Graduate Student Ten-Minute Paper Competition, P-IE: IPM - Horticultural

Monday, December 13, 2010: 8:50 AM-12:00 PM
Royal Palm, Salon 6 (Town and Country Hotel and Convention Center)
Moderator:
Gregg Nuessly
8:50 AM
Introductory Remarks
9:07 AM
Real-time monitoring of the plum curculio, Conotrachelus nenuphar Herbst (Coleoptera: Curculionidae)
Roger Duncan Selby, Michigan State University; Mark E. Whalon, Michigan State University; Stuart H. Gage, Michigan State University
9:19 AM
9:31 AM
Phenology model creation and validation for striped cucumber beetle (Acalymma vittatum)
Amanda Bachmann, Penn State University; Amy Sue Alesch, Iowa State University; Ximena Ciblis, Iowa State University; Stephen Crawford, Pennsylvania State University; Logan M. Minter, University of Kentucky; Tiffany Wisniewski, Pennsylvania State University; Shelby Fleischer, Pennsylvania State University
9:55 AM
Asynchrony of mating behavior of the olive fruit fly, Bactrocera oleae (Gmel.) (Diptera: Tephritidae) with host (olive tree) phenology in Northern California
Soledad C. Villamil, University of California, Davis; Edwin E. Lewis, University of California; Frank G. Zalom, University of California, Davis
10:07 AM
Avoidance behavior of adult whiteflies (Bemisia argentifolii) to predatory beetles on cucumber and its implication in pest management
Doo-Hyung Lee, USDA, Agricultural Research Service; Jan P. Nyrop, Cornell University; John Sanderson, Cornell University
10:19 AM
Break
10:32 AM
Performance responses of navel orangeworm, Amyelois transitella (Walker), to damage treatments on eleven almond varieties
Kelly Hamby, University of California; Frank G. Zalom, University of California, Davis
10:44 AM
Foraging efficiency of selected lines of the predatory mite, (Phytoseiulus persimilis) with different prey distributions on cucumber plants
James Nechols, Kansas State University; David Margolies, Kansas State University; Ian Smith, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
10:56 AM
Impact of twospotted spider mites (Acari: Tetranychidae) on marketable yield of field-grown strawberries
Teresia Nyoike, University of Florida; Oscar Liburd, University of Florida
11:08 AM
Oviposition preference of the predatory midge Aphidoletes aphidomyza for the biological control of greenhouse aphid pest species
Sarah Jandricic, North Carolina State University; John Sanderson, Cornell University; Stephen P. Wraight, USDA, Agricultural Research Service
11:20 AM
Occurrence and larval development of noctuid pests on potatoes in Eastern Washington
Dax D. Dugaw, Washington State University; Peter J. Landolt, USDA - ARS; David R. Horton, USDA - ARS; Andrew S. Jensen, Washington State Potato Commission; Richard Zack, Washington State University
11:32 AM
Fitness consequences of egg cannibalism in the Colorado potato beetle, Leptinotarsa decemlineata
Karyn Collie, The Graduate Center of the City University of New York
11:44 AM
Compensatory response of cranberry to early season apical meristem injury by a gall inducing fly, cranberry tipworm (Dasineura oxycoccana)
Sunil Tewari, University of Massachusetts, Amherst; Anne Averill, University of Massachusetts
11:56 AM
Concluding Remarks