Wednesday, 20 November 2002: 1:00 PM-5:00 PM | |||
Room 122-123 (Convention Center, Ground Level) | |||
Ten-Minute Papers, Subsection Ce. Insect Pathology and Microbial Control | |||
| Moderator(s): | Norman C. Leppla Steven M. Valles | ||
| 1:00 PM | 1084 | Assessing the impact of gregarines on Tribolium castaneum and Tribolium confusum Joel P. Siegel | |
| 1:12 PM | 1085 | Metarhizium anisopliae and Hirsutella thompsonii as potential microbial control agents of Varroa destructor, a honey bee parasite Lambert H. B. Kanga, Rosalind James, Carlos Gracia, Sonia Gallegos, Javier Cavazos | |
| 1:24 PM | 1086 | Paper Withdrawn | |
| 1:36 PM | 1087 | Detection of Thelohania solenopsae in Solenopsis invicta by multiplex PCR Steven M. Valles, David H. Oi | |
| 1:48 PM | 1088 | Development of a survey protocol for Thelohania solenopsae in populations of red imported fire ant, Solenopsis invicta Forrest Mitchell, Yuliya Y. Sokolova, James R. Fuxa, Karen Snowden, Tami Cook, S. Bradleigh Vinson | |
| 2:00 PM | 1089 | Ten years of the cotton aphid fungus sampling service Donald C. Steinkraus, Patricia F. O'Leary | |
| 2:12 PM | 1090 | Discovery of a new fungal pathogen of elongate hemlock scale, Fiorinia externa (Homoptera: Diaspididae), and implications for biological control Mark S. McClure | |
| 2:24 PM | Break | ||
| 2:36 PM | 1091 | Ecological characteristics and efficacy of a new highly pathogenic white grub nematode Albrecht Koppenhöfer, Eugene Fuzy | |
| 2:48 PM | 1092 | Commercialization of the nematode, Steinernema scapterisci, for biological control of Scapteriscus spp. mole crickets Norman C. Leppla, Martin B. Adjei, Eileen A. Buss, J. Howard Frank, Thomas G. Hinks | |
| 3:00 PM | 1093 | Mass production technology for entomopathogenic nematodes Randy Gaugler | |
| 3:12 PM | 1094 | Natural occurrence of entomopathogens in Pacific Northwest nursery soils Denny Bruck | |
| 3:24 PM | 1095 | Diversity of microorganisms associated with the gut of stem boring beetles Italo Delalibera, Kenneth F. Raffa, Jo Handelsman | |
| 3:36 PM | 1096 | Effect of the gypsy moth nucleopolyhedrovirus (LdMNPV) on the activities of homologous and heterologous baculoviruses against the corn earworm (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) Martin Shapiro | |
| 3:48 PM | 1097 | Tri-trophic interactions: can an insect virus adapt to different host plants? Jennifer S. Cory, Judith Myers | |
| 4:00 PM | 1098 | Distribution and phenotypic effects of a Cytophaga-relative bacterial symbiont in Encarsia parasitoids Martha S. Hunter, Einat Zchori-Fein, Suzanne Kelly, Steven Perlman | |