Session: Graduate Student Ten-Minute Paper Competition, P-IE: Forest Entomology & Invasive Species Management (2010 ESA Annual Meeting (December 12-15, 2010))

Monday, December 13, 2010: 8:50 AM-11:50 AM

Royal Palm, Salon 5 (Town and Country Hotel and Convention Center)

Moderator:

David G. Hall

8:50 AM

8:55 AM

Insect and disease response to prescribed burning, harvesting and wildfire in pine forests in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan

Rita M. Koch, Michigan Technological University ; Linda M. Haugen, USDA Forest Service ; Linda M. Nagel, Michigan Technological University ; Michael E. Ostry, USDA Forest Service ; Andrew J. Storer, Michigan Technological University

9:07 AM

0401

Utilization of a nutritionally refractive food source by the European woodwasp, Sirex noctilio, and its microbial symbiont community

Brian M Thompson, University of Maryland ; Bo Liu, University of Maryland ; Robert J. Grebenok, Canisius College ; Sandra M Adams, Univeristy of WI ; Garret Suen, University of Wisconsin ; Elmer Haapala, University of Maryland ; Cameron Currie, University of Wisconsin ; Daniel Gruner, University of Maryland

9:19 AM

0402

Kick ‘em while they’re down: Do secondary bark beetles kill residual pines left by epidemic mountain pine beetle Dendroctonus ponderosae (Hopkins) in interior British Columbia?

Ewing Teen, University of Northern British Columbia ; Allan L. Carroll, University of British Columbia ; Brian H. Aukema, University of Minnesota

9:31 AM

0403

Response of mountain pine beetle (Dendroctonus ponderosae) populations to fire-injured lodgepole (Pinus contorta) and ponderosa (P. ponderosa) pines: Implications to disturbance interactions and bark beetle outbreaks

Andrew Lerch, University of Wisconsin ; Barbara J. Bentz, USDA - Forest Service ; Darren Blackford, USDA - Forest Service ; Kenneth F. Raffa, University of Wisconsin

9:43 AM

0404

Primary or secondary bark beetle? Behavior of endemic level populations of mountain pine beetle Dendroctonus ponderosae (Hopkins)

Jordan M. Koopmans, University of Northern British Columbia ; Allan L. Carroll, University of British Columbia ; Brian H. Aukema, University of Minnesota

9:55 AM

0405

The acoustic ecology of bark beetles

Kasey Maria Yturralde, Northern Arizona University ; Richard Hofstetter, Northern Arizona University

10:07 AM

0406

The heritability of size and its effect on fecundity in two bark beetle species, Dendroctonus brevicomis and Ips pini (Coleoptera: Curculionidae)

Christopher Jon Foelker, Northern Arizona University ; Richard Hofstetter, Northern Arizona University ; Thomas Seth Davis, Northern Arizona University

10:19 AM

Break

10:31 AM

0407

The biology of southern pine beetle (Dendroctonous frontalis Zimmerman) in the non-traditional host species white pine (Pinus strobes)

Micah J. Gardner, North Carolina State University

10:43 AM

0408

Attraction of an eruptive herbivore, mountain pine beetle, to lodgepole pine vs. interior hybrid spruce as a function of insect population density and host availability

Fraser R. McKee, University of Minnesota ; Brian H. Aukema, University of Minnesota

10:55 AM

0409

Development time and survivorship of Deladenus siricidicola (Tylenchida: Neotylenchidae) on different strains of Amylostereum areolatum (Russulales: Stereaceae)

E. Erin Morris, Cornell University ; Ann E. Hajek, Cornell University ; Alexandra Jimenez, Cornell University

11:07 AM

0410

A facilitated introduction? A new specialist herbivore on Chinese tallow

Rebecca F. Hazen, Tulane University ; Jianqing Ding, Invasion Ecology and Biocontrol Lab, Wuhan Botanical Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences ; Mark S. Fox, Tulane University

11:19 AM

0411

Role of host plant and oral bacteria in the gypsy moth’s interaction with hybrid poplar

Charles Mason, University of Wisconsin-Madison ; Kenneth F. Raffa, University of Wisconsin

11:31 AM

0413

Methyl jasmonate as a tool to investigate induced responses of ash to the emerald ash borer

Justin Whitehill, The Ohio State University ; Don Cipollini, Wright State University ; Jennifer Koch, USDA - Forest Service ; Daniel A. Herms, The Ohio State University, OARDC ; Pierluigi Bonello, The Ohio State University

11:43 AM

Concluding Remarks

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