Monday, 18 November 2002: 1:00 PM-5:00 PM

Room 315 (Convention Center, Third Floor)

Student Competition Ten-Minute Papers, Subsection Ce. Insect Pathology and Microbial Control, Cf. Quantitative Ecology

Moderator(s): James F. Campbell
Edwin E. Lewis
1:00 PM0513Trichomycete (Zygomycota) host specificity in larval black flies (Diptera:Simulidae): Death of a paradigm
Mark Nelder, John W. McCreadie
1:12 PM0514Determination of a sample unit and sample time for the Western flower thrips, Frankliniella occidentalis, in garden Impatiens, Impatiens wallerana
Todd A. Ugine, John P. Sanderson, Stephen P. Wraight
1:24 PM0515The difficulties of living in a Colorado potato beetle
Christine Armer, Ralph Berry, Sujaya Rao
1:36 PM0516Presence of Thelohania solenopsae (Microsporida: Thelohaniidae) spores in fire ant secretions: Implications in horizontal transmission
Johnny S. Chen, Karen Snowden, Forrest Mitchell, S. Bradleigh Vinson
1:48 PMBreak
2:00 PM0517Evaluation of some surface active agents for their interactions with Beauveria bassiana against Tribolium castaneum
Waseem Akbar, Jeffrey Lord
2:12 PM0518Apoptosis as an antiviral defense in Spodoptera frugiperda caterpillars
Thomas Clarke, Rollie Clem
2:24 PM0519Growth, development, and survival of Nosema pyrausta-infected European corn borers (Lepidoptera: Crambidae) reared on meridic diet and purified Cry1Ab
Brendon J. Reardon, Rick L. Hellmich, Leslie C. Lewis
2:36 PMPaper Withdrawn

The 2002 ESA Annual Meeting and Exhibition