Monday, December 10, 2001: 8:00 AM-12:00 PM

Royal Palm Salon 5-6(Convention Center, Level 1)

Ten-Minute Papers, Subsection Cb. Apiculture and Social Insects

Moderator(s): Tim Kring
Robert K. Vander Meer
8:00 AM0241The communal crop: Modulation of sucrose response thresholds of pre-foraging honey bees with incoming nectar quality
Tanya Pankiw, Mindy Nelson, Robert E Page
8:12 AM0242Alternative antibiotics for the control of American foulbrood disease of honey bees
Jan Kochansky, Mark Feldlaufer, Jeffery S. Pettis, David A. Knox
8:24 AM0243Expert system of honey bee diseases
Maryann Fraizer
8:36 AM0244A new sticky board design to count Varroa mites
Nancy Ostiguy, Diana Sammataro
8:48 AM0245Can artificial honey bee swarms be manipulated to increase their house-hunting efficacy?
Richard S. Vetter, P. Kirk Visscher
9:00 AM0246A comparison of volatile compounds produced by African and European queens and queen cells in situ
Gloria DeGrandi-Hoffman, Judith E. Hooper
9:12 AM0247Octopamine and task-related response thresholds in honey bees
Andrew B. Barron, David J. Schultz, Gene E. Robinson
9:24 AM0248Guk's bee-frame and highly economical hive
Dmytro Volodimirovych Guk
9:36 AM0249Why nurse bees do not sleep: Melatonin implicated
Zachary Huang, Ron Lin, Ronglin Yu
9:48 AM0250Honey bee (Apis mellifera L.) pollination of commercial greenhouse tomatoes
Heather A. Higo, Nathan D. Rice, Bob Lewis, Mark L. Winston
10:00 AMBreak
10:12 AM0251What is poor habitat?: Food and foraging environment in a rainforest ant
Terrence P. McGlynn, Megan S. Kelly, Melissa D. Shotell
10:24 AM0252Measures of JH biosynthesis rates and attractant pheromone composition in queens of the fire ant Solenopsis invicta
Colin Brent, Ed Vargo
10:36 AM0253Selecting an ant nestmate recognition assay: Does it matter?
T'ai Roulston, Grzegorz Buczkowski, Jules Silverman
10:48 AM0254Decision rules regarding queen execution in young social insect colonies
Michael Balas
11:00 AM0255Possible incipient speciation in the semi-claustral seed-harvester ant Pogonomyrmex californicus
Robert A. Johnson
11:12 AM0256Dominance hierarchies and reproductive skew in the slavemaking ant Protomognathus americanus (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)
Rumsais Blatrix, Joan Herbers
11:24 AM0257Hierarchical genetic structure in the mound building ant Formica podzolica
C. J. DeHeer, Joan Herbers
11:36 AM0258Red imported fire ant colony movement in dual-choice vertical soil profiles with foraging arena
Janet L. Kintz-Early, Clyde S. Gorsuch
11:48 AM0259Colony and population genetic structure of the primitive termite Mastotermes darwiniensis
Michael Goodisman, Ross Crozier

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