Every year, ANBP recognizes an individual who has made, or is making, extraordinary contributions to the field of augmentation biological control and/or its use in integrated pest management. This year the recipient for the award is Dr. Clive Stinson, Head of Production, Beneficial Insectary, Redding, California, who has worked on an extraordinarily wide range of areas critical to the discovery and implementation of natural enemies (for both arthropod and weed biocontrol), all of which are important in IPM systems today.
Dr. Stinson receiving his award in Portland at the ANBP Annual General Business meeting March 3, 2020. Left to Right: Mr. Richard Ward, Director of Business Development, Beneficial Insectary, Redding, California; Dr. Clive Stinson, Head of Production, Beneficial Insectary, Redding, California; and Mr. Casey Decker, ANBP President and President, Sierra Biological Inc., Lyndonville, New York.
Dr. Stinson holds a B.S. degree in Ecology from the New University of Ulsterin the UK., and a M.S. and Ph.D degree in Applied Entomology from the University of London in the UK. An internationally recognized leader in his field, Clive has been conducting advanced entomological research and development for over 35 years, working in an array of commercial and industrial settings. From 1983 to 1988, Clive was Project Manager for CAB International in Delmont, Switzerland. He led the program for the biological control of spotted and diffuse knapweed. This entailed field surveys and collecting phytophagous insects attacking knapweed in their native habitats of Central and Eastern Europe. As part of this classical biocontrol program, he reared, in quarantine, collections of potential natural enemy species at CABI’s biological control facility in Switzerland. As a result of Clive’s work, a knapweed eating weevil (Cyphocleonus achates) was approved for release in Canada and the US by the USDA and Ag Canada.
From 1988 to 2010, Clive was head of production at Syngenta Bioline in the UK. In this position, Clive performed an enormous amount of work to the benefit of crop protection in the UK, Europe and North America. Among his many other duties, he was responsible for research regarding the nutrition of host insects and mites used in the commercial production of beneficial insects and mites and the development of new products used in augmentative biological control. He also spearheaded numerous other R & D projects during this time. From 2010 Clive has been head of production at Beneficial Insectary in Redding, California.
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