Eric W. Riddick

Dr. Eric W. Riddick is a Research Entomologist at the National Biological Control Laboratory, ARS-USDA, Stoneville, Mississippi, USA. He completed his Ph.D. in Entomology at the University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA and has previously worked at the United States Environmental Protection Agency, in Washington DC, and served as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Entomology at the University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA.

He is broadly interested in environmental health, protection of animal and plant biodiversity, sustainable pest management, conservation of natural resources, and urban agriculture. He now works primarily on the propagation, release, and conservation of natural enemies, especially ladybird beetles. Dr. Riddick is the author (or co-author) of more than 77 published papers and has presented at more than 45 conferences in the USA, Canada, Australia, and Switzerland. He also currently holds editorial appointments at the Bulletin of Insectology (University of Bologna) and the Journal of Economic Entomology (Entomological Society of America) [1].

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