D3785 Educational impact of NPDN taxonomic training videos. **Ariane McCorquodale** (amccorquodale@ufl.edu) and Amanda C. Hodges, Univ. of Florida, Gainesville, FL

D3786 'Walnut Alert', thousand cankers disease, and black walnut: Can outreach crack a tough nut?
**Jerome F. Grant** (jgrant@utk.edu)¹, Frank Hale², Alan Windham², Paris L. Lambdin¹, Gregory J. Wiggins¹, and Mark T. Windham¹. ¹Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, ²Univ. of Tennessee, Nashville, TN

## Poster Session 4: Apidology, Sericulture, and Social Insects

### West Hall C (Convention Center)

D3787 Comparison of microbial communities in monogyne and polygyne *Solenopsis invicta* colonies by denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis. Charles Apperson, **Nicholas Travanty** (nvtravan@ncsu.edu), and Loganathan Ponnusamy, North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC

D3788 Evidences of dear enemy phenomenon in a generalist ant species, *Pheidole oxyops* (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). **Diego Santana Assis** (santanaphoenix@gmail.com) and Fabio Nascimento, Univ. of São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto, Brazil

D3789 Interaction and communication network among nestmates during nestsite selection and migration in *Temnothorax congruus*. **Kazutaka Syoji** (syoji-kazutaka@ed.tmu.ac.jp) and Katuyuki Eguchi, Tokyo Metropolitan Univ., Hachioji, Japan

D3790 Sharing nutrients of the queen black carpenter ant, *Camponotus japonicas*, between her own somatic maintenance and offspring production. **Naoto Idogawa** (spinyant@gmail.com), Tomoyuki Yokoi, and Mamoru Watanabe, Univ. of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan

D3791 Inhibiting worker reproduction in a queenless ant, *Dinoponera quadriceps*: The effects of pheromones and physical presence of a gamergate. **Ivelize Tannure-Nascimento** (itannure@uol.com.br) and Fabio Nascimento, Univ. of São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto, Brazil

D3792 Environmental and spatial heterogeneity effects on information flow in ant colonies: An agent-based model study. **Xiaohui Guo** (biogxh@gmail.com), Yun Kang, and Jennifer H. Fewell, Arizona State Univ., Tempe, AZ

D3793 The use of translucent larval skin mutants of the silkworm "o06" as animal models of hyperuricemia. **Ryuichiro Tanaka** (tanaka-r@pharm.setsunan.ac.jp)¹, Fumitoshi Sakazaki², and Yutaka Banno³. ¹Setsunan Univ., Osaka, Japan, ²Osaka Ohtani Univ., Osaka, Japan, ³Kyushu Univ., Fukuoka, Japan

D3794 Topochemistry and optical anisotropy of the cocoon of *Lithurgus chrysurus* (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae). **Maria Luiza Mello** (mlsmello@unicamp.br)¹, Eli Heber dos Anjos², Benedicto Vidal¹, and Jerome Rozen Jr². ¹Univ. of Campinas, Campinas, Brazil, ²American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY

D3795 Infrared microspectroscopy of the cocoon of *Lithurgus chrysurus* (Hymenoptera, Megachilidae). **Benedicto Vidal** (camposvi@unicamp.br)¹, Jerome Rozen, Jr², and Maria Luiza Mello¹, ¹Univ. of Campinas, Campinas, Brazil, ²American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY

D3796 *Lactobacillus plantarum* from the gut of indigenous honey bee of Saudi Arabia inhibit the growth and biofilm formation of *Candida albicans*. **Mohammad Ansari** (mjavedansari@gmail.com) and Ahmad Alghamdi, King Saud Univ., Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

D3797 First report of the bee louse, *Braula coeca* (Diptera: Braulidae), in apiaries of 'Los Chillos' Valley, Province of Pichincha, Ecuador. **Nelson Zapata-Carvajal** (ndavidzc@hotmail.com)¹, Estefania Chérrez-Neacato¹, Sarah Martín-Solano¹, María Augusta Chávez-Larrea¹, Claude Saegerman², and Jorge Ron-Román¹. ¹Univ. of las Fuerzas Armadas, Sangiolqui, Ecuador, ²Univ. of Liège, Liège, Belgium

D3798 Number of *Beauveria* spores picked up by *Varroa destructor* after walking on a treated surface for up to one minute. **Francisco Posada-Florez** (fjavierposada@gmail.com), Asha Pawar, Ryan Schwarz, Miguel Corona, and Jay Evans, USDA - ARS, Beltsville, MD

D3799 First molecular characterization of honey bee *Varroa* sp. (Acari: Varroidae) in 'Los Chillos' Valley, Ecuador. **Estefanía Chérrez-Neacato** (tefa_9ch@hotmail.com)¹, Sarah Martín-Solano¹, Claude Saegerman², and Jorge Ron-Román¹. ¹Univ. of las Fuerzas Armadas, Sangiolqui, Ecuador, ²Univ. of Liège, Liège, Belgium

D3800 Does landscape complexity affect forage resources and health of honey bees, *Apis mellifera* L.? **Ge Zhang** (gezhang@iastate.edu), Matt O'Neal, Amy L. Toth, Adam Dolezal, and Ashley St. Clair, Iowa State Univ., Ames, IA

D3801 Bt and pesticides influence on the longevity of *Apis mellifera* workers. **Michele Potrich** (profmichele@gmail.com), Gabriela Libardoni, Fernanda Colombo, Alfredo Gouvea, Everton Lozano, and Fabiana Costa-Maia, Federal Univ. of Technology of Paraná, Dois Vizinhos, Brazil

D3802 Acute toxicity and survivorship of *Apis mellifera* L. 1758 after exposure to sublethal doses of clothianidin. Jander Souza¹, **Stephan Carvalho** (stephan.carvalho@iciag.ufu.br)² and César Carvalho¹. ¹Federal Univ. of Lavras, Lavras, Brazil, ²Federal Univ. of Uberlândia, Uberlândia, Brazil

D3803 Modeling the complex biology of pesticide exposure in honey bees, *Apis mellifera*. Douglas Sponsler¹, Michael Wransky², and **Reed Johnson** (johnson.5005@osu.edu)¹, ¹The Ohio State Univ., Wooster, OH, ²Udacity, Inc., Mountain View, CA

D3804 Seasonal pattern of protective compounds in honey from *Apis mellifera* L. 1758 in Brazil. Maria Auxiliadora Jacob¹, Stephan Carvalho², Wilson Abreu¹, Elisângela Carvalho¹, and **César Carvalho** (cfcarvalho@den.ufla.br)¹, ¹Federal Univ. of Lavras, Lavras, Brazil, ²Federal Univ. of Uberlândia, Uberlândia, Brazil
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**D3805** Pollination of the coconut tree, *Cocos nucifera* L., by Africanized honey bees, *Apis mellifera scutellata* Lepeletier 1836, in Brazil. **Gerbson Mendonca** (gerbson10@gmail.com), Federal Univ. of Rio Grande, Macaiba, Brazil

**D3806** Blue orchard bees and honey bees in almonds: A nutty synergy. **Natalie Boyle** (nboyle@wsu.edu), Theresa Pitts-Singer, and Derek R. Artz, USDA - ARS, Logan, UT

**D3807** Effect of photoperiod and temperature on the efficiency of queen mates of *Bombus atratus* (Hymenoptera: Apidae) under controlled conditions. **Andrea Plazas** (nplazas@gmail.com), Diego Riaño, Jose Ricardo Cure, and Laura Rojas, Nueva Granada Military Univ., Cajica, Colombia

**D3808** Natural pollination is generally adequate for pumpkin and winter squash, *Cucurbita spp.*, in Connecticut. **Kimberly Stoner** (kimberly.stoner@ct.gov), Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station, New Haven, CT

**D3809** Aggression between floral specialist bees enhances pollination of *Hibiscus* (section *Trionum*: Malvaceae). **Blair Sampson** (blair.sampson@ars.usda.gov)¹, Chris Werle², and John Adamczyk¹, ¹USDA - ARS, Poplarville, MS, ²Louisiana State Univ., Baton Rouge, LA

**D3810** Foraging behavior of honey bee, *Apis mellifera*, and the native bumblebee *Bombus atratus* in two cultivars of highbush blueberry, *Vaccinium corymbosum*, in Colombia. **Carlos Pinilla** (crlspcruz@gmail.com), Bogota, Colombia

**D3811** Floral resource used by colonies of *Bombus atratus* (Hymenoptera: Apidae) on the campus of Nueva Granada Military University, Cajicá, Colombia. **Melissa Guerrero** (mel_yvette2292@hotmail.com)¹, Deicy Alarcon², Diego Riaño¹, and Jose Ricardo Cure¹, ¹Nueva Granada Military Univ., Cajica, Colombia, ²Nueva Granada Military Univ., Bogota, Colombia

**D3812** Learning flights in a male insect. **Theo Robert** (tgr203@exeter.ac.uk)¹, Elisa Frasnelli¹, Thomas Collett², and Natalie Hempel de Ibarra¹, ¹Univ. of Exeter, Exeter, United Kingdom, ²Univ. of Sussex, Brighton, United Kingdom

**D3813** Foraging behavior of nectar robber bumblebee as a potential pollinator of red clover. **Tomoyuki Yokoi** (tomoyoko@envr.tsukuba.ac.jp)¹, Jun Uto², Naoko Tokuda¹, Haruta Morizuka¹, Rieko Fujinami³, and Mamoru Watanabe¹, ¹Univ. of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan, ²Kyoto Univ., Kyoto, Japan, ³Japan Women's Univ., Tokyo, Japan

**D3814** Drought-tolerant plants provide supplemental food resources to honey bees, *Apis mellifera*, and habitat for local native pollinators. **Raksha Kuenen** (raksha.kuenen@bayer.com) and Andrew Palrang, Bayer Crop-Science, Fresno, CA

**D3815** The dirt on apple pollinators: Incorporating soil survey data to predict ground-nesting bee distributions in central New York orchards. **Julia Brokaw¹, Mia Park** (mia.park@und.edu)², and Bryan N. Danforth³, ¹Michigan State Univ., East Lansing, MI, ²Univ. of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND, ³Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY

**D3816** Molecular evolution of early insect societies: Genomics of the Australian small carpenter bee, *Ceratina australensis*. **Michael Steffen** (michael.steffen@unh.edu) and Sandra Rehan, Univ. of New Hampshire, Durham, NH

**D3817** Why do burrower bug embryos hatch synchronously? Maternal regulation mitigates risks of future cannibalism. **Hiromi Mukai** (mh.isa.8088@gmail.com)¹, Mantaro Hironaka², Sumio Tojo³, and Shintaro Nomakuchi³, ¹Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute, Tsukuba, Japan, ²Hamamatsu Univ. School of Medicine, Shizuoka, Japan, ³Saga Univ., Saga, Japan

## Poster Session 4: Arthropod Vectors of Animal and Plant Disease

### West Hall C (Convention Center)

**D3818** Suppressive effect of the acetylated glyceride BEMIDETACH™ EC against tomato yellow leaf curl virus transmitted by sweetpotato whitefly, *Bemisia tabaci*, on tomato plants in a greenhouse. **Shohei Matsuura** (s-matsuura81314@pref.hiroshima.lg.jp)¹, Takayuki Kashima², Shinji Kajihara¹, Toshio Kitamura³, and Hiroshi Abe⁴, ¹Hiroshima Prefectural Technology Research Institute, Hiroshima, Japan, ²Ishihara Sangyo Kaisha, Ltd., Kusatsu, Japan, ³NARO National Institute of Vegetable and Tea Science, Mie, Japan, ⁴RIKEN BioResource Center, Tsukuba, Japan

**D3819** Suppressive mechanism of the acetylated glyceride BEMIDETACH™ EC on tomato yellow leaf curl virus infection. **Takayuki Kashima** (t-kashima@iskweb.co.jp)¹, Shohei Matsuura², Kenkichi Kanmiya¹, Kiyomitsu Yoshida¹, Shigeru Mitani³, Toshio Kitamura⁴, Jun Ohnishi⁴, Hiroshi Abe⁵, and Yutaka Arimoto⁶, ¹Ishihara Sangyo Kaisha, Ltd., Kusatsu, Japan, ²Hiroshima Prefectural Technology Research Institute, Hiroshima, Japan, ³Ishihara Sangyo Kaisha, Ltd., Shiga, Japan, ⁴NARO National Institute of Vegetable and Tea Science, Mie, Japan, ⁵RIKEN BioResource Center, Tsukuba, Japan, ⁶RIKEN Institute, Wako, Japan

**D3820** Whitefly feeding behavior associated with the inoculation of the crinivirus tomato chlorosis virus by *Bemisia tabaci*. **Nathalie Maluta** (nathaliemaluta@usp.br)¹, Elisa Garzo², Joao R. S. Lopes¹, Aranzazu Moreno², Jesús Navas-Castillo³, Elvira Fiallo-Olivé³, and Alberto Fereres², ¹Univ. of São Paulo, Piracicaba, Brazil, ²Institute of Agricultural Sciences, Madrid, Spain, ³Institute of Subtropical and Mediterranean Horticulture, Málaga, Spain

**D3821** Egg maturation by the glassy-winged sharpshooter (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae): A vector of *Xylella fastidiosa*. **Mark Sisterson** (mark.sisterson@ars.usda.gov), Christopher Wallis, Rodrigo Krugner, and Drake Stenger, USDA - ARS, Parlier, CA

**D3822** The vector of Mungbean yellow mosaic India virus, *Bemisia tabaci*: Their COI sequences and symbionts. **Rakesh Kumar Singh** (rakesh0429@gmail.com)¹, Parveen Ansari¹, Gaurav Raghuwanshi¹, Shruti Kaushik¹, Ashok Krishna¹, Takashi Wada², and Hiroaki Noda³, ¹Rajmata Vijayaraje Scindia Krishi Vishwavidyalaya,
Indore, India, ²Japan International Cooperation Agency, Kumamoto, Japan, ³Japan International Cooperation Agency, Tsukuba, Japan

D3823 Outbreak of yellow mosaic disease in legume crops in central India: Field survey in summer and Kharif seasons. **Rakesh Marabi** (rsmarabi78@rediffmail.com)¹, Shoumitrad Das¹, Ashok Bhowmick¹, Hiroaki Noda², and Takashi Wada³. ¹Jawaharlal Nehru Krishi Vishwavidyalaya, Jabalpur, India, ²Japan International Cooperation Agency, Tsukuba, Japan, ³Japan International Cooperation Agency, Kumamoto, Japan

D3824 Molecular characterization and localization of bacterial endosymbionts in cassava whiteflies in Colombia. **Mariela Lobo-Hernandez** (miloboh@unal.edu.co)¹, Surapathrudu Kanakala², James Montoya-Lerna³, Helena Brochero⁴, and Murad Ghanim², ¹National Univ. of Colombia, Cali, Colombia, ²Agricultural Research Organisation, Bet-Dagan, Israel, ³Univ. of Valle, Cali, Colombia, ⁴National Univ. of Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia

D3825 Effect of temperature on *Diaphorina citri* (Hemiptera: Liviidae) take-off. **Arthur Tomaseto** (arthur.tomaseto@usp.br)¹, Marcelo Pedreira Miranda², Alberto Fereres³, and Joao R. S. Lopes¹, ¹Univ. of São Paulo, Piracicaba, Brazil, ²Citrus Defense Fund, Araraquara, Brazil, ³Institute of Agricultural Sciences, Madrid, Spain

D3826 Nematode populations associating with ambrosia beetles in Taiwan. **Chih-shun Chang** (r04633013@ntu.edu.tw)¹, Guan-yi Yu¹, Hsin-hui Shih², Ching-shan Lin³, Sheng-shan Lu², and Jieue-in Yang¹, ¹National Taiwan Univ., Taipei, Taiwan, ²Taiwan Forestry Research Institute, Taipei, Taiwan, ³Tsau-hu Elementary School, Taichung, Taiwan

D3827 Experimental transmission of the phytoplasma 16SrlX group associated with citrus Huanglongbing symptoms by the leafhopper *Scaphytopius marginelineatus* (Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae). **Rodrigo Marques** (rodrigonmarques@gmail.com)¹ and João R. S. Lopes², ¹Federal Univ. of São Carlos, Buri, Brazil, ²Univ. of São Paulo, Piracicaba, Brazil

D3828 Understanding data from large scale Asian citrus psyllid, *Diaphorina citri*, Huanglongbing, *Candidatus Liberibactor asiaticus*, survey efforts: Can we locate infected trees sooner? **David W. Bartels** (david.w.bartels@aphis.usda.gov), USDA - APHIS, Edinburg, TX

D3829 Use of the ion torrent PGM for characterizing the microbiome of Oklahoma *Amblyomma americanum* (Ixodida: Ixodidae). Zachary C. Holmes¹, Brian T. Shirey¹, Maria L. Zambrano¹, Gregory A. Dasch¹, and **Sallie A. Ruskoski** (ruskosks@nsuok.edu)², ¹Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, ²Northeastern State Univ., Broken Arrow, OK

D3830 Multiple legumains in ixodid ticks. **David Hartmann** (hartmann@paru.cas.cz)¹,² and Radek Sima¹, ¹Czech Academy of Sciences, České Budějovice, Czech Republic, ²Univ. of South Bohemia, České Budějovice, Czech Republic

D3831 Bluetongue virus monitoring in *Culicoides* collected in the Republic of Korea in 2013-2014. **Jee Yong Park** (parkjyyunesy@korea.kr)¹, Su Bong Ha¹, Hyeong Hwa Ha¹, Hyun Ji Seo¹, Ji Hye Lee¹, Hye Young Jeoung¹,

Yong Joo Kim¹, and Heung Chul Kim², ¹Animal and Plant Quarantine Agency, Gimcheon, South Korea, ²U.S. Army, Seoul, South Korea

D3832 Habitat use by *Culicoides* spp.: The role of habitat type and animal use in determining species composition in a Kansas prairie preserve. **Robert Pfannenstiel** (bob.pfannenstiel@ars.usda.gov)¹ and Mark Ruder², ¹USDA - ARS, Manhattan, KS, ²Univ. of Georgia, Athens, GA

D3833 A mechanical transmission of dengue virus infection in mice by mosquito *Aedes aegypti*. **Kuen-Nan Tsai** (kntsa@nhri.org.tw), National Health Research Institutes, Miaoli, Taiwan

## Poster Session 4: Biodiversity, Biogeography, and Conservation of Arthropods, Part 2

### West Hall C (Convention Center)

D3834 Honduran fireflies (Coleoptera: Lampyridae). **Lynn Faust** (tnlfaust@gmail.com)¹ and Hugh Faust², ¹Great Smoky Mountains Conservation Association, Knoxville, TN, ²Emory River Land Company, Strawberry Plains, TN

D3835 Catalogue of West African Coccinellidae. **Kwevitoukoui Hounkpati** (bhounkpati@wacoccinellid.org) and Joseph V. McHugh, Univ. of Georgia, Athens, GA

D3836 Longhorned beetles (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) of Connecticut, U.S.A. **Chris Maier** (chris.maier@ct.gov), Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station, New Haven, CT

D3837 Wazzup? Canopy research of insect trophic interactions using aerial working platform. **Pavel Drozd** (pavel.drozd@osu.cz)¹, Jan Šlpoš², Martin Volf³, Martin Sigut¹, Petr Pyszko¹, Nela Kotaskova¹, Jiri Hodecek¹, David Kasprak¹, Hana Platkova¹, Ondrej Dornak¹, Marketa Kirstova¹, Lucie Vavrosova¹, and Vojtech Novotny³,⁴, ¹Univ. of Ostrava, Ostrava, Czech Republic, ²Czech Academy of Sciences, Brno, Czech Republic, ³Biological Centre ASCR, České Budějovice, Czech Republic, ⁴New Guinea Binatang Research Center, Madang, Papua New Guinea

D3838 Biodiversity and vertical stratification of Scolytinae and Platypodinae (Curculionidae) in an Amazonian forest fragment of Amapá, Brazil. Wilson Silva¹ and **Carlos Flechtmann** (flechtma@bio.feis.unesp.br)², ¹Macaéá, Brazil, ²São Paulo State Univ., Ilha Solteira, Brazil

D3839 Vertical stratification of bark and ambrosia beetles (Curculionidae: Scolytinae and Platypodinae) in two cerrado fragments in southern Brazil. **Fábio Leonel** (fabio3l@hotmail.com), Silvia Tanabe, and Carlos Flechtmann, São Paulo State Univ., Ilha Solteira, Brazil

D3840 Seasonal and vertical diversity of the family Elateridae (Coleoptera) in one region with tropical dry forest of the Mexican Pacific Slope. **Viridiana Vega Badillo** (vivebsemika@gmail.com), Martín Zurita Garcia, and Santiago Zaragoza Caballero, National Autonomous Univ. of México, Mexico City, Mexico
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**D3841** Backyard biodiversity: Unraveling life histories of the new fly species discovered by the BioSCAN Project. **Lisa Gonzalez** (Igonzale@nhm.org), Emily A. Hartop, and Brian V. Brown, Natural History Museum, Los Angeles, CA

**D3842** Progress in monarch butterfly conservation in Iowa. **Sue Blodgett** (sblodg@iastate.edu)¹, Steven Bradbury¹, Richard Hellmich², Robert Hartzler¹, Diane Debinski¹, John Pleasants¹, Teresa Blader¹, Victoria Pocius¹, Tyler Grant¹, Wendy Wintersteen¹, and Mark Honeyman¹. ¹Iowa State Univ., Ames, IA, ²USDA - ARS, Ames, IA

**D3843** Differential attraction to pollinators among landscape plants. **S. Kristine Braman** (kbraman@uga.edu), Univ. of Georgia, Griffin, GA

**D3844** Survey of native bee communities within several top-tier Louisiana conservation priority habitats. **Eric Van Gorder** (eric.van@selu.edu) and Janice L. Bossart, Southeastern Louisiana Univ., Hammond, LA

**D3845** Using plant-pollinator networks to determine optimal forage mixes for pollinator conservation in farmland. **Julia Brokaw** (brokawju@msu.edu)¹, Emily May², Jason Gibbs¹, and Rufus Isaacs¹. ¹Michigan State Univ., East Lansing, MI, ²The Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation, Portland, OR

**D3846** The missing link: A case for increased consideration for plant-pollinator interactions for species at-risk recovery in Ontario, Canada. **Victoria MacPhail** (vmacphail@gmail.com)¹, Carolyn Duthie², Sheila R. Colla², and Shannon Ferguson¹. ¹Wildlife Preservation Canada, Guelph, ON, Canada, ²York Univ., Toronto, ON, Canada

**D3847** Protura and Diplura of Kathara coal field area of Jharkhand, India and their ecological functions. **Amita Hembrom** (brajkishore58ranchi@gmail.com) and Braj Sinha, Ranchi Univ., Ranchi, India

**D3848** Stream macroinvertebrate communities within an urbanized watershed: A multi-year structural and functional assessment. **Mollie McIntosh** (mcintosh2@xavier.edu), Meghan Burge, Trisha Makely, Donielle Phillips, and Lauren Stock, Xavier Univ., Cincinnati, OH

**D3849** Radioactive contamination of aquatic insects in stream impacted by the Fukushima nuclear power plant accident. **Mayumi Yoshimura** (yoshi887@ffpri.affrc.go.jp), Kansai Research Center, Kyoto, Japan

**D3850** Evaluating differences in invertebrate communities between remnant and restored prairies in the Upper Osage Grasslands. **Joseph LaRose** (jlaroseph@gmail.com), Debbie Finke, and Elizabeth Webb, Univ. of Missouri, Columbia, MO

**D3851** The impacts of grazing intensity and altered precipitation on grasshopper assemblage in a meadow steppe. **Hui Zhu** (zhuh824@nenu.edu.cn), Bingzhong Ren, Yinliang Wang, and Duo Zhang, Northeast Normal Univ., Changchun, China

**D3852** Insect fauna on different types of green roofs in Japan: Biotope, herb and meadow green roofs. **Masashi Nomura** (nomuram@faculty.chiba-u.jp)¹ and Ayako Nagase², ¹Chiba Univ., Matsudo, Japan, ²Chiba Univ., Chiba, Japan

**D3853** The impact of some agricultural practices on soil biodiversity in sunflower crop. **Maria Iamandei** (maria_iamandei@yahoo.com) and Daniel Kurzeluk, Research - Development Institute for Plant Protection, Bucharest, Romania

**D3854** Distribution of Arthropoda at different vegetation on apple and pear orchard in Korea. **Jong-Ho Park** (jhpark75@korea.kr), National Academy of Agricultural Science, Wanju, South Korea

**D3855** The effect of agriculture and urbanization on predacious arthropod diversity of grasslands. **Bianca Greyvenstein** (Biagrey90@gmail.com), Johnnie van den Berg, and Stefan Siebert, North-West Univ., Potchefstroom, South Africa

**D3856** Effect of the distance between natural forest and acacia forest on termite diversity in acacia plantation forests. **Yoko Takematsu** (takematu@yamaguchi-u.ac.jp)¹, Paulus Meleng², Kok-Boon Neoh³, Tsuyoshi Yoshimura⁴, and Takao Itioka⁵, ¹Yamaguchi Univ., Yamaguchi, Japan, ²Forest Dept. Sarawak, Kuching, Malaysia, ³National Chung Hsing Univ., Taichung, Taiwan, ⁴Kyoto Univ., Uji, Japan, ⁵Kyoto Univ., Kyoto, Japan

**D3857** Patterns of functional diversity of two trophic groups after canopy thinning in an abandoned coppice. **Jan Sipos** (jsipos@seznam.cz)¹,², Radim Hedl¹,³, Vladimir Hula⁴, Markéta Chudomelová¹, Ondrej Kosulic⁴, Jana Niedobová⁴, and Vladan Riedl¹,⁵, ¹Czech Academy of Sciences, Brno, Czech Republic, ²Univ. of Ostrava, Ostrava, Czech Republic, ³Palacký Univ., Olomouc, Czech Republic, ⁴Mendel Univ., Brno, Czech Republic, ⁵Nature Conservation Agency of the Czech Republic, Brno, Czech Republic

**D3858** Prescribed burning impacts on invertebrate communities in longleaf pine ecosystems. **Sara Simmons** (sara.simmons@selu.edu) and Jancie Bossart, Southeastern Louisiana Univ., Hammond, LA

**D3859** Response of ground-dwelling insects to maritime forest disturbance. **C. Tate Holbrook** (cholbrook@ccga.edu) and Sarah McInnis, College of Coastal Georgia, Brunswick, GA

## Poster Session 4: Ecology of Pesticides, Resistance, Toxicology, and Genetically Modified Crops, Part 2

### West Hall C (Convention Center)

**D3860** Aminopeptidase N1 is one of functional receptors of Cry1Ac toxin in *Chilo suppressalis*. **Shuwen Wu** (swwu@njau.edu.cn), Haonan Zhang, and Yihua Yang, Nanjing Agricultural Univ., Nanjing, China

**D3861** Characterization of PhABCC4 involved in ivermectin tolerance. **Ju Hyeon Kim** (jhkim35@umass.edu)¹, Kyle Gellatly², Edwin Murenzi¹, Kyong Sup Yoon³, and John M. Clark¹, ¹Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, ²Univ. of Massachusetts, Worcester, MA, ³Southern Illinois Univ., Edwardsville, IL

**D3862** Overexpression of P450 genes in a buprofezin-resistant strain of the brown planthopper, *Nilaparvata lugens*. **Shun-fan Wu** (wusf@njau.edu.cn), Xi-Chao Mu, and Cong-Fen Gao, Nanjing Agricultural Univ., Nanjing, China
**D3863** Alanine to valine substitutions in the pore helix IIIP1 and linker helix IIIL45 confer cockroach sodium channel resistance to DDT and pyrethroids. **Mengli Chen** (chenml@msu.edu)¹,², Yuzhe Du¹, Yoshiko Nomura¹, Guonian Zhu², Boris S. Zhorov³, and Ke Dong¹, ¹Michigan State Univ., East Lansing, MI, ²Zhejiang Univ., Hangzhou, China, ³McMaster Univ., Hamilton, ON, Canada

**D3864** Molecular and functional characterization of a voltage-gated sodium channel from the bumble bee **Bombus impatiens**. **Shaoying Wu** (wsy6000@msu.edu)¹,², Yuzhe Du², Yoshiko Nomura², and Ke Dong², ¹Henan Agriculture Univ., Zhengzhou, China, ²Michigan State Univ., East Lansing, MI

