Publications

Selected Publications:

2004. Cranshaw, W.  Garden Insects of North America.  Princeton University Press.  Princeton, NJ.  678 pp.

Cranshaw, W., D. Leatherman, W. Jacobi and L. Mannix (coordinators).  2004 (Revision).  Insects and Diseases of Woody Plants of the Central Rockies.  Cooperative Extension Bulletin 506A.  292 pp.

Cranshaw, W., E. Grafius, T-X Liu, B. Nault, and D. Riley.  2005.   Chapter 11.  Onions  in Vegetable Insect Management. ed. R. Foster and B. Flood.  Meister Publishing Co.  Willoughby, Ohio.  264 pp.

Cranshaw, W. and B. Kondratieff.  2006. Guide to Colorado Insects.  Westcliffe Publishers, Inc.  Englewood, CO.   232 pp.

Cranshaw, W.S.  2006.  Attitudes and concerns about spiders expressed in a Freshman entomology class.  American Entomologist  52(4): 234-238.

Cranshaw, W. and M. Camper.  2007. Management of poplar twiggall fly on nursery-grown aspen.  J. Env. Hort. 25(1): 33-35.

Kondratieff, B. and W. Cranshaw.  2007. Common Insects, Spiders, Ticks, and Scorpions of Fort Sill, Oklahoma.  United States Government Printing Office 653-331.  85 pp.

Cranshaw, W.S.  2008.  II. Pests.  in Compendium of Onion and Garlic Diseases and Pests, 2nd Edition.  Ed. H.F. Schwartz and S.K. Mohan. APS Press.  St. Paul, MN.  127 pp.

Kramer, K. and W.S. Cranshaw. 2009.  Effects of supplemental irrigation on populations of clover mite, Bryobia praetiosa Koch (Acari: Tetranychidae), and other arthropods in a Kentucky bluegrass lawn. Southwestern Entomologist 34 (1):69-74.

Tisserat, N., Cranshaw, W., Leatherman, D., Utley, C., and Alexander, K. 2009. Black walnut mortality in Colorado caused by the walnut twig beetle and thousand cankers disease. Online. Plant Health Progress  11 August, 2009. doi:10.1094/PHP-2009-0811-01-RS

Cranshaw, W. And M. Camper. 2010. Pest Control Industry: An assessment of current concerns and needs in Colorado and Wyoming. Colorado Agricultural Experiment Station Bulletin TB-10-1 5 pp.

Cranshaw, W. and N. Tisserat. 2010. Thousand Cankers Disease: A Recently Recognized Threat to North American Black Walnut. Arborist News 19 (1): 52-56.

Colvin, B. & Cranshaw, W. (2010) Comparison of over-the-counter insecticides for managing the european earwig, Forficula auricularia L. (Dermaptera: Forficulidae). Southwestern Entomologist, 35, 69–74.

Tisserat, N., Cranshaw, W., Putnam, M. L., Pscheidt, J., Leslie, C. A., Murray, M., Hoffman, J., Barkley, Y., Alexander, K., and Seybold, S. J. 2011. Thousand cankers disease is widespread in black walnut in the western United States. Plant Health Progress doi: 10.1094/PHP-2011-0630-01-BR

Cranshaw, W.S., H.J. Larsen, Jr. and R.J. Zimmerman. 2011. Notes on fruit damage by the European paper wasp, Polistes dominula (Christ) (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). Southwestern Entomologist 36(1): 103-105. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.3958/059.036.0110

Cranshaw, W. 2011. Recently recognized range extensions of the walnut twig beetle, Pityophthorus juglandis Blackman (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae), in the western United States. The Coleopterists Bulletin 65(1) 48-49. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1649/0010-065X-65.1.48

Cranshaw, W. 2011. A Review of Nuisance Invader Household Pests of the United States. American Entomologist 57(3): 165-169.