Merle Shepard, Professor, Entomology at Clemson University Department of Entomology, Soils, & Plant Sciences

B. Merle Shepard

Professor , Director of the Archbold
Tropical Research and Education
Consortium

Office: Coastal REC, 2700 Savannah Highway, Charleston, SC 29414
Lab: Coastal Research and Education Center
Telephone: 843-402-5398,
FAX: 843-571-4654
E-Mail: mshprd@clemson.edu

Academic Background

B.S., Middle Tennessee State University, 1966 (Biology)
M.S., University of Georgia, 1968 (Entomology)
Ph.D., Texas A & M University, 1971 (Entomology)

Area Of Expertise

Integrated Pest Management, Biological control of insects

Publications

Shepard, B. M. and A. T. Barrion. 1998. Parasitoids associated with soybean and vegetable crops in Indonesia. Journal of Agricultural Entomology. 15:239-272.
Shepard, B. M., G. R. Carner, A. T. Barrion, P. A. C. Ooi and H. van den Berg. 1999. Insects and their natural enemies associated with vegetables and soybean in Southeast Asia. Quality Printing Company, Orangeburg, SC., 110 pp.
Luck, R.F., B.M. Shepard and P.E. Kenmore, 1999. Evaluation of biological control with experimental methods. Pp. 225-242. (In) Handbook of Biological Control. Academic Press, NY.
Mitchell, P.L., E.S. Paysen, A.E. Muckenfuss, M. Schaffer and B.M. Shepard. 1999. Natural mortality of leaffooted bug (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Coreidae) eggs in cowpea. Journal of Agricultural and Urban Entomology. 16:25-36.
Shepard, B. M. , G. R. Carner, A. T. Barrion, P.A.C.Ooi and H. van den Berg. 1999. Insects and their natural enemies associated with vegetables and soybean in Southeast Asia. Quality Printing, Orangeburg, SC. 108 pp.
Rauf, A., B.M. Shepard and M. Johnson. 2000. Leafminers in vegetables, ornamental plants and weeds in Indonesia: surveys of host crops, species composition and parasitoids. International Journal of Pest Management. 46:257-266.
Default, R. J., R. Hassell, J. W. Rushing. G. McCutcheon, M. Shepard and A. Keinath. 2004. Revival of herbalism and its roots in Medicine. 407 -415. Agromedicine: “Selected Papers for the First Ten Years of the Journal of Agromedicine” Originally published in 2000. Stan Schuman (Editor).
Farrar, R. R., M. Shapiro, and Merle Shepard. 2005. Relative activity of baculoviruses of the diamondback moth, Plutella xylostella (L.) (Lepidoptera: Plutellidae). BioControl. (accepted for publication).
Lopez, R., A. Levi, B. Merle Shepard, A. M. Simmons, and D. M. Jackson. 2005. Sources of resistance to two-spotted spider mite (Acari: Tetranychidae) in Citrullus spp. HortScience. 40: 1661-1663.
Smith, J. P. and B. M. Shepard. 2005. A binomial sequential sampling plan using a composite threshold for caterpillar management in fresh market collard. Journal of Agricultural and Urban Entomology. 21: 171-184.
Farrar, R. R. , Jr., M. Shapiro and B. M. Shepard. 2005. Enhanced activity of the nucleopolyhedrovirus of the fall armyworm (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) on Bt-transgenic and nontransgenic sweet corn with a fluorescent brightener and a feeding stimulant. Environmental Entomology. 34: 825-832.
Lopez, R., A. Levi, B. M. Shepard, A. M. Simmons and D. M. Jackson. 2005. Sources of resistance to two-spotted spider mite (Acari: Tetranychidae) in Citrullus sp. HortScience 40: 1661-1663.
Francis, R. L., J. P. Smith and B. M. Shepard. 2005. Integrated pest management for cabbage and collard: A growers’ Guide. Clemson University Press: No. EB 156. 31pp.
Farrar, R. R., M. Shapiro and M. Shepard. 2007. Relative activity of baculoviruses of the diamondback moth, Plutella xylostella (L.) (Lepidoptera: Plutellidae). BioControl. 52:657-&667.
Shapiro, M., B. M. Shepard and R. Lopez. 2007. Effect of spices upon the activity of the gypsy moth (Lepidoptera: Lymantriidae) nucleopolyhedrovirus. Journal of Entomological Science. 42: 84-91.