Monday, December 11, 2006: 8:30 AM-12:00 PM

Room 212 (Convention Center)

Student Competition for the President's Prize, Section Cd1. Behavior and Ecology

Moderator(s): Robert L. Meagher
Tracy C. Leskey
8:30 AMIntroductory Remarks
8:35 AM0329Mating disruption of the oblique-banded leafroller (Choristoneura rosaceana) using sprayable pheromones and horticultural oils  [ Recorded presentation ]
Andreas Wins-Purdy, Maya Evenden, Gary Judd
8:47 AM0330Development of a combined sex pheromone-based monitoring system for two lepidopterous defoliators of trembling aspen  [ Recorded presentation ]
Brad C. Jones, Maya Evenden
8:59 AM0331Behavioral evidence of a male-produced aggregation pheromone in strawberry sap beetle (Coleoptera: Nitidulidae)  [ Recorded presentation ]
Rebecca Loughner, Gregory English-Loeb, Shannon B. Olsson, Charles E. Linn, Wendell L. Roelofs, Paul Robbins
9:11 AM0332Reproductive behaviors and an attractant pheromone for the Harlequin bug, Murgantia histrionica
Deane K. Zahn, Jardel A. Moreira, Robbie D. Girling, Ring T. Cardé, Jocelyn G. Millar
9:23 AM0333Scent Of A Woman? Contact with several cockroach species elicits courtship in male German cockroaches (Blattella germanica)
Dorit Eliyahu, Satoshi Nojima, Coby Schal
9:35 AM0334Variation in female sex pheromone and male choice and no-choice assays in Cadra cautella
Jeremy Allison, Ring T. Carde
9:47 AM0335Responses of clothes moths (Lepidoptera: Tineidae) to synthetic pheromones: Behavior and ecology  [ Recorded presentation ]
Charles E. Koneman, Thomas W. Phillips, Christian Nansen, Ian Baxter
9:59 AMBreak
10:11 AM0336Isolation of oviposition deterring compounds in the oviposition plug of the pepper weevil, Anthonomus eugenii Cano  [ Recorded presentation ]
Karla M. Addesso, Heather J. McAuslane, Hans T. Alborn
10:23 AM0337Behavior of mated female dogwood borer in apple planted on size-controlling rootstock  [ Recorded presentation ]
Daniel L. Frank, Christopher Bergh, Tracy C. Leskey
10:35 AM0338Impact of cannibalism on fitness and population dynamics of phytophagous insects  [ Recorded presentation ]
Matthew L. Richardson, Peter F. Reagel, Robert F. Mitchell, Lawrence M. Hanks
10:47 AM0339Tending and defending: Comparing aphid-ant mutualisms involving native and invasive ants
Thomas R. Barnum, Micky D. Eubanks
10:59 AM0340Mating behavior of the glassy-winged sharpshooter, Homalodisca coagulata (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae)  [ Recorded presentation ]
Amanda N. Brooks, Randy E. Hunt
11:11 AM0342Pollination biology of Ailanthus altissima (Mill.) Swingle (tree-of-heaven) in the Mid-Atlantic United States  [ Recorded presentation ]
Jessica S. Thompson, Richard D. Fell, P. Lloyd Hipkins

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