Gabriel Olawuyi

Bio

My area of expertise is pesticide usage mitigation in agricultural fields. I am especially interested in using natural enemies, mostly parasitoids and predators, to control arthropod pests. For my master’s thesis, I tested plant essentials as a management strategy for an invasive pest (Delottococcus aberiae) in the Spanish citrus grove. The residual impact of the essential oils was also evaluated on the known natural enemies of the pest (Cryptolaemus montrouzieri and Anagyrus vladimir). For my PhD, I will be studying a novel plant cover which has the capacity to increase plant growth. The exclusion of insect pests and plant diseases in vineyards will be the central focus of the study as a means to reducing, to the barest minimum, the use of pesticides in vineyards.