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Entomology & Plant Pathology
Mississippi State University
Mississippi State, MS 39762-9775
TEL: (662) 325-2085
FAX: (662) 325-8837
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JOHN SCHNEIDER
Professor/Research Entomologist
Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology
Box 9775
Mississippi State University
Mississippi State, MS 39762-9775
TEL: (662) 325-2977
FAX: (662) 325-8837
Email: jschn@ra.msstate.edu
B.S., Honors in Biology, 1974, Purdue University
Ph.D., Ecology and Evolution, 1979, Princeton University
I have been employed in the Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology at Mississippi State University from May 1979 to date.
I teach "Insect Ecology" and "Empirical Research in Theory and Practice".
I have modeled the mesoscale movement of Heliothis virescens (tobacco budworm) (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) and the implications of this movement for area-wide management of this pest.
Since 1996, I have studied the overwintering and wild host plant use of the tobacco budworm and Helicoverpa zea (cotton bollworm) (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) and the implications of their ecology for pest and resistance management at various spatial scales.
Currently, I am studying aspects of the biology of the tobacco budworm and cotton bollworm that affect rearing of these species.
Selected Recent Publications
Schneider, J.C. 1999. Dispersal of a highly vagile insect in a heterogeneous environment. Ecology 80(8): 2740-2749.
Schneider, J.C. 1999. Confidence intervals for Bayesian estimates of resistance allele frequencies. J. Econ. Entomol. 92(4): 755.
Schneider, J.C. (2003). Overwintering of Heliothis virescens (F.) and Helicoverpa zea Boddie (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) in cotton fields of northeast Mississippi. J. Econ. Entomol. 96(5): 1433-1447.