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Ten-Minute Papers, SEB: Behavior and Evolution

Wednesday, December 16, 2009: 1:30 PM-5:00 PM
Room 102, First Floor (Convention Center)
Moderators:
Edward L. Vargo
Floyd W. Shockley
1:30 PM
Introductory Remarks
1:35 PM
1241
The semantic web and linked data for entomologists
Peter J. DeVries, University of Wisconsin-Madison
1:47 PM
1242
An update on the tumbling flower beetles of the New World (Coleoptera: Mordellidae)
Christy Jo Geraci, Smithsonian Institution; Terry Erwin, Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History
1:59 PM
1243
Scent of a female: The role of pheromones in the reproductive isolation of six species of Utetheisa (Lepidoptera: Arctiidae) on the Galápagos Islands, Ecuador
Sarah E. Garrett, Wake Forest University; William E. Conner, Wake Forest University
2:11 PM
1244
Effect of male mating history on females in Spalangia endius (Hymenoptera: Pteromalidae), a parasitoid of house fly pupae
Bethia H. King, Northern Illinois University; C. Robyn Fischer, Northern Illinois University
2:23 PM
1245
Open-field, prey capture behavior of the empusid, Idolomantis diabolica (Mantodea: Empusidae), exhibits motor plasticity similar to cockroaches and other mantids
Frederick Prete, Northeastern Illinois University
2:35 PM
1247
What multiple DNA markers revealed about Coptotermes formosanus population structure
Tracie M. Jenkins, University of Georgia; Brian T. Forschler, University of Georgia; Dan Suiter, University of Georgia; Tyler D. Eaton, University of Georgia
2:47 PM
1248
Variation in excavation rate among tunnelers in the Formosan subterranean termite
Paul Bardunias, State University of New York; Nan-Yao Su, University of Florida
2:59 PM
Break
3:11 PM
1249
Communication signals used in worker-drone interactions in the honey bee, Apis mellifera
Marina Boucher, University of North Carolina-Charlotte; Stanley S. Schneider, University of North Carolina-Charlotte
3:23 PM
1250
The selective advantage of colony growth in the western harvester ant, Pogonomyrmex occidentalis
Blaine J. Cole, University of Houston; Diane C. Wiernasz, University of Houston
3:35 PM
1251
Brain scaling in ants: body to brain size ratio
Marc A. Seid, University of Scranton; Armando Castillo, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute; Luis Elizondo, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute; William Wcislo, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
3:47 PM
1252
Hey babies, I'll protect you! Resources and defensiveness in killer bees
Justin Schmidt, Southwestern Biological Institute
3:59 PM
1253
The organization and allocation of foragers in the Florida harvester ant (Pogonomyrmex badius)
Christina Kwapich, Arizona State University; Walter R. Tschinkel, Florida State University
4:11 PM
1254
Mitochondrial DNA implicates the Paraná “invasion cradle” in another ant introduction-the South American big-headed ant, Pheidole obscurithorax
Alexander L. Wild, University of Illinois; Andrew V. Suarez, University of Illinois
4:23 PM
1255
Colony structure of the odorous house ant (Tapinoma sessile)
Sean Menke, North Carolina State University; Warren Booth, North Carolina State University; Rob R. Dunn, North Carolina State University; Jules Silverman, North Carolina State University
4:35 PM
Concluding Remarks
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