Selected Publications
Messing, R. H., M. N. Tremblay, E. B. Mondor ,
R. G. Foottit & K. S Pike. 2007.
Invasive aphids attack native Hawaiian plants.
Biological Invasions 9:601–607.
Bokonon-Ganta, A. H., M. Ramadan & R. H.
Messing. 2007.
Reproductive biology of Fopius ceratitivorus (Hymenoptera:
Braconidae), an egg-larval parasitoid of the Mediterranean fruit fly,
Ceratitis capitata (Diptera: Tephritidae).
Biological Control 41: 361-367.
Messing, R. H. & M. G. Wright. 2006.
Biological control of invasive species: solution or pollution?
Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 4: 132-140.
Mondor, E. B., M.
N. Tremblay & R. H. Messing. 2007.
Morphological and ecological traits promoting aphid colonization of
the Hawaiian Islands. Biological
Invasions 9: 87-100.
Sime, K. R., K.M. Daane, A. Kirk,
J. W. Andrews, M. W. Johnson & R. H. Messing. 2006.
Psyttalia ponerophaga (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) as a potential
biological control agent for the olive fruit fly in California.
Bulletin of Entomological Research 97: 1-10.
Sime,
K. R., K. M. Daane, H. Nadel, C. S. Funk, R. H. Messing, J. W. Andrews
Jr., M. W. Johnson, C. H. Pickett. 2005.
Diachasmimorpha
longicaudata and D. kraussii (Hymenoptera: Braconidae)
potential parasitoids of the olive fruit fly. Biocontrol Science &
Technology 16: 169-179.
Bokonon-Ganta,
A. H., Ramadan, M. M., Wang, X. G. & Messing, R. H. 2005.
Biological
performance and potential of Fopius ceratitivorus (Hymenoptera:
Braconidae), an egg-pupal parasitoid of tephritid fruit flies, newly
imported to Hawaii. Biological Control 33: 238-247.
Wang,
X. G. & R. H. Messing. 2004.
Fitness consequence of body
size-dependent host species selection in a generalist ectoparasitoid.
Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 56: 513-522.
Wang, X. G. & R. H. Messing. 2003.
Foraging behavior and patch time
allocation by Fopius arisanus, an egg-larval parasitoid of
tephritid fruit flies.
Journal of Insect Behavior 16: 593-612.
Yang, P., D.
Foote, A. V. Alyokhin, L. Lenz & R. H. Messing. 2002.
Distribution and abundance of mymarid parasitoids (Hymenoptera:
Mymaridae) of Sophonia rufofascia (Homoptera: Cicadellidae) in
Hawaii. Biological Control 23: 237-244
Messing, R. H.
2001. Centrifugal phylogeny as a basis for non-target host testing in
biological control: is it relevant for parasitoids? Phytoparasitica
29: 187-190.
Wharton, R., M.
Trostle, R. Messing, R. Copeland, S. Kimani-Njogu, S. Lux, P. Nderitu,
& S. Mohammed. 2000. Parasitoids of medfly and related tephritids in
Kenyan coffee: a predominantly koinobiont assemblage. Bull. Entomol.
Research 90: 517-526.
Duan, J. J., R. H.
Messing & R. Dukas. 2000. Host selection of Diachasmimorpha tryoni:
comparative response to fruit-infesting and gall-forming tephritid
flies. Environmental Entomology 29: 838-845.
Book Chapters
Messing, R.H., B. Roitberg & J. Brodeur. (2005). Measuring and predicting indirect impacts of biological control: Competition, displacement, and secondary interactions. in: Environmental Impact of Invertebrates for Biological Control of Arthropods: Methods and Risk Assessment. F. Bigler, U. Kuhlmann, D. Babendreier, eds. CABI Publishing.
Messing, R.H. (2000). The impact of non-target concerns on the practice of biological control. in: Non-target Effects of Biological Control. P. Follett & J. Duan, eds. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Norwell, MA .