Reports from ESA Liaison to the EPA Office of Pesticide Programs
Dr. Thomas "Gene" Reagan serves as the ESA Subject Matter Expert (SME) and liaison between the academic entomology community and the US-EPA Office of Pesticide Programs (OPP), providing unbiased assessments of science to assist the agency in addressing arthropod-control issues and registration of pesticides. This assessment includes entomological areas in which EPA’s actions and processes impact the use of insecticides.
Dr. Reagan represents ESA’s membership to EPA and provides critical input on topics such as the clarity of labels, utility of label mitigations, spray drift, invasive arthropod species, insecticide resistance, and the role of insecticides in integrated pest management, and he maintains a network of entomological peers to consult on subject areas beyond those of the his expertise to provide a breadth of experience.
Reports of his meetings with the EPA-OPP are below:
- Report submitted August 1, 2011
- Attachment 1: Resistance Terminology
- Attachment 2: Temporary Labels