**D3865** Temephos resistance and esterase activity in the mosquito *Aedes aegypti* in Havana, Cuba changed dramatically between 2006 and 2013. **Maria Rodriguez** (mrodriguez@ipk.sld.cu) and Juan Bisset, Institute of Tropical Medicine Pedro Kouri, Havana, Cuba

**D3866** Molecular and functional characterization of knockdown resistance to pyrethroids in *Aedes aegypti*. **Xiangrui Tian** (15850578760@139.com)¹, Yuzhe Du¹, Yoshiko Nomura¹, Jianya Su², and Ke Dong¹, ¹Michigan State Univ., East Lansing, MI, ²Nanjing Agricultural Univ., Nanjing, China

**D3867** New opportunities to investigate insecticide and acaricide chloride channel targets through their differential interactions with diverse chemical classes. **Sofia Iqbal** (sofia.iqbal@rothamsted.ac.uk)¹, Martin Williamson¹, T. G. Emyr Davies¹, Mirel Puinean¹, Lin Field¹, and Ian Mellor², ¹Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, United Kingdom, ²Univ. of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom

**D3868** Studies on the mechanism of action of matrine, an insecticidal natural product. **Yuxin Li** (liyx128@nankai.edu.cn)¹ and Jeffrey Bloomquist², ¹Nankai Univ., Tianjin, China, ²Univ. of Florida, Gainesville, FL

**D3869** Unintended impacts of the transgenic American chestnut (Fagales: Fagaceae) on lepidopteran biopesticide efficacy and parasitoid success. **Dylan Parry** and **Aaron Brown** (abrown02@syr.edu), State Univ. of New York, Syracuse, NY

**D3870** Discovery of insecticidal activity from bacteria associated with soil and plants. **Narendra Palekar**, **Mary Kroner**, (mkroner@agbiome.com), **Brooke Bissinger**, Jacob Pearce, **Marie Encarnacion**, Rebekah Kelly, **Amy Shekita**, **Dylan Kraus**, **Elka Armstrong**, and **Amber McGuire**, **AgBiome**, Inc., **Durham**, NC

**D3871** Presentation withdrawn

**D3872** Simulating prey removal, natural enemy abundance, and bicide控 in Bt maize. **Christopher Brown** (christopher.r.brown@monsanto.com) and Robert K. D. Peterson, Montana State Univ., Bozeman, MT

**D3873** Characterization of two *Bacillus thuringiensis* Vip3 proteins against lepidopteran insect pests. **Sek Yee Tan** (stan5@dow.com), Ted J. Letherer, Wendy Lo, Todd Glancy, Sarah Worden, Andrew Worden, Jeff Beringer, Stephen Foulk, Shannon Whitlock, Aaron Woosley, Ryan Lee, Marc Zack, and Kenneth Narva, Dow AgroSciences, Indianapolis, IN

**D3874** Modifications of *Bacillus thuringiensis* Cry3Aa toxicity by cadherin fragments. **Moataz Moustafa** (moataz.moustafa79@gmail.com)¹ and František Sehnal², ¹Cairo Univ., Giza, Egypt, ²Czech Academy of Sciences, České Budějovice, Czech Republic

**D3875** Effects of pollen contamination on the dominance of resistance to Bt maize in fall armyworm. **Fei Yang** (fyang@agcenter.lsu.edu)¹, David L. Kerns², Sebe Brown², and Fangneng Huang¹, ¹Louisiana State Univ., Baton Rouge, LA, ²Louisiana State Univ., Winnsboro, LA

**D3876** Selection with Cry2Ab confers broad-spectrum resistance to Bt Cry toxins in cotton bollworm, *Helicoverpa armigera*. **Yihua Yang** (yhyang@njau.edu.cn), Laipan Liu, and Yidong Wu, Nanjing Agricultural Univ., Nanjing, China

**D3877** Challenges and options for tracking susceptibility of *Helicoverpa zea* and *Heliothis virescens* (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) to transgenic crops expressing toxins derived from *Bacillus thuringiensis*. **Randall Luttrell** (randy.luttrell@ars.usda.gov), Nathan Little, Michelle Mullen, Kenya Dixon, Chad Roberts, K. Clint Allen, and Omaththage P. Perera, USDA - ARS, Stoneville, MS

## Poster Session 4: Insect Immunology

### West Hall C (Convention Center)

**D3878** Multi-purpose applications of beetle defensin-derived antimicrobial peptides. **Jun Ishibashi** (bishiba@affrc.go.jp)¹, Takashi Iwasaki¹, Ai Asaoka¹, Megumi Sumitani¹, Makoto Nakamura², and Minoru Yamakawa¹, ¹National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences, Tsukuba, Japan, ²Industrial Technology Center of Wakayama Prefecture, Wakayama, Japan

**D3879** Identification, characterization and functional analysis of a serine protease inhibitor (CvT-serpin) from *Cotesia vestalis* teratocytes. **Qijuan Gu** (ggzjdx@163.com), Min Shi, Jian Yang, and Xue-xin Chen, Zhejiang Univ., Hangzhou, China

**D3880** A hypothetical model of crossing *Bombyx mori* nucleopolyhedrovirus through its host midgut physical barrier. **Jiaping Xu** (jiapingxu@163.com) and Minghui Liu, Anhui Agricultural Univ., Hefei, China

**D3881** A peptidoglycan recognition protein acts in sweetpotato whitefly, *Bemisia tabaci*, immunity. **Zhi-zhi Wang** (wzz1312@163.com), Min Shi, Xiao-Wei Wang, and Xue-xin Chen, Zhejiang Univ., Hangzhou, China

**D3882** Secreted factors that modulate virus infection in Lepidoptera. **Vassiliki Labropoulou** and **Luc Swevers** (swevers@bio.demokritos.gr), Institute of Biosciences & Applications, Athens, Greece

**D3883** Dengue virus exposure at the larval stage induced immune priming in *Aedes aegypti* adult mosquitoes. **Valeria Vargas** (valeria.vargaspl@gmail.com)¹,², Guadalupe Hernández-Martínez², and Humberto Lanz-Mendoza², ¹National Autonomous Univ. of México, Mexico City, Mexico, ²National Institute of Public Health, Cuernavaca, Mexico
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**D3884** Novel microbes mediate immune response on an exotic host in the specialist butterfly, *Lycaeides melissa*. *Su'ad Yoon* (suady@nevada.unr.edu), Joshua Harrison, Matthew L. Forister, and Angela Smilanich, Univ. of Nevada, Reno, NV

**D3885** Probiotics in *Drosophila* against *Aspergillus* infections. **Luis Ramirez Camejo** (ramirecamejo@gmail.com)¹, Michael García Alicea², Génesis Maldonado Morales², and Paul Batman². ¹INDICASAT AIP, Panama, Panama, ²Univ. of Puerto Rico, San Juan, PR

**D3886** Constitutive and induced immunity among castes of the ant *Formica exsecta*. **Dimitri Stucki** (dimitri.stucki@helsinki.fi), Liselotte Sundström, and Dalial Freitak, Univ. of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

**D3887** An expanded view of the immune serine protease network in *Manduca sexta*. Haobo Jiang and **Yang Wang** (yang.wang10@okstate.edu), Oklahoma State Univ., Stillwater, OK

**D3888** Biological control of the diamondback moth, *Plutella xylostella*, using various natural predators. **Shahil Pema** (spema@nevada.unr.edu), Angela Smilanich, Lora Richards, and Lee A. Dyer, Univ. of Nevada, Reno, NV

## Poster Session 4: Insects in Food Safety and Homeland Security

### West Hall C (Convention Center)

**D3889** How many insect fragments can be detected in foods using endpoint PCR? **Monica Pava-Ripoll** (monica.pava-ripoll@fda.hhs.gov), Amy K. Miller, and George C. Ziobro, U.S. Food and Drug Administration, College Park, MD

**D3890** Enhancing the United States Department of Agriculture and Department of Homeland Security partnership using live digital streaming at distance ports. **Esther Serrano** (esther.s.serrano@aphis.usda.gov)¹ and Paula Kelly², ¹USDA - APHIS, Ft. Lauderdale, FL, ²U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Palmetto, FL

**D3891** Quarantine management for biological control of invasive insects: Permitting, physical biosecurity, and staff training. **Jay S. Bancroft** (jay.bancroft@ars.usda.gov), USDA - ARS, Newark, DE

## Poster Session 4: Medical and Veterinary Entomology, Part 2

### West Hall C (Convention Center)

**D3892** Resistance monitoring through the enhanced surveillance protocol for the CDC bottle bioassay and kdr mutations in *Aedes aegypti* (Linnaeus) from Mexico. Beatriz Lopez, **Franco Morales** (francomfrs@gmail.com), Selene Gutierrez, Juan Gonzalez, and Adriana Flores, Autonomous Univ. of Nuevo León, San Nicolás de los Garza, Mexico,

**D3893** Variability and replication in insecticide resistance testing using the CDC bottle bioassay. **Mary A. Sorensen** (marys@placermosquito.org), Placer Mosquito & Vector Control District, Roseville, CA

**D3894** Insecticidal activity of *Magnolia kobus* against *Culex pipiens* and *Aedes albopictus*. Jin-Won Seo, Hyun Kyung Kim, **JaeSeon Lee** (leejs910412@naver.com), Hyun-Na Koo, and Gil-Hah Kim, Chungbuk National Univ., Cheongju, South Korea

**D3895** First determination of lethal and sublethal effects of temephos on *Anopheles pseudopunctipennis* in comparison with *Aedes aegypti*. Agustin Alvarez Costa, Paula Gonzalez, Laura Harburguer, and **Hector Masuh** (hmasuh@citedef.gob.ar), Pests and Insecticides Research Centre, Villa Martelli, Argentina

**D3896** Chemical characterization and insecticidal activity of essential oils on *Aedes aegypti* (Diptera: Culicidae). Natalia Rios, Elena Stashenko, and **Jonny Duque** (jonedulu@uis.edu.co), Industrial Univ. of Santander, Bucaramanga, Colombia

**D3897** Applying *Bacillus thuringiensis israeliensis* (Bti) to control exophilic *Anopheles coluzzii* towards pre-elimination stage of malaria in the Democratic Republic of Sao Tome and Principe. **Kun-Hsien Tsai** (kunhtsai@ntu.edu.tw), National Taiwan Univ., Taipei, Taiwan

**D3898** Human C5a interacts with a G-protein coupled receptor in *Aedes aegypti* cells modulating DENV infection in *vitro*. **Berlin Londono-Renteria** (blondono@uscmed.sc.edu), Andrea Troupin, and Tonya Colpitts, Univ. of South Carolina, Columbia, SC

**D3899** The role of AeCSPBP and SGS 1 in sporozoite invasion of *Aedes aegypti* salivary gland. **Bianca Kojin** (bianca.burini@gmail.com) and Margareth Capurro, Univ. of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

**D3900** Chemical composition of *Zingiber zerumbet* (L.) Smith: Essential oil and its repellent activity against the yellow fever mosquito, *Aedes aegypti* L. **Nurhayat Tabanca** (ntabanca@ufl.edu)¹, Maia Tsikolia¹, Natasha Agramonte¹, Betul Demirci², Jeffrey Bloomquist¹, and Ulrich Bernier³, ¹Univ. of Florida, Gainesville, FL, ²Anadolu Univ., Eskisehir, Turkey, ³USDA - ARS, Gainesville, FL

**D3901** A cross-species comparison: The efficacy of insect repellents and attractants. **Stacy D. Rodriguez** (stacyr@nmsu.edu), Hae-Na Chung, Kristina Gonzales, and Immo Hansen, New Mexico State Univ., Las Cruces, NM

**D3902** Odorant receptor from the southern house mosquito sensitive to natural repellents. **Pingxi Xu** (pxxu@ucdavis.edu), Young-Moo Choo, Garisson Buss, and Walter S. Leal, Univ. of California, Davis, CA

**D3903** Seasonal prevalence of main vector of Japanese encephalitis, *Culex tritaeniorhynchus* (Diptera: Culicidae), at 10 areas in Republic of Korea during 2011 to 2015. **Hye Mi Yu** (xjymgapal@naver.com), E-Hyun Shin, Wook Gyo Lee, Jong Yul Roh, Young Ran Ju, and Kyu Sik Chang, Korea National Research Institute of Health, Cheongju, South Korea

**D3904** The risk of new invasive mosquito species in southeast Europe: Current state and future risk maps. **Antonios Michaelakis** (a.michaelakis@bpi.gr)¹, Rafaella Sotiropoulou²,³, Efthimios Tagaris³, Andreas Sotiropoulos⁴, Ioannis Spanos⁴, Dimitrios Papachristos¹, Romeo Bellini⁵, and Panagiotis Milonas¹, ¹Benaki Phytopathological Institute,
Kifissia, Greece, ²Univ. of Western Macedonia, Kozani, Greece, ³National Centre of Scientific Research, Agia Paraskevi, Greece, ⁴Terra Nova, Ltd., Athens, Greece, ⁵Agriculture Environment Centre, Bologna, Italy

D3905 Validation in field conditions of the traps to capture insect with HomeTrap and Guardian Nocturno. **Héctor Parra** (hparra@uis.edu.co)¹, Juliana Cuadros¹, Gustavo Rincón², Ruth Castillo², and Nicolás Ruiz¹, ¹Industrial Univ. of Santander, Bucaramanga, Colombia, ²Industrial Univ. of Santander, Piedecuesta, Colombia

D3906 Observation on diel oviposition periodicity of *Toxorhynchites splendens* (Wiedemann) in laboratory. **Siriporn Phasomkusolsil** (siripornp@afrims.org), Kanchana Pantuwattana, Jaruwan Tawong, Weeraphan Khongtak, Yossasin Kertmanee, Nantaporn Monkanna, Sakon Khaosanorh, and Silas Davidson, Armed Forces Research Institute of Medical Sciences, Rachatewee, Thailand

D3907 Effects of heterotrophic microorganisms on wetland inhabiting mosquitoes. **Dagne Duguma** (duguma@ufl.edu), Univ. of Florida, Vero Beach, FL

D3908 Ecological study on *Aedes albopictus* (Diptera: Culicidae) in Korea. **Hyunwoo Kim** (kim6959@gmail.com), E-Hyun Shin, Kyu Sik Chang, Jong Yul Roh, and Wook Gyo Lee, Korea National Research Institute of Health, Cheongju, South Korea

D3909 Container size and shape alters interspecific competitive effects among mosquito larvae. **Peter J. Brabant** (pbrab001@gmail.com) and Steven Juliano, Illinois State Univ., Normal, IL

D3910 WingBank: A database of morphologic and genetic data of epidemiologically important Culicidae. **Lincoln Suesdek** (lincoln.suesdek@butantan.gov.br)¹ and Caroline Louise², ¹Univ. of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil, ²Butantan Institute, São Paulo, Brazil

D3911 Fauna and frequency of phlebotomine sand flies (Diptera: Psychodidae) in southwestern Iran. **Gholam Hossein Shahraki** (shahraki.gh@gmail.com), Yasuj Univ. of Medical Sciences, Yasuj, Iran

D3912 Evaluation of sand fly trapping methods and identification of potential sand fly vectors in leishmaniasis and bartonellosis endemic areas in the northern Peruvian Amazon. Victor Zorrilla¹, Liz Espada¹, Marisa Lozano¹, Heriberto Arevalo², Mario Troyes³, Gissella Vasquez¹, and Craig Stoops (craig.a.stoops.mil@mail.mil)¹, ¹U.S. Naval Medical Research Unit, Callao, Peru, ²San Martin Regional Health Directorate, Tarapoto, Peru, ³Jaen Health Directorate, Jaen, Peru

D3913 Salivary proteins from *Lutzomyia longipalpis* Hyaluronidase and Lundep as vaccine candidates against *Leishmania major* infection. **Ines Martin-Martin** (ines.martin-martin@nih.gov), Andrezza Chagas, Anderson Guimarães-Costa, Fabiano Oliveira, Jesus G. Valenzuela, Jose Ribeiro, and Eric Calvo, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Rockville, MD

D3914 Undergraduate research in medical entomology at a primarily undergraduate institution. **William Dees** (wdees@mcneese.edu), Caroline Hennigan, Christopher Struchtemeyer, Caleb Ardizzone, Omar Christian, and Victoria Hayes, McNeese State Univ., Lake Charles, LA

D3915 *Cuterebra* among definitive hosts and companion animals in the Twin Cities Metropolitan Area of Minnesota, USA. **Roger D. Moon** (rdmoon@umn.edu), Univ. of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN

D3916 Distribution pattern of tabanids inhabiting Japan (Diptera: Tabanidae). **Hitoshi Sasaki** (h-sasaki@rakuno.ac.jp), Rakuno Gakuen Univ., Ebetsu, Japan

D3917 Stable fly, *Stomoxys calcitrans*, phenology on a southern Manitoba, Canada dairy farm. **Kateryn Rochon** (kateryn.rochon@umanitoba.ca)¹ and Kristina Friesen², ¹Univ. of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada, ²USDA - ARS, Lincoln, NE

D3918 A natural cattle immune response against horn fly salivary antigens may regulate parasite blood intake. **Martin Breijo** (mbreijo@fmed.edu.uy), Lucía Pastro, Sergio Rocha, Ximena Ures, Carmen Bolatto, Cecilia Fernández, and Ana Meikle, Univ. of the Republic, Montevideo, Uruguay

D3919 Horn fly, *Haematobia irritans*, suppression on pastured beef cattle. **Nancy Hinkle** (nhinkle@uga.edu), Annie Rich, and Brent Phelan, Univ. of Georgia, Athens, GA

## Poster Session 4: Morphology, Systematics, and Phylogeny

### West Hall C (Convention Center)

D3920 DNA BarcodeTechnique for molecular identification of stored grain insects and mites. **Yi Wu** (wuyi@chinagrain.org)¹, Fujun Li¹, Zhihong Li², Vaclav Stejskal³, and Yang Cao¹, ¹Academy of State Administration of Grain, Beijing, China, ²China Agricultural Univ., Beijing, China, ³Crop Research Institute, Prague, Czech Republic

D3921 Introduction of the Chlaeniini ground-beetles (Coleoptera: Carabidae) from Korea. Ik Je Choi¹, Jinyoung Park², and **Jong Kyun Park** (entopark@knu.ac.kr)³, ¹Korea National Arboretum, Pocheon, South Korea, ²National Institute of Ecology, Seocheon, South Korea, ³Kyungpook National Univ., Sangju, South Korea

D3922 The cerambycid beetles of the genus *Oberea* Dejean, 1835 (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) from Korea. Kyeongmi Kim¹, Eun Young Choi¹, Seok Young Kim¹, Yang Sook Lim², **Jinyoung Park** (entopark@nie.re.kr)³, and Jong Kyun Park¹, ¹Kyungpook National Univ., Sangju, South Korea, ²Sangju Persimmon Experiment Station, Sangju, South Korea, ³National Institute of Ecology, Seocheon, South Korea

D3923 Diversity and evolution of the ponerine ants of the genus *Leptogenys* (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from the oriental region. **Koichi Arimoto** (kou.arimoto@gmail.com)¹, Munetoshi Maruyama¹, Seiki Yamane², and Fuminori Ito³, ¹Kyushu Univ., Fukuoka, Japan, ²Kagoshima Univ., Kagoshima, Japan, ³Kagawa Univ., Kagawa, Japan
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**D3924** Contribution to taxonomical and biological study of *Heteropsylla cubana* Crawford, phytophagous insect of *Leucaena leucocephala* (Lam.) de Wit.

**Nurys Valenciaga Valdés** (nvalenciaga@ica.co.cu)¹, Miriam Fernández Argudin², and Ciro Mora Díaz¹,
¹Institute of Animal Science, San José de las Lajas, Cuba, ²National Center for Animal and Plant Health, San José de las Lajas, Cuba

**D3925** Development of a physiological age grading system for the southern green stink bug. **Brad Elliott** (brad.elliott@ars.usda.gov), Michael Grodowitz, M. Guadalupe Rojas, and Juan Morales-Ramos, USDA - ARS, Stoneville, MS

**D3926** Comparison of morphometric indices in male and female imagoes of *Calliptamus barbarus* (Orthoptera: Acrididae: Calliptaminae) in the region of Jijel (Algeria).
**Rouibah Moad** (rouibahm@yahoo.com), Univ. of Jijel, Jijel, Algeria

**D3927** Efficient identification of 40 stingless bee species using geometric morphometric of forewings.
**Patrícia Daniela Pinhal** (patriciadpinhal@gmail.com)¹ and Tiago Francoy², ¹Univ. of São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto, Brazil, ²Univ. of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

**D3928** Comparison of the sternal spots and carinae of twelve species of North American cuckoo wasps (Hymenoptera: Chrysididae) using scanning electron microscopy. **Robert Conrow** (rtconrow@gmail.com)¹ and Gregory Paulson², ¹Oley, PA, ²Shippensburg Univ., Shippensburg, PA

**D3929** Proboscis morphology is not a good predictor of the functionality in Saturniidae (Lepidoptera). Shen-horn Yen and **Shih-Hao Tu** (a0976546859@gmail.com), National Sun Yat-Sen Univ., Kaohsiung, Taiwan

**D3930** The ultrastructure of infrabaccal pocket in *Camponotus japonicus* Mayr. **Hong He** (hehong@nwsuaf.edu.cn), Jun Zhang, and Cong Wei, Northwest A&F Univ., Yangling, China

**D3931** Phylogenetic prediction: Analytical considerations.
**James Hayden** (james.hayden@freshfromflorida.com)¹ and Michelle DaCosta², ¹Florida Dept. of Agriculture and Consumer Services, Gainesville, FL, ²USDA - APHIS, Miami, FL

**D3932** Higher-level phylogeny of Plecoptera based on molecular data. **Zhi-Teng Chen** (741208116@qq.com) and Yuzhou Du, Yangzhou Univ., Yangzhou, China

**D3933** Cladistic analysis of Catacanthini Atkinson, 1888 (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Pentatomidae: Pentatominae).
Jocelia Grazia¹, **Brenda Fürstenau** (brendabianca@gmail.com)¹, and Cristiano Schwertner², ¹Federal Univ. of Rio Grande, Porto Alegre, Brazil, ²Federal Univ. of São Paulo, Diadema, Brazil

**D3934** A comparison of wing flexural stiffness in butterflies within a Batesian mimicry complex. **Laura Unfried** (lnunfried@eagles.usi.edu), Andrew Hamilton, and Eric McCloud, Univ. of Southern Indiana, Evansville, IN

**D3935** A comparison of wing toughness in a Batesian mimicry complex. **Andrew Hamilton** (akhamilton1@eagles.usi.edu), Laura Unfried, and Eric McCloud, Univ. of Southern Indiana, Evansville, IN

**D3936** Elliptic fourier analysis of the forewing and pronotum outline shape of male and female of *Rhipibruchus juuyensis*. (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Bruchinae).
**Voyko Flores-Rocha** (voyyyko@gmail.com)¹, Maria Avila², and Susana Muruaga de L. Argentier³,
¹National Univ. of Salta, Salta, Argentina, ²National Agricultural Technology Institute, Salta, Argentina, ³National Univ. of Jujuy, Jujuy, Argentina

**D3937** Phylogenetics of Pteromalidae: Can it be done? Should it be done? Will anyone accept the answers?
**Roger A. Burks** (burks.roger@gmail.com) and John M. Heraty, Univ. of California, Riverside, CA

**D3938** Phylogenetic relationships of the flesh fly genus *Ravinia* (Diptera: Sarcophagidae). **Gregory A. Dahlem** (dahlem@nku.edu)¹, Evan Wong², and Ronald W. DeBry²,
¹Northern Kentucky Univ., Highland Heights, KY, ²Univ. of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH

**D3939** Excess power index: A sexually dimorphic trait in bees.
**Cindy Vigueira** (cvigueir@highpoint.edu)¹, Patrick Vigueira¹, and Joshua Campbell², ¹High Point Univ., High Point, NC, ²Univ. of Florida, Gainesville, FL

**D3940** Laboulbeniales fungal ectoparasites on cave arthropods: Remarkable models for ecology and evolution.
Danny Haelewaters¹, Sergi Santamaria², Donald Pfister¹, Henrik Enghoff³, and **Ana Sofia Reboleira** (sreboleira@snm.ku.dk)³, ¹Harvard Univ., Cambridge, MA, ²Autonomous Univ. of Barcelona, Bellaterra, Spain, ³Natural History Museum, Copenhagen, Denmark

**D3941** A review of the New World leafhopper tribe Faltalini (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae) and discovery of new genera and species. **James Zahniser** (james.n.zahniser@aphis.usda.gov), USDA - APHIS, San Diego, CA

**D3942** Molecular identification of *Helicoverpa armigera* from northwestern Argentina. **Maria Avila** (agronoelia@hotmail.com)¹, Marta Galvan², **Voyko Flores-Rocha**³, and German San Blas⁴, ⁵National Agricultural Technology Institute, Salta, Argentina, ²National Scientific and Technical Research Council, Salta, Argentina, ³National Univ. of Salta, Salta, Argentina, ⁴National Univ. of La Pampa, La Pampa, Argentina, ⁵National Scientific and Technical Research Council, La Pampa, Argentina

**D3943** Some new species of the Rosaceae-feeding *Ectoedemia* in Japan (Lepidoptera: Nepticulidae). **Sadahisa Yagi** (yagi.sadahisa@gmail.com)¹, Nagao Hirano², and Toshiya Hirowatari¹, ¹Kyushu Univ., Fukuoka, Japan, ²Matsumoto, Japan

**D3944** Discovery of multiple cryptic species of the *Auplopus carbonarius* species-complex (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae). **Hiroaki Kurushima** (kurushima-hiroaki@ed.tmu.ac.jp) and Akira Shimizu, Tokyo Metropolitan Univ., Hachioji, Japan

**D3945** Presentation withdrawn

**D3946** New species of the entomobryomorpha (Hexapoda: Collembola) from South Korea. **Hakseo Kim** (goodkimseo@gmail.com), Chonbuk National Univ., Jeonju, South Korea
**D3947** The immature stages, larval host plants and biology of oriental portiine butterflies (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae: Poritiinae). **Masaya Yago** (myago@um.u-tokyo.ac.jp)¹, Seiya Kudo², Yoshichika Aoki³, Tadashi Kudo⁴, Michael Braby⁵, Koji Takayama⁶, and Hiroshi Ikeda¹. ¹The Univ. Museum, The Univ. of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, ²Hirosaki Univ., Aomori, Japan, ³Matsumoto Mushi-no-Kai, Nagano, Japan, ⁴The Lepidopterological Society of Japan, Aomori, Japan, ⁵The Australian National Univ., Canberra, Australia, ⁶Museum of Natural and Environmental History, Shizuoka, Japan

**D3948** Morphology, systematics, and phylogeny of sub-family of Gomphocerinae (Orthoptera: Acrididae). **Zina Sofrane** (sofranezina1@yahoo.fr)¹, Simon Dupont², Salaheddine Doumandji³, and Anne-Genevieve Bagnere², ¹Univ. Ferhat Abbas Sétif, Setif, Algeria, ²Univ. of Tours, Tours, France, ³National Higher School of Agronomy, El-Harrach, Algeria

**D3949** DNA-based species delimitation within the flesh fly genus *Ravinia* (Diptera: Sarcophagidae). **Ronald DeBry** (ron.debry@uc.edu)¹, Evan S. Wong¹, and Gregory A. Dahlem², ¹Univ. of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, ²Northern Kentucky Univ., Highland Heights, KY

**D3950** Systematic review and meta-analysis of the prey-attraction and predator-defence hypotheses for web decorations in *Argiope* and *Cyclosa* spiders. **Dumas Gálvez** (dumas galvez@mail.com), INDICASAT AIP, Panama, Panama

**D3951** *Tipula* (*Nippotipula* *abdominalis* (Say, 1823) (Diptera: Tipulidae), a common eastern Nearctic shredder crane fly, is actually three species. **Jon K. Gelhaus** (gelhaus@ansp.org)¹, Vaughn Shirey¹, and Yan Li², ¹Drexel Univ., Philadelphia, PA, ²Shenyang Agricultural Univ., Shenyang, China

**D3952** Species diversity and speciation of physogastric rove beetles associated with *Longipeditermes longipes* in Southeast Asia. **Taisuke Kanao** (kanatai1225@gmail.com) and Munetoshi Maruyama, Kyushu Univ., Fukuoka, Japan

