The outline for such a change was developed during months of meetings with representatives of PPWS by the FLEAS committee (Faculty Looking at Exciting Alternative Structures), including Lou Bjostad, Frank Peairs, and Elaine Roberts. Since the vote, the process has begun winding its way through the University system and appears likely to become effective by the end of the year. Much still needs to be developed, including such fundamental issues as the name of the new department and its administrative leadership. And while we mourn the loss of our independent department, the new arrangement does provide some advantages and new opportunities. One benefit that has already been noted is that we finally now have enough people to field a softball team!
Graduation was replete with departing (or recycling) members of the Department. Ten students were recognized during the Graduate School ceremonies including Mohammed Al-Doghairi, Hassan Al-Ayedh, Dayna Cooper, Pamela Harrell, Toben LaFrancois, Ahmed H. Mohammed, Terri Randolph, Casey Sclar, Amy Siedl, and Michael Weissmann. Gary Leader, a range science student that is advised by Boris, also graduated. Associated graduates even crossed the oceans as Xavier "X-Man" Fauvergue successfully defended his dissertation in late April and received his diploma with honors from the University of Montpellier. For a Department that is sometimes noted for its small size, Entomology managed to produce considerably more graduates than any other department in the College. Much of this is due to the herculean efforts of Boris Kondratieff, advisor or co-advisor of six graduating students (Mohammed, Hassan, Pamela, Toben, Amy, Michael, and Gary)!
Both Lou Bjostad and Whitney Cranshaw recently were promoted to full professor. This has had a profound effect on both of them. Lou has noted three top rewards for him of such a career advancement:
"1. Subtle new tone of respect in students' voices when they stop me during lecture to tell me my fly is open again.
2. It used to take 30 minutes to drive to work, but now it only takes half an hour.
3. Check out books from Morgan Library for FREE!"
Whitney could not be found for comment as he now holes up in the Faculty Club, discussing arcane academic issues, only emerging for office hours on the third Thursday of the month, from 1-2 PM.
Frank Peairs received the 1995 Award for Outstanding Service to the Great Plains Agricultural Council. This was a well-deserved recognition of his work with Russian wheat aphid and other regional field crop insects.
The College of Agriculture Teaching Award of Merit was received by Whitney Cranshaw. This makes him the fourth member of the Department (after Lou, Boris, and Elaine) to receive this award, the most of any Department in the College. Elaine Roberts' academic efforts were also again recognized, this time as one of the University's "Outstanding Professors" honored by the Mortar Board Senior Honor Society for inspiring students.
Elaine also was Guest Coach for the Women's Basketball team on January 28. Inexplicably, San Diego State won anyway. (In fairness to assessment of her coaching talents, one has to ask if you would expect a basketball coach to be very good at analyzing hormone receptors.)
Once again the Gillette Entomology Club held a year-end picnic that was enjoyed by all in attendance. At the event Dayna Cooper was presented an award (a framed Kippenhan original!) in thankful recognition for all that she has contributed to the Club over the years.
Tom Holtzer smashed three new departmental records related to grant proposals: 1) most number of co-PIs on a single proposal (29); 2) highest total requested dollars for a single year ($10,160,410); and 3) greatest number of co-PIs and collaborators on all proposals in a 12-month period (136). The obvious question - will any of the proposals receive funding and, if they do, can Tom keep track of all the phone numbers and e- mail addresses?
Richard "Gramps" Johnsen became a double grandparent over a period of three weeks last winter. Cale Patrick O'Donnell was born to daughter Kathy in January. Brandon David Groh arrived shortly afterwards, on February 14, son of daughter Becky.
Lou Bjostad was asked to address the Let's Talk Teaching (LT2) Seminar Series on the subject "Use of the World Wide Web in Teaching". Involvement in the entomology WWW site that Lou established continues to grow phenomenally and includes a tremendous amount of entomology -related information including notices of jobs, upcoming meetings, and all manner of new entomology resources (including this Newsletter!).
