Monday, 15 November 2004: 8:30 AM-12:00 PM

251 D (Salt Palace L-2)

Student Competition for the President's Prize, Section Ca3. Biological Control, and Ce. Insect Pathology and Microbial Control

Moderator(s): Michael R. McGuire
Rosalind James
8:30 AM0080Thelohania solenopsae parasitism and apoptosis of infected tissues and cells in inseminated queens of the red imported fire ants, Solenopsis invicta  [ Recorded presentation ]
Johnny S. C. Chen, Karen Snowden, Craig Coates, S. Bradleigh Vinson
8:54 AM0081Potential for conservation biological control of the obliquebanded leafroller (OBLR) Choristoneura rosaceana (Harris) in orchard systems managed with selective insecticides  [ Recorded presentation ]
Mark Sarvary, Harvey Reissig, Jan P. Nyrop
9:18 AM0082Interaction between ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) and Trichogramma minutum (Riley) associated with the extrafloral nectaries of peach [Prunus persica (L.) Batsch]: Implications for biological control of the oriental fruit moth [Grapholita molesta (Busck)]  [ Recorded presentation ]
Clarissa R. Mathews, Dale G. Bottrell, Mark W. Brown
9:30 AM0083Integrating inundative releases of Trichogramma ostriniae with Spinosad in bell pepper to control European corn borer  [ Recorded presentation ]
Vonny M. Barlow, Thomas P. Kuhar, Edwin E Lewis, Ruth V. Hazzard, Shelby J. Fleischer, Michael P. Hoffmann
9:42 AM0084Foraging success of three species of Trichogramma in a simulated retail environment  [ Recorded presentation ]
Matthew J. Grieshop, Paul W. Flinn, James R. Nechols
9:54 AMBreak
10:06 AM0085Incorporating fungicides into Megachildae rotundata (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae): Provisions to control chalkbrood disease  [ Recorded presentation ]
Craig I Huntzinger, Rosalind James
10:18 AM0086Effects of combining Beauveria bassiana with imidacloprid and diatomaceous earth on mole cricket mortality  [ Recorded presentation ]
Sarah Thompson, Rick Brandenburg
10:30 AM0087Fungal pathogens of the glassy-winged sharpshooter, Homalodisca coagulata, (Homoptera: Cicadellidae)  [ Recorded presentation ]
S. Elie Breaux, Dustin H. Purcell, Christopher Tipping
10:42 AM0088Infectivity and virulence of two Helicosporidium spp. isolates in the mosquito, Anopheles quadrimaculatus  [ Recorded presentation ]
Tracy M Conklin, Verena-Ulrike Bläske, Alexandra Shapiro, Drion G. Boucias
10:54 AM0089The peritrophic matrix hinders baculoviral infection of Heliothis virescens larvae (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) fed cotton foliage  [ Recorded presentation ]
Ruth Plymale, Kelli Hoover
11:06 AM0090Characterization of an anti-apoptotic gene of Trichoplusia ni single-enveloped nucleopolyhedrovirus
Daniel Kessete Ghebreab, Michael Tobin, Sehaam Khan
11:18 AM0091Selectivity of insecticides to Harmonia axyridis (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) under field and laboratory conditions
Tederson Luiz Galvan, Robert Koch, William Hutchison

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