**D3953** Unrecognized *Glyphomerus* species associated with gall wasps in western North America. **Chris Looney** (clooney@agr.wa.gov)¹ and James Strange², ¹Washington State Dept. of Agriculture, Olympia, WA, ²USDA - ARS, Logan, UT

**D3954** Taxonomic review to subgeneric and species level of *Augochloropsis* (Hymenopters: Halictidae). **Cindy Julieth Celis** (cindy.celis1@gmail.com) and Jose Ricardo Cure, Nueva Granada Military University, Cajica, Colombia

**D3955** Presentation withdrawn

**D3956** Biology and taxonomy of *Plutella* species in Australia. **Tharanga Kariyawasam** (tharanga.kankanamge@hdr.qut.edu.au)¹, Stephen Cameron², Mark Schutze², and Caroline Hauxwell¹, ¹Queensland Univ. of Technology, Brisbane, Australia, ²Plant Biosecurity Cooperative Research Centre, Bruce, Australia

**D3957** Revision of the genus *Gymnoscirtetes* (Orthoptera: Acrididae). **JoVonn Hill** (jgh4@entomology.msstate.edu), Mississippi State Univ., Mississippi State, MS

**D3958** Molecular taxonomy: A not so straightforward path to insect species identification. **Mauricio Montero-Astúa** (mauricio.monteroastua@ucr.ac.cr)¹, Ericka Valverde-Ortiz¹, Adonay Zúñiga Centeno¹, Izayana Sandoval Carvajal¹, Nicolás Pérez Hidalgo², Grace Alpizar³, Laura Garita¹, and William Villalobos¹, ¹Univ. of Costa Rica, San José, Costa Rica, ²Univ. of León, León, Spain, ³State Plant Protection Service, Alajuela, Costa Rica

**D3959** A taxonomic study on the subfamily Braconinae (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) from China. **Yang Li** (xly105@163.com), Jun-hua He, and Xue-xin Chen, Zhejiang Univ., Hangzhou, China

**D3960** The good, the bad, and the ugly: The wild, wild west of specimen databasing. **Luciana Musetti** (musetti.2@osu.edu), Sara Hemly, Matt Elder, and Norman Johnson, The Ohio State Univ., Columbus, OH

**D3961** Review of Genus *Cryptorhynchus* Illiger and related genera in Japan (Coleoptera: Curculionidae). **Naomichi Tsuji** (64kurasawatrechus@gmail.com) and Katsura Morimoto, Kyushu Univ., Fukuoka, Japan

**D3962** Comparison of preservation methods for DNA extraction from *Tabanus bifarius* Lowe 1858 (Diptera: Tabanidae). **Ali Kilic** (aykilic@anadolu.edu.tr) and Sumeyra Sanal Demirci, Anadolu Univ., Eskisehir, Turkey

**D3963** Taxonomy of the genus *Pilophorus* Hahn from Nepal (Heteroptera: Miridae: Phylinae: Pilophorini). **Ram Keshari Duwal** (ramkeshariduwal@gmail.com)¹, Tomohide Yasunaga², and Toshiya Hirowatari¹, ¹Kyushu Univ., Fukuoka, Japan, ²American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY

**D3964** Application of DNA barcoding to sawfly (Hymenoptera: Symphyta) taxonomy. **Nathan M. Schiff** (nschiff@fs.fed.us)¹, David Smith², Aaron Lancaster¹, and Brian E. Scheffler³, ¹USDA - Forest Service, Stoneville, MS, ²USDA - ARS, Washington, DC, ³USDA - ARS, Stoneville, MS

**D3965** DNA barcoding of Japanese scarabaeoid beetles (Coleoptera, Scarabaeoidea). **Tadatsugu Hosoya** (tadatsugu.hosoya.848@m.kyushu-u.ac.jp), Kyushu Univ., Fukuoka, Japan

**D3966** Scope of University of Central Florida Collection of Arthropods: A growing collection. **Shiala Naranjo** (smorales20@knights.ucf.edu), Sandor Kelly, Erin Barbeau, Brian Silverman, and Ryan Ridenbaugh, Univ. of Central Florida, Orlando, FL

## Symposium: Forest Entomology without Borders: Balancing Market Forces with Government Intervention

### Room W222 A (Convention Center)

**Moderator and Organizer:** Kimberly F. Wallin, Univ. of Vermont, Burlington, VT

**9:15 3690** Southern pine beetle infestations in relation to forest stand conditions, previous thinning, and prescribed burning. John T. Nowak¹, James R. Meeker², Chris Steiner², and **David Coyle** (drcoyle@uga.edu)³, ¹USDA - Forest Service, Asheville, NC, ²USDA - Forest Service, Pineville, LA, ³Univ. of Georgia, Athens, GA
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9:30 **3691** Emerging forest insect management issues in the Southwestern US: Insects, droughts, and megafires. **Monica Gaylord** (monicalgaylord@fs.fed.us)¹, John Anhold¹, Christopher J. Fettig², and Andrew Graves³, ¹USDA - Forest Service, Flagstaff, AZ, ²USDA - Forest Service, Davis, CA, ³USDA - Forest Service, Albuquerque, NM

9:45 **3692** Recognizing human impacts on the estimated phylogeographic structure of indigenous exotic forest pest populations in North America. **Andrew Graves** (adgraves@fs.fed.us)¹, Tom W. Coleman¹, and Steven Seybold², ¹USDA - Forest Service, Albuquerque, NM, ²USDA - Forest Service, Davis, CA

10:00 **3693** Wildfire likelihood and severity following bark beetle and defoliator outbreaks in Pacific Northwest forests. Garrett Meigs¹, John Bailey², John Campbell², William Keeton¹, Robert Kennedy², David Shaw², Harold Zald², and **Kimberly Wallin** (kwallin@uvm.edu)¹, ¹Univ. of Vermont, Burlington, VT, ²Oregon State Univ., Corvallis, OR

10:15 **BREAK**

10:30 **3694** Habitat heterogeneity and behavior of forest Coleoptera: Implications for monitoring and management. **Brian L. Strom** (brianstrom@fs.fed.us)¹, Sheri L. Smith², Harold W. Thistle³, James R. Meeker¹, and Jeremy D. Allison⁴, ¹USDA - Forest Service, Pineville, LA, ²USDA - Forest Service, Susanville, CA, ³USDA - Forest Service, Morgantown, WV, ⁴Natural Resources Canada, Sault Ste. Marie, ON, Canada

10:45 **3695** Relieving pressure on native mahogany resources in West Africa: Overcoming the limitations on plantation mahogany imposed by the mahogany shoot borer, *Hypsipyla robusta*. **Andrew J. Storer** (storer@mtu.edu)¹ and Emmanuel Opuni Frimpong², ¹Michigan Technological Univ., Houghton, MI, ²Forest Research Institute, Kumasi, Ghana

11:00 **3696** Using forest insects to link biodiversity modeling and conservation management in an invaded North American Forest. **R. Talbot Trotter** (rttrotter@fs.fed.us), USDA - Forest Service, Hamden, CT

11:15 **3697** Looking for black and white in the grey: Variation in invasion success and management challenges in a global community. Patrick Tobin¹, Travis Marisco², Kathryn Thomas³, Daniel Herms⁴, and **Angela Mech** (angmech@uw.edu)¹, ¹Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA, ²Arkansas State Univ., Jonesboro, AR, ³U.S. Geological Survey, Tucson, AZ, ⁴The Ohio State Univ., Wooster, OH

11:30 **3698** Measuring and modeling forest ecosystem service trade-offs of salvage logging following wind disturbances. **Kimberly F. Wallin** (kwallin@uvm.edu)¹,², Sarah Pears¹, Jon Erickson¹, and Eduardo Rodriguez¹, ¹Univ. of Vermont, Burlington, VT, ²USDA - Forest Service, Burlington, VT

Symposium: The Brown Marmorated Stink Bug: An Invasive Insect of Global Importance

Room W223 A (Convention Center)

**Moderators and Organizers:** George C. Hamilton¹, Tracy C. Leskey², and Anne L. Nielsen³, ¹Rutgers, The State Univ. of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ, ²USDA - ARS, Kearneysville, WV, ³Rutgers, The State Univ. of New Jersey, Bridgeton, NJ

9:15 **3699** Introduction and spread of BMSB in North America. **George C. Hamilton** (hamilton@aesop.rutgers.edu), Rutgers, The State Univ. of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ

9:30 **3700** Introduction and spread of BMSB in Europe. **Tim Haye** (t.haye@cabi.org), CABI, Delémont, Switzerland

9:45 **3701** Occurrence and damage of BMSB in Japan. **Ken Funayama** (funayamak@pref.akita.lg.jp), Akita Fruit-Tree Experiment Station, Yokote, Japan

10:00 **3702** Deciphering an invader's population ecology: *Halyomorpha halys*. **Anne L. Nielsen** (nielsen@aesop.rutgers.edu)¹, Shi Chen², and Shelby J. Fleischer³, ¹Rutgers, The State Univ. of New Jersey, Bridgeton, NJ, ²North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC, ³Pennsylvania State Univ., University Park, PA

10:15 **BREAK**

10:30 **3703** Genetic diversity and pathways of entry of *Halyomorpha halys* in recently invaded areas. **Tara Gariepy** (tara.gariepy@agr.gc.ca)¹, Tim Haye², and Hannah Fraser³, ¹Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, London, ON, Canada, ²CABI, Delémont, Switzerland, ³Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs, Vineland, ON, Canada

10:45 **3704** Current research status on *Halyomorpha halys* (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae) in South Korea. **Doo-Hyung Lee** (dl343@gachon.ac.kr), Minhyung Jung, and Soowan Kim, Gachon Univ., Seongnam, South Korea

11:00 **3705** Spatial movement of BMSB in agricultural systems. **Yong-Lak Park** (yong-lak.park@mail.wvu.edu), West Virginia Univ., Morgantown, WV

11:15 **3706** Behaviorally-based management of BMSB. **Tracy C. Leskey** (tracy.leskey@ars.usda.gov)¹, Brent Short¹, William R. Morrison¹, Anne Nielsen², Brett Blaauw², Grzegorz Krawczyk³, and J. Christopher Bergh⁴, ¹USDA - ARS, Kearneysville, WV, ²Rutgers, The State Univ. of New Jersey, Bridgeton, NJ, ³Pennsylvania State Univ., Biglerville, PA, ⁴Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State Univ., Winchester, VA

11:30 **3707** Asian remedy for an invasive Asian pest? Biological control of brown marmorated stink bug. **Kim A. Hoelmer** (kim.hoelmer@ars.usda.gov)¹ and Christine Dieckhoff¹,², ¹USDA - ARS, Newark, DE, ²Univ. of Delaware, Newark, DE
Symposium: Evolution of Insect Sociality: From
Theory to Genomes and Back Again

Room W414 A (Convention Center)

Moderators and Organizers: Amro Zayed¹ and Amy L. Toth²,
¹York Univ., Toronto, ON, Canada, ²Iowa State Univ., Ames, IA

9:15 **3708** Evolutionary genomics of post-developmental phenotypic novelty. **Brian Johnson** (laertes74@gmail. com), Wei Lin, and Abbas Mohamed, Univ. of California, Davis, CA

9:30 **3709** The importance of direct and indirect selection in corbiculate bees. **Brock Harpur** (harpur@yorku.ca), Alivia Dey, and Amro Zayed, York Univ., Toronto, ON, Canada

9:45 **3710** Origins of social plasticity in bees. **Karen Kapheim** (karen.kapheim@usu.edu), Utah State Univ., Logan, UT

10:00 **3711** Social transitions and behavioural plasticity in simple societies of eusocial insects. **Seirian Sumner** (seirian.sumner@bristol.ac.uk), Univ. of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom

10:15 **BREAK**

10:30 **3712** Genomic signatures of social evolution in pharaoh ants (*Monomorium pharaonis*). Michael Warner¹, Alexander Mikheyev², and **Timothy A. Linksvayer** (tlinks@sas.upenn.edu)¹, ¹Univ. of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, ²Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, Onna, Japan

10:45 **3713** The evolution of social chromosomes. **Yannick Wurm** (y.wurm@qmul.ac.uk), Queen Mary Univ. of London, London, United Kingdom

11:00 **3714** Testing the kinship theory of intragenomic conflict in honey bees (*Apis mellifera*). **Christina M. Grozinger** (cmgrozinger@psu.edu)¹, David Galbraith¹, Sarah Kocher², Tom Glenn³, Istvan Albert¹, Greg J. Hunt⁴, Joan Strassmann⁵, and David Queller⁵, ¹Pennsylvania State Univ., University Park, PA, ²Princeton Univ., Princeton, NJ, ³Glen Apiaries, Fallbrook, CA, ⁴Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN, ⁵Washington Univ., St. Louis, MO

11:15 **3715** Genomics of *Ceratina* small carpenter bees: What early insect societies can tell us about the evolution of sociality. **Sandra Rehan** (sandra.rehan@gmail.com), Univ. of New Hampshire, Durham, NH

11:30 **3716** Ontogenetic shifts in gene expression among social insect castes reveal old genes for developmental novelty. **Chris R. Smith** (crsmith.ant@gmail.com), Earlham College, Richmond, IN

11:45 **3717** *Polistes* wasps: A model genus for social theory in the genomic era. **Amy L. Toth** (amytoth@iastate. edu), Iowa State Univ., Ames, IA

12:00 **3718** Molecular determinants of behavioral plasticity in a facultatively eusocial bee, *Megalopta genalis*. **Beryl M. Jones** (bmjones2@illinois.edu)¹, Callum Kingwell², William Wcisło³, and Gene E. Robinson¹, ¹Univ. of Illinois, Champaign, IL, ²Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY, ³Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama City, Panama

Symposium: Insects and Ecosystem Services
with Special Reference to Pollination Biology

Room W224 A (Convention Center)

Moderator and Organizer: O. K. Remadevi¹,², ¹Institute of Wood Science & Technology, Bangalore, India, ²Environmental Management and Policy Research Institute, Bangalore, India

9:15 **3719** Native pollinators as key ecosystem service providers: A case study with mango (*Mangifera indica* L.) in India. **P. V. Rami Reddy** (pvreddy2011@gmail.com), Indian Institute of Horticultural Research, Bangalore, India

9:30 **3720** Pollination biology and the role of insect pollinators in conservation of mangroves in west coast of India. **O. K. Remadevi** (okremadevi@gmail.com)¹, ¹Environmental Management and Policy Research Institute, Bangalore, India, ²Institute of Wood Science & Technology, Bangalore, India

9:45 **3721** Genome comparison of *Nosema* species from honey bees and other members of the *Nosema*/*Vairimorpha* clade. **Charles Vossbrinck** (charles. vosssbrinck@ct.gov), Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station, New Haven, CT

10:00 **3722** Comparative ontogeny of key behaviours in the Western and Eastern honey bees. **Hema Somanathan** (hsomanathan@iisertvm.ac.in), Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Thiruvananthapuram, India

SD3723 Ecosystem conservation by mulberry sericulture practices in India. **E. Muniraju** (emuniraju@yahoo.com), Karnataka State Sericulture Research & Development Institute, Bangalore, India

10:15 **BREAK AND POSTER SESSION**

10:30 **3724** Degradation of soil fertility can cancel pollination benefits in sunflower. **Giovanni Tamburini** (giovanni.tamburini@unipd.it), Univ. of Padova, Legnaro, Italy

10:45 **3725** Black-coloured Muga silk moth, *Antheraea assamensis* Helfer (Lepidoptera: Saturniidae), from Assam (India): Second best example of “industrial melanism”. **Rajesh Kumar** (rajesh.ento@gmail.com), Central Muga Eri Research & Training Institute, Jorhat, India

11:00 **3726** Microsporidia — a sooner or later threat to beekeeping in Coorg and Waynad districts of South India. **T. O. Sasidharan** (tosasi@atree.org), Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment, Bangalore, India

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This symposium is generously
sponsored by the Royal Entomological
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11:15 **3727** Butterfly diversity and role of butterflies in ecosystem services and development of ecotourism in Western Ghats. T. V. Mohandas¹ and O. K. Remadevi (okremadevi@gmail.com)², ¹Karnataka Forest Development, Bangalore, India, ²Institute of Wood Science & Technology, Bangalore, India

11:30 **3728** Insect diversity for ecosystem services — Indian perspective. **Kailash Chandra** (kailash611@rediffmail.com), Zoological Survey of India, Kolkata, India

11:45 **3729** A comparative study on the insect diversity of two protected areas in southern Western Ghats, Kerala, India, with special reference to their ecological function. **Gigi K. Joseph** (gigiperiyar@yahoo.co.in), Nirmala College, Muvattupuzha, India

## Symposium: Partners in Crime: Vector-Pathogen Interactome

### Room W232 C (Convention Center)

**Moderators and Organizers:** Cecilia Tamborindeguy¹ and Michelle Cilia², ¹Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX, ²USDA - ARS, Ithaca, NY

9:15 **3730** Investigating psyllid-*Liberibacter* transcriptional dialog. **Cecilia Tamborindeguy** (ctamborindeguy@tamu.edu) and Freddy Ibanez, Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX

9:45 **3731** Bacterial adaptative strategies inside host cells: *Ehrlichia* as a case-study. **Damien Meyer** (damien.meyer@gmail.com), CIRAD, Petit Bourg, Guadeloupe; INRA, Montpellier, France

10:00 **3732** Multitasking: How single bacterial virulence proteins modulate plant development and attract insect vectors. **Zigmunds Orlovskis** (zigmunds.orlovskis@jic.ac.uk)¹, Pascal Pecher¹, Vera Thole¹, Cristina Canale¹,², Gabriele Moro¹, Akiko Sugio¹, Allyson MacLean¹, Joao R. S. Lopes², and Saskia A. Hogenhout¹, ¹The John Innes Centre, Norwich, United Kingdom, ²Univ. of São Paulo, Piracicaba, Brazil

10:15 **BREAK**

10:30 **3733** Rapid isolation of aphid-virus protein complexes from viruliferous insects using affinity purification-mass spectrometry. **Stacy DeBlasio** (sld98@cornell.edu)¹, Richard Johnson², Murad Ghanim³, Michael MacCoss², and Michelle Cilia¹, ¹USDA - ARS, Ithaca, NY, ²Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA, ³Agricultural Research Organisation, Bet-Dagan, Israel

10:45 **3734** New proteins involved in the interaction between tomato yellow leaf curl virus in its whitefly vector *Bemisia tabaci* B biotype. **Murad Ghanim** (ghanim@volcani.agri.gov.il), Pakkianathan Britto Cathrin, Svetlana Kontsedalov, Galina Lebedev and Surapathrudu Kanakala, Agricultural Research Organisation, Bet-Dagan, Israel

11:00 **3735** Proteins shared by nymph and adult *Ixodes scapularis* tick saliva. **Željko Radulović** (szradul@yahoo.com), Lindsay Porter, Tae Kim, and Albert Mulenga, Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX

## Symposium: Keeping Science in Citizen Science

### Room W315 A (Convention Center)

**Moderators and Organizers:** Kathleen Prudic¹, Maxim Larrivée², and Kent McFarland³, ¹Univ. of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, ²Montréal Insectarium Space for Life, Montréal, QC, Canada, ³Vermont Center for Ecostudies, Norwich, VT

9:15 **3736** Keeping science in citizen science: Successful scientific discovery in entomology with an all-volunteer army. **Kathleen Prudic** (klprudic@email.arizona.edu)¹, Kent McFarland², and Maxim Larrivée³, ¹Univ. of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, ²Vermont Center for Ecostudies, Norwich, VT, ³Montréal Insectarium Space for Life, Montréal, QC, Canada

9:30 **3737** The bees' needs: Integrating ecological research and outreach. **Virginia L. Scott** (virginia.scott@colorado.edu)¹, Alexandra Rose¹, Adrian L. Carper², and M. Deane Bowers², ¹Univ. of Colorado Museum of Natural History, Boulder, CO, ²Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO

9:45 **3738** Climate change, butterfly conservation, and citizen science in Massachusetts and Alaska. **Greg Breed** (gabreed@alaska.edu)¹, Kathryn Daly¹, Derek S. Sikes¹, Sharon Stitcher², and Elizabeth Crone³, ¹Univ. of Alaska, Fairbanks, AK, ²Massachusetts Butterfly Club, Fairbanks, AK, ³Tufts Univ., Medford, MA

10:00 **3739** The butterflies and the bees: Statewide atlasing in Vermont with citizen scientists jumpstarts conservation. **Kent McFarland** (kmcfarland@vtecostudies.org)¹, Sara Zahendra¹, Leif Richardson², and Bryan Pfeiffer¹,², ¹Vermont Center for Ecostudies, Norwich, VT, ²Univ. of Vermont, Burlington, VT

10:15 **BREAK**

10:30 **3740** Butterfly biodiversity, conservation, and citizen science in urban Los Angeles. **Elizabeth C. Long** (elong@nhm.org), Natural History Museum, Los Angeles, CA; Mohonk Preserve, Gardiner, NY

10:45 **3741** Using machine learning in insect conservation and biodiversity research. **Rebecca Hutchinson** (rah@eecs.oregonstate.edu)¹, Kathleen Prudic², and Weng-Keen Wong¹, ¹Oregon State Univ., Corvallis, OR, ²Univ. of Arizona, Tucson, AZ

11:00 **3742** eButterfly and monarch migration in Canada. **Maxim Larrivée** (maxim.larrivee@ville.montreal.qc.ca)¹, Jeremy Kerr², Paul Galpern³, Dominique Berteaux⁴, and Nicolas Casajus⁴, ¹Montréal Insectarium Space for Life, Montréal, QC, Canada, ²Univ. of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada, ³Univ. of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada, ⁴Univ. of Quebec, Rimouski, QC, Canada
Symposium: Making Species Inventories Work for You: Diverse Uses Across Varied Fields

Room W224 B (Convention Center)

**Moderators and Organizers:** Michael Orr and Emily A. Sadler,
Utah State Univ., Logan, UT

9:15 **3743** Conserved natural areas: Unexplored repositories of bee diversity. **Terry Griswold** (terry.griswold@ars.usda.gov)¹, John S. Ascher², Doug Yanega³, Harold Ikerd¹, Olivia Messinger Carril⁴, Joan M. Meiners⁵, Rebekah Andrus-Nelson⁶, and James Herndon⁶, ¹USDA - ARS, Logan, UT, ²National Univ. of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore, ³Univ. of California, Riverside, CA, ⁴Southern Illinois Univ., Carbondale, IL, ⁵Univ. of Florida, Gainesville, FL, ⁶Utah State Univ., Logan, UT

9:30 **3744** Catching them all: A case study in sampling arthropod diversity. **Michael Skvarla** (mskvarla36@gmail.com) and Ashley P. G. Dowling, Univ. of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR

9:45 **3745** The gall of some wasps: A small look into a large collection. **Crystal McEwen** (clmcewen@gmail.com)¹, Charles Mitter¹, and Michael Gates², ¹Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD, ²USDA - ARS, Washington, DC

10:00 **3746** Worldwide collections of sand flies (Psychodidae: Phlebotominae) to assess insecticide resistance. **David Denlinger** (david.denlinger@aggiemail.usu.edu)¹, Yvonne-marie Linton², Zachariah Gompert¹, and Scott A. Bernhardt¹, ¹Utah State Univ., Logan, UT, ²Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit, Suitland, MD

10:15 BREAK

10:30 **3747** A wasp's tale: Understanding the present by revealing the past (Hymenoptera: Chyphotidae, Mutillidae, and Tiphiidae). **Emily A. Sadler** (sadler.e@gmail.com) and James P. Pitts, Utah State Univ., Logan, UT

10:45 **3748** Inside job: An inventory of bumble bee parasites and pathogens in the US. **Amber D. Tripodi** (amber.tripodi@ars.usda.gov) and James Strange, USDA - ARS, Logan, UT

11:00 **3749** What can inventories tell us about bee phenology? **Michael Orr** (michael.christopher.orr@gmail.com)¹, Joan M. Meiners², Olivia Messinger Carril³, James P. Pitts¹, and Terry Griswold⁴, ¹Utah State Univ., Logan, UT, ²Univ. of Florida, Gainesville, FL, ³Southern Illinois Univ., Carbondale, IL, ⁴USDA - ARS, Logan, UT

Symposium: Advancement and Challenges in Biological Control of Invasive Forest Insects: A Global Perspective

Room W232 B (Convention Center)

**Moderators and Organizers:** Juli Gould¹, Leah S. Bauer², Xiao-yi Wang³, and Jian Duan⁴, ¹USDA - APHIS, Buzzards Bay, MA, ²USDA - Forest Service, Lansing, MI, ³Chinese Academy of Forestry, Beijing, China, ⁴USDA - ARS, Newark, DE

9:15 **3750** An overview of biological control programs against invasive insects and plants for protection of forested ecosystems in the United States. **Sharlene Sing** (ssing@fs.fed.us)¹, Carol Bell Randall², and Richard

Reardon³, ¹USDA - Forest Service, Bozeman, MT, ²USDA - Forest Service, Coeur d'Alene, ID, ³USDA - Forest Service, Morgantown, WV

9:30 **3751** Challenges and regulatory hurdles in foreign exploration for natural enemies of invasive woodborers from Asia. **Juli Gould** (juli.r.gould@aphis.usda.gov)¹, Leah S. Bauer², Jian Duan³, and David Williams¹, ¹USDA - APHIS, Buzzards Bay, MA, ²USDA - Forest Service, Lansing, MI, ³USDA - ARS, Newark, DE

9:45 **3752** Biological control of invasive forest pests using augmentative releases of natural enemies native to China. **Zhong-qi Yang** (yangzhqi@l26.com)¹, Xiao-Yi Wang¹, and Yi-nan Zhang², ¹Chinese Academy of Forestry, Beijing, China, ²Beijing Vocational College of Agriculture, Beijing, China

10:00 **3753** Biosafety testing and risk assessment for biological control of forest insect pests in New Zealand. **Toni Withers** (toni.withers@scionresearch.com)¹, Barbara Barratt², and Lisa Berndt¹, ¹Scion and Better Border Biosecurity Collaboration, Rotorua, New Zealand, ²AgResearch, Ltd., Mosgiel, New Zealand

10:15 BREAK

10:30 **3754** Issues surrounding potential introduction of parasitic nematodes against *Sirex* in North America. **E. Erin Morris** (morri639@msu.edu)¹ and Ann E. Hajek², ¹Michigan State Univ., East Lansing, MI, ²Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY

10:45 **3755** Cooperative foreign exploration and research in Asia to support biological control of the emerald ash borer in North America. **Leah S. Bauer** (lbauer@fs.fed.us)¹, Houping Liu², Zhong-qi Yang³, Xiao-Yi Wang³, Tonghai Zhao³, Juli Gould⁴, Jian Duan⁵, Toby R. Petrice¹, Deborah Miller¹, and David Williams⁴, ¹USDA - Forest Service, Lansing, MI, ²Pennsylvania Dept. of Conservation and Natural Resources, Harrisburg, PA, ³Chinese Academy of Forestry, Beijing, China, ⁴USDA - APHIS, Buzzards Bay, MA, ⁵USDA - ARS, Newark, DE

11:00 **3756** Biological control of an invasive forest insect: From biological invasion to population ecology. **David E. Jennings** (david.e.jennings@gmail.com)¹ and Jian Duan², ¹Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD, ²USDA - ARS, Newark, DE

11:15 **3757** Candidates for biological control of the Asian and citrus longhorned beetles in Asia, Europe, and North America. Franck Hérard¹, Matteo Maspero², **Xiao-Yi Wang** (xywang@caf.ac.cn)³, Zhong-qi Yang³, Juli Gould⁴, and Jian Duan⁵, ¹USDA - ARS, Montferrier-sur-Lez, France, ²Minoprio Foundation, Como, Italy, ³Chinese Academy of Forestry, Beijing, China, ⁴USDA - APHIS, Buzzards Bay, MA, ⁵USDA - ARS, Newark, DE

11:30 **3758** What do you want to hear first: The good news or the bad news about biological control of hemlock woolly adelgid, *Adelges tsugae* (Hemiptera: Adelgidae)? **Scott Salom** (salom@vt.edu)¹, Kenton Sumpter¹, Ariel Heminger¹, Molly Darr¹, Albert E. Mayfield III², Jerome F. Grant³, Joseph Elkinton⁴, Thomas McAvoy¹, Andy Roberts¹, and Carlyle C. Brewster¹, ¹Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State Univ., Blacksburg, VA, ²USDA - Forest Service, Asheville, NC, ³Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, ⁴Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
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Symposium: Behavior and Ecology of Native,
Naturalized, and Invasive Ladybird Beetles

