Graduate Students
Dong-Hwan Choe
| Program: | Ph.D. |
| Major Professor: | Michael Rust |
| E-Mail: | dong-hwan.choe@email.ucr.edu |
| Location: | 102 College Bldg N |
| Phone (office): | (951) 827-5805 |
| Web Site: |  |
Education
- B.S. Agriculture Korea University, Seoul, Korea 2002
- M.S. University of California, Riverside 2005
Research Focus
Argentine Ant (Linepithema humile) Behavior, Insect Behavior, Inter-specific Interaction, Urban Entomology
Selected Publications
Rust, M. K., Choe, D.-H. (2006) Behavioral interactions between ants, pest, and parasitoids - Implications for biological control. Hoddle, M and Johnson, M. (eds.) Proceedings of the 5th California Conference on Biological Control, Riverside, CA., 107-111.
Choe, D.-H., Rust, M. K. (2006) Homopteran chemical signatures reduce aggression of tending ants. Chemoecology 16: 175-178.
Choe, D.-H., Rust, M. K. (2006) Agonistic behavior of Argentine ants to scales and scale parasitoids and their cuticular extracts. Sociobiology 48: 799-818.
Choe, D.-H., Rust, M. K. (2007) Use of plant resin by a bee assassin bug, Apiomerus flaviventris (Hemiptera: Reduviidae). Annals of the Entomological Society of America 100: 320-326.
Rust, M. K., Choe, D.-H., and Vetter, R. S. (2008) Virtual baiting to control ants in sensitive urban environments. pp. 99-103. In W.H. Robinson and D. Bajomi (eds.), Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Urban Pests., 13-16 April 2008, Budapest, Hungary.
Choe, D.-H., Rust, M. K. (2008) Horizontal transfer of insecticides in laboratory colonies of the Argentine ant (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). J. Econ. Entomol. 101: 1397-1405.