Agricultural and Life Sciences (IFAS)
Esquivel Lab
Led by Isaac Esquivel · Entomology and Nematology
What we study
The Esquivel Lab studies how landscape structure and composition affect plant-pest interactions, pollinator health, and pest management. They use geographic information systems (GIS) and remote sensing to improve crop productivity and bee conservation.
What working here is like
- Fieldwork
- Computational
- Other insects
- Plants
- Coding helps
- Projects
- 2
- Papers
- 5
Current projects
Spatial Dynamics of agricultural pest and beneficial insects
Researching how landscape features influence pest and natural enemy populations to improve pest management strategies.
Promoting Native Bee Pollinators in Agroecosystems
Exploring how landscape changes affect native bee diversity and their role in crop pollination.
Summaries are written by AI in plain language from public symposium abstracts and may be imperfect.
Recent papers, explained
- Evaluating the host-plant preference of tobacco thrips ( Frankliniella fusca Hinds (Thysanoptera: Thripidae)) on peanut, thryvOn, and non-thryvOn cotton
2026 · Journal of Economic Entomology
Compares tobacco thrips damage on peanut, ThryvOn cotton, and regular cotton.
- Investigation of Bulimulus bonariensis visual preferences to increase trap attraction
2026 · Pest Management Science
Studies snail visual preferences to improve trap designs for pest control.
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- Development of the First Cytochrome Oxidase I Barcode and Evidence for a Dominant Variant Associated with the Recent United States Invasion of the Pasture Mealybug Heliococcus summervillei (Hemiptera: Pseudococcidae) Complex
2026 · Insects
Develops a DNA barcode for mealybugs and finds a dominant variant in the US invasion.
- UAV-Based Digital Phenotyping for Quantification of Cotton Jassid (Amrasca biguttula) Injury and Identification of Putatively Resistant Cotton Lines
2026 · Agriculture
Uses drone images to measure cotton jassid damage and identify resistant cotton lines.
- Helicoverpa zea Boddie (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) Remains Susceptible to Vip3A Across the Southeastern USA: Eight Years of Diet-Overlay Monitoring Highlight the Need for Annual Benchmarking
2026 · Toxins
Tests whether corn earworm remains susceptible to Vip3A protein over 8 years in the southeastern USA.
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