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Research
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Development of acoustic methods for detection
and identification of citrus, surgarcane, and turf soil insect pests
Examples of recently
developed acoustic detection methods:
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| This is how researchers
sampled for soil insects in 1951 (Photo courtesy of James Fisher) |
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| Here is an example of how
how we sampled for soil insects in 1999. Everett Foreman listens
to Diaprepes
root weevils using an accelerometer in an orange grove at the IFAS Citrus
Research Station, Lake Alfred, FL |
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| This is a way we have sampled
for insects since 2002. Everett Foreman is holding an AED2000
portable insect detector at the University of Puerto Rico Adjuntas Experiment
station. The page at the right is from GEO-Korea magazine, p. 152,
2002 #2. |
- Detection of invasive pest insects in trees
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Acoustic
sensors were attached to the base of a dead coconut palm tree on
Guam to assess for presence of larvae of an invasive pest, the coconut
rhinoceros beetle. No insects were detected acoustically, and the
prediction is being confirmed by pulling down the trunk and inspecting
by hand.
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Bioacoustics and animal communication
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An
accelerometer (vibration sensor) was attached to the base of a citrus
tree to examine acoustic communication in the psyllid pest, Diaphorina citri. A duetting pair is shown (male outlined in blue and a female in pink).
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Microphones
were used to detect defensive stridulations produced by two suspended
pupae that were agitated by squeezing gently with forceps
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Development of methods for detection of stored
product insects, including development of acoustic technology for counting
and monitoring insect populations
| Sitophilus oryzae
adult on wheat |
Technicians Everett Foreman
(left) and Cornelius Dunmore (right) holding an Acoustic Location Fingerprinting
Insect Detector in the CMAVE anechoic chamber) |
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Photo by Keith Weller |
- Development of the World Wide Web as a tool
for scientific communication
Other
Interests
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Science as a Philosophical
Journey and an Extender of Human Capabilities
"Science is an adventure of the whole human race to learn
to live in and perhaps to love the universe in which they are. To
be part of it is to understand, to understand oneself, to begin to feel
that there is a capacity within man, far beyond what he felt he had, of
an infinite extension of human possibilities . . ."
-- I. I. Rabi
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