侯茂林，男，1968年1月出生，湖南安仁人，水稻害虫生态学与综合治理专家。现任中国农业科学院植物保护研究所研究员、博士生导师。
1989年获湖南农学院植物保护专业学士学位，1994年获中国科学院沈阳应用生态研究所生态学专业硕士学位，1998年获中国科学院动物研究所生态学专业博士学位。1998年至今，先后在中国农业科学院生物防治研究所、农业环境与可持续发展研究所、植物保护研究所工作，期间2001年-2003年在日本筑波大学从事博士后研究，2010年任植物保护研究所研究员。
侯茂林自2007年以来从事水稻害虫生态学和综合治理研究。先后主持国家自然科学基金项目、国家重点基础研究计划课题、欧盟援助国际合作项目等多项重大课题、参加国家科技支撑计划、农业行业科研专项、国家重点研发计划等多个课题。在二化螟抗寒性、褐飞虱对气候变化的适应性、硅介导的水稻抗虫性、白背飞虱对SRBSDV的传毒行为、以赤眼蜂为主的水稻害虫综合治理等方面取得比较重要的进展。获授权专利3项，在Journal of Economic Entomology、Environmental Entomology、Scientific Reports、PloS One、Climatic Change、Biocontrol、生态学报、昆虫学报、植物保护等国内外刊物发表论文130篇，出版专著1部。
通讯地址：北京市圆明园西路2号，中国农业科学院植物保护研究所，邮编100193；电话: 010-6281-8641, **；邮箱: mlhou@ippcaas.cn, maolinhou_ipp@163.com。
近期作为通讯作者和第一作者发表的代表性论文
1.Lang Yang, Pei Li, Fei Li, Shahbaz Ali, Xiaoqin Sun, and Maolin Hou*. 2018. Silicon amendment to rice plants contributes to reduced feeding in a phloem-sucking insect through modulation of callose deposition. Ecology and Evolution, 8: 631-637.
2.Lei Guo, Xiaoguo Jiao, Kai Song, Dirk Babendreier, Feng Zhang, and Maolin Hou*. 2017. Thermal resistance of potential Trichogramma strains for mass production and paddy field release in the Greater Mekong Subregion. Biocontrol, 62: 731-740.
3.Lang Yang, Yongqiang Han, Pei Li, Fei Li, Shahbaz Ali, and Maolin Hou*. 2017. Silicon amendment is involved in the induction of plant defense responses to a phloem feeder. Scientific Reports, 7, 4232.
4.Lang Yang, Yongqiang Han, Lizhang Wen, Maolin Hou*. 2017. Silicon amendment to rice plants impairs sucking behaviors and population growth in a phloem feeder Nilaparvata lugens (Hemiptera: Delphacidae). Scientific Reports, 7: 1101.
5.Danfeng Liu, Pei Li, Yongqiang Han, Wenbin Lei, Maolin Hou*. 2016. Low temperature storage of southern rice black-streaked dwarf virus-infected rice plants cannot sustain virus transmission by the vector. Journal of Economic Entomology, 109(1): 57-61.
6.Yongqiang Han, Pei Li, Shaolong Gong, Lang Yang, Lizhang Wen, Maolin Hou*. 2016. Defense responses in rice induced by silicon amendment against infestation by the leaf folder Cnaphalocrocis medinalis. PLoS ONE, 11(4): e**.
7.Wenbin Lei, Pei Li, Yongqiang Han, Shaolong Gong, Maolin Hou*. 2016. EPG recordings reveal differential feeding behavior in the white-backed planthopper that succeeded in inoculation or acquisition of southern rice black-streaked dwarf virus in contrast to those that failed. Scientific Reports, 6: 30240.
8.Pei Li, Fei Li, Yongqiang Han, Lang Yang, Xiaolan Liao*, and Maolin Hou*. 2016. Asymmetric spread of SRBSDV between rice and corn plants by the vector Sogatella furcifera (Hemiptera: Delphacidae). PLoS ONE, 2016, 11(10): e**.
9.Yongqiang Han, Wenbin Lei, Maolin Hou*. Lizhang Wen*. 2015. Silicon-mediated resistance in a susceptible rice variety to the rice leaf folder, Cnaphalocrocis medinalis Guenée (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae). PLoS ONE, 10(4): e**.
10.Chaoxing Hu, Maolin Hou*, Guoshu Wei, Baokun Shi, Jianli Huang. 2015. Potential overwintering boundary and voltinism changes in the brown planthopper, Nilaparvata lugens, in China in response to global warming. Climatic Change, 132(2): 337-352.
11.Ko Ko, Yudi Liu, Maolin Hou*, Dirk Babendreier, Feng Zhang, Kai Song. 2015. Toxicity of insecticides targeting rice planthoppers to adult and immature stages of Trichogramma chilonis. Journal of Economic Entomology, 108(1): 69-76.
12.Yudi Liu, Lanzhi Han, Maolin Hou*. 2015. Loss of genetic variation in laboratory colonies of Chilo suppressalis revealed by mitchondrial and microsatellite DNA markers. Environmental Entomology, 44(1): 73-80.
13.Ko Ko, Yudi Liu, Maolin Hou*, Dirk Babendreier, Feng Zhang, Kai Song. 2014. Evaluation for potential Trichogramma (Hymenoptera: Trichogrammatidae) strains for control of the striped stem borer (Lepidoptera: Crambidae) in the Greater Mekong Subregion. Journal of Economic Entomology, 107(3): 955-963.
14.Wenbin Lei, Danfeng Liu, Pei Li, Maolin Hou*. 2014. Interactive effects of southern rice black-streaked dwarf virus infection of host plant and vector on performance of the vector, Sogatella furcifera (Homoptera: Delphacidae). Journal of Economic Entomology, 107(5): 1721-1727.
15.Baokun Shi, Jianli Huang, Chaoxing Hu, Maolin Hou*. 2014. Interactive effects of elevated CO2 and temperature on rice planthopper, Nilaparvata lugens. Journal of Integrative Agriculture, 13(7): 1520-1529.
16.Ying Long, Chaoxing Hu, Baokun Shi, Xiao Yang, and Maolin Hou*. 2012. Effects of temperature on mate-location in the brown planthopper, Nilaparvata lugens (Homoptera: Delphacidae). Environmental Entomology, 2012, 41(5): 1231-1238.
17.Lanzhi Han, Shengbing Li, Yufa Peng, Maolin Hou*. 2012. New artificial diet for continuous rearing of Chilo suppressalis (Lepidoptera: Crambidae). Annals of Entomological Society of America, 105(2): 253-258.
18.Maolin Hou*, Yongqiang Han. 2010. Si-mediated rice plant resistance to the Asiatic rice borer: effects of silicon amendment and rice varietal resistance. Journal of Economic Entomology, 103(4): 1412-1419.
19.Maolin Hou*, Lixia Hao, Yongqiang Han. 2010. Host status of wheat and corn for the Asiatic rice borer (Lepidoptera: Crambidae). Environmental Entomology, 39(6): 1929-1935.
20.Maolin Hou*, Wei Lin, Yongqiang Han. 2009. Seasonal changes in supercooling points and glycerol content in overwintering larvae of the Asiatic rice borer from rice and water-oat plants. Environmental Entomology, 38(4): 1182-1188.