D.H. Choe
Research Interests
- Exploring and developing urban pest management strategy by exploiting innate / learned behaviors of insects
Current Research Focus:
- Necrophoresis of Argentine Ants, Linepithema humile (Mayr)
- Chemically-Mediated Associative Learning in Ant-Homopteran Mutualism
- Sticky Trap / Use of Resin by Apiomerus sp. Assassin Bugs
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.
