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Associate Professor
Department of Agricultural Entomology
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Co-Director, North Central Region IPM Center
Phone: (217) 333-6652
Fax: (217) 333-5245
Email: megray@uiuc.edu
Mike is a native of Corning, Iowa, a small agricultural community
located in the southwestern region of the state. He currently serves
as a Professor of Agricultural Entomology in the Department of Crop
Sciences, University of Illinois,
Champaign-Urbana, Illinois. He earned his undergraduate degree
in biology from the University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, Iowa.
Mike then taught high school biology for a few years before entering
graduate school. He received both of his graduate degrees in economic
entomology from Iowa State University,
Ames, Iowa. Throughout 1987, he served as a postdoctoral research
associate at South Dakota State University, Brookings, South Dakota.
Mike began his duties at the University
of Illinois in March of 1988. In addition to his appointment at
the University of Illinois,
he serves as Co-Director for the North Central Region IPM Center.
Mike also is a member of the Center for Economic Entomology, Illinois
Natural History Survey and has an affiliate appointment with the Department
of Entomology, University
of Illinois. Mike's research interests have focused on the implementation
of management strategies for insect pests of field crops. Since 1995,
he and his graduate students have conducted research on the adaptation
of western corn rootworms to crop rotation.
Publications
Books Edited or Co-Edited
Steffey, K.L., M.E. Rice, J. All, D.A. Andow, M.E. Gray & J.W.
Van Duyn [eds.]. 1999. Handbook of Corn Insects. Published by Entomol.
Soc. Am., Lanham, MD. 164 pp.
Chapters in Books
Gray, M.E. & W.H. Luckmann. 1994. Integrating the cropping
system for corn insect pest management. Chapter 12, pages 507-541
in Introduction to Insect Pest Management. R.L. Metcalf & W.H.
Luckmann [eds.], John Wiley & Sons, Inc., NY.
Steffey, K.L., M.E. Gray & L.G. Higley. 1994. Introduction
to identification and diagnosis of injury. Pages 17-34 in ESA Handbook
of Soybean Insect Pests. Entomol. Soc. Am., Lanham, MD.
Gray, M.E., E. Levine & H. Oloumi-Sadeghi. 1998. Adaptation
to crop rotation: western and northern corn rootworms respond uniquely
to a cultural practice. Volume 2, pages 19-31 in Recent Res. Developments
in Entomology. S.G. Pandalai [ed.], Research Signpost, Trivandrum,
India.
Gray, M.E. 2002. Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide
Act. Pages 261-262 in Encyclopedia of Pest Management. (ed.) David
Pimentel, Marcel Dekker, Inc., New York, NY (ISBN 0-8247-0632-0).
Gray, M.E. 2002. Crop rotations (insects and mites). Pages 169-171
in Encyclopedia of Pest Management. (ed.) David Pimentel, Marcel
Dekker, Inc., New York, NY (ISBN 0-8247-0632-0).
Selected Articles in Journals (last 5 years)
Buhler, W., C.R. Edwards, L.W. Bledsoe, C. Gerber, M.E. Gray &
K.L. Steffey. 1998. Areawide pest management of western corn rootworm
in Indiana and Illinois - turning the first corner. Pflanzenschutzberichte:
Band 57 Heft 2: 69-74.
Gray, M.E. & K.L. Steffey. 1998. Corn rootworm (Coleoptera:
Chrysomelidae) larval injury and root compensation of 12 maize hybrids:
an assessment of the economic injury index. J. Econ. Entomol. 91:
723-740.
Gray, M.E. & K.L. Steffey. 1998. Status of extension entomology
programs: a national assessment. Am. Entomol. 44: 9-13.
O’Neal, M.E., M.E. Gray & C.A. Smyth. 1999. Population
characteristics of a western corn rootworm (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae)
strain in east-central Illinois corn and soybean fields. J. Econ.
Entomol. 92: 1301-1310.
Gray, M.E. 2001. The role of extension in promoting IPM programs.
Amer. Entomol. 47(3): 134-137.
O’Neal, M.E., M.E. Gray, S. Ratcliffe & K.L. Steffey.
2001. Predicting western corn rootworm (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae)
larval injury to rotated corn with Pherocon AM traps in soybeans.
J. Econ. Entomol. 94(1): 98-105.
Onstad, D.W., C.A. Guse, J.L. Spencer, E. Levine & M.E. Gray.
2001. Modeling the dynamics of adaptation to transgenic corn by
western corn rootworm (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae). J. Econ. Entomol.
94(2): 529-540.
Levine, E., J.L. Spencer, S.A. Isard, D.W. Onstad & M.E. Gray.
2002. Adaptation of the western corn rootworm to crop rotation:
evolution of a new strain in response to a management practice.
Am. Entomol. 48(2): 94-107.
Pilcher, C.D., M.E. Rice, R.A. Higgins, K.L. Steffey, R.L. Hellmich,
J. Witkowski, D. Calvin, K.R. Ostlie, and M. Gray. 2002. Biotechnology
and the European corn borer: measuring historical farmer perceptions
and the adoption of transgenic Bt corn as a pest management strategy.
J. Econ. Entomol. 95: 878-892.
Rondon, S.I., and M.E. Gray. 2003. Captures of western corn rootworm
(Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) adults with Pherocon AM and vial traps
in four crops in east central Illinois. J. Econ. Entomol. 96(3):
737-747.
Onstad, D.W., D.W. Crowder, S.A. Isard, E. Levine, J.L. Spencer,
M.E. O’Neal, S.T. Ratcliffe, M.E. Gray, L.W. Bledsoe, C.D.
DiFonzo, J.B. Eisley, and C.R. Edwards. 2003. Does landscape diversity
slow the spread of rotation-resistant western corn rootworm (Coleoptera:
Chrysomelidae). Environ. Entomol. 32(5): 992-1001.
Dr. Kevin Steffey is an Extension Specialist and Professor of Agricultural
Entomology in the Department
of Crop Sciences at the University
of Illinois. His research has focused on management and control
of corn rootworms and European corn borer, management of soybean
insects (including soybean aphids), alfalfa insect management, and
insect surveys of agricultural systems. He is the author or co-author
of 38 scientific publications, 42 invited publications (including
12 book chapters), and more than 260 extension publications. He
has given more than 125 professional presentations, 75 of them invited.
Kevin also is an active member of the Entomological Society of America
(ESA). He has served on several committees, was the Chair of Subsection
Ea (1992-1993), and was elected as the North Central Branch representative
to the Governing Board (1990-1993). He was elected as Section E
representative on the Editorial Board for the Journal of Economic
Entomology, and he served as Chair in 1999. He was the coordinating
editor for the ESA Handbook of Corn Insects, published in 1999.
He was a contributing editor for American Entomologist (Postmarked:
Extension, USA) from 1991 through 2001. He was President of the
North Central Branch of the ESA, 1997-1998. At the annual meeting
of the ESA in 1996, he was awarded the Distinguished Achievement
Award for Extension Entomology. With Mike Gray, Kevin was Program
Co-Chair for the national meeting of the ESA held in San Diego,
CA, in December 2001. He was elected to become Vice-President Elect
of the ESA in December 2001, served as Vice President from November
2002 to October 2003, and currently serves as President of the ESA
from the end of October 2003 through the end of November 2004.
In April, 1998, he received the Paul A. Funk Recognition Award from
the College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences
at the University of Illinois. This is the premier award offered
by the College, and it is given to only three faculty members each
year.
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