Sunday, December 9, 2007: 8:00 AM-12:00 PM

Royal Palm Salon Two, Royal Palm Ballroom, First Floor (Town & Country)

Symposium: Current Advances in Acarology 2007

Organizer(s): James Amrine, jamrine@wvu.edu
Ronald Ochoa, ron.ochoa@ars.usda.gov
8:00 AM Introductory Remarks
8:05 AM0025Overwintering diapause of Neoseiulus womersleyi and enhanced survival using artificial materials in a Korean apple orchard
Chuleui Jung, cjung@andong.ac.kr, Mitsuhiro Kawashima
8:17 AM 0026Neotropical eriophyid mites (Prostigmata: Eriophyoidea) on eucalyptus (Myrtaceae)
Carlos Flechtmann
8:29 AM0027Biology and management of eriophyid mites on Washington State grapevines
Deborah Brooks, brooks1@wsu.edu, David James, david_james@wsu.edu, Victor Reyna, vreyna@wsu.edu
8:41 AM0028Occurrence and seasonality of oribatid mites from sheep pasture soil on the island of St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands
Eric Panitz, Raina Dodson, Robert W. Godfrey
8:53 AM0029Revision of the Heterozerconidae
Hans Klompen, klompen.1@osu.edu, Beverly S. Gerdeman, mitehunter1@hotmail.com
9:05 AM0030Aspects of functional morphology in mites: Cheliceral adaptations to different trophic activities
Giorgio Nuzzaci, nuzzaci@agr.uniba.it, Enrico De Lillo, delillo@agr.uniba.it, Antonella Di Palma
9:17 AM0031Impacts of disturbance on soil-dwelling microarthropod communities and entomopathogenic nematodes in winter wheat in Oklahoma
Trisha Dubie, trishd@okstate.edu, CM. Greenwood, carmen.greenwood@okstate.edu
9:29 AM0032Cospeciation between parasitic nasal mites in the Ptilonyssus "sairae" complex (Acari: Rhinonyssidae) and their sparrow and warbler hosts
Anthea Carmichael, antheac@sfsu.edu, Greg S. Spicer
9:41 AM0033Cospeciation between parasitic quill mites (Acari: Syringophilidae) and their passerine hosts
Maureen E. Flannery, mflannery@calacademy.org, Greg S. Spicer
9:53 AM0034Locustacarus trachealis, Podapolipus berlesei and Podapolipoides eickworti (Acari: Podapolipidae) from a single Schistocerca nitens (Orthoptera: Acrididae) from San Luis Obispo, California
Robert Husband, Husbandadrian@aol.com
10:05 AM Break
10:15 AM 0035Devolution of parasitism in house dust mites (Acari: Pyroglyphidae): Evidence from multiple genes
Pavel B. Klimov, Barry OConnor, bmoc@umich.edu
10:27 AM0036Do mites phoretic on elm bark beetles contribute to the transmission of Dutch elm disease?
Stacy R. Blomquist, John C. Moser, jmoser@fs.fed.us, Thomas Kirisits, kirisits@edv1.boku.ac.at, Heino Konrad, hkonrad@boku.ac.at
10:39 AM0037Ticks, maggots, and all that jazz: Ectoparasite surveillance from 1986-2006
H Joel Hutcheson, HJoel.Hutcheson@aphis.usda.gov, James W. Mertins, James.W.Mertins@aphis.usda.gov, Jeffery T. Alfred, Jeffery.T.Alfred@aphis.usda.gov, Jack L. Schlater, Jack.L.Schlater@aphis.usda.gov
10:51 AM0038New controls for Varroa mites, Varroa destructor Anderson and Trueman 2000, in honey bee hives
Diana Sammataro, dsammataro@tucson.ars.ag.gov
11:03 AM0039Controlling varroa mites, Varroa destructor (Mesostigmata: Varroidae), in Florida honeybee hives with 50% formic acid fumigation: A new paperpad technique
James Amrine, jamrine@wvu.edu, Robert C. Noel, rcnoel@atlanticbb.net, David Webb, webbshoney@msn.com
11:15 AM 0040Current status on Raoiella indica Hirst in the New World
Cal Welbourn, welbouc@doacs.state.fl.us, Amy L. Roda, amy.l.roda@aphis.usda.gov, Ronald Ochoa, rochoa@sel.barc.usda.gov
11:27 AM 0041The family Tenuipalpidae in Australia
Jenny Beard, jenny.beard@aqis.gov.au
11:39 AM0042Survey of ectoparasites of the Nile rat Arvicanthis niloticus in Sudan
Dina Mustafa Fagir, d_fagir@hotmail.com
11:51 AMSelection on the Foraging Ability of the Predatory Mite, Phytoseiulus persimilis
Punya Nachappa, pn16@ksu.edu, David C. Margolies, dmargoli@ksu.edu, James Nechols, jnechols@ksu.edu
12:03 PM0043Concluding remarks

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