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Charlie Helm
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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 |
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| 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 |
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| Recognition | Oberly Award for Excellence in Agriculture and the Related Sciences for World Bibliography of Soybean Entomology, 1989 |
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| 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 |
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| 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. |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| Education | MS, Entomology, University of Illinois, 1973 BS, Zoology / Chemistry, Eastern Illinois University, 1971 | ||