Professor of Cooperative Extension Specialist
Professor of Cooperative Extension Specialist
- Ph.D. Entomology University of California, Berkeley
- B.A. Zoology University of California, Santa Barbara
Control of insect pests in agricultural crops
Biological Control and Sustainable Agriculture
My research focuses on the development of ecologically-based insect pest management systems. Research studies include classical biological control, augmentation programs, insect-plant interactions, use of least-disruptive insecticides and the biology of natural enemies.
Most of my research programs have an extension component because I work closely with farmers, the commodity boards and other UC Cooperative Extension personnel. Moreover, the close collaborative ties with UC Cooperative Extension agents, Pest Control Advisors and leaders in farm management has helps to extend information to a wider audience.
Current Projects - Vineyards
Each of California’s varied grape regions has different cultural practices, economic pressures and pest problems providing an exciting challenge to develop programs that can be used for winegrape growers in Napa and table grape growers in the San Joaquin Valley. Recent research concerns mealybug pests, including the invasive vine mealybug (photo insert shows mealybugs and damage). Collaborative projects with Dr. Monica Cooper (Napa County) and Dr. Rodrigo Almeida (UC Berkeley) investigate the importance mealybugs and other insects as vectors of viral pathogens in vineyards.
Black widow spiders are not a pest of the vine - but are an unwanted spider in the table grape market. We have been working closely with the table grape industry to develop better controls for these spiders to reduce the possibility that any make it to the marketplace.
Working with Drs. Houston Wilson (C Riverside) and Serguei Triapitsyn (UC Riverside), we are looking at controls for the invasive "Virginia creeper leafhopper". A part of this project is farmer outreach and participatory research to develop sustainable control options (right photo insert).
Grapevine Red Blotch Associated virus is a relatively new pathogen of vines - at least relatively new to science. Along with Researchers at UC Davis, USDA, Oregon State University, Cornell, and Washington State University, we are studying the epidemiology of the pathogen to determine better control programs. Specifically, our role is to investigate potential insect vectors of this circular DNA virus. Our lab crew works primarily in Napa and Sonoma, with the aid of UCCE Advisor Monica Cooper , to document the movement of the pathogen, and collect and test possible insects for their roll in disseminating the pathogen.
Current Projects - Tree Crops
A classical biological control program has been undertaken against the olive fly using parasitoids imported from Africa and the spotted wing drosophila, both newly invasive species in California.
Drs. Xingeng Wang and Antonio Biondi have been cooperating with other researchers in California, Oregon, Delaware, Hawaii, Italy, China, South Africa, South Korea and France by quarantine screening imported parasitoid species to determine their potential to control these invasive pests without causing any harm to non-target insects. The quarantine work is like the gate keeper that screens imported material to allow only those natural enemies that will be beneficial into California.
Current Projects - Row Crops
With Dr. Ruth Dahlquist and Michael Yang (Fresno Co.) we are describing the pest species and their damage in small farms managed by SE Asian Farmers. These are typically vegetables and include a large number of specialty crops (e.g., Thai eggplant). Our goal is to improve IPM programs and open new consumer markets for these small specialty-crop farmers.
With Drs. Jocelyn Millar (UC Riverside), David hall (University of Greenwich) and Pete Goodell (UC IPM), we are looking at "Lygus" (a small 'hemipteran" pest) pheromones to develop better monitoring programs that can be used in strawberries, alfalfa, cotton and other susceptible crops. Members of the 'Kearney' summer crew are counting pheromone traps in an alfalfa field (left photo insert). This project has both applied and basic research components.
Journal Publications in Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=Gm7ttNgAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao
Recent examples
Dalton, D. T., Hilton, R. J., Kaiser, C., Daane, K. M., Sudarshana, M. R., Vo, J., Zalom, F. G., Buser, J. Z., and Walton, V. M. 2019. Spatial associations of vines infected with grapevine red blotch virus in Oregon vineyards. Plant Disease 103(7): 1507-1514. DOI: 10.1094/PDIS-08-18-1306-RE
Giorgini, M., Wang, X.-G., Wang, Y., Chen, F.-U., Hougardy, E., Hong-Mei, Zhang, H.-M., Chen, Z.-Q., Chen, H.-Y., Liu, C.-X., Casconea, P., Formisano, G. Carvalho, G. A., Biondi, A., Buffington, M., Daane, K. M., Hoelmer, K. A., and Guerrieri, E. 2019. Exploration for native parasitoids of Drosophila suzukii in China reveals a diversity of parasitoid species and narrow host range of the dominant parasitoid Journal of Pest Science. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10340-018-01068-3
Jalali, M. A., Sakaki, S., Ziaaddini, M., and Daane, K. M. 2019. Temperature-dependent development of Oenopia conglobata (Col.: Coccinellidae) fed on Aphis gossypii (Hem.: Aphididae). International Journal of Tropical Insect Science 38(4): 410-417.
