Session: Sweet Tooth in Mosquitoes: How Flowers And Nectars Can Guide Us Towards Unisex Mosquito Attractants (2010 ESA Annual Meeting (December 12-15, 2010))

Sunday, December 12, 2010: 8:00 AM-12:10 PM

Royal Palm, Salon 2 (Town and Country Hotel and Convention Center)

Organizers:

Zainulabeuddin Syed
Woodbridge Foster

8:00 AM

Welcoming Remarks

8:05 AM

0046

Plants and vectors - what we need to know

Woodbridge Foster, The Ohio State University

8:25 AM

0047

Mosquitoes, biting midges and other flies attracted to flowers/nectar sources in North Central Florida

Daniel Kline, Mosquito and Fly Research Unit

8:45 AM

0048

Interactions of Florida Culex with flowers and nectar

Sandra A. Allan, USDA - ARS

9:05 AM

0049

The role of floral volatile compounds for attracting mosquitoes: the case of Silene otites (Caryophyllaceae) a plant pollinated by mosquitoes

Andreas Juergens, University of KwaZulu-Natal

9:25 AM

0050

Factors important to mosquito memory of odors associated with a sugar-meal

Michelle Sanford, University of California, Davis

9:45 AM

Break

10:05 AM

0051

Plant-based attractants for arthropods foraging at multitrophic levels

Joseph Patt, USDA - ARS

10:25 AM

0052

Nectar feeding and mosquito traps: Who will take the bait?

Miriam F. Cooperband, USDA-APHIS-PPQ-CPHST

10:45 AM

0053

Synthetic floral odors as mosquito attractants

Philip E. Otienoburu, Ohio State University

11:05 AM

0054

Field trials with floral odors as mosquito attractants

Babak Ebrahimi, The Ohio State University

11:25 AM

0055

From what distance are mosquitoes attracted to sugar sources?

Muller Muller, The Hebrew University

11:45 AM

0056

Nectar and sugar cues for mosquitoes: Summary, conclusions, and the road ahead

Zainulabeuddin Syed, University of Notre Dame

12:05 PM

Concluding Remarks

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