ESA Annual Meetings Online Program

Graduate Student Ten-Minute Paper Competition, P-IE-1

Monday, November 14, 2011: 8:00 AM-11:30 AM
Room A11, First Floor (Reno-Sparks Convention Center)
Organizer :
Kevin J. Delaney
8:00 AM
Introductory Remarks
8:03 AM
Changing herbivore and natural enemy community structures with habitat management in cabbage (Brassica oleracea)
Alexandria N. Bryant, Michigan State University; Daniel Brainard, Michigan State University; Zsofia Szendrei, Michigan State University
8:15 AM
Hot in the city: scale insects, parasitoids, and the future of warmer urban trees
Emily K. Meineke, North Carolina State University; Steven D. Frank, North Carolina State University; Rob R. Dunn, North Carolina State University; Joseph O. Sexton, University of Maryland
8:27 AM
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8:39 AM
Measuring biocontrol services in Michigan apple orchards
Nathaniel J. Walton, Michigan State University; Matthew Grieshop, Michigan State University
8:51 AM
Assessing susceptibility of two hymenopteran parasitoids of the emerald ash borer, Agrilus planipennis (Col: Buprestidae), to the entompathogenic fungus Beauveria bassiana.
Kimberly Mae Dean, SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry; John D. Vandenberg, USDA - ARS; Leah S. Bauer, USDA - Forest Service; Michael H. Griggs, USDA ARS; Melissa K. Fierke, State University of New York
9:03 AM
The influence of host plants on parasitism of the invasive Light Brown Apple Moth, Epiphyas postvittana in California
Julie V. Hopper, University of California; Nicholas J. Mills, University of California
9:15 AM
High temperature tolerance of the light brown apple moth, Epiphyas postvittana
Linda P. Bürgi, University of California Berkeley; Nicholas J. Mills, University of California
9:27 AM
Potential steps toward in vitro rearing of the koinobiont parasitoid, Toxoneuron nigriceps (Hymenoptera: Braconidae)
Ruth E. Henderson, Washington State University; Indira Kuriachan, Texas A&M University; S. Bradleigh Vinson, Texas A&M University
9:39 AM
Break
10:03 AM
Consequences of diversity: comparing pest and natural enemy populations in monocultures and soybean variety mixtures
Ian M. Grettenberger, University of California-Davis; John Tooker, Pennsylvania State University
10:15 AM
Parasitoid-host interactions are influenced by virus-induced changes in plant chemistry
Kerry Mauck, Pennsylvania State University; Consuelo M. De Moraes, Pennsylvania State University; Mark C. Mescher, Associate Professor, Pennsylvania State University
10:39 AM
Functional response of the soybean aphid parasitoid, Binodoxys communis
Megan E. Carter, University of Minnesota; Mark K. Asplen, University of Minnesota; George E. Heimpel, University of Minnesota
10:51 AM
Life history and biological control of Gluphisia septentrionis
Alejandro Del Pozo, Washington State University; Andrew Rodstrom, GreenWood Resources; John J. Brown, Washington State University
11:03 AM
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11:15 AM
Floral farmscaping and biological control in broccoli
Obinna Lebechukwu Aduba, University of Georgia; John R. Ruberson, University of Georgia; Peter Hartel, University of Georgia
11:27 AM
Concluding Remarks