Wang, X-G., Hougardy, E., Nance, A. H., Hogg, B. N., Hoelmer, K. A., and Daane, K. M. 2019. Potential competitive outcomes among three solitary larval endoparasitoids as candidate agents for classical biological control of Drosophila suzukii. Biological Control 130: 18-26. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocontrol.2018.12.003
Hougardy, E., Hogg, B. N., Wang, X.-G., and Daane, K. M. 2019 Comparison of thermal performances of two Asian larval parasitoids of Drosophila suzukii. Biological Control 136: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocontrol.2019.104000
Wang, X.-G., Kaçar, G., and Daane, K. M. 2019. Temporal dynamics of host use by Drosophila suzukii in California’s San Joaquin Valley: Implications for area-wide pest management. Insects 10(7), 206. doi.org/10.3390/insects10070206
Arnold, J. E., Egerer, M., and Daane, K. M. 2019. Local and landscape effects to biological controls in urban agriculture – a Review. Insects 10(7), 215. doi:10.3390/insects10070215
Daane, K. M., Yokota, G. Y., and Wilson, H. 2019. Seasonal dynamics of the leaffooted bug Leptoglossus zonatus and its implications for control in almonds and pistachios. Insects 10, 255. doi:10.3390/insects10080255
Wilson, H., Bodwitch, H., Daane, K. M., Carah, J., Grantham T. E., Getz, C., and Bustic, V. 2019. First known survey of cannabis production practices in California. California Agriculture 73(3-4): 119-127.
Bodwitch, H., Getz, C., Hickey, G., Daane, K. M., Carah, J., Grantham T. E., and Wilson, H. 2019. Growers say cannabis legalization excludes small growers, supports illicit markets, undermines local economies. California Agriculture 73(3-4): 177-184.
Lee, J. C., Wang., X.-G., Daane, K. M., Hoelmer, K. A., Isaacs, R., Sial, A. A., Walton, V. M. 2019. Biological control of spotted-wing drosophila – current and pending tactics. Journal of Integrated Pest Management 10(1): 13; 1–9. doi.org/10.1093/jipm/pmz012
Naegele, R. P., Cousins, P., and Daane, K. M. 2020. Identification of Vitis cultivars, rootstocks, and species expressing resistance to a Planococcus mealybug. Insects 11, 86. doi:10.3390/insects11020086.
Wang, X.-G., Biondi, A., and Daane, K. M. 2020. Functional responses of three candidate Asian larval parasitoids evaluated for classical biological control of Drosophila suzukii. Journal of Economic Entomology 113(1): 73–80. doi: 10.1093/jee/toz265
Acebes-Doria1, A. L., Agnello, A. M., Blaauw, B. R., Buntin, G. D., Alston, D. G., Beers, E. H., Bergh, J. C., Cottrell, T. E., Bessin, R., Chen, S., Daane, K. M., Fleischer, S. H., Guédot, C., Gut, L. J., Hamilton, G. C., Hilton, R., Hoelmer, K. A., Hutchison, W. D., Jentsch, P., Krawczyk, G., Kuhar, T. P., Lee, J. C., Nielsen, A. L., Sial, A. A., Spears, L. R., Short, B., D., Toews, M. D., Walgenbach, J. D., Welty, C., Wiman, N. G., and Leskey, T. C. 2020. Season-long monitoring of the brown marmorated stink bug, Halyomorpha halys Stål (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae), throughout the United States using commercially available traps and lures. Journal of Economic Entomology 113(1): 159–171. doi: 10.1093/jee/toz240
Hougardy, E., Wang, X.-G., Hogg, B. N., Johnson, M. W., Daane, K., M., and Pickett, C. H. 2020. Current distribution of the Olive psyllid, Euphyllura olivina, in California and initial evaluation of the Mediterranean parasitoid Psyllaephagus euphyllurae as a biological control candidate. Insects 11: 146. doi:10.3390/insects11030146
