Richard Hilton

Senior Faculty Research Assistant II, Ag Entomologist
richard.hilton [at] oregonstate.edu

Office: 541-772-5165

  • Development and implementation of methods for pear pest management in certified organic orchard systems.
  • Mating disruption and microbial controls for major pest species.
  • Conservation of natural enemies.

Funding: 

American Farmland Trust Grant,  “Continued Reduction of Organophosphates and the Implementation of an Organic Pest Control Program in Pear.” Co-PI’s were Richard Hilton, Phil VanBuskirk and David Sugar.

Other funding sources:

  • Companies which produce and market certified organic control methods.
  • Local tree fruit industry.

Impacts:

  • Mating disruption is now used on over 50% of local pear acreage.
  • A workable organic program has been developed and is being implemented on the 7 orchards which comprise 5% of the acreage.
  • Certified organic insect control methods and tactics, such as mating disruption, codling moth granulosis virus and kaolin clay are increasingly adopted by conventional growers.
  • A new monitoring tool for codling moth control is used on over 30% of pear acreage.

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At OSU
Affiliated with: 
Southern Oregon Exp Sta
Career Links: 
Department of Horticulture
Oregon Wine Research Institute
Southern Oregon Research and Extension Center
Organic Agriculture Program
Tree Fruits and Nuts
My Publications

2014

Journal Article

S. Aldermann, Elias, S., and Hilton, R. J., “Occurrence and trends of weed seed and ergot contaminants in Poa pretenses and Poa trivialis seed lots in Oregon”, Seed Technology, vol. 35, no. 2, pp. 237-250, 2014.

2013

Journal Article

S. C. Alderman, Elias, S. G., and Hilton, R. J., “Occurrence and Trends of Weed Seed and Ergot Contaminants in Oregon Grown Poa pratensis and Poa trivialis Seed Lots”, Seed Technology, pp. 237–250, 2013.
V. M. Walton, Dalton, D., Daane, K. M., Kaiser, C., and Hilton, R. J., “Seasonal Phenology of Pseudococcus maritimus (Hemiptera: Pseudococcidae) and Pheromone-Baited Trap Survey of Four Important Mealybug Species in Three Wine Grape Growing Regions of Oregon”, Annals of the Entomological Society of America, vol. 106, no. 4, pp. 471 - 478, 2013.

2012

Journal Article

S. Aldermann, Elias, S., and Hilton, R. J., “Occurrence and trends of weed seed contamination in bentgrass seed lots in Oregon”, Seed Technology, vol. 34, no. 2, pp. 39-51, 2012.
S. C. Alderman, Elias, S. G., and Hilton, R. J., “Occurrence and trends of weed seed and pathogen contaminants in bentgrass seed lots in Oregon”, Seed Technology, pp. 203–215, 2012.

2011

Journal Article

S. Aldermann, Elias, S., and Hilton, R. J., “Occurrence and trends of weed seed contamination in fine fescue seed lots in Oregon”, Seed Technology, vol. 33, no. 1, pp. 7-21, 2011.