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NAME: E. Fred Legner (http://www.faculty.ucr.edu/~legneref/)
Biological
Control, University of California, Riverside, CA 92521-0314
POSITION: Professor Emeritus of Biological Control, University of
California
DEGREES:
University of Illinois, Urbana/Champaign, B.S., 1954, Agronomy
Utah State University, Logan, M.S., 1958, Entomology
University of Wisconsin, Madison, Ph.D., 1961, Entomology / Plant
Pathology
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INVITATIONAL
SCIENTIFIC PRESENTATIONS SINCE 1980
POST-DOCTORAL
POSITIONS ADMINISTERED
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1957-58: Department of
Biology, Utah State University, Logan:
Research Assistant
1961-61: Department of
Entomology, University of Wisconsin, Madison:
Associate Professor
1962- 95: Department of
Entomology, University of California, Riverside: Professor
1995- Present: Professor of
Biological Control Emeritus, University of California
PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES (Past
& Present)
Entomological Society of America
Entomological Society of Canada
American Mosquito Control Association
Caribbean Science Society
New York Academy of Sciences
American Assoc. For the Advancement of Science
Sigma Xi
National Honor Society
International Organization For Biological Control
Society of Vector Ecologists
INVITATIONAL SCIENTIFIC PRESENTATIONS
SINCE 1980:
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1995. 13 International Plant Protection Congress,
The Hague, The Netherlands. 2-7 July
1995 1992. 9th International Entomophagous Insects
Workshop, Institute of Food & Agricultural Sciences, Univ. of
Florida. 3-7 May. 1991. Department of Entomology, Texas A. &
M. University, College Station, TX.
Seminar. Novel Phenomena in
Insect Polygenic Systems. 18 Jun. 1990. 2nd Intern. Cong. Dipterology, Bratislava,
Aug 27 - Sept. 1, Increasing parasitism and mortality of synanthropic
Muscidae. 28 Aug. 1990. Department of Entomological Sciences,
University of California, Berkeley, CA. Seminar. Extra nuclear Ignition of Polygenic Loci in Hymenoptera. 5 Mar. 1989. Sacramento Valley Regional Seminar,
Sacramento, CA. Biological Control of
Mosquitoes. 7 Mar. 1988. 18th International Congress of Entomology,
Vancouver, BC, Canada. Symposium on
Genetic Manipulation of Arthropod Natural Enemies. Heterosis and Thelytoky in the Genus Muscidifurax,
Problems and Progress in Genetic Improvement. 3-9 Jul. 1987. Department of Biology, Loyola/Marymount
University, Westminster, CA.
Seminar. Behavior of Imported
Cichlids in Natural Waterways of the Southwestern
United States. Feb. 1986. Annual Meeting Entomological Society of
America, Reno, Nevada.
Symposium. Environmental
Impact of Introduced Biological Control Agents. Arthropods Introduced For Control of Other
Arthropods. Dec. 1986. 2nd Intern. Conf. des Entomologistes de 'expression
Francaise, University of Quebec, Trois-Rivieres, Canada. Symposium on Ecologie et Controle Biologique des
moustiques et mouches noires.
Predators as Agents of Control Against Biting Flies. 15-18 Jul. 1985. Minnesota Mosquito Research & Control,
Working Group Seminar. Natural
Enemies Effective in Mosquito Population Regulation. Nov. 1984. 17th Intern. Congress of Entomology,
Hamburg, Fed. Rep. Germany. Symposium
Biocontrol Agents to Control Livestock Pests. The requirement For Expanded
Scientific Study Into Interactions Between Dung Beetles and Symbovine
Flies. 20-26 Aug. 1984. International Symposium Biological Plant
& Health Protection, Academy of Science & Literature, Mainz, Fed.
Rep. Germany. Importation of Exotic Natural
Enemies. 15-17 Nov. 1983. International Symposium on Tilapia
in Aquaculture. Nazareth,
Israel. Imported Cichlid Behavior in
California. 8-13 May. 1982. Department of Entomology, University of
California, Davis, Seminar.
Biological Control of Navel Orangeworm. 21 Apr. 1982. University of California Cooperative
Extension Seminar, Bakersfield, CA.
Biological Control of Navel Orangeworm. 13 May. 1981. California State College, San Bernardino,
CA. Graduate Seminar. Biological Control of Insects. 12 Oct. 1980. Academy of Aquatic Ecosystems,
Seminar. University of California,
Riverside. Biological Control of
Aquatic Weeds. 1 Mar. 1980. 16th
International Congress of Entomology, Kyoto, Japan. Biological Control Symposium.
