Wednesday, 20 November 2002: 8:00 AM-12:00 PM | |||
Room 209-210 (Convention Center, Second Floor) | |||
Apiculture and Social Insects (Ants et al.) | |||
| Moderator(s): | Hal Reed Sanford D. Porter | ||
| 8:00 AM | 0947 | Behavioral and genetic variation between introduced North American populations of the Argentine ant, Linepithema humile Grzegorz Buczkowski, Jules Silverman | |
| 8:12 AM | 0948 | Paper Withdrawn | |
| 8:24 AM | 0949 | Genetic diversity modulates activity in harvester ants Diane C. Wiernasz, Blaine J. Cole | |
| 8:36 AM | 0950 | Semi-claustral colony founding in the seed-harvester ant Pogonomyrmex californicus: a comparative analysis of colony founding strategies Robert A. Johnson | |
| 8:48 AM | 0951 | Life and death in the desert: demography of Pogonomyrmex occidentalis Blaine J. Cole, Diane C. Wiernasz | |
| 9:00 AM | 0952 | Task allocation of Pogonomyrmex comanche workers Jerry L. Cook, Daniel J. Harrison, Robert T. Puckett | |
| 9:12 AM | Break 1 | ||
| 9:24 AM | 0953 | Frequent nest relocation in a soil-nesting tropical rainforest ant Terrence P. McGlynn, Ryan Carr, Johnny Carson, Johnathan Buma | |
| 9:36 AM | 0954 | Brain ultrastructure, biogenic amines and division of labor in the ant, Pheidole dentata Marc Seid, Christine Li, Kristen Harris, James F.A. Traniello | |
| 9:48 AM | 0955 | Ant predation on neonate larvae of the root weevil Diaprepes abbreviatus (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) in Florida citrus Robin J. Stuart, Ian W. Jackson, Clayton W. McCoy | |
| 10:00 AM | 0956 | Field validation of laboratory-derived locomotion energetics in ants John R.B. Lighton, Francis D. Duncan | |
| 10:12 AM | 0957 | Seasonal variation in temperature sensitivity of the red imported fire ant Vicky E. Bertagnolli, Lawrence C. 'Fudd' Graham, Arthur G. Appel | |
| 10:24 AM | 0958 | Larval heat stress as a consequence of nesting site choice in the exotic leafcutting bee species Megachile apicalis John Barthell, John Hranitz, Robbin Thorp | |
| 10:36 AM | Break 2 | ||
| 10:48 AM | 0959 | Detecting and quantifying imported fire ant infestations with remote sensing technology James Vogt | |
| 11:00 AM | 0963 | Paper Withdrawn | |
| 11:12 AM | 0964 | Paper Withdrawn | |
| 11:24 AM | 0960 | Field testing of candidate chemical attractants for social wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespidae) Hal Reed, Peter J. Landolt | |