Room W224 G (Convention Center)

**Moderators and Organizers:** Eric Riddick¹, Oldrich Nedved², Louis Hesler³, Helen Roy⁴, John Sloggett⁵, and Antonio Soares⁶. ¹USDA - ARS, Stoneville, MS, ²Univ. of South Bohemia, České Budějovice, Czech Republic, ³USDA - ARS, Brookings, SD, ⁴Natural Environment Research Council, Wallingford, United Kingdom, ⁵Maastricht Univ., Maastricht, Netherlands, ⁶Univ. of the Azores, Azores, Portugal

9:15 **3759** Non-native lady beetles: A diversity of outcomes. **Louis Hesler** (louis.hesler@ars.usda.gov), USDA - ARS, Brookings, SD

9:30 **3760** Invasion ecology and evolution in *Coccinella septempunctata*: Comparative morphometrics between native and introduced range. **Yukie Kajita** (yukie-kajita@utc.edu)¹, Erik Hearn¹, Kelly Lehman¹, John Obrycki², and Eric O'Neill¹, ¹Univ. of Tennessee, Chattanooga, TN, ²Univ. of Kentucky, Lexington, KY

9:45 **3761** Odor-mediated aggregations of *Hippodamia convergens*, a native coccinellid of North America. **Christopher Wheeler** (cwheel@002@ucr.edu)¹,² and Ring T. Cardé¹, ¹Univ. of California, Riverside, CA, ²Provivi, Inc., Santa Monica, CA

10:00 **3762** Long-term dynamics in invaded lady beetle communities. **Christie Bahlai** (cbahlai@msu.edu) and Douglas A. Landis, Michigan State Univ., East Lansing, MI

10:15 BREAK

10:30 **3763** Can invisibility of Azorean habitats overcome the invasiveness of *Harmonia axyridis* Pallas (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae)? **Antonio Soares** (onofre@uac.pt)¹, Isabel Borges¹, Alexandra Magro², and Artur Gil¹, ¹Univ. of the Azores, Ponta Delgada, Portugal, ²Univ. of Toulouse, Castanet-Tolosan, France

10:45 **3764** Invasion of *Harmonia axyridis* in Chile: Spread patterns and associated changes in coccinellid assemblages. **Audrey Grez** (audreygrez@gmail.com)¹, Tania Zaviezo², and Alberto Alaniz¹, ¹Univ. of Chile, Santiago, Chile, ²Pontifical Catholic Univ., Santiago, Chile

11:00 **3765** Polymorphism in ladybirds: Between thermal melanism, sexual selection, and aposematism. **Oldrich Nedved** (nedved@prf.jcu.cz), Univ. of South Bohemia, České Budějovice, Czech Republic

11:15 **3766** Unbalanced polyandry in wild caught *Harmonia axyridis*. **Mona Awad** (mona.awad2003@gmail.com)¹, Guillaume Laugier², Anne Loiseau³, and Oldrich Nedved⁴, ¹Cairo Univ., Giza, Egypt, ²Center of Advanced Studies in Arid Areas, La Serena, Chile, ³INRA, Montferrier-sur-Lez, France, ⁴Univ. of South Bohemia, České Budějovice, Czech Republic

11:30 **3767** Powder from cedar heartwood affects oviposition behavior in *Coleomegilla maculata*: A ladybird native to the Americas. **Eric Riddick** (eric.riddick@ars.usda.gov)¹, Zhixin Wu¹, Fred Eller², and Mark Berhow², ¹USDA - ARS, Stoneville, MS, ²USDA - ARS, Peoria, IL

Symposium: Insects and Landscape Ecology:
Defining an Entomological Perspective

Room W414 B (Convention Center)

**Moderator and Organizer:** Robinson Sudan, New Leaf, Austin, TX

9:15 **3768** Entomology and landscape ecology: History, challenges, and integration. **Robinson Sudan** (robinson@newleaf-tx.org), New Leaf, Austin, TX

9:45 **3769** Transient effects of corridors on invasive red imported fire ants and native ants. **Julian Resasco** (jresasco@colorado.edu), Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO

10:00 **3770** Effects of urban landscapes on native bee communities in central Texas. **Kimberly Ballare** (kim ballare@gmail.com), The Univ. of Texas, Austin, TX

10:15 BREAK

10:30 **3771** Evaluating the effects of wildfire on pollinator diversity and their interactions with plants across landscapes in the Northern Rockies. **Laura Burkle** (laura.burkle@montana.edu), Montana State Univ., Bozeman, MT

10:45 **3772** Presentation withdrawn

11:15 **3773** Experimental fragmentation alters the relative roles of niche and neutral processes in structuring ant communities. **Jeff McClenahan** (jlmcclenahan@gmail.com), Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO

Symposium: Globally Important Pests and
Globally Important Control Tools: Comparing
and Contrasting IRM Successes and Challenges,
IRAC US Symposium

Room W224 H (Convention Center)

**Moderators and Organizers:** Graham P. Head¹, Bradley W. Hopkins², Scott W. Ludwig³, Clinton D. Pilcher⁴, Christopher Sansone⁵, Caydee Savinelli⁶, and Sean Whipple⁷, ¹Monsanto Company, St. Louis, MO, ²Dow AgroSciences, Indianapolis, IN, ³Nichino America, Arp, TX, ⁴DuPont Pioneer, Johnston, IA, ⁵Bayer CropScience, Research Triangle Park, NC, ⁶Syngenta Plant Protection, Greensboro, NC, ⁷ISK Biosciences Corporation, Kearney, MO

9:15 **3774** Q biotype control in ornamentals — the invasion from Europe to the US. **Scott W. Ludwig** (sludwig@nichino.net)¹, Cristi L. Palmer², James A. Bethke³, Joe Chamberlin⁴, Daniel Gilrein⁵, Cindy L. McKenzie⁶, Ronald Oetting⁷, and Lance Osborne⁸, ¹Nichino America, Arp, TX, ²Rutgers, The State Univ. of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ, ³Univ. of California Cooperative Extension, San Diego, CA, ⁴Valent U.S.A., Snellville, GA, ⁵Long Island Horticultural Research and Extension Center, Riverhead, NY, ⁶USDA - ARS, Ft. Pierce, FL, ⁷Univ. of Georgia, Griffin, GA, ⁸Univ. of Florida, Apopka, FL

9:30 **3775** Implementation of the global plan for insecticide resistance management in malaria vectors: Progress, challenges, and the way forward. **Janet Hemingway** (hemingway@liverpool.ac.uk), Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, United Kingdom
9:45 **3776** Oxitec mosquito – a novel mode of action using genetics to precisely control pest species with no off-target effects on beneficial insects and pollinators. **Simon Warner** (simon.warner@oxitec.com), Oxitec, Ltd., Abingdon, United Kingdom

10:00 **3777** Enhancing IRM for Bt crops: Global lessons from local challenges. **Graham P. Head** (graham.p head@monsanto.com), Monsanto Company, St. Louis, MO

10:15 **BREAK**

10:30 **3778** Magnitude of mutational effects and risks of resistance evolution: Why some populations are recurrent challenges. **David J. Hawthorne** (djh@umd.edu), Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD

10:45 **3779** Colorado potato beetle insecticide resistance spreading west? **Silvia Rondon** (silvia.rondon@oregonstate.edu), Oregon State Univ., Hermiston, OR

11:00 **3780** A case study of western corn rootworm, *Diabrotica virgifera virgifera* LeConte, Brescia Province, Lombardy Region, NW Italy — a dynamic pest of maize. **Richard Edwards** (edwards@purdue.edu)¹, Mauro Agosti², and Lorenza Michelon², ¹Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN, ²Consortium of Intensive Crops of Defence, Brescia, Italy

11:15 **3781** Managing insecticide resistance and *Bemisia tabaci* in Florida tomato. **Hugh A. Smith** (hughasmith@ufl.edu), Univ. of Florida, Wimauma, FL

11:30 **3782** Resistance management of cotton aphid, *Aphis gossypii* Glover (Hemiptera: Aphididae), in Australian cotton: From a highly pesticide reliant system to an integrated IRM and IPM strategy. **Grant Herron** (grant.herron@dpi.nsw.gov.au)¹ and Lewis Wilson², ¹New South Wales Dept. of Primary Industries, Narellan, Australia, ²CSIRO, Narrabri, Australia

11:45 **3783** The global importance of the tomato borer, *Tuta absoluta*, its control, and the current state of insecticide resistance. **Emmanouil Roditakis** (eroditakis@gmail.com)¹, Emmanouil Vasakis¹, Marianna Stavrakaki¹, Aris Ilias², Pablo Bielza³, Chris Bass⁴, Andrea Bassi⁵, Ralf Nauen⁶, John Vontas⁷, and Anastasia Tsagkarakou¹, ¹Hellenic Agricultural Organisation, Heraklion, Greece, ²Univ. of Crete, Herakleion, Greece, ³Polytechnic Univ., Cartagena, Spain, ⁴Univ. of Exeter, Penryn, United Kingdom. ⁵DuPont Italy, Naviglio, Italy, ⁶Bayer CropScience, Monheim, Germany, ⁷Agricultural Univ. of Athens, Athens, Greece

12:00 **3784** Diamide resistance management in the diamondback moth, *Plutella xylostella*. **Jan Elias** (jan.elias@syngenta.com), Syngenta Crop Protection, Stein, Switzerland

Symposium: Insect-Resistant GM Crops in Asia-Pacific: Current Status, Challenges, and Opportunities

Room W222 B (Convention Center)

**Moderators and Organizers:** Mao Chen¹, Edwin P. Alcantara², and Andi Trisyono³, ¹Monsanto Company, Singapore, Singapore, ²Univ. of the Philippines, Los Baños, Philippines, ³Univ. of Gadjah Mada, Yogyakarta, Indonesia

9:15 **3785** Bollgard II and onwards: Proactive resistance management in Australia. **Kristen Knight** (kristen.m.knight@monsanto.com), Monsanto Australia, Toowoomba, Australia

9:30 **3786** Presentation withdrawn

10:00 **3787** Baseline susceptibility of two Bt proteins to key corn insect pests in Vietnam. **Ngo Luc Cuong** (cuong.ngoluc@gmail.com), Cuu Long Delta Rice Research Institute, Can Tho, Vietnam

10:15 **BREAK**

10:30 **3788** Bt cotton adoption and well-being of farmers in Pakistan. Ali Asif and **Masooma Naseer Cheema** (masooma@uaf.edu.pk), Univ. of Agriculture, Faisalabad, Pakistan

10:45 **3789** Field, laboratory, and greenhouse efficacy evaluation of Bt corn for resistance to the Asian corn borer, *Ostrinia furnacalis* (Guenee), in the Philippines. **Merdelyn Caasi-Lit** (binglit610429@gmail.com), Univ. of the Philippines, Los Baños, Philippines

11:00 **3790** Resistance monitoring program for Bt corn in the Philippines. **Edwin P. Alcantara** (epalcantara@uplb.edu.ph), Univ. of the Philippines, Los Baños, Philippines

11:15 **3791** Studies on non-target organisms in Bt corn in the Philippines and the important role of Bt corn technology in enhancing arthropod biodiversity in corn fields. **Ireneo Lit Jr.** (illit@up.edu.ph)¹, Edwin Benigno², and Merdelyn Caasi-Lit², ¹Univ. of the Philippines, Laguna, Philippines, ²Univ. of the Philippines, Los Baños, Philippines

11:30 **3792** Opportunities and challenges for Bt corn in Indonesia. **Andi Trisyono** (andi_trisyono@yahoo.com), Univ. of Gadjah Mada, Yogyakarta, Indonesia

11:45 **3793** The development and status of Bt rice in China. **Yunhe Li** (yunhe.li@hotmail.com)¹ and Yufa Peng², ¹Agroscope, Zürich, Switzerland, ²Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China

12:00 **3794** Evolution of resistance in *Helicoverpa armigera* to Bt cotton in China. **Yidong Wu** (wyd@njau.edu.cn), Nanjing Agricultural Univ., Nanjing, China
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# Symposium: Cassava and Bean IPM throughout the Developing World: Honoring the Contributions of Anthony Bellotti and César Cardona Mejia

## Room W330 A (Convention Center)

**Moderators and Organizers:** Stephen L. Lapointe¹ and Kris Wyckhuys², ¹USDA - ARS, Ft. Pierce, FL, ²International Center for Tropical Agriculture, Hanoi, Vietnam

9:15 **3795** Classical biological control of cassava pests in Latin America and Africa. **Stephen L. Lapointe** (stephen.lapointe@ars.usda.gov), USDA - ARS, Ft. Pierce, FL

9:45 **3796** A region-wide response to invasive pests and insect-vectored diseases in southeast Asian cassava crops. **Kris Wyckhuys** (k.wyckhuys@cgiar.org), International Center for Tropical Agriculture, Hanoi, Vietnam

10:15 **BREAK**

10:30 **3797** Crop and parasitoid diversity: A rich source to suppress pest insects based on scientific evidence. **Silvia Dorn** (silvia.dorn@ipw.agrl.ethz.ch), ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland

10:45 **3798** Classical biological control of cassava green mite, *Mononychellus tanajoa*. *Lincoln Smith* (link.smith@ars.usda.gov), USDA - ARS, Montferrier-sur-Lez, France

11:00 **3799** Revisiting the history and success of classical biological control of the cassava mealybug in north-eastern Brazil. **José Mauricio Bento** (jmsbento@usp.br), Univ. of São Paulo, Piracicaba, Brazil

11:15 **3800** Management of the cassava hornworm. **Jorge Peña** (jepena@ufl.edu), Univ. of Florida, Homestead, FL

11:30 **3801** Fungal pathogens for control of cassava pests. **Italo Delalibera** (italo@esalq.usp.br), Univ. of São Paulo, Piracicaba, Brazil

11:45 **3802** Cassava green mites in Africa: Anthony Bellotti's contributions to a successful classical biological control campaign. **John Stephen Yaninek** (yaninek@purdue.edu), Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN

10:00 **3806** U.S. EPA's Endocrine Disruptor Screening Program: Moving forward with high throughput screening assays and computational models. **Sharlene Matten** (matten.sharlene@epamail.epa.gov), U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, DC

10:15 **BREAK**

10:30 **3807** An example of the agro-business response to the risk of insecticide resistance and why successful insecticide resistance management needs an integrated approach. **Russell Slater** (russell.slater@syngenta.com), Syngenta Crop Protection, Basel, Switzerland

10:45 **3808** Can Bt crops contribute to sustainable crop protection? A European perspective. **Michael Meissle** (michael.meissle@agroscope.admin.ch) and Jörg Romeis, Agroscope, Zürich, Switzerland

11:00 **3809** Development of new seed treatment technologies through the lens of integrated product stewardship. **Keri Carstens** (keri.carstens@pioneer.com), DuPont Pioneer, Johnston, IA

# Symposium: Future Approaches for the Control of Insect Pests

## Room W231 C (Convention Center)

**Moderator and Organizer:** Phil Wege, Syngenta, Bracknell, United Kingdom

*This symposium is generously sponsored by Syngenta.*

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9:15 **3810** A brief look at the future of insect pest control in crop protection, urban, and vector control markets. **Mark Hoppe** (mark.hoppe@syngenta.com)¹ and Phil Wege², ¹Syngenta Crop Protection, Stein, Switzerland, ²Syngenta, Bracknell, United Kingdom

9:30 **3811** Urban pest control globally in the next twenty years. **Ron Harrison** (rharriso@rollins.com), Orkin Pest Control, Atlanta, GA

9:45 **3812** Presentation withdrawn

10:00 **3813** Characterization of vegetation biophysical components using ultra-high spatial resolution multispectral imagery acquired by drones and small aircraft. **Kevin Price** (kevin@agpixel.com)¹, Lynn Brien²,³, David Burchfield²,³, Johnny Bryant²,³, Mark Lanning⁴, Kirk Demuth⁴, and Daniel Melia⁴, ¹AgPixel, Johnston, KS, ²AgPixel, Manhattan, KS, ³Kansas State Univ., Manhattan, KS, ⁴AgPixel, Des Moines, IA

10:15 **BREAK**

10:30 **3814** Laser-based insect population control. **Arty Makagon** (amakagon@intven.com), Intellectual Ventures Laboratory, Bellevue, WA

10:45 **3815** There are no silver bullets: The future of sustainable insect pest management will depend upon a blend of established and emerging technologies. **Thomas Clark** (thomas.l.clark@monsanto.com), Monsanto Company, St. Louis, MO

11:00 **3816** Prospects for robust insect resistance in crops via plant genetic engineering. **Mike Birkett** (mike.birkett@rothamsted.ac.uk) and John Pickett, Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, United Kingdom

# Symposium: Discovering Sustainable Insecticides: Resistance, Innovation, and Responsibility

## Room W224 C (Convention Center)

**Moderators and Organizers:** Margaret Hardy¹ and Stephen Duke², ¹Univ. of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia, ²USDA - ARS, Univ., MS

9:15 **3803** Funding discovery projects: How to attract commercial interest and protect your intellectual property. **Andrea Adkins** (andrea.adkins@ucf.edu), Univ. of Central Florida, Orlando, FL

9:30 **3804** Arthropod venoms are a rich source of environmentally friendly biopesticides. **Margaret Hardy** (m.hardy@imb.uq.edu.au) and Glenn F. King, Univ. of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia

9:45 **3805** Natural product-based pest management: Discovery and development considerations. **Stephen Duke** (stephen.duke@ars.usda.gov), USDA - ARS, University, MS
11:15 **3817** Future trends in pest control technology. **Juergen Benting** (juergen.benting@bayer.com), Bayer CropScience, Monheim, Germany

11:30 **3818** Engineering technologies for future advanced agronomic and horticultural pest control. **John Schueller** (schuejk@ufl.edu), Univ. of Florida, Gainesville, FL

Symposium: Modulation of Insect Chemical Response at Different Time Scales: Ethology, Ecology, and Evolution

Room W230 B (Convention Center)

**Moderators and Organizers:** Fredrik Schlyter¹ and Bill Hansson²,
¹Swedish Univ. of Agricultural Sciences, Alnarp, Sweden,
²Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, Jena, Germany

9:15 **3819** Modulation of insect olfaction: From neurons to behavior. **Sylvia Anton** (sylvia.anton@angers.inra.fr) and Christophe Gadenne, INRA, Beaucouzé, France

9:30 **3820** Modulation of olfactory responses in *Spodoptera littoralis*. **Santosh Revadi** (revadi.santosh@slu.se)¹, Saveer Ahmed¹,², Sophie Kroman¹, Fredrik Schlyter¹, Göran Birgersson¹, Marie Bengtsson¹, William B. Walker¹, Peter Anderson¹, Rickard Ignell¹, Peter Witzgall¹, and Paul Becher¹, ¹Swedish Univ. of Agricultural Sciences, Alnarp, Sweden, ²Vanderbilt Univ., Nashville, TN

9:45 **3821** Role of experience in host plant choice of a polyphagous moth. **Peter Anderson** (peter.anderson@slu.se), Swedish Univ. of Agricultural Sciences, Alnarp, Sweden

10:00 **3822** Modulation of attraction by non-host volatiles: Mechanisms for semiochemical diversity. **Fredrik Schlyter** (fredrik.schlyter@slu.se), Swedish Univ. of Agricultural Sciences, Alnarp, Sweden

10:15 **BREAK**

10:30 **3823** Chemical signals, behavioral responses, and response modulation in *Drosophila*: When flies do or do not respond. **Boyd Mori** (bmori@ualberta.ca)¹, Sebastien Lebreton¹,², Felipe Borrero-Echeverry¹, Paul Becher¹, and Peter Witzgall¹, ¹Swedish Univ. of Agricultural Sciences, Alnarp, Sweden, ²Institute of Biology and Development of Marseille, Marseille, France

10:45 **3824** Chemical ecology of egg laying in *Drosophila*. **Marit Solum** (marit.solum@slu.se)¹, Paul Becher¹, Alexandra Schmidt¹, Lina Bryngelsson¹, Peter Witzgall¹, Bill Hansson², Teun Dekker¹, and Mattias Larsson¹, ¹Swedish Univ. of Agricultural Sciences, Alnarp, Sweden, ²Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, Jena, Germany

11:00 **3825** Gall midge olfaction and its role in speciation. **Péter Molnár** (molnar.bela.peter@agrar.mta.hu)¹,², Tina Boddum², Sharon Hill², Bill Hansson³, Göran Birgersson², and Ylva Hillbur⁴, ¹Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary, ²Swedish Univ. of Agricultural Sciences, Alnarp, Sweden, ³Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, Jena, Germany, ⁴International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, Ibadan, Nigeria

11:15 **3826** Host selection among mosquito disease vectors. **Sharon Hill** (sharon.hill@slu.se), Swedish Univ. of Agricultural Sciences, Alnarp, Sweden

11:30 **3827** Functional, molecular, and evolutionary aspects of lepidopteran host plant olfaction. **Mattias Larsson** (mattias.larsson@slu.se)¹, Arthur de Fouchier², Nicolas Montagné³, William B. Walker¹, Claudia Steiner³, Muhammad Binyameen⁴, Fredrik Schlyter¹, Thomas Chertemps³, Christelle Monsempes², Annick Maria³, Marie-Christine François², Göran Birgersson¹, Peter Anderson¹, Bill Hansson⁵, and Emmanuelle Jacquin-Joly², ¹Swedish Univ. of Agricultural Sciences, Alnarp, Sweden, ²INRA, Versailles, France, ³Pierre and Marie Curie Univ., Paris, France, ⁴Bahauddin Zakariya Univ., Multan, Pakistan, ⁵Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, Jena, Germany

Symposium: Outlaws of Immunology and Infection

Room W414 D (Convention Center)

**Moderators and Organizers:** David Schneider¹ and Ann Thomas Tate², ¹Stanford Univ., Stanford, CA, ²Univ. of Houston, Houston, TX

9:15 **3828** Mathematical modeling of immune priming in infected insect populations. **Ann Thomas Tate** (annthomastate@gmail.com), Univ. of Houston, Houston, TX

9:30 **3829** Gut, immunity, microbiota, and the problem of universals. **Nichole A. Broderick** (nichole.broderick@yale.edu), Yale Univ., New Haven, CT

9:45 **3830** Antimicrobial defense and persistent infection in insects revisited. **Jens Rolff** (jens.rolff@fu-berlin.de), Freie Univ., Berlin, Germany

10:00 **3831** How does circadian rhythm modulate immunity? **Mimi Shirasu-Hiza** (mshirasuhiza@gmail.com), Columbia Univ., New York, NY

10:15 **BREAK**

10:30 **3832** A genome-wide association study to identify novel genes and pathways important for phagocytosis in *Drosophila melanogaster*. **Louisa Wu** (lwu1@umd.edu), Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD

10:45 **3833** Costs of infection along the continuum of host health. **Pedro Vale** (pferrei2@staffmail.ed.ac.uk), Univ. of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland

11:00 **3834** Tsetse's cardia tissue: Gatekeeper of trypanosome transmission? **Aurélien Vigneron** (aurelien.vigneron@yale.edu) and Brian Weiss, Yale Univ. School of Public Health, New Haven, CT

11:15 **3835** Defining the shape of an immune response. **David Schneider** (dschneider@stanford.edu), Stanford Univ., Stanford, CA
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Symposium: Ecologically-Based Integrated Pest Management for Selected Food Security Crops in Central Asia

Room W240 C (Convention Center)

**Moderators and Organizers:** Frank Zalom¹ and Karim Maredia²,
¹Univ. of California, Davis, CA, ²Michigan State Univ., East Lansing, MI

9:15 **3836** An overview of the history and status of integrated pest management in Central Asia. **Karim Maredia** (kmaredia@msu.edu)¹, Frank Zalom², and Saltanat Mambetova¹, ¹Michigan State Univ., East Lansing, MI, ²Univ. of California, Davis, CA

9:45 **3837** The role of biolaboratories in facilitating IPM in Central Asia. **Bahodir Eshchanov** (bahodire@yahoo.com)¹,², George Bird², and Frank Zalom³, ¹Uzbek Scientific Research Institute for Plant Protection, Tashkent, Uzbekistan, ²Michigan State Univ., East Lansing, MI, ³Univ. of California, Davis, CA

10:00 **3838** Opportunities for enhancing ecosystem services in Tajikistan agriculture. **Nurali Saidov** (n.saidov@cgiar.org)¹, Douglas A. Landis², and Anvar Jalilov³, ¹International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas, Duschanbe, Tajikistan, ²Michigan State Univ., East Lansing, MI, ³Tajik Academy of Agricultural Science, Duschanbe, Tajikistan

10:15 BREAK

10:30 **3839** Challenges and opportunities for wheat IPM in Central Asia. **Mustafa El Bohssini** (m.bohssini@cgiar.org)¹, Douglas A. Landis², Nurali Saidov³, Anvar Jalilov⁴, Megan M. Kennelly⁵, and Ram Sharma⁶, ¹International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas, Aleppo, Syria, ²Michigan State Univ., East Lansing, MI, ³International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas, Duschanbe, Tajikistan, ⁴Tajik Academy of Agricultural Science, Duschanbe, Tajikistan, ⁵Kansas State Univ., Manhattan, KS, ⁶International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas, Tashkent, Uzbekistan

10:45 **3840** Potato pest management in Central Asia. **George Bird** (birdg@msu.edu)¹, Nurali Saidov², Anara Chakaeva³, and Murataly Aitmatov⁴, ¹Michigan State Univ., East Lansing, MI, ²International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas, Duschanbe, Tajikistan, ³Kyrgyz Research Institute of Livestock Breeding and Pastures, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, ⁴Aga Khan Development Network Agency, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan

11:00 **3841** Status of tomato IPM in Uzbekistan. **Frank Zalom** (fgzalom@ucdavis.edu)¹, Barno Tashpulatova², and Ravza Mavlyanova³, ¹Univ. of California, Davis, CA, ²International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas, Tashkent, Uzbekistan, ³AVRDC-The World Vegetable Center, Tashkent, Uzbekistan

11:15 **3842** IPM capacity, communication, and outreach at university, governmental, and non-governmental organizations in Central Asia. **Gulnaz Kaseeva** (gkaseeva@agrolead.org)¹, Karim Maredia², and Joy Landis², ¹AgroLead, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, ²Michigan State Univ., East Lansing, MI

Symposium: Exploiting Multi-Trophic Interactions in the Management of Invasive Agricultural Arthropod Pests

Room W240 B (Convention Center)

**Moderator and Organizer:** Dominique Mazzi, Agroscope,
Wädeswl, Switzerland

9:15 **3843** Interactions between native and invasive hogweeds, the parsnip webworm, and its parasitoid/ hyperparasitoid complex. **Jeff Harvey** (j.harvey@nioo.knaw.nl)¹, Paul Ode², and Rieta Gols³, ¹Netherlands Institute of Ecology, Heteren, Netherlands, ²Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO, ³Wageningen Univ. and Research Centre, Wageningen, Netherlands

9:30 **3844** Biological control of the Asian citrus psyllid in California. **David Morgan** (dmorgan@cdfa.ca.gov), California Dept. of Food and Agriculture, Riverside, CA

9:45 **3845** Integrating community ecology theories for sustaining the development of effective management of invasive pests. **Anaïs Chailleux** (chailleux.anais@gmail.com), CIRAD, Dakar, France

10:00 **3846** Foodweb ecology of an invasive mite that manipulates plant defenses. **Angelo Pallini** (pallini@ufv.br)¹, Arne Janssen², Renato Sarmento³, Felipe Lemos², Cleide Dias¹, Madelaine Venzon⁴, Livia Ataide¹, and Marcus Vinicius Alfenas Duarte⁴, ¹Federal Univ. of Viçosa, Viçosa, Brazil, ²Univ. of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands, ³Federal Univ. of Tocantins, Tocantins, Brazil, ⁴Agriculture and Livestock Research Enterprise of Minas Gerais, Viçosa, Brazil

10:15 BREAK

10:30 **3847** The impact of polyphagous predators on invasive pests: The case of heteropterans in Mediterranean vegetable crops. **Judit Arnó** (judit.arno@irta.cat) and Rosa Gabarra, IRTA, Cabrils, Spain

