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 AM | 0522 | Isolation and evaluation of Metarhizium anisopliae for control of Coptotermes formosanus and Reticulitermes flavipes Changlu Wang, Janine E. Powell | |
8:12 AM | 0523 | Behavior of reproductive soldiers of dampwood termites in intraspecific interactions Mario L. Muscedere, Barbara L. Thorne, Nancy L. Breisch | |
8:24 AM | 0524 | Genetic 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 AM | 0525 | Colony and population genetic structure of the eastern subterranean termite, Reticulitermes flavipes, in three regions of North Carolina Ed Vargo | |
8:48 AM | 0526 | Colony and population genetic structure of the subterranean termite, Reticulitermes virginicus, in undisturbed forest habitats of North Carolina Joanna Carlson, Ed Vargo | |
9:00 AM | 0527 | Social enhancement of immunocompetence in the dampwood termite Zootermopsis angusticollis Rebeca Rosengaus, James Traniello, Keely Savoie | |
9:12 AM | 0528 | Experimental demonstration of caste totipotency in a large-colony social insect Joan Strassmann, Barry W. Sullender, David C. Queller | |
9:24 AM | 0529 | Reproductive implications of polygyny in the yellowjacket,Vespula squamosa Gary N. Fritz, A. J. Deets, S. Stewart | |
9:36 AM | 0530 | mtDNA 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 AM | Break | ||
10:00 AM | 0531 | Wasps 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 AM | 0532 | Neogregarine (Protista, Apicomplexa) infestation reduces colony productivity and individual mortality rates in a social wasp Andrew M. Bouwma, Robert L. Jeanne | |
10:24 AM | 0533 | Costs of nest construction in a tropical wasp vary with physical conditions Robert L. Jeanne, Andrew M. Bouwma | |
10:36 AM | 0534 | Chemical attraction of nuisance species of yellowjacket wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespidae) Jeffrey Aldrich | |
10:48 AM | 0535 | Bionomics of spring tobacco thrips: Implications for tomato spotted wilt virus management Lenny Wells, Albert Culbreath, Alex Csinos, Jim Todd, Bikash Mandal | |
11:00 AM | 0536 | New phytoplasma disease in Limonium and potential leafhopper vectors Phyllis Weintraub, Shimon Pivonia, Abed Gera | |
11:12 AM | 0537 | Australian grapevine yellows: Who is spreading the phytoplasma? LeAnn Beanland, Linda Pollock | |
11:24 AM | 0538 | Lycoriella mali (Diptera: Sciaridae) association with Trichoderma green mold disease of cultivated mushrooms, Agaricus bisporus Clifford Keil, Gene R. Bartlett, Daniel J. Kirk | |
11:36 AM | 0539 | Whitefly (Homptera: Aleyrodidae) populations and virus infection in watermelon in Jalisco, Mexico Mario A. Urías-López, Keir F. Byerly-Murphy | |
11:48 AM | 0540 | Survey of potential aphid vectors of plum pox virus in Pennsylvania stone fruit orchards Greg Krawczyk, Larry A. Hull | |
12:00 PM | 0541 | The 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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