Cerruti Hooks

Portrait of Cerruti Hooks

Cerruti Hooks

Professor

Teaching

BSCI120: Insects
ENTM769: Capstone: Scholar Paper

Graduate Program Affiliations

Entomology

Research

The Hooks Lab uses a multi-disciplinary research approach to provide producers information needed to transition farm acreage to more sustainable habitats, teach small farmers ecologically based practices that allow them to effectively manage pests in their crops, and provide producers with information that gives them greater confidence in transitioning land to organic production.​

Education

Ph.D., University of Hawaii - Manoa, 2000
M.S., North Carolina State University, 1994
B.S., North Carolina Central University, 1987

Latest Papers

Evaluating the impacts of grass and legume living mulches on arthropod pests and beneficials, yield, and fruit quality in cantaloupe

| Journal of Economic Entomology
Author(s): Demian A Nunez, Macarena Farcuh, Karin T Burghardt, Scott McCluen, Cerruti R R Hooks, Julien Beuzelin


Field abundance and spatial patterns of ear-feeding insect pests in relation to levels of defective kernels in processing sweet corn

| Journal of Economic Entomology
Author(s): Galen P Dively, Veronica Yurchak, Cerruti R R Hooks, Macarena Farcuh, Joseph Munyaneza


Influence of flowering red clover on flower visitation in a sweet corn agroecosystem

| Journal of Pollination Ecology
Author(s): Veronica Yurchak, Anahi Espindola, Cerruti Hooks


Effects of mowing on the arthropod community in grass buffers and adjacent crop fields

| Journal of Economic Entomology
Author(s): Dively, G.P., Hooks, C.R.R.


Influence of strip-tillage and winter cover crops on weeds and yield in organic pepper

| Crop Protection
Author(s): Leslie, A.W., Joseph, D., Hooks, C.R.R.


Integrated Weed Management in Cucurbit Production Using Spring-seeded Grass Cover Crops

| Horttechnology
Author(s): Vollmer, K.M., Joseph, D., Leslie, A., Hooks, C., Besançon, T.E.


Benefits of Cross-Pollination in Vegetable Soybean Edamame

| Journal of Pollination Ecology
Author(s): Kathleen Evans, Jenan El-Hifnawi, Cerruti Hooks, Anahí Espíndola