Session: Biological, Social, and Political Challenges of Detection, Quarantine, and Eradication of Insect Invaders (2009 ESA Annual Meeting, December 13-16, 2009)

Biological, Social, and Political Challenges of Detection, Quarantine, and Eradication of Insect Invaders

Tuesday, December 15, 2009: 7:45 AM-11:00 AM

Room 202, Second Floor (Convention Center)

Organizers:

Brian Bret
Victoria Y. Yokoyama

7:45 AM

Introductory Remarks

7:50 AM

Johnny Appleseed was a bioterrorist: consequences of invasive species movement

Ernest Delfosse, Michigan State University

8:10 AM

Medfly terminator–California salvation

Victoria Y. Yokoyama, USDA - ARS

8:30 AM

When science and society collide: Lessons learned from light brown apple moth (LBAM) (Epiphyas postvittana) eradication efforts

Robert Dowell, California Department of Food and Agriculture

8:50 AM

Biological, social-economic, and political challenges of regulating Asian citrus psyllid and other invasive insect vectors of plant pathogens

Susan Halbert, Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services

9:10 AM

9:30 AM

Legal implications and consequences of public spraying

Charley Kirk, Dow AgroSciences

9:50 AM

Gypsy moth (Lymantria dispar) ‘Slow The Spread’–an interregional approach to managing invasive species

Donna Leonard, USDA Forest Service

10:10 AM

Imported fire ants: an eradication and quarantine biography of the last 75 years

Ronald D. Weeks, USDA-APHIS

10:30 AM

A tale of two cities: eradication of Asian longhorned beetle (Anoplophora glabripennis)

Christine Markham, USDA-APHIS-PPQ

10:50 AM

Concluding Remarks

10:55 AM

Business Meeting - Society for Regulatory Plant Protection Network

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