Wednesday, December 12, 2007: 7:00 AM-3:00 PM

Grand Exhibit Hall, First Floor (Town & Country)

Cd. Behavior and Ecology

 D0540Genetic modification of host acceptance by a seed beetle: Quasi-natural vs. artificial selection
Frank Messina, Jake Jones, AmberLeigh Muller
D0541Attraction of Harmonia axyridis to outdoor blacklight traps: Seasonal anddiurnal pattern in North Carolina
Christine A. Nalepa
 D0542Coleopteran fauna of a subalpine meadow and their ecology, San Juan County, Colorado
Melanie Bergolc
 D0543Plant repellancy of essential oils to Japanese beetles (Popillia japonica Newman)
Nadeer Youssef, Jason Oliver, Michael Reding, Chris Ranger, James Moyseenko
D0544Effect of adult age of Tenebrio molitor (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae) on progeny survival, growth, and development
Juan A. Morales-Ramos, M. Guadalupe Rojas, David Shapiro-Ilan, Louis Tedders
 D0545Community structure in yeasts from Neotropical cerambycid beetles
Amy Berkov, Olga Calderon, Antonia Florio, Nelson A. Rodriguez, Kushya Sugarman, Christopher Roddick
 D0546Influence of leaf and root herbivory by the striped cucumber beetle (Acalymma vittatum) on pollination and plant performance in butternut squash
Kristen R. Hladun, Lynn S. Adler
 D0547Formation of the Western Bark Beetle Research Group--USDA Forest Service Research and Development
Barbara J. Bentz, Christopher J. Fettig, Nancy Gillette, Matt Hansen, Jane L. Hayes, Rick Kelsey, John E. Lundquist, Ann M. Lynch, Jose Negron, Chris Niwa, Robert A. Progar, Steven J. Seybold
 D0548Inventory of the Nitidulidae found in flowers of Calycanthus floridus in Northeast, Ohio
Nuris Acosta, Roger Williams, Dan Fickle
 D0549Are yeasts in the midguts of Neotropical cerambycid beetles intracellular or extracellular?
Olga Calderon, Amy Berkov
 D0550Host range of newly invasive Mediterranean pine engraver, Orthotomicus erosus
Jana C. Lee, Mary Louise Flint, Steven J Seybold
 D0551Diurnal phenology of flower-visiting Cerambycidae (Coleoptera) on roughleaf dogwood in a temperate hardwood forest
Royce Bitzer, Marlin E. Rice
 D0552Predicting post-fire bark beetle attack and tree mortality in ponderosa pine forest type three years following prescribed and wildland fires in the northern Rocky Mountains
Ryan S. Davis, Barbara J. Bentz, Sharon M. Hood
 D0553Beetle assemblages in constructed versus natural wetlands on the eastern shore of Maryland
Lauren E. Culler, William O. Lamp
 D0554Riffle beetle sensitivity to low pH and their role as bioindicators of acid mine impacted streams
Jared Renner, Ryan Forbes, Kelly Johnson
 D0555Male physiological condition and female egg load in relation to pairing status and time of day in the Japanese beetle (Popillia japonica)
Natasha Tigreros, Rashmi Jaydev, Paul V. Switzer
 D0556Within-tree southern pine beetle mortality rates in relation to tree and stand variables, and their impact on SPBMODEL predictions
Marita P. Lih, James D. Smith, Andrew Birt, Robert N. Coulson, James M. Guldin, Fred M. Stephen
 D0557Living on the edge: Carabidae diversity and distribution across an ag-forest ecotone
Timothy W. Leslie, Shelby Fleischer, David J. Biddinger, Jason R. Rohr, Robert Davidson
 D0558Parasitoid success is altered by host diet consumption and nutrient utilization
Richard A. Redak, S. Nelson Thompson
 D0559Mediation of herbivore-natural enemy interactions by Neotyphodium endophytes: The role of insect behavioral response
Douglas S. Richmond
D0560Automated classification of morphologically identical mosquito sibling species using wingbeat harmonics
Aubrey Moore, Charles Apperson, John McLaughlin, Philipp Kirsch, Dariusz Czokajlo
D0561Foraging behaviour in pergid sawflies: Following the leader
Samuel Reid, Judith Reinhard, Jochen Zeil, Paul Cooper
D0562Genetic studies with the orange variant of the southern green stink bug: Inheritance, sperm precedence, and disassortative mating
