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Karen R. Sime
Education:
Ph.D. in Entomology, Cornell University, 2001
B.S. in Chemistry, University of California at Berkeley, 1991
Area(s) of Specialty: Entomology
Research Interests: Behavior, ecology, and evolution of parasitic wasps; insect-plant interactions; biological control; chemical ecology; butterfly biology
Recent Publications:
Daane, K.M., M.W. Johnson, D.H. Pickett, K.R. Sime, X-G. Wang, H. Nadel, J.W. Andrews, and K.A. Hoelmer (2010) Biological control of the olive fruit fly in California. California Agriculture (in press).
Sime, K.R., K.M. Daane, X.G. Wang, M.W. Johnson and R.H. Messing (2008) Evaluation of Fopius arisanus (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) as a biological control agent for the olive fruit fly in California. Agricultural and Forest Entomology 10:423-413.
Daane, K.M, M.L. Cooper, K.R. Sime, E.H. Nelson, M.C. Battany and M.K. Rust (2008) Testing baits to control Argentine ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in vineyards. Journal of Economic Entomology 101:699-709.
Daane, K.M., K.R. Sime, X.G. Wang, H. Nadel, M.W. Johnson, V.M. Walton, A. Kirk, C.H. Pickett (2008) Psyttalia lounsburyi (Hymenoptera: Braconidae), promising biological control agent for the olive fruit fly in California. Biological Control 44: 79-89.
Daane, K.M, K.R. Sime, J. Fallon and M.L. Cooper (2007) Impacts of Argentine ants on mealybugs and their natural enemies in California's coastal vineyards. Ecological Entomology 32:583-596.
Orsini, M.M., K.M. Daane, K.R. Sime, and E.H. Nelson (2007) Mortality of olive fruit fly pupae in a California orchard. Biocontrol Science and Technology 17:797-807.
Sime, K.R., K.M. Daane, A. Kirk, J. Andrews, M.W. Johnson and R.H. Messing (2007) Psyttalia ponerophaga as a potential biological control agent for the olive fruit fly in California. Bulletin of Entomological Research 97:233-242.
Daane, K.M, K.R. Sime, J. Fallon and M.L. Cooper (2007) Variable impacts of Argentine ants on mealybugs and their natural enemies in California’s coastal vineyards. Ecological Entomology 32, 583-596.
Sime, K.R., Daane, K.M., Nadel, H., Funk, C., Messing, R.H., Andrews, J.W., Pickett, C., and Johnson, M.W. (2006) Diachasmimorpha longicaudata and D. kraussii (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) as parasitoids of the olive fruit fly. Biocontrol Science and Technology 16:169-179.
Sullivan, D.J, Daane, K.M., Sime, K.R., and Andrews, J.W. (2006) Protective mechanisms for pupae of Psyllaephagus bliteus Riek (Hymenoptera: Encyrtidae), a parasitoid of the red gum psyllid Glycaspis brimblecombei (Hemiptera: Spondyliaspididae). Australian Journal of Entomology 45:101-105.
Sime, K.R., Daane, K.M., Messing, R.H., and Johnson, M.W. (2006) Comparison of two laboratory cultures of Psyttalia concolor (Hym: Braconidae), a parasitoid of the olive fruit fly. Biological Control 39:248-255.
Wahl, D.B. and Sime, K.R. (2006) A revision of the genus Trogus (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae, Ichneumoninae). Systematic Entomology 31:584-610.
Sime, K.R., Daane, K.M., Andrews, J.W., Hoelmer, K., Pickett, C.H., Nadel, H., Johnson, M.W., and Messing, R.H. (2006) Biological studies of Bracon celer Szépligeti, as a parasitoid of the olive fruit fly. BioControl 51:553-567.
Daane, K.M, Sime, K.R., Dahlsten, D.L., Andrews, J.W., and Zuparko, R.L. (2005) The biology of Psyllaephagus bliteus Riek (Hymenoptera: Encyrtidae), a parasitoid of the red gum lerp psyllid (Hemiptera: Spondyliaspididae). Biological Control 32: 228-235.
Sime, K.R. (2005) The natural history of Trogus pennator (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae): host-finding behaviour and a possible host countermeasure. Journal of Natural History 39: 1367-1380.