Blaisdell, G. K., Zhang, S. M., Rowhani, A., Klaassen, V., Cooper, M. L., Daane, K. M., and Almeida, R. P. P. 2020. Trends in vector-borne transmission from co-infected hosts: Grapevine leafroll-associated virus-3 and Grapevine virus A. European Journal of Plant Pathology 156: 1163–1167. doi.org/10.1007/s10658-019-01916-7
Wilson, H., Maccaro, J., Daane, K. M. 2020. Evaluating trap type and color for monitoring leaffooted bug (Coreidae: Leptoglossus zonatus) in orchards. Insects 11: 358. doi:10.3390/insects11060358
Daane, K. M., Walton, V. M., Yokota, G. Y., Hogg, B.N., Cooper, M.L., Bentley, W. J., and Millar, J. G. 2020. Development of a mating disruption program for a mealybug, Planococcus ficus, in vineyards. Insects 11: 631. doi.org/10.3390/insects11090635
Wilson, H., Yazdani, A. S., and Daane, K. M. 2020. Influence of riparian habitat and ground covers on threecornered alfalfa hopper Spissistilus festinus (Hemiptera: Membracidae) populations in vineyards. Journal of Economic Entomology 113(5): 2354–2361. doi: 10.1093/jee/toaa151
Stahl, J. M., Scaccini, D., Pozzebon, A., and Daane, K. M. 2020. Comparing the feeding damage of the invasive brown marmorated stink bug to a native stink bug and leaffooted bug on California pistachios. Insects 11(10): 68. doi:10.3390/insects11100688
Triapitsyn, S. V., Rugman-Jones, P. F., Tretiakov, P. S., Daane, K. M., and Wilson, H. 2020. Reassessment of molecular and morphological variation within the Anagrus atomus species complex (Hymenoptera: Mymaridae): egg parasitoids of leafhoppers (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae) in Europe and North America. Journal of Natural History 54 (27-28): 1735-1758. doi: 10.1080/00222933.2020.1827073
Biondi, A., Wang, X.-G., Daane, K. M. 2021. Host preference of three Asian larval parasitoids to closely related Drosophila species: implications for biological control of Drosophila suzukii. Journal of Pest Science 94:273–283. doi.org/10.1007/s10340-020-01272-0
Wang, X.-G., Biondi, A., Nance, A. N., Zappalà, Hoelmer, K. A., and Daane, K. M. 2021. Assessment of Asobara japonica as a potential biological control agent for the spotted wing drosophila, Drosophila suzukii. Entomologia Generalis 41(1): 1-12. doi: 10.1127/entomologia/2020/1100
Scaccini, D., Ruzzier, E., and Daane, K. M. 2021. Givira ethela (Neumoegen & Dyar, 1893) (Lepidoptera: Cossidae), a previously unidentified pest on Vitis vinifera (L.). Insects 12: 239. doi: 10.3390/insects12030239
Wang, X. G., Walton, V. M., Hoelmer, K. A., Pickett, C. H., Blanchet, A., Straser, R. K., Kirk, A. A., and Daane, K. M. 2021. Exploration for olive fruit fly parasitoids across Africa: regional distributions and dominance of co-evolved parasitoids. Scientific Reports 11: 6182. doi: 10.1038/s41598-021-85253-y
Vulchi, R., Daane, K. M., and Wenger, J. A. 2021. Development of DNA melt curve analysis for the identification of lepidopteran pests in almonds and pistachios. Insects https://doi.org/10.3390/insects12060553
Daane, K. M., Wang, X.-G., Hogg, B. N., and Biondi, A. 2021. Potential host ranges of three Asian larval parasitoids evaluated for Drosophila suzukii biological control. Journal of Pest Science 94:1171–1182. doi: 10.1007/s10340-021-01368-1
Kelly, C., Fonte, S. J., Shrestha, A., Daane, K. M., and Mitchell, J. P. 2021. Winter cover crops support soil macrofauna communities in irrigated, Mediterranean cropland in California. Applied Soil Ecology 166: e104068. doi.org/10.1016/j.apsoil.2021.104068
