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Tuesday, December 11, 2007: 8:00 AM-12:00 PM |
Royal Palm Salon Six, Royal Palm Ballroom, First Floor (Town & Country) |
Ten-Minute Papers, Section Cc. Insect Vectors, Ce. Insect Pathology and Microbial Control |
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| Moderator(s): | Steven Arthurs
Joel Siegel
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| 8:00 AM | | | | Introductory Remarks |
| 8:05 AM |  | 0842 | | Efficacy of Steinernema carpocapsae applied by chemigation to control navel orangeworm, Amyelois transitella, in almonds and pistachios
Joel Siegel, Lawrence Lacey |
| 8:17 AM | | 0843 | | Entomopathogenic nematodes for control of Diaprepes abbreviatus root weevils in Florida citrus groves: Is there a role for conservation biological control?
Robin J. Stuart, Larry W. Duncan |
| 8:29 AM | | 0844 | | Parasitism of subterranean termites (Isoptera: Rhinotermitidae) by entomopathogenic nematodes (Rhabditida: Steinernematidae; Heterorhabditidae)
Hao Yu, Dawn Gouge, Paul Baker |
| 8:41 AM | | | | The Brown Marmorated Stink Bug, Halyomorpha halys: A New State Record
Barbara Bloetscher, Susan C Jones, Celeste Welty |
| 8:53 AM | | 0845 | | Laboratory evaluation of imidacloprid and entomopathogenic nematodes for control of Reticulitermes flavipes (Isoptera: Rhinotermitidae)
Farkhanda Manzoor, Ganpat Jagdale, Susan Jones, Parwinder Grewal |
| 9:05 AM | | 0846 | | Bt kills, colonizes, and sporulates extensively in its natural hosts after death
Brian A. Federici |
| 9:17 AM | | 0847 | | Potential of Bacillus thuringiensis for management of the emerald ash borer, Agrilus planipennis Fairmaire (Coleoptera: Buprestidae)
Diana Karime Londoņo, Leah S. Bauer |
| 9:29 AM | | 0848 | | Susceptibility of four species of turfgrass infesting scarabs (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) to Bacillus thuringiensis serovar japonensis strain Buibui
Andrea Bixby, Steven Alm, Kevin Power, Parwinder Grewal, Stanley Swier |
| 9:41 AM | | 0849 | | "Lure and kill": A novel approach to controlling Japanese beetle (Popillia japonica Newman)
Elizabeth Morris |
| 9:53 AM | | 0850 | | Use of a granulovirus (PoGV) and Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) to control potato tuber moth (Phthorimaea operculella) under field and storage conditions
Steven Arthurs, Lawrence Lacey |
| 10:05 AM | | | | Break |
| 10:17 AM | | 0851 | | Vertical transmission of Nosema fumiferanae in spruce budworm and consequences for early-instar survival
Kees Van Frankenhuyzen |
| 10:29 AM | | 0852 | | The historical occurrence of the microsporidia Thelohania solenopsae in Texas, and the effects of the disease on the imported fire ant, Solenopsis invicta (Hymenoptera: Formicidae).
S. Bradleigh Vinson, Walker Hale, Karen Snowden |
| 10:41 AM | | 0853 | | A new positive-strand RNA virus with unique genome characteristics from the red imported fire ant, Solenopsis invicta
Steven Valles |
| 10:53 AM | | 0854 | | Whitefly-transmitted polyvirus associated with watermelon vine decline in Puerto Rico
Jose Carlos V. Rodrigues, Linda Wessel-Beaver, Consuelo Estevez-Jensen |
| 11:05 AM | | 0855 | | Application of molecular techniques to characterize the vector relationship between striped cucumber beetle and bacterial wilt of cucurbits
Robert F. Mitchell, Lawrence M. Hanks |
| 11:17 AM | | 0856 | | Symbiotic bacteria determine the abilities of the sweet potato whitefly Bemisia tabaci to transmit tomato yellow leaf curl virus
Murad Ghanim, Yuval Gottlieb, Henryk Czosnek, Fabrice Vavre, Fluery Frederic, Einat Zchori-Fein |
| 11:29 AM | | 0857 | | Monitoring incidence and spread of iris yellow spot virus (Tospovirus) in transplant versus direct-seeded onions
Cynthia L. Hsu, Denis A. Shah, Marc Fuchs, Christy Hoepting, Anthony M. Shelton, Brian Nault |
