Research Interests

• Insect Pest Management
• Integrated approach to Pest Management
• Biological Control

Background

Victor Rajakulendran joined NSW Agriculture in 1990 as a Technical Officer and was involved in grass hoper research before he was appointed as the Vegetable Entomologist at the Biolocical and Chemical Research Institute, Rydalmere.

After doing field research on fruit flies for a brief period, he worked on insect problems in ornamentals and now working on integrated pest management of Asian vegetables.

Qualifications

• B.Sc (Agric.) University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka 1975
• M.S Entomology - Texas A&M University (USA) 1981
• PhD Entomology – Texas A&M University (USA) 1986

Current Project

Integrated management strategies for diseases and pests of Asian vegetables

Select Publications

Singh P, Beattie GAC, Clift AD, Watson DM, Furness GO, Tesoriero L, Rajakulendran SV, Parkes RA and Scanes M (2000) Petroleum spray oils and tomato integrated pest and disease management in southern Australia. Gen. Appl. Entomol. 29: 69-93.

Rajakulendran SV, Pigott R and Baker GL (1993) Biology and phenology of the Giant grasshopper, Valanga irregularis (Walker) (Orthoptera:Acrididae: Crytacanthacridinae), a pest of citrus, in Central Western New South Wales. Aust. Entomologist 20 (3): 81-90.

Huber JT and Rajakulendran SV (1988) Redescription of and host induced antennal variation in Anaphes iole Girault (Hymenoptera:Mymaridae), an egg parasite of Miridae (Hemiptera). North America. Can. Ent. 120: 893- 901.

Rajakulendran SV and Cate JR (1986) Field studies on the parasitoids of   cotton fleahopper Pseudatomoscelis seriatus in wild habitat. Proc. Beltwide Cotton Conference. PP 241-244.

Rajakulendran SV and Cate JR (1986) Laboratory rearing procedures for two  egg parasitoids of cotton fleahopper Pseudatomoscelis seriatus (Reuter). South Western Entomol. 11: 255-261.

Rajakulendran SV and Plapp FW (1982) Synergism of five synthetic pyrethroids by chlordimeform against the tobacco budworm (Lepidoptera:Noctuidae) and a predator Chrysopa carnea (Neuroptera:Chrysopidae). J. Econ.Entomol. 75: 1089-1092.

Keywords

• Integrated Pest Management
• Biological Control