Tuesday, April 17
Behavioral responses of Rhyzopertha dominica and Tribolium castaneum to various multi-species lures in laboratory release-recapture and wind tunnel assays.
Matt Hamblin1 and Rob Morrison2, 1Kansas State Univ., Manhattan, KS, 2USDA - ARS, Manhattan, KS
Caught with slugs - Carabid beetles found underneath defined-area traps (DAT) during slug survey.
Casi Jessie, Inga Reich, Maria Cordoba, Matthew Klein, Andrew Colton and Rory J. Mc Donnell, Oregon State Univ., Corvallis, OR
Developing sustainable pest management programs for diversified, smallholder southeast Asian farms in California’s Central Valley.
Robert Straser 1,2, Ruth Dahlquist-Willard3, Michael Yang3, May Yang1,4, Pahoua Yang5,6, Xingeng Wang7 and Kent Daane8, 1Univ. of California, Berkeley, Parlier, CA, 2Univ. of California, Riverside, Riverside, CA, 3Univ. of California Cooperative Extension, Fresno County, Fresno, CA, 4California State Univ., Fresno, Fresno, CA, 5Univ. of California Berkeley, Parlier, CA, 6Oregon State Univ., Corvallis, OR, 7Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA, 8Univ. of California, Parlier, CA
Encouraging schools to practice integrated pest management.
Shaku Nair1, Dawn Gouge1, Thomas Green2, Kai Umeda3, Al Fournier1, Shujuan Li1, Ursula K. Schuch4 and David Kopec4, 1Univ. of Arizona, Maricopa, AZ, 2IPM Institute of North America, Madison, WI, 3Univ. of Arizona, Phoenix, AZ, 4Univ. of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
Exploring low-cost vegetable adjuvants for entomopathogenic nematode application: Impact of temperature and combination with other entomopathogens.
Gabriela Castruita-Esparza1, Francisco Ángel Bueno-Pallero2, Rubén Blanco-Pérez2,3, Teodulfo Aquino-Bolaños4 and Raquel Campos-Herrera5, 1CIIDIR Universidad de Oaxaca, Oaxaca,, Mexico, 2Universidade do Algarve, Faro, Portugal, 3Universidad de La Rioja, Logroño, Spain, 4CIIDIR Universidad de Oaxaca, Oaxaca, Mexico, 5Centro para os Recursos Biologicos e Alimentos Mediterranicos, Faro, Portugal
Factors affecting reproductive success and life history parameters of Bracon hebetor Say (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) from three host-associated populations.
Dorna Saadat1, Ali Seraj1, Seyed Goldansaz2 and Livy Williams3, 1Shahid Chamran Univ., Ahvaz, Iran (Islamic Republic of), 2Univ. of Tehran, Tehran, Iran (Islamic Republic of), 3USDA - ARS, Charleston, SC
Fresh cucumber as a novel attractant for invasive gastropods.
Maria Cordoba1, Jocelyn G. Millar2 and Rory J. Mc Donnell1, 1Oregon State Univ., Corvallis, OR, 2Univ. of California, Riverside, CA
Got the guts? Investigating slug predation in grass seed crops by carabid beetles using molecular stomach-content analysis Inga Reich1, Casi Jessie1, Michael J. Gormally2 and Rory J. Mc Donnell1, 1Oregon State Univ., Corvallis, OR, 2National Univ. of Ireland, Galway, Ireland
Long-term effects of different insecticides on the wireworm population (Agriotes spp.) in the soil.
Michael Zellner, Bavarian State Research Centre for Agriculture, Freising, Germany
Management of thrips in Texas cotton: An integrated approach.
Abdul Hakeem and Megha Parajulee, Texas A&M Univ., Lubbock, TX
Methyl jasmonate induction of cotton: A field test of the ‘attract and reward’ strategy of conservation biological control.
Livy Williams1, Cesar Rodriguez-Saona2 and Sandra Castle del Conte3, 1USDA - ARS, Charleston, SC, 2Rutgers, The State Univ. of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ, 3Washington State Univ., Prosser, WA
Mixed pathogen infection: Does host nutrition affect disease outcome?
Pauline Deschodt, Olivia Walker, Alana Breitkreutz and Jenny Cory, Simon Fraser Univ., Burnaby, BC, Canada
The effect of adult diet on fitness of Apanteles polychrosidis (Braconidae) a parasitoid of Caloptilia fraxinella (Gracillariidae) on horticultural ash (Fraxinus).
Rebecca Pain, Sarah McPike and Maya Evenden, Univ. of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada
The effect of insecticidal and mycorrhizal seed treatments on rice growth and yield.
Lina Bernaola and Mike Stout, Louisiana State Univ., Baton Rouge, LA
Reduction in movement and dispersal capacity of immature stages of Trogoderma variabile (Coleoptera: Dermestidae) and Tribolium castaneum (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae) after exposure to long-lasting insecticide netting.
Rachel Wilkins1 and Rob Morrison2, 1Kansas State Univ., Manhattan, KS, 2USDA - ARS, Manhattan, KS