Wade Bowers
Wade Bowers
Innovations
| 1995 |
Canadian Patent # 2,041,529-1: Gries, G.,
Jianxiong Li., Gries, R., Slessor, K.N., Bowers, W.W., West, R.J., King,
G.G.S., Underhill, E.W. and Borden, J.H. 1991. Method and composition for
attracting and controlling hemlock looper. |
| 1995 |
Applied recently developed remote sensing
technology to assess impact of balsam woolly adelgid. |
| 1993-95 |
Established pheromone trapping grid as a new
tool for forecasting outbreaks of eastern hemlock looper. |
| 1995 |
New probability models to predict outbreak of
bark beetle attack |
| 1991-94 |
Sex pheromone of eastern and western
hemlock,loopers identified. And sex pheromone of blackheaded budworm
identified. |
| 1984-89 |
Developed protocols to determine the biology,
impact and semiochemical behaviour of bark beetles. Primary innovation was a
an improved aeration device to permit the collection of bark beetle and
defoliator volatiles. |
| 1985-88 |
Discovered the aggregation pheromone of the
four-eyed spruce bark beetle. |
| 1987-88 |
Assisted with development of protocols to survey pinewood nematode host and potential vectors. |
Updated:
01/07/2008