The mosquito genomics WWW server also continues to thrive. It can be reached via Mosaic, or any other WWW browser, at the URL http://klab.agsci.colostate.edu/. Martin Ferguson and Dennis Knudson are the curators of the server. This database and associated software were featured in a presentation they gave in May to a conference on Genome Informatics using ACeDB, hosted by the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory.
In another breakthrough use of new technologies by the Department, Extension samples can now be faxed for diagnosis. The first of these, sent from Pitkin County follows:
Answer: Dermestes sp., a larder beetle
After much anticipation the University is finally breaking ground for the much-needed addition to the Morgan Library!! Elaine chaired the Commission on the Library that worked with library and facilities personnel to establish the needs for the future. A new entrance way will have tiles with the names of donors to the library so if you are interested in having your name carved in stone call (970) 491-6533.
A new product of the Gillette Entomology Club are Insect Flash Cards - the Biological Control Series. This is a set of 54 wallet-sized photographs, with associated text on the reverse side, of biological control species important in the state. This is a "value-added" offshoot of the Gillette Entomology Club Slide Collection, developed as a result of the favorable reception that a prototype series has had in Master Gardener training the past couple of years. The set can be purchased for $50, with profits supporting Club activities. Coming up - A flash card series for Agricultural Educators and FFA competition. The face of Michael Weissmann, with a morpho butterfly perched on his nose, graced the Denver Post on June 12. This was in conjunction with the impending opening (in July) of the Butterfly Pavilion and Insect Center in Westminster. This project has been a dream of Mike's for years, and the past year has seen alot of developments as it comes close to its birthing. Congratulations Mike!!!
Once again there was a strong Seminar series, co- produced and beamed between Colorado State and the University of Wyoming. One of the more memorable seminars, and certainly the one which generated the most audience participation, was the visit by Dr. James Wangberg of Wyoming on the subject "Insect Facts and Snacks". After a discussion of the use of insects as food, the audience was invited to snack on a variety of tasty treats cooked up with mealworms, crickets, and some homegrown pole borer larvae (a type of cerambycid). There was a general consensus that the insects tasted better than they feared they would, although a few individuals with allergic sensitivities to shellfish found out only afterwards that it extended to eating insects as well.
Kids in the News. Who was that cute kid in the Ft. Collins Coloradoan in June - it was Erin McGrath! Erin was featured in the KidSpeak column about her plans for the upcoming summer which include "looking forward to my best friend coming back, swimming, roller-skating, biking, reading, writing, figuring out math problems, visiting my friends, practicing my electric piano, maybe going to Water World, Elitch's and horseback riding, and writing to my favorite authors." Whew, what a program!
Whitney Cranshaw was able to get published for the first time a photograph for which he was actually paid - and it was of a weed! (Check out the shot of common mallow in the new version of the Sunset Western Garden Book.) However, his elation was somewhat muted by subsequently learning that his beloved field truck, affectionately known as "The Lemon", was sentenced to death by the Motor Pool. The truck, a 1974 Toyota pick-up discarded by the state Forest Service and picked up by Whitney at auction in 1984, has arguably been the ugliest state vehicle on campus for years. However, it served well until it went in for its most recent inspection which only managed to generate some intense amusement among the mechanics.
Boris Kondratieff was tapped by a variety of campus organizations to give talks. For the Society for Conservation Biology he covered the subject "Insect Biodiversity and Conservation". "Insects and Hot Water" was the subject for the Biology Club. Boris, with Dave Leatherman, also served as trainers for the Master Naturalist Program, a new program of the Natural Resources Division that is developing naturalists to help educate the community about the Open Space areas around the city.
Richard Johnsen's expertise on pesticide issues involved him in several forums the past semester. He gave three seminars - to the Department of Environmental Health, the 1995 Weed/Pest Management School" in Greeley, as well as a Department of Entomology seminar. He was also interviewed by the Coloradoan regarding groundwater contamination issues when concerns related to the Larimer County Landfill hit the papers.
