Oscar Liburd

Thank you to @PurdueInsects for inviting me to give a seminar talk on my lab’s work @UFEntNem: “Application of Cultural Techniques and Biological Control Tactics to Manage Agricultural Pest Populations”. It was a great turnout with insightful questions and discussion.

Looks like we have two things to celebrate today. We just got word that our paper focused on biological control of southern red mite has been published. Great job to the authors and everyone involved.

Today is a very important day for one of my excellent students, James Brown. After spending 4 years and one semester he is graduating with his PhD from my program ⁦@FruitVegIPMLab⁩ ⁦@blackfli⁩

Dr. Congliang Zhou, our postdoc, presented an AI-enhanced technology for insect detection and counting in sticky traps at the #AIinAg Conference in Texas A&M

No one draws a crowd like @blackfli! Congratulations to Dr. James Brown on a successful PhD defense! 🎉🫐

The Liburd lab did our annual grape pruning. What a great day to get outside of the lab!

Happy holidays and merry Christmas from the Liburd lab! 🎄

Fresh squash from the Liburd Lab! 😋

There has been some controversies regarding the use sweet alyssum for enhancing predatory mites population in strawberries for TSSM control. Here is a new perspective.

Feeling great today, my graduate student, Marice Lopez Laurenti has graduated with her Ph. D.

@FruitVegIPMLab Yes, it was an excellent presentation

Marice Lopez gave a fantastic PhD exit seminar this afternoon on the blueberry gall midge. Go Marice! 🫐

This is my more recent article about my work with blueberries in FL Miticidal Tools for Management of Southern Red Mites Infesting Southern Highbush Blueberries mdpi.com/2353210 #mdpiinsects via @Insects_MDPI

Colleagues that I collaborated the past 6 years: @OscarLiburd, @moniquejrivera, @LMDiepenbrock, @dubeux, @c_minteer, Jawwad Qureshi, Alexander Gaffke among others...

Marigold and cowpea are used regularly by organic squash growers for pest management purposes. In this new manuscript published today, we investigated this common practice to assess the pest management benefits, with special emphasis on whiteflies

Congratulations @OscarLiburd! #UFBugs

After a year of permits, rearing, and protocol adjustments, my lab finally did our first major release of parasitoids for SWD management in an organic blueberry planting today 🫐 @UF_IFAS @blueberry_fl @UFEntNem @FruitVegIPMLab

We just published a new manuscript about the use of deep learning (AI) to detect twospotted spider mites and predatory mites in strawberry. Check this work out at sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Inspecting blueberry bushes for chilli thrips injury in southwest Florida