Monday, December 11, 2006: 8:30 AM-12:00 PM
Room 110 (Convention Center)
Student Competition for the President's Prize, Section Cb. Apiculture and Social Insects
Moderator(s):	Edward L. Vargo Colin S. Brent
8:30 AM			Introductory Remarks
8:35 AM	0317		Comparing passive trap methods for monitoring native bees in Maryland and Delaware Catherine Stragar, Dewey Caron, Sam Droege
8:47 AM	0318		Native bee community responses to production practices and adjacent habitats in blueberry agro-ecosystems   Julianna Tuell, Rufus Isaacs
8:59 AM	0319		Oxalic acid - A prospective tool for reducing Varroa mite populations in package bees   Nicholas P. Aliano, Marion D. Ellis
9:11 AM	0320		Associations between ovary size, vitellogenin transcription, and sucrose responsiveness in honey bee workers Jennifer Tsuruda, Gro V. Amdam, Robert Page
9:23 AM	0321		Differences of behavioral development and flight muscle protein changes between Africanized and European honey bees in Puerto Rico   Devrim Oskay, Pedro Alvarez, Valerie Molinari, Tugrul Giray
9:35 AM	0322		Vitellogenin, a genetic regulator of division of labor in honey bees, Apis mellifera   Kate E. Ihle, M. Kim Fondrk, Robert Page, Gro V. Amdam
9:47 AM			Break
9:59 AM	0323		Brain morphology and learning in the honey bee, Apis mellifera, parasitized during development by ectoparasitic Varroa mite, Varroa destructor   Tiffany Lucas, Gloria DeGrandi-Hoffman, Wulfila Gronenberg
10:11 AM	0324		Genetic characterization of honey bee, Apis mellifera populations in the United States Deborah A. Delaney, Walter S. Sheppard
10:23 AM	0325		Mutualist interactions between the native terrapin scale and the invasive Argentine ant with implications for pest ant control   John Brightwell, Jules Silverman
10:35 AM	0326		Odorous house ant, Tapinoma sessile (Say), colony movement and budding in response to disturbance and food location   T. Aurora Toennisson, Karen M. Vail
10:47 AM	0327		Understanding the link between physiological and behavioral changes in obligately foraging Pogonomyrmex californicus queens   Adam Dolezal, Colin S. Brent, Juergen Gadau, Gro V. Amdam
10:59 AM	0328		Effect of controlling Antonina graminis (Hemiptera: Pseudococcidae) on Solenopsis invicta (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)   Jillian Chantos, Ken Helms, S. Bradleigh Vinson

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