Session: Member Symposium: Insects in the City: Urban Ecology and Human Influence on Insect Populations (Entomology 2015)

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Member Symposium: Insects in the City: Urban Ecology and Human Influence on Insect Populations

Tuesday, November 17, 2015: 2:30 PM-5:30 PM

200 A (Convention Center)

Organizers:

David Lowenstein
Scott Prajzner

Moderators:

David Lowenstein
Scott Prajzner

2:30 PM

Floral enrichment of turf lawns and its potential benefit for pollinator communities

Ian Lane, University of Minnesota ; Eric Watkins, University of Minnesota ; Marla Spivak, University of Minnesota

2:50 PM

Socioeconomic impacts on patterns of urban bees, wasps, and their parasites

Scott MacIvor, York University ; Laurence Packer, York University

3:10 PM

Pesticide use in suburbs: An inspector's observations in the field

Caitlin Burkman, Michigan Department of Agriculture & Rural Development

3:30 PM

Does urbanization homogenize insect communities?

Michael McKinney, University of Tennessee

3:50 PM

Break

4:00 PM

The impact of night-time lighting on invertebrates: From individuals to communities

Thomas Davies, University of Exeter ; Jonathan Bennie, University of Exeter ; Kevin Gaston, University of Exeter

4:20 PM

Insects and urban warming: Does latitude matter?

Elsa Youngsteadt, North Carolina State University ; Rob R. Dunn, North Carolina State University ; Andrew F. Ernst, North Carolina State University ; Steven Frank, North Carolina State University

4:40 PM

Distinct urban spatial structure in a specialized plant-herbivore-parasitoid community

Amanda Nelson, University of Iowa

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