Billings, A. C., Flores, McCalla, K. A., K., Daane, K. M., and Wilson, H. 2021. Use of ground covers to control three-cornered alfalfa hopper, Spissistilus festinus (Hemiptera: Membracidae), and other suspected vectors of grape red blotch virus. Journal of Economic Entomology 114(4): 1462-1469. doi: 10.1093/jee/toab115
Lue, C.-H., Buffington, M. L., Scheffer, S., Lewis, M., Elliott, T. A., Lindsey, A. R. I., Driskell, A., Jandova, A., Kimura, M. T., Carton, Y., Kula, R. R., Schlenke, T. A., Mateos, M., Govind, S., Varaldi, J., Guerrieri, E., Giorgini, M., Wang, X.-G., Hoelmer, K., Daane, K. M., Abram, P. K., Pardikes, N. A., Brown, J. J., Thierry, M., Poirié, M., Goldstein, P., Miller. S., Tracey. W. D., Davis, J. S., Jiggins, F. M., Wertheim, B., Lewis, O. T., Leips, J., Staniczenko, P. P. A. Hrcek, J. 2021. DROP: Molecular voucher database for identification of Drosophila parasitoids. Molecular Ecology Resources 21: 2437-2454. doi: 10.1111/1755-0998.13435
Hogg, B. N., Cooper, M. L., and Daane, K. M. 2021. Areawide mating disruption for vine mealybug in California vineyards. Crop Protection 148: 105735. doi: 10.1016/j.cropro.2021.105735
Stahl, J. M., Scaccini, D., and Daane, K. M. 2021. Field survival of the brown marmorated stink bug Halyomorpha halys (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae) on California tree crops. Environmental Entomology 50(5): 1187-1193. doi: 10.1093/ee/nvab055
Wang, X.-G., Ramadan M. M., Guerrieri, E., Messing, R. H., Johnson, M. W., Daane, K. M. and Hoelmer, K. A. 2021. Early-acting competitive superiority in opiine fruit fly parasitoids: implications for biological control of invasive tephritid fruit fly pests. Biological Control 162: doi: 10.1016/j.biocontrol.2021.104725
Tait, G. Isaacs, R., Fanning, P., Daane, K. M., Wang, X.-G., Hoelmer, K., Biondi, A., Lee, J., Beers, E., Gut, L., Van Timmeren, S., Sial, A., Grassi, A., Mermer, Pfab, F., Cristina Crava, M., Rendon, D., Dalton, D. T., Gomez, M., Yeh, A., Loeb, G., Rossi-Stacconi, M. V., Anfora, G., Ioriatti, C., Nieri, R., Sassù, F., Stockton, D., Wallingford, A., Burrack, H., Diepenbruck, L., Renkema, J., Dong Cha, Rogers, M., Schöneberg, T., Hamby, K., Zalom, F., Chiu, J., Scott, M. J., Choi, M.-Y., Rodriguez Saona, C., Cloonan, K., Klick, J., Seagraves, M., and Walton, V. M. 2021. Drosophila suzukii: a review of progress of integrated pest management techniques since its initial invasion in the Americas and Europe. Journal of Economic Entomology. 114(5): 1950–1974. doi: 10.1093/jee/toab158
Wang, X.-G., Hogg, B. N., Biondi, A., and Daane, K. M. 2021. Plasticity of body growth and development in two cosmopolitan pupal parasitoids. Biological Control 163: e104738. doi: 10.1016/j.biocontrol.2021.104738
Stahl, J. M., Wilson, H., Straser, R. K., Maccaro, J. J. and Daane, K. M. 2021. Irrigated trap crops in an organic pistachio orchard impact key hemipteran pests in the tree canopy. Arthropod Plant Interactions. doi: 10.1007/s11829-021-09869-7
Lewald, K. M., Abrieux, A., Wilson, D. A., Lee, Y., Conner, W., Andreazza, F., Beers, E. H., Burrack, H. J., Daane, K. M., Diepenbrock, L., Drummond, F., Fanning, P. D., Gaffney, M. T, Hesler, S. P., Ioriatti, C., Isaacs, R., Little, B. A., Loeb, G. M., Miller, B., Nava, D. E., Rendon, D., Sial, A. A., da Silva, C. S. B., Stockton, D. G., Van Timmeren, S., Wallingford, A., Walton, V. M., Wang, X.-G., Zhao, B., Zalom, F. G., and Chiu, J. C. 2021. Population genomics of Drosophila suzukii reveal longitudinal population structure and signals of migrations in and out of the continental United States. G3 – Genes Genomes Genetics 11(12) jkab343. doi: 10.1093/g3journal/jkab343
