Session: Student Competition for the President's Prize, P-IE: Biological Control: II (2009 ESA Annual Meeting, December 13-16, 2009)

Monday, December 14, 2009: 8:30 AM-11:00 AM

Room 202, Second Floor (Convention Center)

Moderator:

Eric Rebek

8:30 AM

Introductory Remarks

8:35 AM

0299

Prey suppression improved despite intraguild predation: the roles of intraspecific regulation and resource partitioning

Yao-Hua Law, University of California-Davis; Jay A. Rosenheim, University of California, Davis

8:47 AM

0300

Attraction of herbivores and their natural enemies to horse nettle (Solanum carolinense L.) plants

Rupesh Ram Kariyat, Pennsylvania State University; Kerry Mauck, Pennsylvania State University; Mark C. Mescher, Associate Professor, Pennsylvania State University; Consuelo M. De Moraes, Pennsylvania State University; Andrew G. Stephenson, The Pennsylvania State University

8:59 AM

0301

Biology and host specificity of Eumolpus asclepiadeus: a potential biological control agent of Vincetoxicum spp.

Aaron S. Weed, Dartmouth College; André Gassmann, CABI; Richard Casagrande, University of Rhode Island

9:11 AM

0302

Biology of Amblyseius largoensis (Acari: Phytoseiidae) when feeding on the red palm mite, Raoiella indica (Acari: Tenuipalpidae)

Daniel Carrillo, University of Florida; Jorge E. Peña, University of Florida

9:23 AM

0303

Compatibility of entomopathogenic fungus, Isaria fumosorosea, and the aphid parasitoid, Lysiphlebus testaceipes, compatibility for managing infestations of brown citrus aphid, Toxoptera citricida

David A. Pick, Florida Atlantic University; Pasco Avery, University of Florida; Wayne B. Hunter, USDA - ARS; Charles A. Powell, University of Florida-IFAS; David G. Hall, USDA, Agricultural Research Service

9:35 AM

Break

9:47 AM

0304

Everyone's a loser: late instar parasitism of whitefly hosts by Encarsia inaron has negative consequences for both parasitoid and host

Cristina M. Brady, University of Kentucky; Jennifer A. White, University of Kentucky

9:59 AM

0305

Evaluating the efficacy of Podisus maculiventris and Isaria fumosorosea as biological control agents of Microtheca ochroloma

Cecil O. Montemayor, University of Florida; Ronald D. Cave, University of Florida

10:11 AM

0306

Competitive interactions between a native and an introduced parasitoid of the soybean aphid, Aphis glycines (Homoptera: Aphididae)

Camila Botero, University of Wisconsin-Madison; David B. Hogg, University of Wisconsin

10:23 AM

0307

Persistence of entomopathogenic nematodes applied by drip irrigation to control Vitacea polistiformis in ‘Cynthiana’ grape

Roaida Said, Florida A&M University; Raymond L. Hix, Florida A&M University; Stuart Reitz, USDA, Agricultural Research Service

10:35 AM

0308

What tangled webs they weave: evaluating potential prey items in hemlock canopies

Rachael Elaina Mallis, University of Kentucky; Lynne Rieske-Kinney, University of Kentucky

10:47 AM

0309

Survey of entomopathogens attacking larval western corn rootworm (Diabrotica virgifera virgifera) in Iowa cornfields

Melissa L. Rynerson, Iowa State University; Aaron J. Gassmann, Iowa State University

10:59 AM

Concluding Remarks

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