Biography

Insects play a vital role in our lives. Some insects support crop production, while others can damage our crops. Controlling crop-damaging insects is quite challenging. However, understanding their relationship with their host plants or crops is a crucial element of sustainable managemnet of these insects. The relationship can be mutualistic, antagonistic, and commensal. My goal is to understand how these interactions can be used to develop an integrated pest management approach that is economically sound, ecologically balanced, and locally appropriate. Integrated pest management is more than just pest control; its a way of life. 

I am currently a postdoctoral scholar at the Department of Entomology and Nematology at the University of California Davis. I earned my doctoral degree in the Ecology and Environmental Sciences from Montana State University, Montana. Thank you for visiting, and please don’t hesitate to contact me (buddhi [dot] ento [at] gmail [dot] com with any questions or comments.

Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are mine.