Peter A. Follett, Fran Calvert, Mary Golden
 D0563Does the weedy nigthshade Solanum viarum initiate induced plant defenses in response to herbivory by generalist and specialist insects?
Raymond Hix, Moses T. K. Kairo, Stuart Reitz
 D0564Making entomological greeting cards
Joseph L. Spencer, Gerald Ghidiu
D0565Gas chromatography for detection of fruit fly infestation (Diptera: Tephritidae)
Paul E. Kendra, Amy L. Roda, Wayne S. Montgomery, Nancy D. Epsky, Elena Q. Schnell, Robert R. Heath
 D0566Population dynamics in blowflies: Ovipositional behavior, intraguild predation, and equilibrium
Wesley Godoy, Luciane Galindo, Juliana Gião
 D0567Feeding and ovipositional choice in blowfly parasitoids
Carolina Reigada, Wesley Godoy
 D0568Inventory of the insect fauna on Everglades tree islands
Ronald D. Cave, J. Howard Frank, Michael S. Burton
 D0569Native pollinators and their association with commercial fruit and vegetable production in Ohio
Roger Williams, Roger Downer, Dan Fickle
 D0570Butterflies in the bank: Biodiversity investment returns in a large versus multiple small forest fragments
Janice L. Bossart
D0571The effects of cultural practices and field edges on the harvestmen (Opiliones) fauna of lowbush blueberry fields in Washington and Hancock Co., Maine
Francis A. Drummond, Judith A. Collins, Sara Hoffmann, Darlene Maloney, Daniel T. Jennings, Howard Y. Forsythe, James C. Cokendolpher
 D0572Heterogeneity of cursorial arthropod species composition and the importance of scale
Melissa Garza, Wendy Willis, Dessie Underwood
 D0573Impacts of prescribed burning and habitat fragmentation on moths in mixed-oak forests of Ohio
David J. Horn, J. Kahn
 D0574A database of non-indigenous biota in Michigan: Understanding persistence and spread of introduced invasive species
Robert G. Ahern, Doug Landis
 D0575Does the lack of dispersing adults limit richness of aquatic insect communities in urban headwater streams?
Robert F. Smith, William O. Lamp
 D0576Butterflies and moths of Pacific Northwest forests and woodlands: Rare, endangered, and management sensitive species
Jeffrey C. Miller, Paul C. Hammond
 D0577Butterflies of Big Oak Tree State Park, Missouri: A remnant Mississippi River hardwood bottomland forest
Kent Fothergill, Kelly V Tindall
 D0578Transient paralysis capacity of a koinobiont parasitoid
Nicolas Desneux, Ruth J Barta, George E Heimpel
 D0579Numbers of pollen grains produced by host plants and utilized by the solitary bee Megachile wheeleri Mitchell (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae)
David M. Gordon
D0580The use of museum data in assessing the status of bumble bees in Illinois
Jennifer Grixti, Lisa Wong, Colin Favret
 D0581Buzz digging and buzz plastering in the black-and-yellow mud dauber wasp, Sceliphron caementarium (Drury)
Tom Fink, Niels Skals, Vijay Ramalingam, Douglas Streett, John Seiner
 D0582Distribution of Nasutitermes (Insecta: Isoptera) mounds in the Parupa region, Gran Sabana, Bolivar State, Venezuela
Carmen Andara, Solange Issa
 D0583How important is natural delay of mating to population dynamics of codling moth, Cydia pomonella (L.) (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae) in Washington apple orchards?
Vincent P. Jones, Nik Wiman, Daniel Durr, Matt Grieshop
 D0584Monitoring fire effects on the host plant of Florida leafwing (Anaea troglodyta floridalis) and Bartam's hairstreak (Strymon acis bartrami) butterflies in Everglades National Park
Aerin D. Land
 D0585How do Mexican conservation targets fit hawk moth diversity hotspots?
Jorge Leon-Cortes, Ian Kitching
 D0586Heads up: Sexual dimorphism in house crickets (Acheta domesticus)
Sean E. Walker, J. Andrew Roberts, Israel Adame, Corey J. Collins, Daniel Lim

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