Bioagricultural Sciences and Pest Management

Faculty

 

Research Interests

My general interest is systematics of insects, including their life history and ecology. I am also interested in developing manuals for the identification of major groups of insects in Colorado. I am the curator of the C. P. Gillette Museum of Arthropod Diversity, a three million-specimen collection. Current research interests include: (1) biodiversity surveys for wild lands and other landscape, (2) revisions and descriptions of new or poorly known species, especially Ephemeroptera, Plecoptera, and Diptera, (3) systematic surveys of poorly known insects of Colorado, especially present or potential pest species, and (4) management and curatorial aspects of the Colorado State University's C. P. Gillette Museum of Arthropod Diversity.

Courses I Teach:

Topics in Livestock Entomology (BSPM/ANEQ 300) (Spring)
General Entomology Lab (BSPM 303A) (Fall)
Agriculture Entomology Lab (BSPM 303C) (Fall Even Years)
Evolution and Classification of Insects (BSPM 423) (Fall Even Years) Principles Systematic Zoology (BSPM/BZ 424) (Spring Even Years)
Aquatic Insects (BSPM 445) (Fall)
Advanced Systematics (BSPM/BZ 520) (Spring Even Years)
Immature Insects (BSPM 555) (Spring Odd Years)

 

Publications:

Baumann, R. W. and B. C. Kondratieff. 2009. Studies on Oemopteryx vanduzeea (Claassen) and a new species in the O. vanduzeea species group (Plecoptera: Taeniopterygidae) from the Pacific Northwest, U.S.A. Aquatic Insects. In: A.H. Staniczek (ed.): International Perspectives in Mayfly and Stonefly Research. Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Ephemeroptera and the 16th International Symposium on Plecoptera, Stuttgart, Germany, 2008. Aquatic Insects 31, Supplement 1, 1-739. .

Baumann, R. W. and B. C. Kondratieff. 2009. Studies on the Holarctic subfamily Brachypterainae (Plecoptera: Taenioptergidae) using the scanning electron microscope to study male terminalia. In: A.H. Staniczek (ed.): International Perspectives in Mayfly and Stonefly Research. Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Ephemeroptera and the 16th International Symposium on Plecoptera, Stuttgart, Germany, 2008. Aquatic Insects 31, Supplement 1, 1-739.

Baumann, R. W. and B. C. Kondratieff. 2009. A study of the eastern Nearctic Alloperla (Plecoptera: Chloroperlidae) with hirsute epiprocts using the scanning electron microscope. Illiesia 5: 99-107.

Kondratieff, B. C. and R. F. Kirchner. 2009. A new species in the Sweltsa onkos complex (Plecoptera: Chloroperlidae).Pp. 295-300. In S. M. Roble and J. C. Mitchell (eds). A lifetime of contributions to Myriapodology and the natural history of Virginia: A Festschrift in Honor of Richard L. Hoffman’s 80th birthday. Virginia Museum of Natural History Special Publication. No. 16, Martinsville, Virginia.

Lenat, D. R., R. E. Zuellig, B. C. Kondratieff, and S. R. Beaty. 2009. Distribution of Neoperla (Plecoptera: Perlidae) in North Carolina, with new state records for three species. Illiesia 5: 164-168.

Myers, L. W. and B. C. Kondratieff. 2009. Descriptions of the nymphs of eastern North American species of Cultus (Plecoptera: Perlodidae). Entomologica Americana 115: