Dr. JoVonn Grady Hill
Overview
Education
- Mississippi State University, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Life Sciences
- Mississippi State University, Master of Science (M.S.), Agricultural Life Sciences
- Mississippi State University, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Interdisciplinary Studies
Websites
Publications
Year | Publications |
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2023 | Hill, J. G. 2023. A new Floritettix (Orthoptera: Acrididae: Melanoplinae) from the Bombing Range Ridge, Florida, U.S.A. Journal of Orthoptera Research 32:133-142 . |
2023 | MacGown, J., Hill, J. 2023. A new species of Hypothyce (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae, Melolonthinae) from Alabama, United States of America. Zookeys 1168:1-10. |
2023 | Hill, J., 2023. Diversification deep in the heart of Texas: seven new grasshopper species and establishment of the Melanoplus discolor species group (Orthoptera, Acrididae, Melanoplinae). ZooKeys |
2023 | Seltzer, J. L., MacGown, J., Hill, J., Cross, D. 2023. First report of Imported fire ants, Solenopsis invicta, S. richteri, and S. invicta x richteri (Hymneoptera: Formicidae) in Kentucky. Insects 14. |
2023 | Chowdhury, B., Hawk, L., Brazzeal, B. D., Hill, J. G. 2023. What strategies do herbivores employ to exploit carnivorous plants?: a Systematic Map Protocol. . PROCEED 23-00068 . |
2022 | Hill, J., 2022. Revision of Gymnoscirtetes (Orthoptera, Acrididae, Melanoplinae): a genus endemic to the grasslands of the southeastern North American Coastal Plain. ZooKeys 1134:101-127. |
2022 | Hill, J. G., Dunaway, B. S., Gesell, J. L. 2022. Notes on the Prairie Nymph, Herberita lahue ssp. caerulea, (Iridacea) at Vicksburg Military National Military Park, MS. Castanea 87(2):155-159. |
2022 | Wetterer, J., Hill, J. G., MacGown, J. A., Booher, D. 2022. Populations of the Graceful Twig Ant, Pseudomyrmex gracilis, Now Bridge the Distribution Gap between Their Native Range in Texas and Non-Native Range in Florida, USA. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 148(2):51-58. Download |
2021 | MacGown, J. A., Hill, J. 2021. An Updated List of Ants of Alabama (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) with New State Records. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 147(4):961-981. Download |
2021 | Noss, R. F., Cartwright, J. M., Estes, D., Witsell, T., Elliott, G., Adams, D., Albrecht, M., Boyles, R., Comer, P., Doffitt, C., Faber-Langendoen, D., Hill, J., Hunter, W. C., Knapp, W. M., Marshall, M. E., Singhurst, J., Tracey, C., Walck, J., Weakley, A. 2021. Improving species status assessments under the U.S. Endangered Species Act and implications for multispecies conservation challenges worldwide. Conservation Biology 35(187):1715-1724. |
2021 | Hill, J., 2021. Science Needs of Southeastern Grassland Species of Conservation Concern: A Framework for Species Status Assessments. U.S. Geological Survey 2021–1047:58. |
2021 | MacGown, J. A., Hill, J., Brown, R. L. 2021. An Annotated List of the Ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of Mississippi. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 147(1):133-155. Download |
2020 | Hill, J. G. 2020. A new species of Melanoplus (Orthoptera: Acrdidae) from the Cumberland Plateau fo Tennessee, USA. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 146(1):221-230. |
2020 | Hill, J. G. 2020. Paraphyletic species no more – genomic data resolve a Pleistocene radiation and validate morphological species of the Melanoplus scudderi complex (Insecta: Orthoptera) . Systematic Entomology. |
2019 | Seltzer, J. L., Hill, J. 2019. The first detection of Metamasius hemipterus (L.) (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) from Coastal Mississippi, USA. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 145(3):407-412. |
2019 | Hill, J., Barton, B. T. 2019. Grasshopper consumption by grey wolves and implications for ecosystems. Ecology |
2019 | Hill, J., 2019. Survey of the woody flora of the William L. Giles Bur Oak Preserve, Oktibbeha County, Mississippi. Castanea |
2018 | Hill, J. G., Seltzer, J. L., Hendon, A. G., Bartlett, C. 2018. First Report of the American Palm Cixiid (Hemiptera: Cixiidae) from Mississippi, USA. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 144(3):593-597. Download |
2018 | Sanders, J. L., Seltzer, J. L., Hill, J. 2018. Mississippi Bug Blues: An Outreach Program of the Mississippi Entomological Museum. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 144(2):430-435. Download |
2017 | Hill, J., 2017. First Report of the Dark Rover Ant, Brachymyrmex patagonicus Mayr (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), from Tennessee. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 143:517-520. |
2017 | Hill, J., 2017. Preliminary Survey of Ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) and Grasshoppers (Orthoptera: Acrididae) of the Big Thicket Region of Texas. |
2017 | Hill , J. G. 2017. Melanoplus nossi Hill (Orthoptera: Acrididade): a grasshopper endemic to the North American Coastal Plain?. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 143(4):973-983. |
2017 | Marshall, C., Riffell, S. K., Miller, D., Hill, J., Evans, K., Rush, S. A. 2017. Bird response to intercropping switchgrass within loblolly pine plantations. Wildlife Society Bulletin 41(4):659-665. |
2017 | MacGown, J., Hill, J., Whitehouse, R. J. 2017. A list of ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) collected during the 2017 William. H. Cross Expedition to the Ouachita Mountains of Arkansas with New State Records. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 143(4):735-739. Download |
2017 | Fenner, J. L., Seltzer, J. L., Hill, J. G., Counterman, B. 2017. Demographic Variation of Wolbachia Infection in the Endangered Mitchell’s Satyr Butterfly. Insects |
2017 | Marshall, C., Riffell, S. K., Rush, S. A., Hill, J., Evans, K. 2017. Switchgrass cultivation within loblolly pine plantations influences invertebrate community composition and resource use. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 143(2):189-197. |
2016 | Monroe, A. p., Hill, J. G., Martin, J. A. 2016. Arthropod response to native warm-season grass conversion and exotic grass spread. Submitted to Restoration Ecology. Restoration Ecology |
2015 | Woller, D. A., Hill, J. G. 2015. Melanoplus foxi Hebard, 1923 (Orthoptera: Acrididae: Melanoplinae): recently rediscovered after almost 60 years using historical field notes. . Transactions of the American Entomological Society 141:545-574. |
2015 | Hill, J. G. 2015. Melanoplus billyharrisi, a replacement name for the junior homonym Melanoplus harrisi (Orthoptera: Acrididae: Melanoplinae). Transactions of the American Entomological Society 141(1):26. |
2015 | Hill, J. G. 2015. Revision and biogeography of the Melanoplus scudderi species group (Orthoptera: Acrididae) with a description of 21 new species and establishment of the Carnegiei and Davisi species group. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 141:252-350. |
2015 | Hill, J. G. 2015. The ant fauna of the Big Thicket Region of Texas. MidSouth Entomologist 8:24-34. |
2014 | Hill, J., 2014. Biological Notes on Some Species of the Melanoplus tribulus Species Group (Orthoptera: Acrididae: Melanoplinae) from the Southeastern United States with a Description of Two New Species. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 140:1–16. |
2013 | Hill, J., 2013. Noteworthy Collections of Grasshoppers (Orthoptera: Acrididae) From Five Southeastern States. |
2012 | MacGown, J. A., Wetterer, J. K., Hill, J. 2012. Geographic spread of Strumigenys silvestrii (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Dacetini). Terrestrial Arthropod Reviews 5(3-4):213–222. |
2012 | Hill, J., 2012. Habitat associations of grasshoppers (Orthoptera: Acrididae) in the heterogeneous cedar glade landscape of the Central Basin of Tennessee. Journal of Orthoptera Research 21(2):227–233. |
2012 | Hill, J., Goddard, J. 2012. Medical and veterinary importance of grasshoppers, katydids, and crickets (Hexapoda: Orthoptera). Journal of the Mississippi Academy of Sciences 56(2/3):172–177. |
2012 | Hill, J., 2012. The Ant (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) Fauna of the Cedar Glades and Xeric Limestone Prairies of the Central Basin of Tennessee. Journal of the Tennessee Academy of Science 87(3). |
2011 | Hill, J., Dakin, M. 2011. An annotated List of the Grasshoppers (Orthoptera: Acrididae, Romaleidae) of the Southeastern United States. Midsouth Entomologist 4(2):39–48. |
2011 | MacGown, J., Hill, J., Skvarla, M. 2011. New records of ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) for Arkansas with a synopsis of previous records. Midsouth Entomologist 4(2):29–38. |
2011 | MacGown, J. A., Hill, J. G., Skvarla, M. 2011. New Records of Ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) for Arkansas with a Synopsis of Previous Records [pdf]. |
2011 | Majure, L. C., Hill, J., Doffitt, C., Majure, T. C. 2011. The Vascular Flora of Lauderdale County, Mississippi, USA. Rhodora 113(956):365–418. |
2010 | MacGown, J. A., Hill, J. G. 2010. A new species of Pyramica (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from Mississippi, USA. Florida Entomologist 93(4):571–576. |
2010 | MacGown, J. A., Hill, J. G., Brown, R. L. 2010. Dispersal of the exotic Brachymyrmex patagonicus (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in the United States. Proceedings: Imported Fire Ant Conference |
2010 | Hill, J., Brown, R. L. 2010. The ant (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) fauna of Black Belt prairie remnants in Alabama and Mississippi. Southeastern Naturalist 9(1):73–84. |
2010 | MacGown, J. A., Hill, J. G. 2010. Two new exotic pest ants, Pseudomyrmex gracilis and Monomorium floricola (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) collected in Mississippi. Midsouth Entomol 3:106–109. |
2009 | MacGown, J. A., Hill, J. G., Deyrup, M., others, . 2009. Ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of the little Ohoopee River Dunes, Emanuel County, Georgia. Journal of Entomological Science 44(3):193–197. |
2009 | Hill, J., Stone, W. D., Seltzer, J. L. 2009. Description of an Upland Oak-Hickory Forest in the Black Belt from Osborn Prairie, Oktibbeha County, Mississippi. Volume 54 April-July 2009 Number 2 54(2):157. |
2009 | Hill, J., 2009. First report of the eastern ant cricket, Myrmecophilus pergandei Bruner,(Orthoptera: Mymecophilidae), collected from an imported fire ant colony, Solenopsis invicta$$ richteri (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Journal of Orthoptera Research 18(1):57–58. |
2009 | MacGown, J. A., Hill, J. G. 2009. Tapinoma melanocephalum (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), a new exotic ant in Mississippi. Miss. Acad. Sci 54:172–174. |
2009 | Hill, J., 2009. The grasshopper (Orthoptera: Acrididae) fauna of sand dunes along the Little Ohoopee River, Emanuel County, Georgia, USA. Journal of Orthoptera Research 18(1):29–35. |
2008 | Hill, J., Summerville, K. S., Brown, R. L. 2008. Habitat associations of ant species (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in a heterogeneous Mississippi landscape. Environmental Entomology 37(2):453–463. |
2008 | Hill, J., 2008. New State Record And Northern Range Extension Of Sticthippus californicus (Scudder)(Orthoptera: Acrididae) From Oregon, USA. Entomological News 119(3):298–298. |
2008 | MacGown, J. A., Hill, J. G., Majure, L. C., Seltzer, J. L. 2008. Rediscovery of Pogonomyrmex badius (Latreille)(Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in mainland Mississippi, with an analysis of associated seeds and vegetation. Midsouth Entomologist 1(1):17–28. |
2007 | Hill, J., Seltzer, J. 2007. A note on additional plants found at Sixteenth Section (Osborn) Prairie. Journal of the Mississippi Academy of Sciences 52:295–96. |
2007 | MacGown, J. A., Hill, J. G., Deyrup, M. A. 2007. Brachymyrmex patagonicus (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), an emerging pest species in the southeastern United States. Florida Entomologist 90(3):457–464. |
2007 | MacGown, J. A., Brown, R. L., Hill, J. G., Layton, M. B. 2007. Carpenter ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Camponotus) of Mississippi. Mississippi Agricultural and Forestry Experiment Station Technical Bulletin 1158:28. |
2007 | Barone, J. A., Hill, J. 2007. Herbaceous flora of blackland prairie remnants in Mississippi and western Alabama. Castanea 72(4):226–234. |
2007 | Hill, J., 2007. The grasshopper (Orthoptera: Romaleidae: Acrididae) fauna of Black Belt Prairie remnants in Alabama and Mississippi. Journal of Orthoptera Research 16(2):139–144. |
2007 | Hill, J., 2007. The Grasshoppers (Orthoptera: Acrididae) of the Bibb County Glades, Alabama. |
2006 | Hill, J., 2006. Field observations of Pheidole pilifera (Roger) and Paratrechina arenivaga (Wheeler)(Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in a Black Belt Prairie remnant in Mississippi. Journal of the Mississippi Academy of Sciences 51:183–186. |
2006 | Hill, J., 2006. First report of the exotic ant, Pheidole obscurithorax Naves (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), attacking a hatchling chicken. Journal of entomological science |
2006 | Hill, J., Brown, B. V. 2006. New records of the rarely collected ant-decapitating fly Apocephalus tenuipes Borgmeier (Diptera: Phoridae). Southeastern Naturalist 5(2):367–368. |
2006 | MacGown, J. A. 2006. The Eastern Ant Cricket, Myrmecophilus Pergandei Bruner (Orthoptera: Myrmecophilidae), Reported From Mississippi, USA. 177 Corrections to Denitrification Measurements in Och and Milburn (2003), with Revised View of the Importance of Denitrification to N-Loss from Agricultural Soils of the Mississippi Delta-Clifford 51(3):180. |
2006 | Hill, J., 2006. The First Record of the Green Stinkbug Chlorochroa persimilis Horvath (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae) from Alabama. Marginelia Insecta 1:2. |
2005 | Hill, J., 2005. A study of envrionmental variables affecting ant (Formicidae) community compostion in Mississippi’s blackland prairie and flatwoods regions. The 2005 ESA Annual Meeting and Exhibition |
2005 | MacGown, J. A., Brown, R. L., Hill, J. G. 2005. An annotated list of the Pyramica (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Dacetini) of Mississippi. Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society 78(3):285–289. |
2005 | Hill, J., 2005. Disjunct distributions of Pseudopomala brachyptera and Campylacantha olivacea (Orthoptera: Acrididae) in the Blackland Prairies of Mississippi, USA. Entomological news 116(3):127. |
2005 | MacGown, J., Brown, R. L., Hill, J. 2005. JOURNAL or THE KANSAS ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY 78 (3), 2005, Pp-285—289 An Annotated List of the Pyramica (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Dacetini) of Mississippi. |
2005 | Hill, J., Brown, R. 2005. The first record of the genus Polyergus (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in Mississippi. Journal of the Mississippi Academy of Sciences 5:120. |
2004 | Hill, J., 2004. A note on a continuing Black Belt prairie restoration effort at Noxubee National Wildlife Refuge. Journal of the Mississippi Academy of Sciences 49:225–226. |
Extension Publications
Year | Publications |
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2021 | MacGown, J. A., Brown, R. L., Hill, J. 2021. Exotic Ants of Mississippi. Mississippi State Agricultural and Forestry Experiment Station |
Graduate Students
- Phillip Barlow
- Zach Brown
- Brady Dunaway
Awards & Honors
- Diversity award
Mississippi State University College of Ag and Life Science - Research Associate of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University
Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University - 1st place Ph.D. student Poster
Mississippi Entomologica Association - Mississippi Entomological Association Scholarship
Mississippi Entomologica Association - Excellence in Research Award
Mississippi State University - Merritt Lyndon Fernald Award
New England Botanical Club - Pat and Linda Harris Scholarship
Mississippi Entomologica Association - Outstanding Book
Mississippi Chapter of the Wildlife Society - Pat and Linda Harris Scholarship
Mississippi Entomologica Association
Society Memberships
- International Betta Congress
- Mississippi Entomological Association
- Mississippi Farm Bureau
- Mississippi Native Plant Society
- The American Entomological Society
- The Entomological Society of America
- The Orthopterists' Society