Christiana Huss

Commercial Horticulture Agent
Horticulture Program Team, Dillon County Cooperative Extension Office, Georgetown County Cooperative Extension Office, Horry County Cooperative Extension Office, Marion County Cooperative Extension Office, Williamsburg County Cooperative Extension Office

Office: Marion
Phone: 843-561-6079

Email: chuss@clemson.edu

Educational Background

M.S. Entomology
University of Georgia 2023

B.S. Environmental & Natural Resources
Clemson University 2020

Profile

Christiana Huss is the Commercial Horticulture Agent for Marion, Horry, Dillon, Georgetown, and Williamsburg counties. She grew up in Charleston, South Carolina then graduated with a BS in Environmental and Natural Resources with a focus in Conservation Biology and Entomology at Clemson University. She recently completed her master’s degree in Entomology from the University of Georgia by studying the invasive yellow-margined leaf beetle on turnip greens. She specializes in insect surveying and identification, Integrated Pest Management, and invasive species management.

Publications

Huss, C. P., Holmes, K. D., & Blubaugh, C. K. (2022). Benefits and risks of intercropping for crop resilience and pest management. Journal of economic entomology, 115(5), 1350-1362.

Huss, C. (2023). Specialist Invasive Herbivore Reveals a Positive Preference-Performance Relationship on Defended Host Plants (Master's thesis, University of Georgia).

Golan, J. E., Huss, C. P., Rodrigues, P. A., Gariepy, T. D., Schmidt, J. M., & Blubaugh, C. K. (2023). Who eats the yellowmargined leaf beetle? Field observations and genetic surveillance to identify local predators of a novel invasive pest. Biological Control, 187, 105393.

Huss, C. P., Golan, J. E., & Blubaugh, C. K. (2024). Host preferences of an invasive specialist herbivore and native predators on chemically defended plants. Ecological Entomology, 49(5), 682-691.

Blubaugh, C. K., Huss, C. P., Lindell, H. C., Spann, G. L., & Basinger, N. T. (2024). Cover crops dismantle keystone ant/aphid mutualisms to enhance insect pest suppression and weed biocontrol. Agricultural and Forest Entomology.