Ten-Minute Papers, P-IE: Behavioral & Population Ecology

Wednesday, December 15, 2010: 10:30 AM-12:40 PM
Eaton (Town and Country Hotel and Convention Center)
Organizer :
Paul W. Borth
Moderator:
Saskya van Nouhuys
10:30 AM
Introductory Remarks
10:35 AM
Phoretic dispersal of armored scale crawlers (Hemiptera: Diaspididae)
Richard Stouthamer, University of California; Joseph C. Morse, University of California, Riverside; Paul Rugman-Jones, University of California
10:47 AM
How dicyphine mirid bugs (Heteroptera, Miridae) attach and walk on adhesive hairy plant surfaces
Dagmar Voigt, Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel, Zoological Institute; Stanislav N. Gorb, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel
10:59 AM
The overwintering behavior of Harmonia axyridis (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) in Northeast China
JP. Michaud, Kansas State University; Su Wang, Beijing Academy of Agriculture & Forestry Sciences
11:11 AM
Does host location in endemic conditions favour convergence of olfactory signal in sympatric bark beetles?
Deepa S. Pureswaran, Natural Resources Canada; Richard W. Hofstetter, Northern Arizona University; Brian T. Sullivan, USDA, Forest Service
11:35 AM
Floral complexity and bumble bee foraging: A test of the efficacy backup hypothesis
Rainee L Kaczorowski, University of Arizona; Anne Leonard, University of Arizona; Anna Dornhaus, University of Arizona; Daniel Papaj, University of Arizona
11:47 AM
A tale of two species: Orius insidiosus and Orius pumilio share a predatory niche on an organic farm in Florida
Jeffrey P. Shapiro, USDA - ARS; Paul Shirk, USDA - ARS; Stuart Reitz, USDA, Agricultural Research Service
12:11 PM
Concluding Remarks