Session: Ten-Minute Papers, P-IE: Ants, Bees & Pollination (2009 ESA Annual Meeting, December 13-16, 2009)

Wednesday, December 16, 2009: 1:30 PM-5:00 PM

Room 207, Second Floor (Convention Center)

Moderators:

Rosalind James
Rodrigo Krugner

1:30 PM

Introductory Remarks

1:35 PM

1208

Experimental manipulation of the reproductive quality of honey bee queens (Apis mellifera L.)

David Tarpy, North Carolina State University; Jennifer Keller, North Carolina State University; Joel R. Caren, North Carolina State University; Deborah A. Delaney, Washington State University

1:47 PM

1209

Prevalence and vectoring of the fire ant pathogen, Kneallhazia solenopsae, by fire ant decapitating phorid flies

David Oi, USDA - ARS; Steven M. Valles, USDA - ARS; Sanford D. Porter, USDA - ARS

1:59 PM

1210

Phorid flies, Pseudacteon spp. (Diptera: Phoridae) affect forager size ratios of red imported fire ants Solenopsis invicta (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in Texas

Robert Puckett, Texas A&M University; Marvin K. Harris, Texas A&M University; Roger E. Gold, Texas A&M University

2:11 PM

1211

Local shifts in the foraging range of Azteca instabilis induced by an entomopathogenic fungus infecting its mutualistic partner, Coccus viridis

Doug Jackson, University of Michigan

2:23 PM

1212

Establishment and expansion of a third fire ant decapitating fly (Pseudacteon obtusus) in North Central Florida

Sanford D. Porter, USDA - ARS; Lu Yongyue, South China Agricultural University

2:35 PM

1213

Different species of imported fire ants coexist in new developments in middle Tennessee

Samuel Ochieng, Tennessee State University; Frank Mrema, Tennessee State University

2:47 PM

1214

Assembly of a twig-nesting ant community: disturbance as a window to non-neutral processes

Stacy M. Philpott, University of Toledo

2:59 PM

1215

Native tree facilitates the winter survival of the invasive Argentine ant

Robert John Brightwell, North Carolina State University; Jules Silverman, North Carolina State University

3:11 PM

Break

3:26 PM

1216

The role of ant biodiversity, temporal, and spatial foraging dynamics in maintaining a system of biological control in an organic coffee agroecosystem in Chiapas, Mexico

Andrew John MacDonald, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor

3:38 PM

1218

The buzz on attraction of blue vane traps to native bees

Sujaya Rao, Oregon State University; Oksana Ostroverkhova, Oregon State University; William Stephen, Oregon State University

3:50 PM

1219

Friend and foe: blueberry pollinators as mummy berry vectors

Matthew Grieshop, Michigan State University; Krista Buehrer, Michigan State University; Rufus Isaacs, Michigan State University

4:02 PM

1220

Are native bees important pollinators of pumpkin in New York?

Derek Artz, Cornell University; Brian A. Nault, Cornell University

4:14 PM

1221

Using flowering buckwheat to increase crop pollination in agricultural landscapes of varying complexity

Julianna Tuell, Michigan State University; Rufus Isaacs, Michigan State University

4:26 PM

1222

Disease transmission in solitary bees—the case of chalkbrood in Megachile rotundata

Rosalind James, USDA - ARS; Ellen Klinger, USDA - ARS; Craig Huntzinger, USDA-ARS

4:38 PM

1223

Beneficial bacteria in honey bees and their function in bee colonies

Diana Sammataro, Carl Hayden Bee Research Center; Tobias Oloffson, Lund University; Alejandra Vasquez, Lund University

4:50 PM

Concluding Remarks

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