Tuesday, December 11, 2001: 1:30 PM-5:45 PM

Pacific Salon 3(Convention Center, Level 1)

Ten-Minute Papers, Subsection Fb. Urban Entomology

Moderator(s): Linda M. Hooper-Bui
Cory E. Campora
1:30 PM0664A dimensionally stable sensor for a continuing monitoring program to detect termite activity
Nan-Yao Su
1:42 PM0665Effective sampling area of a monitoring station for population estimates of Formosan subterranean termites (Isoptera: Rhinotermitidae)
Helena Puche, Nan-Yao Su
1:54 PM0666Field evaluation of dog assisted and human visual inspection for termites in structures
Shawn E. Brooks
2:06 PM0667Risk assessment of construction and maintenance practices to predict subterranean termite infestations
Dina L. Richman, Philip G. Koehler
2:18 PM0668Response of the Formosan subterranean termite (Isoptera: Rhinotermitidae) to wood blocks infested with three types of wood decay fungi
Mary L. Cornelius, Donald J. Daigle, William J. Connick Jr, Kelley S. Williams, Mary Lovisa
2:30 PM0669Population characteristics of the termite Heterotermes aureus in an urban environment
Paul B. Baker, Brian E. Weeks
2:42 PM0670Discovery of a gland producing a contact sex pheromone in the Formosan termite
Yong Ihl Park, Ashok Raina, John Bland
2:54 PM0671Spatial distribution and colony density of subterranean termite colonies in Texas and Oklahoma
Thomas H. Atkinson
3:06 PM0672A comparison of tunneling by the Formosan subterranean termite in the field and laboratory
Cory E. Campora, J. Kenneth Grace
3:18 PM0673The presence of Wolbachia and microsporida in association with eastern subterranean termites
Ryan Jerry Aylsworth
3:30 PM0674New feeding stimulants for subterranean termites
Elisa Bernklau, L.B. Bjostad, David James
3:42 PMBreak
3:54 PM0675Subterranean termite gene flow defined with multi-locus DNA fingerprints and mitochondrial sequence
Tracie M. Jenkins, Brian T. Forschler
4:06 PM0676Bait, spray and combination treatments for managing odorous house ants around structures
Karen M. Vail
4:18 PM0677Food consumption in Argentine ants, fire ants, and Brachymyrmex sp
Linda M. Hooper-Bùi, Christina Leonard
4:30 PM0678Food preferences and foraging activity of the odorous house ant, Tapinoma sessile Say, (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)
Laura Elise Barbani, Richard Fell
4:42 PM0679Laboratory and field studies using liquid toxicants for red imported fire ants
Les Greenberg, Mike Rust
4:54 PM0680Low and high rates of bifenthrin applied to large and small-scale plots to reduce large infestations of Argentine ants in northwestern Louisiana
Heather M. Whitney, Linda M. Hooper-Bui
5:06 PM0681Bifenthrin and fipronil: Repellent to Argentine and fire ants?
Randi Hodges, Hooper-Bui Linda M.
5:18 PM0682The effects of commercial bait preference and placement on pharaoh ant control
Dean J. Brad, Gary W. Bennett, Jonathan Neal, Daniel R. Suiter
5:30 PM0683Assimilation and toxicity of boron in the Argentine ant
John H. Klotz, Chris Amrhein, Steven McDaniel, Michael K. Rust, Donald A. Reierson

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