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Monday, November 17, 2008: 8:30 AM-12:00 PM |
Room A9, First Floor (Reno-Sparks Convention Center) |
Student Competition for the President's Prize, Section P-IE2. Plant-Insect Ecosystems |
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| Moderator(s): | Ted Cottrell
Douglas S. Richmond
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| 8:30 AM | | | | Introductory Remarks |
| 8:35 AM |  | 0391 | | The importance of generalist predators (Coleoptera: Carabidae, Staphylinidae) in the management of millipede populations in sweet potato and carrot fields
Adam Brunke, Mark K. Sears, Christine A. Bahlai, Rebecca H. Hallett |
| 8:47 AM | | 0392 | | An assessment of fertility and surfactant treatments on the field efficacy and persistence of the nematode Heterorhabditis bacteriophora
Terri Hoctor, Douglas S. Richmond, Timothy Gibb |
| 8:59 AM | | 0393 | | Effect of entomopathogenic nematodes on soil arthropod diversity in pistachio orchards
Amanda K Hodson, Edwin E. Lewis, Joel Siegel |
| 9:11 AM | | 0394 | | Egg allocation in the tachinid parasitoid Nemorilla pyste in response to different densities of the host Choristoneura rosaceana (Tortricidae)
Nik Wiman, Vince Jones |
| 9:23 AM | | 0395 | | Interaction pathways between Diptera and coccinellid larvae: Evidence from an antibody-based detection system
Susan E. Moser, James D. Harwood, John J. Obrycki |
| 9:35 AM | | 0396 | | Development time and consumption rate of Podisus maculiventris feeding on Microtheca ochroloma
Cecil O. Montemayor, Ronald D. Cave |
| 9:47 AM | | | | Break |
| 9:59 AM | | 0397 | | The shadow of niche partitioning on resource consumption
Tobin D Northfield, Gretchen Beth Snyder, William E Snyder |
| 10:11 AM | | 0398 | | Levels of biological control of Synanthedon pictipes (Lepidoptera: Sesiidae) by hymenopteran parasitoids in commercial, non-commercial and natural settings
Jaime Fuest, Ted Cottrell, Dan L. Horton |
| 10:23 AM | | 0399 | | Liriomyza (Diptera: Agromyzidae) leafminer and parasitoid species composition on pepper and effects by selected insecticides in south Texas
Ricardo Hernandez, Marvin Harris, Tong-Xian Liu |
| 10:35 AM | | 0400 | | Study of the larger black flour beetle Cynaeus angustus (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae) in cotton gin trash
Jacob James, Christian Nansen |
| 10:47 AM | | 0401 | | Flower plantings offset the negative effects of urbanization on beneficial insects
Ashley Bennett, Claudio Gratton |
