ESA Annual Meetings Online Program

New Approaches to Mass Production and Augmentation Biological Control

Tuesday, November 15, 2011: 8:00 AM-10:55 AM
Room A6, First Floor (Reno-Sparks Convention Center)
Organizers:
Walker A. Jones
Sasha M. Greenberg
Norman C. Leppla
8:00 AM
Welcoming Remarks
8:01 AM
Introductory Remarks
8:05 AM
0800
Tenebrio molitor, a potential host for biological control agents
Juan A. Morales-Ramos, USDA, Agricultural Research Service
8:20 AM
0801
New approaches to using factitious foods and artificial diets for predators
Eric W. Riddick, USDA - ARS; M. Guadalupe Rojas, USDA - ARS
8:35 AM
0802
Requirements for technical support in the adoption of augmentation biological control
Norman C. Leppla, University of Florida; J. Howard Frank, University of Florida; Al. Clarke, Becker Underwood, Inc
8:50 AM
0803
Tephritid fruit fly parasitoid mass rearing and release: challenges and achievements
John Sivinski, USDA
9:05 AM
0804
Mass production and augmentation of natural enemies in China: the past, persent and future
Tong-Xian Liu, Northwest A&F University
9:20 AM
Break
9:35 AM
0805
A global biological control index for Trichogramma and other beneficials in mass-rearing
Shoil Greenburg, USDA - ARS
9:50 AM
0806
Current and future research projects on augmentation biological control at the National Biological Control Laboratory
Walker A. Jones, USDA - ARS
10:05 AM
0807
Recent improvements in commercial augmentation biological control in the U.S
Lynn M. LeBeck, Association of Natural Biocontrol Producers
10:20 AM
0808
Insect diets: science and technology
Allen C. Cohen, North Carolina State University
10:35 AM
0809
Conservation of natural enemies used in augmentation
John R. Ruberson, University of Georgia
10:50 AM
Concluding Remarks
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