Oscar Liburd

Dr. Oscar Liburd is a agricultural entomology professor at the University of Florida. Hobbies, include world travel and meeting people of different culture.

[Oscar Liburd @OscarLiburd]

Thank you to @PurdueInsects for inviting me to give a seminar talk on my lab’s work @UFEntNem: “Application of Cultural Techniques and Biological Control Tactics to Manage Agricultural Pest Populations”. It was a great turnout with insightful questions and discussion.

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Looks like we have two things to celebrate today. We just got word that our paper focused on biological control of southern red mite has been published. Great job to the authors and everyone involved.

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Today is a very important day for one of my excellent students, James Brown. After spending 4 years and one semester he is graduating with his PhD from my program ⁦@FruitVegIPMLab⁩
⁦@blackfli⁩

[Yiannis Ampatzidis @PrecAgSWFREC]

Dr. Congliang Zhou, our postdoc, presented an AI-enhanced technology for insect detection and counting in sticky traps at the #AIinAg Conference in Texas A&M

[Small Fruit and Vegetable IPM Lab @FruitVegIPMLab]

No one draws a crowd like @blackfli! Congratulations to Dr. James Brown on a successful PhD defense! 🎉🫐

[Small Fruit and Vegetable IPM Lab @FruitVegIPMLab]

The Liburd lab did our annual grape pruning. What a great day to get outside of the lab!

[Small Fruit and Vegetable IPM Lab @FruitVegIPMLab]

Happy holidays and merry Christmas from the Liburd lab! 🎄

[Small Fruit and Vegetable IPM Lab @FruitVegIPMLab]

Fresh squash from the Liburd Lab! 😋

[Oscar Liburd @OscarLiburd]

There has been some controversies regarding the use sweet alyssum for enhancing predatory mites population in strawberries for TSSM control. Here is a new perspective.

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Feeling great today, my graduate student, Marice Lopez Laurenti has graduated with her Ph. D.

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@FruitVegIPMLab Yes, it was an excellent presentation

[Small Fruit and Vegetable IPM Lab @FruitVegIPMLab]

Marice Lopez gave a fantastic PhD exit seminar this afternoon on the blueberry gall midge. Go Marice! 🫐

[Lorena Lopez @lorelopezipm]

This is my more recent article about my work with blueberries in FL

Miticidal Tools for Management of Southern Red Mites Infesting Southern Highbush Blueberries https://t.co/WMat4Ep9vE #mdpiinsects via @Insects_MDPI

[Dr. Xavier Martini - Entomologist @XavierMartini]

Colleagues that I collaborated the past 6 years: @OscarLiburd, @moniquejrivera, @LMDiepenbrock, @dubeux, @c_minteer, Jawwad Qureshi, Alexander Gaffke among others...

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Marigold and cowpea are used regularly by organic squash growers for pest management purposes. In this new manuscript published today, we investigated this common practice to assess the pest management benefits, with special emphasis on whiteflies

[UF/IFAS Entomology & Nematology @UFEntNem]

Congratulations @OscarLiburd!
#UFBugs

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After a year of permits, rearing, and protocol adjustments, my lab finally did our first major release of parasitoids for SWD management in an organic blueberry planting today 🫐 @UF_IFAS @blueberry_fl @UFEntNem @FruitVegIPMLab

[Oscar Liburd @OscarLiburd]

We just published a new manuscript about the use of deep learning (AI) to detect twospotted spider mites and predatory mites in strawberry. Check this work out at https://t.co/9XS25Vxjp5

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Inspecting blueberry bushes for chilli thrips injury in southwest Florida