Invasive Species Posters

Monday, April 16

Acaricide resistance status of Rhipicephalus microplus in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil: 2015 – 2017.
Guilherme Klafke, Jose Reck, Rovaina Doyle, Bruno Dall"Agnol, Marcelo Becker, Anelise Webster, Ugo Araujo Souza, Paola Antunes, Fabricio Tibere Jardim, Julsan Silveira dos Santos and Joao Ricardo Martins, Instituto de Pesquisas Veterinarias Desiderio Finamor, Eldorado do Sul, Brazil

Geospatial and temporal analysis of Melanaphis sacchari in South Texas.
Gabriela Esparza-Diaz¹ and Raul T. Villanueva², ¹Amerstem, Inc, Camarillo, CA, ²Univ. of Kentucky, Princeton, KY

In the presence of red light, cucumber plants lose their attractability to the melon thrips, Thrips palmi (Tyhsanoptera: Thripidae).
Mika Murata¹, Takahiko Hariyama², Yumi Yamahama², Mina Toyama² and Izumi Ohta¹, ¹Institute of Vegetable and Floriculture Science, NARO, Tsu, Japan, ²Hamamatsu Univ. School of Medicine, Hamamatsu, Japan

Influence of exposure to host and non-host volatile organic compounds before flight on mountain pine beetle, Dendroctonus ponderosae Hopkins, flight propensity and capacity.
Kelsey Jones and Maya Evenden, Univ. of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada

Invasive insect species in south Texas.
Gabriela Esparza-Diaz¹, Tara-Kay Jones², Ismael E. Badillo-Vargas³, Thiago Marconi³, Carlos Avila³ and Raul T. Villanueva⁴, ¹Amerstem, Inc, Camarillo, CA, ²Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX, ³Texas A&M AgriLife Research, Weslaco, TX, ⁴Univ. of Kentucky, Princeton, KY

Rapid northward expansion of western bean cutworm, Striacosta albicosta (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae), in the province of Québec (Canada).
Julien Saguez¹, Brigitte Duval², Isabelle Fréchette¹, Stéphanie Mathieu³, Mathieu Neau¹, Claude Parent⁴ and Christine Rieux⁵, ¹CÉROM - Centre de Recherche sur les grains, Saint-Mathieu-de-Beloeil, QC, Canada, ²MAPAQ Centre-du-Québec, Nicolet, QC, Canada, ³MAPAQ, Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, QC, Canada, ⁴MAPAQ, Direction de la Phytoprotection, Québec, QC, Canada, ⁵MAPAQ Shawville, Shawville, QC, Canada

The gall midge Orseolia javanica (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae): A candidate biological control agent of cogongrass (Imperata cylindrica).
James Cuda¹, William A. Overholt² and Purnama Hidayat³, ¹Univ. of Florida, Gainesville, FL, ²Univ. of Florida, Fort Pierce, FL, ³Bogor Agricultural Univ., Bogor, Indonesia

The invasive mulberry whitefly (Pealius mori) can affect silkworm (Bombyx mori) nymphal development.
Shaaban Abd-Rabou¹ and Alvin Simmons², ¹Ministry of Agriculture, Dokki, Egypt, ²USDA - ARS, Charleston, SC

The potential of the Trogoderma variabile to act as a behavioral surrogate species for the invasive stored product pest, Trogoderma granarium (Coeloptera: Dermestidae).
Robert Grosdidier¹, Rob Morrison², Michael Domingue³ and Frank Arthur², ¹Kansas State Univ., Manhattan, KS, ²USDA - ARS, Manhattan, KS, ³USDA-APHIS, Buzzards Bay, MA

Volatile profile of Solena amplexicaulis (Lam.) Gandhi plant impacted by two generalist insect feeding.
Nupur Sarkar¹, Amarnath Karmakar² and Anandamay Barik², ¹Univ. of Florida, Gainesville, FL, ²The Univ. of Burdwan, Burdwan, West Bengal, India

α-Copaene and quercivorol lures: Chemical analysis and efficacy for detection of Euwallacea nr. fornicatus (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae).
Paul E. Kendra¹, David Owens^1,2, Nurhayat Tabanca¹, Wayne S. Montgomery¹, Teresa Narvaez¹, Elena Q. Schnell¹ and Daniel Carrillo³, ¹USDA - ARS, Miami, FL, ²Univ. of Delaware, Georgetown, DE, ³Univ. of Florida, Homestead, FL