Professor
Department of Land Resources and Environmental Sciences
Montana State University
Bozeman, MT 59717
(use above as a mailing address)

Where you can find me:                            How you can contact me:
    18 Marsh Labs                                           phone:    (406) 994-2333
    Map to Marsh Labs                                    fax:         (406) 994-7060 
    Close-up map                                             e-mail:     koneill@montana.edu

Education:

Ph.D.1981.  Department of Zoology and Entomology, Colorado State University M.S.1978.  Department of Zoology and Entomology, Colorado State University  (ancient lab  photo - thanks to Darryl Gwynne) B.S. 1975.  S.U.N.Y. College of Environmental Science and Forestry at Syracuse University (Forest Biology).

Teaching:

BIOL 204IN - INSECT BIOLOGY (Fall) BIOL 403 - Evolution (Spring) CLS 101/201US - University Seminar (Fall and Spring) ENTO 500 - Graduate Seminar (Fall, even years) ENTO 514 - Behavioral Ecology (Fall, odd years) LS 301 - Integrative Seminar (occasional)

Other teaching related links:

• Evolutionary Science and Evolution Denial:  Resources for Students and Teachers
  

Research:

Publications

• Books
• Refereed Journal Articles
  

General areas of interest (publications sorted by general topic):

Pollination ecology Mating strategies and sexual selection Behavioral thermoregulation Foraging behavior Nesting and parental behavior Faunal studies and community ecology

Study animals past and present (publications sorted by insect order):

Hymenoptera (wasps, ants, bees)   (beewolves) Orthoptera (grasshoppers, Mormon crickets)  Diptera (robber flies)  Lepidoptera Coleoptera (various species of stored grain pests)

Specific current projects:

Bees and Wasp Communities on the Tenderfoot Creek Experimental National Forest:  The Effect of Fire and Silvicultural System  (with George Markin, Ward McCaughey, Matthew Lavin, and Jessica Fultz).   Effect of pollen type and quality on alfalfa leaf cutting bees (with Ruth O'Neill, Sue Blodgett, Jessica Fultz, and William Kemp) Biology and diversity of solitary cavity-nesting bees and wasps in Montana and at the Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge in New York (with Peter Jensen, Ruth O'Neill, William Kemp, Jordi Bosch, and James O'Neill) Thermal biology of stored grain insects (with David Weaver)Influence of livestock grazing on grasshopper and spider communities (with Bret Olson and Richard Miller)

Graduate Advising

Student Theses (of students for which I have been major advisor):

Wachter, David H. 1995. The ecology of selected grasshoppers along an elevational gradient. M.S. thesis, Department of Entomology, Montana State University.  Larson, Deanna P. 1996. Evaluation of sweep sampling as a method for determining grasshopper community composition on rangeland. M.S. thesis, Department of Entomology, Montana State University.  Bess, James A. 1997. The leafhopper species assemblages associated with native and replanted grassland in southwest Montana. M.S. thesis, Department of Entomology, Montana State University.  Contact:  James Bess    Rolston, Marni. 1997. Short-term dynamics of behavioral thermoregulation by nymphs of Melanoplus sanguinipes on grazed and ungrazed rangeland (Orthoptera: Acrididae). Graduation date: December 1997.   Contact Marni Rolston Turnbow, Jonathan. 1998.  Behavioral thermoregulation and behavioral fever in Mormon crickets (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae; Anabrus simplex) infected with Beauveria bassiana. Graduation date: May 1998. Jensen, Peter.  2001.  The foraging and nesting behavior of four solitary-nesting bee species (Hymenoptera:Megachilidae) in the Gallatin Valley, Montana.  Campbell, Tracy.  2002.  Thermal biology of the less grain borer Rhyzopertha dominica (co-advisor:  David Weaver). Organ, C.L.  2003.  Epaxial muscles and ossified tendons in dinosaurs: anatomy, histology, development, and biomechanics.  (Ph.D., Cell Biology and Neuroscience; co-advisor with Dr. Jack Horner). Fultz, Jessica.  2005.  Effects of shelterwood management on flower-visiting insects and their floral resources.   Pearce, April.  In Progress.   Pollinators and pests of  slender white  prairie clover.