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Christiana Huss
Urban Horticulture Agent
Horticulture Program Team, Berkeley County Cooperative Extension Office, Charleston County Cooperative Extension Office, Dorchester County Cooperative Extension Office
Office: Charleston
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 Urban Horticulture Agent and Master Gardener Coordinator for Charleston, Dorchester, and Berkley counties. She is a Charleston native, growing up on James Island. She got her BS in Environmental and Natural Resources with a focus in Conservation Biology and Entomology at Clemson University in 2020. Then, she received her master’s degree in Entomology from the University of Georgia in 2023. Christiana has been working for Clemson for 2 years now: first, as a lab technician at the Coastal Research and Education Center, then as a Commercial Horticulture Agent in the Pee Dee. Christiana is passionate about insect and pollinator conservation, restoration ecology, and invasive species education.
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.
