Monday, December 10, 2001: 1:00 PM-3:30 PM

Royal Palm Salon 2-3-4(Convention Center, Level 1)

Student Competition Ten-Minute Papers, Subsection Ca1. Biological Control

Moderator(s): James P. Cuda
Tom Bellows
1:00 PM0314Evaluating biological control of fire ants using phorid flies: Effects on competitive interactions
Jason Lewis Mottern, Kevin M. Heinz
1:12 PM0315Control of Colorado potato beetle (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) with varying rates of the entomopathogenic nematode Heterorhabditis marelatus (Rhabditida: Heterorhabditidae)
Nathan L. Cottrell, Edward Grafius, Haddish Melakeberhan
1:24 PM0316Leaf consumption by a North America flea beetle, Altica litigata, and its impact on seed production of purple loosestrife, Lythrum salicaria
Debra P. Hoyme, Jerome F. Grant, Paris L. Lambdin
1:36 PM0317Mass production of Anagyrus ananatis for augmentative biological control of pink pineapple mealybug
Raju Pandey, Marshall Johnson
1:48 PM0318The relative abundance and species composition of Hymenopterous parasitoids attacking small cereal aphids (Homoptera: Aphididae) at two different localities on winter wheat in Germany
Addisu Berhan, B. Freier, C. Büttner
2:00 PM0319Impacts of nectar resources on sugar feeding and parasitism at varying spatial scales
Jana Chin-Ting Lee, George E. Heimpel
2:12 PMBreak
2:24 PM0320Intercropping corn with buckwheat to increase natural enemies of the European corn borer
Andrew H. Smith, Dale G. Bottrell
2:36 PM0321Effects of flowering plants on abundance of euonymus scale, Unaspis euonymi (Comstock) (Homoptera: Diaspididae), and natural enemies in landscapes containing Euonymus fortunei (L.)
Eric J. Rebek, Cliff S. Sadof, Lawrence M. Hanks
2:48 PM0322Effect of tillage on the emergence of Peristenus howardi Shaw (Hymenoptera: Braconidae)
John A. Rumph, Daniel F. Mayer
3:00 PM0323Tritrophic potato alkaloid effects on entomopathogenic nematode reproduction
Christine Armer
3:12 PM0324Methods for rearing Laricobius nigrinus (Coleoptera: Derodontidae), a predator of hemlock woolly adelgid, Adelges tsugae (Homoptera: Adelgidae)
Ashley B. Lamb, S. Salom, L.T. Kok

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