Session: Nutritional Ecology of Social Insects (2010 ESA Annual Meeting (December 12-15, 2010))

Wednesday, December 15, 2010: 9:00 AM-11:45 AM

Windsor (Town and Country Hotel and Convention Center)

Organizers:

David Holway
Micky D. Eubanks
Andrew V. Suarez

9:00 AM

Welcoming Remarks

9:20 AM

1278

Nutritional physiology and nutrient signaling pathways influence worker division of labor in bees and wasps

Amy Toth, Iowa State University

9:40 AM

1279

Effects of carrion on the ecology of social insect scavenging predators

Erin E. Wilson, University of California San Diego ; Elizabeth Wolkovich, University of California San Diego

10:00 AM

1280

Mechanisms of colony level macronutrient regulation in an ant

Spencer T. Behmer, Texas A and M University ; Steven C. Cook, Texas A and M University ; Micky D. Eubanks, Texas A and M University ; Roger Gold, Texas A and M University

10:20 AM

Break

10:40 AM

1281

Escape from competition for extrafloral nectar and honeydew fuels fire ant invasions

Micky Eubanks, Texas A&M University ; Shawn Wilder, Texas A&M University ; Andrew Suarez, University of Illinois ; David A. Holway, University of California San Diego ; Edward G. Le Brun, University of Texas at Austin Department of Integrative Biolog

11:00 AM

1282

The metabolic fuel hypothesis: Connecting nutrient balance to competitive performance in ants

Adam Davidson Kay, University of St. Thomas

11:20 AM

1283

Toward a link between geochemistry and the geography of social insect populations

Michael Kaspari, University of Oklahoma

11:40 AM

Concluding Remarks

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