Dr. J. Megan Woltz
Associate Professor of Biology
Office: WSB 101C
Lab: WSB 101A
Office Phone: (757) 823-8327
Email: jmwoltz@nsu.edu
Brief Biography
Dr J. Megan Woltz received her BS in Environmental Science from North Carolina State University in 2007, and her PhD in Entomology & Ecology from Michigan State University in 2013. While at MSU, she studied landscape effects on predatory insect communities in agroecosystems, with a focus on biological control of invasive soybean aphid. As a post-doctoral researcher at Oregon State University, Dr Woltz studied the biology of spotted wing Drosophila and biocontrol of this invasive pest in fruit crops.
Dr Woltz worked as an Assistant and then Associate Professor at Lindenwood University from 2015 to 2025, before joining Norfolk State University in 2025. Dr Woltz is primarily interested in insect ecology and examines how environmental changes affect insect communities in urban and suburban environments. At Norfolk State University, she is developing projects examining the effects of light pollution and street light characteristics on insect communities and determining benefits of stormwater BMP installations on insect biodiversity.
Detailed CV of Dr. Woltz
Research Interests
Publications
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Albee AJ, JM Woltz, T Kemp*, E Mays*, T Miller*, E Fisher*, A Loutzenhiser*. 2022. “No longer long in the tooth.” A case study with extensive teaching notes in which students explore the gene to protein to phenotype to fitness connection in the context of tuskless African elephants. National Center for Case Study Teaching in Science Case Collection database.
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Woltz, J.M., N. Wiman, and J.C. Lee. 2017. Two pests overlap. Drosophila suzukii (Diptera: Drosophilidae) use of fruit exposed to Halyomorpha halys (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae). Journal of Economic Entomology, 110: 1938-1941.
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Woltz, J.M. and J.C. Lee. 2017. Pupation behavior and larval and pupal biocontrol of Drosophila suzukii in the field. 2017. Biological Control, 110: 62-69.