Riley Harding is a lab manager in the vegetable entomology lab at Cornell AgriTech that focuses on the biology and ecology of the main pests of vegetable crops in New York State. She received her B.S. in Biochemistry from the University of Vermont in 2014. Since then she has travelled to Ireland twice as a WWOOFer (world-wide opportunities on organic farms) and worked on a few farms in NYS where she honed both cultivation and horticultural skills. Currently she assists in the development and application of numerous field trials evaluating several control tactics for managing insect pests on the vegetable crops vital to New York State.