Education

• Ph.D. Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, 2006, Biology (Insect Behavioral Ecology)

• Integrated Pest Management (IPM)
• Insect-Plant Interactions
• Vector-Borne Plant Disease Ecology

Southern Piedmont Entomology Laboratory Website

Interests in learning about technological advances and identifying and employing alternative pest management practices are growing among producers; however, they also echo the associated economic risks of reducing their reliance on pesticides. Using technology in the decision-making, evaluating chemical, cultural and biological control approaches in managing pests, and reaching out to both large and small-scale producers have formed the framework of my Extension efforts.

Books

• Eigenbrode S. and Rashed, A. 2023. Advances in understanding insect pests affecting wheat and other cereals. P. 487. Burleigh Dodds Science Publishing, Cambridge, UK

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles (*advisee/mentee)

2026

• Panta, U.*, Jernigan, & A. Rashed. 2026. Effects of soil biofumigation on non-target springtails (Collembola) and earthworms (Opisthopora). Scientific Reports, in press.

2025

• Fadaei, E., Mehrabadi, M., Bagheri, A., Rashed, A. & Y. Fathipour. An eco-friendly approach to broad mite (Polyphagotarsonemus latus) management: integrating pepper resistance and predatory mite (Neoseiulus californicus) in a tritrophic system. Pest Management Science, 81: 8487-99.
• Parizad, S.*, J. Yang, L. Oeller*, A. Nikoukar*, X. Liang,& A. Rashed. 2025 Abiotic factors affecting vector-borne plant pathogen complexes: Elevated CO₂ and the barley yellow dwarf pathosystem. Insects, 16: 1186.
• Cruzado-Gutierrez, R. K.*, Piaskowski, J., Wenninger, E. J. & A. Rashed. 2025. Effect of cold temperatures on the survival of Bactericera cockerelli (Šulc) (Hem., Triozidae). Entomologia Generalis, 45: 743-751.
• Nikoukar, A.*, Sadeghi, R., Eigenbrode, S. D., Price, W. & A. Rashed. 2025. Wireworms (Coleoptera: Elateridae) Swipe Right on Their Hostplant Using Root Volatiles and CO2. Scientific Reports, 15: 10227.
• Parizad, S.* & A. Rashed. 2025. Can barley yellow dwarf virus (BYDV) incidence in winter wheat be influenced by endophyte-tall fescue association in grazing lands? Entomologia Generalis, 45: 473-480.
• Farrokhzadeh, H.*, Jaronski, S. & A. Rashed. 2025. Reduced survivorship, host preference, and feeding damage by Helicoverpa zea (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) on cotton plants colonized by the endophyte Beauveria bassiana (Ascomycota: Hypocreales). Journal of Economic Entomology, 118: 523-530.
• Yari, S.*, Hajiqanbar, H., Farazmand, A., Rashed, A. & Y. Fathipour. 2025. Efficacy of single and combined release of Phytoseiulus persimilis and Amblyseius swirskii at different release ratios for control of Tetranychus urticae and Frankliniella occidentalis on rose plants. International Journal of Pest Management, 77: 245-255.

2024

• Yari, S., Hajiqanbar, H., Fathipour, Y, Farazmand, A. & A. Rashed. 2024. Damage caused by Tetranychus urticae and Frankliniella occidentalis on rose plant: Effect of different initial population densities. Arthropod-Plant Interactions, in press.
• Rashed, A. & W. van Herk. 2024. Pest Elaterids of North America: New Insights and Opportunities for Management. Annual Review of Entomology, 69 in press.
• Wenninger, E.J. & A. Rashed, 2024. Biology, ecology, and management of the potato psyllid, Bactericera cockerelli (Hemiptera: Triozidae), and zebra chip disease in potato. Annual Review of Entomology, 69 in press.

2023

• Eigenbrode, S., S. Adhikari, A. Rashed, A. & E.J. Wenninger. 2023. Fescue aphid (Metopolophium festucae). In Advances in understanding insect pests affecting wheat and other cereals (eds. S. Eigenberod and A. Rashed). P. 487. Burleigh Dodds Science Publishing, Cambridge, UK.
• Rashed, A. & E.J. Wenninger. Advances in managing wireworms in cereal crops: challenges and future directions. 2023. In Advances in understanding insect pests affecting wheat and other cereals (eds. S. Eigenberod and A. Rashed). P. 487. Burleigh Dodds Science Publishing, Cambridge, UK.
• Ensafi, P., Smiley, R., Moll, M.M., Rashed, A., Jackson, C.A. & J.M. Marshall. 2023. Resistance and tolerance screening of spring wheat cultivars to cereal cyst nematode (Heterodera avenae) in southeastern Idaho. Plant Disease, in press.
• Yari, S., Hajiqanbar, H., Farazmand, A., Rashed, A. & Y. Fathipour. 2023. Efficacy of single and combined release of Phytoseiulus persimilis and Amblyseius swirskii at different release ratios for control of Tetranychus urticae and Frankliniella occidentalis on rose plants. International Journal of Pest Management, in press.
• Yari, S., Hajiqanbar, H., Farazmand, A., Rashed, A. & Y. Fathipour. 2023. Efficacy assessment of Neoseiulus cucumeris at different release rates in control of Frankliniella occidentalis on rose plants under laboratory and microcosm conditions. Systematic & Applied Acarology, 28: 607-618.

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