9:45 **1332** Mutation and duplication of arthropod acetylcholinesterase: Insights into pesticide resistance and tolerance. **Si Hyeock Lee** (shlee22@snu.ac.kr), Seoul National Univ., Seoul, South Korea

10:00 **1333** nAChR mutations involved in insecticide resistance. **Thomas C. Sparks** (tcsparks@dow.com), Nick Wang, Gerald B. Watson, and Michael R. Loso, Dow AgroSciences, Indianapolis, IN

10:15 **BREAK**

10:30 **1334** Multiple mechanisms for changing a target site. **Jeffrey G. Scott** (jgs5@cornell.edu)¹, Haina Sun¹,², Khanh Tong¹, and Shinji Kasai³, ¹Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY, ²Nanjing Agricultural Univ., Nanjing, China, ³National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo, Japan

10:45 **1335** Mechanisms of diamide insecticide resistance with special reference to ryanodine receptor target-site mutations. **Ralf Nauen** (ralf.nauen@bayer.com)¹, Denise Steinbach², Daniela Okuma³, Oliver Gutbrod¹, Chris Bass⁴, Emyr Davies⁵, Bartek Troczka⁵, Martin Williamson⁵, Emmanouil Roditakis⁶, Anastasia Tsagkarakou⁶, and John Vontas⁷, ¹Bayer CropScience, Monheim, Germany, ²Martin Luther Univ., Halle, Germany, ³Univ. of São Paulo, Piracicaba, Brazil, ⁴Univ. of Exeter, Penryn, United Kingdom, ⁵Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, United Kingdom, ⁶Hellenic Agricultural Organisation, Heraklion, Greece, ⁷Univ. of Crete, Heraklion, Greece

11:00 **1336** Mutations in chitin synthase-1 (CHS-1) confer resistance to a range of structurally diverse acaricides and insecticides. **Thomas Van Leeuwen** (thomas.vanleeuwen@ugent.be)¹,² and Richard Clark³, ¹Ghent Univ., Ghent, Belgium, ²Univ. of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands, ³Univ. of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT

11:15 **1337** Metabolic resistance to natural and synthetic xenobiotics in the aphid *M. persicae*. **Chris Bass** (c.bass@exeter.ac.uk)¹, Christoph Zimmer¹, Bartek Troczka², Kumar Singh¹, Leonela Carabajal Paladino³, Petr Nguyen⁴, Frantisek Marec³, Martin Williamson², and Ralf Nauen⁵, ¹Univ. of Exeter, Penryn, United Kingdom, ²Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, United Kingdom, ³Czech Academy of Sciences, České Budějovice, Czech Republic, ⁴Univ. of South Bohemia, České Budějovice, Czech Republic, ⁵Bayer CropScience, Monheim, Germany

11:30 **1338** Evaluation of candidate insecticide resistance-associated genes and mutations via ectopic expression and CRISPR/Cas9-mediated genome modification in *Drosophila*. **John Vontas** (vontas@imbb.forth.gr)¹,², Rafaela Panteleri³, Iason Christou⁴, Athanasia Zampouka⁴, Stella Kounadi⁴, Maria Riga⁴, Yiannis Livadaras⁵, Thomas Van Leeuwen⁶, Ralf Nauen⁷, and Douris Vasalis⁵, ¹FORTH Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, Heraklio, Greece, ²Agricultural Univ. of Athens, Athens, Greece, ³Univ. of Crete, Heraklio, Greece, ⁴Univ. of Crete, Crete, Greece, ⁵National Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, Heraklion, Greece, ⁶Ghent Univ., Ghent, Belgium, ⁷Bayer CropScience, Monheim, Germany

11:45 **1339** Dissecting the molecular mechanisms of insecticide resistance in the brown planthopper, *Nilaparvata lugens*. **Christoph Zimmer** (c.zimmer@exeter.ac.uk)¹, William Garrood², Maxie Kohler³, Oliver Gutbrod³, Svend Matthiesen³, Emyr Davies², Ralf Nauen³, and Chris Bass¹, ¹Univ. of Exeter, Penryn, United Kingdom, ²Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, United Kingdom, ³Bayer CropScience, Monheim am Rhein, Germany

12:00 **1340** Understanding molecular mechanisms of resistance to promote future resistance management strategies in the western corn rootworm, *Diabrotica virgifera virgifera*. **Blair Siegfried** (bsiegfried1@ufl.edu)¹, Haichuan Wang², Hong Chen³, and Brad Coates⁴, ¹Univ. of Florida, Gainesville, FL, ²Univ. of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE, ³USDA - ARS, Lincoln, NE, ⁴USDA - ARS, Ames, IA

## Symposium: From Molecules to Management: New Tools for Understanding Locust Swarms across Species and Research Disciplines

### Room W331A (Convention Center)

**Moderators and Organizers:** Arianne Cease and Stephen Rogers, Arizona State Univ., Tempe, AZ

9:15 **1341** Mechanisms of phase change in the Australian plague locust, *Chortoicetes terminifera*. **Stephen Rogers** (stvrgrs0@gmail.com)¹, Stephen Simpson², and Andrew B. Barron³, ¹Arizona State Univ., Tempe, AZ, ²The Univ. of Sydney, Camperdown, Australia, ³Macquarie Univ., Sydney, Australia

9:30 **1342** Molecular mechanisms underlying olfactory plasticity during phase transition in the migratory locust, *Locusta migratoria*. **Xianhui Wang** (wangxh@ioz.ac.cn), Zhifeng Wang, Wei Guo, Pengcheng Yang, and Le Kang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

9:45 **1343** Locust migration in coupled natural human systems: Connecting soil nitrogen, outbreaks, livelihoods, and livestock markets. **Arianne Cease** (acease@asu.edu)¹, James Elser¹, Joleen Hadrich², Brian Robinson³, Eli Fenichel⁴, and Jon Harrison¹, ¹Arizona State Univ., Tempe, AZ, ²Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO, ³McGill Univ., Montréal, QC, Canada, ⁴Yale Univ., New Haven, CT

10:00 **1344** From individuals to mass migration in locust hopper bands. **Jerome Buhl** (jerome.buhl@adelaide.edu.au)¹, Gregory Sword², and Stephen Simpson³, ¹The Univ. of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia, ²Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX, ³The Univ. of Sydney, Camperdown, Australia

10:15 **BREAK**

10:30 **1345** Emission patterns reveal that aromatic compounds are key metabolites associated with the phase changes in *Locusta migratoria*. **Jianing Wei** (weijn@ioz.ac.cn), Wenbo Shao, Xianhui Wang, and Le Kang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

10:45 **1346** Mixed or specialized livestock grazing strategies: Which provides the greatest opportunity to mitigate locust outbreaks? **Joleen Hadrich** (joleen.hadrich@colostate.edu) and Anne Byrne, Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO

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11:00 **1347** Presentation withdrawn

11:15 **1348** Remote sensing in locust monitoring in Central Asia: Accomplishments and perspectives. **Alexandre Latchininsky** (latchini@uwyo.edu), Univ. of Wyoming, Laramie, WY

11:30 **1349** The locust liability: A case of stoichiometric externalities. **Kevin Berry** (kevin.berry@yale.edu)¹, Arianne Cease², Eli Fenichel¹, and James Elser², ¹Yale Univ., New Haven, CT, ²Arizona State Univ., Tempe, AZ

11:45 **1350** Transgenerational inheritance of population crowding and the underlying epigenetic mechanisms in the migratory locust *Locusta migratoria*. **Bing Chen** (chenbing@ioz.ac.cn) and Le Kang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

12:00 **1351** Grassland governance to mitigate locust outbreaks in China. **Brian Robinson** (brian.e.robinson@mcgill.ca), McGill Univ., Montréal, QC, Canada

## Symposium: Advances in Hermetic Storage for Smallholder Farms

### Room W224 A (Convention Center)

**Moderators and Organizers:** Dieudonne Baributsa, Jacob Ricker-Gilbert, and Scott Williams, Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN

This symposium is generously sponsored by the Purdue Improved Crop Storage (PICS3) Project, Purdue University.