Karl was hired to work with Frank Peairs as an Extension/Research Associate and is currently working on projects involving non-chemical alternatives to alfalfa weevil control and with sunflower insects. (When approached, he was also working on preparation of a requested Extension talk on Russian "weed" aphid - clearly a versatile guy.) Lynne is also involved in the sunflower stem weevil project and will be helping teach the Forest Pest Management course in fall. Presently the two of them are also working very hard on an interesting side project, the arrival of their first child, Adrienne. Adrienne was born July 9 at 8:11 PM, weighing in at 7 lbs. 8 oz. and measuring 21 inches long.
There are changes in the Knudson lab as well. Ann Hamilton joined the group as a Research Associate and is working on the mosquito genome project. Ann is a recent graduate from the Department of Plant Pathology and Weed Science, where she worked with Carol Ishimaru. Present more in spirit is Leah Mesh-Ferguson, daughter and first child of Martin Ferguson and Cynthia Mesh. Leah was born in January.
It is published by Fulcrum Publishing out of Golden, CO, the company that earlier published Pests of the West, runs 324 pages and sells for $16.95. (It should be found soon at all "good bookstores" so check for it in the Nature/Field Guides section to tell if your local store is a good bookstore or not!) Whitney and Boris started hitting the book signing tour June 17 with a gig at the Tattered Cover and are in close contact with Oprah and Phil.
Lou was able to attend several other out-state meetings, apparently without serious incident. He served as a member of another grant panel for the Southern Regional IPM Program, which met in Lexington, KY in January. He later returned to the Bluegrass State in March for the Entomological Society of America North Central Region Branch meeting to discuss his work with corn rootworm larval attractants. Lou Bjostad and Elisa Bernklau both attended the USDA-Cooperative Agricultural Pest Survey, Annual Meeting in Columbia, MD.
Frank Peairs also visited the Washington, D.C. area as Phase III of his ESCOP/ACOP Leadership course. This program trains faculty in the joys and hassles of administration. Part of Frank's internship in the program involved chairing the FLEAS committee, establishing the framework for the Department merger.
Howard Evans, Michael Kippenhan, Scott Fitzgerald and Boris Kondratieff left on 28 April, 1995 for Arizona for a four day blitz of the desert country. Well-known insect collecting sites such as Madera Canyon and Cochise Stronghold were big hits. Also a highlight was collection of a new state record of a mayfly. In what ranks as an all-time top contender for iron-man honors they travelled 1100 miles on the last day, starting in Truth or Consequences, New Mexico and ending up in Ft. Collins after snaking through the West Slope.
Earlier Boris spent a "great week of collecting" with Dr. Richard W. Baumann during February in the Black Hills of South Dakota and Wyoming - and a little of Nebraska. Twelve species of stoneflies were collected and reared. Pretty cold country in February but at least they could make it. A later trip in late May was cut short because of the recent rains, but Boris and Howard Rhodes instead dived south for Nebraska and did some "sweet" collecting in Cherry County.
At the end of March, Elaine Roberts attended the national MANRRS (Minorities in Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Related Science) in Lansing, Michigan. This summer Elaine is again coordinating the College "Discovery" summer internship program that prepares students for graduate school.
Frank Peairs, Ian MacRae and Tom Holtzer participated in the annual WRCC-66 meeting, "Biology and Control of Russian Wheat Aphid", held January in Salt Lake City. Tom was particularly pleased to be able to serve in his favorite committee office - past chair.
Tom and Ian later headed off to Portland, Oregon for smoked salmon. While there they also attended the WRCC-69 IPM meetings to present a final report on their research grant "Russian wheat aphid dispersal dynamics". This project also involved Lou Bjostad, Chuck Lang, and Mark Carter (now in North Carolina) along with a group from the University of Illinois including Mike Irwin, Scott Isard, and Gail Kampmeier and included some "high times" in the helicopter.
The Russian wheat aphid swat team (Frank Peairs, Terri Randolph, Jeff Rudolph, Bob Hammon, Thia Walker, and Scott Armstrong) descended on Stillwater, Oklahoma in early March, visiting the wheat and barley breeding program. The group was very impressed with the program's facilities and activities, and afterwards reviewed what they had seen in a visit to Eskimo Joe's. (They were also accompanied by Mike Brewer's student, who wore Bermuda shorts so that people could tell he was from Laramie.)
