Dr. A. C. (Ale) Costamagna

• 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

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 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

Publications

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