10:45 **3848** Predicting the risk of exotic pest species establishing in a new area using the self-organizing map, a community ecology-based approach. **Irene Vänninen** (irene.vanninen@luke.fi)¹, Susan Worner², Erja Huusela-Veistola¹, Tuomo Tuovinen¹, Anne Nissinen³, and Kari Saikkonen¹, ¹Natural Resources Institute, Helsinki, Finland, ²Lincoln Univ., Canterbury, New Zealand, ³Agrifood Research Finland, Jokioinen, Finland

11:00 **3849** Alien interference: Understanding the impact of invasive herbivores on infochemical networks and plant-parasitoid associations. **Gaylord Desurmont** (gaylord.desurmont@unine.ch) and Ted Turlings, Univ. of Neuchâtel, Neuchâtel, Switzerland
# Symposium: Global Improvements in Invasive Ant Management

## Room W224 D (Convention Center)

**Moderators and Organizers:** Grzegorz Buczkowski¹ and Benjamin D. Hoffmann², ¹Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN, ²CSIRO, Winnellie, Australia

9:15 **3850** Eradicating Argentine ants on Santa Cruz Island, California: New methods in ant elimination. **Christina Boser** (cboser@tnc.org)¹, Cause Hanna², David Holway³, Ida Naughton⁴, Korie Merrill⁵, Kate Faulkner⁶, John Randall¹, and Scott Morrison¹, ¹The Nature Conservancy, Ventura, CA, ²California State Univ., Camarillo, CA, ³Univ. of California, La Jolla, CA, ⁴Univ. of California, San Diego, CA, ⁵Univ. of California, Riverside, CA, ⁶U.S. National Park Service, Ventura, CA

9:30 **3851** Hydrogel baits as a novel way to manage invasive Argentine ants: Field studies in South Africa. **Grzegorz Buczkowski** (gbuczkow@purdue.edu), Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN

9:45 **3852** Enabling effective ant management by remote communities in the Pacific: Case studies with the yellow crazy ant in the Pacific nations of Tokelau and Kiribati. **Monica Gruber** (monica.gruber@vuw.ac.nz), Allan Burne, Phil Lester, and Gary Ward, Victoria Univ., Wellington, New Zealand

10:00 **3853** Scaling up ant eradications: Proven methods and new technologies. **Benjamin D. Hoffmann** (ben.hoffmann@csiro.au)¹, Gloria M. Luque², Celine Bellard³, Nick Holmes⁴, and Josh Donlan⁵, ¹CSIRO, Winnellie, Australia, ²Univ. of Paris Sud, Orsay, France, ³Univ. College London, London, United Kingdom, ⁴Island Conservation, Santa Cruz, CA, ⁵Advanced Conservation Strategies, Midway, UT

10:15 **BREAK**

10:30 **3854** Invasive ant management through viruses and other pathogens? **Phil Lester** (phil.lester@vuw.ac.nz), Monica Gruber, Alexandra Sébastien, and Meghan Cooling, Victoria Univ., Wellington, New Zealand

10:45 **3855** Impacts of invasive ants. **Gloria M. Luque** (gloria.luque@u-psud.fr), Univ. of Paris Sud, Orsay, France

11:00 **3856** Detecting Argentine ants (*Linepithema humile*) on California's Channel Islands. **Korie Merrill** (koriecm@gmail.com)¹, Christina Boser², Ida Naughton³, Dong-Hwan Choe¹, and Erin Rankin¹, ¹Univ. of California, Riverside, CA, ²The Nature Conservancy, Ventura, CA, ³Univ. of California, San Diego, CA

11:15 **3857** Adapting little fire ant (LFA), *Wasmannia auropunctata*, mitigation strategies to Micronesia. **Ross Miller** (rmiller@uguam.uog.edu) and Aubrey Moore, Univ. of Guam, Mangilao, Guam

11:30 **3858** Eradication of *Wasmannia auropunctata* in Hawaii: What works and what does not. **Cas Vanderwoude**¹ and **Michelle Montgomery** (michelle.montgomery@littlefireants.com)², ¹Univ. of Hawai'i, Hilo, HI, ²Univ. of Hawai'i, Honolulu, HI

11:45 **3859** Presentation withdrawn

12:00 **3860** Cooperation within supercolonies: Illuminating Argentine ant (*Linepithema humile*) social structure using genomics and chemical ecology. **Neil Tsutsui** (ntsutsui@berkeley.edu), Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA

12:15 **3861** Eradication in the absence of all biological knowledge: *Lepisiota frauenfeldi* in Perth. **Marc Widmer** (marc.widmer@agric.wa.gov.au)¹, Benjamin D. Hoffmann², and Cleo Bertelesmeier³, ¹Dept. of Agriculture, Perth, Australia, ²CSIRO, Winnellie, Australia, ³Univ. of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

# Symposium: Genetics and Genomics of Mosquitoes and Implications for Transmission of Pathogens

## Room W224 F (Convention Center)

**Moderators and Organizers:** Frank H. Collins and Gloria I. Giraldo-Calderón, Univ. of Notre Dame, South Bend, IN

9:15 **Introduction**

9:30 **3862** Extensive genetic variation in *Aedes aegypti* and its implications for understanding and controlling dengue, chikungunya, and Zika. **Jeffrey R. Powell** (jeffrey.powell@yale.edu), Yale Univ., New Haven, CT

10:00 **3863** Towards a complete catalogue of functional genomic elements from multiple *Anopheles* genomes. **Robert Waterhouse** (robert.waterhouse@gmail.com), Univ. of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland

10:15 **BREAK**

10:30 **3864** Chromosome-centric view of the genome organization and evolution. **Igor V. Sharakhov** (igor@vt.edu)¹,², Xiaofang Jiang¹, Ashley Peery¹, A. Brantley Hall¹, Maria V. Sharakhova¹,², Anastasia N. Naumenko¹, Zhijian Tu¹, Gleb Artemov², and Vladimir Stegniy², ¹Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State Univ., Blacksburg, VA, ²Tomsk State Univ., Tomsk, Russia

10:45 **3865** Identification of SNPs associated with aridity tolerance in *Anopheles gambiae*. **Nora J. Besansky** (nbesansk@nd.edu)¹, Diego Ayala², Simo Zhang³, Carlo Costantini², and Matthew Hahn³, ¹Univ. of Notre Dame, South Bend, IN, ²Institute for Research Development, Montpellier, France, ³Indiana Univ., Bloomington, IN

11:00 **3866** Impacts of natural *Wolbachia* infection on the microbiome of *Anopheles* mosquitoes. **Daniel E. Neafsey** (neafsey@broadinstitute.org)¹, W. Robert Shaw², Perrine Marcenac², and Flaminia Catteruccia², ¹Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, ²Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA

11:15 **Discussion**
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# Symposium: Hormones in Arthropod Vectors of Infectious Diseases

## Room W232 A (Convention Center)

**Moderators and Organizers:** Jinsong Zhu¹ and Ian Orchard²,
¹Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State Univ., Blacksburg, VA,
²Univ. of Toronto, Mississauga, ON, Canada

9:15 **3867** Function of a male-transferred hormone in *Anopheles gambiae* reproduction and its relevance for malaria transmission. **Perrine Marcenac** (perrinemarkenac@fas.harvard.edu)¹, Adam South¹, W. Robert Shaw¹, Abdoulaye Diabaté², Serge Yerbanga², Thierry Lefèvre³, and Flaminia Catteruccia¹, ¹Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, ²Health Sciences Research Institute, Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso, ³Univ. of Montpellier, Montpellier, France

9:30 **3868** Hormonal regulation of gene expression patterns in mosquito reproduction. **Sourav Roy** (sourav.roy@ucr.edu)¹, Tusar Saha¹, Jisu Ha¹, Lisa K. Johnson¹, Bo Zhao¹, Thomas Girke¹, Zhen Zou², and Alexander Raikhel¹, ¹Univ. of California, Riverside, CA, ²Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

9:45 **3869** Ovary ecdysteroidogenic hormone and insulin-like peptide signaling convergently activate egg maturation in mosquitoes. **Mark R. Brown** (mrbrown@uga.edu) and Michael Strand, Univ. of Georgia, Athens, GA

10:00 **3870** Hormonal and molecular regulation of diapause in the mosquito *Culex pipiens*. **Cheolho Sim** (cheolho_sim@baylor.edu), Baylor Univ., Waco, TX

10:15 **BREAK**

10:30 **3871** Targets of neuropeptides regulating juvenile hormone synthesis in mosquitoes. Marcela Nouzova, Crisalejandra Rivera-Perez, **Maria Areiza** (mareiza@gmail.com), and Fernando Noriega, Florida International Univ., Miami, FL

10:45 **3872** Integration of genomic and nongenomic pathways in juvenile hormone signaling in *Aedes aegypti*. **Pengcheng Liu** (pcliu@vt.edu), Reyhaneh Ojani, and Jinsong Zhu, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State Univ., Blacksburg, VA

11:00 **3873** Discovery of plant antagonists of insect juvenile hormone. **Sang Woon Shin** (shinwoongg@gmail.com), Univ. of California, Riverside, CA

11:15 **3874** Prothoracicotropic hormone and insulin-like peptide act via the PI3K/Akt pathway to regulate both ecdysteroidogenesis and induction of clock protein PERIOD in the prothoracic glands of *Rhodnius prolixus* (Hemiptera). **Xanthe Vafopoulou** (xanthev@yorku.ca) and Colin Steel, York Univ., Toronto, ON, Canada

11:30 **3875** Transcriptional control of lipid metabolism in *Rhodnius prolixus*: How can hormones affect it? **Katia Gondim** (katia@bioqmed.ufrj.br), Federal Univ. of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

11:45 **3876** Neuroendocrinology in the blacklegged tick, *Ixodes scapularis*. **Donghun Kim** (kp5091@ksu.edu) and Yoonseong Park, Kansas State Univ., Manhattan, KS

# Symposium: New Approaches to Biological and Integrated Control Changing Global Perspectives on Filth Fly Management

## Room W224 E (Convention Center)

**Moderators and Organizers:** Erika Machtinger¹ and Elad Chiel²,
¹USDA - ARS, Beltsville, MD, ²Univ. of Haifa, Tivon, Israel

9:15 **3877** Filth fly control: What innovative control methods can be adopted from other pests? **Elad Chiel** (eladchiel@gmail.com), Univ. of Haifa, Tivon, Israel

9:30 **3878** Climate change and filth fly management. **Christopher Geden** (chris.geden@ars.usda.gov), USDA - ARS, Gainesville, FL

9:45 **3879** Monitoring and reproduction of *Stomoxys calcitrans* in stubble pineapple, banana, palm oil, and livestock in Costa Rica. **Yannery Gómez-Bonilla** (ygomez@inta.go.cr)¹, Arturo Solórzano², and Dennis Alpizar³, ¹INTA, San José, Costa Rica, ²INTA, Centro Colón, Costa Rica, ³Ministry of Agriculture and Granaderia, Santa Tecla, El Salvador

10:00 **3880** The business of biological filth fly control. **Carol S. Glenister** (carolg@ipmlabs.com), IPM Laboratories, Inc., Locke, NY

10:15 **BREAK**

10:30 **3881** Bioconversion by the black soldier fly, *Hermetia illucens* (L.) (Diptera: Stratiomyidae): Prospects for managing organic waste and filth flies. **Jonathan A. Cammack** (jonathan.cammack@ag.tamu.edu), Jeffery K. Tomberlin, Kelly Beskin, and Chelsea Holcomb, Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX

10:45 **3882** Entomophthorales on filth flies: Basic biology, co-evolution, and potential novel uses in biological control. **Jørgen Eilenberg** (jei@plen.ku.dk)¹, Annette Jensen¹, and Henrik de Fine Licht², ¹Univ. of Copenhagen, Frederiksberg, Denmark, ²Univ. of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

11:00 **3883** Evaluation of two novel non-nutritive sugars as potential pesticides against the house fly (*Musca domestica*). **Edwin Burgess** (eburgess2@niu.edu), Northern Illinois Univ., DeKalb, IL

11:15 **3884** Manure preferences and post-emergence learning of two common filth fly parasitoids, *Spalangia cameroni* and *Muscidifurax raptor* (Hymenoptera: Pteromalidae). **Erika Machtinger** (erika.machtinger@ars.usda.gov), USDA - ARS, Beltsville, MD

# Symposium: Rapid Evolutionary Radiations in Insects: Phylogenetic Causes and Consequences of Life in the Fast Lane

## Room W231 A (Convention Center)

**Moderator and Organizer:** Brian Wiegmann, North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC

9:15 **3885** Insect radiations: The big picture from fossils and phylogenies. **Peter Mayhew** (peter.mayhew@york.ac.uk), Univ. of York, York, United Kingdom

9:30 **3886** Assembly of the trophic pyramid of beetle diversity. **Brian Farrell** (bfarrell@fasmail.harvard.edu), Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
9:45 **3887** Diversity vs. disparity: Contrasting patterns of adaptive radiation among Hawaiian spiders. **Rosemary Gillespie** (gillespie@berkeley.edu), Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA

10:00 **3888** Increased resolution of major episodes of higher fly diversification. **Brian Wiegmann** (bwiegman@ncsu.edu)¹, Keith Bayless¹, Michelle Trautwein², and David Yeates³. ¹North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC, ²California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, CA, ³CSIRO, Acton, Australia

10:15 **BREAK**

10:30 **3889** Host-associated radiations in plant-feeding flies: Timing, constraints, and diversification. **Isaac Winkler** (isw971@gmail.com)¹, Marty A. Condon¹, and Sonja Scheffer². ¹Cornell College, Mount Vernon, IA, ²USDA - ARS, Beltsville, MD

10:45 **3890** From mutations to species: Causes and consequences of host use variation in pine sawflies. **Catherine Linnen** (catherine.linnen@uky.edu), Univ. of Kentucky, Lexington, KY

11:00 **3891** Phylogenomic resolution and evolutionary implications of rapid radiation episodes within aculeate Hymenoptera (bees, ants, stinging wasps). **Seán Brady** (bradys@si.edu)¹, Bonnie Blaimer¹, Elizabeth Murray², Michael Brainstetter³, James P. Pitts⁴, and Bryan N. Danforth⁵. ¹Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History, Washington, DC, ²Univ. of California, Riverside, CA, ³Univ. of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, ⁴Utah State Univ., Logan, UT, ⁵Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY

10:30 **3896** Responding to environmental change: Plasticity or evolution? **Carla Sgro** (carla.sgro@monash.edu), Monash Univ., Melbourne, Australia

10:45 **3897** Predicting growth and fitness responses of insects to climate change: Beyond thermal performance curves. **Joel Kingsolver** (jgking@bio.unc.edu)¹ and Art Woods², ¹Univ. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, ²Univ. of Montana, Missoula, MT

11:00 **3898** The (thermal) ecology of individuals. **Nathan J. Sanders** (nathan.sanders@snm.ku.dk)¹, Lacy D. Chick², and Rob R. Dunn¹,³. ¹Univ. of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark, ²Case Western Reserve Univ., Cleveland, OH, ³North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC

11:15 **3899** Pattern and process in butterfly responses to climate and land-use change. **Sarah Diamond** (sarah.diamond@case.edu), Case Western Reserve Univ., Cleveland, OH

11:30 **3900** Social dimensions of thermal performance using whole ant colonies. **Clint Penick** (capenick@ncsu.edu)¹, Sarah Diamond², Lacy D. Chick², and Rob R. Dunn¹,³. ¹North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC, ²Case Western Reserve Univ., Cleveland, OH, ³Univ. of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

11:45 **3901** Physiological consequences of social transitions in ants. **Jonathan Shik** (jonathan.shik@gmail.com)¹, William Wcislo², and Jacobus Boomsma¹. ¹Univ. of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark, ²Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama City, Panama

## Symposium: Physiological Responses to Environmental Change

### Room W414 C (Convention Center)

**Moderators and Organizers:** Jonathan Shik¹ and Sarah Diamond², ¹Univ. of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark, ²Case Western Reserve Univ., Cleveland, OH

9:15 **3892** Consequences of stress for diet balancing by an insect. **Shawn Wilder** (wilder.shawn@gmail.com) and Taylor Brooks, Oklahoma State Univ., Stillwater, OK

9:30 **3893** Interactions among bark beetles, blue stain fungi, and termites: Impacts on decomposition and diversity. **Natalie Clay** (nclay@latech.edu)¹, Nathan Little², Courtney Siegert², Juliet Tang³, and John Riggins⁴. ¹Louisana Tech Univ., Ruston, LA, ²USDA - ARS, Stoneville, MS, ³USDA - Forest Service, Madison, WI, ⁴Mississippi State Univ., Mississippi State, MS

9:45 **3894** Patterns and consequences of variation in arthropod water balance across ecosystems with divergent climate, land-use, and hydrological alteration. **Kevin McCluney** (kmcclun@bgsu.edu)¹, John Sabo², Steven Frank³, and Jamie Becker¹. ¹Bowling Green State Univ., Bowling Green, OH, ²Arizona State Univ., Tempe, AZ, ³North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC

10:00 **3895** Climate change and overwintering insects: Energy, cold, and immunity. **Brent Sinclair** (bsincla7@uwo.ca), Univ. of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada

10:15 **BREAK**

## Symposium: Spreading the Word: Bed Bug Education and Training in Today's Society

### West Hall F4 (WF4) (Convention Center)

**Moderators and Organizers:** Molly L. Stedfast and Dini Miller, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State Univ., Blacksburg, VA

9:15 **3902** Bed bug education using a webinar-based short course. **Molly L. Stedfast** (msted14@vt.edu) and Dini Miller, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State Univ., Blacksburg, VA

9:30 **3903** Overcoming challenges in affordable housing bed bug management with resident outreach and education. **Susannah Reese** (sck27@cornell.edu), Northeastern IPM Center, Ithaca, NY

9:45 **3904** It's about instilling confidence: New results from the "Let's Beat the Bug!" campaign. **Amelia Shindelar** (shin0148@umn.edu), Univ. of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN

10:00 **3905** Meeting people where they are: Strategies from the National Pesticide Information Center. **Kaci Buhl** (buhlk@ace.orst.edu), Oregon State Univ., Corvallis, OR

10:15 **BREAK**

10:30 **3906** Learning bed bugs 101. **Frank Meek** (fmeek@rollins.com), Orkin Pest Control, Atlanta, GA

10:45 **3907** Fifty shades of bed bug grey: Out of the book and into the bedroom! **Nancy Troyano** (nancy.troyano@rentokilna.com), Ehrlich-Rentokil North American Pest Control, Reading, PA
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11:00 **3908** Bed bug central: Taking science to the pest management industry. **Jeffrey White** (jeff.white@bedbugcentral.com), Bed Bug Central, Lawrenceville, NJ

11:15 **3909** Bed bug training and education: Progress and future work. **Dini Miller** (dinim@vt.edu) and Molly L. Stedfast, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State Univ., Blacksburg, VA

Contributed Papers: Acarology: Mites

Room W340 B (Convention Center)

**Moderators:** Samuel Ramsey¹, Joseph Roberts², and Georgios Broufas³. ¹Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD, ²Harper Adams Univ., Newport, United Kingdom, ³Democritus Univ. of Thrace, Orestiada, Greece

9:15 **3910** Mites on apples in Indonesia and the biology of the predator mite *Zetzellia* sp. on the tetranychid *Panonychus citri* and *Tetranychus* sp. *Retno Puspitarini* (riniwidyo@yahoo.com), Mochamad Hadi, and Ahmad Mushoffan, Univ. of Brawijaya, Malang, Indonesia

9:30 **3911** Intraguild predation among exotic and native phytoseiid predators is diminished by the provision of alternative food. **Georgios Broufas** (gbroufas@agro.duth.gr), Konstantinos Samaras, Evangelos Fytas, Paraskevi Theodosiou, Vasileios Karageorgiou, and Maria Pappas, Democritus Univ. of Thrace, Orestiada, Greece

9:45 **3912** Paedogenesis in an oriatid mite, *Notogalumna nortoni* Ramani and Haq, 1990 (Acari: Oribatei). **Niravath Ramani** (drnramani@gmail.com), Puthiya Nalakath Nasareen, and Mohamed Haq, Univ. of Calicut, Malapuram, India

10:00 **3913** Identifying the primary host tissue composing the diet of a honey bee parasitic mite (*Varroa destructor*). **Samuel Ramsey** (insectious@gmail.com) and Dennis vanEngelsdorp, Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD

10:15 **BREAK**

10:30 **3914** Does the gall-inducing eriophyid mite *Aceria doctersi* (Nalepa, 1909) (Acari: Eriophyidae) influence photosynthetic performance in leaves of *Cinnamomum verum* Presl.? **Puthiya Nalakath Nasareen** (nazreenpnm@hotmail.com) and Niravath Ramani, Univ. of Calicut, Malapuram, India

10:45 **3915** Identification of *Tetranychus urticae*-induced plant volatiles in the headspace of French dwarf bean plants and the response of *Phytoseiulus persimilis* to synthetic volatile blends. **Joseph Roberts** (jroberts@harper-adams.ac.uk)¹, Tom Pope¹, Ian Baxter², and Simon Leather³, ¹Harper Adams Univ., Newport, United Kingdom, ²Certis UK, Great Abington, United Kingdom, ³Imperial College London, Ascot, United Kingdom

11:00 **3916** Predatory mites of the super family Bdelloidea from Northwest Iran. **Amir Eghbalian** (ah_eghbalian@yahoo.com), Bu-Ali Sina Univ., Hamedan, Iran

11:15 **3917** Description of a new predatory mite species (*Agistemus saeedii*; Acari: Stigmaeidae) from Pakistan. **Bilal Khan** (bilalentomologyuaf@gmail.com), Univ. of Agriculture, Faisalabad, Pakistan

11:30 **3918** Mites associated with gladiolus in Mahallat, Markazi Province Iran. **Mohammad Khanjani** (mkhanjani@gmail.com) and Mohammadreza Amin, Bu-Ali Sina Univ., Hamedan, Iran

11:45 **3919** Predatory activities of *Typhlodromalus* and *Anystis* spp. against the citrus red mite, *Panonychus citri* McGregor (Acarina: Tetranychidae), in Nigeria. **Vincent Umeh** (vumeha@yahoo.com) and Mercy Olaniyi, National Horticultural Research Institute, Ibadan, Nigeria

Contributed Papers: Apidology, Sericulture, and Social Insects: Environmental Responses

Room W240 A (Convention Center)

**Moderators:** Reed Johnson¹ and Adam Dolezal², ¹The Ohio State Univ., Wooster, OH, ²Iowa State Univ., Ames, IA

9:15 **3920** The influence of the social environment and metapleural gland activity on disease resistance in acorn ants, *Temnothorax curvispinosus*. **Svjetlana Vojvodic** (vojvodic@rowan.edu), Rowan Univ., Glassboro, NJ

9:30 **3921** Assessing the effects of larval exposure to neonicotinoid pesticides on the development and adult reproductive fitness of a solitary bee (*Osmia bicornis*). **Elizabeth Nicholls** (e.nicholls@sussex.ac.uk)¹ and Dave Goulson², ¹Univ. of Sussex, Sussex, United Kingdom, ²Univ. of Sussex, Brighton, United Kingdom

9:45 **3922** Nest sites of solitary wood-nesting bees. **Per Westerfelt** (per.westerfelt@skogforsk.se), Uppsala Science Park, Uppsala, Sweden

10:00 **3923** Pollen stress during larval development impairs lifetime performance of critical tasks by adult honey bees (*Apis mellifera*). **Heather Mattila** (hmattila@wellesley.edu), Corena Loeb, Anne Shen, and Anita Yau, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA

10:15 **BREAK**

10:30 **3924** Multi-locus metabarcoding reveals floral origins of honey bee pollen diet across a Midwestern urban-rural gradient. **Rodney Richardson** (richardson.827@osu.edu)¹, Douglas Sponsler², Chia-Hua Lin¹, and Reed Johnson², ¹The Ohio State Univ., Columbus, OH, ²The Ohio State Univ., Wooster, OH

10:45 **3925** Impact of combined exposure to abiotic and biotic stressors on bumble bee (*Bombus terrestris*) colonies. **Cristina Botías** (cristinabotias@gmail.com), Tobias Pamminger, Julia Jones, Williams O. H. Hughes, and Dave Goulson, Univ. of Sussex, Brighton, United Kingdom

11:00 **3926** Pollen nutrition drives bumble bee (*Bombus impatiens*) foraging preferences from the lab to the landscape. **Anthony Vaudo** (advaudo@gmail.com), Harland M. Patch, David Mortensen, John Tooker, and Christina M. Grozinger, Pennsylvania State Univ., University Park, PA

11:15 **3927** Presentation withdrawn

11:30 **3928** Agricultural land use positively contributes to wild bee communities in New England. **Erika Tucker** (erika.tucker@unh.edu) and Sandra Rehan, Univ. of New Hampshire, Durham, NH
11:45 **3929** Diet quantity as a mediator of caste determination in the honey bee, *Apis mellifera*. Garett Slater¹, George Yocum², and **Julia Bowsher** (julia.bowsher@ndsu.edu)¹, ¹North Dakota State Univ., Fargo, ND, ²USDA - ARS, Fargo, ND

12:00 **3930** Effects of simulated heat waves on honey bees (*Apis mellifera*). **Célia Bordier** (celia.bordier@paca.inra.fr)¹, Maryline Piaz¹, Séverine Suchail², Didier Crauser¹, Yves Le Conte¹, and Cedric Alaux¹, ¹INRA, Avignon, France, ²Univ. d'Avignon et des Pays de Vaucluse, Avignon, France

12:15 **3931** Effects of larval nutritional stress on honey bee disease susceptibility and immunocompetence. **Adam Dolezal** (adolezal@iastate.edu), Alexander Walton, and Amy L. Toth, Iowa State Univ., Ames, IA

11:30 **3940** Change in butterfly species diversity in Mt. Mikusa Zephyrus Coppice, Japan for 24 years: A struggle against the dwarf bamboo understory. **Minoru Ishii** (ishii@osakafu-u.ac.jp), Yuta Asai, Yasuaki Nishinaka, and Norio Hirai, Osaka Prefecture Univ., Sakai, Japan

11:45 **3941** Insights into the origin and evolution of preponine butterflies. **Elena Ortiz-Acevedo** (e.ortiz.acevedo@gmail.com)¹, Marianne Espeland², and Keith R. Willmott¹, ¹Univ. of Florida, Gainesville, FL, ²Zoological Research Museum Alexander Koenig, Bonn, Germany

12:00 **3942** Batesian mimetic butterflies in the Indo-Australian Archipelago: Biogeography of a novel adaptive radiation. **David Lohman** (dlohman@ccny.cuny.edu)¹,², Chia-Hsuan Wei³, Dylan Scott², Djunijanti Peggie⁴, Krushnamegh Kunte⁵, Tenzing Doleck², Elva Yang², Susan Tsang², Chris Müller⁶, Andrew Brownjohn², and Shen-Horn Yen³, ¹National Museum of the Philippines, Manila, Philippines, ²City Univ. of New York, New York, NY, ³National Sun Yat-Sen Univ., Kaohsiung, Taiwan, ⁴Research Centre for Biology-LIPI, Cibinong-Bogor, Indonesia, ⁵National Center for Biological Sciences, Bangalore, India, ⁶Australian Museum, Sydney, Australia

## Contributed Papers: Biodiversity, Biogeography, and Conservation of Arthropods: Lepidoptera

### Room W223 B (Convention Center)

**Moderators:** Guanyang Zhang¹ and Braj Sinha², ¹Arizona State Univ., Tempe, AZ, ²Ranchi Univ., Ranchi, India

9:15 **3932** Inferring ecological processes underlying the latitudinal diversity gradient in New World swallowtail butterflies (*Papilio, Heraclides*, and *Pterourus*). **Hannah Owens** (howens@flmnh.ufl.edu), Univ. of Florida, Gainesville, FL

9:30 **3933** Molecular phylogeny and biogeography of a highly diverse genus of Andean butterflies. **Pablo Padron** (sebastianpadronm@yahoo.com)¹ and Keith R. Willmott², ¹Univ. of Azuay, Cuenca, Ecuador, ²Univ. of Florida, Gainesville, FL

9:45 **3934** Practical use of a long term preservation method in the silkworm, *Bombyx mori*. **Tsuguru Fujii** (fujii.tsuguru.233@m.kyushu-u.ac.jp), Hisayoshi Fukumori, and Yutaka Banno, Kyushu Univ., Fukuoka, Japan

10:00 **3935** Butterfly biodiversity of the Australian continent. **Michael Braby** (michael.braby@anu.edu.au), The Australian National Univ., Canberra, Australia