Interest in the research coming out of the Knudson lab has had involved presentation of findings from coast to coast. In November, Scott Gordon attended the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene Meeting in Cincinnati, where he presented a paper at the Vector Biology section on "Detection of genetic variability in Aedes aegypti with RAPD-PCR" (S.W. Gordon, S.E. Brown and D.L. Knudson). In May, Dennis Knudson was an invited speaker discussing Aedes aegypti genomics at the Second Filiarial Genome Project Meeting (sponsored by the World Health Organization) held at Smith College, in Northhampton, Massachusetts. Shortly afterward Richard Nunamaker was in Beltsville, Maryland giving a poster presentation to the Beltsville XX Biotechnology Role in the Genetic Improvement of Farm Animals Symposium on the subject "Physical mapping of complex traits in an arthropod vector of animal diseases: Culicoides variipennis and the bluetongue viruses" (R.A. Nunamaker, S.E. Brown, and D.L. Knudson).
The next week it was Martin Ferguson at a Geyserville, California conference on Genome Informatics using ACeDB. This conference was hosted by the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory where he gave a WWW presentation that included a description of, and access to, the Aedes aegyptii database (AaeDB); access to their generalized Mosquito Genomics database; and access to several pieces of software designed for ACeDB data base management. In addition, their modifications to the underlying ACeDB source code was presented which allows display of ultra-high density nucleic acid membrane grids. The submitted poster is still "up", on the World-Wide Web and can be accessed using URL http://probe.nalusda.gov:8000/acedocs/ace95/inde x.html and following the links.
At least one stop was somewhat closer to home (Tamarron, CO), a mid-March meeting at the 24th Annual Keystone Symposium on Molecular and Cellular Biology, sponsored by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. There Dennis Knudson gave a poster presentation on Aedes aegyptii genomics (S.E. Brown, M.L. Ferguson, D.L. Knudson).
Howard Rhodes and Boris Kondratieff led a field trip into the Rocky Mountains on June 3, in conjunction with the 43rd Annual Meeting of the North American Benthological Society held Keystone Resort. Twenty top aquatic entomologists were shown several of the Colorado "hot spots". Each person was given a copy of Ward's and Kondratieff's Illustrated Guide to the Mountain Stream Insects of Colorado as a source of identification of all the good stuff collected. Boris gave an invited talk on "The Environmental Setting of the Rocky Mountains"
Again, Colorado State sent off a swarm of people to the Annual Entomological Society of America meeting, held during mid-December in Dallas. Boris Kondratieff was organizer and moderator of a Formal Conference on Aquatic Insects, "Aquatic Insects of the Semiarid United States". Frank Peairs was co-organizer and co-moderator for the Symposium A Response Model for an Introduced Pest - The Russian Wheat Aphid. Presentations made by entomologists throughout the University included (presenter's name in bold):
Hassan Al-Ayedh, Sue Blodgett and Boris Kondratieff. Evaluation of hymenopterous biological control agents of alfalfa weevil larvae in Eastern Colorado; Mohammed Al-Doghairi and Whitney Cranshaw. Status on the use of flowering plants to increase natural enemy activity against Colorado plant pests; Scott Armstrong, R. Lee and Frank Peairs. The effect of ice nucleating Pseudomonas syringae on the supercooling point of the Russian wheat aphid (Diuraphis noxia); Lou Bjostad and Bruce Hibbard. Corn attractants for western corn rootworm control; Bill Black and P. Reiter. Dispersal of Aedes aegypti during oviposition demonstrated by molecular techniques and by marking eggs with rubidium; Bill Black. Computer pro grams for population genetic analysis of RAPD polymorphisms; Bill Black. Phylogenetic analysis of host specialization, habitat adaptation and biogeography in ticks; Chris Bosio. Quantitative genetics of vector