Dr. J. Howard Frank
Professor - Entomology
Ph.D., Oxford University, 1967.
Entomology and Nematology
Bldg. 970
PO Box 110630
Gainesville, FL 32611-0630
Telephone: (352) 392-1901 ext. 128
FAX: (352) 392-0190
E-mail
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Mole cricket Web site
Position
Entomology (Biological Control) (70% Research / 20% Extension / 10% Teaching)
Responsibilities
Dr. Frank conducts research, teaching, and extension in biological control. Dr. Frank serves as the coordinator of UF/IFAS mole cricket research program and his current projects are against Scapteriscus mole crickets (pests of turf, pasture grasses, and vegetables), biological control of pest insects using parasitoids, predators, or pathogens, and Metamasius callizona (pest of bromeliads). Current extension responsibilities are partially on biological control of mole crickets in forage grasses and turf.
Courses Taught
(ENY 3563/ENY 3564L)- Tropical Entomology/Tropical
Ent. Lab.
(ENY 5566/ENY 5567L).- Tropical Entomology/Tropical
Ent. Lab. (graduate level)
ENY 5241 - Biological Control (graduate level)
Staff
Robert Hemenway - Laboratory Technician
Graduate Students
Scott Portman (MS student in Entomology, studying the wasp Larra bicolor, a biological control agent of pest mole crickets)