Edwin Rajotte

Professor of Entomology and IPM Coordinator

Edwin Rajotte

Huck Affiliations

Publication Tags

Orchards Apples Bees Pesticides Toxicity Orchard Tomatoes Bee Apoidea Herbivory Acetamiprid Herbivores Genotype Pollinating Insects Dimethoate Imidacloprid Phosmet Pollination Pollinator Apis Mellifera Insecticides Honey Pesticide Cyhalothrin Pest Management

Most Recent Publications

Project Highlights

GS Arida, BS Punzal, CC Ravina, GE Balagot, NS Talekar, Edwin Rajotte,

in IPM implementation

Carol Pilcher, Edwin Rajotte,

Impact of BMSB Control on Pennsylvania’s Tree Fruit IPM Programs

D Biddinger, L Hull, G Krawczyk, Edwin Rajotte, PA Biglerville,

Potential distribution of fall armyworm in Africa and beyond, considering climate change and irrigation patterns

Bipana Paudel Timilsena, Saliou Niassy, Emily Kimathi, Elfatih M. Abdel-Rahman, Irmgard Seidl-Adams, Mark Wamalwa, Henri E.Z. Tonnang, Sunday Ekesi, David P. Hughes, Edwin G. Rajotte, Sevgan Subramanian, 2022, Scientific Reports

The Effect of Species Soybean Vein Necrosis Orthotospovirus (SVNV) on Life Table Parameters of Its Vector, Soybean Thrips (Neohydatothrips variabilis Thysanoptera: Thripidae)

Asifa Hameed, Cristina Rosa, Edwin G. Rajotte, 2022, Insects

Toxicity of Formulated Systemic Insecticides Used in Apple Orchard Pest Management Programs to the Honey Bee (Apis mellifera (L.))

Sarah Heller, Julia Fine, Ngoc T. Phan, Edwin G. Rajotte, David J. Biddinger, Neelendra K. Joshi, 2022, Environments - MDPI

Morphology of the Female Reproductive System of the Soybean Thrips, Neohydatothrips variabilis (Beach, 1896) (Thysanoptera: Thripidae)

Asifa Hameed, Jonah M. Ulmer, Istvan Miko, Cristina Rosa, Edwin G. Rajotte, 2022, Insects

Anti-Herbivore Resistance Changes in Tomato with Elevation

Sulav Paudel, Gary W. Felton, Edwin G. Rajotte, 2022, Journal of Chemical Ecology on p. 196-206

An Integrated Pest Management Program Outperforms Conventional Practices for Tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) in Cambodia

Mitzy F. Porras, Antonino Malacrinò, Chanratha An, Kim Hian Seng, Ong Socheath, George Norton, Sally Miller, Cristina Rosa, Edwin G. Rajotte, Megan E. O’Rourke, 2022, Plant Health Progress on p. 206-211

Insect herbivore populations and plant damage increase at higher elevations

Sulav Paudel, Pragya Kandel, Dependra Bhatta, Vinod Pandit, Gary W. Felton, Edwin G. Rajotte, 2021, Insects

Most-Cited Papers

Comparative Toxicities and Synergism of Apple Orchard Pesticides to Apis mellifera (L.) and Osmia cornifrons (Radoszkowski)

David J. Biddinger, Jacqueline L. Robertson, Chris Mullin, James Frazier, Sara A. Ashcraft, Edwin G. Rajotte, Neelendra K. Joshi, Mace Vaughn, 2013, PLoS One

Cross-species transmission of honey bee viruses in associated arthropods

Abby L. Levitt, Rajwinder Singh, Diana L. Cox-Foster, Edwin Rajotte, Kelli Hoover, Nancy Ostiguy, Edward C. Holmes, 2013, Virus Research on p. 232-240

Comparative trapping efficiency to characterize bee abundance, diversity, and community composition in apple orchards

Neelendra K. Joshi, Timothy Leslie, Edwin G. Rajotte, Melanie A. Kammerer, Mark Otieno, David J. Biddinger, 2015, Annals of the Entomological Society of America on p. 785-799

Integrated pest and pollinator management - adding a new dimension to an accepted paradigm

David J. Biddinger, Edwin G. Rajotte, 2015, Current Opinion in Insect Science on p. 204-209

A preliminary evaluation of the potential of Beauveria bassiana for bed bug control

Alexis M. Barbarin, Nina Ellen Jenkins, Edwin George Rajotte, Matthew Brian Thomas, 2012, Journal of Invertebrate Pathology on p. 82-85

Proximity to woodland and landscape structure drives pollinator visitation in apple orchard ecosystem

Neelendra Joshi, Mark Otieno, Edwin G. Rajotte, Shelby Fleischer, David J. Biddinger, 2016, Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution on p. 38

Local Plant diversity across multiple habitats supports a diverse wild bee community in Pennsylvania apple orchards

Melanie A. Kammerer, David J. Biddinger, Edwin G. Rajotte, David A. Mortensen, 2016, Environmental Entomology on p. 32-38

Induced Plant Defenses Against Herbivory in Cultivated and Wild Tomato

Sulav Paudel, Po An Lin, Majid R. Foolad, Jared G. Ali, Edwin G. Rajotte, Gary W. Felton, 2019, Journal of Chemical Ecology on p. 693-707

An immunomarking method to determine the foraging patterns of Osmia cornifrons and resulting fruit set in a cherry orchard

David J. Biddinger, Neelendra K. Joshi, Edwin G. Rajotte, Noemi O. Halbrendt, Cassandra Pulig, Kusum J. Naithani, Mace Vaughan, 2013, Apidologie on p. 738-749

Apple grower pollination practices and perceptions of alternative pollinators in New York and Pennsylvania

Mia G. Park, Neelendra K. Joshi, Edwin G. Rajotte, David J. Biddinger, John E. Losey, Bryan N. Danforth, 2018, Renewable Agriculture and Food Systems on p. 1-14