Acting Department Head
Professor, Department of Entomology
University of Manitoba (Fort Garry campus)
Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences
217 Animal Science/Entomology
12 Dafoe Road
Winnipeg, MB R3T 2N2 Canada
Dr. A. C. (Ale) Costamagna
Education
- Dual-Major PhD (Entomology and Ecology, Evolutionary Biology and Behavior), Michigan State University, USA
- MS (Entomology), Michigan State University, USA
- BS in Biology (Zoology), La Plata National University, Argentina
Teaching
Undergraduate
- AGEC 2370 Principles of Ecology
- ENTM 4520 Physiological Ecology of Insects
- ENTM 1000 World of Bugs
Graduate
- ENTM 7240 Advances in the Physiological Ecology of Insects
- ENTM 7150 Advanced Entomology
Research
Research interests
- Arthropod-mediated ecosystem services
- Effects of landscape structure on agricultural pests and beneficial insects
- Plant resistance to insect pests
- Bottom-up and top-down controls of herbivores
- Trophic cascades in agroecosystems
- Intraguild predation
- Biological control and integrated pest management
- Food webs
Current research projects
- Flea beetle ecology
- Wheat midge host plant resistance
- Functional diversity of natural enemies and pest control ecosystem services
- Flowering habitats and beneficial insects in farms
- Soybean aphid and its natural enemies