Agricultural and Life Sciences (IFAS)
Beuzelin Lab
Led by Julien Beuzelin · Entomology and Nematology
What we study
The lab studies pests and beneficial insects in sugarcane, sweet corn, and leafy vegetables in Florida. They refine pest management tactics and monitor invasive species.
What working here is like
- Fieldwork
- Wet lab
- Other insects
- Plants
- Coding helps
- Projects
- 5
- Papers
- 5
Current projects
Refining traditional management tactics for pests of sugarcane, sweet corn, and leafy vegetables
Refines management tactics for pests of sugarcane, sweet corn and leafy vegetables in Florida.
Monitoring range expansion of invasive insect pests
Tracks how invasive insect pests are spreading to new areas of Florida.
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Determining the role of selected agroecological factors influencing sugarcane borer populations in Florida sugarcane
Studying how environmental factors affect sugarcane borer populations.
Studying silk fly biology for sweet corn pest management
Studies silk flies, a pest of sweet corn, to improve how growers manage them.
Preference of a weevil pest, Listronotus sparsus, for six apiaceous crops grown in Florida
The study tested which of six garden crops the adult weevil prefers by offering them all together in a greenhouse and then in field plots, recording feeding damage after 24 hours and after seven weeks.
From the Spring 2025 UF Undergraduate Research Symposium · abstract book, p. 386
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Recent papers, explained
- Assessment of botanical, fungal, and bacterial insecticides for the control of Oebalus insularis Stål and Oebalus pugnax (F.) (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae) in rice
2026 · Crop Protection
- Retrotransposed gene copies persist under relaxed selection in wild Spodoptera frugiperda
2026 · Molecular Biology and Evolution
Investigates how intact gene copies survive in pest species genomes.
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- Geographic distribution of the egg parasitoid Telenomus remus (Hymenoptera: Scelionidae) in Florida and cytochrome c oxidase subunit I based insights into the species population genetic structure
2026 · Environmental Entomology
Tracks a parasitoid’s spread in Florida using sentinel egg masses.
- Megalurothrips usitatus and other Thrips (Thysanoptera: Thripidae) Associated with Lablab purpureus (Fabales: Fabaceae) in South Florida
2026 · Journal of Insect Science
Identifies thrips pests on lablab beans in South Florida fields.
- Challenging the long-held “pied piper” hypothesis: evidence of southward migration of corn earworm (Helicoverpa zea) in North America
2026 · Frontiers in Insect Science
Traces corn earworm migration using hydrogen isotopes in wings.
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