10:15 **BREAK**

10:30 **3936** Mapping global biodiversity connections by DNA barcoding: Lepidoptera of Pakistan. **Muhammad Ashfaq** (mashfaq@uoguelph.ca) and Paul Hebert, Univ. of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada

10:45 **3937** Butterfly responses to fragmentation associated with in-situ oil sands developments in northern Alberta boreal forests. **Federico Riva** (friva@ualberta.ca), John Acorn, and Scott Nielsen, Univ. of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada

11:00 **3938** All milkweeds are not created equal: A summary of oviposition preference tests for monarch butterflies (*Danaus plexippus*). **Victoria Pocius** (pociusv@iastate.edu)¹, Keith Bidne², Richard Hellmich², Diane Debinski¹, and John Pleasants¹, ¹Iowa State Univ., Ames, IA, ²USDA - ARS, Ames, IA

11:15 **3939** Composition and diversity of butterflies in Malang and Pasuruan green spaces, East Java, Indonesia. **Amin Leksono** (amin28@ub.ac.id), Ayu Nisa, Lutfi Kurniawan, and Nikita Normalitasari, Univ. of Brawijaya, Malang, Indonesia

## Contributed Papers: Biodiversity, Biogeography, and Conservation of Arthropods: Pollination, Agriculture, and Disease Control

### Room W230 C (Convention Center)

**Moderators:** Neelendra Joshi¹ and Kayla A. Mollet², ¹Univ. of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR, ²Univ. of Nebraska, North Platte, NE

9:15 **3943** Can insect biodiversity suppress infectious disease transmission? **Philip Weinstein** (philip.weinstein@adelaide.edu.au)¹ and Emily Flies², ¹Univ. of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia, ²Univ. of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia

9:30 **3944** Aversive learning in the disease vector mosquito *Aedes aegypti*. **Clement Vinauger** (vinauger@uw.edu), Chloé Lahondère, Lauren Locke, Jessica Liaw, and Jeff Riffell, Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA

9:45 **3945** Diversity and geographic distribution of major cereal aphid bacterial communities through metagenomics. **Samir Fakhour** (sfakhour@gmail.com)¹,², Thierry Hance¹, Vincent Foray³, Jérôme Ambroise⁴, and Jean-Luc Gala⁴, ¹Catholic Univ. of Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, ²National Institute of Agronomic Research, Beni-Mellal, Morocco, ³CNRS, Montpellier, France, ⁴Catholic Univ. of Louvain, Brussels, Belgium

10:00 **3946** Diversity relationships between arthropods and selected plant family groups of maize agro-ecosystems in two grassy biomes of South Africa. **Monique Botha** (moniquebotha210@gmail.com), Stefan Siebert, and Johnnie van den Berg, North-West Univ., Potchefstroom, South Africa

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10:30 **3947** Pollinator habitat in agricultural ecosystems: Promoting biodiversity through incentivized conservation programs. **Kayla A. Mollet** (kmollet2@unl.edu) and Julie Peterson, Univ. of Nebraska, North Platte, NE

10:45 **3948** Addressing invasive alien insect species in Japan — its progress and challenges. **Koichi Goka** (goka@nies.go.jp), National Institute for Environmental Studies, Ibaraki, Japan

11:00 **3949** Can differences in pollinator communities and consequent crop pollination deficits be detected? **Akhmad Rizali** (akhmad.rizali@gmail.com)¹, Damayanti Buchori², Anik Larasati², Purnama Hidayat², Hien Ngo³, and Barbara Herren⁴, ¹Univ. of Brawijaya, Malang, Indonesia, ²Bogor Agricultural Univ., Bogor, Indonesia, ³Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services, Bonn, Germany, ⁴Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Nairobi, Kenya

11:15 **3950** Pheromone-based monitoring of threatened forest insect diversity reveals striking differences in landscape utilization with key implications for conservation. **Mikael Molander** (mikael.molander@slu.se)¹, Lars Westerberg², Per Milberg², Karl-Olof Bergman², Inis Winde³, Joseph Burman⁴, Franklin Nyabuga³, Erik Hedenström⁵, Nils Ryrholm⁶, Jocelyn G. Millar⁷, Lawrence M. Hanks⁸, and Mattias Larsson¹, ¹Swedish Univ. of Agricultural Sciences, Alnarp, Sweden, ²Linköping Univ., Linköping, Sweden, ³Lund Univ., Lund, Sweden, ⁴Canterbury Christ Church Univ., Canterbury, United Kingdom, ⁵Mid Sweden Univ., Sundsvall, Sweden, ⁶Univ. of Gävle, Gävle, Sweden, ⁷Univ. of California, Riverside, CA, ⁸Univ. of Illinois, Urbana, IL

11:30 **3951** Marginal lands for biocontrol and ecosystem services: Where to enhance and what do we put there? **Jason Schmidt** (jschmid2@uga.edu)¹, Dawn Olson², Tim Strickland², and Alisa Coffin², ¹Univ. of Georgia, Tifton, GA, ²USDA - ARS, Tifton, GA

11:45 **3952** Presentation withdrawn

12:00 **3953** How much do pollinator species overlap between spring-blooming orchards and summer-blooming pollinator habitats? **Julianna Wilson** (jkwilson@msu.edu)¹, Jason Gibbs¹, Larry Gut¹, and Nikki Rothwell², ¹Michigan State Univ., East Lansing, MI, ²Michigan State Univ., Traverse City, MI

12:15 **3954** Assessing *Nesidiocoris tenuis* as a potential biological control agent of *Bactericera cockerelli*. **Gabriela Esparza-Díaz** (gesparzadiaz@ag.tamu.edu)¹, Joseph Munyaneza², and Raul T. Villanueva¹, ¹Texas A&M Univ., Weslaco, TX, ²USDA - ARS, Wapato, WA

Contributed Papers: Biological Control and Insect Pathology: Unique Studies III

Room W340 A (Convention Center)

**Moderators:** Salvador Herrero¹ and Beth Ferguson², ¹Univ. of València, Burjassot, Spain, ²Univ. of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR

9:15 **3955** Preliminary results of radiation dose responses of *Drosophila suzukii* (Matsumura) for use in the Sterile Insect Technique (SIT). Geneviève Lanouette¹, Jacques Brodeur², François Fournier³, Veronique Martel⁴, Marc J.B. Vreysen⁵, Carlos Caceres⁵, and **Annabelle Firlej** (annabelle.firlej@irda.qc.ca)⁶, ¹Institute of Research on Vegetable Biology, Montréal, QC, Canada, ²Univ. of Montréal, Montréal, QC, Canada, ³Collège Montmorency, Laval, QC, Canada, ⁴Natural Resources Canada, Québec City, QC, Canada, ⁵International Atomic Energy Agency, Vienna, Austria, ⁶Institute of Research and Development on the Agroenviornment, St-Bruno-de-Montarville, QC, Canada

9:30 **3956** New RNA viruses producing covert infections in field and laboratory insects of *Ceratitis capitata* (Wiedemann): Implications in SIT programs. Angel Llopis¹, Rosa González-Martinez¹, Anabel Millán-Leiva², Marta Catalá³, Elena Llacer³, Alberto Urbaneja³, and **Salvador Herrero** (sherrero@uv.es)¹, ¹Univ. of València, Burjassot, Spain, ²Institute of Subtropical and Mediterranean Horticulture, Málaga, Spain, ³Valencian Institute of Agricultural Research, Moncada, Spain

9:45 **3957** Temperature adaptability of introduced natural enemy alligator weed flea beetle in China. **Ruiyan Ma** (maruiyan2004@163.com), Shanxi Agricultural Univ., Taigu, China

10:00 **3958** Floral and non-floral diet effects on *Larinus minutus*. **Beth Ferguson** (mef005@email.uark.edu), Timothy J. Kring, and Robert N. Wiedenmann, Univ. of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR

10:15 **BREAK**

10:30 **3959** Provision of shelter to natural enemies via companion planting. **Lessando Gontijo** (lessandomg@ufv.br), Rafael Viana, Barbara Bordin, and Daiane Souza, Federal Univ. of Viçosa, Florestal, Brazil

10:45 **3960** Regulation of host reproduction by the endosymbiotic bacteria *Wolbachia* and its role in the modification of parasitic natural enemy insects. **Bin Cong** (bin1956@163.com), Shenyang Agricultural Univ., Shenyang, China

11:00 **3961** Biological control facilitates conventional control of weeds. **Philip Tipping** (philip.tipping@ars.usda.gov)¹, Lyn Gettys², and Carey Minteer¹, ¹USDA - ARS, Ft. Lauderdale, FL, ²Univ. of Florida, Davie, FL

11:15 **3962** Natural enemies of coffee leaf miners increase survival feeding on extrafloral nectar. **Madelaine Venzon** (venzon@epamig.ufv.br)¹, Maira Rezende²,³, Bruno Santos², Erickson Freitas², Eduardo Silva², Elem Martins², and Paulo Santos¹, ¹Agricultural Research Company of Minas Gerais, Viçosa, Brazil, ²Federal Univ. of Viçosa, Viçosa, Brazil, ³Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology of the Triangle Mine, Patos de Minas, Brazil
11:30 **3963** Impact of *Wolbachia* infection on population ecology of Pieridae butterflies in India. **H. P. Puttaraju** (puttarajuhp@hotmail.com), Bangalore Univ., Bangalore, India

**Contributed Papers: Biological Control and Insect Pathology: Utilizing Parasitoid Wasps I**

Room W225 B (Convention Center)

**Moderators:** Masami Takagi¹ and Matthew Kaiser², ¹Kyushu Univ., Fukuoka, Japan, ²Univ. of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN

9:15 **3964** Effects of temporary host deprivation on the reproductive activity of three local trichogrammatid species in Egypt. **Essam Agamy** (essamagamy@yahoo.com), Cairo Univ., Giza, Egypt

9:30 **3965** How an introduced parasitic wasp (*Aroplectrus dimerus*) tamed a nasty caterpillar (*Darna palivitta*) in Hawaii. **Renato C. Bautista** (renato.c.bautista@hawaii.gov) and Juliana A. Yalemar, Hawaii Dept. of Agriculture, Honolulu, HI

9:45 **3966** Genetic structure of coexisting sexual and asexual populations of the parasitoid wasp *Meteorus pulchricornis* (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) that attacks lepidopteran larvae. **Kaoru Maeto** (maeto@kobe-u.ac.jp), Shunpei Fujie, Hironobu Umemoto, and Yoko Tsutsui, Kobe Univ., Kobe, Japan

10:00 **3967** Ecology of a hymenopteran parasitoid, *Cotesia vanessae* (Braconidae). **Vincent Hervet** (vincent.hervet@gmail.com)¹, Kevin Floate², and Robert Laird¹, ¹Univ. of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, AB, Canada, ²Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Lethbridge, AB, Canada

10:15 **BREAK**

10:30 **3968** Post-release trends in the lygus parasitoid *Peristenus relictus* in the Monterey Bay region of California, a 12-year study. **Charles H. Pickett** (cpickett@cdfa.ca.gov)¹, Diego J. Nieto², Janet A. Bryer², Sean Swezey², and Martin Erlandson³, ¹California Dept. of Food and Agriculture, Sacramento, CA, ²Univ. of California, Santa Cruz, CA, ³Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Saskatoon, SK, Canada

10:45 **3969** Improving biocontrol and adoption by farmers of an aggressive generalist predator, *Oecophylla longinoda*. **Emilie Deletre** (emilie.deletre@cirad.fr)¹ and Anais Chailleux², ¹CIRAD, Nairobi, Kenya, ²CIRAD, Dakar, France

11:00 **3970** Biological control of alfalfa weevil under unstable paddy field environment in Japan. **Masami Takagi** (mtakagi@grt.kyushu-u.ac.jp), Kengo Nakahira, Shun-ichiro Iwase, and Midori Tuda, Kyushu Univ., Fukuoka, Japan

11:15 **3971** New progress on biological control of the rice striped stem borer (*Chilo suppressalis*) with *Trichogramma* in northeastern China. **Lian-Sheng Zang** (Isz0415@163.com), Chang-Chun Ruan, and Jun-Jie Zhang, Jilin Agricultural Univ., Changchun, China

11:30 **3972** Host range test of candidate Asian parasitoids for biological control of spotted wing drosophila in North America. **Xin-geng Wang** (xggwang@ucanr.edu)¹, Antonio Biondi²,³, Betsey Miller⁴, Jeffrey C. Miller⁴, Peter Shearer⁵, Kim A. Hoelmer⁶, Vaughn Walton⁴, and Kent M. Daane², ¹Univ. of California Cooperative Extension, Parlier, CA, ²Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA, ³Univ. of Catania, Catania, Italy, ⁴Oregon State Univ., Corvallis, OR, ⁵Oregon State Univ., Hood River, OR, ⁶USDA - ARS, Newark, DE

11:45 **3973** Transgenerational fecundity compensation in the aphid *Aphis craccivora* in response to parasitism by two competing parasitoids. **Matthew Kaiser** (kais0101@umn.edu) and George Heimpel, Univ. of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN

12:00 **3974** Release and post-release monitoring of *Diadromus pulchellus*, a pupal parasitoid of leek moth (*Acrolepiopsis assectella*). **Peter Mason** (peter.mason@agr.gc.ca), Andrea Brauner, and Jacob Miall, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Ottawa, ON, Canada

**Contributed Papers: Ecology and Population Dynamics: Pest Management**

Room W240 D (Convention Center)

**Moderators:** Justin Cappadonna¹ and John Diaz-Montano², ¹Univ. of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia, ²Colombian Corporation for Agricultural Research, Rionegro, Colombia

9:15 **3975** Prospects of biological control and other management options of the banana aphid *Pentalonia nigonervose*, the vector of banana bunchy top virus in Africa. **Rachid Hanna** (r.hanna@cgiar.org)¹, Sergine Ngatat¹, and Lava Kumar², ¹International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, Yaounde, Cameroon, ²International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, Ibadan, Nigeria

9:30 **3976** Native vegetation isn't necessarily a source of natural enemies: The case of parasitoids of light brown apple moth in Australia. **Michael Keller** (mike.keller@adelaide.edu.au)¹, Yi Feng², Olena Kravchuk¹, Stephen Wratten³, and Harpinder Sandhu⁴, ¹Univ. of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia, ²Northwest A&F Univ., Yangling, China, ³Lincoln Univ., Lincoln, New Zealand, ⁴Flinders Univ., Adelaide, Australia

9:45 **3977** Host plant resistance and biological control: A test of the movement-risk hypothesis. **Cory Straub** (cstraub@ursinus.edu)¹, Katharina Griesbach-Hobbach², and Michael Traugott², ¹Ursinus College, Collegeville, PA, ²Univ. of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria

10:00 **3978** Incidence of insect pests on avocado in the eastern region of Antioquia (Colombia, South America). **John Diaz-Montano** (jdiazm@corpoica.org.co) and Claudia Holguin, Colombian Corporation for Agricultural Research, Rionegro, Colombia

10:15 **BREAK**

10:30 **3979** Seasonal variations in the occurrence of citrus leafminer, *Phyllocnistis citrella* Stainton, on *Citrus reticulata* in three Tehsilts of District Sargodha, Pakistan. **Muhammad Irfan Ullah** (mirfanullah@uos.edu.pk)¹, Muhammad Arshad¹, Muhammad Afzal¹, Abdul Khaliq¹, Muhammad Saqib¹, Samina Khalid², Yasir Iftikhar¹, and Zahoor Hussain¹, ¹Univ. of Sargodha, Sargodha, Pakistan, ²COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Vehari, Pakistan
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10:45 **3980** Distribution patterns of *Hypothenemus hampei* Ferr. (coffee berry borer) in coffee plants at Jeneponto Regency Rumbia Sub Regency. **Itji Daud** (itfir@yahoo.com), Hasanuddin Univ., Makassar, Indonesia

11:00 **3981** Impact of male density and food sources on the progeny development of cotton mealybug, *Phenacoccus solenopsis* (Hemiptera: Pseudococcidae). **Muhammad Jalal Arif** (jalalarif807@yahoo.com), Muhammad Dildar Gogi, Ahmad Nawaz, Muhammad Sufyan, and Amjad Majeed Pasha, Univ. of Agriculture, Faisalabad, Pakistan

11:15 **3982** Multiple host-use by the generalist cotton pest *Creontiades dilutus* (Hemiptera: Miridae) in natural and agricultural landscapes. **Justin Cappadonna** (justin.cappadonna@gmail.com), James Hereward, and Gimme H. Walter, Univ. of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia

11:30 **3983** Seasonal occurrence of TuMV and potential aphid vectors in Kyushu, Japan. **Shuhei Adachi** (aphidtennis@gmail.com)¹, Tomoki Honma², Yasaka Ryosuke¹, Ohshima Kazusato², and Tokuda Makoto², ¹Kagoshima Univ., Kagoshima, Japan, ²Saga Univ., Saga, Japan

11:45 **3984** Offspring sex ratio and larval development are determined by sexual activity in *Echinothrips americanus* Morgan 1913 (Thysanoptera: Thripidae). **Stephanie Krueger** (stephanie.krueger@zoologie.uni-halle.de)¹, Laurence Mound², and Gerald Moritz¹, ¹Martin Luther Univ., Halle, Germany, ²CSIRO, Canberra, Australia

12:00 **3985** Effect of seedling age on the oviposition and performance of Hessian fly (*Mayetiola destructor*) on wheat. **Hao Zhang** (zhh1972@nwsuaf.edu.cn)¹, Kirk Anderson², and Marion Harris², ¹Northwest A&F Univ., Yangling, China, ²North Dakota State Univ., Fargo, ND

12:15 **3986** Survey of overwintering sites of *Riptortus pedestris* (Fabricius) (Hemiptera: Alydidae) in diverse landscapes in South Korea. **Minhyung Jung** (alsgud_11@naver.com), Hong Geun Kim, and Doo-Hyung Lee, Gachon Univ., Seongnam, South Korea

12:30 **3987** Growth and development of *Spodoptera exigua* (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) on alternate hosts with reference to integrated pest management. **Qamar Saeed**¹ and **Faheem Ahmad** (faheem.ahmad@comsats.edu.pk)², ¹Bahauddin Zakariya Univ., Multan, Pakistan, ²COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Islamabad, Pakistan

12:45 **3988** Mortality factors affecting *Bemisia tabaci* (Gennadius) populations in Bt cotton: Life table analysis. **Ravinder Chandi** (rschandi@pau.edu) and Jagdev Kular, Punjab Agricultural Univ., Ludhiana, India

Contributed Papers: Ecology of Pesticides, Resistance, Toxicology, and Genetically Modified Crops

Room W314 A (Convention Center)

**Moderators:** Daniel Fleming¹ and Waseem Akbar², ¹Mississippi State Univ., Mississippi State, MS, ²Monsanto Company, Chesterfield, MO

9:15 **3989** Predicting evolution of *Spodoptera frugiperda* (J. E. Smith) (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) resistance to transgenic crops in agricultural landscapes, based on larval movement. **Adriano Garcia** (adrianogomesgarcia@gmail.com)¹, Cláudia Ferreira², Fernando Cônsoli¹, and Wesley Godoy¹, ¹Univ. of São Paulo, Piracicaba, Brazil, ²São Paulo State Univ., Botucatu, Brazil

9:30 **3990** Caterpillar resistance to *Bacillus thuringiensis* (Bt): Impact of increased feeding rates. **Anirudh Dhammi** (adhammi@ncsu.edu)¹, Dominic Reisig², Ryan E. Kurtz³, Jiwei Zhu¹, and R. Michael Roe¹, ¹North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC, ²North Carolina State Univ., Plymouth, NC, ³Cotton Incorporated, Cary, NC

9:45 **3991** Does timing matter in pesticide resistance? One splice form variant of *MDR49* provides early, but not late, 'protection' to DDT. **Keon Mook Seong** (kseong6@illinois.edu)¹, Barry R. Pittendrigh¹, Weilin Sun¹, and John M. Clark², ¹Univ. of Illinois, Champaign, IL, ²Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA

10:00 **3992** Screening for Bt resistance allele in the Philippine population of *Ostrinia furnacalis* (Guenée) (Lepidoptera: Crambidae) collected from Bt-corn sentinel sites in Isabela province. **Gelyn Sapin** (gdsapin@up.edu.ph), Barbara Caoili, Edwin P. Alcantara, and Bonifacio F. Cayabyab, Univ. of the Philippines, Los Baños, Philippines

10:15 BREAK

10:30 **3993** Identification of the allele responsible for field-evolved resistance to Cry1Fa corn in *Spodoptera frugiperda* from Puerto Rico. **Rahul Banerjee** (rbanerje@vols.utk.edu)¹, James M. Hasler², Lucas Hietala¹, Kenneth Narva², and Juan Luis Jurat-Fuentes¹, ¹Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, ²Dow AgroSciences, Indianapolis, IN

10:45 **3994** Survival of sugarcane borer on Bt maize and refuge from seed blends. **Andre Crespo** (andre.crespo@pioneer.com)¹, Gerardo Rapetti², Maria Celiz³, Taline das Neves⁴, Paulo da Silva⁵, Josemar Foresti⁵, Yiwei Wang¹, Bonnie Hong¹, and J. Lindsey Flexner⁶, ¹DuPont Pioneer, Johnston, IA, ²DuPont Pioneer, Pergamino, Argentina, ³DuPont Pioneer, Jesus Maria, Argentina, ⁴DuPont do Brasil S.A., Itumbiara, Brazil, ⁵DuPont do Brasil S.A., Planaltina, Brazil, ⁶DuPont Pioneer, Wilmington, DE

11:00 **3995** Systemic RNAi in western corn rootworm does not involve transitive pathways. **Huarong Li** (hli2@dow.com)¹, Andrew Bowling¹, Premchand Gandra¹, Murugesan Rangasamy¹, Heather Pence¹, Robert McEwan¹, Chitvan Khajuria², Blair Siegfried³, and Kenneth Narva¹, ¹Dow AgroSciences, Indianapolis, IN, ²Monsanto Company, Chesterfield, MO, ³Univ. of Florida, Gainesville, FL
11:15 **3996** Genetically modified corn hybrids resistant to the sugarcane borer in Sinaloa, Mex. **Luis Aguirre** (luisaguirreu@yahoo.com.mx)¹, Agustín Hernández-Juárez¹, Mariano Flores¹, Ernesto Cerna¹, Jerónimo Landeros¹, Gustavo Frias¹, and Marvin K. Harris², ¹Antonio Narro Agrarian Autonomous Univ., Saltillo, Mexico, ²Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX

11:30 **3997** Efficacy of transgenic Bt cotton and corn events against heliothine pests: A meta-analysis. **Daniel Fleming** (def18@msstate.edu)¹, Nathan Little², and Fred Musser¹, ¹Mississippi State Univ., Mississippi State, MS, ²USDA - ARS, Stoneville, MS

11:45 **3998** A new transgenic trait protects cotton from thrips and Lygus damage. **Waseem Akbar** (waseem.akbar@monsanto.com), Jeffrey Ahrens, Robert Brown, AnilKumar Gowda, Jason Stelzer, Scott Bollman, John Greenplate, and Thomas Clark, Monsanto Company, Chesterfield, MO

12:00 **3999** Genetic basis of resistance to Bt toxin Cry2Ab in pink bollworm, *Pectinophora gossypiella*. **Lolita G. Mathew** (lolita.mathew@ars.usda.gov)¹, Yves Carrière², Xianchun Li², Bruce Tabashnik², and Jeffrey A. Fabrick¹, ¹USDA - ARS, Maricopa, AZ, ²Univ. of Arizona, Tucson, AZ

12:15 **4000** IRM value and potential for protein interaction in Bt soybean pyramids. **Ted C. MacRae** (ted.c.macrae@monsanto.com), Monsanto Company, Chesterfield, MO

10:00 **4004** Detection of imidacloprid residues in pollen and nectar collected from annual and perennial bedding plants purchased from selected retail garden stores. **Stephanie Darnell** (stephanie.darnell@bayer.com) and Daniel Schmehl, Bayer CropScience, Research Triangle Park, NC

10:15 **BREAK**

10:30 **4005** Consistency patterns of toxicity of the nitroguanidine neonicotinoid insecticides to honey bee (*Apis mellifera*) colonies. **Allen Olmstead** (allen.olmstead@bayer.com)¹, Silvia Hinarejos², Rob Hummel³, and Jay Overmyer⁴, ¹Bayer CropScience, Research Triangle Park, NC, ²Valent U.S.A., Dublin, CA, ³Landis International, Raleigh, NC, ⁴Syngenta Plant Protection, Greensboro, NC

10:45 **4006** A common neonicotinoid pesticide, thiamethoxam, impairs honey bee flight performance (*Apis mellifera* L.). **Simone Tosi** (stosi@ucsd.edu)¹,², Giovanni Burgio², and James C. Nieh¹, ¹Univ. of California, La Jolla, CA, ²Univ. of Bologna, Bologna, Italy

11:00 **4007** Neonicotinoid levels found in foraging and dead honey bees (*Apis mellifera*) collected before, during and after the 2014 and 2015 corn planting seasons. **Victor Limay-Rios** (vlimayri@uoguelph.ca), Andrew Rinald, Yanjun Luo, Luis Forero, Yingen Xue, and Arthur Schaafsma, Univ. of Guelph, Ridgetown, ON, Canada

11:15 **4008** Effects of a new pesticide, flupyradifurone (Sivanto), on honey bee sucrose response thresholds and orientation. **James C. Nieh** (jnieh@ucsd.edu), Angeliki Kanellopoulou, and Heather Bell, Univ. of California, La Jolla, CA

11:30 **4009** Can poisons stimulate bees? Appreciating the potential of hormesis in bee-pesticide research. **Chris Cutler** (chris cutler@dal.ca), Dalhousie Univ., Truro, NS, Canada

11:45 **4010** Chronic exposure to an agricultural spray adjuvant and honey bee pathogen causes synergistic mortality in larval honey bees (*Apis mellifera*). **Julia Fine** (jdf250@psu.edu)¹, Chris Mullin¹, and Diana Cox-Foster², ¹Pennsylvania State Univ., University Park, PA, ²USDA - ARS, Logan, UT

12:00 **4011** Utilizing behavior on a colony scale to examine sub-lethal toxicity in honey bees. Troy D. Anderson, Thomas P. Kuhar, and **James M. Wilson** (jamesmw3@vt.edu), Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State Univ., Blacksburg, VA

12:15 **4012** Assessing geographic varroacid resistance in the honey bee pest *Varroa destructor*, and effective treatment strategies for control. **Daniel Schmehl** (daniel.schmehl@bayer.com)¹,², Dick Rogers¹, and James Ellis², ¹Bayer CropScience, Research Triangle Park, NC, ²Univ. of Florida, Gainesville, FL

12:30 **4013** Evaluation of modifications towards improvement of the OECD draft 22-day repeat exposure larval honey bee (*Apis mellifera* L.) methods over the course of two years. **Michael Patnaude** (mpatnaude@smithers.com) and James Hoberg, Smithers Viscient Laboratories, Wareham, MA

Contributed Papers: Ecology of Pesticides, Resistance, Toxicology, and Genetically Modified Crops: Pollinators

Room W314 B (Convention Center)

**Moderators:** Ana Cabrera¹ and Troy D. Anderson², ¹Bayer CropScience, Research Triangle Park, NC, ²Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State Univ., Blacksburg, VA

9:15 **4001** Neonicotinoid residues in ornamentals alter behavior and survival of bees and beneficials. **Vera Aber Krischik** (krisc001@umn.edu), Univ. of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN

9:30 **4002** Investigation of molecular mechanisms of differential toxicity of neonicotinoid insecticides in buff-tailed bumble bee, *Bombus terrestris*. **Bartek Troczka** (bartek.troczka@rothamsted.ac.uk)¹, Emma Randall², Katherine Beadle², Laura Kor¹, Christoph Zimmer², Martin Williamson¹, T. G. Emyr Davies¹, Ralf Nauen³, Chris Bass², and Lin Field¹, ¹Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, United Kingdom, ²Univ. of Exeter, Penryn, United Kingdom, ³Bayer CropScience, Monheim, Germany

