About

Henry Fadamiro is a Professor and Associate Vice President for Strategic Initiatives at the Department of Entomology at Texas A&M University. He holds a Bachelor of Technology with First Class Honors in Biology from the Federal University of Technology, Akure, Nigeria, and a Ph.D. in Entomology from the University of Oxford, United Kingdom. His areas of expertise include insect behavior, chemical ecology, neurobiology, biological control, and integrated pest management. Dr. Fadamiro's research focuses on understanding insect interactions and developing sustainable pest management strategies, with significant contributions to the management of various pest species and the role of biological and chemical factors in insect behavior. His work has advanced knowledge in the field of entomology, particularly in biological control and the chemical ecology of pest insects.

Research topics

• Ecology
• Botany
• Biology
• Zoology
• Horticulture

Selected publications

• Host-Induced Plant Volatiles Mediate Ability of the Parasitoid Microplitis croceipes to Discriminate Between Unparasitized and Parasitized Heliothis virescens Larvae and Avoid Superparasitism

  Journal of Chemical Ecology · 2020 · 17 citations

  Senior authorCorresponding
  • Biology
  • Botany
  • Zoology
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• Comparative Cutaneous Water Loss and Desiccation Tolerance of Four Solenopsis spp. (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in the Southeastern United States

  Insects · 2020 · 14 citations

  Senior authorCorresponding
  • Biology
  • Botany
  • Ecology

  species and implies that environmental stress can affect the distribution of these species in the southeastern USA.

  DOI

• Parasitism and predation of sentinel eggs of the invasive brown marmorated stink bug, Halyomorpha halys (Stål) (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae), in the southeastern US

  Biological Control · 2020 · 57 citations

  • Biology
  • Horticulture
  • Botany

  The invasive brown marmorated stink bug, Halyomorpha halys, is present in the Piedmont and expanding into the Coastal Plains Regions of the southeastern US. Consequently, this study was conducted to evaluate parasitism and predation of H. halys sentinel egg masses by native parasitoids and predators in woodland habitats and orchard, vineyard, row, and vegetable crops alongside these habitats in Alabama and Georgia in 2017 and 2018. Ten primary parasitoid species, including two new records, and one hyperparasitoid emerged from eggs. Trissolcus japonicus was not detected. Ooencyrtus sp. was the prevalent parasitoid species in vegetables while Telenomus podisi was the predominant species in row crops. Anastatus reduvii, An. mirabilis, Tr. brochymenae, and Tr. euschisti were the prevalent species in woodland and orchard habitats. Trissolcus edessae Fouts occurred primarily in orchards. Trissolcus basalis and Gyron obesum were observed in vegetable habitats. Percentage successful development to adults, sex ratio, and percentage of parasitism per egg mass was highest for Tr. edessae. Predation damage included complete and incomplete chewing, stylet sucking, puncture sucking, and removal of whole eggs from egg masses. Hole and non-stylet sucking damage were discovered. Chewing and piercing-sucking predation constituted the majority of predation in woodlands, plum, blueberry, tomato, pecan, peach, and okra. Mainly chewing predation and egg removal occurred in soybean, cotton, and strawberry. Piercing-sucking predation was common in wine grape and apple. There was no difference between fresh and frozen eggs in the proportion of parasitism and predation both years. In 2017, overall percent parasitism was higher for blueberry compared to other crops except peach and apple. No differences were detected in 2018. Peak parasitism (72.3%) in apple at a site in 2017 represented the highest parasitism rate. Predation was highest in soybean and cotton. Indeed, predation in soybean reached very high levels in 2017 (96.3%) and 2018 (90.3%). In conclusion, native natural enemies parasitize and prey on H. halys egg masses in the southeastern US.

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Recent grants

• RIG/CAA: Comparative Study of Neuroethology of Olfaction in Parasitic Wasps

  NSF · $172k · 2007–2010

Frequent coauthors

• Rammohan Balusu

  34 shared

• Tolulope Morawo

  Indian River State College

  28 shared

• Donglin Zhang

  University of Georgia

  24 shared

• Li Chen

  West China Second University Hospital of Sichuan University

  20 shared

• Li Chen

  Sichuan University

  19 shared

• Ted E. Cottrell

  Southeastern Fruit and Tree Nut Research Laboratory

  16 shared

• Yingfang Xiao

  University of Florida

  12 shared

• Edgar L. Vinson

  11 shared

Education

• Other, Biology

  Federal University of Technology, Akure, Nigeria

• Ph.D., Entomology

  University of Oxford, United Kingdom

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