Reduction of Pectinophora gossypiella in
Cotton by Imported Parasitic Hymenoptera. 3-9 Aug. |
RESEARCH GRANTS (chronological)
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National Institutes of
Health, Natural Enemies of Synanthropic Diptera grants GM12699 & GM12496)
(10) 1967-75. $200,000. National Science Foundation,
grant to attend 13th International Congress of Entomology, Moscow,
U.S.S.R. Aug 1968. $800.00. National Science Foundation,
Hydra Species as Mosquito Predators.
Grants GB-31068 (2).
1971-73. $88,870 (jointly with U.C. Irvine). Coachella Valley Mosquito
Abatement Dist., Biological Hippelates eye gnat control grants (5) 1962-67.
$25,000. Goldman Poultry Industries
(1). 1968. $1,200. Orange County Mosquito
Abatement Dist. Biological Mosquito & Midge Control grants (3) 1971-73.
$15,000. Southeast Los Angeles
Mosquito Abatement Dist. Biological Mosquito & Midge Control grants
(5). 1971-75. $25,000. U. S. Army, Trust Territory
of the Pacific, Biological Control of Synanthropic Diptera in Kwajalein
Atoll, Marshall Islands. 1971-73
(3) ca. $10,000 Occidental Petroleum
Corp. Biological Aquatic Weed &
Midge Control. 1974-75. $12,164. Northwest Mosquito Abatement
District, Biological Control Studies of Lepidoptera on Poultry Ranches. 1972-73 (2). $10,000. Imperial, Coachella &
Palo Verde Irrigation Districts, Biological Aquatic Weed & Mosquito
Control grants (5). 1974-78. $200,000. California State Legislature
Mosquito Control Grants. Planaria and
Hydra Predators of Mosquitoes.
1974-77 (4). $38,750. California Dept. of Food
& Agriculture, Pink Bollworm Research Grants. 1975-85 (10). $229,577. California Almond Growers
Assoc., Biological Control of Navel Orangeworm grants. 1978-88 (10) $185,532. North Carolina State
University, Travel grant to participate in Deptal. Seminar. 1976.
$568.00. University of California,
Biological Control of Navel Orangeworm in Walnuts, IPM Grants 1983-85
(2). $22,040. California Dept. of Food
& Agriculture, Western Grapeleaf Skeletonizer Natural Enemy Acquisition
grants. 1979-80 (2). $54,057. California Raisin Advisory
Board, Biological Control of Western Grapeleaf Skeletonizer. 1978.
$16,600. Academic Senate Award to
Participate in International Congress of Entomology, Kyoto, Japan. 1980.
$500.00 California Tablegrape
Growers, Biological Control of Grape Mealybug. 1987-90 (3). $9,000. Rincon-Vitova Corporation,
Biological Control of Synanthropic Flies.
1980-89 (9) $20,000.00. Academic Senate Award to
participate in International Symposium on Tilapia in Aquaculture, Nazareth,
Israel. 1983. $500.00. Academic Senate Award to
Participate in International Congress of Entomology, Hamburg, Fed. Rep.
Germany. 1984. $800.00 Entomological Society of
America grant to participate in symposium at the International Congress of
Entomology, Hamburg, Fed. Rep. Germany. 1984. $900.00 Entomological Society of
America grant to participate in International Congress of Entomology,
Vancouver, Canada. 1988. $300. Beneficial Insectaries,
Inc. Biological Control of Medically
Important Flies. 1988. $1,000. Spalding Laboratories. Parasitoids for Medically Important
Diptera. 1984. $3,000. Rincon-Vitova Insectaries,
Inc. Parasitoids for Grape
Mealybug. 1989-90. $2,000. Akademie der Wissenschaften
u. Lirteratur, Mainz, Fed. Rep. Germany.
1984. $2,800. University of California,
Intramural Research Fund--1984-90, research grants (6) $10,000. University of California,
Renewable Resources Extension Act Program.
Biological Dung & Dung Fly Control on Rangeland. 1990-91.
$5,000.00 Walnut Marketing Board,
research grant. Increasing Parasitism
of Codling Moth in Walnuts. 1990-95. $85,986.00 (with Nicholas Mills, UC, Berkeley) Bo-Biotrol Corporation,
grant. Research on Navel Orangeworm
Parasitoids. 1990-91. $14,000.00 Consortium for International
Crop Protection, research grant.
Insect Cotton Pest Management.
