Session: The Changing Nature of Pest Management for Ornamentals and Turfgrass (2008 ESA Annual Meeting, November 16-19, 2008)

The Changing Nature of Pest Management for Ornamentals and Turfgrass

Sunday, November 16, 2008: 8:00 AM-12:00 PM

Room A1, First Floor (Reno-Sparks Convention Center)

Organizers:

David Held
Nate Royalty

8:00 AM

Introductory Remarks

8:05 AM

Development and implementation of integrated pest management in lawn care

Parwinder Grewal, The Ohio State University; Alfred Alumai, Ohio State University

8:17 AM

Natural enemies and site characteristics affecting native and invasive white grubs (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) on transition-zone golf courses

Carl T. Redmond, University of Kentucky; Daniel A. Potter, University of Kentucky

8:29 AM

Effectiveness of natural fertilizers as deterrents to problematic vertebrate predators of white grubs in turf

Robert Williamson, University of Wisconsin

8:41 AM

Integrating endophyte-mediated resistance and biological controls to manage turfgrass insects: Physiological and behavioral considerations

Douglas S. Richmond, Purdue University; M. Walter Baldauf, Purdue University; Victoria A. Caceres, Purdue University

8:53 AM

White grub and nematode population dynamics after application of Steinernema scarabaei for white grub management

Albrecht M. Koppenhöfer, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

9:05 AM

Break

9:17 AM

Turfgrass billbug: A rising pest in North Carolina

Joseph P. Doskocil, North Carolina State University

9:29 AM

Mechanisms involved in conferring pyrethroid resistance to populations of adult annual bluegrass weevils, Listronotus maculicollis (Dietz) (Coleoptera: Curculionidae), from Connecticut golf courses

Darryl Ramoutar, University of Rhode Island

9:41 AM

Endophyte-mediated resistance to black cutworm as a function of plant cultivar and endophyte strain in tall fescue

M. Walter Baldauf, Purdue University; Wade Mace, Purdue University; Douglas S. Richmond, Purdue University

9:53 AM

Season-long suppression of black cutworm (Agrotis ipsilon) on golf courses using a baculovirus

Andrea J. Bixby, University of Kentucky; Daniel A. Potter, University of Kentucky

10:05 AM

Aloft®: A new tool to change turf insect management practices

L. Douglass Houseworth, Arysta LifeScience

10:17 AM

Break

10:32 AM

Where have the whiteflies gone?: Outbreak and decline of Tetraleurodes perileuca on live oaks following Hurricane Katrina

Julie A. Dobbs, Mississippi State University; David Held, Mississippi State University

10:44 AM

Insecticides change, but resistance continues: Developing a functional IPM program for southern chinch bugs

Eileen A. Buss, University of Florida

10:56 AM

Testing contact and systemic insecticides against southern chinch bugs with a new bioassay

Cara Vazquez, University of Florida; Marjorie A. Hoy, University of Florida; Nate Royalty, Bayer Environmental Science; Eileen A. Buss, University of Florida

11:08 AM

Pest management of invasive species on tropical ornamentals

Arnold H. Hara, University of Hawaii at Manoa; Kyle K. Onuma, Hawaii Department of Agriculture

11:20 AM

Ant exclusion to promote conservation biological control of soft scales (Hemiptera: Coccidae) on landscape plants

Sarah J. Vanek, University of Kentucky; Daniel A. Potter, University of Kentucky

11:32 AM

Concluding Remarks

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