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Monday, December 10, 2007: 8:00 AM-12:00 PM |
Golden West, Atlas Ballroom, First Floor (Town & Country) |
C, Session Ca2. Biological Control |
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| Organizer(s): | L. Nicole Davidson
John J. Obrycki
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| 8:00 AM | | | | Introductory Remarks |
| 8:05 AM |  | 0341 | | Niche partitioning as a mechanism for increased prey consumption with increasing predator diversity
Gretchen Beth Snyder, William Snyder |
| 8:17 AM | | 0342 | | Nitrogen 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 AM | | 0343 | | Influence of nitrogen fertility on endophyte-herbivore-natural enemy interactions
M. Walter Baldauf, Douglas S. Richmond |
| 8:41 AM | | 0344 | | Indirect effects of imidacloprid on natural enemies of the boxwood spider mite, Eotetranychus buxi
Scott Creary, Michael Raupp |
| 8:53 AM | | 0345 | | How 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 AM | | 0346 | | Use 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 AM | | 0347 | | The 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 AM | | 0348 | | Life 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 AM | | 0349 | | The spider community of eastern hemlock: Potential population regulators of hemlock woolly adelgid (Adelges tsugae)?
Rachael Elaina Mallis, Lynne Rieske Kinney, James Harwood |
| 10:05 AM | | 0350 | | Influence of the entomopathogenic nematode, Steinernema carpocapsae, on pistachio soil arthropod populations
Amanda K Hodson, Edwin E. Lewis, Joel P. Siegel |
| 10:17 AM | | 0351 | | Pathogenicity 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 |