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9:15 **1352** Hermetic storage for food and seed. **Dieudonne Baributsa** (dbaribut@purdue.edu)¹ and Scott Williams², ¹Purdue Improved Crop Storage Lab, West Lafayette, IN, ²Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN

9:30 **1353** Farmers' incentives to adopt hermetic storage. Jacob Ricker-Gilbert and **Stacy Prieto** (mccoy20@purdue.edu), Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN

9:45 **1354** Hermetic storage: An important strategy for pest management in Portugal and Mozambique. Rafael Guenha¹ and **Maria Carvalho** (motiliac@isa.ulisboa.pt)², ¹Eduardo Mondlane Univ., Maputo, Mozambique, ²Univ. of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal

10:00 **1355** Improving the availability of hermetic technologies among farmers: The experience of PICS bags. **Jean Njiru** (jeannjiru@gmail.com)¹ and Dieudonne Baributsa², ¹Purdue University, Nairobi, Kenya, ²Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN

10:15 **BREAK**

10:30 **Panel Discussion: The future of hermetic storage**

**SD1356** Comparative effects of hypoxia on four grain storage insect pest species. **Antoine Sanon** (sanonant@yahoo.fr)¹, Scott Williams², L. Dabire³, and Larry Murdock², ¹Univ. of Ouagadougou, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, ²Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN, ³INERA, Niger, Niger

**SD1357** Promoting PICS technology to smallholder farmers in Burkina Faso, the experience of Catholic Relief Service. **Adama Sienou** (adama.sienou@crs.org)¹, Amidou Traore¹, and Louise Sperling², ¹Catholic Relief Service, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, ²Catholic Relief Service, Baltimore, MD

**SD1358** Hermetic storage for controlling postharvest losses and aflatoxin poisoning. James Ng'ang'a¹, Christopher Mutungi², Samuel Imathiu³, and **Hippolyte Affognon** (haffognon@icipe.org)¹, ¹International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology, Nairobi, Kenya, ²Egerton Univ., Egerton, Kenya, ³Jomo Kenyatta Univ. of Agriculture and Technology, Juja, Kenya

**SD1359** Seed viability and oxygen depletion rate of hermetically stored maize infested by **P. truncatus** (Horn) and **S. zeamais** (Mot). **Jacob Anankware** (anankware@yahoo.com)¹, Martin Bornu-Ire², and Daniel Obeng-Ofori², ¹Kwame Nkrumah Univ. of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana, ²Univ. of Ghana, Accra, Ghana

**SD1360** Lessons mitigating post-harvest losses in Tanzania. **John Macharia** (jmacharia@agra.org) and Mellyne Ongango, Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa, Nairobi, Kenya

**SD1361** Reproductive behavior and egg development of cowpea bruchids (*Callosobruchus maculatus*) under hypoxia. **Yan Yan** (yanyancau@hotmail.com)¹, Scott Williams², Dieudonne Baributsa³, and Larry Murdock², ¹China Agricultural Univ., Beijing, China, ²Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN, ³Purdue Improved Crop Storage Lab, West Lafayette, IN

**SD1362** Presentation withdrawn

**SD1363** Bioacoustics of some post-harvest insect pests. **Anastasia Njoroge** (anjoroge@icipe.org)¹, **Hippolyte Affognon**¹, Christopher Mutungi², Uwe Richter³, Oliver Hensel³, and Richard W. Mankin⁴, ¹International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology, Nairobi, Kenya, ²Egerton Univ., Egerton, Kenya, ³Univ. of Kassel, Witzenhausen, Germany, ⁴USDA - ARS, Gainesville, FL

**SD1364** Implementing climate-smart dry chain technology for improving livelihoods of the maize farming community in Pakistan. **Irfan Afzal** (iafzal@uaf.edu.pk), Amir Bakhtavar, Muhammad Sagheer, and Ishfaq Muhammad, Univ. of Agriculture, Faisalabad, Pakistan

**SD1365** An improved hermetic storage bag for the control of boring insects that break the hermetic seal of current bags. Pierre Guillet¹, **Hubert Coffi** (hubert@vectorhealth.com)², and Johnson Odera², ¹AtoZ Textile Mills, Ltd., Arusha, Tanzania, ²Africa Technical Research Center, Arusha, Tanzania

**SD1366** Evaluation of maize quality and aflatoxin contamination in some markets of Benin and Niger. Ousmane Bakoye¹, **Ibrahim Baoua** (baoua.ibrahim@gmail.com)², H. H. Seyni³, Laouali Amadou¹, Dieudonne Baributsa⁴, and Larry Murdock⁴, ¹National Institute for Agricultural Research of Niger, Maradi, Niger, ²Univ. of Maradi, Maradi, Niger, ³Univ. Abdou Moumouni, Niamey, Niger, ⁴Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN

**SD1367** Triple bagging for safe storage of chickpea and pigeonpea seeds at the farmers' level. **Hari Sudini** (h.sudini@cgiar.org), G. V. Rao, and C. H. Reddy, International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics, Patancheru, India

**SD1368** Assessment of hermetic storage of maize under different environmental conditions. **Brett Lane** (lane31@purdue.edu) and Charles Woloshuk, Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN
**SD1369** Evaluation of sealed storage for the control of stored-grain insect pests. **Sam Cook** (cooks@ksu.edu)¹ and Dirk Maier², ¹Kansas State Univ., Manhattan, KS, ²Iowa State Univ., Ames, IA

**SD1370** Controlling weevils in stored maize by means of physical disturbance. Carl Bern, **Denis Bbosa** (dbbosa@iastate.edu), Thomas Brumm, Kurt Rosentrater, D. Raman, and Rashid Suleiman, Iowa State Univ., Ames, IA

**SD1371** Hermetic control of *Sitophilus zeamaisin* in stored maize in Ghana: Evidence from Purdue Improved Crops Storage (PICS) bags. **Isaac Nunoo** (nunooisaac88@gmail.com)¹, Abigail Agyeiwaa Darkwa¹, Anyebe Onu², Abdoulaye Tahirou², and Dieudonne Baributsa³, ¹Rural Education and Agriculture Development International, Kumasi, Ghana, ²International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, Ibadan, Nigeria, ³Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN

**11:15** **Poster Session: Efforts to mitigate postharvest losses in developing countries**

## Symposium: Stored Product Entomology: Challenges that Transcend Borders

Room W224 B (Convention Center)

**Moderator and Organizer:** Brent Elliott, Canadian Grain Commission, Winnipeg, MB, Canada

**9:15** **1372** Survey of pest management practices for rice mills in the U.S. **Tanja McKay** (tmckay@astate.edu)¹, Luis Espino², Frank Arthur³, James Campbell³, Lloyd T. Wilson⁴, Yubin Yang⁴, and Julien Beuzelin⁵, ¹Arkansas State Univ., Jonesboro, AR, ²Univ. of California Cooperative Extension, Colusa, CA, ³USDA - ARS, Manhattan, KS, ⁴Texas A&M AgriLife Research, Beaumont, TX, ⁵Louisiana State Univ. AgCenter, Baton Rouge, LA

**9:30** **1373** Control of *Plodia interpunctella* infesting a chocolate factory: Combining mating disruption and the parasitoid *Habrobracon hebetor*. **Pasquale Trematerra** (trema@unimol.it), Univ. of Molise, Campobasso, Italy

**9:45** **1374** Post-harvest losses — challenges of scaling new technologies. **Georgina V. Bingham** (gvb@vestergaard.com), Vestergaard Frandsen SA, Lausanne, Switzerland

