Tuesday, December 11, 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, Cc. Insect Vectors in Relation to Plant Disease

Moderator(s): Ed Vargo
Lenny Wells
8:00 AM0522Isolation and evaluation of Metarhizium anisopliae for control of Coptotermes formosanus and Reticulitermes flavipes
Changlu Wang, Janine E. Powell
8:12 AM0523Behavior of reproductive soldiers of dampwood termites in intraspecific interactions
Mario L. Muscedere, Barbara L. Thorne, Nancy L. Breisch
8:24 AM0524Genetic structure and social organization of native and introduced populations of the Formosan subterranean termite
Claudia Husseneder, Ed Vargo, J. Kenneth Grace, Janine E. Powell, David Woodson
8:36 AM0525Colony and population genetic structure of the eastern subterranean termite, Reticulitermes flavipes, in three regions of North Carolina
Ed Vargo
8:48 AM0526Colony and population genetic structure of the subterranean termite, Reticulitermes virginicus, in undisturbed forest habitats of North Carolina
Joanna Carlson, Ed Vargo
9:00 AM0527Social enhancement of immunocompetence in the dampwood termite Zootermopsis angusticollis
Rebeca Rosengaus, James Traniello, Keely Savoie
9:12 AM0528Experimental demonstration of caste totipotency in a large-colony social insect
Joan Strassmann, Barry W. Sullender, David C. Queller
9:24 AM0529Reproductive implications of polygyny in the yellowjacket,Vespula squamosa
Gary N. Fritz, A. J. Deets, S. Stewart
9:36 AM0530mtDNA as a tool to determine the source of the North American population of the European hornet, Vespa crabro
Sean A. Collins, Stewart H. Berlocher
9:48 AMBreak
10:00 AM0531Wasps plan ahead: Size of nest built by Polybia occidentalis swarms determines pre-emergence stage colony foraging rates and productivity
Kenneth Howard, Robert L. Jeanne
10:12 AM0532Neogregarine (Protista, Apicomplexa) infestation reduces colony productivity and individual mortality rates in a social wasp
Andrew M. Bouwma, Robert L. Jeanne
10:24 AM0533Costs of nest construction in a tropical wasp vary with physical conditions
Robert L. Jeanne, Andrew M. Bouwma
10:36 AM0534Chemical attraction of nuisance species of yellowjacket wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespidae)
Jeffrey Aldrich
10:48 AM0535Bionomics of spring tobacco thrips: Implications for tomato spotted wilt virus management
Lenny Wells, Albert Culbreath, Alex Csinos, Jim Todd, Bikash Mandal
11:00 AM0536New phytoplasma disease in Limonium and potential leafhopper vectors
Phyllis Weintraub, Shimon Pivonia, Abed Gera
11:12 AM0537Australian grapevine yellows: Who is spreading the phytoplasma?
LeAnn Beanland, Linda Pollock
11:24 AM0538Lycoriella mali (Diptera: Sciaridae) association with Trichoderma green mold disease of cultivated mushrooms, Agaricus bisporus
Clifford Keil, Gene R. Bartlett, Daniel J. Kirk
11:36 AM0539Whitefly (Homptera: Aleyrodidae) populations and virus infection in watermelon in Jalisco, Mexico
Mario A. Urías-López, Keir F. Byerly-Murphy
11:48 AM0540Survey of potential aphid vectors of plum pox virus in Pennsylvania stone fruit orchards
Greg Krawczyk, Larry A. Hull
12:00 PM0541The role of canola in the summer migration of green peach aphid, Myzus persicae (Sulzer) (Hemiptera: Aphididae) in the Red River Valley of the North
Robert A. Suranyi, Matthew W. Carroll, Ian V. MacRae, David W. Ragsdale, Edward B. Radcliffe

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