We are broadly interested in understanding agricultural sustainability and how to farm with nature. Much of our research focuses on how historical ecological, evolutionary, and anthropogenic changes have facilitated insect pest outbreaks in agricultural systems. By contrasting the ecology of insects in their native systems with our current agricultural systems, we can start understanding how changes to the landscape, agroecosystems, crop plants, and the insects themselves have led to pest outbreaks. Humans have strongly influenced insect pest evolution and ecology through host shifts, crop domestication, change in cultivation practices, and human-mediated translocations. Our research studies these themes to determine how we can use ecological and evolutionary information to improve sustainable pest management.