Monday, December 10, 2001: 1:00 PM-3:45 PM

San Diego Room(Convention Center, Level 1)

Student Competition Ten-Minute Papers, Subsection Cd2. Behavior and Ecology

Moderator(s): David Ragsdale
David Woodson
1:00 PM0367A true host choice test of an urban shade tree pest, the yellowstriped oakworm, Anisota peigleri (Lepidoptera: Saturniidae)
David Serrano, John L Foltz
1:12 PM0368Developing a biological assessment program for nonwadeable rivers in Michigan using macroinvertebrates
Kelly J. Wessell, Richard W. Merritt, Kenneth W. Cummins, Jennifer G. Opdyke, J. David Allan, Todd White
1:24 PM0369Response of selected saprophytic Scarabaeidae to natural and synthetic odors found in decomposing dung, carrion, and fermented fungi
Adrienne Smith, David J. Horn
1:36 PM0370Habitat complexity mediates multiple-predator impact on prey suppression: An examination of behavioral mechanisms
Deborah L. Finke, Robert F. Denno
1:48 PM0371Direct and indirect competition between an exotic coccinellid species, Harmonia axyridis, and a native species, Coleomegilla maculata
Marlijn Hoogendoorn, George E. Heimpel
2:00 PM0372Antennal morphology and behavioral response to host volatiles of Pseudoscymnus tsugae (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) and Laricobius nigrinus (Coleoptera: Derodontidae), two specialist predators of hemlock woolly adelgid, Adelges tsugae (Homoptera: Adelgidae)
Corey D. Broeckling, Scott M. Salom
2:12 PMBreak
2:24 PM0373Landscape effects on patch connectivity, movement patterns, and edge effects in a prairie planthopper
Kyle J. Haynes, James T. Cronin
2:36 PM0374The effect of weather on the gypsy moth pathogen Entomophaga maimaiga in Michigan forests
Nathan W. Siegert, Deborah G. McCullough, Ann E. Hajek, Micheal M. Wheeler
2:48 PM0375Feeding preferences of the chinch bug, Blissus occiduus, on selected turfgrass, crop and weed species
Thomas E. Eickhoff, Frederick P. Baxendale, Terrance P. Riordan
3:00 PM0376Supercolonies or supersimplification? Quantified internidal movements of ants among polygynous Solenopsis invicta (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) colonies
Ronald D. Weeks, Ted Wilson, S. Bradleigh Vinson
3:12 PM0377Effects of gender and mating status on self-directed dispersal by the whitefly parasitoid Eretmocerus eremicus
David E. Bellamy, David N. Byrne
3:24 PM0378The population-level consequences of predator avoidance behavior in the pea aphid
Erik H. Nelson

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