Monday, December 10, 2001: 1:00 PM-3:45 PM

Town and Country Room(Convention Center, Level 1)

Student Competition Ten-Minute Papers, Subsection Cd1. Behavior and Ecology

Moderator(s): David Onstad
Robert M. Nowierski
1:00 PM0355Habitat conservation planning: Using beetles as a surrogate measure of biodiversity
Matthew E. Rahn, James Diffendorfer, Robert Fisher, Douglas Deutschman
1:12 PM0356Genetic variation for oviposition site preference in Drosophila melanogaster
Melanie L. Bateman, T. F. C. Mackay
1:24 PM0357Host plant adaptation in pea aphid: Associations with bacterial endosymbionts?
Teresa E. Leonardo
1:36 PM0358Orientation behavior of two species of Culex mosquitoes while approaching traps
Miriam F. Cooperband
1:48 PM0359Semiochemical-based host selection among four coniferophagous tree-killing bark beetles (Coleoptera: Scolytidae). How different do the trees smell?
Deepa S. Pureswaran, Regine Gries, John H. Borden
2:00 PM0360Visual and olfactory stimuli affecting the response of cherry fruit flies (Diptera: Tephritidae) in commercial cherry orchards in Michigan
Jessica Lynn Kostarides, Oscar E. Liburd
2:12 PMBreak
2:24 PM0361Paper Withdrawn
2:36 PM0362Diurnal distribution of an apex-inhabiting predatory mite within cassava plants
Alexis Onzo, Rachid Hanna, Maurice W. Sabelis, John S. Yaninek
2:48 PM0363Indirect commensalism: Corn rootworm infestation decreases parasitism of European corn borer by a specialist parasitoid
Jennifer A. White, David Andow
3:00 PM0364Fine tuning time of death using successional patterns of neglected insects
Erin Jean Watson, Chris Carlton
3:12 PM0365Egg load dynamics of Eretmocerus eremicus, a whitefly parasitoid
Mark Kenneth Asplen
3:24 PM0366Life history variation in the alderfly, Sialis velata (Megaloptera: Sialidae), in subtropical central Texas: Effects of lentic and lotic conditions
Jason L. Locklin, Thomas L. Arsuffi

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