Qiao Wang PhD, FRSNZ

Fellow of the Royal New Zealand Academy of Sciences

Distinguished Professor of Entomology

Doctoral Supervisor

State Key Laboratory of Green Pesticides

Contact details

Room 503, Building D, Centre for Research and Development of Fine Chemicals, East Campus, Guizhou University

Email Q.Wang@massey.ac.nz

Phone +86 18685047817

Qualifications

BSc – Guizhou University, China 1982

MSc – Southwest University, China 1984

PhD – La Trobe University, Australia 1994

Positions held

1985-1990 Assistant Lecturer, Lecturer, Associate Professor – Southwest University, China

1993-1995 Postdoc – University of California (Riverside), USA

1995-2005 Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, Associate Professor - Massey University, New Zealand

2006-2023 Professor – Massey University, New Zealand

2024 – present Professor Emeritus – Massey University, New Zealand

2024 – present Professor (Part-time Consultant) – Guizhou University, China

Profile

Qiao Wang is an internationally renowned entomologist. His research and work on biological control and behavioural ecology of plant pests have advanced the detection and management of invasive pests in many countries. His work has enhanced trade policymaking, quarantine pest identification and control measures, which have averted potential losses amounting to billions of dollars from invasive pests. He has served on editorial boards, expert panels and committees in Asia, Australasia, the European Union, and North America. He has published more than 300 scientific works. His research has been supported by numerous national and international grants and he has received multiple awards and distinctions, including the Distinguished Scientist Award from the Entomological Society of America in 2012. He was elected as a Fellow to the Academy of the Royal Society of New Zealand (Academician) in 2022.

Selected recent publications (*corresponding author)

1. Chen, C., X.Z. He, P. Zhou, and Q. Wang* (2024) Parasitoid–host interaction behaviors in relation to host stages in the Tamarixia triozae (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae)–Bactericera cockerelli (Hemiptera: Triozidae) system. Journal of Insect Science 24: 1-7.

2.Chen, C., X.Z He, P. Zhou, and Q. Wang* (2023) Life history strategies of an important parasitoid of tomato-potato psyllid in response to host stage and its own age. Biological Control 179: 105152.

3.Liu, J.Y., X.Z He, and Q. Wang* (2023) Male larval experience of cues from adult rivals alters lifetime sperm investment patterns in a polygamous insect. Insect Science 30: 1773-1783.

4.Liu, J.Y., X.Z. He, Y.J. Zhang, X.L. Zheng, and Q. Wang* (2023) Juvenile socio-sexual experience determines lifetime sperm expenditure and adult survival in a polygamous moth, Ephestia kuehniella. Insect Science 30: 232-240. 

5.Chen, C., X.Z. He, P. Zhou, and Q. Wang* (2022) Diets for Tamarixia triozae adults before releasing in augmentative biological control. BioControl 67: 297-306.

6.Ristyadi, D., X.Z. He and Q. Wang* (2022) Resource allocation strategies for survival and reproduction by an invasive pest in response to intermittent fasting. Current Zoology 69: 600-606.

7.Ristyadi, D., X.Z. He and Q. Wang* (2022) Predator- and killed prey-induced fears bear significant cost to an invasive spider mite: implications in pest management. Pest Management Science 78: 5456-5462.

8.Zhou, P., X.Z. He, C. Chen, and Q. Wang* (2021) Reproductive strategies that may facilitate invasion success: evidence from a spider mite. Journal of Economic Entomology 114: 632-637.

9.Khatri, D., X.Z. He, and Q. Wang* (2021) Potential aphid population regulation by Aphidius colemani (Hymenoptera: Aphidiidae) in response to host density, parasitoid density, and age. Journal of Economic Entomology 114: 1847-1851.

10.Liu, J.Y., Y.J. Zhang, X.L. Zheng, X.Z. He, and Q. Wang* (2020) Combined cues of male competition influence spermatozoal investment in a moth. Functional Ecology 34:1223–1234.

11.Xu, J., and Q. Wang* (2020). Body weight of the two sexes determines the occurrence of polyandry in a moth. Animal Behaviour 159: 13-19.

12.Prathapan, K. D., … Q. Wang… (2018) When the cure kills - CBD limits biodiversity research. Science 360: 1405-1406.

13.Hanan, A., X.Z. He, and Q. Wang* (2017) Insight into the success of whitefly biological control using parasitoids: evidence from the Eretmocerus warrae-Trialeurodes vaporariorum system. Pest Management Science 73: 2294-2301.

14.Wang, Q. (ed.) (2017) Cerambycidae of the World: Biology and Pest Management. CRC Press (Taylor & Francis Group), USA. 628pp. ISBN 9781482219906

15.Esfandi, K., X.Z. He, and Q. Wang* (2015) Flirtation reduces males’ fecundity but not longevity. Evolution 69: 2118-2128.