2008 ESA Annual Meeting, November 16-19, 2008: P-IE10 Ten-Minute Papers, Plant-Insect Ecosystems

P-IE10 Ten-Minute Papers, Plant-Insect Ecosystems

Moderators:
Gaurav Goyal and Mark Sisterson
Oviposition preference of corn-infesting picture wing flies
Gaurav Goyal, University of Florida; Gregg Nuessly, University of Florida; Harsimran Gill, University of Florida
Assessing diet quality in free-ranging grasshoppers by frass N content and respiratory quotient
Dennis Fielding, USDA Agricultural Research Service; Linda DeFoliart, USDA Agricultural Research Service; Ellen Trainor, University of Alaska Fairbanks
Daily and seasonal patterns in abdominal color in Diaphorina citri and relationships with reproductive potential
Erik J. Wenninger, USDA-ARS, Yakima Agricultural Research Laboratory; Lukasz L. Stelinski, University of Florida; David G. Hall, USDA-ARS, U.S. Horticultural Research Laboratory
Sperm precedence on a Bacillus thuringiensis-resistant tobacco budworm colony
Carlos A. Blanco, USDA-ARS; Fred Gould, North Carolina State University; Astrid Groot, Max Plank Institute for Chemical Ecology; Gerardo Hernandez, CINVESTAV; Antonio teran-Vargas, INIFAP; Omaththage P. Perera, USDA-ARS; Craig A. Abel, USDA-ARS-SIMRU
Plasticity of female mating behavior drives competitive exclusion of whitefly biotypes
David W. Crowder, University of Arizona; Michael Sitvarin, University of Arizona; Yves Carriere, University of Arizona
Life tables and laboratory rearing of Nezara viridula (L.) (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae) on two artificial diets
Doug Streett, ARS-USDA National Biological Control Laboratory; Maribel Tortilla, USDA-ARS
Fighting flesh flies: Ontogeny of aggressive behavior in Sarcophaga crassipalpis
Caleb Paquette, East Tennessee State University; Joanna Magner, East Tennessee State University; Edith Seier, East Tennessee State University; Karl H Joplin, East Tennessee State University; Darrell Moore, East Tennessee State University
Investigating diapause and emergence phenotypes in the invasive species, Contarinia nasturtii
Rebecca H. Hallett, University of Guelph; Sheila A. Goodfellow, MGS Pest Management Technologies; Ross M. Weiss, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada; Owen O. Olfert, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
Host-associated encapsulation capacity of macrolepidopteran forest caterpillars
J. Gwen Shlichta, University of Maryland; Pedro Barbosa, University of Maryland
The eubacteria associated with the cabbage aphid (Brevicoryne brassicae): Their community composition and influence on aphid performance
Emily Clark, Scottish Crop Research Institute; Alison Karley, Scottish Crop Research Institute; Stephen Hubbard, University of Dundee at SCRI
Rapid spread of a bacterial symbiont in the sweetpotato whitefly, Bemisia tabaci
Martha S. Hunter, University of Arizona; Tetsuya Adachi, Hiroshima University; Amaranta Kozuch, University of Arizona; Elad Chiel, University of Arizona; Suzanne E. Kelly, University of Arizona; Einat Zchori-fein, Newe-Ya'ar research center, ARO
Costs and benefits of endosymbiont infection in a doubly-infected parasitoid
Jennifer A. White, University of Arizona; Suzanne Kelly, University of Arizona; Steve J. Perlman, University of Victoria; Martha S. Hunter, University of Arizona