David Owens

Extension Specialist - Entomology University of Delaware

  • Georgetown DE

Dr. Owens works with agricultural insect pest management

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David Owens is the UD agricultural entomology extension specialist. He helps manage insect pests in Delaware and works with the Extension team at Carvel. David completed his Master’s degree at Virginia Tech while studying stink bug injury and behavior in soybean fields. Afterwards, he moved to Florida to study insect pest management in sweet corn for his Ph.D. From there, David worked with the USDA studying avocado pests and North Carolina State University studying two spotted spider mite control in fresh market tomatoes. He works with both field and vegetable crop pest management. In addition to conducting efficacy trials this summer, he is active in fields surveying pest and beneficial insect populations and studying pest behavior.

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Entomology

Media Appearances

What’s in a Nest: Scavenger Turns Major Pest in Chicken Houses

Entomology Today  online

2023-04-13

It is no secret that anthropogenic systems radically change the dynamics between organisms. Often, organisms need to adapt to human-made systems, but sometimes an organism succeeds with almost no apparent adaptation. The lesser mealworm beetle (Alphitobius diaperinus) is one such organism, an omnivorous scavenger and nest symbiont of several African bird species.

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Owens offers summary of soybean pests in Delaware Ag Month address

The Delmarva Farmer  online

2022-01-21

Dr. David Owens, University of Delaware Extension entomologist, offered some “hindsight” on 2021 soybean pests during the soybean session of Delaware Ag Month Jan. 13, giving credit to Dylan Wilkerson and Joe Deidesheimer in his lab for their help.

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How climate change impacts Delaware agriculture

Technically  online

2021-05-17

Delaware is growing as an agtech state, and there is no agricultural issue that is more pressing than climate change. But what are the issues that ag-focused technologists should be thinking about? Delaware Public Media’s Sophia Schmidt recently interviewed Emmalea Ernest and David Owens from the University of Delaware Cooperative Extension. The short (about 8 minutes) interview is worth a listen.

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Education

University of Florida

PhD

Virginia Tech

MS

Virginia Tech

BS