Session: Student Competition for the President's Prize, P-IE: Biological Control: I (2009 ESA Annual Meeting, December 13-16, 2009)

Student Competition for the President's Prize, P-IE: Biological Control: I

Monday, December 14, 2009: 8:45 AM-11:00 AM

Room 201, Second Floor (Convention Center)

Moderator:

Mark Boetel

8:45 AM

Introductory Remarks

8:50 AM

Do facultative symbionts influence the outcome of superparasitism in a solitary endoparasitoid?

Jason A. Wulff, University of Kentucky ; Jen A. White, University of Kentucky

9:02 AM

Tritrophic interactions of a baculovirus and a grass endophyte associated with biological control of the black cutworm (Agrotis ipsilon)

Andrea J. Bixby, University of Kentucky ; Daniel A. Potter, University of Kentucky

9:14 AM

European earwig (Forficula auricularia) as a host for the entomopathogenic nematode Steinernema carposcapsae

Amanda K. Hodson, University of Califonia-Davis ; Edwin E. Lewis, University of California-Davis ; Joel Siegel, USDA - ARS

9:26 AM

Parasitoids of blueberry gall midge (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae) in Florida blueberries and potential for biological control

Craig R. Roubos, University of Florida ; Oscar E. Liburd, University of Florida

9:38 AM

Impact of a generalist predator, the spined soldier bug Podisus maculiventris (Heteroptera: Pentatomidae) on tomato induced defenses

Hélčne Marie Madeleine Quaghebeur, Pennsylvania State University ; Gary W. Felton, Pennsylvania State University

9:50 AM

10:00 AM

Native perennial conservation strips to enhance natural biological contol in Michigan blueberries

Nathaniel J. Walton, Michigan State University ; Rufus Isaacs, Michigan State University

10:12 AM

Using Steinernema carpocapsae (Nematoda: Steinernematidae) in laboratory studies for control of the larger black flour beetle, Cynaeus angustus (Coleoptera: Tenbrionidae)

Bryan C. Stokes, Texas Agricultural Experiment Station ; Terry Wheeler, Texas Agricultural Experiment Station ; Christian Nansen, Texas Agricultural Experiment Station ; Pat Porter, Texas Cooperative Extension, TAMU Ag Research & Extension Center

10:24 AM

Multi-state comparison of aphid and aphid natural enemy community compositions in prairies

Wayne J. Ohnesorg, University of Nebraska-Lincoln ; Thelma Heidel, University of Minnesota ; Matthew E. O'Neal, Iowa State University ; Claudio Gratton, University of Wisconsin ; Cory Straub, University of Wisconsin ; Clifford S. Sadof, Purdue University ; Robert J. O'Neil, Purdue University

10:36 AM

Rate of lateral movement of entomopathogenic nematodes Heterorhabditis bacteriophora and Steinernema carpocapsae from infected host cadavers in soil

Harit K Bal, The Ohio State University ; Robin R.A.J. Taylor, The Ohio State University ; Parwinder S. Grewal, The Ohio State University

10:48 AM

Concluding Remarks

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