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

244 (Convention Center (Second Floor))

Student Competition Ten-Minute Papers, Cb2, Apiculture and Social Insects, Cd1, Behavior and Ecology, and Fb, Urban Entomology

Moderator(s): Richard A. Redak
Atanas Atanassov
1:00 PM0481Comparative study of the breeding systems of Reticulitermes flavipes and Reticulitermes hageni in a North Carolina Coastal Plain site using microsatellite markers
Hope Dalton, Edward Vargo
1:12 PM0482Physiological measures of vigor in Reticulitermes species (Isoptera: Rhinotermitidae)
Tim Arquette
1:24 PM0483Post-disturbance evacuation behavior in Reticulitermes flavipes (Isoptera: Rhinotermitidae)
Margaret A. Schwinghammer, Richard M. Houseman
1:36 PM0484Trail following in three Florida termite species
Joseph A. Smith, Philip G. Koehler, Faith M. Oi
1:48 PM0485Geographic distance and intercolony termite aggression: Does distance makes the heart grow fonder?
Marc L. Fisher, R.E. Gold
2:00 PM0486Field trials to assess arthropod populations in organic and inorganic landscaping mulches
Kyle Jordan, Susan Jones
2:12 PMPaper Withdrawn
2:24 PM0488Monomorium pharaonis (L.) food preferences of patient-care fluids in hospital environments
Roxanne G. Burrus, Philip G. Koehler, David H. Oi, Eugene J. Gerberg, Faith M. Oi
2:36 PMBreak
2:48 PM0489Trade-offs in activity following removal of vegetative cover by the western harvester ant (Pogonomyrmex occidentalis)
Ave Marie Bucy
3:00 PM0490Evidence of oviposition deterrent pheromones in the Asian longhorn Beetle, Anoplophora glabripennis
Jennifer Lund, Michael T Smith, Steve Teale
3:12 PM0491Love thy neighbor: nymphs of the German cockroach, Blattella germanica (L.), elicit courtship behavior in conspecific adult males
Dorit Eliyahu, Yongliang Fan, Coby Schal
3:24 PM0492Effect of temperature, exposure interval and depth of diatomaceous earth on distribution, mortality, and reproduction of lesser grain borer (Coleoptera: Bostrichidae) in stored wheat
Erika Anne Jensen, Frank Arthur, James R. Nechols, James F. Campbell
3:36 PM0493Mapping the response of Plodia interpunctella (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae) males to traps with low concentration pheromone lures
Philip K. Morton, Christian Nansen, Thomas W. Phillips, Edmond L. Bonjour

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