Kelly Hamby

Portrait of Kelly Hamby

Kelly Hamby

Associate Professor
301 314 1068
kahamby@umd.edu 4112 Plant Sciences Building

Teaching

BSCI487: IPM: Science-Based Decis
ENTM609: Integrated Pest Management
ENTM798B: Myth Big Chunk Of Time
ENTM798E: Prof Dev For Life Sci

Graduate Program Affiliations

Biological Sciences (BISI): Behavior, Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics (BEES)
Biological Sciences (BISI): Molecular and Cell Biology (MOCB)
Entomology

Research

The Hamby Lab works to understand insect interactions with free-living microorganisms, address invasive and emerging insect pest issues, evaluate and optimize pest management programs, develop sustainable alternative management tactics, and improve integrated pest management in small fruit, sweet corn and grain crops.

Education

Ph.D., University of California - Davis, 2014
M.S., University of California - Davis, 2012
B.S., University of California - Davis, 2009

Latest Papers

Establishment of key Asian larval parasitoids of Drosophila suzukii (Diptera: Drosophilidae) in the US Mid-Atlantic states

| Journal of Economic Entomology
Author(s): Xingeng Wang, Kelly Hamby, Kathleen Demchak, Amanda Stout, David Biddinger, Karly Regan, Chia-Hua Lue, Kim A Hoelmer, Kent Daane


Trap design and pheromone lure type influence Helicoverpa zea (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) moth capture in sweet corn

| Journal of Economic Entomology
Author(s): John W Mahas, Christophe Duplais, Kelly Hamby, Galen Dively, Anders S Huseth, David Owens, Thomas Kuhar, Hélène Doughty, Brian Currin, Brian A Nault, et. al


Polygenic response to selection by transgenic Bt-expressing crops in wild Helicoverpa zea and characterization of a major effect locus

| BMC Genomics
Author(s): Katherine L. Taylor, Jane Quackenbush, Cara Lamberty, Kelly A. Hamby, Megan L. Fritz


Widespread establishment of adventive populations of Leptopilina japonica (Hymenoptera, Figitidae) in North America and development of a multiplex PCR assay to identify key parasitoids of Drosophila suzukii (Diptera, Drosophilidae)

| NeoBiota
Author(s): Tara D. Gariepy, Paul K. Abram, Chris Adams, Dylan Beal, Elizabeth Beers, Jonathan Beetle, David Biddinger, Gabrielle Brind’Amour, Allison Bruin, Matthew Buffington, et. al


Diffuse Associations Between Drosophila suzukii and Filamentous Fungal Microbes May Alter Caneberry Disease Dynamics

| Phytopathology®
Author(s): Margaret T. Lewis, Logan Miller, Mengjun Hu, Kelly A. Hamby


Peroxyacetic acid and hydrogen peroxide crop sanitizer efficacy against fungi and Drosophila suzukii in blackberries

| Crop Protection
Author(s): Torsten Schöneberg, Madison Tewey, Kelly A. Hamby


Extended Sentinel Monitoring of Helicoverpa zea Resistance to Cry and Vip3Aa Toxins in Bt Sweet Corn: Assessing Changes in Phenotypic and Allele Frequencies of Resistance

| Insects
Author(s): Galen P. Dively, Tom P. Kuhar, Sally V. Taylor, Helene Doughty, Kristian Holmstrom, Daniel O. Gilrein, Brian A. Nault, Joseph Ingerson-Mahar, Anders Huseth, Dominic Reisig, et. al


Monitoring of Spotted-Wing Drosophila (Diptera: Drosophilidae) Resistance Status Using a RAPID Method for Assessing Insecticide Sensitivity Across the United States

| Journal of Economic Entomology
Author(s): Rufus Isaacs, Steven Van Timmeren, Brian E Gress, Frank G Zalom, Fatemeh Ganjisaffar, Kelly A Hamby, Margaret T Lewis, Oscar E Liburd, Nupur Sarkar, Cesar Rodriguez-Saona, et. al