Publications

Meys, E. M., Willden, S. A., Ingwell, L. L., McCarter, M. G., Wallingford, A., Sideman, R., and Athey, K. J. 2025. A review of integrated pest management practices in high tunnel specialty crop production. Crop Protection. 202:107530. doi: 10.1016/j.cropro.2025.107530.

Athey, K. J., Chapman, E. C., Al-Khatri, S., Moktar, A. M., and John J. Obrycki, J. J. 2024. Molecular identification of predation on the Dubas bug (Hemiptera: Tropiduchidae) in Oman date palms: density-dependent response to prey. Journal of Insect Science. (4) 22. doi: 10.1093/jisesa/ieae088. PMID: 39243221; PMCID: PMC11380113.

Sharkey, M., Athey, K. J., Fernández-Triana, J. L., Penteado-Dias, A. M., Monckton, S. K., Quicke, D. 2023. Key to the New World subfamilies of the family Braconidae (Hymenoptera). Canadian Journal of Arthropod Identification. 49. doi:10.3752/cjai.2023.49

Ademokoya, B., Athey, K. J., Ruberson, J. R. 2022. Natural enemies and biological control of stink bugs in North America. Insects. 13(10). https://doi.org/10.3390/insects13100932

Athey, K.J., Peterson, J.A., Dreyer, J. Harwood, J.D., Williams, M.A. 2021. Effect of breathable row covers and ground cover on pest insect levels and cucurbit yield. Journal of Economic Entomology. https://doi.org/10.1093/jee/toab212.

Hepler, J., Athey, K.J., Enicks, D., Abram, P., Gariepy, T., Talamas, E., Beers, E. 2020. Hidden host mortality from an introduced parasitoid: Traditional and molecular evaluation of non-target risk. Insects.11(11) 822. https://doi.org/10.3390/insects11110822.

Penn, H.J., Athey, K.J. 2020. Ant and spider non-consumptive effects influence intraguild interactions and pest damage in soybeans. Florida Entomologist. 103(2): 160-167. https://doi.org/10.1653/024.103.0202

White, J.A., Styer, A.S., Rosenwald, L.C., Curry, M.M., Welch, K.D., Athey, K.J., Chapman, E.G. 2019. Endosymbiotic bacteria are prevalent and diverse in agricultural spiders. Microbial Ecology. DOI: 10.1007/s00248-019-01411-w.

Athey, K.J., Ruberson, J.R, Olson, D., Harwood, J.D. 2019. Predation on stink bugs (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae) in cotton and soybean agroecosystems. PlosOne 14(3). https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0214325

Macías-Hernández, N., Athey, K.J., Tonzo, V., Wangensteen, O.S., Arnedo, M., Harwood, J.D. 2018. Exploring spider digestive processes in the context of body part DNA extraction and molecular gut content analysis. PlosOne. 13(5): DOI: e0196589.

Athey, K.J., Sitvarin, M.I, Harwood, J.D. 2017. Laboratory and field investigation of biological control for brown marmorated stink bug (Halyomorpha halys (Stål) (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae)). Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society 90(4): 341-352.

Athey, K.J., Chapman, E.G., Harwood, J.D. 2017. A tale of two fluids: does storing specimens together in liquid preservative cause DNA cross-contamination in molecular gut-content studies? Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata. DOI: 10.1111/eea.12567.

Penn, H.J., Athey, K.J., Lee, B.D. 2017. Land cover diversity increases predator spatial aggregation to, and consumption of, prey. Ecology Letters 20: 609–618. DOI:10.1111/ele.12759.

Pook, V.G., Athey, K.J., Chapman, E.G., Clutts-Stoelb, S.A., Sharkey, M.J. 2016. New PCR primers enhance investigation of host-parasitoid food-webs. Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata.

Athey, K.J., Dreyer, J., Kowles, K.A., Penn, H.J., Sitvarin, M.I., Harwood, J.D. 2016. Spring Forward: Molecular detection of early season predation in agroecosystems. Food Webs, 9C: 25-31 DOI information: 10.1016/j.fooweb.2016.06.001.

Rondoni, G., Athey, K.J., Harwood, J.D., Conti, E., Ricci, C., Obrycki, J.J. 2014. Development and application of molecular gut-content analysis to detect aphid and coccinellid predation by Harmonia axyridis (Pallas) (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) in Italy. Insect Science, 00: 1-12

Ruberson, J.R., Olson, D.M., Athey, K.J., Harwood, J.D. 2012. Biological control of stink bugs in cotton. Proceedings of the 2012 Beltwide Cotton Conference. pp. 1153-1158. National Cotton Council, Memphis, TN.

Johansen, K. J., Sharkey, M.J., & Fisher, J. R. 2010. Molecular Evidence from a Parasitoid Wasp, Schlettererius cinctipes (Hymenoptera: Stephanidae), for a North American West-to-East Transcontinental Conduit for Wood-Boring Insects. Annals of the Entomological Society of America, 103(4): 548-554.

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