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

Ballroom D (Salt Palace L-1)

Student Competition for the President's Prize, Section Ca4. Biological Control, Cd1. Behavior and Ecology, Ea1. Extension, and F1. Crop Protection Entomology

Moderator(s): Walker A. Jones
Patrick W. Weddle
8:30 AM0092Remote sensing for detection of spider mite and cotton aphid in San Joaquin valley cotton  [ Recorded presentation ]
Dominic D. Reisig, Larry D. Godfrey, Kevin Keillor
8:42 AM0093Control of twospotted spider mites on strawberry in North Florida with predatory mites and Acramite®  [ Recorded presentation ]
Elena M. Rhodes, Oscar E. Liburd
8:54 AM0094A protocol for using the mite brushing machine (Leedom Industries) for measuring levels of Willamette spider mite (Eotetranychus willamettei McGregor) and their predators (Phytoseiidae) on winegrapes  [ Recorded presentation ]
Craig W. Macmillan, Michael J. Costello
9:06 AM0095Direct and indirect benefits of a selective insecticide program for control of grape berry moth, Endopiza viteana  [ Recorded presentation ]
Paul E. Jenkins, Rufus Isaacs
9:18 AM0096Use of reduced-risk insecticides for control of flower thrips in southern highbush and rabbiteye blueberries in Florida and Georgia  [ Recorded presentation ]
H. Alejandro Arevalo, Oscar E. Liburd
9:30 AM0097Surveying the current levels of parasitism by parasitic hymenoptera against the Egyptian alfalfa weevil in California alfalfa  [ Recorded presentation ]
Karey C. Windbiel, Larry D. Godfrey, Richard R. Lewis
9:42 AM0098Assessment of farmer knowledge, attitudes, and practices in banana weevil management in Talamanca, Costa Rica  [ Recorded presentation ]
Ruth M. Dahlquist, Beth Polidoro, Sanford D. Eigenbrode, Matthew J. Morra, Eduardo Somarriba, Dietmar Stoian, Luko Hilje, Nilsa A. Bosque-Pérez
9:54 AMBreak
10:06 AM0099Developing IPM strategies to control the carpenterworm moth and poplar-and-willow borer in irrigated hybrid poplars  [ Recorded presentation ]
Gene Hannon
10:18 AM0100Non-target effects of kaolin on phytophagous (Acari:Tetranychidae) and predatory mites (Acari:Phytoseiidae) in an apple agro-ecosystem  [ Recorded presentation ]
Christopher A. Benedict, Lorraine P. Berkett, M. Elena Garcia, Takamaru Ashikaga
10:30 AM0101Effects of Bt-corn anthers on monarch butterfly larvae  [ Recorded presentation ]
Patricia L. Anderson, Richard L. Hellmich, Leslie C. Lewis
10:42 AM0102Potential tritrophic effects of transgenic Cry3Bb Bt corn on Harmonia axyridis - Are Bt toxins vectored through corn leaf aphids?
Erin J. Stephens, John E. Losey, Leslie L. Allee
10:54 AM0103A tritrophic analysis of Bt toxin (Cry1Ac) in cotton, herbivores, and predatory heteropterans  [ Recorded presentation ]
Jorge B. Torres, John R. Ruberson

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