Monday, 27 October 2003: 1:00 PM-5:00 PM

200 (Convention Center (Second Floor))

Student Competition Ten-Minute Papers, Ca2, Biological Control, Ce, Insect Pathology and Microbial Control, and Cf1, Quantitative Ecology

Moderator(s): Catherine Eastman
Jorge B. Torres
1:00 PM0391Preference and performance of a biological control agent to toadflax (Linaria genistifolia dalmatica and L. vulgaris)
Daniel MacKinnon
1:12 PM0392Implications of natural enemy strain differences for biological control of aquatic weeds (Salvinia spp.)
Jeremiah M. Dye, Kevin Heinz, John A. Jackman
1:24 PM0393Using Trichogramma ostriniae for suppression of European corn borer in sweet pepper
Vonny M. Barlow, Thomas P. Kuhar, Edwin E. Lewis, Michael P. Hoffmann
1:36 PM0394Effects of floral habitat on parasitoid dispersal and parasitism rates
Jana Lee, George E. Heimpel
1:48 PM0395The effects of extrafloral nectaries and ants on biological control of the oriental fruit moth on peach
Clarissa R. Mathews, Dale G. Bottrell
2:00 PM0396Residence times and dispersal rates of Diadegma insulare (Cresson) in response to insect hosts and plant resources
Janet L. Lawrence, Casey W. Hoy
2:12 PM0397Competitive interactions among Laricobius nigrinus, Pseudoscymnus tsugae and Harmonia axyridis, three exotic predators of the hemlock woolly adelgid
Robbie W. Flowers, Scott M. Salom, Lok T. Kok
2:24 PMBreak
2:36 PM0398A novel technique for recovery and in vitro culturing of entomopathogenic fungi in ticks (Acari: Ixodidae), and its implications for biological control
Joshua B. Benoit, Jay A. Yoder, Lawrence W. Zettler
2:48 PM0399Integration of Metarhizium anisopliae and cereal cover crops for bio-based control of the sugarbeet root maggot (Diptera: Otitidae)
Ayanava Majumdar, Mark A. Boetel, Stefan T. Jaronski, Robert J. Dregseth, Allen J. Schroeder
3:00 PM0400Effects of Thelohania solenopsae (Microspora: Thelohaniidae) in profiles of hemolymph proteins of queens in red imported fire ants, Solenopsis invicta (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)
Johnny S. C. Chen, Karen Snowden, Craig Coates, Helmut Sauer, S. Bradleigh Vinson
3:12 PM0401Dynamics of host-insect carbon dioxide release during entomopathogenic nematode infection
Olgaly Ramos, James F. Campbell, Sonny B. Ramaswamy
3:24 PM0402Relative sources of variation in spruce beetle-fungal associations from individual through population-phase levels
Brian Aukema, Richard A. Werner, Kirsten E. Haberkern, Barbara L. Illman, Murray K. Clayton, Kenneth F. Raffa
3:36 PM0403Arthropod diversity and parasitism of grape berry moth (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae) under different pest management programs
Joe Williamson, Donn T. Johnson

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