Publications
Journal Articles
Berto, M. M., R. d. C. Castilho, A. D. Tassi, A. R. de Albuquerque Barros, and D. Carrillo. 2026. A new species of Proctolaelaps (Acari: Mesostigmata: Ascoidea: Melicharidae) associated with ambrosia beetles (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae: Xyleborini) in South Florida avocados. Arthropoda 4:3. https://doi.org/10.3390/arthropoda4010003
Berto, M. M., L. F. P. Cruz, P. B. Avery, K. R. Cloonan, C. Dunlap, and D. Carrillo. 2025. Beyond phoresy: interactions between Histiogaster arborsignis (Acari: Acaridae), ambrosia beetles, and their fungal symbionts in Florida avocados. Symbiosis. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13199-025-01063-0
Berto, M. M., A. Hajihassani, and D. Carrillo. 2025. Rearing phoretic mites associated with wood-boring insects. Journal of Visualized Experiments 223:e69039. https://doi.org/10.3791/69039
Sirmans, S., P. B. Avery, J. Cicero, W. Hunter, R. D. Cave, and D. Carrillo. 2025. Persistence of three biopesticides containing entomopathogenic fungi under tree canopy conditions in Florida, USA. Biocontrol Science and Technology. https://doi.org/10.1080/09583157.2024.2433534
Menocal, O. G., L. F. Cruz, P. E. Kendra, M. Berto, and D. Carrillo. 2023. Flexibility in the ambrosia symbiosis of Xyleborus bispinatus. Frontiers in Microbiology 14:1110474.
Mendel, Z., S. Freeman, J. Hulcr, E. Recht, G. Zagron, A. Bear, L. Orshan, S. Samra, O. Golan, M. Walczak, M. Silberstein, S. Golani, N. Birnbaum, D. Bensimon, P. Benjamin, D. Carrillo, A. Eisenband, and D. Ment. 2023. Black twig borer and other ambrosia and bark beetles in Israel. Phytoparasitica. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12600-023-01089-4
Chavez, A. V., E. B. Duren, P. B. Avery, M. Pitino, R. E. Duncan, L. F. Cruz, D. Carrillo, L. M. Cano, and R. D. Cave. 2023. Evaluation of spore acquisition, spore production, and host survival time for tea shot-hole borer, Euwallacea perbrevis, adults after exposure to four commercial products containing Beauveria bassiana. Insects 14(9):726. https://doi.org/10.3390/insects14090726
Kendra, P. E., W. S. Montgomery, N. Tabanca, E. Q. Schnell, A. Vázquez, O. Menocal, D. Carrillo, and K. R. Cloonan. 2023. Piperitone (p-Menth-1-En-3-One): A new repellent for tea shot hole borer (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) in Florida avocado groves. Biomolecules 13(4):656.
Etherton, B. A., R. A. Choudhury, R. I. Alcalá-Briseño, Y. Xing, A. I. P. Sulá, D. Carrillo, J. Wasielewski, L. L. Stelinski, K. A. Grogan, F. Ballen, J. Crane, and K. A. Garrett. 2023. Are avocados toast? A framework to analyze decision-making for emerging epidemics, applied to laurel wilt. Agricultural Systems 206:10361.
Menocal, O. G., P. E. Kendra, A. Padilla, P. Cardoso Chagas, E. Alves Chagas, J. H. Crane, and D. Carrillo. 2022. Influence of canopy cover and meteorological factors on the abundance of bark and ambrosia beetles in avocado orchards affected by laurel wilt. Agronomy 12(3):547. https://doi.org/10.3390/agronomy12030547
Kendra, P. E., N. Tabanca, L. F. Cruz, O. Menocal, E. Q. Schnell, and D. Carrillo. 2022. Volatile emissions and relative attraction of the fungal symbionts of tea shot hole borer (Coleoptera: Curculionidae). Biomolecules 12:97. https://doi.org/10.3390/biom12010097
Khaustov, A. A., M. Berto, and D. Carrillo. 2022. A new species of Brasilopsis and redescription of Acarothorectes curculionium (Acari: Pygmephoridae) associated with ambrosia beetles (Coleoptera: Scolytinae) from USA. Systematic and Applied Acarology 27(8):1648–1662.
Cloonan, K. R., W. S. Montgomery, T. I. Narvaez, D. Carrillo, and P. E. Kendra. 2022. Community of bark and ambrosia beetles (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae and Platypodinae) in agricultural and forest ecosystems with laurel wilt. Insects 13:971. https://doi.org/10.3390/insects13110971
Romero-Arellano, P., L. Ibarra, D. Carrillo, J. A. Guerrero-Analco, P. E. Kendra, A. L. Kiel-Martinez, and L. Guillen. 2022. Electroantennographic responses of wild and laboratory-reared females of Xyleborus affinis Eichhoff and Xyleborus ferrugineus (Fabricius) (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae) to ethanol and bark volatiles of three host-plant species. Insects 13:655. https://doi.org/10.3390/insects13070655
Cruz, L. F. P., O. G. Menocal, P. E. Kendra, and D. Carrillo. 2021. Phoretic and internal transport of Raffaelea lauricola by different species of ambrosia beetles associated with avocado trees. Symbiosis 84:560.
Gugliuzzo, A., P. H. Biedermann, D. Carrillo, L. A. Castrillo, J. P. Egonyu, D. Gallego, K. Haddi, J. Hulcr, J. Jactel, H. Kajimura, N. Kamata, N. Meurisse, Y. Li, J. B. Oliver, C. M. Ranger, D. Rassati, L. L. Stelinski, R. Sutherland, G. Tropea Grazia, M. G. Wright, and A. Bondi. 2021. Recent advances toward the sustainable management of invasive Xylosandrus ambrosia beetles. Journal of Pest Science 94:615–637.
Hermida Montero, L. A., F. Paraguay-Delgado, L. F. Cruz, D. Carrillo, A. I. Martinez-Enriquez, and N. Pariona. 2021. The role of coating and size of ZnO nanoparticles on the antifungal activity against Raffaelea species. Materials Letters 301:130314.
Cruz, L. F. P., J. C. Cruz, D. Carrillo, A. I. Mtz-Enriquez, A. Lamelas, L. A. Ibarra-Juarez, and N. Pariona. 2021. In vitro evaluation of copper nanoparticles as a potential control agent against the fungal symbionts of the invasive ambrosia beetle Euwallacea fornicatus. Crop Protection 143(2):105564.
Ibarra-Juarez, L. A., M. A. J. Burton, P. H. W. Biedermann, L. Cruz, D. Desgarennes, E. Ibarra-Laclette, A. Latorre, A. Alonso-Sánchez, E. Villafan, G. Hanako-Rosas, L. López, M. Vázquez-Rosas-Landa, G. Carrion, D. Carrillo, A. Moya, and A. Lamelas. 2020. Evidence for succession and putative metabolic roles of fungi and bacteria in the farming mutualism of the ambrosia beetle Xyleborus affinis. mSystems 5:e00541-20. https://doi.org/10.1128/mSystems.00541-20
Rivera, M. P., X. Martini, D. Conover, A. Mafra-Neto, D. Carrillo, and L. Stelinski. 2020. Evaluation of semiochemical-based push–pull strategy for population suppression of ambrosia beetle pathogen vectors in avocado. Scientific Reports 10:2670. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-59569-0
Konkol, J.L., Q. Wang and J.A. Rollins. 2026. Establishment of basic compatibility through pathogen sulfur scavenging is essential for laurel wilt disease development. Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions 39:45–61. https://doi.org/10.1094/MPMI-10-25-0141-R