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

214 (Convention Center (Second Floor))

Student Competition Ten-Minute Papers, Cd4, Behavior and Ecology

Moderator(s): John J. Obrycki
Sarah Thompson
1:00 PM0457Effect of diet on the reproductive biology of the harvestman Phalangium opilio (Opiliones: Phalangiidae)
Cora M. Allard, Kenneth V. Yeargan
1:12 PM0458Activities of the cranberry fruitworm moth, Acrobasis vaccinii Riley, in the bog and the adjacent upland
Nagendra R. Sharma, Anne Averill
1:24 PM0459Scarabaeoid dung beetles (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae, Geotrupidae, and Trogidae) attracted to cow dung in three habitats of central New Jersey
Dana Price
1:36 PM0460Sexually transmitted nematodes affect nuptial food gift production in the cricket, Gryllodes sigillatus
Lien T. Luong, Harry K. Kaya
1:48 PM0461Thermal evolution of growth and life history traits in a seed beetle: phenotypic plasticity and the effect of temperature during rearing and oviposition
R. Craig Stillwell, Charles W. Fox
2:00 PM0462Courtship in the yellow-banded wasp moth Syntomeida ipomoeae (Lepidoptera: Arctiidae)
Reed M. Johnson, William E. Conner
2:12 PM0463Egg-laying decisions and oviposition patterns in the seed beetle Stator limbatus (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae)
Angela R. Amarillo-Suarez, Charles W. Fox
2:24 PMBreak
2:36 PM0464Sixty-two days and sixty-three nights: the life and death of Malacosoma americanum (Lepidoptera: Lasiocampidae)
Beth Ann Choate, Lynne K. Rieske-Kinney
2:48 PM0465Aggregation pheromone response and mating behavior in the consperse stink bug, Euschistus conspersus
Christian H. Krupke, Vincent P. Jones, Jay F. Brunner
3:00 PM0466Biology and management of Allokermes kingii (Homoptera: Kermesidae) on oak trees
Jay Cee L. Turner, Eileen Buss
3:12 PM0467The ecology of trichomycete (Zygomycota) fungi in southern Alabama
Mark P. Nelder, John W. McCreadie
3:24 PM0468Effect of cultural practices on the oviposition behavior of Japanese beetle (Popillia japonica, Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae)
Zsofia Szendrei, Rufus Isaacs
3:36 PM0469Effects of soil moisture and temperature on the reproductive rates of two-spotted spider mite (Acari: Tetranychidae) and its associated predator mites (Acari: Phytoseiidae)
Jeffrey C. White, Oscar E. Liburd

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