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Monday, November 17, 2008: 8:30 AM-12:00 PM |
Room A11, First Floor (Reno-Sparks Convention Center) |
Student Competition for the President's Prize, Section P-IE8. Plant-Insect Ecosystems |
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| Moderator(s): | Karla M. Addesso
Brian T. Sullivan
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| 8:30 AM | | | | Introductory Remarks |
| 8:47 AM |  | 0468 | | Interspecific interactions among two foundation bark beetles
Thomas Seth Davis, Richard Hofstetter |
| 8:59 AM | | 0469 | | Optimization of protein marking and detection system for the study of intercrop movement behavior of Lygus hesperus (Knight)
Ram B. Shrestha, Megha N. Parajulee, Stanley Carroll |
| 9:11 AM | | 0470 | | Do turfgrass species influence oviposition site preference in Japanese beetles (Popillia japonica Newman)?
Tara Wood, D. C. Steinkraus, Daniel A. Potter |
| 9:23 AM | | 0471 | | Don't like your neighbours? Move!: Evidence of reduced natural enemy assemblages for mountain pine beetle that colonize spruce vs. pine
Fraser R. McKee, Brian H. Aukema |
| 9:35 AM | | 0472 | | Characterizing the settling behavior of T. tabaci (Thysanoptera: Thripidae) on onion foliage
Anitha Chitturi, David G. Riley |
| 9:47 AM | | | | Break |
| 9:59 AM | | 0473 | | Odor discrimination in two conditioned solitary bees, Osmia lignaria and Megachile rotundata (Apidae: Megachilidae)
Cory A. Vorel, Theresa Pitts-Singer |
| 10:11 AM | | 0474 | | Resource competition between two forensically important blow fly species (Diptera: Calliphoridae)
Jennifer Y Rosati, Sherah L. VanLaerhoven |
| 10:23 AM | | 0475 | | Aphid protection by a native and exotic ant
B. E. Powell, Jules Silverman |
| 10:35 AM | | 0476 | | Male-produced aggregation pheromone of the cerambycid beetle Rosalia funebris
Ann M. Ray, Ian P. Swift, J. Steven McElfresh, James D. Barbour, Jocelyn G. Millar, Lawrence M. Hanks |
| 10:47 AM | | 0477 | | Seasonal variation in males' response to female sex pheromone in the olive fruit fly, Bactrocera oleae (Gmel.) (Diptera: Tephritidae) in northern California
Soledad C. Villamil, Ed Lewis, Frank G. Zalom |