competence of Aedes aegypti for dengue-2 virus; Matt Carroll, Tom Holtzer, Ian MacRae and Mark Carter. Species associa tions of rangeland grasshoppers and plants in Eastern Colorado; Dayna Cooper and Whit ney Cranshaw. The natural enemy complex associated with Chionaspis pinifoliae (Fitch) populations in Colorado; Whitney Cranshaw, Saleh Al-Dosari and Frank Schweissing. Interactions of onion thrips and cultural prac tices on onions; Chris Dietrick and Bill Black. Molecular phylogenetics and host transfer among Flexamia leafhopper species; N. C. Elliott, G. L. Hein and Tom Holtzer. Landscape ecology, Russian wheat aphid population dynamics, and management; F. E. Gilstrap and Tom Holtzer. Importance of effective response models for introduced pests; Robert Hammon and Frank Peairs. Native Diuraphis and associated natural enemies in Western Colorado; Bruce Hibbard, Lou Bjostad, Terri Randolph and Elisa Bernklau. Biologically active plant compounds for west ern corn rootworm; Darryl Jewett and Lou Bjostad. Synthetic attractants of western corn rootworm larvae in laboratory bioassays; G. Kampmeier, S. A. Isard, Ian MacRae and Tom Holtzer. Vertical distribution of Diuraphis noxia (Mordvilko) and other insects in the atmosphere; Mary Kroening, Frank Peairs, Scott Armstrong, Cynthia Walker and Wendy Meyer. Evaluation of a seed insecti cide treatment, imidacloprid, for control of Russian wheat aphid on winter wheat; Chuck Lang. Helicopter sampling of Russian wheat aphids and lipid analysis of flight energetics; Ian MacRae, G. Kampmeier and Tom Holtzer. Aerial dispersal of Russian wheat aphid; P. Morrison and Frank Peairs. Response model concept and economic impact; Jeff Rudolph and Frank Peairs. Techniques for infesting small grain experiments with Russian wheat aphid; Casey Sclar and Whitney Cranshaw. Field performance of imidacloprid on woody ornamental plant pests: Two year evaluation; Cynthia Walker and Frank Peairs. The impact of spring grazing on Russian wheat aphid infestations in hard red winter wheat.
Tom Holtzer attended the meeting in his first year as a member of the ESA Governing Board. As a result of schedule conflicts, he missed all four papers in which he was involved as co-author. In addition he reports that he had to respond repeatedly to the question from friends "Were you at the national meeting?... didn't see you..."
As always, winter is the busiest period for Whitney Cranshaw on the Extension circuit. Three weeks were nearly entirely consumed with Master Gardener training. This year there were eight stops for the regular six hour training session and three others for advanced Master Gardener. Other meetings included day-long training sessions at the Rocky Mountain Turfgrass Conference, training programs for the Garden Center personnel (in Golden and Lamar), a landscape pest management meeting in Colorado Springs, and the annual conference of the Colorado Association of Lawn Care Professionals (assisted with a guest appearance by Casey Sclar). He was also snagged by three garden clubs, a Colorado City garden center, and the national meeting of the American Rose Society. Local meetings included talks at the Potato/Onion Production Conference in January, a talk at the Symposium on Natural Agriculture and Housing, and an address to a regional meeting of horticulture students meeting at Colorado State.
Out-state meetings included a trip with Dave Leatherman to Lawrence, Kansas to speak with members of the Midwestern Chapter of the International Society of Arboriculture. (Both were very impressed with the cheery demeanor of the Kansas State Police who opted to speak with them as they drove through the state!) Shortly afterwards Whitney spoke to the Think Trees! Conference in Ames, Iowa where, among other things, he was able to visit with Colorado expatriates Clint Pilcher and Carol Simmons.
Extension programs by Frank Peairs included Pesticide Applicator Training Workshops in Ft. Morgan and a meeting with the Corn Growers Association. He also gave updates on his work with corn spider mites at a workshop held in Colorado Springs.
