Re: R. L. Rabb:

Bob Rabb is remembered as a pioneer in the  eld of Integrated Pest Management (IPM). He co-hosted perhaps the  rst international conference on IPM, in 1970.  e proceedings of the conference were published as “Concepts in Pest Management” and this treatise remains as relevant today as it was at the time of publication. His interests in implemen- tation of IPM and in applied ecology also resulted in publication (in 1979) of a book “Movement of highly mobile insects: concepts and methodology in research.” Naturally, anyone interested in move- ment realizes that insects exist in places other than crop  elds, so he conducted research on how the entire landscape in uences pest abundance.

Bob Rabb was born August 6, 1919, in Lenoir, North Carolina, USA, and grew up in rural North Carolina where he learned to appreciate nature. He enrolled at North Carolina State University, with his formal education culminating in receipt of a Ph.D. from North Carolina State in 1953. Rabb also spent most of his career as a faculty member there, and was named W.N. Reynolds Professor of Entomology in 1981. He was also recognized by the Entomological Society of America, receiving the Geigy Award and the Founders’ Memorial Award. He died on July 31, 2006.

Sample Pubs:

Some factors influencing the predation of Polistes wasps on the tobacco hornworm
RL Rabb, FR Lawson - Journal of Economic Entomology, 1957 - jee.oxfordjournals.org
Wasps of the genus Polistes have, on the basis of general field observations, been 
recognized for many years as important natural enemies of the tobacco hornworm, 
Protoparce sexta (Johan.), and the tomato hornworm, P. quinquemaculata ... 

Studies of an integrated control system for hornworms on tobacco
FR Lawison, RL Rabb, FE Guthrie… - Journal of Economic …, 1961 - jee.oxfordjournals.org
Abstract Hornworms on tobacco, Protoparce sexta (Johan.) and P. quinquemaculata (Haw.), 
are now controlled with insecticides. When Polistes wasps were induced to nest in shelters 
erected around the fields or move from the nesting sites to the field ... 

Integration of biological and chemical control: manipulation of the environment
RL Rabb - Bulletin of the Entomological Society of America, 1962 - besa.oxfordjournals.org
Abstract This topic is subject to various interpretations largely depending on one's concept of 
integrated control. My concept is that cultural as well as biological and chemical control may 
be involved in integrated control. Here I am using a very broad definition of cultural control ...

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