Ph.D.,Plant Pathology from the Ohio State University. I have a keen interest in galling organisms of all sorts.
Ph.D research - Root-knot nematode (Meloidogyne incognita). Biology and control.
Post. Doc 1 - Maize Lethal Necrosis, Redinbaugh Lab.
Post. Doc 2 -Northern Corn Leaf Blight and Grey Leaf Spot Modeling and Prediction, Paul Lab
Current positions;
Adjunct Instructor - College of Wooster
Resarch Assistant - Benitez-Ponce Lab, Impact of crop rotational schema on soil bacterial and fungal populations

Recommended Gall Identification Resources for the eastern United States
Getting started

• N. Charney and C. Eiseman - Tracks & Sign of Insects and Other Invertebrates: A Guide to North American Species - Has a good section covering most of the significant galling species. (2010)
• Cranshaw and Shetlar - Garden Insects of North America (2004) - Also a good place to look for general categories.

More advanced;

• E.P. Felt - Galls and Gall Makers (1940)- An oldie but a goodie
• L. H. Weld - Cynipid Galls of the Eastern United States (1959) - Great guide for the gall wasps
• R.J. Gagne - Plant-feeding Gall Midges of North America (1989) - Great for the midges
• R.J. Gagne - The Gall Midges (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae) of Hickories (Juglandaceae: Carya). (2008) - Caryomyia species treated in depth.

• R.J. Gagne - The North American gall midges (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae) of hackberries (Cannabaceae: Celtis spp.). (2013) - Celticecis species treated in depth
  -T Pergande - North American Phylloxerinae Affecting Hicoria (Carya) & Other Trees (1909) - A good starting point for the hickory phylloxera, still learning these.

• Beutenmüller - North American species of Diastrophus and their galls (1909)
• Daniel McCloskey @ddennism - Goldenrod Galls https://www.inaturalist.org/journal/ddennism/28052-goldenrod-galls (2019)
• J. Plakides - The Gall Midges (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae: Cecidomyiinae) From Allegheny County Pennsylvania (2016) - contains descriptions of new Dasineura species on Laportea canadensis.

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