Kelly Hamby

Portrait of Kelly Hamby

Kelly Hamby

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

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

BISI Concentration Areas

Behavior, Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics
Molecular and Cellular Biology

Latest Papers

Predicting slug injury in corn and the role of carabid natural enemies in regulating slug populations

| Journal of Economic Entomology
Author(s): Maria Cramer, Kelly Hamby
UMD Author(s): Kelly Hamby

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

| Journal of Economic Entomology
UMD Author(s): Kelly Hamby

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

| Journal of Economic Entomology
UMD Author(s): Kelly Hamby

Preventative insecticides reduce seedling injury, but do not increase yield in Bt and non‐Bt corn grown in the mid‐Atlantic

| Pest Management Science
UMD Author(s): Kelly Hamby

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

| BMC genomics
UMD Author(s): Kelly Hamby, Megan 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
UMD Author(s): Kelly Hamby

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

| Phytopathology®
UMD Author(s): Kelly Hamby

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

| Crop Protection
UMD Author(s): Kelly 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
UMD Author(s): Kelly Hamby

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
UMD Author(s): Kelly Hamby