Monday, December 10, 2007: 8:00 AM-12:00 PM

Golden West, Atlas Ballroom, First Floor (Town & Country)

C, Session Ca2. Biological Control

Organizer(s): L. Nicole Davidson
John J. Obrycki
8:00 AM Introductory Remarks
8:05 AM0341Niche partitioning as a mechanism for increased prey consumption with increasing predator diversity
Gretchen Beth Snyder, William Snyder
8:17 AM0342Nitrogen effects on parasitism of the beet armyworm, Spodoptera exigua, by Cotesia marginiventris: Testing the "slow-growth/high-mortality" hypothesis
Yigen Chen, John Ruberson
8:29 AM0343Influence of nitrogen fertility on endophyte-herbivore-natural enemy interactions
M. Walter Baldauf, Douglas S. Richmond
8:41 AM0344Indirect effects of imidacloprid on natural enemies of the boxwood spider mite, Eotetranychus buxi
Scott Creary, Michael Raupp
8:53 AM0345How do predator foraging traits affect the predator-prey interaction and biological control of twospotted spider mites?
Punya Nachappa, David C. Margolies, James R. Nechols
9:05 AM0346Use of a demographic approach reveals complex effects of pesticides on biological control of spider mites by western predatory mite Galendromus occidentalis (Acari: Phytoseiidae)
Menelaos C. Stavrinides, Nicholas J. Mills
9:17 AM Break
9:29 AM0347The use of functional ecology indicators in assessing organic fungicide treatments for Asian soybean rust (Phakopsora pachyrhizi)
Alex M. Johnson, Mark E. Whalon, Daniel R. Nortman, Amy M. Hendricks
9:41 AM0348Life history and biology of two Leucopis species (Diptera: Chamaemyiidae), predators of the hemlock woolly adelgid in the Pacific Northwest
Glenn R. Kohler, Kimberly F. Wallin, Darrell W. Ross
9:53 AM0349The spider community of eastern hemlock: Potential population regulators of hemlock woolly adelgid (Adelges tsugae)?
Rachael Elaina Mallis, Lynne Rieske Kinney, James Harwood
10:05 AM0350Influence of the entomopathogenic nematode, Steinernema carpocapsae, on pistachio soil arthropod populations
Amanda K Hodson, Edwin E. Lewis, Joel P. Siegel
10:17 AM0351Pathogenicity of Peruvian Paecilomyces fumosoroseus isolates against the silverleaf whitefly Bemisia tabaci biotype B (Hemiptera: Aleyrodidae)
Jorge Achata, Marcel Gutiérrez-Correa, Jürgen Kroschel, Norma Mujica, Octavio Zegarra

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