16- Graduate Student Ten-Minute Paper Competition: P-IE

Monday, November 11, 2013: 8:00 AM-12:00 PM
Meeting Room 12 B (Austin Convention Center)
Moderator:
Patrick J. Moran


8:12 AM
Influence of flowering cover crops and landscape diversity on biological control in vineyards
Houston Wilson, University of California ; Albie Miles, University of California ; Kent Daane, University of California ; Miguel Altieri, University of California
8:24 AM
8:36 AM
Responses of two parasitoids of emerald ash borer, Agrilus planipennis Fairmaire, the introduced Spathius agrili Yang, and native Spathius floridanus Ashmead, to volatile host-associated cues
Todd Johnson, University of Wisconsin ; Jonathan Lelito, USDA, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service ; Kenneth Raffa, University of Wisconsin
8:48 AM
9:12 AM
9:24 AM
Break
9:48 AM
Comparative value of various carbohydrate sources for the stink bug egg parasitoid Telenomus podisi (Hymenoptera: Scelionidae)
Sriyanka Lahiri, North Carolina State University ; David Orr, North Carolina State University ; Clyde Sorenson, North Carolina State University ; Allen C. Cohen, North Carolina State University ; Yasmin J. Cardoza, North Carolina State University
10:00 AM
Indigenous natural enemies of the brown marmorated stink bug in ornamental nurseries
Ashley L. Jones, University of Maryland ; Cerruti RR Hooks, University of Maryland ; Paula M. Shrewsbury, University of Maryland
10:12 AM
10:24 AM
Withdrawn
10:36 AM
Why do older and larger males win contests in the parasitoid wasp Nasonia vitripennis?
Yi-Jiun Tsai, Georgetown University ; Martha Weiss, Georgetown University ; Edward Barrows, Georgetown University
10:48 AM
 Interactions of a "risky" biological control agent with target and non-target aphids
Joe M. Kaser, University of Minnesota ; George Heimpel, University of Minnesota