Wednesday, 29 October 2003: 1:00 PM-5:00 PM

214 (Convention Center (Second Floor))

Ten-Minute Papers, Section Cb. Apiculture and Social Insects

Moderator(s): Rosalind James
Beverly A. Wiltz
1:00 PM1009Individual variation in forgaging behavior in the social caterpillar Eucheira socialis (Pieridae)
Dessie LA Underwood, Craig Pernot
1:12 PM1010Facultative maternal care in an insect with exclusive paternal care
Christy Beal
1:24 PM1011Bumble bee pollination of yellow monkey flowers: keel petals are landing platform for bees and pollen traps for stigma
Arathi Seshadri
1:36 PM1012Attraction to old nest contents in two megachilid bees used as commercial pollinators
Theresa L. Pitts-Singer, James S. Buckner
1:48 PMBreak
2:00 PM1013Chalkbrood in the alfalfa leafcutting bee: DNA methods for detecting infections
Rosalind James, Jeffrey Skinner, Aneta Skoberla
2:12 PM1014A stingless bee from Peru as wasp nest parasite
Claus Rasmussen
2:24 PMPaper Withdrawn
2:24 PM1016Social complexity and colony size in neotropical swarm-founding wasps: a morphological skew test
Fernando Noll, James M. Carpenter, Sidnei Mateus, Ronaldo Zucchi
2:36 PM1017Foraging patterns of social wasps under different patterns of resource distributions
Dhurba Naug, John W. Wenzel
2:48 PMBreak
3:00 PM1018Predatory wasps learn to overcome the shelter defenses of their larval prey
Martha R. Weiss, Erin. E. Wilson, Ignacio Castellanos
3:12 PM1019Induced and constitutive anti-predator defenses: options for a multi-predator world
Ignacio Castellanos, Pedro Barbosa
3:24 PM1020Total evidence phylogeny of the new world Polistes (Hymenoptera: Vespidae; Polistinae)
Kurt M. Pickett, John W. Wenzel, James M. Carpenter
3:36 PM1021Yellowjacket wasp trapping responses to alkyl ester compounds related to the known yellowjacket attractant, heptyl butyrate
Hal Reed, Peter J. Landolt
3:48 PM1022Genetic variation in the North American population of the hornet, Vespa crabro
Sean A. Collins, Stewart Berlocher

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