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

Student Competition for the President's Prize, P-IE: Behavioral Ecology

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

Room 211, Second Floor (Convention Center)

Moderator:

Ann M. Fraser

8:30 AM

Introductory Remarks

8:42 AM

Impact of late season injury by a gall-inducing fly, Dasineura oxycoccana (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae), on flowering in cranberry

Sunil Tewari, University of Massachusetts, Amherst; Anne Averill, University of Massachusetts

8:54 AM

Instinct vs learning in the initiation of a species-specific caterpillar-ant mutualism

Leah C. Blazek, Kalamazoo College; Ann M. Fraser, Kalamazoo College

9:06 AM

Short-range vibrational communication in Rhopalidae with implications for Hemipteran acoustic evolution: affection or antagonism?

Ariel F. Zimmerman, University of Florida

9:18 AM

Competition between herbivore feeding guilds on cotton plants is species specific and likely plant-mediated

Adam Zeilinger, University of California; Dawn M. Olson, USDA, Agricultural Research Service; David A. Andow, University of Minnesota

9:30 AM

Influences of vermicompost on host preference, development, and performance of the cabbage aphid pests, Myzus persicae and Brevicoryne brassicae

Amos Gray Little, North Carolina State University; Yasmin J. Cardoza, North Carolina State University

9:42 AM

Characterization of the host selection behavior of western tarnished plant bug (Lygus hesperus Knight)

Ram B. Shrestha, Texas Tech University; Megha N. Parajulee, Texas A&M AgriLife Research; Stanley C. Caroll, Texas AgriLife Research Center

9:54 AM

Temptations of weevil: feeding and ovipositional preferences of Hylobius warreni on bark in laboratory bioassays

Gareth R. Hopkins, Utah State University; Matthew Klingenberg, University of Northern British Columbia; Brian H. Aukema, Canadian Forest Service & University of Northern British Columbia

10:06 AM

Break

10:18 AM

Quantifying apparent competition among leafminers and their shared natural enemies in the field

Eleanor J. Blitzer, University of California; Stephen C Welter, University of California-Berkeley

10:30 AM

Response of the western pine beetle (Dendroctonus brevicomis) to variation in host phytochemistry

Thomas S. Davis, University of Idaho; Richard W. Hofstetter, Northern Arizona University

10:42 AM

Does elevated carbon dioxide universally alter phytohormone signaling?

Clare Casteel, University of Illinois; May R. Berenbaum, University of Illinois; Evan H. DeLucia, University of Illinois

10:54 AM

Concluding Remarks

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