Daane, K. M., Cooper, M. L., Mercer, N. H., Hogg, B. N., Yokota, G. Y., Haviland, D. R., Welter, S. C., Cave, F. E., Sial, A. A., and Boyd, E. A. 2021. Pheromone deployment strategies for mating disruption of a vineyard mealybug, Planococcus ficus. Journal of Economic Entomology 114(6): 2439–2451 doi: 10.1093/jee/toab198
Abram, P. K., Wang, X.-G. Hueppelsheuser, T., Franklin, M. F., Daane, K. M., Lee, J. C., Lue, C.-H., Girod, P., Carrillo, J., Wong, W.H.L., Kula, R. R., Gates, M. W., Hogg, B. N., Moffat, C. E., Hoelmer, K. A., Sial, A. A. and Buffington, M. L. 2022. A coordinated sampling and identification methodology for larval parasitoids of spotted-wing drosophila. Journal of Economic Entomology (online first) doi: 10.1093/jee/toab237
Wilson, H., Hogg, B. N., Blaisdell, K. G. Anderson, J. C., Yazdani, A. S., Billings, A. C., Ooi, K. M., Almeida, R. P. P., Cooper, M. L., and Daane, K. M. 2021. Survey of vineyard insects and plants to identify potential insect vectors and non-crop reservoirs of Grapevine Red Blotch Virus. Phytofrontiers (online first) doi: 10.1094/PHYTOFR-04-21-0028-R
Straser, R. K., Daane, K. M., Talamas, E, and Wilson, H. Evaluation of Gryon pennsylvanicum (Ashmead) (Hymenoptera: Scelionidae) as a prospective biological control agent of Leptoglossus zonatus (Dallas) (Heteroptera: Coreidae). BioControl (accepted)
Hogg, B. N., Lee, J. C., Rogers, M., Worth, L., Nieto, D., Stahl, J. M., and Daane. K. M. 2022. Releases of the parasitoid Pachycrepoideus vindemiae for augmentative biological control of spotted wing drosophila, Drosophila suzukii. Biological Control (in press)
Daane, K. M., da Silva, P. G., Stahl, J. M. Scaccini, D., and Wang, X.-G. Comparative life history parameters of three stink bug pest species. Environmental Entomology. (in press)
Gutiérrez Illán, J., Acebes-Doria, A., Agnello, A. M., Alston, D. G., Andrews, H., Bergh, J. C., Bessin, R. T., Blaauw, B. R., Buntin, G. D., Burkness, E. C., Cullum, J. P., Daane, K. M., Fann, L. E., Fisher, J., Girod, P., Gut, L. J., Hamilton, G. C., Hoelmer, K. A., Hutchison, W. D., Jentsch, P. J., Joseph, S., Kennedy, G. G., Krawczyk, G., Kuhar, T. P., Leskey, T. C., Nielsen, A. L., Patel, D. K., Peterson, H. D., Reisig, D. R., Rijal, J. P., Sial, A. A., Spears, L. R., Stahl, J. M., Tatman, K. M., Taylor, S. V., Tillman, G., Toews, M. D., Villanueva, R. T., Walgenbach, J., F., Welty, C., Wiman, N. G., Wilson, J. K., Zalom, F. G., Zhu, G., and Crowder, D. W. 2021. Evaluating invasion risk and population dynamics of the brown marmorated stink bug across the conterminous USA. Pest Management Science (in revision)
2020 International Organization for Biological Control, Distinguished Scientist Award, Nearcitc Region, 2017 International IPM Award of Recognition (European Grapevine Moth) · 2017 California Environmental Protection Agency (DPR) “IPM Achievement Award” Virginia Creeper Leafhopper · 2015-2016 University of California Cooperative Extension Distinguished Service Award “Outstanding Team” · 2005 Distinguished Achievement Award in Extension, Entomological Society of America (Pacific Branch)
Contact details
Kent M. Daane
By appointment
Berkeley - same as the Departmental address
Kearney-
Dr. Kent M Daane
Kearney Agricultural Research and Extension Center
9240 So. Riverbend Ave.
Parlier, CA 93648