**10:00** **1375** Ecology of *Cryptolestes ferrugineus*: New findings using conventional and population genetic approaches into a pest of growing importance. **Greg Daglish** (greg.daglish@daf.qld.gov.au)¹, Andrew Ridley², Philip Burrill³, Gimme H. Walter⁴, Alicia Toon⁴, Joanne Holloway⁵, and Robert Emery⁶, ¹Queensland Dept. of Agriculture and Fisheries, Brisbane, Australia, ²Dept. of Agriculture and Fisheries, Brisbane, Australia, ³Dept. of Agriculture and Fisheries, Warwick, Australia, ⁴Univ. of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia, ⁵New South Wales Dept. of Primary Industries, Wagga Wagga, Australia, ⁶Dept. of Agriculture and Food, South Perth, Australia

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

**10:30** **1376** Dust to weevils, weevils to dust: Diatomaceous earth, weevil water balance, and personality. **Raul Geddes** (guedes@ufv.br), Federal Univ. of Viçosa, Viçosa, Brazil

**10:45** **1377** Susceptibility of various life stages of stored product insects to high concentration of ozone. **Rizana M. Mahroof** (rmahroof@scsu.edu), South Carolina State Univ., Orangeburg, SC

**11:00** **1378** Efficacy of a high concentration of chlorine dioxide gas against laboratory and field strains of five stored product insect species. Xinyi E., Beibei Li, and **Bhadriraju Subramanyam** (sbhadrir@ksu.edu), Kansas State Univ., Manhattan, KS

**11:15** **1379** The use of ozone to protect food and property. **Linda J. Mason** (lmason@purdue.edu), James Feston, Ameya D. Gondhalekar, and Mahsa Fardisi, Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN

**11:30** **1380** Challenges facing fumigation of stored products and research for solutions. **Thomas Phillips** (twp1@ksu.edu), Kansas State Univ., Manhattan, KS

## Symposium: Advancements in Resistance and Aversion Management for Urban Pests

Room W224 C (Convention Center)

**Moderators and Organizers:** Jason Meyers¹ and Robert Hickman², ¹BASF, Kansas City, MO, ²BASF, Maitland, FL

**9:15** **1381** Recent advances in German cockroach resistance management. **Ameya D. Gondhalekar** (ameyag@purdue.edu), Mahsa Fardisi, and Michael Scharf, Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN

**9:30** **1382** Resistance issues affecting German cockroach bait performance. **Jules Silverman** (jules_silverman@ncsu.edu), Alexander Ko, Kim Jensen, Ayako Katsumata, and Coby Schal, North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC

**9:45** **1383** Resistance and aversion management for urban mosquitoes. **Mark Paine** (mark.paine@lstmed.ac.uk), Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, United Kingdom

**10:00** **1384** Historical perspective: Aspects of resistance management in roaches and fleas. **William A. Donahue** (srl@clearwire.net), Sierra Research Laboratories, Modesto, CA

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

**10:30** **1385** Staying ahead of the curve: A manufacturer's perspective on resistance management. **Kenneth S. Brown** (kenneth.s.brown@basf.com)¹, Clark Klein², Vincent Salgado¹, and Barbara Wedel², ¹BASF, Research Triangle Park, NC, ²BASF, Durham, NC

**10:45** **1386** A successful protocol: Controlling resistant German cockroaches, *Blattella germanica* (Linnaeus), while avoiding resistance development. **Thomas Jarzynka** (tjarzynka@masseyservices.com), Massey Services, Inc., Orlando, FL

**11:00** **1387** Mechanisms of insecticide resistance in the bed bug: Implications for resistance management. **Kenneth F. Haynes** (khaynes@uky.edu), Univ. of Kentucky, Lexington, KY
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11:15 **1388** Understanding residual efficacy of insecticides on bed bugs: What does formulation and substrate have to do with it? **Alvaro Romero** (aromero2@nmsu.edu), New Mexico State Univ., Las Cruces, NM

**Undergraduate Student Oral Competition:**
**Ecology and Population Dynamics**

Room W231 C (Convention Center)

**Moderators:** Palaniswami MariSivaswami¹ and Heather J. McAuslane², ¹ENTOMON, India, ²Univ. of Florida, Gainesville, FL

9:15 **1389** *Mesocyclops edax* as the potential first intermediate host for *Gnathostoma turgidum*. **José Zazueta-Moreno** (marcialzazueta_moreno@hotmail.com)¹, Xochitl Galaviz-Rentería¹, Edith Torres-Montoya¹, Hlpolito Castillo Ureta¹, Lorenzo Osuna-Martínez¹, Héctor López-Moreno¹, Ignacio Osuna Ramírez¹, Gabriela Silva-Hidalgo¹, Sylvia Diaz-Camacho¹, Yukifumi Nawa², and José Rendon Maldonado¹, ¹Autonomous Univ. of Sinaloa, Culiacán, Mexico, ²Khon Kaen Univ., Khon Kaen, Thailand

9:30 **1390** A novel trap for the continuous collection of carrion-feeding flies. **James Willett** (jrw023@shsu.edu), Sibyl Bucheli, Michelle L. Lewis, and Natalie K. Lindgren, Sam Houston State Univ., Huntsville, TX

9:45 **1391** Flies as bioindicators of grazing pressures in Mongolia. **Rebecca Clement** (rebeclem@gmail.com) and C. Riley Nelson, Brigham Young Univ., Provo, UT

10:00 **1392** Evidence for transstadial carriage of bacteria across house fly (*Musca domestica* L.) life history. **Klara Zurek** (kzurek@ksu.edu)¹ and Dana Nayduch², ¹Kansas State Univ., Manhattan, KS, ²USDA - ARS, Manhattan, KS

10:15 **BREAK**

10:30 **1393** Dung beetles' attendance based on the age differences of dung. **Etik Susanti** (etiksusanti53@gmail.com), Ardita Tri Anugrah Budaya, Dian Sartika, and R. C. Hidayat Soesilohadi, Gadjah Mada Univ., Yogyakarta, Indonesia

10:45 **1394** Identifying cocirculating hemoparasites in the West Nile Virus system. **Dayvion Adams** (ajadams968@tamu.edu), Matthew Medeiros, Andrew Golnar, and Gabriel Hamer, Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX

11:00 **1395** Interspecific competition behavior and circadian rhythm of ground ants in the subtropical forest (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). **Chunhan Shih** (harry820902@gmail.com) and Chung-Chi Lin, National Changhua Univ. of Education, Changhua, Taiwan

11:15 **1396** When host color matters for egg parasitoids. **Mathilde Gaudreau** (mathilde.gaudreau@umontreal.ca), Paul Abram, and Jacques Brodeur, Univ. of Montréal, Montréal, QC, Canada

**Graduate Student Oral Competition: Apidology, Sericulture, and Social Insects: Ants**

Room W240 B (Convention Center)

**Moderator:** Linda Hooper-Bui, Louisiana State Univ., Baton Rouge, LA

9:15 **1397** Keeping stock: Support for leaf-piles as buffering mechanisms in *Atta* colonies. **Courtney Rockenbach** (c.rockenbach@rutgers.edu)¹, Chris Reid², William Wcisło³, Cameron Currie⁴, and Simon Garnier⁵, ¹Rutgers, The State Univ. of New Jersey, Newark, NJ, ²The Univ. of Sydney, Sydney, Australia, ³Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama City, Panama, ⁴Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, ⁵New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ

9:30 **1398** Relationship between surface object properties and sunlight exposure in nests of meat ants, *Iridomyrmex purpureus*. **Subash Ray** (rayk.subash@gmail.com)¹, Chris Reid², Tanya Latty², Simon Garnier³, and Michael Holmes², ¹Rutgers, The State Univ. of New Jersey, Newark, NJ, ²The Univ. of Sydney, Syndey, Australia, ³New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ

9:45 **1399** How individuals play their part in collective choice in the seed harvester ant, *Pogonomyrmex californicus*. **Ioulia Bespalova** (ibespalo@asu.edu) and Jennifer H. Fewell, Arizona State Univ., Tempe, AZ

10:00 **1400** Thermoregulatory responses to thermal clines: Bivouac function across the wide elevational range of a Neotropical army ant (Formicidae: Dorylinae: *Eciton burchellii* parvispinum). **Kaitlin Baudier** (kmb478@drexel.edu) and Sean O'Donnell, Drexel Univ., Philadelphia, PA

10:15 **BREAK**

10:30 **1401** Do *Temnothorax rugatulus* (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) recruiters inform nestmates about the quality of the target? **John Cho** (john.cho@asu.edu) and Stephen C. Pratt, Arizona State Univ., Tempe, AZ

10:45 **1402** Colony personality links to plant health in the *Azteca-Cecropia* mutualism. **Peter Marting** (pmarting@asu.edu), Arizona State Univ., Tempe, AZ

11:00 **1403** Connectivity and nest site availability influence arboreal ant communities. **Benjamin Adams** (benjamin.adams@louisville.edu) and Stephen Yanoviak, Univ. of Louisville, Louisville, KY

11:15 **1404** Examining the microbiomes of two sympatric ants, *Trachymyrmex septentrionalis* and *T. turrifex*. **Mattea Allert** (mallert@patriots.uttyler.edu), Katrin Kellner, Kate Hertweck, and Jon Seal, The Univ. of Texas, Tyler, TX

11:30 **1405** Oogenesis and embryogenesis in fungus-gardening ants. **Chi-Chun Fang** (ccfang@utexas.edu) and Ulrich G. Mueller, The Univ. of Texas, Austin, TX

11:45 **1406** Ant assemblages and co-occurrence patterns in the swamp. **Xuan Chen** (chenxuan1128@gmail.com), Benjamin Adams, Alexander Sabo, Theresa Crupi, and Linda Hooper-Bui, Louisiana State Univ., Baton Rouge, LA
Graduate Student Oral Competition: Apidology, Sericulture, and Social Insects: Honey Bees II

Room W240 A (Convention Center)

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

9:15 **1407** Honey bee viruses in unexpected places. **Megan Colwell** (colwellm@myumanitoba.ca)¹, Rob Currie¹, and Stephen Pernal², ¹Univ. of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada, ²Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Beaverlodge, AB, Canada

9:30 **1408** Plant assisted self-medication: Virus-challenged bees improve survival with caffeine nectar consumption. **Saundra A. Wheeler** (saundra_wheeler22@yahoo.com)¹, Diana Cox-Foster², and Edwin Rajotte¹, ¹Pennsylvania State Univ., University Park, PA, ²USDA - ARS, Logan, UT

9:45 **1409** Host-pathogen interactions in the hive: A study of honey bee behavior during IAPV-infection. **Amy Geffre** (acgeffre@iastate.edu), Adam Dolezal, Bryony Bonning, and Amy L. Toth, Iowa State Univ., Ames, IA

10:00 **1410** Understanding pathogen dynamics in bee communities. **Briana Ezray** (bde125@psu.edu) and Heather M. Hines, Pennsylvania State Univ, University Park, PA

10:15 **BREAK**

10:30 **1411** Pathogen transmission in plant-pollinator networks. **Laura Figueroa** (llf44@cornell.edu)¹, Peter Graystock², Heather Connelly¹, Quinn McFrederick², and Scott McArt¹, ¹Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY, ²Univ. of California, Riverside, CA

10:45 **1412** Development of *Varroa destructor* in vitro rearing methods. **Cameron Jack** (cjack@ufl.edu) and James D. Ellis, Univ. of Florida, Gainesville, FL

11:00 **1413** An improved assay for determining deformed wing virus titres in the European honeybee (*Apis mellifera*) and *Varroa destructor*. **Emma Bradford** (r01elb14@abdn.ac.uk), Ewan Campbell, and Alan Bowman, Univ. of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, United Kingdom

11:15 **1414** Cues that contribute to triggering *Varroa*-sensitive hygiene behaviour in *Apis mellifera* colonies. **Seo Hyun Kim** (kimseohyun01@gmail.com)¹, Fanny Mondet², and Alison Mercer¹, ¹Univ. of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand, ²INRA, Avignon, France

11:30 **1415** Interaction of the insecticide clothianidin and the parasitic mite *Varroa destructor* on honey bee (*Apis mellifera*) health. **Nuria Morfin-Ramirez** (nmorfinr@uoguelph.ca), Ernesto Guzman, and Paul H. Goodwin, Univ. of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada

Graduate Student Oral Competition: Ecology of Pesticides, Resistance, Toxicology, and Genetically Modified Crops: Bt Toxins

Room W240 D (Convention Center)

**Moderator:** Amanda Jacobson, Dow AgroSciences, Greenville, MS

9:15 **1416** Effects of transgenic corn hybrids expressing Bt toxins on the development and fecundity of *Helicoverpa zea*. **Thomas Bilbo** (bilbothomas@gmail.com)¹, Francis Reay-Jones², Jeremy Greene³, Dominic Reisig⁴, and Fred Musser⁵, ¹Clemson Univ., Clemson, SC, ²Clemson Univ., Florence, SC, ³Clemson Univ., Blackville, SC, ⁴North Carolina State Univ., Plymouth, NC, ⁵Mississippi State Univ., Mississippi State, MS

9:30 **1417** Bt susceptibility and oviposition preferences of fall armyworm (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) host strains. **David Ingber** (ingber@udel.edu) and Charles Mason, Univ. of Delaware, Newark, DE

9:45 **1418** Susceptibility of the fall armyworm, *Spodoptera frugiperda* (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae), to Bt toxins and conventional pesticides among different populations in the US and Mexico. **Rebeca Gutierrez** (gutie131@msu.edu)¹, David Mota-Sanchez¹, Carlos A. Blanco², and Mark E. Whalon¹, ¹Michigan State Univ., East Lansing, MI, ²USDA - APHIS, Riverdale, MD

10:00 **1419** Type of fitness cost influences the rate of evolution of resistance to transgenic Bt crops. **Sean Hackett** (sean.hackett@zoo.ox.ac.uk) and Michael Bonsall, Univ. of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

10:15 **BREAK**

10:30 **1420** Presentation withdrawn

10:45 **1421** Risk assessment for the non-target species *Drosophila melanogaster* — establishment of a test system and evaluation of the impacts of Bt toxins and GE plant material. **Simone Haller** (simone.haller@agroscope.admin.ch), Michael Meissle, and Jörg Romeis, Agroscope, Zürich, Switzerland

11:00 **1422** Abundance of western corn rootworm, injury to corn, and Bt resistance in local landscapes. **Coy St. Clair** (cstclair@iastate.edu)¹, Graham P. Head², and Aaron J. Gassmann¹, ¹Iowa State Univ., Ames, IA, ²Monsanto Company, St. Louis, MO

11:15 **1423** Spatial variation in western corn rootworm susceptibility to Bt corn events in Nebraska. **Jordan Reinders** (jordan.reinders3@gmail.com) and Lance Meinke, Univ. of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE

11:30 **1424** Does Cry3Bb1 resistance persist following removal from selection? **Dalton Ludwick** (dclmrd@mail.missouri.edu)¹, Sarah Zukoff², Lisa Meihls³, Man Huynh¹, Ken Ostlie⁴, and Bruce Hibbard³, ¹Univ. of Missouri, Columbia, MO, ²Kansas State Univ., Manhattan, KS, ³USDA - ARS, Columbia, MO, ⁴Univ. of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN

11:45 **1425** Testing western corn rootworm (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) for cross-resistance between Cry toxins and soil insecticides. **Kenneth E. Masloski** (masloski@iastate.edu), Joel R. Coats, and Aaron J. Gassmann, Iowa State Univ., Ames, IA

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**12:00** **1426** Effect of transgenic corn hybrids and a soil insecticide on corn rootworm (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) beetle emergence in North Dakota. Veronica Calles Torrez (veronica.callestorre@ndsu.edu)¹, Janet Knodel¹, Mark A. Boetel¹, Bryan French², Billy Fuller³, and Joel Ransom¹ ¹North Dakota State Univ., Fargo, ND, ²USDA - ARS, Brookings, SD, ³South Dakota State Univ., Brookings, SD

Graduate Student Oral Competition: Genetics and Evolutionary Entomology: Behavior

Room W240 C (Convention Center)

Moderator: Jerome A. Hogsette, USDA - ARS, Gainesville, FL

**9:15** **1427** Discovery of *Anopheles daciae* in the Moscow region of Russia. **Anastasia N. Naumenko** (naumenko@vt.edu)¹, Mikhail Gordeev², Igor Sharakhov¹,³, and Maria Sharakhova¹,³ ¹Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State Univ., Blacksburg, VA, ²Moscow Regional State Univ., Moscow, Russia, ³Tomsk State Univ., Tomsk, Russia

**9:30** **1428** *In vivo* functional genetic analysis of insecticide resistance in the malaria mosquito *Anopheles gambiae*. **Adriana Adolfi** (adriana.adolfi@lstmed.ac.uk), Amy Lynd, Hilary Ranson, and Gareth Lycett, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, United Kingdom

**9:45** **1429** Teasing apart the ovipositional responses of *Culex tarsalis* to semiochemicals associated with fish for use in vector control. **Adena Why** (awhy001@ucr.edu) and William E. Walton, Univ. of California, Riverside, CA

**10:00** **1430** Mutual intra- and interspecific social parasitism between parapatric sister species of eusocial wasps and the process of its evolution. **Tatsuya Saga** (tatsuya.saga@gmail.com)¹,², Minoru Kanai³, Yasukazu Okada¹, and Masakazu Shimada¹, ¹The Univ. of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, ²Gifu Prefectural Ogaki Sakura Senior High School, Ogaki, Japan, ³Fujimi-Cho, Suwa-Gun, Japan

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

**10:30** **1431** The population genomics of primitively social paper wasps (*Polistes dominula*). **Kathleen Dogantzis** (kdogantzis@gmail.com)¹, Amy Toth², and Amro Zayed¹, ¹York Univ., Toronto, ON, Canada, ²Iowa State Univ., Ames, IA

**10:45** **1432** Asymmetric hybrid dysgenesis in crosses of different host-food plant complex sources of the parasitic wasp, *Cotesia congregata*. **Justin Bredlau** (bredlauj@vcu.edu) and Karen Kester, Virginia Commonwealth Univ., Richmond, VA

**11:00** **1433** From population to speciation: Evolution of the *Peristenus pallipes* (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) complex. **Miles Zhang** (yuanmeng.zhang@gmail.com)¹, Diana Fernández², and Barbara Sharanowski¹, ¹Univ. of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, ²Univ. of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, AB, Canada

**11:15** **1434** Diversification of plant-feeding insects is positively correlated with natural enemy pressure. **Mayrolin García Morales** (mzg0043@auburn.edu) and Nate Hardy, Auburn Univ., Auburn, AL

**11:30** **1435** Understanding variation in molting hormone synthesis pathways through comparative genome analysis. **Caitlyn Perry** (c.perry2@student.unimelb.edu.au) and Charles Robin, The Univ. of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia

**11:45** **1436** Presentation withdrawn

**12:00** **1437** Sugar feeding behaviour of male mosquitoes from sympatric, sibling species *Culex pipiens* and *Culex torrentium*. **Richard Halfpenny** (richard.halfpenny@research.staffs.ac.uk), Angela Priestman, John Dover, and Kevin Reiling, Staffordshire Univ., Stoke-on-Trent, United Kingdom

**12:15** **1438** Delineation of the population genetic structure of *Culicoides imicola* in east and south Africa. **Maria Onyango** (gorreti.m@gmail.com)¹, George Ngondi², Moses Ogugo², Gert Venter³, Miguel Miranda⁴, Nohal Elissa⁵, Appolina Djikeng², Stephen Kemp², Peter Walker¹, and Jean-Bernard Duchemin¹, ¹CSIRO, Geelong, Australia, ²International Livestock Research Institute, Nairobi, Kenya, ³Agricultural Research Council, Onderstepoort, South Africa, ⁴Univ. of the Balearic Islands, Palma, Spain, ⁵Pasteur Institute, Ambatofotsikely, Madagascar

Graduate Student Oral Competition: Medical and Veterinary Entomology: Livestock Pests and Decomposers

Room W232 A (Convention Center)

Moderator: Nancy Hinkle, Univ. of Georgia, Athens, GA

**9:15** **1439** What way did they go!? Examining the directional movement of house flies (*Musca domestica* L.) **Levi Zahn** (levi.zahn@ucr.edu) and Alec Gerry, Univ. of California, Riverside, CA

**9:30** **1440** *Musca domestica* larvae used in poultry waste bioprocessing: Fate of *Escherichia coli* and *Salmonella* spp. **Nichelle Lomas** (nlomas@uoguelph.ca), Stephen A. Marshall, Marc Habash, and Youbin Zheng, Univ. of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada

**9:45** **1441** Contact and fumigant toxicities of aliphatic methyl ketones to filth flies. **Jean Marcel Deguenon** (jdeguen@ncsu.edu), Jiwei Zhu, Anirudh Dhammi, Steven Denning, Michael Reiskind, Wes Watson, and R. Michael Roe, North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC

**10:00** **1442** Oviposition behavior of *Phormia regina* (Diptera: Calliphoridae) is mediated by temperature and the presence of other species. **Krystal R. Hans** (hansk@uwindsor.ca) and Sherah L. VanLaerhoven, Univ. of Windsor, Windsor, ON, Canada

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

**10:30** **1443** Seasonal effects on insect succession in carrion in northern California. **Alex Dedmon** (acdedmon@ucdavis.edu), Univ. of California, Davis, CA

**10:45** **1444** Chemical, mechanical, and biological control of the lesser mealworm, *Alphitobius diaperinus* (Panzer) (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae), in broiler houses. **Brent Phelan** (bphelan@uga.edu), Brian D. Fairchild, and Nancy Hinkle, Univ. of Georgia, Athens, GA
11:00 **1445** Presentation withdrawn

11:15 **1446** The role of the emerging entotechnology sector to treat urban and rural organic wastes in attaining the 2022 landfilling ban policy of Québec, Canada. **Louise Hénault-Ethier** (louisehenaultethier@hotmail.com)¹, Paula Cabrera¹, Béatrice Lefebvre¹, Sophie Taillefer², Marie-Hélène Deschamps³, and Grant Vandenberg³. ¹Univ. of Québec, Montréal, QC, Canada, ²Recyc-Québec, Montréal, QC, Canada, ³Univ. Laval, Québec City, QC, Canada

Graduate Student Oral Competition: Physiology and Biochemistry: Physiology

Room W232 B (Convention Center)

**Moderators:** Dov Borovsky¹ and Sherah VanLaerhoven², ¹USDA - ARS, Fort Pierce, FL, ²Univ. of Windsor, Windsor, ON, Canada

