The 2005 ESA Annual Meeting and Exhibition
December 15-18, 2005
Ft. Lauderdale, FL

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Friday, December 16, 2005: 8:30 AM-12:00 PM

Palm A (Convention Center, Second Floor)

Student Competition for the President's Prize, Section Cd4. Behavior and Ecology

Moderator(s): Theresa L. Pitts-Singer
Olav Rueppell
8:30 AM0402Examining sex allocation in Tamalia coweni (Hemiptera: Aphididae) in response to nutrient variability in Arctostaphylos patula  [ Recorded presentation ]
George Purdy, Donald Miller
8:42 AM0405Phenology of the annual bluegrass weevil in golf course landscapes  [ Recorded presentation ]
Maria Derval C. Diaz, Daniel C. Peck
8:54 AM0406Negative impacts of intraspecific competition on feeding and reproduction in three exotic predators of hemlock woolly adelgid, Adelges tsugae (Homoptera: Adelgidae)  [ Recorded presentation ]
Robbie W. Flowers, Scott M. Salom, Loke T. Kok
9:06 AM0407 Harmonia axyridis as an intraguild predator of soybean aphid natural enemies  [ Recorded presentation ]
Mary Margaret Gardiner, Douglas A. Landis
9:18 AM0408Dispersal distance of lesser grain borer, Rhyzopertha dominica (F.)  [ Recorded presentation ]
Godfrey Paul Ching'Oma, James F. Campbell, Bhadriraju Subramanyam, Sonny B. Ramaswamy
9:30 AMBreak
9:42 AM0409Oak defenses against a wood-boring insect  [ Recorded presentation ]
Melissa K. Fierke, Fred M. Stephen
9:54 AM0411Sources of chemical cues attractive to cottonwood leaf beetles (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) feeding on Populus  [ Recorded presentation ]
Alexander P. Kendrick, Kenneth F. Raffa
10:06 AM0413What drives bark beetle-fungal interactions? Nutritional effects of bluestaining fungi on mountain pine beetle (Dendroctonus ponderosae)
Katherine P. Bleiker, Diana L. Six

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