Philip A. Stansly, PhD (Texas A&M University), Professor of Entomology, University of Florida Department of Entomology & Nematology and Southwest Florida Research & Education Center (SWFREC), Immokalee, Florida.  Dr. Stansly had his first experience with agricultural entomology using lady beetles to combat armored scale in date groves of Northern Niger, (1973-1976).  He then received his master’s degree in zoology from the University of Oklahoma (1978) using the lady beetle work as a thesis.  He earned a Ph.D. in Entomology (1984) working on the ecology of the boll weevil on native host plants in Tabasco (SE) Mexico.   As a post-doctoral associate for the State University of New York at Stony Brook (1985-1986), he studied the ecology of mound-building, nasute termites in the llanos of Venezuela.  In 1986, Dr. Stansly joined the IFAS faculty as head of a project to implement IPM with row-crop farmers of Coastal Ecuador financed by USAID (1986-1989).  He came the SWFREC in 1989 where he manages a program of research and extension on IPM of pests affecting the major crops grown in southwest Florida with emphasis on citrus and vegetables, focusing on Diaphorina citri and Bemisia tabaci respectively.  Dr. Stansly teaches and mentors graduate students and is author or co-author of over 550 entomological publications including 1 book, 7 book chapters, 129 refereed and 85 non refereed papers, 142 trade journal  and extension publications and 196 Arthropod Management Test reports.  Awards include the Florida Entomological Society Achievement Award for Extension (1995, 1999) and the University of Florida Davidson Productivity Award (2002).