9:15 **1447** Silkworm ortholog of the *Drosophila* eye color gene, *brown*, controls riboflavin transport in Malpighian tubules. **Haokun Zhang** (zhanghaokun@ss.ab.a.u-tokyo.ac.jp), The Univ. of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

9:30 **1448** Functional study of two adenosine metabolic genes, *adgf-d* and *ada*, in *Drosophila melanogaster*. **Yu-Hsien Lin** (r99632012@gmail.com)¹,², Tomas Filip¹,², and Michal Zurovec¹,², ¹Univ. of South Bohemia, České Budějovice, Czech Republic, ²Czech Academy of Sciences, České Budějovice, Czech Republic

9:45 **1449** Evolution, prey-specificity, and venom in assassin flies. **Charlotte Herbert** (ceherb11@gmail.com)¹ and Karl McKnight², ¹Univ. of California, Davis, CA, ²St. Lawrence Univ., Canton, NY

10:00 **1450** The molecular expression of aquaporins in the northern house mosquito, *Culex pipiens*. **Liu Yang** (yang.554@osu.edu) and Peter Piermarini, The Ohio State Univ., Wooster, OH

10:15 **BREAK**

10:30 **1451** Roles of secreted salivary gland proteins of Hessian fly larvae *Mayetiola destructor* (Say) in insect physiology and plant interactions. **Zainab A. A. Al-jbory** (aliz@ksu.edu)¹, Mustapha El-Bouhssini², R. Jeff Whitworth¹, and Ming-Shun Chen¹,³, ¹Kansas State Univ., Manhattan, KS, ²INRA, Rabat, Morocco, ³USDA - ARS, Manhattan, KS

10:45 **1452** Endocrine basis for divergent life history timing between two host races of the apple maggot fly *Rhagoletis pomonella*. **Qinwen Xia** (qxia1989@ufl.edu)¹, Thomas Powell¹, Hans Alborn², Jeffrey Feder³, Gregory Ragland⁴, and Daniel Hahn¹, ¹Univ. of Florida, Gainesville, FL, ²USDA - ARS, Gainesville, FL, ³Univ. of Notre Dame, South Bend, IN, ⁴Kansas State Univ., Manhattan, KS

11:00 **1453** Gap junctions and the mosquito blood meal. **Travis Calkins** (calkins.21@osu.edu) and Peter Piermarini, The Ohio State Univ., Wooster, OH

11:15 **1454** Anarchy in the honey bee colony: The genetic basis of worker sterility. **Isobel Ronai** (isobel.ronai@sydney.edu.au), Benjamin Oldroyd, Deborah Barton, and Vanina Vergoz, The Univ. of Sydney, Sydney, Australia

11:30 **1455** A pinch of salt for honey bees (*Apis mellifera*)? **Raquel Teixeira-Sousa** (r.teixeira-de-sousa@newcastle.ac.uk)¹,² and Geraldine A. Wright¹, ¹Newcastle Univ., Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom, ²Univ. of Porto, Porto, Portugal

11:45 **1456** Identifying genes involved in pheromone biosynthesis in *Neoclytus m. mucronatus* (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) using a differential gene expression approach. **Gabriel Hughes** (ghughes@purdue.edu) and Matthew Ginzel, Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN

12:00 **1457** Comprehensive analysis of the venom gland transcriptome of the ectoparasitoid *Bracon hebetor*. **Atif Manzoor** (atif1903@yahoo.com)¹, Bruce Webb², Zain Ul Abdin¹, and Hoor Shaina¹, ¹Univ. of Agriculture, Faisalabad, Pakistan, ²Univ. of Kentucky, Lexington, KY

12:15 **1458** Gene identification and physiological regulation of the *B*-oxidation pathway in *Rhodnius prolixus*. **Iron De Paula** (iron@bioqmed.ufrj.br), Daniela Arêdes, David Majerowicz, and Katia Gondim, Federal Univ. of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Graduate Student Oral Competition: RNAi and Gene Expression Control in Insects

Room W232 C (Convention Center)

**Moderator:** Lia Marchwerle, Univ. of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE

9:15 **1459** Elucidating the molecular modes of action of juvenile hormone. **Joliene Lindholm** (lindholm.jr1@gmail.com)¹, Jun Wang¹, Anthony Orth², D. Willis¹, and Walter Goodman¹, ¹Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, ²Genomics Institute of the Novartis Research Foundation, San Diego, CA

9:30 **1460** An expedition in search of effective RNAi targets in aphids via comparative transcriptomics. **Amol Ghodke** (aghodke@student.unimelb.edu.au)¹, Robert Good¹, John Golz¹, Derek Russell¹, Owain R. Edwards², Bernard Carroll³, and Charles Robin¹, ¹The Univ. of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia, ²CSIRO, Wembley, Australia, ³Univ. of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia

9:45 **1461** The sphingolipids pathway regulates the reproduction of the brown planthopper, *Nilaparvata lugens* (Stål), the most important insect pest of rice in Asia. **Xiaoxiao Shi** (shixiao6656@163.com) and Zeng-Rong Zhu, Zhejiang Univ., Hangzhou, China

10:00 **1462** An in vivo experimental analysis on the putative magnetic receptor Cry/MagR of the brown planthopper, *Nilaparvata lugens*. **Jingjing Xu** (xujingjing@mail.iee.ac.cn), Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

10:15 **BREAK**

10:30 **1463** Identification of potential target genes for RNAi-mediated control of the small hive beetle. **Steven Reyna** (smreyna@ncsu.edu) and Marcé Lorenzen, North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC

10:45 **1464** The extent of RNAi in the arbovirus vector, *Culicoides sonorensis*. **Mary Mills** (mm02463@ksu.edu)¹, Kristin Michel¹, and Dana Nayduch², ¹Kansas State Univ., Manhattan, KS, ²USDA - ARS, Manhattan, KS

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11:00 **1465** Enhancement of dengue virus replication in transgenic mosquitoes *Aedes aegypti* expressing anti-thioester containing protein 1 (TEP1) microRNA. **Chi-Chuan Li** (ligigi1026@gmail.com)¹,², ¹National Health Research Institutes, Miaoli, Taiwan, ²National Tsing Hua Univ., Hsinchu, Taiwan

11:15 **1466** Challenges in developing RNAi as a method of mosquito control. **Paul Airs** (airs@wisc.edu) and Lyric Bartholomay, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI

11:30 **1467** Expression analysis and RNAi depletion of genes encoding *Amblyomma americanum* tick cement proteins. **Taylor Hollmann** (thollmann@cvm.tamu.edu), Zeljko Radulovic, Tae Kim, and Albert Mulenga, Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX

11:45 **1468** Gene knockdown by RNA interference in the cat flea (*Ctenocephalides felis*): Utilising *de novo* transcriptome data for developing drug target identification strategies. **Catriona McIntosh** (r01chm14@abdn.ac.uk)¹, Sophie Shaw¹, Debra Woods², Erich Zinser², John Baird¹, Ewan Campbell¹, and Alan Bowman¹, ¹Univ. of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, United Kingdom, ²Zoetis, Kalamazoo, MI

12:00 **1469** Environmental fate of dsRNA in an aqueous system. **Colin Wong** (cwong1@iastate.edu), Vurtice Albright, and Joel R. Coats, Iowa State Univ., Ames, IA

Contributed Papers: Apidology, Sericulture, and Social Insects: Physiology, Genetics, and Genomics

Room W314 A (Convention Center)

**Moderators:** Madeleine Beekman and Benjamin Oldroyd, The Univ. of Sydney, Sydney, Australia

9:15 **1470** Characterization of major royal jelly protein 1 and 2 of the western honey bee, *Apis mellifera*. **Anja Buttstedt** (anja.buttstedt@zoologie.uni-halle.de)¹, and Carmen Muresan¹,², ¹Martin Luther Univ., Halle, Germany, ²Univ. of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