Interest in entomology continues to soar among elementary and secondary school audiences. Boris Kondratieff has taken the brunt of this demand, as indicated by the regular flow through the Museum door. In the past six months he has given approximately 35 talks and presentations on various aspects of insects to schools (from pre-K to high school), Boy Scouts troops, science clubs, and other interested groups. He also traveled to Namqua Elementary in Loveland to discuss "Entomology as a career", spent parts of three days at the Cottonwood Plains Elementary School, and gave an all day workshop in water quality/biological interactions at Roosevelt High School in Johnstown. A more distant event for which his services on aquatic entomology were requested was "Super Saturday" of the Western Colorado Association of Gifted and Talented, held in Grand Junction.
Somewhat closer to home, Richard Johnsen, Dayna Cooper, and Saleh Al-Dosari were able to judge the science fair held at Eyestone Elementary.
When asked about his recent trips, Tom Holtzer wanted to know "do you have a category for five trips to visit kids in college in Minnesota?"
"Dave has high hopes that I will beat his Post- Doc record. However, he added that it only counts if I do it at the same location."
Susan Miller has also located in Washington, running the IPM Resource office out of Seattle. Much of her time is being spent on grant-writing, program planning and training for the IPM and Schools program and a program that involves cockroach management in public housing. Susan also is keeping up some research interests, most recently involving a bamboo mite.
Mitch Harris reports " I have made the transition to a new job. I moved across town to the U.S. Geological Survey....I am now working with the Lower Illinois River Basin NAWQA program. I am the regional biologist responsible for algae, fish, and macroinvertebrate sampling."
The Department has even gotten word from Dave Walter, long lost "down under" where he has been working at the University of Queensland. His research on leaf domatia used by mites "has really taken off, and I'm doing most of my research way up in the canopy of rainforests nowaday. Not that I'm climbing any ropes - that's for students. I just mosey up research towers and canopy walkways."
Dave has also managed to get married, in November, to a "beautiful, intelligent acarologist" working out of Ontario, a scant 16,000 km from where he works. They met while attending an Ohio conference in our "distant and upside down continent" and managed to stay in touch by email, a "very 90s" romance.
On a very tragic note, however, we also learned that John Przybyszewski was killed in a car accident in Madagascar in February. Since his graduation John P. has been involved in a series of overseas projects, primarily in Africa, with the Peace Corps and the Agency for International Development, traveling around the world in his spare time. John was a very talented and enjoyable human to have known and is missed.
The Colorado Heritage Program of the Nature Conservancy has located on campus. Program Director Chris Pague is depositing insects specimens in the C.P. Gillette Museum of Arthropod Diversity.
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Cranshaw, W.S. 1995. Here Come the "Good" Bugs. National Gardening. March/April 46- 50.
Cranshaw, W.S. and B.C. Kondratieff. 1995. Bagging Big Bugs. Fulcrum Press. Golden, CO 324 pp.
De Jong, G.D. 1995. An annotated checklist of the Calliphoridae (Diptera) of Colorado, with notes on carrion associations and forensic importance. J. Kansas Entomol. Soc. 67: 378-385.
Dong, H., J.S. Quick, D.L. Brigham, L.B. Bjostad, J.B. Rudolph, and F.B. Peairs. 1994. Leaf unrolling of three wheat genotypes in Russian wheat aphid extracts. Cereal Res. Commun. 22: 375-79.
Durfee, R. and B. C. Kondratieff. 1995. Description of adults of Baetis notos (Ephemeroptera: Baetidae). Entomol. News 106: 71 -74.
Eckberg, T.B. and W.S. Cranshaw. 1994. Occurrence of the oak rough bulletgall wasp, Disholcaspis quercusmamma (Walsh) (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae), as a street tree pest in Colorado. J. Kansas Ent. Soc. 67(3): 290- 293.
Fitzgerald, S. J. and B. C. Kondratieff. 1995. A review of the mydid genus Pseudonomoneura Bequaert (Diptera: Mydidae), with the descriptions of two new species. Proc. Entomol. Soc. Wash. 97: 22- 34.
