General Papers Session II

Wednesday, March 12, 2014: 9:30 AM-11:30 AM
Dubuque (Des Moines Marriott)


9:30 AM
153
Evolution of pharmacophagy in tiger moths (Lepidoptera: Erebidae: Arctiinae)
Susan J. Weller, University of Minnesota ; Jennifer Zaspel, Purdue University ; Reza Zahiri, University of Turku ; Niklas Wahlberg, University of Turku ; C. Taylor Wardell, University of Minnesota
9:42 AM
154
The evolution and loss of complex behaviors in social insects: Silk weaving and arboreal nesting in Polyrhachis spiny ants
Corrie Moreau, Field Museum of Natural History
9:54 AM
155
The evaluation of relocation as a conservation strategy for the American Burying Beetle (Nicrophorus americanus) using a surrogate species (Nicrophorus marginatus)
Adrienne L. Conley, University of Nebraska at Kearney ; W. Wyatt Hoback, University of Nebraska - Kearney
10:06 AM
156
Effects of parasitisim on primitively eusocial host genome: Xenos vesparum hijacks genomic machinery to cause asocial behavior in Polistes dominula?
Amy Geffre, Iowa State University ; Laura Beani, Università di Firenze ; Jeyaraney Kathirithamby, University of Oxford ; Ruolin Liu, Iowa State University ; Fabio Manfredini, Pennsylvania State University ; Amy L. Toth, Iowa State University
10:18 AM
157
Evaluation of a new deltamethrin formulation on concrete surfaces and wheat against field strains of three stored-grain insect species
Blossom Sehgal, Kansas State University ; Bhadriraju Subramanyam, Kansas State University
10:30 AM
158
The effect of the glyphosate-based herbicide on the activity of Sinella curviseta (Collembola: Entomobryidae) in the laboratory
Muhammad Khalid Mukhtar, Miami University ; Michael Sitvarin, Miami University ; Ann L. Rypstra, Miami University
10:42 AM
159
Efficacy of Phantom EC versus Phantom PI (chlorphenapyr) formulations on two Warehouse Beetle field strains (Trogoderma variabile)
Sharon Dobesh, Kansas State University ; Frank Arthur, USDA-ARS ; R. Jeff Whitworth, Kansas State University
10:54 AM
160
dsRNA biodistribution and RNAi in three mosquito disease vectors
Paul Airs, Iowa State University ; Brendan Dunphy, Iowa State University ; Yashdeep Phanse, Iowa State University ; Lyric Bartholomay, Iowa State University
11:06 AM
161
Baseline susceptibility of Spodoptera frugiperda (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) to Cry1F Bacillus thuringiensis toxin
Karen F. da Silva, University of Nebraska ; Andre Crespo, DuPont Pioneer ; Terrence A. Spencer, University of Nebraska ; Blair Siegfried, University of Nebraska
11:18 AM
162
Horizontal gene transfer and gene duplication of hemicellulose degrading genes in an invasive insect pest
Chaoyang Zhao, The Ohio State University ; Omprakash Mittapalli, Ohio State University, OARDC
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