9:30 **1471** Presentation withdrawn

9:45 **1472** Nitrogen metabolism in an ancient nutritional symbiosis between *Cephalotes* ants and core gut bacteria. **Yi Hu** (yh332@drexel.edu)¹, Jon G. Sanders², Piotr Lukasik¹, Corrie Moreau³, and Jacob Russell¹, ¹Drexel Univ., Philadelphia, PA, ²Harvard Univ., Cambridge, MA, ³The Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, IL

10:00 **1473** Comparative genomic within the *Apis* genomes. **Olav Rueppell** (olav_rueppell@uncg.edu) and Bertrand Fouks, Univ. of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC

10:15 **BREAK**

10:30 **1474** Comparing brain development and neurochemistry in social and solitary individuals of the sweat bee *Megalopta genalis*. **Adam Smith** (adam_smith@gwu.edu), The George Washington Univ., Washington, DC

10:45 **1475** *Varroa*, deformed wing virus, and virulence – using a naïve host to study the evolution of virulence of RNA viruses. Emily Remnant, Thomas Gillard, and **Madeleine Beekman** (madeleine.beekman@sydney.edu.au), The Univ. of Sydney, Sydney, Australia

11:00 **1476** Genetic architecture of the thelytokous phenotype in *Apis mellifera capensis*. **Benjamin Oldroyd** (benjamin.oldroyd@sydney.edu.au)¹, Nadine Chapman¹, Mike Allsopp², and Madeleine Beekman¹, ¹The Univ. of Sydney, Sydney, Australia, ²Agricultural Research Council, Stellenbosch, South Africa

11:15 **1477** Evolution and caste plasticity of brain architecture in Neotropical Army Ants (Formicidae: Ecitoninae). **Sean O'Donnell** (so356@drexel.edu), Susan Bulova, Elisabeth Sulger, and Vishakha Hariawala, Drexel Univ., Philadelphia, PA

11:30 **1478** The population genetics of acaricide resistance in *Varroa destructor*. **Robin Moritz** (r.moritz@zoologie.uni-halle.de)¹, Alexis Beaurepaire¹, and Klemens Krieger², ¹Martin Luther Univ., Halle, Germany, ²Bayer CropScience, Leverkusen, Germany

11:45 **1479** Effects of early developmental exposure on *Apis mellifera*. **Carlos Vega Meléndez** (cjvegame@uncg.edu), Univ. of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC

12:00 **1480** Insights from methylomic and transcriptomic analyses of lethal IAPV infection in honeybee pupae. **Hongmei Li-Byarlay** (hlibyar@ncsu.edu), North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC

12:15 **1481** Honey bee RNA-mediated antiviral responses. **Laura Brutscher**, **Katie Daughenbaugh**, and **Michelle Flenniken** (michelleflenniken@gmail.com), Montana State Univ., Bozeman, MT

Contributed Papers: Bioinformatics and Comparative Genomics of Arthropods: Genomes and Databases

Room W225 A (Convention Center)

**Moderators:** Nicholas M. Teets¹ and Alexie Papanicolaou², ¹Univ. of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, ²Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Richmond, Australia

9:15 **1482** The genome of whitefly, *Bemisia tabaci*, an important plant pest and virus vector. **Zhangjun Fei** (zf25@cornell.edu), Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY

9:30 **1483** Genome assembly and annotation of the io moth, *Automeris io* (Lepidoptera: Saturniidae). **Deborah Triant** (dtriant@flmnh.ufl.edu), Vincent Ficarrotta, Jesse Breinholt, Lei Xiao, Marianne Espeland, Andrei Sourakov, and Akito Kawahara, Univ. of Florida, Gainesville, FL

9:45 **1484** Making a genome work for you and the community. Hui-Jie Zhang¹ and **Alexie Papanicolaou** (a.papanicolaou@westernsydney.edu.au)², ¹CSIRO, Black Mountain, Australia, ²Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Richmond, Australia

10:00 **1485** Mitochondrial genomes in *Liposcelis*: Fragmentation with great gene rearrangement. **Dan Dan Wei** (weidandande@163.com), Jin-Jun Wang, and Wei Dou, Southwest Univ., Chongqing, China
10:15 **BREAK**

10:30 **1486** Genome assembly of the soybean aphid (*Aphis glycines*) via hybrid approach. **Jacob Wenger** (jawenger@csufresno.edu)¹, Andrew Michel², Fabrice Legeai³, Raman Bansal², J. Spencer Johnston⁴, Vitor Pavinato², Ashley Yates², and Brian Cassone⁵, ¹California State Univ., Fresno, CA, ²The Ohio State Univ., Wooster, OH, ³NRA, Le Rheu, France, ⁴Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX, ⁵Brandon Univ., Brandon, MB, Canada

10:45 **1487** InsectBase: A resource for insect genomes and transcriptomes. **Fei Li** (lifei18@zju.edu.cn), Zhejiang Univ., Hangzhou, China

11:00 **1488** Linking metagenomics and phylogenetics for the study of insect biodiversity. **Alfried Vogler** (a.vogler@imperial.ac.uk)¹,², ¹Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom, ²The Natural History Museum, London, United Kingdom

11:15 **1489** Regulation of honey bee queen (*Apis mellifera*) reproductive changes. **Elina Nino** (elnino@ucdavis.edu), Univ. of California, Davis, CA

11:30 **1490** The impacts of feeding in a resistant tree on the Asian longhorned beetle (*Anoplophora glabripennis*) and its gut microbiota. **Erin Scully** (erin.scully@ars.usda.gov)¹, Scott Geib², and Kelli Hoover³, ¹USDA - ARS, Manhattan, KS, ²USDA - ARS, Hilo, HI, ³Pennsylvania State Univ., University Park, PA

11:45 **1491** HymenopteraMine: A data mining warehouse for genomes of ants, bees, and wasps. **Christine Elsik** (elsikc@missouri.edu), Aditi Tayal, Deepak Unni, Colin Diesh, Darren Hagen, Hung Nguyen, and Marianne Emery, Univ. of Missouri, Columbia, MO

10:00 **1495** Slow down tiger! Rapid temporal genetic change of the Asian tiger mosquito in the Torres Strait Islands. **Andrew Maynard** (andrew.maynard@uqconnect.edu.au)¹, Luke Ambrose¹, Robert Cooper², Joseph Davis³, Odwell Muzari³, George Hapgood³, Andrew van den Hurk⁴, Sonja Hall-Mendelin⁴, Jeomhee Hasty⁵, Tom Burkot⁶, Scott Ritchie⁷, Michael J. Bangs⁸, Lisa Reimer⁹, Charles Butafa¹⁰, Neil Lobo¹¹, Din Syafruddin¹², and Nigel Beebe¹, ¹Univ. of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia, ²Australian Army Malaria Institute, Brisbane, Australia, ³Cairns and Hinterland Hospital and Health Service, Cairns, Australia, ⁴Queensland Health Forensic and Scientific Services, Brisbane, Australia, ⁵Hawaiʻi Dept. of Health, Honolulu, HI, ⁶Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, ⁷James Cook Univ., Cairns, Australia, ⁸Public Health & Malaria Control Freeport McMoRan Copper and Gold, Papua, Indonesia, ⁹Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, United Kingdom, ¹⁰Ministry of Health, Honiara, Solomon Islands, ¹¹Univ. of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, ¹²Eijkman Institute for Molecular Biology, Jakarta, Indonesia

10:15 **BREAK**

10:30 **1496** Evidence for an epigenetic effect of kinship on fertility of flies (*Drosophila melanogaster*) induced by folic acid with reference to a possible similar mechanism in *Homo sapiens* at clinical dose levels. **Marshall Herbert** (mlherbert@aol.com), Pinellas Country Public Health Dept., Largo, FL