9:45 **4003** Survey of imidacloprid residues in nectar and pollen collected by honey bees (*Apis mellifera*) in urban and suburban environments in different regions of the United States. **Ana Cabrera** (ana.cabrera@bayer.com)¹, Zachary Y. Huang², Joseph Sullivan³, Juliana Rangel⁴, Pierre Lau⁴, Vaughn Bryant⁴, Daniel Schmehl¹,⁵, and James D. Ellis⁵, ¹Bayer CropScience, Research Triangle Park, NC, ²Michigan State Univ., East Lansing, MI, ³Ardea Consulting, Woodland, CA, ⁴Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX, ⁵Univ. of Florida, Gainesville, FL
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**12:45** **4014** Implications of negligible transfer of diet-derived pollen microRNAs in adult honey bees. **Jonathan Snow** (jsnow@barnard.edu)¹, Maryam Masood¹, Claire Everett¹, and Stephen Chan², ¹Columbia Univ., New York, NY, ²Univ. of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA

Contributed Papers: Integrated Pest Management and Sustainable Agriculture: Tree Fruits and Nuts

Room W231B (Convention Center)

**Moderator:** Elizabeth Grafton-Cardwell, Univ. of California, Exeter, CA

**9:15** **4015** Asian citrus psyllid (*Diaphorina citri*) and huanglongbing radically alter California citrus IPM. **Elizabeth Grafton-Cardwell** (eegraftoncardwell@ucanr.edu), Univ. of California, Exeter, CA

**9:30** **4016** Effect of thermal therapy on transmission of *Candidatus Liberibacter asiaticus* by the Asian citrus psyllid, *Diaphorina citri*. **Alicia Kelley** (ajkelley@ufl.edu) and Kirsten S. Pelz-Stelinski, Univ. of Florida, Lake Alfred, FL

**9:45** **4017** Post-harvest detection of *Thaumatotibia leucotreta* in citrus fruit in South Africa. **Wayne Kirkman** (waynek@cri.co.za)¹,², Sean Moore¹,², Martin Hill¹, Rui Krause¹, Frikkie de Beer³, Jakobus Hoffman³, and Timothy Gibson⁴, ¹Rhodes Univ., Grahamstown, South Africa, ²Citrus Research International, Port Elizabeth, South Africa, ³Nuclear Energy Corporation of South Africa, Pretoria, South Africa, ⁴RoboScientific, Leeds, United Kingdom

**10:00** **4018** Updating dormant season management thresholds for IPM of navel orangeworm (*Amyelois transitella*) in California (USA) nut crops. **Elizabeth Boyd** (eaboyd@csuchico.edu)¹ and Justin Nay², ¹California State Univ., Chico, CA, ²Integral Ag. Inc., Durham, CA

**10:15** **BREAK**

**10:30** **4019** Determination of the efficacy of some pest control methods used in organic hazelnut growing. Seref Yamakoglu and **Sebahat Ozman-Sullivan** (sozman@omu.edu.tr), Ondokuz Mayis Univ., Samsun, Turkey

**10:45** **4020** Ecology of the cocoa pod borer, *Conopomorpha cramerella* (Lepidoptera: Gracillariidae), a major pest for the cocoa industry. **Jerome Niogret** (niogret.ecology.consulting@gmail.com)¹, Hans Alborn², Keith Ingram³, Paul E. Kendra⁴, Smilja Lambert⁵, and Nancy D. Epsky⁴, ¹Niogret Ecology Consulting LLC, Miami, FL, ²USDA - ARS, Gainesville, FL, ³Mars, Inc., Gainesville, FL, ⁴USDA - ARS, Miami, FL, ⁵Mars, Inc., Cairns, Australia

**11:00** **4021** Direct and indirect methods for detecting red palm weevil infestation in date palm plantations, Kingdom of Bahrain. **Abdul Aziz Mohamed** (amamohamed@agu.edu.bh)¹, Abderrazak Bannari¹, and Derek Peddle², ¹Arabian Gulf Univ., Manama, Bahrain, ²Univ. of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, AB, Canada

**11:15** **4022** Presentation withdrawn

**11:30** **4023** Presentation withdrawn

**11:45** **4024** Is relying on wild pollinators to pollinate apple and cherry orchards in Pennsylvania risky? **David Biddinger** (djb134@psu.edu)¹, Neelendra K. Joshi², Edwin Rajotte³, Thomas Kon¹, and Timothy W. Leslie⁴, ¹Pennsylvania State Univ., Biglerville, PA, ²Univ. of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR, ³Pennsylvania State Univ., University Park, PA, ⁴Long Island Univ., Brooklyn, NY

**12:00** **4025** Invasive mango-feeding fruit fly, *Bactrocera dorsalis* (Diptera: Tephritidae), in Senegal: Effect of organic insecticides (neem oil and Surround WP) on behavior and reproduction. **Assa Balayara** (balayara@vt.edu) and Douglas G. Pfeiffer, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State Univ., Blacksburg, VA

**12:15** **4026** The bio-ecology of the cape grapevine leafminer, *Holocacista capensis* (Lepidoptera: Heliozelidae), in the Western Cape, South Africa. **Leigh Torrance** (torrance@sun.ac.za), Pia Addison, and Henk Geertsema, Stellenbosch Univ., Stellenbosch, South Africa

**12:30** **4027** Analytical approach to develop decision support system for managing *Hyposidra talaca*, a major pest of tea in Dooars region of eastern India. **Chanchal Pramanik** (chanchal.pramanik@tcs.com)¹, Bhushan Jagyasi², Sandika Biswas³, Barun Biswas⁴, Amar Nain⁵, Srinivasu Pappula¹, and Shaonpius Mondal⁶, ¹Tata Consultancy Services, Hyderabad, India, ²Tata Consultancy Services, Bangalore, India, ³Tata Consultancy Services, Kolkata, India, ⁴Punjab Agricultural Univ., Gurdaspur, India, ⁵Goodricke Group Limited, Kolkata, India, ⁶Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY

Contributed Papers: Medical and Veterinary Entomology: Biting Flies

West Hall F3 (WF3) (Convention Center)

**Moderators:** Megan Riddin¹, Peter James², and Ramiro Morales-Hojas³, ¹Rhodes Univ., Grahamstown, South Africa, ²Univ. of Queensland, Dutton Park, Australia, ³The Pirbright Institute, Woking, United Kingdom

**9:15** **4028** Genomics of bluetongue virus vector competence in *Culicoides sonorensis* (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae). **Ramiro Morales-Hojas** (ramiro.morales-hojas@rothamsted.ac.uk)¹, Malcolm Hinsley², Irina Armean², Paul Kersey², Rhiannon Silk³, Simon T. Carpenter³, and Mark Fife⁴, ¹Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, United Kingdom, ²The European Bioinformatics Institute, Hinxton, United Kingdom, ³The Pirbright Institute, Woking, United Kingdom, ⁴The Pirbright Institute, Pirbright, United Kingdom

**9:30** **4029** Nematode parasitism of arbovirus vectors: Effects of mermithids (Nematoda: Mermithidae) on *Culicoides* biting midges and their potential use for disease and vector control. **Georgette Kluiters** (g.kluiters@liverpool.ac.uk), Univ. of Liverpool, Neston, United Kingdom

**9:45** **4030** Differential expression of salivary genes of *Phlebotomus papatasi* in a ZCL hyperendemic area of Iran. **Nasibeh Hosseini-Vasoukolaei** (nasibeh.hoseini@gmail.com)¹,², Amir Ahmad Akhavan¹, and Mahmood Jeddi-Tehrani³, ¹Tehran Univ. of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran, ²Mazandaran Univ. of Medical Sciences, Sari, Iran, ³Monoclonal Antibody Research Center, Tehran, Iran
10:00 **4031** A paratransgenic strategy to control vectorial transmission of leishmaniasis. **Ivy Hurwitz** (ihurwitz@salud.unm.edu)¹, Arinder Arora², Annabeth Fieck¹, Ju-Lin Weng³, Marcelo Ramalho-Ortigao³, and Ravi Durvasula¹ *Univ. of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM,²Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX,³Kansas State Univ., Manhattan, KS*

10:15 **BREAK**

10:30 **4032** Buffalo flies (*Haematobia exigua* de Meijere): A significant tropical cattle pest with an expanding range in Australia. **Peter James** (p.james1@uq.edu.au)¹, Robert Dobson², and James Rothwell³, ¹Univ. of Queensland, Dutton Park, Australia, ²Murdoch Univ., Murdoch, Australia, ³Univ. of Queensland, North Sydney, Australia

10:45 **4033** Sandfly diversity and speciation using high resolution melt analysis in a new visceral leishmaniasis foci, Marsabit County, northern Kenya. **Damaris Matoke-Muhia** (dmatoke@icipe.org)¹,², Jandouwe Villinger¹, Enock Mararo¹, Philip Ngumbi², Johnstone Ingonga², Jackline Mwangi², Tobias Landmann¹, and Daniel Masiga¹, ¹International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology, Nairobi, Kenya, ²Kenya Medical Research Institute, Nairobi, Kenya

11:00 **4034** African horse sickness virus and *Culicoides* in the Eastern Cape, South Africa. **Megan Riddin** (g09r1172@campus.ru.ac.za)¹, Martin Villet¹, and Gert Venter², ¹Rhodes Univ., Grahamstown, South Africa, ²Agricultural Research Council, Onderstepoort, South Africa

11:15 **4035** An Indian phlebotomine (Diptera: Psychodidae) with description of one new species. **Prakash Salunkhe** (salunkhepr.niv@gmail.com), National Institute of Virology, Pune, India

**Contributed Papers: Medical and Veterinary Entomology: Mosquito Behavior and Trapping Technologies**

**West Hall F2 (WF2) (Convention Center)**

**Moderators:** Casey Parker¹, Daniel Kline², and Pablo Gurman³, ¹Univ. of Florida, Gainesville, FL, ²USDA - ARS, Gainesville, FL, ³GearJump Technologies LLC, Revere, MA

9:15 **4036** Controlled release devices for field and personal protection against mosquitoes of public health importance. Ulrich R. Bernier¹, Craig Scoops², Melynda Perry³, Daniel Kline¹, **Pablo Gurman** (pablogurman@gmail.com)⁴, and Noel Elman⁴, ¹USDA - ARS, Gainesville, FL, ²U.S. Naval Medical Research Unit, Callao, Peru, ³U.S. Army Research, Development, and Engineering Command, Natick, MA, ⁴GearJump Technologies LLC, Revere, MA

9:30 **4037** Dietary carbohydrate manipulation leads to differential pathogen interference in *Wolbachia*-infected *Aedes aegypti*. **Eric Caragata** (e.caragata@gmail.com), Fernanda Rezende, Taynana Simões, and Luciano Moreira, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Belo Horizonte, Brazil

9:45 **4038** A pyriproxyfen autodissemination station efficacy in *Aedes albopictus* hot spots in residential areas. **Devi Suman** (dssuman37@gmail.com)¹, Yi Wang¹, Kshitij Chandel¹, Isik Unlu², Greg Williams³, and Randy Gaugler¹, ¹Rutgers, The State Univ. of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ, ²Mercer County Mosquito Control, West Trenton, NJ, ³Hudson County Mosquito Control, Jersey City, NJ

10:00 **4039** Targeting the breeding sites of container mosquitoes using habitat-sharing heterospecific species carrying insect growth regulator. **Yi Wang** (ywangs@hotmail.com), Devi Suman, Kshitij Chandel, and Randy Gaugler, Rutgers, The State Univ. of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ

10:15 **BREAK**

10:30 **4040** Female *Culex quinquefasciatus* mosquitoes are attracted to secretion derived from blood-feeding females. **Fangfang Zeng** (ffzeng@ucdavis.edu), Garisson Buss, and Walter S. Leal, Univ. of California, Davis, CA

10:45 **4041** Know your enemy: Bio-rational trap outperforms human landing catches across mosquito genera. **Frances Hawkes** (f.m.hawkes@gre.ac.uk)¹, Simon Sawadago², Kounbobr Dabire², Stephen Torr³, and Gabriella Gibson¹, ¹Natural Resources Institute, Chatham, United Kingdom, ²Health Sciences Research Institute, Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso, ³Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, United Kingdom

11:00 **4042** Field evaluation of lethal ovitraps against dengue vectors: An impact on populations of *Aedes* spp. mosquitoes in Malaysia. **Hidayatulfathi Othman** (hida@ukm.edu.my)¹, Saiful Azlan Nordin¹, and Zainol Pawanchee², ¹National Univ. of Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, ²Dept. of Health and the Environment, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

11:15 **4043** Influence of natal habitats on oviposition preference and larval performance in container-inhabiting mosquitoes. **Nnaemeka Ezeakacha** (ezeakacha.fn@gmail.com)¹ and Donald Yee², ¹Pennsylvania State Univ., University Park, PA, ²Univ. of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, MS

11:30 **4044** From concept to commercialization: The story of a mosquito ovitrap. **Rebecca Heinig** (rheinig@springstar.net), SpringStar, Inc., Woodinville, WA

11:45 **4045** Mom knows best except when she doesn't: Linking patterns of oviposition and larval survival in the container mosquitoes *Aedes albopictus* and *Culex quinquefasciatus*. **Donald Yee** (donald.yee@usm.edu), William C. Glasgow, and Nnaemeka Francis Ezeakacha, Univ. of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, MS

12:00 **4046** Lab evaluation of a novel lethal ovitrap for control of *Aedes aegypti* and *Aedes albopictus*. **Casey Parker** (caseyparker@ufl.edu)¹, Alexandra Chaskopoulou², Roberto Pereira¹, and Philip Koehler¹, ¹Univ. of Florida, Gainesville, FL, ²USDA - ARS, Thessaloniki, Greece
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## Contributed Papers: Medical and Veterinary Entomology: Ticks II

### Room W331D (Convention Center)

**Moderators:** Robert Mitchell¹ and Rebecca Trout Fryxell², ¹North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC, ²Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN

9:15 **4047** Comparison of seasonal activity and biodiversity components of north Iranian hard ticks (Acari: Ixodidae) under highland, woodland, and plain conditions. **Mahmoud Fazeli-Dinan** (fazelidinan@gmail.com)¹, Fatemeh Asgarian², Seyyed Payman Ziapour¹, Seyed Hassan Nikookar¹, and Ahmadali Enayati¹, ¹Mazandaran Univ. of Medical Sciences, Sari, Iran, ²Ahvaz Jundishapur Univ. of Medical Sciences, Ahvaz, Iran

9:30 **4048** Deciphering mechanisms involved in tick hematophagy. **Robert Mitchell** (rdmitche@ncsu.edu), Grayson Cave, Anirudh Dhammi, Jiwei Zhu, and R. Michael Roe, North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC

9:45 **4049** Presentation withdrawn

10:00 **4050** Vectorial capacity of *Rhipicephalus sanguineus* in Israel and the Palestinian Territories. **Kosta Mumcuoglu** (kostasm@ekmd.huji.ac.il), Kvin Center for the Study of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, Jerusalem, Israel

10:15 **BREAK**

10:30 **4051** Tick determinants of Powassan virus transmission. Meghan Hermance, Rodrigo Santos, and **Saravanan Thangamani** (sathanga@utmb.edu), The Univ. of Texas, Galveston, TX

10:45 **4052** Transmission-blocking vaccines: A solid approach for soft ticks. **Girish Neelakanta** (gneelaka@odu.edu), Old Dominion Univ., Norfolk, VA

11:00 **4053** Population genetics and microbial communities of field-collected *Amblyomma maculatum*. **Rebecca Trout Fryxell** (rfryxell@utk.edu), Jennifer DeBruyn, and Margaret Staton, Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN

11:15 **4054** Field and laboratory studies on Heartland virus (Bunyaviridae: *Phlebovirus*), a recently described human pathogen, in the lone star tick, *Amblyomma americanum* (L.) (Acari: Ixodidae). **Harry Michael Savage** (hms1@cdc.gov) and Marvin Godsey, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Fort Collins, CO

## Contributed Papers: Morphology, Systematics, and Phylogeny: Behavior, Chrysomelids, Curculionids, and Scarabs

### Room W230 A (Convention Center)

**Moderators:** Anthony I. Cognato¹ and András Dobai², ¹Michigan State Univ., East Lansing, MI, ²Carleton Univ., Ottawa, ON, Canada

9:15 **4055** Special behavior in beetles negates a developmental constraint against hyper-elongation of a penis. **Yoko Matsumura** (yoko.matumura.hamupeni@gmail.com), Keio Univ., Yokohama, Japan

9:30 **4056** Dispersal by flight reduces survival and reproduction in the chrysomelid *Oreina cacialiae*: A field study. **Nicole Kalberer** (nicole.kalberer@bs.ch) and Mathias Koelliker, Univ. of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

9:45 **4057** Synopsis of North and Central American *Diabrotica* species (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae). **Alexander Derunkov** (alderunkov@gmail.com)¹ and Alexander S. Konstantinov², ¹National Academy of Sciences of Belarus for Bioresources, Minsk, Belarus, ²USDA - ARS, Washington, DC

10:00 **4058** Revision and phylogeny of the nightshade flea beetles *Epitrix* and *Acallepitrix* (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Galerucinae: Alticini) in America north of Mexico. **Anthony Deczynski** (adeczyn@g.clemson.edu), Clemson Univ., Clemson, SC

10:15 **BREAK**

10:30 **4059** Patterns of host use within a lineage of temperate and tropical saproxylic beetles (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae: Scolytini). **Anthony I. Cognato** (cognato@msu.edu)¹, Sarah M. Smith¹, and Bjarte Jordal², ¹Michigan State Univ., East Lansing, MI, ²Univ. of Bergen, Bergen, Norway

10:45 **4060** Acoustic communication in bark beetles (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae): A new perspective. **András Dobai** (dobandi@gmail.com) and Jayne Yack, Carleton Univ., Ottawa, ON, Canada

11:00 **4061** Geometric morphometric analysis of the rostrum of weevils (Coleoptera: Curculionoidea). **Hui Wen** (wenhui1999108@126.com), Menglei Zhang, Zhiliang Wang, and Runzhi Zhang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

11:15 **4062** Genome-wide species delineation in inbred, widespread, and morphologically variable ambrosia beetles. **Caroline Storer** (cgstorer@gmail.com) and Jiri Hulcr, Univ. of Florida, Gainesville, FL

11:30 **4063** Chorion ultrasculpture of eggs in diagnostics of June beetles (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae). **Sreedevi Kolla** (kolla.sreedevi@gmail.com), Indian Council of Agricultural Research, New Delhi, India

## Contributed Papers: Morphology, Systematics, and Phylogeny: Diptera

### Room W331B (Convention Center)

**Moderators:** Gary Steck¹ and John Moulton², ¹Florida Dept. of Agriculture and Consumer Services, Gainesville, FL, ²Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN

9:15 **4064** Molecular phylogenetics of *Aedini* mosquitoes. **John Soghigian** (jsoghigian@clarku.edu) and Todd P. Livdahl, Clark Univ., Worcester, MA

9:30 **4065** Revisionary studies of the Nearctic Dixidae (Diptera: The *Dixa inextricata* and *D. modesta* species complexes. **John Moulton** (jmoulton@utk.edu), Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN

9:45 **4066** Systematics and natural history of the millipede-parasitic genus *Myriophora* (Diptera: Phoridae). **John Hash** (jhash001@ucr.edu)¹, John M. Heraty¹, and Brian V. Brown², ¹Univ. of California, Riverside, CA, ²Natural History Museum, Los Angeles, CA
10:00 **4067** The Anastrepha Project: Morphological, molecular, and biological studies of adults and larvae. **Gary Steck** (gary.steck@freshfromflorida.com)¹, Allen Norrbom², Bruce Sutton¹, Erick Rodriguez¹, and Pratibha Srivastava¹. ¹Florida Dept. of Agriculture and Consumer Services, Gainesville, FL, ²USDA - ARS, Washington, DC

10:15 **BREAK**

10:30 **4068** Sex ticklers and dirty flies: The evolution of a novel abdominal appendage in male sepsid flies. **Kathy Su** (kathysufy@gmail.com), Gowri Rajaratnam, and Rudolf Meier, National Univ. of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore

10:45 **4069** A review of the stilt-legged fly subfamily Eurybatinae (Diptera: Micropezidae). **Nur Athiqah Md. Yusof** (nurathiqah.mdyusof@gmail.com) and Stephen A. Marshall, Univ. of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada

11:00 **4070** A review and phylogeny of the ant-like flies *Plocoscelus* Enderlein, 1922 (Diptera: Micropezidae), with the description of 13 new species. **Gustavo Ferro** (gustavo_ferro01@yahoo.com.br), Univ. of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada

11:15 **4071** A revision of the Australian species of *Howickia* (Diptera: Sphaeroceridae). **Hailey Ashbee** (hashbee@uoguelph.ca)¹ and Stephen A. Marshall², ¹Univ. of Guelph, Fenwick, ON, Canada, ²Univ. of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada

11:30 **4072** The mega diverse, minute Diptera: A revision of the New World genus *Bromeloecia* (Sphaeroceridae, Limosininae). **Tiffany Yau** (tyau@alumni.uoguelph.ca) and Stephen Marshall, Univ. of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada

11:45 **4073** A mitogenomic perspective on calyptrate phylogeny. **Liping Yan** (yanlp523@qq.com)¹, Kai Li¹, Thomas Pape², and Dong Zhang¹, ¹Beijing Forestry Univ., Beijing, China, ²Natural History Museum, Copenhagen, Denmark

12:00 **4074** Morphology of *Gasterophilus* (Diptera: Oestridae) larvae: Evolutionary trends, homology and phylogenetic implications. **Xin-yu Li** (lixinyubjfu@bjfu.edu.cn)¹, Liping Yan¹, Kai Li¹, Thomas Pape², and Dong Zhang¹, ¹Beijing Forestry Univ., Beijing, China, ²Natural History Museum, Copenhagen, Denmark

12:15 **4075** Phylogenetical insights on the evolution of stomach bot flies (Oestridae: *Gasterophilus*). **Dong Zhang** (ernest8445@163.com)¹, Liping Yan¹, Xin-yu Li¹, Kai Li¹, and Thomas Pape², ¹Beijing Forestry Univ., Beijing, China, ²Natural History Museum, Copenhagen, Denmark

12:30 **4076** A phylogenetic framework for the tachinid fly tribe Blondeliini (Diptera: Tachinidae: Exoristinae). **Z. L. Burington** (keroplatus@gmail.com) and John Stireman III, Wright State Univ., Dayton, OH

Contributed Papers: Morphology, Systematics, and Phylogeny: Hemiptera

Room W225 A (Convention Center)

**Moderators:** Adam Wallner¹ and Christopher Owen², ¹USDA - APHIS, Miami, FL, ²The George Washington Univ., Ashburn, VA

9:15 **4077** Morphology of thoracic muscles in Hemiptera and its significance in uncovering evolution of jumping behavior. **Naoki Ogawa** (ogawa222@res.agr.hokudai.ac.jp) and Kazunori Yoshizawa, Hokkaido Univ., Sapporo, Japan

9:30 **4078** Revision of the taxonomic status of *Aphis floridanae* Tissot (Hemiptera: Aphididae). **Doris Lagos-Kutz** (dlagos@illinois.edu)¹, Susan Halbert², David Voegtlin¹, and Glen L. Hartman³, ¹Univ. of Illinois, Champaign, IL, ²Florida Dept. of Agriculture and Consumer Services, Gainesville, FL, ³National Soybean Research Center, Urbana, IL

9:45 **4079** Chromosomal variation and cryptic species in the *Apiomorpha minor* species complex. **Penelope Mills** (penelope.mills@uqconnect.edu.au) and Lyn Cook, Univ. of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia

10:00 **4080** Systematics, biogeography, and host-plant relationships of the Neotropical jumping plant-louse genus *Russelliana* (Hemiptera: Psylloidea). **Liliya Serbina** (liliya_serbina@mail.ru)¹,² and Daniel Burckhardt¹, ¹Natural History Museum, Basel, Switzerland, ²Univ. of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

10:15 **BREAK**

10:30 **4081** Phylogenomic estimate of the Cicadidae (Hemiptera: Cicadoidea): Identifying contaminated/ paralogous locus copies and exploring the utility of Hemiptera and cicada 1:1 ortholog sets in pest Hemiptera lineages. **Christopher Owen** (christopherlowen@yahoo.com)¹, David C. Marshall², Katherine B. R. Hill², Elizabeth Wade², Geert Goemans², Alan Lemmon³, Emily Lemmon³, and Chris Simon², ¹The George Washington Univ., Ashburn, VA, ²Univ. of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, ³Florida State Univ., Tallahassee, FL

10:45 **4082** A phylogenetic investigation of the spittlebug superfamily Cercopoidea (Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha). **Adam J. Bell** (ajbell7@gmail.com)¹ and Jason Cryan², ¹State Univ. of New York, Albany, NY, ²North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences, Raleigh, NC

11:00 **4083** Morphological utility of the female gonapophysis in Delphacidae (Hemiptera: Delphacidae) taxonomy. **Adam Wallner** (adam.m.wallner@aphis.usda.gov)¹ and Charles Bartlett², ¹USDA - APHIS, Miami, FL, ²Univ. of Delaware, Newark, DE

11:15 **4084** Establishing a DNA metabarcoding approach to determine diet profiles of assassin bugs (Heteroptera: Reduviidae). **Wei Song Hwang** (nhmhws@nus.edu.sg) and Rudolf Meier, National Univ. of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore

11:30 **4085** Pollinator predators exposed: Using molecules and morphometrics to delimit species boundaries of ambush bugs (Hemiptera: Reduviidae). **Paul Masonick** (pmaso001@ucr.edu) and Christiane Weirauch, Univ. of California, Riverside, CA
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11:45 **4086** Know your enemy: A comprehensive study of macadamia lace bugs (Tingidae: *Ulonemia* spp.). **Ryan Shofner** (r.shofner@unsw.edu.au), Gerry Cassis, and William Sherwin, Univ. of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

12:00 **4087** The Tingidae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) of Costa Rica. **Alex Knudson** (alexander.knudson.2@ndsu.edu), David Rider, and Janet Knodel, North Dakota State Univ., Fargo, ND

Contributed Papers: Morphology, Systematics, and Phylogeny: Parasitoid Wasps and Trichoptera

Room W230 D (Convention Center)

**Moderators:** Jason Mottern¹ and Austin Baker², ¹USDA - ARS, Washington, DC, ²Univ. of California, Riverside, CA

9:15 **4088** Hymenoptera, taxonomy, and the integument. **István Mikó** (istvan.miko@gmail.com), Heather M. Hines, and Andrew Deans, Pennsylvania State Univ., University Park, PA

9:30 **4089** How many species of Pteromalidae (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea) exist in North- and Central-Europe? **Michael Haas** (michael.haas@smns-bw.de)¹, Carlos Monje¹, Hannes Baur², Dave Karlsson³, Johannes Steidle⁴, and Lars Krogmann¹, ¹State Museum of Natural History, Stuttgart, Germany, ²Natural History Museum of Civil Society, Bern, Switzerland, ³Station Linné, Öland, Sweden, ⁴Univ. of Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Germany

9:45 **4090** Preliminary results on the taxonomy and molecular phylogenetics of *Oobius* (Hymenoptera: Encyrtdae), parasitoids of wood-boring Coleoptera. **Jason Mottern** (jason.mottern@ars.usda.gov) and Michael Gates, USDA - ARS, Washington, DC

10:00 **4091** Phylogenetics of ant parasitoids in the subfamily Oraseminae (Hymenoptera: Eucharitidae). **Austin Baker** (bakerau73@gmail.com) and John M. Heraty, Univ. of California, Riverside, CA

10:15 **BREAK**

10:30 **4092** Solving the *Habrobracon hebetor* species complex. **Rebecca Kittel** (rebecca.n.kittel@gmail.com) and Kaoru Maeto, Kobe Univ., Kobe, Japan

10:45 **4093** The European species of *Eupelmus* (*Macroneura*) (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea: Eupelmidae): An integrative taxonomic approach. **Lucian Fusu** (lucfusu@hotmail.com), Alexandru Ioan Cuza Univ., Iasi, Romania

11:00 **4094** Evolutionary history of the Podagrionini, parasitoids of praying mantises. **Petr Janšta** (janstapetr@gmail.com)¹ and Gérard Delvare², ¹Charles Univ., Prague, Czech Republic, ²CIRAD, Montpellier, France

11:15 **4095** Comparative head anatomy of larval caddisflies with implications on the phylogeny of Trichoptera. **Frank Friedrich** (frank.friedrich@uni-hamburg.de), Univ. of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

Contributed Papers: RNAi and Gene Expression Control in Insects: Interactions

Room W315 B (Convention Center)

**Moderators:** Joe Hull¹ and Jornt Spit², ¹USDA - ARS, Maricopa, AZ, ²Syngenta Ghent Innovation Center, Zwijnaarde, Belgium

