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Overview

Lawrence M. Hanks is affiliated with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences and Environmental Science, with significant work in subfields such as Insect Science, Ecology, Cell Biology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, and Plant Science.

The scientist's main topics of research include:

  • Forest Insect Ecology and Management
  • Entomopathogenic Microorganisms in Pest Control
  • Insect and Pesticide Research
  • Plant Pathogens and Fungal Diseases
  • Insect-Plant Interactions and Control
  • Coleoptera: Cerambycidae studies
  • Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies

Lawrence M. Hanks has published extensively in several venues, with the most frequent being:

  • Journal of Chemical Ecology (8 publications)
  • Environmental Entomology (6 publications)
  • Journal of Economic Entomology (4 publications)
  • Insects (3 publications)
  • NeoBiota (1 publication)

Co-authorship has been an important element of their research, with frequent collaborators including:

  • Jocelyn G. Millar (25 joint publications)
  • Yunfan Zou (10 joint publications)
  • Weliton D. Silva (7 joint publications)
  • Anna C Grommes (6 joint publications)
  • José Maurício S. Bento (6 joint publications)

Their recent publications include:

  • "Worldwide tests of generic attractants, a promising tool for early detection of non-native cerambycid species," 2023, NeoBiota
  • "Complex Blends of Synthetic Pheromones are Effective Multi-Species Attractants for Longhorned Beetles (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae)," 2020, Journal of Economic Entomology
  • "A Symmetrical Diester as the Sex Attractant Pheromone of the North American Click Beetle Parallelostethus attenuatus (Say) (Coleoptera: Elateridae)," 2022, Journal of Chemical Ecology
  • "Rapid Assessment of Cerambycid Beetle Biodiversity in a Tropical Rainforest in Yunnan Province, China, Using a Multicomponent Pheromone Lure," 2021, Insects
  • "Dose-responses of seven species of cerambycid beetles to synthesized pheromones in field experiments," 2023, Journal of Economic Entomology

Best Publications

  • INFLUENCE OF THE LARVAL HOST PLANT ON REPRODUCTIVE STRATEGIES OF CERAMBYCID BEETLES

    L. M. Hanks

  • Causes and consequences of cannibalism in noncarnivorous insects.

    Matthew L. Richardson;Robert F. Mitchell;Peter F. Reagel;Lawrence M. Hanks

  • Sex and Aggregation-Sex Pheromones of Cerambycid Beetles: Basic Science and Practical Applications.

    Lawrence M. Hanks;Jocelyn G. Millar

  • Natural enemies and plant water relations influence the distribution of an armored scale insect

    Lawrence M. Hanks;Robert F. Denno

  • Local Adaptation in the Armored Scale Insect Pseudaulacaspis Pentagona (Homoptera: Diaspididae)

    Lawrence M. Hanks;Robert F. Denno

  • Water relations of host trees and resistance to the phloem-boring beetle Phoracantha semipunctata F. (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae).

    Lawrence M. Hanks;Timothy D. Paine;Jocelyn G. Millar;Christopher D. Campbell

  • Role of contact pheromones in mate recognition in Xylotrechus colonus.

    Matthew D. Ginzel;Gary J. Blomquist;Jocelyn G. Millar;Lawrence M. Hanks

  • Male-Produced Aggregation Pheromone of the Cerambycid Beetle Neoclytus acuminatus acuminatus

    Emerson S. Lacey;Matthew D. Ginzel;Jocelyn G. Millar;Lawrence M. Hanks

  • Field bioassays of cerambycid pheromones reveal widespread parsimony of pheromone structures, enhancement by host plant volatiles, and antagonism by components from heterospecifics

    Lawrence M. Hanks;Jocelyn G. Millar

  • Treating Panel Traps with a Fluoropolymer Enhances their Efficiency in Capturing Cerambycid Beetles

    Elizabeth E. Graham;Robert F. Mitchell;Peter F. Reagel;James D. Barbour

  • Host species preference and larval performance in the wood-boring beetlePhoracantha semipunctata F.

    Lawrence M. Hanks;Timothy D. Paine;Jocelyn G. Millar

  • A Male-Produced Aggregation Pheromone of Monochamus alternatus (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae), a Major Vector of Pine Wood Nematode

    Stephen A. Teale;Jacob D. Wickham;Feiping Zhang;Jun Su

  • Sequencing and characterizing odorant receptors of the cerambycid beetle Megacyllene caryae.

    Robert F. Mitchell;David T. Hughes;Charles W. Luetje;Jocelyn G. Millar

  • Manipulating the abundance of natural enemies in ornamental landscapes with floral resource plants

    Eric J. Rebek;Clifford S. Sadof;Lawrence M. Hanks

  • Using generic pheromone lures to expedite identification of aggregation pheromones for the cerambycid beetles Xylotrechus nauticus, Phymatodes lecontei, and Neoclytus modestus modestus.

    Lawrence M. Hanks;Jocelyn G. Millar;Jardel A. Moreira;James D. Barbour

  • Floral Host Plants of Syrphidae and Tachinidae (Diptera) of Central Illinois

    John Frazier Tooker;Martin Hauser;Lawrence M. Hanks

  • Response of the Woodborers Monochamus carolinensis and Monochamus titillator (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) to Known Cerambycid Pheromones in the Presence and Absence of the Host Plant Volatile α-Pinene

    Jeremy D. Allison;Jessica L. McKenney;Jocelyn G. Millar;J. Steven McElfresh

  • Influence of Plant Community Structure on Natural Enemies of Pine Needle Scale (Homoptera: Diaspididae) in Urban Landscapes

    John F. Tooker;Lawrence M. Hanks

  • Mating behavior of the Eucalyptus longhorned borer (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) and the adaptive significance of long 'horns'.

    Lawrence M. Hanks;Jocelyn G. Millar;Timothy D. Paine

  • Contact Pheromones as Mate Recognition Cues of Four Species of Longhorned Beetles (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae)

    Matthew D. Ginzel;Lawrence M. Hanks

  • Role of host plant volatiles in mate location for three species of longhorned beetles.

    Matthew D. Ginzel;Matthew D. Ginzel;Lawrence M. Hanks

Frequent Co-Authors

Jocelyn G. Millar
Jocelyn G. Millar University of California, Riverside
Rhett D. Harrison
Rhett D. Harrison World Agroforestry, Zambia
Andrew V. Suarez
Andrew V. Suarez University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Adrian Smith
Adrian Smith University of Oxford
Robert F. Denno
Robert F. Denno University of Maryland, College Park
May R. Berenbaum
May R. Berenbaum University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Neil O'Connell
Neil O'Connell University College Dublin
Gary J. Blomquist
Gary J. Blomquist University of Nevada Reno
Mark S. Hoddle
Mark S. Hoddle University of California, Riverside
Therese M. Poland
Therese M. Poland US Forest Service

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