Diane Silcox Reynolds attended North Carolina State University for her Master’s and PhD with a concentration in turfgrass entomology where her projects included mole cricket behavioral response to synthetic insecticides and biology and ecology of the hunting billbug, respectively. She was a postdoctoral research associate at Texas A&M in the Center for Urban and Structural Entomology. She currently works for ADAMA as innovation technical leader for insecticides.