Contact Information
505 S. Goodwin Ave
Urbana, IL 61801
Research Interests
Chemical ecology and conservation biological control
Additional Campus Affiliations
Professor, Entomology
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Recent Publications
Halloran, S., Zou, Y., Arriola, K., Roepke, R., Hanks, L. M., & Millar, J. G. (2024). Methionol as an aggregation-sex pheromone of the desert-dwelling beetle Eustromula valida (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae). Environmental entomology, 53(1), 101-107. Article nvad123. https://doi.org/10.1093/ee/nvad123
Lee, S., Millar, J. G., Hanks, L. M., Spichiger, S. E., Kang, K. S., & Bai, M. (2024). Field trials of pheromone blends of longhorned beetles in South Korea. Journal of Asia-Pacific Entomology, 27(1), Article 102175. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aspen.2023.102175
Rice, M. E., Zou, Y., Millar, J. G., & Hanks, L. M. (2024). Effects of deploying ethanol lures in tandem with generic pheromone lures for attraction of cerambycid beetles in field bioassays. Journal of economic entomology, Article toae059. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1093/jee/toae059
Silva, W. D., Hanks, L. M., Bento, J. M. S., Zou, Y., & Millar, J. G. (2024). Evidence for 3-hydroxyhexan-2-one as a shared pheromone component for 12 South American species of cerambycid beetles. Journal of economic entomology, Article toae075. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1093/jee/toae075
Steffek, G. L., Grommes, A. S., Hanks, L. M., & Mitchell, R. F. (Accepted/In press). (R)-(+)-γ-Decalactone is Conserved in North America as a Pheromone Component of Osmoderma eremicola (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) and a Kairomone of Elater abruptus (Coleoptera: Elateridae). Journal of Chemical Ecology. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10886-024-01475-0