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

Monday, December 14, 2009: 7:00 AM-6:00 PM

Hall D, First Floor (Convention Center)

Influence of predation and parasitism on native coccinellid communities in Ohio agricultural landscapes

Hilary Edgington, The Ohio State University; Mary M. Gardiner, The Ohio State University

Insect herbivory of black henbane (Hyoscyamus niger): a research proposal and preliminary assessment from Colorado, Montana and Wyoming

Christa Fettig, Colorado State University; Ruth A. Hufbauer, Colorado State University

D0029

Enlisting citizen scientists to examine the influence of landscape on native and exotic coccinellids in Ohio: The Buckeye Lady Beetle Blitz

Bethany Hunt, University of Kentucky; Mary M. Gardiner, The Ohio State University

D0030

Rove beetles (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae) as potential complements to ladybeetle control of soybean aphid Aphis glycines Matsumura (Sternorrhyncha: Aphididae) on its primary host, Rhamnus cathartica L.

Adam Brunke, University of Guelph; Rebecca H. Hallett, University of Guelph

D0031

Extraction and reintroduction of Homalodisca vitripennis reovirus (HoVRV) collected from Texas glassy-winged sharpshooter populations

Patrick Marshall, University of Texas-Tyler; Wayne B. Hunter, USDA - ARS; Blake R. Bextine, University of Texas

D0032

The oleander aphid sandwich: tri-trophic interactions in milkweed systems

Sarah M. Colvin, University of Kentucky; Kenneth Yeargan, University of Kentucky

D0033

Recovery of Sasajiscymnus tsugae (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) and Laricobius nigrinus (Coleoptera: Derodontidae) released against hemlock woolly adelgid, Adelges tsugae, in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park

Abdul Hakeem, Texas A&M AgriLife Research and Extension Center; Jerome Grant, University of Tennessee; Paris L. Lambdin, University of Tennessee; David Buckley, University of Tennessee; Frank A. Hale, University of Tennessee; Rusty Rhea, USDA - Forest Service; Greg Wiggins, University of Tennessee; Glenn Taylor, Great Smoky Mountains National Park

D0034

Density-dependent dynamics of plant defense through three trophic levels: milkweed, aphids and coccinellids

Brett Blaauw, Michigan State University; Stephen B. Malcolm, Western Michigan University

D0035

Biology of Asphondylia prosopidis complex (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae) and its fungal associates: potential biological control candidates for South African mesquite

Ikju Park, University of Idaho; David Thompson, New Mexico State University; Soum Sanogo, New Mexico State University; Howard Beuhler, New Mexico State University

D0036

The suitability of Diorhabda elongata (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) as a food source for Coccinella septempunctata (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae)

Alissa Marie Berro, Oklahoma State University; Tom A. Royer, Oklahoma State University; Kristopher Giles, Oklahoma State University

D0037

Field control of citrus thrips, Scirtothrips citri, on blueberries with Beauveria bassiana in the San Joaquin Valley of California

Deane Zahn, University of California, Riverside; David R. Haviland, University of California Cooperative Extension; Joseph G. Morse, University of California

D0038

Natural history of the soybean aphid on its overwintering host Rhamnus cathartica in Indiana

Diana Castillo, Purdue University

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