Hammon, R. 1994. Factors influencing the overwinterin g of Russian wheat aphid in western Colorado . Pp . 68 -72 in, F. Peairs, M . Kroening , and C. Simmons , compilers. Proceedings 6th Russian Wheat Aphid Workshop, Fort Collins, CO. January 23 - 25, 1994.
Hammon, R. 1994. Winter wheat planting date, fall aphid infestations, and plant viruses. Pp. 149 - 154 in, F. Peairs, M. Kroening and C. Simmons, compilers. Proceedings 6th Russian Wheat Aphid Workshop, Fort Collins, CO. January 23 - 25, 1994.
Hopper, K., T. Randolph, J. Boylan, A. Cepaitis, X. Fauverge, J. Gould, and D. Prokrym. 1994. Natural enemy impact on Diuraphis noxia (Mordvilko) (Homoptera: Aphididae) in northeastern Colorado compared to southern France. Pp. 223 - 229 in, F. Peairs, M. Kroening and C. Simmons, com- pilers. Proceedings 6th Russian Wheat Aphid Workshop, Fort Collins, CO. January 23 - 25, 1994.
Isard, S.A., M.Carter, T.O. Holtzer, and M.E. Irwin. 1994. Temperature stratification and insect layer concentrations: a preliminary analysis of atmospheric measurements and concurrent aerial insect collections obtained in northeast Colorado and east central Illinois. Preprints of the 11th Conference on Biometeorology and Aerobiology. American Meteorology Society. Boston, MA.
Legg, D.E., R.M. Nowierski, M.G. Feng, F.B. Peairs, G.L. Hein, L.R. Elberson and J.B. Johnson. 1994. Binomial sequential sampling plans and decision support algorithms for managing the Russian wheat aphid (Homoptera: Aphididae) in small grains. J. Econ. Entomol. 87: 1513-33.
Opler, P.A. 1995. Presidential Address 1994: Studying Butterfly Behavior with a Camera. J. Lepidopterists' Society 49(1): 1-5.
Meyer, R., S. Pilcher, and F. Peairs. 1995. High Plains sunflower planting dates. Proc. 1995 Sunflower Research Forum. 12-13 January, Fargo, ND.
Peairs, F.B. 1994. Field crop insect management - 1994 . in Proceedings of the 24th Annual Colorado Crop Protection Institute, 3- 4 N ov . 1994. B. Bohmont, ed . Colorado State University, Ft . Collins, CO 146 pp.
Peairs, F.B. and S.D. Pilcher. 1995. 1994 Colorado field crop insect management research and demonstration trials. Colorado State University Agric . Expt. Stn. Tech. Bull. LTB 94 - 1, 67 pp .
Peairs, F.B. G.K. Beck, W.M. Brown, H.F. Schwartz, and P. Westra. 1995. 1995 Colorado Pesticide Guide: Field Crops. Colorado State University Cooperative Extension and Agricultural Experiment Station Bull. XCM-45, 95 pp.
Petersen, B.V. and B.C. Kondratieff. 1994. The black flies (Diptera: Simuliidae) of Colorado: An annotated list with keys, illustrations and descriptions of three new species. Mem. Amer. Entomol. Soc. No. 42. 121 pp.
Randolph, T., J. Quick, F. Peairs, and T. Holtzer. 1994. Tritrophic relationships with winter wheat, Russian wheat aphid and a coccinellid: Comparison between susceptible and resistant varieties. Pp. 238 - 241 in, F. Peairs, M. Kroening and C. Simmons, compilers. Proceedings 6th Russian Wheat Aphid Workshop, Fort Collins, CO. January 23 - 25, 1994.
Williams-Anderson, A. and T. Holtzer. 1994. Comparative growth rates and survival of the Russian wheat aphid and Colorado native Diuraphis species. Pp. 185 - 197 in, F. Peairs, M. Kroening and C. Simmons, compilers. Proceedings 6th Russian Wheat Aphid Workshop, Fort Collins, CO. January 23 - 25, 1994.
