ENTOMOLOGY SECTION
Phone: +61 8 9368 3247
Mob: 0404 819 601
Email: remery@agric.wa.gov.au
Emery, R.N. (B. App. Sci., Grad. Dip. Nat. Res) - Rob is the Agency's
stored grain entomologist and is engaged in research into the biology, control, resistance
and identification of grain insects. He is specifically interested in fumigant resistance
and conducts regular farm surveys while developing new resistance testing procedures. Rob
is also looking at the taxonomy of pest Trogoderma by developing traditional keys and a
molecular procedure which will separate native and pest species.
Rob Joined the Agency in 1978 with a biology degree specialising in ant diversity. He
was initially employed as a Technical Officer working on biological control of lucerne
aphids during which he published a technique for adapting a programmable calculator as a
multi-channel counter. Rob enrolled in a post graduate course in natural resource
management during which he investigated the biology and control of the small lucerne
weevil and lucerne seed web moth. Rob was promoted to Entomologist in 1989 and obtained
industry funds for research into control of wingless grasshoppers, aphid and other
horticultural pests, resistance testing, cockchafer biology and control, and fumigation
procedures for export hay. Rob has an extensive background in computing and has developed
the Agency's insect reference collection database, a National database of grain insect
resistance and various quarantine pest threat/distribution databases. Rob is a member of
the Australian Entomological Society, the Australian Grain Institute, Western Australian
Insect Study Society and Australian Skeptics.
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