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Biocontrol: Program Staff

Jim Brown

Jim Brown E-mail: jbrown@cdfa.ca.gov Senior Agricultural Biological Technician A.A., General Science/Horticulture, 1972, American River College, Sacramento, CA. B.A., Environmental Studies, 1974, from C.S.U., Sacramento, CA.

Research interests

Jim has worked with the Biological Control Program for ten years managing the greenhouses and nursery at the North B Street facility in Sacramento. His duties have included the propagation of various host plants, maintaining a Silverleaf whitefly host colony, and mass rearing numerous whitefly parasites for field release. More recently, Jim has worked on the Red Gum Lerp Psyllid Project and is now involved with mass rearing of Neochetina bruchi, a beneficial weevil that feeds on water hyacinth. Jim also prepares and maintains field plots at the facility that are used in research studies of lygus bug, silverleaf whitefly, and pink hibiscus mealybug. Jim has assumed the role of staff curmudgeon, a natural for the position.

His hobbies include tinkering with computers and fishing.