9:15 **4096** Uptake and degradation of dsRNA in the gut lumen of insects in relation to environmental RNAi efficiency. **Jornt Spit** (jornt.spit@bio.kuleuven.be)¹,², Annelies Philips², Niels Wynant¹, and Jozef Vanden Broeck¹, ¹Catholic Univ., Leuven, Belgium, ²Syngenta Ghent Innovation Center, Zwijnaarde, Belgium

9:30 **4097** The spookiest phenotype: RNAi-mediated knockdown of Halloween genes in the western tarnished plant bug, *Lygus hesperus*. **Joe Hull** (joe.hull@ars.usda.gov)¹, Evelien Van Ekert¹, Meixian Wang², Yun-Gen Miao², and Colin Brent¹, ¹USDA - ARS, Maricopa, AZ, ²Zhejiang Univ., Hangzhou, China

9:45 **4098** A transcription factor FOXG1 controls twin-spot markings on caterpillars. **Nozomi Uemura** (uemuranoz@ib.k.u-tokyo.ac.jp), Junichi Yamaguchi, and Haruhiko Fujiwara, The Univ. of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Japan

10:00 **4099** RNAi knockdown of red flour beetle, *Tribolium castaneum*, odorant binding proteins result in altered electrophysiological responses. **Karthi Balakrishnan** (karthimrgn@gmail.com), Stefan Dippel, Ernst A. Wimmer, and Stefan Schütz, Georg August Univ., Göttingen, Germany

10:15 **BREAK**

10:30 **4100** RNA interference by soaking in the two spotted spider mite, *Tetranychus urticae*. **Takeshi Suzuki** (tszk@cc.tuat.ac.jp)¹, Maria Urizarna², Maria Nunes², Vojislava Grbic², and Miodrag Grbic², ¹Tokyo Univ. of Agriculture and Technology, Tokyo, Japan, ²Univ. of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada

10:45 **4101** Using RNA interference to block egg development in *Lygus hesperus* Knight (Hemiptera: Miridae). **Evelien Van Ekert** (evelien.vanekert@ars.usda.gov), Joe Hull, Colin Brent, and Jeff Fabrick, USDA - ARS, Maricopa, AZ

11:00 **4102** Sex-sorting and sterilization of male Asian tiger mosquitoes (*Aedes albopictus*) using RNA interference. **David Giesbrecht** (d.gies@ymail.com), Alison Tayler, David Boguski, and Steve Whyard, Univ. of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada

11:15 **4103** RNAi-based interactions: Persistent and acute viral infections in lepidopteran cell lines. **Dulce Santos** (dulce.cordeirodossantos@bio.kuleuven.be)¹, Niels Wynant¹, Lina Mingels¹, Luc Swevers², and Jozef Vanden Broeck¹, ¹Catholic Univ., Leuven, Belgium, ²Institute of Biosciences & Applications, Athens, Greece
Contributed Papers: Stored Products Entomology:
Novel Strategies II

Room W331 C (Convention Center)

**Moderators:** Sharon Dobesh¹, Dylan McFarlane², and Hongjian Ding³, ¹Kansas State Univ., Manhattan, KS, ²Univ. of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia, ³U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Jefferson, AR

9:15 **4104** Developing an intelligent recognition system for storage pest fragments contaminating food products. **Hongjian Ding** (hongjian.ding@fda.hhs.gov)¹, Joshua Xu¹, Howard Semey¹, Himansu Vyas¹, Darryl Langley¹, Amy Barnes¹, Monica Pava-Ripoll², and Weida Tong¹, ¹U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Jefferson, AR, ²U.S. Food and Drug Administration, College Park, MD

9:30 **4105** Comparative evaluation of four Nigeria-derived diatomaceous earths and a commercial DE Insecto® against *Callosobruchus maculatus* F. (Coleoptera: Bruchidae) on two varieties of stored cowpea in Nigeria. *Egobude Okonkwo* (egoulu@yahoo.com), Olufemi Peters, Samuel Nwaubani, Grace O. Otitodun, Moses Ogundare, Grace Abel, Michael Omodara, Adaora N. Osegbo, Oluwatoyin Atibioke, and Oluswaseun D. Olagunju, Nigerian Stored Products Research Institute, Ilorin, Nigeria

9:45 **4106** Understanding the effects of PICS bags in reducing PHL in maize storage in Nigeria. **Bamikole Ayedun** (b.ayedun@cgiar.org)¹, Tahirou Abdoulaye¹, and Dieudonne Baributsa², ¹International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, Ibadan, Nigeria, ²Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN

10:00 **4107** Effects of air plant (*Bryophyllum pinnatum*) on bean weevil (*Acanthoscelides obectus*). *Love Allison* (lovealldy@yahoo.com)¹ and Alex Allison¹,²,³, ¹Federal Univ. of Technology, Owerri, Nigeria, ²Imo State Univ., Owerri, Nigeria, ³Nkiru Kamalu, Owerri, Nigeria

10:15 **BREAK**

10:30 **4108** Effect of different insect growth regulators for their anti-insect activity against the larvae of *Tribolium castaneum* (Herbst) and *Trogoderma granarium* (Everts). *Mansoor ul Hasan* (mansorsahi2000@yahoo.com)¹, Qurban Ali¹, Muhammad Sagheer¹, Imran Faraz¹, and Shahzad Saleem², ¹Univ. of Agriculture, Faisalabad, Pakistan, ²COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Sahiwal, Pakistan

10:45 **4109** The role of fungi and their associated volatiles in the ecology of *Tribolium castaneum*. *Dylan McFarlane* (dylan.mcfarlane@uqconnect.edu.au), Univ. of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia

11:00 **4110** Bait trap attractiveness to warehouse beetle (*Trogoderma variabile*) and larger cabinet beetle (*Trogoderma inclusum*) using commercially available traps. **Sharon Dobesh** (sdobesh@ksu.edu)¹, Frank Arthur², James Campbell², and R. Jeff Whitworth¹, ¹Kansas State Univ., Manhattan, KS, ²USDA - ARS, Manhattan, KS

11:15 **4111** A new point mutation in the gene coding for strong phosphine resistance in *Tribolium castaneum* (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae). **Zhaorigetu Chen** (jorigtoo@k-state.edu)¹, Hongbo Jiang¹, David Schlipalius²,

Yoonseong Park¹, Raul Narciso Guedes³, Brenda Oppert⁴, George Opit⁵, and Thomas Phillips¹, ¹Kansas State Univ., Manhattan, KS, ²Agri-Science Queensland, Brisbane, Australia, ³Federal Univ. of Vicosa, Viçosa, Brazil, ⁴USDA - ARS, Manhattan, KS, ⁵Oklahoma State Univ., Stillwater, OK

11:30 **4112** Phosphine resistance in *Oryzaephilus surinamensis* (L.) from almond storage and processing facilities in California. **Sandipa G. Gautam** (sandipa.gautam@okstate.edu), George Opit, and Kandara Shakya, Oklahoma State Univ., Stillwater, OK

11:45 **4113** Detection, identification, and quantification of insect infestation in stored products using PCR approaches. **Mireia Solà** (mireia.sola.cassi@gmail.com)¹, Nuria Agusti¹, Jonathan Lundgren², and Jordi Riudavets³, ¹IRTA, Cabril, Spain, ²USDA - ARS, Brookings, SD, ³IRTA, Barcelona, Spain

Contributed Papers: Urban Entomology in a
Changing Environment: Termites and Ants

West Hall F1 (WF1) (Convention Center)

**Moderators:** Joe DeMark¹ and Rou-Ling Yang², ¹Dow AgroSciences, Fayetteville, AR, ²National Palace Museum, Taipei, Taiwan

9:15 **4114** Survey and control of termites in National Palace Museum. **Rou-Ling Yang** (rlyang@npm.gov.tw), National Palace Museum, Taipei, Taiwan

9:30 **4115** Presentation withdrawn

9:45 **4116** Entomotoxicant potential of *Croton penduliflorous* extract in the control of subterranean termites, *Macrotermes subhyalinus*. *Adenike Adeyemo* (acadeyemo@futa.edu.ng), Olaniyi Ogungbite, Funmilola Arogundade, Taiwo Bamigboye, and Caleb Faboye, Federal Univ. of Technology, Akure, Nigeria

10:00 **4117** Evaluation of efficacy of synthetic resins on woods against subterranean termites. **Sohail Ahmed** (saha786_pk@yahoo.com), Univ. of Agriculture, Faisalabad, Pakistan

10:15 **BREAK**

10:30 **4118** An investigation of the factors influencing the colony structure of the eastern subterranean termite, *Reticulitermes flavipes*. *Carlos Aguero* (cague001@tamu.edu)¹, Tawni L. Crippen², Jason Martin³, Mark S. Bulmer³, and Edward Vargo¹, ¹Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX, ²USDA - ARS, College Station, TX, ³Towson Univ., Towson, MD

10:45 **4119** Area-wide treatment of Formosan subterranean termites at Jackson Barracks, New Orleans, LA. **Carrie Cottone** (cbcottone@nola.gov) and Claudia Riegel, City of New Orleans Mosquito, Termite & Rodent Control Board, New Orleans, LA

11:00 **4120** Totality™ wood treatment: A summary of pre-construction termite treatment success in the field. **Dina Richman** (dina.richman@fmc.com)¹ and Brian Mount², ¹FMC Corporation, Philadelphia, PA, ²FMC Corporation, Bradenton, FL
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11:15 **4121** Sentricon® System Recruit® AG FlexPack new bait matrix lab and field trials. **Joe DeMark** (jjdemark@dow.com)¹ and Neil Spomer², ¹Dow AgroSciences, Fayetteville, AR, ²Dow AgroSciences, Indianapolis, IN

11:30 **4122** Termidor® H-E High-Efficiency Termiticide: Market introduction and benefits. **Freder Medina** (fred-er.medina@basf.com)¹, Robert Davis², Robert Hickman³, Thomas Nishimura⁴, Jason Meyers⁵, Kyle Jordan⁶, and Joseph Schuh⁶, ¹BASF, Phoenix, AZ, ²BASF, Pfluger-ville, TX, ³BASF, Maitland, FL, ⁴BASF, Raleigh, NC, ⁵BASF, Kansas City, MO, ⁶BASF, Research Triangle Park, NC

11:45 **4123** Effects of resorcinol, a phenol characterized from heartwood extractives of white mulberry (*Morus alba*) against *Reticulitermes flavipes* (Isoptera: Rhino-termitidae). **Mark E. Mankowski** (markemankowski@fs.fed.us)¹, Babar Hassan², and Grant Kirker³, ¹USDA - Forest Service, Starkville, MS, ²Univ. of Agriculture, Faisalabad, Pakistan, ³USDA - Forest Service, Madison, WI

12:00 **4124** How do red imported fire ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) feed on sugar water? **Cai Wang** (wangcai@scau.edu.cn)¹, Xuan Chen², Xiujun Wen¹, and Tao Ma¹, ¹South China Agricultural Univ., Guangzhou, China, ²Louisiana State Univ., Baton Rouge, LA

2:45 **4129** Status of insecticide resistance and virulence to resistant rice varieties in the brown planthopper in Asia. **Masaya Matsumura** (mmasa@affrc.go.jp)¹ and Hideshi Yasui², ¹NARO Kyushu Okinawa Agricultural Research Center, Kumamoto, Japan, ²Kyushu Univ., Fukuoka, Japan

3:00 **BREAK**

3:15 **4130** New IPM tactics and tools for management of key invertebrate pests in Californian rice. **Larry Godfrey** (ldgodfrey@ucdavis.edu)¹, Luis Espino², Mohammad-Amir Aghaee¹, Joanna Bloese¹, and Kevin Goding¹, ¹Univ. of California, Davis, CA, ²Univ. of California Cooperative Extension, Colusa, CA

3:30 **4131** Developing economic thresholds for stink bugs in rice – problems and prospects. **José Barrigossi** (jose.barrigossi@embrapa.br)¹, Daniel Caixeta², and Tavvs Alves³, ¹Embrapa Rice and Beans, Santo António de Goiás, Brazil, ²Uni-Evangélica, Goianésia, Brazil, ³Univ. of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN

3:45 **4132** Influence of water conservation practices on pest management in Australian rice. **Mark Stevens** (mark.stevens@dpi.nsw.gov.au), New South Wales Dept. of Primary Industries, Yanco, Australia

4:00 **4133** Identification of novel fecundity-related genes and molecular markers in the brown planthopper, *Nilaparvata lugens*. **Wenqing Zhang** (Isszwq@mail.sysu.edu.cn), Zhongxiang Sun, Jieqi Qiu, Tengchao Li, and Rui Pang, Sun Yat-sen Univ., Guangzhou, China

4:15 **4134** The predicted response of *Scirpophaga incertulas* Walker (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae) to climate change and its implications for rice production in Bangladesh. **Panna Ali** (panna_ali@yahoo.com), Bangladesh Rice Research Institute, Gazipur, Bangladesh

Friday, September 30, 2016 • Afternoon

**Symposium: Global Challenges in Rice Pest Management**

Room W230 C (Convention Center)

**Moderators and Organizers:** Mark Stevens¹ and Larry Godfrey², ¹New South Wales Dept. of Primary Industries, Yanco, Australia, ²Univ. of California, Davis, CA

1:30 **4125** Advances in the management of insect pests in rice. **Michael Stout** (mstout@agcenter.lsu.edu), Louisiana State Univ. AgCenter, Baton Rouge, LA

2:00 **4126** Ecological engineering for insect pest management in rice — results from the Yangtze River Delta Plain. **Ping Qian** (pq2009@zju.edu.cn)¹, Hang Yu¹, Gui-Yao Wang¹, Fei-Qiang Li¹, Zi-Jie Zhu¹, Ye Tan¹, Xiao-Xiao Shi¹, Xin Yuan¹, Guang-Hua Wang¹, Xue-Qin Wang¹, Yue Chen², Jian-Liang Zhang², Yan-Dong Jiang¹, Qin-Zi Zhu¹, Yue-Liang Bai¹, Wen-Juan Jiao¹, Mu-Fei Zhu¹, Jing Ye¹, Yi Ma¹, Nan-Nan Wang¹, Kong Luen Heong¹, Jiaan Cheng¹, and Zeng-Rong Zhu¹, ¹Zhejiang Univ., Hangzhou, China, ²Jiaxing Agricultural Development Investment Limited Company, Jiaxing, China

2:15 **4127** Incursions of exotic pests into European rice areas — detection and management. **Daniela Lupi** (daniela.lupi@unimi.it)¹ and François-Régis Goebel², ¹Univ. of Milan, Milan, Italy, ²CIRAD, Montpellier, France

2:30 **4128** New approaches to midge management in temperate direct-seeded rice. **Maria del Mar Català Forner** (mar.catala@irta.cat), IRTA, Amposta, Spain

**Symposium: Technological Innovations and Integrated Pest Management**

Room W331 B (Convention Center)

**Moderators and Organizers:** Grzegorz Krawczyk¹ and Waqas Wakil², ¹Pennsylvania State Univ., Biglerville, PA, ²Univ. of Agriculture, Faisalabad, Pakistan

1:30 **4135** New technologies in delivery of mating disruption products. **Larry Gut** (gut@msu.edu), Michigan State Univ., East Lansing, MI

1:45 **4136** Fixed spraying systems for improved pesticide application in fruit planting. **Arthur Agnello** (ama4@cornell.edu), Cornell Univ., Geneva, NY

2:00 **4137** Sampling of *Bemisia tabaci* adults using a pre-programmed autonomous pest control robot. **Chunlei Xia** (c.xia2009@gmail.com)¹, Bu-Keun Chung², Jang-Myung Lee³, Yan Li³, and Tae-Soo Chon³, ¹Chinese Academy of Sciences, Yantai, China, ²Gyeongsangnam-Do Agricultural Research and Extension Services, Jinju, South Korea, ³Pusan National Univ., Busan, South Korea

2:15 **4138** Automated traps and Cloud-based pest management. **Greg Krawczyk** (gxk13@psu.edu)¹, Brian Lehman¹, Larry A. Hull¹, and Johnny Park², ¹Pennsylvania State Univ., Biglerville, PA, ²Spensa Technologies, Inc., West Lafayette, IN
2:30 **4139** Mass trapping and attract-and-kill to control medfly (*Ceratitis capitata* Wied.) for low-zero residues in apples. **Lucia-Adriana Escudero-Colomar** (adriana.escudero@irta.cat)¹, **Mariano Vilajeliu**¹, **Esther Penarrubia-Maria**¹, and **Lluis Batllori**², ¹IRTA Mas Badia, Girona, Spain, ²DAAM Aiguamolls de l'Empordà, Girona, Spain

2:45 **4140** Mass trapping and new toxic bait formulations for fruit fly management. **Marcos Botton** (marcos.botton@embrapa.br), Embrapa Grape and Wine, Bento Goncalves, Brazil

3:00 **BREAK**

3:15 **4141** Trunk injection technology for pesticide delivery in apples. **Charles Coslor** (coslorch@msu.edu), Christine Vandervoort, and John Wise, Michigan State Univ., East Lansing, MI

3:30 **4142** Field efficacy and economics of insect-pathogens and jasmonic acid against *Helicoverpa armigera* Hübner (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae): Impact on natural enemies. **Waqas Wakil** (waqaswakeel@hotmail.com), Univ. of Agriculture, Faisalabad, Pakistan

3:45 **4143** Interactions of Bt cotton, entomopathogenic fungi, and temperature variations on the life parameters of *Heliothis virescens* (Fabricius) (Insecta: Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) under laboratory conditions. **M. Usman Ghazanfar** (usmanghazanfar1073@yahoo.com), Univ. of Sargodha, Sargodha, Pakistan

Symposium: Harnessing the Power of Genomics
Tools: Monitoring Stressors in Pollinator
Populations

Room W315 A (Convention Center)

**Moderators and Organizers:** Christina M. Grozinger¹ and Robert Paxton², ¹Pennsylvania State Univ., University Park, PA, ²Martin Luther Univ., Halle, Germany

1:30 **4144** The influence of the ectoparasite *Varroa* on the transmission and population of deformed wing virus in honey bees. **David Evans** (d.j-evans@st-andrews.ac.uk)¹, **James Bull**², **Nick Burroughs**², **David Chandler**³, **Jess Fannon**², **Adite Kibe**², **Andrew Mead**², **Chris Moffat**¹, **Jonathan Moore**², **Eugene Ryabov**², and **Graham Wood**², ¹Univ. of St. Andrews, St. Andrews, United Kingdom, ²Univ. of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom, ³Univ. of Warwick, Warwick, United Kingdom

1:45 **4145** More than a common cold: An emerging virus genotype causes elevated honey bee loss. **Dino McMahon** (dino.mcmahon@gmail.com)¹, **Myrsini Natsopoulou**², **Vincent Doublet**³, **Matthias Fürst**⁴, **Eva Frey**⁵, **Peter Rosenkranz**⁵, **Silvio Weging**³, **Mark Brown**⁶, **Andreas Gogol-Döring**³, and **Robert Paxton**², ¹Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing, Berlin, Germany, ²Martin Luther Univ., Halle, Germany, ³German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research, Leipzig, Germany, ⁴Institute of Science and Technology Austria, Klosterneuburg, Austria, ⁵Univ. of Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Germany, ⁶Royal Holloway, Univ. of London, Egham, United Kingdom

2:00 **4146** Using genome-derived tools to track and trace honey bee killer diseases. **Giles Budge** (giles.budge@newcastle.ac.uk)¹, **Victoria Tomkies**², **Mark Shirley**¹, **Barbara Morrissey**², **Mike Brown**³, and **Edward Haynes**², ¹Newcastle Univ., Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom, ²Fera Science, Ltd., York, United Kingdom, ³Animal and Plant Health Agency, York, United Kingdom

2:15 **4147** Integrative and comparative genome analyses of the honey bee microsporidia parasites, *Nosema ceranae* and *N. apis*: Toward RNAi-mediated nosema disease control. **Yanping Chen** (judy.chen@ars.usda.gov), Wenfeng Li, Jiang Huang, and Jay Evans, USDA - ARS, Beltsville, MD

2:30 **4148** Global patterns of genetic variation of *Nosema* in bumble bees at different genomic scales. **Sydney A. Cameron** (scameron@life.illinois.edu)¹, **Jeffrey D. Lozier**², **Haw Lim**³, **Michelle Duennes**¹, and **Robbin W. Thorp**⁴, ¹Univ. of Illinois, Champaign, IL, ²Univ. of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL, ³Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History, Washington, DC, ⁴Univ. of California, Davis, CA

2:45 **4149** Worldwide patterns of genetic variation in the honey bee, *Apis mellifera*. **Matthew Webster** (matthew.webster@imbim.uu.se)¹, **Andreas Wallberg**¹, **Mike Allsopp**², and **Christian Pirk**³, ¹Uppsala Univ., Uppsala, Sweden, ²Agricultural Research Council, Stellenbosch, South Africa, ³Univ. of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa

3:00 **BREAK**

3:15 **4150** Harnessing natural variation to study local adaptation in native pollinators. **Sarah D. Kocher** (skocher@gmail.com), Harvard Univ., Cambridge, MA

3:30 **4151** The honey bee gut symbiont *Frischella perrara*: Friend or foe? **Philipp Engel** (philipp.engel@unil.ch), Univ. of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

3:45 **4152** New insights into the microbial world of bees and the pollination environment. **Quinn McFrederick** (quinn.mcfrederick@ucr.edu), Univ. of California, Riverside, CA

Symposium: Integrated Crop Pollination in
Theory and Practice

Room W414 C (Convention Center)

**Moderators and Organizers:** Jason Gibbs¹, Cory Stanley-Stahr², and Rufus Isaacs¹, ¹Michigan State Univ., East Lansing, MI, ²Wildlife International, Gainesville, FL

1:30 **4153** Pollination of European crops — lessons learned across boundaries. **Simon Potts**, **Michael Garratt**, and **Tom Breeze** (t.d.breeze@reading.ac.uk), Univ. of Reading, Reading, United Kingdom

2:00 **4154** Factors affecting pollinator diversity and yield in highbush blueberry. **Jason Gibbs** (jgibbs@msu.edu)¹, **Elizabeth Elle**², **George Hoffman**³, **Sujaya Rao**³, and **Cory Stanley-Stahr**⁴, ¹Michigan State Univ., East Lansing, MI, ²Simon Fraser Univ., Burnaby, BC, Canada, ³Oregon State Univ., Corvallis, OR, ⁴Univ. of Florida, Gainesville, FL
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2:15 **4155** The economic contributions of wild bees to specialty crops. **James Reilly** (jreilly45@gmail.com) and Rachael Winfree, Rutgers, The State Univ. of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ

2:30 **4156** Habitat enhancements to support pollinator diversity and pollination service in agricultural lands. **Neal M. Williams** (nmwilliams@ucdavis.edu)¹, Kimiora Ward¹, Rufus Isaacs², Ola Lundin¹, Jason Gibbs², Julianna Wilson², Cory Stanley-Stahr³, Shelby J. Fleischer⁴, and Julia Brokaw². ¹Univ. of California, Davis, CA, ²Michigan State Univ., East Lansing, MI, ³Univ. of Florida, Gainesville, FL, ⁴Pennsylvania State Univ., University Park, PA

2:45 **4157** The challenge of sustainable pollination of Florida watermelons. **Cory Stanley-Stahr** (cstanley-stahr@eag.com)¹, James D. Ellis², and Jaret C. Daniels². ¹Wildlife International, Gainesville, FL, ²Univ. of Florida, Gainesville, FL

3:00 **BREAK**

3:15 **4158** The impact and sustainability of blue orchard bees as almond pollinators. **Derek R. Artz** (derek.artz@ars.usda.gov)¹, Theresa Pitts-Singer¹, and Natalie Boyle². ¹USDA - ARS, Logan, UT, ²Washington State Univ., Prosser, WA

3:30 **4159** Communicating management strategies that support crop pollinators. **Katharina Ullmann** (katharina@xerces.org)¹, Emily May¹, Jennifer L. Hopwood², and Mace Vaughan¹. ¹The Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation, Portland, OR, ²Univ. of Kansas, Lawrence, KS

3:45 **4160** Knowledge networks for managing pollinators and pollination services in agriculture. **Kelly Garbach** (kgarbach@uc.edu)¹, Geoffrey Morgan², Arvin Balderama¹, Emma Zajdela¹, and Victoria Reese¹. ¹Loyola Univ., Chicago, IL, ²Carnegie Mellon Univ., Pittsburgh, PA

4:00 **4161** Spatial modeling of pollinators to support farm management decisions. **Eric Lonsdorf** (eric.lonsdorf@fandm.edu)¹, Taylor Ricketts², Insu Koh², Claire Brittain³, Neal M. Williams³, Claire Kremen⁴, and Rufus Isaacs⁵. ¹Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster, PA, ²Univ. of Vermont, Burlington, VT, ³Univ. of California, Davis, CA, ⁴Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA, ⁵Michigan State Univ., East Lansing, MI

4:15 **4162** The future of Integrated Crop Pollination. **Rufus Isaacs** (isaacsr@msu.edu) and Jason Gibbs, Michigan State Univ., East Lansing, MI

Symposium: Interactions Between Pollination Services and Agricultural Practices

Room W414 B (Convention Center)

**Moderator and Organizer:** Decio Gazzoni, Embrapa, Londrina, Brazil

1:30 **4163** An overview of the pollination services. **Decio Gazzoni** (decio.gazzoni@embrapa.br), Embrapa, Londrina, Brazil

1:45 **4164** Economic importance of the pollination services. **Nicola Gallai** (nicola.gallai@educagri.fr), Univ. of Toulouse, Castanet-Tolosan, France

2:00 **4165** The importance of pollinator diversity for crop production. **Michael Garratt** (m.p.garratt@reading.ac.uk), Univ. of Reading, Reading, United Kingdom

2:15 **4166** Impact of habitat reduction and simplification on pollination services. **Stephen D. Wratten** (wrattens@lincoln.ac.nz), Lincoln Univ., Christchurch, New Zealand

2:30 **4167** Threats to pollinators from parasites and pathogens. **Qiang Huang** (qiang-huang@live.com), USDA - ARS, Beltsville, MD

2:45 **4168** The impact of the global climate changes and the pollination. **Vera Lúcia Fonseca¹** and **Blande Viana** (blande.viana@gmail.com)², ¹Univ. of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil, ²Federal Univ. of Bahia, Salvador, Brazil

3:00 **BREAK**

3:15 **4169** Impacts of introduced pollinators on agriculture. **Marcelo Aizen** (marcelo.aizen@gmail.com), National Univ. of Comahue, San Carlos de Bariloche, Argentina

3:30 **4170** Honey bee colony losses and declines. **Nathalie Steinhauer** (nathalie.steinhauer@gmail.com), Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD

3:45 **4171** Nutrition, transportation, and other stressors on bees providing commercial pollination services. **Ramesh Sagili** (ramesh.sagili@oregonstate.edu), Oregon State Univ., Corvallis, OR

4:00 **4172** Crop management friendly to pollinators. **Barbara Herren** (barbara.herren@fao.org), Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Nairobi, Kenya

4:15 **4173** Acute impact of insecticides to pollinators. **Jens Pistorius** (jens.pistorius@jki.bund.de), Julius Kühn Institute, Braunschweig, Germany

4:30 **4174** A close look into the future of global agriculture – an eye on pollination services. **Manfred Kern** (info@agriexcellence.de), Agriexcellence Gmbh, Lörzweiler, Germany

4:45 **Discussion and wrap up**

Symposium: Regulation of Honey Bee Polyethism: Clock, Neuroendocrine System, and Environmental Toxicants

Room W315 B (Convention Center)

**Moderators and Organizers:** Makio Takeda¹ and Darrell Moore², ¹Kobe Univ., Kobe, Japan, ²East Tennessee State Univ., Johnson City, TN

1:30 **4175** The interplay between social organization and circadian rhythms in bees. **Guy Bloch** (guy.bloch@mail.huji.ac.il), The Hebrew Univ., Jerusalem, Israel

2:00 **4176** Environmental and experiential influences on expression of time-memory behavior in honey bee foragers. **Darrell Moore** (moored@mail.etsu.edu), East Tennessee State Univ., Johnson City, TN

2:15 **4177** The role of temperature on the development and regulation of circadian rhythms in honey bees. **Jose Agosto** (jose.agosto1@upr.edu), Univ. of Puerto Rico, San Juan, PR