Monday, 18 November 2002: 1:00 PM-5:00 PM

Room 118-119 (Convention Center, Ground Level)

Student Competition Ten-Minute Papers, Subsection Ca3. Biological Control

Moderator(s): Ross H. Miller
Robert N. Wiedenmann
1:00 PM0450Paper Withdrawn
1:12 PM0449Do Opiine braconids used in biocontrol of Tephritid fruit flies pose a risk to nontarget hosts in flowerheads?
Marcia K. Trostle, Sunny Ruth, Robert A. Wharton, R.H. Messing
1:24 PM0450The impact of multicolored Asian lady beetle predation upon soybean aphid population size
Bob Ellingson, David Hogg
1:36 PM0451Effect of weeds and aphids on suppression of European corn borer by natural enemies in Central New York field corn
Jeffrey R. Fuchsberg, John E. Losey
1:48 PM0452Factors influencing population dynamics of Opsius stactogalus (Homoptera: Cicadellidae) on saltcedar in field cages
Paul F. Smith, David C. Thompson
2:00 PMBreak
2:12 PM0453Synthetic guild analysis of Podisus maculiventris (Say) (Heteroptera: Pentatomidae) and Cotesia plutellae Kurdj. (Hymenoptera: Broconidae): Their effects on Plutella xylostella (L.)(Lepidoptera: Plutellidae) populations in cabbage
Nathan J Herrick, Stuart Reitz
2:24 PM0454Integrating chemical and biological control in potatoes through the use of selective pesticides
Amanda M. Koss, William E Snyder
2:36 PM0455Development of phenological models for Aphthona spp. introduced to control leafy spurge
Luke C. Skinner, David Ragsdale, Monika Chandler
2:48 PM0456Preference of a biological control agent of toadflaxes
Daniel MacKinnon, Ruth A. Hufbauer, Andrew Norton

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