdekin sugarcane fields, Australia. Journal of Economic Entomology 101(2): 334-340. Bell, D.J., L.J. Rowland, J.J. Polashock, and F.A. Drummond. 2008. Suitability of EST-PCR markers developed in highbush blueberry for genetic fingerprinting and relationship studies in lowbush blueberry and related species. Journal of American Society of Horticultural Science 133: 631-722. |
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