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Monday, November 17, 2008: 8:30 AM-12:00 PM |
Room A12, First Floor (Reno-Sparks Convention Center) |
Student Competition for the President's Prize, Section P-IE10. Plant-Insect Ecosystems |
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| Moderator(s): | Emily Coll
Theresa Pitts-Singer
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| 8:30 AM | | | | Introductory Remarks |
| 8:35 AM | | 0381 | | Evidence for pollen as a route of virus transmission in the pollinator community
Rajwinder Singh, Abby Kalkstein, Diana Cox-Foster, Edwin Rajotte, Nancy Ostiguy, Dennis VanEngelsdorp, Edward C. Holmes, Claude dePamphilis, Rick Donovall |
| 8:47 AM |  | 0382 | | The use of hen egg white lysozyme to control chalkbrood disease in honey bee colonies
Amanda Van Haga, B. Andrew Keddie, Stephen F. Pernal |
| 8:59 AM | | 0383 | | Reproductive parameters of citrus mealybug, Planococcus citri (Risso)
Rebeccah A. Waterworth, Jocelyn G. Millar, J. Steven McElfresh, Ian M. Wright |
| 9:11 AM | | 0384 | | Persistent and reticent foraging strategies: Energy optimization in honey bee (Apis mellifera) nectar foraging
Byron N. Van Nest, Darrell Moore |
| 9:23 AM | | 0385 | | The foraging behavior of a native pollinator, Bombus vosnesenskii (Radoszkowski) (Hymenoptera: Apidae), in flowering red clover
Kimberly Skyrm, Sujaya Rao, William Stephen |
| 9:35 AM | | | | Break |
| 9:47 AM | | 0386 | | Sublethal effects of imidacloprid and amitraz on Apis mellifera Linnaeus (Hymenoptera: Apidae) larval development and larval susceptibility to Varroa destructor Anderson & Trueman (Mesostigmata: Varroidae)
Tricia Toth |
| 9:59 AM | | 0387 | | Controlling Varora destructor in honey bee (Apis mellifera) colonies with limited acaricide application
Holly Wantuch, David R. Tarpy |
| 10:11 AM | | 0388 | | Mapping sleep behavior in a society of insects: Spatial and temporal analysis of worker honey bee sleep
Barrett Anthony Klein, Martin Stiegler, Arno Klein, Jürgen Tautz |
| 10:23 AM | | 0389 | | Optic flow misdirection experiments provide strong evidence for referential communication in a stingless bee (Melipona panamica)
Megan A. Eckles, James Nieh |
| 10:35 AM | | 0390 | | The effects of temperature on the developmental rates of black soldier flies
Leslie Holmes, Sherah VanLaerhoven |
