Michael Waldvogel

Bio

My program focuses on the delivery of information and technical support to a number of clientele groups concerning the management of structural and industrial pests including bed bugs, cockroaches, ants, rodents and termites.  I provide direct assistance to pest management professionals and industrial clients to solve specific pest problems that can cause product contamination or health risks.

Teaching:

ENT121 – Pesticides and Their Utilization (Fall Semester) – now taught by Dr. Terri Billeisen
ENT163 – Ornamental and Turf Insects (Spring Semester) – now taught by Dr. Terri Billeisen

Instructor in the Agricultural Institute “Soldier to Agriculture Program”

Extension:

Development management strategies for residential, industrial and wood-destroying pests, including bed bugs, cockroaches, ants, rodents and termites. Provide direct assistance to pest management professionals and other industrial clients to solve pest problem situations.  Establish educational programs emphasizing IPM in the residential and industrial settings for pest management professionals, state and municipal agencies, the business community, and to general public through the county Cooperative Extension Service programs including NC Safe Plates^®, ServSafe^®,  IPM for Schools and Child Care Centers, and the Centralized Intern Training Program for county Environmental Health specialists.

Pesticide applicator certification training in  Category B (Public Health) and  structural pest control Phases P (Household Pests), W (Wood Destroying Pests), and F (Structural Fumigation).

Dr. Waldvogel is a faculty member of the North Carolina Agromedicine Institute.

Recent Posts/Blogs

Stopping Bugs With a Taste for Art – Feature about managing pests in the NC State Gregg Art Museum

Treating for Mosquitoes While Protecting Pollinators – Video about balancing mosquito control and pollinator protection.

Area(s) of Expertise

Urban structural pests

Publications

• Genetic analysis of colony and population structure of three introduced populations of the Formosan subterranean termite (Isoptera : Rhinotermitidae) in the Continental United States , ENVIRONMENTAL ENTOMOLOGY (2006)
• Trap-mulching Argentine ants , Journal of Economic Entomology (2006)
• Comparison of conventional and integrated pest management programs in public schools , JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGY (2005)
• Practices and perceptions of school integrated pest management by North Carolina pest-management professionals , Journal of Agricultural and Urban Entomology (2005)
• Boric acid dust as a component of an integrated cockroach management program in confined swine production , JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGY (2003)
• Origin and extent of resistance to fipronil in the German cockroach, Blattella germanica (L.) (Dictyoptera : Blattellidae) , JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGY (2003)
• VARIATION IN OVIPOSITION PREFERENCE OF HELIOTHIS-VIRESCENS IN RELATION TO MACROEVOLUTIONARY PATTERNS OF HELIOTHINE HOST RANGE , EVOLUTION (1990)

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