1990-94. $1,500,000.00
(jointly with Texas A. & M. Univ. and New Mexico State Univ.). Beneficial Insectaries,
Inc. Biological Control of Medically
Important Flies. 1994. $2,000. Misc. foreign exploration
grants from the Special Fund for Foreign Exploration, University of
California, Berkeley, to Central America, West Indies and Mexico. |
Behavioral Studies of Four Hymenopterous
Parasites of Pectinophora gossypiella
in Relation to Host-seeking Kaironomes.
Doctor of Philosophy in Entomology, March,
1980. 143 p.
Doctor of Philosophy in Entomology
(completed at The University of Mississippi).
Behavior of Solitary and Gregarious
Populations of the Fly Parasitoid, Muscidifurax
raptorellus (Hymenoptera: Pteromalidae):
Effects of Host Density and
Temperature on Parasitization Rate, Multiple Oviposition and Host Destruction.
Master of Science in Entomology,
September, 1988. 71 p.
Bioecological Studies of Niditinea fuscipunctella (Haworth)
(Lepidoptera: Tineidae) in Poultry Manure and Interactions with
Natural Enemies and Musca domestica L.
Doctor of Philosophy in Entomology, June,
1974. 88 p.
William Bartlett Peet, Jr.
Bionomics and Predaceous Habits of Three
Lyctocorines (Hemiptera: Anthocoridae).
Doctor of Philosophy in Entomology,
December, 1975. 117 p.
Comparative Effects of the Desert Pupfish,
Cyprinodon macularius Baird &
Girard, and the Mosquitofish, Gambusia
affinis-affinis
(Baird & Girard) on Pond
Ecosystems; and Mass Rearing Feasibility of C.
macularius
Master of Science in Entomology, October,
1976. 249 p.
Bioecological Studies of Freshwater Hydra
and Planaria (Invertebrata), and Field Evaluations of Their Predation
Effectiveness for
Biological Control of Immatue
Mosquitoes and Chironomids in Southern California.
Doctor of Philosophy in Entomology, March,
1976. 152 p.
POST-DOCTORAL POSITIONS
ADMINISTERED
Dan Gerling, Tel-Aviv University, Israel
William Hauser, University of Maine, Bangor
Marcos Kogan, Oswaldo Cruz Institute, Rio de
Janeiro
Shan-Ching Tsai,
Taiwan
Archeological Sites in America = http://www.faculty.ucr.edu/~legneref/archeol/archeol.htm
Biological Pest Control = http://www.faculty.ucr.edu/~legneref/bc.htm
Bolivian / Peruvian Archeology = http://www.faculty.ucr.edu/~legneref/biados/biados.htm
California Birds = http://www.faculty.ucr.edu/~legneref/birds/calbirds.htm
Citrus Crate Labels of California = http://www.faculty.ucr.edu/~legneref/citcrate/crate.htm
Collaborative Bolivia-California
Archeology = http://www.faculty.ucr.edu/~legneref/biados/biados.htm
Discoveries in Natural History & Exploration = http://www.faculty.ucr.edu/~legneref
Ethnic Diversity in Pre-Columbian America = http://www.faculty.ucr.edu/~legneref/ethnic/ethnic1.htm
European Bronze Age Visitors in America =: http://faculty.ucr.edu/~legneref/bronze/fell.htm
Insect
Identification = http://www.faculty.ucr.edu/~legneref/bckeys/keys.htm
Landscapes of the World = http://www.faculty.ucr.edu/~legneref/landscap/landscap.htm
Maps of the World = http://faculty.ucr.edu/~legneref/maps/maps.htm
Plants of Economic & Aesthetic Importance = http://www.faculty.ucr.edu/~legneref/botany/index.html
Staphylinidae Identification = http://www.faculty.ucr.edu/~legneref/eflpub/efl130.htm
Riverside Municipal Museum
(Insect Collection)
Sherman Indian School,
Riverside, California (Historical Records section)
RECENT AWARDS
2004. Association of natural Bio-control Producers, Award of
Excellence. For outstanding
contributions
to Commercial Biological Control
2004. Riverside Pride, Neighborhood Pride Award. The City of Riverside and the Riverside
Neighborhood
Partnership Award for our appreciation
for your contribution to the beautification of our city. [Includes
energy-efficient & minimal water
landscaping].
2006. The City
of Riverside Certificate of Appreciation.
2006 Municipal Museum Volunteer Recognition. Ronald O.
Loveridge, Mayor, Bradley J. Hudson, City Manager: “In recognition of your valuable
contribution
And distinguished service to the City of Riverside.