Vasilis Rodovitis MSc Student
Vasilis Rodovitis is an agronomist and member of the scientific team of the Laboratory of Entomology and Agricultural Zoology, University of Thessaly, since January 2016. His scientific interests include the control of insect pests in fruit producing crops. He is currently working on his MSc thesis, regarding the daily activity patterns of adult Mediterranean fruit flies (Ceratitis capitata) in relation to age and nutritional stress. As an undergraduate student, he studied the population dynamics of the cherry fruit fly, Rhagoletis cerasi in sweet cherry orchards of northern Greece.
At the same time, he started working on adult phenology and overwintering of different populations of the spotted wing Drosophila, Drosophila suzukii both in laboratory and field conditions. He also participated in "Life-Biodelear" research program dealing with monitoring and control of C. capitata in citrus orchards using an environmental friendly attractant. Born in 1994 in Naousa Imathias, a key fruit producing area of northern Greece, he is also owner of sweet cherry orchards in his hometown.