Illinois Natural History Survey - University of Illinois

Charlie Helm
1816 S. Oak Street
Champaign, IL 61820
MC–652
Phone: 217-333-1005   Fax: 217-265-5110
Email: cghelm@illinois.edu
Title: Senior Research Entomologist
Office Location: I-BLDG

Activities State Survey Coordinator, Cooperative Agricultural Pest Survey (a combined effort by Federal and State agricultural organizations to conduct surveillance, detection and monitoring of agricultural crop pests and biological control organisms; a USDA-APHIS-PPQ funded program)

Insect surveys with emphasis on exotic species with potential for establishment on Illinois crops

Biological Control Program

Biology and rearing of parasites of stalk borers;

Biology and rearing of beetles for the biological control of purple loosestrife

Soybean IPM

Behavior and bionomics of soybean insects

Host plant resistance in soybean IPM


Research
Enhance yield, pest resistance, and stress tolerance with novel Asian germplasm

Dynamic soybean management for emerging agricultural technologies and variable environments

Cooperative Agricultural Pest Survey, National Exotic Woodborer/Bark Beetle Survey

Biological control of purple loosestrife

Differential suitability of lepidopteran stalk borer hosts to parasitism by Macrocentrus grandii


Recognition Oberly Award for Excellence in Agriculture and the Related Sciences for World Bibliography of Soybean Entomology, 1989

Professional
affiliations
Illinois Natural History Survey, Center for Economic Entomology Staff

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Dept. of Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences

Entomological Society of America

S-281, CSRS Regional Research Project, "Development of sustainable IPM tactics for soybean arthropod pests"

Illinois Pest Survey Planning Committee, State Survey Coordinator and co- Chairman

Selected
publications
Shortt, B. J., J. B. Sinclair, C. G. Helm, M. R. Jeffords, and M. Kogan. 1982. Soybean seed quality loss associated with bean leaf beetles and Alternaria tenuissima. Phytopathology 72:615-618.

Jeffords, M. R., C. G. Helm, and M. Kogan. 1983. Overwintering behavior and spring colonization of soybeans by the bean leaf beetle (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) in Illinois. Environ. Entomol. 12:1459-1463.

Helm, C. G., M. R. Jeffords, S. L. Post, and M. Kogan. 1983. Spring feeding activity of overwintered bean leaf beetles (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) on nonleguminous hosts. Environ. Entomol. 12:321-322.

Kogan, J., M. Kogan, E. F. Brewer, and C. G. Helm. 1988. World Bibliography of Soybean Entomology. 2 vols. Illinois Agricultural Experiment Station Special Publication 73. Vol. I, 665 p.; Vol. II, 291 p.

Oloumi-Sadeghi, H., C. G. Helm, M. Kogan, and D. F. Schoenweiss. 1988. Effect of water stress on abundance of twospotted spider mite on soybeans under greenhouse conditions. Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata. 48:85-90.

Helm, C. G., M. Kogan, D. W. Onstad, L. M. Wax, and M. R. Jeffords. 1992. Effects of velvetleaf competition and defoliation by soybean looper (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) on yield of indeterminate soybean. J. Econ. Entomol. 85: 2433-2439.

Hammond, R. B., C. G. Helm, and R. Nelson. 1998. Introduced soybean lines from China: Screening for insect resistance. J. Econ Entomol. 91: 546-551.

Hartman, G. L., L.L. Domier, L.M. Wax, C.G. Helm, D.W. Onstad, J.T. Shaw, L.F. Solter, D.J. Voegtlin, C. J. D'Arcy, M.E. Gray, K.L. Steffey, S.A. Isard, and P.L. Orwick. 2001. Occurrence and distribution of Aphis glycines on soybeans in Illinois in 2000 and its potential control. Plant Health Progress.


Program
Affiliates
Robert N. Wiedenmann, Director, Center for Economic Entomology Staff, INHS

Susan Post, Associate Technical Scientist, INHS

Kenneth Kruse, State Plant Health Director, USDA-APHIS-PPQ


Professional
society
involvement
and activities
Entomological Society of America
1989
Section C representative to Publications Committee, Miscellaneous Publications of the ESA (for M. Kogan)

1994
NCB-ESA, Chairman A-V Committee

1995-1997
Entomological Society of America, Public Information Committee


S-219, CSRS Regional Research Project, "Arthropod Induced Stress on Soybean: Evaluation and Management"

1991
Secretary, Executive Committee

1992
Vice-Chairman, Executive Committee

1993
Chairman, Executive Committee



S-255, CSRS Regional Research Project, "Development of sustainable IPM strategies for soybean arthropod pests

1993-1997
UIUC Agricultural Experiment Station Representative


S-281, CSRS Regional Project, "Development of sustainable IPM tactics for soybean arthropod pests"

1998-2002
UIUC Office of Research Representative

Education MS, Entomology, University of Illinois, 1973

BS, Zoology / Chemistry, Eastern Illinois University, 1971