Research topics: Insect quantitative ecology, pest management, population dynamics, simulation modeling, biostatistics, pollination ecology

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. Current Research Projects

• Pollination of Vaccinium Fruit Crops
• Integrated Insect Pest Management in Lowbush Blueberry Production
• Computer Modeling of Insect Pest Life Systems
• Transmission and persistance of Beauveria bassiana in Colorado potato beetle populations
• Ecology and Management of the European Fire Ant
• The Effect of Invasive Plants on the Reproductive Ecology of Sympatric Native
• Plants at Acadia National Park
• The role of ground beetles in weed seed predation in Maine Agroecosystems

Selected Publications

Stubbs, C.S. and F.A. Drummond. 2001. Bombus impatiens (Hymenoptera: Apidae): An alternative to Apis mellifera (Hymenoptera: Apidae) for lowbush blueberry pollination J. Econ. Entomol. 94(3): 609-616.

Stubbs, C.S. and F.A. Drummond. 2001. Conservation of mason bees. In: Pollination and Bee Conservation, A Cross Roads. pp. 95-112. (eds. C.S. Stubbs and F.A. Drummond) Thomas Say Pub. in Entomol. 156 pp.

Stubbs, C.S. and F.A. Drummond. 2000. Pollination of lowbush blueberry by Anthophora pallipes villosula and Bombus impatiens (Hymenoptera: Anthophoridae and Apidae). J. Kan. Entomol. 72 (3): 330-333.

Drummond, F.A. 2000. History of insect pest management for lowbush blueberries in Maine. Trends in Entomol. 3: 23-32.

Long, D.W., E. Groden, and F.A. Drummond. 2000. Horizontal transmission of Beauveria bassiana (Bals.) Vuill. Agricul. and Forest Entomol. 2: 1-7.

Long, D.W., F.A. Drummond, E. Groden, and D.W. Donahue. 2000. Modelling Beauveria bassiana horizontal transmission. Agricul. and Forest Entomol. 2: 8-23.

Long, D.W., F.A. Drummond, E. Groden, and D. Donahue. 1999. Modeling Insect Pathogen Dynamics. Trends in Entomol. 2: 55-62.

Ngollo, E. and F.A. Drummond. 1999. Dynamics of seven-spotted ladybeetle, Coccinella septempunctata (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae), and its aphid prey in the Northern Maine potato ecosystem. Trends in Entomol. 2: 33-44.

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