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

202-212 (Convention Center (Second Floor))

Student Competition Ten-Minute Papers, Cb1, Apiculture and Social Insects

Moderator(s): Theresa L. Pitts-Singer
Sanford D. Porter
1:00 PM0404The structural role of free fatty acids in the wax of honey bees, Apis mellifera
Robert Buchwald
1:12 PM0405Effects of diet, lipid stores, and social interactions on foraging behaviors in honey bees
Amy L. Toth, Gene E. Robinson
1:24 PM0406Anarchistic honey bees: regulation of worker reproduction
Shelley Hoover, Mark Winston, Ben Oldroyd
1:36 PM0407Is heightened olfactory sensitivity of hygenic bees specific to odors of diseased brood?
Katarzyna Jez, Marla Spivak
1:48 PM0408Application of powdered sugar to adult honey bees (Apis mellifera) for Varroa mite control
Nicholas P. Aliano, Marion D. Ellis
2:00 PMPaper Withdrawn
2:12 PM0410Error in the honey bee dance language, tuned or tuneless?
David A. Tanner, P. K. Visscher
2:24 PMBreak
2:36 PM0411Opportunistic social parasitism: bumble bee drift in greenhouse environments
Anna Birmingham, Mark Winston, Shelley Hoover
2:48 PM0412Effects of clothianidin on Bombus impatiens (Hymenoptera: Apidae) colony health
Michelle Teresa Franklin, Mark Winston, Lora Morandin
3:00 PM0413Vespula germanica do not scent mark food sites
Jennifer Jandt, Laura Riel, Benjamin Crain, Robert L. Jeanne
3:12 PM0414Feeding behavior of social wasps (Vespidae)
J. K. MacKenzie, Peter J. Landolt, Richard S. Zack
3:24 PM0415Relatedness and sociobiology of Halictus farinosus (Hymenoptera: Halictidae)
Robin Sellars, Laurence Packer
3:36 PM0416Queen adoption and nestmate recognition in the Argentine ant
Gissella M. Vasquez, Jules Silverman
3:48 PM0417The influence of diet on sex ratio expression in Aphaenogaster rudis
David Lubertazzi

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