A/Leader
Phone: +61 8 8303 9544
Email: greg.baker@sa.gov.au
Roles and expertise:
Greg has worked as a State entomologist for over 20 years on IPM of horticultural and agronomic crops, incuding grapevines, citrus, crucifer vegetables, canola and dry pulses.
Greg is the quarantine entomologist for AQIS in SA.
Current and recent projects:
- IPM strategies for the control of citrophilous mealybug in citrus
- Development of an IPM system for thrips in citrus
- Advancing the integrated management of DBM in crucifer vegetables
- Economic thresholds and sampling guidelines for lightbrown apple moth in grapevines
- Economic thresholds and sampling guidelines for diamondback moth (DBM) in cabbage, cauliflower and canola crops
- Management of pea weevil in field peas
- Biological control of citrophilous mealybug in citrus
- Verification of insecticidal resistance in southern Australian DBM populations