Session: Graduate Student Ten-Minute Paper Competition, P-IE: Biological Control of Insects & Weeds (2010 ESA Annual Meeting (December 12-15, 2010))

Monday, December 13, 2010: 8:30 AM-11:30 AM

Royal Palm, Salon 3 (Town and Country Hotel and Convention Center)

Moderator:

Jerome Grant

8:30 AM

Introductory Remarks

8:35 AM

Comparing the dispersal abilities of Lygus hesperus and its predators using a novel large-scale mark-capture technique

Frances S. Sivakoff, University of California; Jay A. Rosenheim, University of California, Davis; James R. Hagler, USDA - ARS

8:47 AM

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Comparing simple versus diverse trap crops for control of the crucifer flea beetle (Phyllotreta cruciferae)

Joyce E. Parker, Washington State University; William E. Snyder, Washington State University; Sanford D. Eigenbrode, University of Idaho

8:59 AM

0357

Comparison of ecosystem services provided by natural enemies in aphid-susceptible and aphid-resistant soybeans (Glycine max)

T. Michael Kates, Michigan State University; Christina DiFonzo, Michigan State University; Dechun Wang, Michigan State University

9:11 AM

0358

The role of nighttime predation in suppressing soybean aphid populations

Ian M. Grettenberger, University of California-Davis

9:23 AM

0359

Metabolic profiling: a new tool in the prediction of host-specificity in classical biological control of weeds?

Carole B. Rapo, University of Idaho; Sanford D. Eigenbrode, University of Idaho; Hariet L. Hinz, Centre for Agriculture and Biosciences International (CABI); John Gaskin, USDA - ARS; William J. Price, University of Idaho; Urs Schaffner, CABI; Mark Schwarzländer, University of Idaho

9:35 AM

0360

Evaluation of field border management on predation of weed seeds

Aaron F. Fox, North Carolina State University; David Orr, North Carolina State University; Chris Reberg-Horton, North Carolina State University; Chris Moorman, North Carolina State University; Geoff Balme, North Carolina State University

9:47 AM

0361

Quarantine evaluation of the weevil, Eucryptorrhynchus brandti (Harold) (Coleoptera: Curculionidae), a potential biological control agent of the tree-of-heaven

Nathan J. Herrick, Florida A&M University; Scott M. Salom, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Loke T. Kok, Virginia Tech; Thomas McAvoy, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Amy Lynne Snyder, Virginia Tech

9:59 AM

Break

10:14 AM

0362

Field test on parasitoid recruitment of maize (Zea mays L.) along its domestication and selection gradients against a specialist herbivore (Dalbulus maidis, Hemiptera: Cicadellidae)

Edwin Bellota, Texas A&M University; Julio S. Bernal, Texas A&M University

10:26 AM

0363

Entomopathogenic nematodes for codling moth management in organic apple orchards in Michigan

Nathaniel J. Walton, Michigan State University; Matthew Grieshop, Michigan State University

10:38 AM

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