Monday, 18 November 2002: 7:00 AM-7:00 PM | |||
Hall A (Convention Center, Ground Level) | |||
Student Competition Display Presentations, Subsection Ca. Biological Control | |||
| D0036 | The effects of Bt-corn and crop phenology on Macrocentrus cingulum Reinhardt (Hymenoptera: Braconidae), a foraging parasitoid of the European corn borer Shannon Leif Sked, Dennis D. Calvin | ||
| D0037 | Effects of prey on adult and larval characteristics of three species of Coccinellidae Susan Moser, John J. Obrycki | ||
| D0038 | Effects of biased sex ratios in the leafy spurge flea beetle Aphthona nigriscutis Foudras Lindsay M. Cawthra, David J. Kazmer, David Legg | ||
| D0039 | Host habitat preference and parasitism of Lygus hesperus eggs (Hemiptera: Miridae) by Anaphes iole (Hymenoptera: Mymaridae) Veronica Manrique, Walker A. Jones, Julio S. Bernal | ||
| D0040 | Effects of nematode parasitization on feeding behavior and INSV transmission ability of Western flower thrips Un Taek Lim, Roy Van Driesche | ||
| D0041 | Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) for detection and identification of small grain aphid parasitoid larvae Douglas B. Jones, Kristopher Giles, Kevin A. Shufran, Yi Chen, Norman C. Elliott, Matthew Greenstone | ||
| D0042 | Assessment of twospotted spider mite damage and predator release ratios on greenhouse ivy geranium George P. Opit, James R. Nechols, David C. Margolies, Kimberly Williams, Yan Chen | ||
| D0043 | Numerical and functional responses of Lipolexis scutellaris to different instars of Toxoptera citricida Alison Walker, Marjorie A. Hoy | ||
| D0044 | Species composition, incidence, and relative abundance of Hessian fly, Mayetiola destructor (Say), parasitoids in northern Idaho Sandra C. Castle, Dennis J. Schotzko, James Johnson, Stephen Guy, Nilsa A. Bosque-Perez | ||
| D0045 | A niche separation model: implications for multiple parasitoid introductions in biological control Brent Pedersen, Nicholas Mills | ||
| D0046 | Leaf consumption by a North American flea beetle, Altica litigata, and its impact on seed production of purple loosestrife, Lythrum salicaria Debra P. Hoyme, Jerome F. Grant, Paris L. Lambdin, Karl H Joplin | ||
| D0047 | Carabids, Coccinellids, and synergism: Biological control of Diuraphis noxia Lauren Kerzicnik | ||
| D0048 | Effect of two prey types on life-history characteristics of Geocoris floridanus Jorge Torres, Christian Silva-Torres, John R. Ruberson | ||
| D0049 | Predation of the chinch bug, Blissus occiduus Barber, by Geocoris spp. in buffalograss turf Jeffrey D. Carstens, Frederick P. Baxendale, Tiffany Heng-Moss | ||
| D0050 | Biological control of the two major potato pests in Colombia Eduardo Espitia, Aristobulo Lopez-Avila | ||
| D0051 | Seasonal abundance, emergence, and host finding of predaceous hister beetles (Coleoptera: Histeridae) associated with Ips engraver beetles (Coleoptera: Scolytidae) in Louisiana pine trees William P. Shepherd, Richard A. Goyer | ||
| D0052 | Floral nectar impacts longevity and fecundity of parasitoids in cabbage fields Jana Chin-Ting Lee, George Heimpel | ||
| D0053 | The water fern, Salvinia minima Baker, in Florida and its natural enemies, with emphasis on Cyrtobagous salviniae Calder and Sands Shambhu P. Katel, Stephen Hight, Charles W. O'Brien | ||
| D0054 | Molecular approaches used to augment the classical biological control of Senecio jacobaea with the flea beetle Longitarsus jacobaeae Kenneth P. Puliafico, Jeffrey Littlefield, Deanna Nash | ||
| D0055 | The rearing of Diomus terminatus (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) for biological control of aphids Karin M. Hallborg, Lance S. Osborne, James P. Cuda | ||
| D0056 | Indigenous and introduced natural enemies of the mealy plum aphid in organic prune Daniel R. Latham, Nicholas Mills | ||
| D0057 | Influence of management practices on abundance and diversity of soil-surface Coleoptera in the Palouse Timothy Hatten, Nilsa A. Bosque-Perez, Sanford D. Eigenbrode, Gary C. Chang | ||
| D0058 | Geocoris punctipes: Potential for use as a biological control agent in ornamental crops Nicole Diane Pendleton, Jerome F. Grant, Paris L. Lambdin, Kenneth D. McFarland | ||
| D0059 | Evolutionary genetics of Spurgia esulae (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae), a biological control agent of leafy spurge, using microsatellites Casandra Lloyd, Andrew Norton, Ruth A. Hufbauer | ||