Insect communities for biological control and pollination services are fostered by landscape strategies encouraging movement into agricultural fields. Because of this, we investigate how the benefits conferred by an insect community necessarily depend on landscape composition.
An important aspect of this work is that it addresses how different types of insects perform under different styles of farm management. Below are some important components of the research.
Ongoing work on this project involves studying pollinator movement alongside beneficial predators. This work is in its early stages but is in collaboration with Scott Longing (PSS TTU) and multiple graduate students (including Morgan Beetler and Kassandra Gallardo in mathematics).
