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Kate Harrell

978019_4798056630646_1202358324_oMS Student
(co-advised with Megha Parajulee at the Texas A&M AgriLife Research and Extension Center in Lubbock, TX)

Kate is also a Texas A&M AgriLife Extension-IPM Agent serving Jackson, Wharton and Matagorda Counties.

Contact Information

Email: kate.harrell[at]ag.tamu.edu
Phone: 979.532.3310 (p) / 979.532.8863 (f)
315 Milam St, Ste 112
Wharton, TX 77488

Education & Employment

  • B.S. Entomology and Agronomy, Texas A&M University, May 2013

Research Interests

I am interested in cotton IPM. My main project involves looking at the effects of cotton seed treatments on western flower thrips. I am also interested in surveying the current community composition of thrips species in cotton in the southern high plains area, as well as the effectiveness of various control options.

Recent Posts

  • New paper in Science changes the way we think about locust swarming
  • Sword Lab students win big at 2025 Beltwide Cotton Conference
  • Sword lab students win again at 2024 Entomological Society of America meeting!
  • Sword lab students win big at 2023 Entomological Society of America meeting!
  • Cotton gene-editing project paves a new path for plant protection
  • New PNAS paper about density-dependent warning coloration in adult locusts

Lab contact information

Gregory Sword

Professor & Charles R. Parencia Chair in Cotton Entomology

Department of Entomology,
Interdisciplinary Ecology & Evolutionary Biology (EEB) Degree Program, and
Molecular & Environmental Plant Sciences Program
Texas A&M University
TAMU 2475
College Station, TX, 77843, USA

Directions to lab: (Google map)
Entomology Research Lab Rm. 112-120

Email: gasword[at]tamu.edu
Phone: (979) 862-1702
Fax: (979) 845-6305

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