Session: 33 - Graduate Student TMP Competition: SysEB (2014 ESA Annual Meeting)

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33 - Graduate Student TMP Competition: SysEB

Monday, November 17, 2014: 8:45 AM-12:30 PM

Portland Ballroom 255 (Oregon Convention Center)

Moderators:

Bryan N. Danforth
Richard Brown

8:45 AM

Introductory Remarks

8:48 AM

First description of the pupa of the biting midge Culicoides sonorensis (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae), vector of Bluetongue

Phillip Shults, Texas A&M University ; Art Borkent, Royal British Columbia Museum

9:00 AM

Parasitoid wasp ovipositor morphology (Ichneumonoidea)

Kyle Burks, Pennsylvania State University

9:12 AM

Revising our vision of ant biodiversity: Male ants of the New World (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)

Brendon Boudinot, University of California

9:24 AM

Microclimate and body size affect thermal tolerance among Neotropical army ants (Ecitoninae)

Kaitlin Baudier, Drexel University ; Sean O'Donnell, Drexel University

9:36 AM

Preliminary study of aposematic coloration and mid-dorsal abdominal glands in Pyrgomorphidae (Orthoptera: Caelifera)

Ricardo Mari�o-P�rez, University of Central Florida ; Hojun Song, University of Central Florida

9:48 AM

The relationship between wing venation and wing patterning in Micropterigidae

Sandra Schachat, Mississippi State University ; Richard Brown, Mississippi State University

10:00 AM

Warning signals are seductive: Relative contributions of color and pattern to predator avoidance and mate attraction in Heliconius butterflies

Susan D. Finkbeiner, University of California ; Adriana D. Briscoe, University of California ; Robert Reed, Cornell University

10:12 AM

The detection of colors by red imported fire ant, Solenopsis invicta

Jason R. Carbaugh, Texas A&M University ; S. Bradleigh Vinson, Texas A&M University

10:24 AM

Break

10:36 AM

Community responses of litter dwelling ants to removal and exclosure of invasive Amur honeysuckle (Lonicera maackii) and white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus)

Kaitlin U. Campbell, Miami University ; Thomas O. Crist, Miami University

10:48 AM

Neotropical Meteorus Haliday (Hymenoptera: Braconidae): Current knowledge and ongoing research

Helmuth Aguirre-Fernandez, University of Wyoming ; Scott R. Shaw, University of Wyoming

11:00 AM

The importance of sampling intensity for documenting braconid wasp diversity

Katherine Nesheim, The Ohio State University ; Robert Kula, USDA - ARS

11:12 AM

Adult emergence phenology of nine endemic insects of the Monahans sandhills in western Texas

Samuel Discua Duarte, Texas Tech University ; Scott Longing, Texas Tech University ; James Cokendolpher, Museum of Texas Tech University ; Justin Scott, Texas Tech University

11:24 AM

Estimating the population density of American burying beetle (Nicrophorus americanus) on the McAlester Army Ammunition Plant in southeastern Oklahoma

Kyle Risser, Oklahoma State University ; Kris Giles, Oklahoma State University ; Carmen Greenwood, Murray State University

11:36 AM

Withdrawn

11:48 AM

The impact of an insect-themed environmental science course on undergraduate students' feelings about insects

Amanda R. Lorenz, Michigan State University ; Julie Libarkin, Michigan State University ; Gabriel Ording, Michigan State University

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