Gretchen D. Jones<sup>1,*,**

1</sup>USDA-ARS, APMRU, 2771 F&B Road, College Station, TX 77802, Texas, USA

^* Email: gretchen.jones@ars.usda.gov
^**Gretchen D. Jones is a research palynologist for the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Areawide Pest Management Research Unit, at College Station, Texas. She received her BS in Biology in 1984 from Sul Ross State University, Alpine, Texas; her MS in Botany in 1987 from Stephen F. Austin State University, Nacogodoches, Texas and her Ph.D. in Botany in 1993 at Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas. Gretchen's research for USDA centres on the use of pollen to determine foraging resources, migration and source zones of insect pests such as boll weevils and corn earworms that attack agricultural crops such as corn and cotton. She also examines the pollen in honey to determine the food sources of honeybees, the type of honey and the origin of honey. She has written numerous journal articles and is the senior author of the SEM Atlas Pollen of the Southeastern United States, AASP Contributions Series No. 30.