Session: Developing Effective Management Strategies for Curculionidae: Wee-Vil Overcome (2009 ESA Annual Meeting, December 13-16, 2009)

Charles Vincent, Agriculture & Agri-Food Canada; Gilles Boiteau, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada; Francois Meloche, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada; Tracy C. Leskey, USDA - ARS; Bruce Colpitts, University of New Brunswick

8:25 AM

0536

Organic management of plum curculio (Conotrachelus nenuphar) in Michigan

Matthew Grieshop, Michigan State University; David Epstein, Michigan State University; Mark E. Whalon, Michigan State University

8:45 AM

Break

9:00 AM

0537

Scents and sensibility: chemical ecology of plum curculio

Tracy C. Leskey, USDA - ARS; Starker E. Wright, USDA, Agricultural Research Service; Jaime C. Pinero, University of Hawaii-Manoa; Aijun Zhang, USDA - ARS

9:20 AM

0538

Response of plum curculio to artificial volatiles and to conspecifics

V. Hock, IRDA; Gerald Chouinard, IRDA; Daniel Cormier, Centre de recherche et siège social; Tracy C. Leskey, USDA - ARS; Aijun Zhang, USDA - ARS; André Pichette, IRDA

9:40 AM

0539

The enemy within: the case of plum curculio (Conotrachelus nenuphar) in Alabama peaches

Akotsen-Mensah, Auburn University-Clement; Henry Fadamiro, Auburn University; Robert Boozer, Auburn University

10:00 AM

0540

A pain in the pepper: developing behaviorally-based management strategies for the pepper weevil (Anthonomus eugenii)

Karla M. Addesso, University of Florida; Heather McAuslane, University of Florida; Hans T. Alborn, USDA - ARS; Corraine A. Scott, Univeristy of Florida

10:20 AM

0541

A curculionid attacking fruit trees at their bud stage: from behavior and ecology to monitoring and control of the apple blossom weevil (Anthonomus pomorum)

Silvia Dorn, ETH Zürich; Karsten Mody, ETH Zurich; Claudia Notter-Hausmann, ETH Zurich

10:40 AM

Concluding Remarks

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