Understanding and Capitalizing on Agricultural Biodiversity in IPM/IRM

Tuesday, December 14, 2010: 8:00 AM-12:00 PM
Garden Salon 2 (Town and Country Hotel and Convention Center)
Organizers:
Caydee Savinelli
Graham P. Head
Daniel Vincent
8:00 AM
Welcoming Remarks
8:05 AM
IRAC - US - Our role in IRM
Daniel Vincent, DuPont Crop Protection
8:13 AM
Spatial & temporal diversity of polyphagous pests - Corn earworm (Helicoverpa zea)
Patricia V. Pietrantonio, Texas A&M University; Bradley W. Hopkins, Texas A&M University
8:34 AM
Natural refugia - GM crops
Graham P. Head, Monsanto Company
8:55 AM
Fall armyworm:  Management of a genetically-complicated migratory pest
Robert Meagher, USDA - ARS; Rodney Nagoshi, USDA - ARS
9:16 AM
Impact of Lygus lineolaris management on biodiversity in cotton IPM
Jeffrey Gore, Mississippi State University; Donald Cook, Mississippi State University; Angus L. Catchot, Mississippi State University; Fred Musser, Mississippi State University; B. Rogers Leonard, Louisiana State University; Gus Lorenz, University of Arkansas; Scott D. Stewart, University of Tennessee
9:37 AM
Whitefly management - Multicrop systems
Peter Ellsworth, University of Arizona; John Palumbo, University of Arizona
9:58 AM
Break
10:08 AM
Managing agricultural landscapes for beneficial insect services
Douglas Landis, Michigan State University
10:50 AM
Ecosystems and agricultural relationships
John Finisdore, World Resources Institute
11:11 AM
Pollinator services in agricultural landscape
Claire Kremen, University of California, Berkeley
11:32 AM
Pollinator diversity in urban settings
Gordon W. Frankie, University of California-Berkeley
11:53 AM
Concluding Remarks
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