ESA Annual Meetings Online Program

Graduate Student Ten-Minute Paper Competition, P-IE-2

Monday, November 14, 2011: 8:00 AM-11:30 AM
Room A12, First Floor (Reno-Sparks Convention Center)
Moderator:
Sharlene Sing
8:00 AM
Introductory Remarks
8:03 AM
0473
Pest consumption and niche separation of common immigrant and agrobiont spider species in semi-desert wheat fields
Itai Opatovsky, Ben-Gurion University; Phyllis G. Weintraub, Agricultural Research Organisation; Shai Morin, The Robert H. Smith Faculty of Agriculture Food and Environment; Yael Lubin, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
8:15 AM
0474
Sublethal effects in predator mite, Amblyseius fallacis to insect growth regulator
Raja Zalinda Raja Jamil, Michigan State University; John C. Wise, Michigan State University
8:27 AM
0475
The dynamics of reproductive allocation in Hippodamia convergens as a function of female age and body size
German Vargas, Colombian Sugarcane Research Center; J. P. Michaud, Kansas State University; James Nechols, Kansas State University
8:39 AM
0476
Evidence refuting the interference competition hypothesis for native lady beetle decline
Chelsea A. Smith, Ohio State University; Mary M. Gardiner, The Ohio State University
8:51 AM
0477
Comparison of coccinellid community assemblages between agricultural grass-dominated habitats and natural tallgrass prairies
Lauren M. Hart, University of Missouri - Columbia; Deborah Finke, University of Missouri
9:03 AM
0478
Direct and indirect effects of a novel neonicotinoid seed treatment on a soybean predator
Madeline Ivy Spigler, Purdue University; Christian Krupke, Purdue University
9:15 AM
0479
Field cage studies of Laricobius osakensis Montgomery & Shiyake (Coleoptera: Derodontidae), a predator of hemlock woolly adelgid, Adelges tsugae Annand (Hemiptera: Adelgidae)
Ligia Cota Vieira, Virginia Tech; Scott M. Salom, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Loke T. Kok, Virginia Tech
9:27 AM
0480
Detection of facultative intraguild predation events by Monochamus titillator on the southern pine beetle guild using molecular gut analyses
Erich Schoeller, Louisiana State University; Jeremy Allison, Louisiana State University; Claudia Husseneder, Louisiana State University
9:39 AM
Break
9:51 AM
0481
Toxic slugs? Neonicotinoid seed treatments in tri-trophic perspective
Maggie Douglas, Pennsylvania State University; John Tooker, Pennsylvania State University
10:03 AM
0482
The role of non-prey food resources in generalist predator food webs
Julie A. Peterson, University of Minnesota; Kacie J. Johansen, University of Kentucky; Eric G. Chapman, University of Kentucky; James D. Harwood, University of Kentucky
10:15 AM
0483
The contribution of predator phenology and diversity to secondary pest suppression in alfalfa
Erica P. Stephens, Utah State University; Ricardo A. Ramirez, Utah State University
10:27 AM
0484
Do reconstructed prairies affect predation rates of soybean aphids (Aphis glycines) at the watershed scale?
Rachael A. Ohde, Iowa State University; Matthew E. O'Neal, Iowa State University
10:39 AM
0485
Intraguild predation of the parasitoid wasp, Aphelinus mali (Haldeman) by the syrphid predator Heringia calcarata (Loew)
Sean D. M. Gresham, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; J. Christopher Bergh, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
10:51 AM
0486
Direct effects of pesticides and plant growth regulators on the rove beetle, Atheta coriaria
Erik R. Echegaray, Kansas State University; Raymond A. Cloyd, Kansas State University
11:03 AM
0487
Manipulation of Myzus persicae, green peach aphid, and Leptinotarsa decemlineata, Colorado potato beetle, in potatoes to determine predator food preference
Christine Ann Lynch, Washington State University; William E. Snyder, Washington State University; Eric G. Chapman, University of Kentucky; James D. Harwood, University of Kentucky
11:15 AM
0488
How do hemipteran generalist predators induce anti-herbivory resistance in tomato?
Hélène M. Quaghebeur, Pennsylvania State University; Gary Felton, Pennsylvania State University
11:27 AM
Concluding Remarks
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