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Monday, December 10, 2007: 8:00 AM-12:00 PM |
Pacific Salon Seven, Golden Pacific Ballroom, Second Floor (Town & Country) |
C, Session Ce and Cf. Insect Pathology, Microbial Control, and Quantitative Ecology |
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| Organizer(s): | Lawrence A. Lacey
Andrea Bixby
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| 8:00 AM | | | | Introductory Remarks |
| 8:05 AM |  | 0466 | | Suppressing plum curculio (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) larvae and adults with entomopathogenic fungi and nematodes
Renee Pereault |
| 8:17 AM | | 0467 | | Mite species diversity as a functional ecology measure of sustainability in tree fruit
Daniel R. Nortman, Mark E. Whalon |
| 8:29 AM | | 0468 | | Biological control of the Mediterranean fruit fly, Ceratitis capitata (Diptera: Tephritidae): An entomopathogenic bacterial approach
Alfonso Molina, Maciej P. Gazdecki, Antonio Osuna, Susana Vilchez |
| 8:41 AM | | 0469 | | Linking land-use patterns and pest dynamics in field corn
Megan E. O'Rourke, Laura E. Jones |
| 8:53 AM | | 0470 | | The effect of soybean rust fungicides on artificially-induced soybean aphid fungal epizootics
Karrie A. Koch, David W. Ragsdale |
| 9:05 AM | | 0471 | | Fusarium species cause larval mortality of the wheat stem sawfly, Cephus cinctus Norton, in winter wheat
Zhitan Sun, David K. Weaver, William E. Grey, Alan T. Dyer, Wendell L. Morrill |
| 9:17 AM | | 0472 | | Does species sorting occur in spider colonization of old field saplings?
Carol Frost, Chris Buddle |
| 9:29 AM | | 0473 | | Bacterial microbiology of the red imported fire ant, Solenopsis invicta Büren (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), midgut
Freder Medina, Haiwen Li, S. Bradleigh Vinson, Craig J. Coates |
| 9:41 AM | | | | Break |
| 9:53 AM | | 0474 | | Influence of decomposing logs on the spatial distribution of oribatid mite assemblages in the eastern Canadian boreal forest
Andrea D. Déchêne, Christopher M. Buddle |
| 10:05 AM | | 0476 | | LIDAR derived forest metrics used to model red oak borer related oak decline
John J. Riggins, Jason A. Tullis, Fred M. Stephen |
| 10:17 AM | | 0477 | | Identification of two pathways of secondary infection of the baculovirus Lymantria dispar nucleopolyhedrovirus (LdNPV) in larval L. dispar
James McNeil, Diana Cox-Foster, Kelli Hoover |
| 10:29 AM | | 0478 | | Population dynamics of entomopathogenic nematodes and impact on annual bluegrass weevil (Listronotus maculicollis) populations in golf course turfgrass
Benjamin McGraw, Albrecht M. Koppenhöfer |
| 10:41 AM | | 0479 | | Overwintering strategies of two entomopathogenic nematodes, Steinernema scarabaei and Heterorhabditis bacteriophora, relative to changing soil temperature and host vertical distribution
Daniel E. Elmowitz, Albrecht Koppenhöfer |
| 10:53 AM | | 0480 | | Habitat complexity effects on entomopathogenic nematode dispersal
Randa Jabbour, Mary Barbercheck, Alyssa Gendron, Brosi Bradley |
| 11:05 AM | | 0481 | | Determining the effects of entomopathogenic nematodes on early Japanese beetle (Popillia japonica) instar survival
Tara Wood, Donald C. Steinkraus |
