G.D. Jones,^1,*,** K.C. Allen<sup>2,***

1</sup>aUSDA-ARS, Areawide Pest Management Research Unit, College Station, Texas 77845, USA;
²bUSDA-ARS, Southern Insect Management Research Unit, Stoneville, MS 38776, USA

^*Corresponding author. Email: g-jones@tamu.edu
^**GRETCHEN D. JONES is a research biologist for the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), Agriculture Research Service (ARS) and works in the Areawide Pest Management Research Unit, College Station, TX. She received her MS in Botany from Stephen F. Austin State University and a Ph.D. in Botany from Texas A&M University where she studied melissopalynology and worked with European and Africanized honeybees. Her research for USDA-ARS includes studying the pollen on and in insect pests to determine what they eat besides our crops, migration and dispersal of these insects, and what parts of the USA they originated. Although her research centers on pollen on and in insect pests that attack cotton and corn, she has worked with diamond back moths and Diabrotica spp. in Brazil, fruit flies in Hawaii, and honeybees and honey worldwide. She developed the USDA-ARS Pollen Reference Collection that contains over 20,000 scanning electron (SEM) and light micrographs of pollen plus glass slides, and a pollen data base and is the senior author of the SEM atlas Pollen of the southeastern United States. Some of the pollen micrographs are displayed at www.pollen.usda.gov.
^***KERRY CLINT ALLEN is a research entomologist for the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), Agricultural Research Service (ARS) and works in the Southern Insect Management Research Unit, Stoneville, Mississippi. He received his MS in Entomology from Mississippi State University and Ph.D. in Entomology from the University of Arkansas where he studied the impact of the local crop structure on the distributions of the corn earworm and tobacco budworm in cotton. Research for the USDAARS includes examining the production and control of polyphagous insects on soybean and their impact on overall populations in the landscape. He is also examining the impact of wild and cultivated hosts on populations of the tarnished plant bug on their dispersal into cotton. He has recently been exploring the use of pollen as a natural marker for examining tarnished plant bug movement.