Publications

Mueller, T., Buckner, M. (2025) UAV-based Remote Sensing of Bee Nesting Aggregations with Computer Vision for Object Detection. BioRxiv. doi: 10.1101/2025.06.16.659683 link

Page, M., Davis, J., Glasser, S., Kusi, E., Lindsay, S., McCormick, E., Mueller, T., Ng, WH., Pinilla-Gallego, M., Valdes, L., Van Wyk, J., Weiss, T., Irwin, R., Adler, L., McArt, S. (2025) Mechanisms and Consequences of Plant-Pollinator-Pathogen Interactions. Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics. doi: 10.1146/annurev-ecolsys-102723-042847 PDF

Mueller, T., Baert, N., Muñiz, P., Sossa, D., Danforth, B., & McArt, S. (2024) Pesticide risk during commercial apple pollination is greater for honeybees than other managed and wild bees. Journal of Applied Ecology, doi: 10.1111/1365-2664.14661 PDF

Francis, J., Mueller, T., Vannette, R. (2023) Dispersal overwhelms variation in host quality in shaping deterministic nectar microbiome assembly. New Phytologist. doi: 10.1101/2023.01.05.522929 PDF

Mueller, T., Francis, J., Vannette, R. (2023) Nectar compounds can impact the growth of microbes and shift community dynamics in floral nectar. Environmental Microbiology Reports. doi: 10.1111/1758-2229.13139 PDF

Kahl, H., Mueller, T., Cass, B., Xi, X., Cluff, E., Rosenheim, J. (2022) Herbivory by European Earwigs (Forficula auricularia; Dermaptera: Forficulidae) on Commonly Cultivated California Citrus Species. Journal of Economic Entomology. Journal of Economic Entomology. doi: 10.1093/jee/toac030 PDF

Vannette, R., Hall, G., McMunn, M., Mueller, T., Munkres, I., Perry, D. (2021) Culturable bacteria are more common than fungi in floral nectar and are more easily dispersed by thrips, a ubiquitous flower visitor, FEMS Microbial Ecology. doi: 10.1093/femsec/fiab150 PDF

Kahl, H., Mueller, T., Cass, B., Xi, X., Cluff, E., Grafton-Cardwell, B., Rosenheim, J. (2021) Characterizing Herbivory by European earwigs (Dermaptera: Forficulidae) on Navel Orange Fruit. Journal of Economic Entomology. doi: 10.1093/jee/toab121 PDF

Cass, B., Kahl, H., Mueller, T., Xi, X., Grafton-Cardwell, E., Rosenheim, J. (2020) Profile of fork-tailed bush katydid (Scudderia furcata Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae) feeding on fruit of clementine mandarins. Journal of Economic Entomology. doi:10.1093/jee/toaa258 PDF

Cass, B., Hack, L., Mueller, T., Buckman, D., Grafton-Cardwell, E., Rosenheim, J. (2020) Arthropod infestation levels on mandarins in California. Journal of Economic Entomology. doi:10.1093/jee/toaa141 PDF

Mueller, T., Kahl, H., Cass. B., Grafton-Cardwell, E., Rosenheim, J. (2019) Differential impacts of citrus thrips, Scirtothrips citri (Thysanoptera: Thripidae), across sweet orange and mandarin species. Journal of Economic Entomology. doi:10.1093/jee/toz178 PDF

Rosenheim, J., Booster, N., Culshaw-Maurer, M., Mueller, T., Kuffel, R., Law, Y., Goodell, P., Pierce, T., Godfrey, L., Hunter, W., Sadeh, A. (2019) Disease, contagious cannibalism and associated population crash in an omnivorous bug, Geocoris pallens. Oecologia. doi:10.1007/s00442-019-04407-y PDF