10:45 **1497** Remarkable generation separation appears in extra-ordinary long-term surveillance records of a moth pest all across Japan. **Takehiko Yamanaka** (apple@affrc.go.jp)¹, Yasushi Sato², Ottar Bjornstad³, William Nelson⁴, and Jun Tabata¹, ¹National Institute for Agro-Environmental Sciences, Tsukuba, Japan, ²National Institute of Vegetable and Tea Science, Shimada, Japan, ³Pennsylvania State Univ., University Park, PA, ⁴Queen's Univ., Kingston, ON, Canada

11:00 **1498** TAPPAS: Modelling long-distance wind dispersal made easy. **Rieks Van Klinken**¹, Peter Durr², Kerryne Graham², Duan Beckett³, Justin Freeman³, and **Dean Paini** (dean.paini@csiro.au)⁴, ¹CSIRO, Brisbane, Australia, ²CSIRO, Geelong, Australia, ³Australian Bureau of Meteorology, Melbourne, Australia, ⁴CSIRO, Canberra, Australia

11:15 **1499** Impact of cassava genotypes on colonization of cassava by the whitefly, *Bemisia tabaci* (Hemiptera: Aleyrodidae). **Andrew Kalyebi** (akalyebi@yahoo.com)¹, Sarina Macfadyen², Cate Paull³, Paul de Barro³, and John Colvin⁴, ¹NaCRRI, Kampala, Uganda, ²CSIRO, Canberra, Australia, ³CSIRO, Brisbane, Australia, ⁴Univ. of Greenwich, Chatham, United Kingdom

11:30 **1500** Detection of gene flow between Korean and Chinese population in *Laodelphax striatellus*. **Deok Ho Kwon** (jota486@snu.ac.kr)¹, In-Hong Jeong²,³, Si-Woo Lee⁴, and Si Hyeock Lee¹, ¹Seoul National Univ., Seoul, South Korea, ²National Institute of Agricultural Sciences, Wanju, South Korea, ³National Institute of Agricultural Sciences, Jeonju, South Korea, ⁴National Institute of Agricultural Science and Technology, Suwon, South Korea

**Contributed Papers: Ecology and Population Dynamics: Power of Prediction**

**Room W314 B (Convention Center)**

**Moderators:** Shelby J. Fleischer¹ and Andrew Kalyebi², ¹Pennsylvania State Univ., University Park, PA, ²NaCRRI, Kampala, Uganda

9:15 **1492** Plant trait variability and the performance of phytophagous insects: A meta-analysis. **William Wetzel** (wcwetzel@cornell.edu)¹, Heather Kharouba², Moria Robinson³, Marcel Holyoak³, and Richard Karban³, ¹Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY, ²Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA, ³Univ. of California, Davis, CA

9:30 **1493** Phenology and dynamics of the invasive brown marmorated stink bug, *Halyomorpha halys*, as revealed in an agent-based model. **Shelby J. Fleischer** (sjf4@psu.edu)¹, Anne Nielsen², and Shi Chen³, ¹Pennsylvania State Univ., University Park, PA, ²Rutgers, The State Univ. of New Jersey, Bridgeton, NJ, ³North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC

9:45 **1494** Modeling temperature-dependent development of pistachio psyllid, *Agonoscena pistaciae* (Hemiptera: Psyllidae). **Mohammad Reza Hassani** (mhassanim@gmail.com)¹ and Abbas Arbab², ¹Islamic Azad Univ., Rafsanjan, Iran, ²Islamic Azad Univ., Takestan, Iran
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11:45 **1501** The cost of sex and *Wolbachia* infection in *Trichogramma kaykai* populations. **James Russell** (jrussell@ggc.edu), Michael Saum, Victoria Burgess, and Keval Bollavaram, Georgia Gwinnett College, Lawrenceville, GA

12:00 **1502** Presentation withdrawn

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

Room W414 C (Convention Center)

**Moderators:** Anders Huseth¹ and Andrew Frewin², ¹North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC, ²Univ. of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada

9:15 **1503** Characterizing spatial distribution and host crop association of neonicotinoid resistant *Frankliniella fusca* (Thysanoptera: Thripidae) in the Southeastern United States. **Anders Huseth** (ashuseth@ncsu.edu)¹, Thomas Chappell¹, Anitha Chitturi², Alana Jacobson², and George G. Kennedy¹, ¹North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC, ²Auburn Univ., Auburn, AL

9:30 **1504** Modification in nAChR beta subunit is associated with imidacloprid resistance in *Aphis gossypii*. **Kim Juil** (forweek@korea.kr)¹,², Young Ho Koh³, Gil-Hah Kim⁴, Si-Hyeock Lee⁵, and Min Kwon², ¹Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, Jena, Germany, ²National Institute of Crop Science, Pyeongchang, South Korea, ³Hallym Univ., Chuncheon, South Korea, ⁴Chungbuk National Univ., Cheongju, South Korea, ⁵Seoul National Univ., Seoul, South Korea

9:45 **1505** Damage of cowpea mild mottle virus and incidence of *Bemisia tabaci* biotype B in transgenic common bean lines resistant to bean golden mosaic virus. **Eliane Quintela** (eliane.quintela@embrapa.br), Marcus Vinicius Santana, Thiago Souza, Josias Faria, and Maria José Peloso, Embrapa Rice and Beans, Santo António de Goiás, Brazil

10:00 **1506** Presentation withdrawn

10:15 BREAK

10:30 **1507** Insecticidal activity, cytotoxicity, and metabolism of lemongrass oil in larvae and a cell line of the cabbage looper, *Trichoplusia ni*. *Jun-hyung Tak* (saturnpg7@yahoo.com) and Murray B. Isman, The Univ. of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada

10:45 **1508** Mutation and transcriptional expression of nicotinic acetylcholine receptor subunit α6 associated with spinosad resistance in *Rhyzopertha dominica*. **Mei-Er Chen** (meirchen@dragon.nchu.edu.tw) and Han-Tang Wang, National Chung Hsing Univ., Taichung, Taiwan

11:00 **1509** The nicotinic acetylcholine receptor gene family of the western flower thrips (*Frankliniella occidentalis*). **Qingjun Wu** (wuqingjun@caas.cn), Youjun Zhang, and Bingqing He, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China

11:15 **1510** Annual bluegrass weevil, *Listronotus maculicollis* (Coleoptera: Curculionidae), insecticide resistance: Baseline susceptibility, cross-resistance patterns, and possible mechanisms. **Olga Kostromytska** (kolgaent@rci.rutgers.edu), Shaohui Wu, and Albrecht Koppenhöfer, Rutgers, The State Univ. of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ

11:30 **1511** Progress towards standardized risk assessment methodology for *Megachile rotundata*. **Andrew Frewin** (afrewin@uoguelph.ca), Cynthia Scott-Dupree, and Angela Gradish, Univ. of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada

11:45 **1512** Investigating mechanisms of resistance to acaricides in populations of the bee mite, *Varroa destructor*. **Joel González-Cabrera** (joel.gonzalez@uv.es)¹,², Sonia Rodríguez-Vargas²,³, T. G. Emyr Davies², Lin Field², Daniel Schmehl⁴,⁵, Klemens Krieger⁶, and Martin Williamson², ¹Univ. of València, Burjassot, Spain, ²Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, United Kingdom, ³Institute of Agricultural Chemistry and Food Technology, Paterna, Spain, ⁴Bayer CropScience, Research Triangle Park, NC, ⁵Univ. of Florida, Gainesville, FL, ⁶Bayer CropScience, Leverkusen, Germany

12:00 **1513** Laboratory bioassays, baseline toxicity (LD50's), and field efficacy of spinosad on Colorado potato beetle (*Leptinotarsa decemlineata*) (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae). **Philippos Ioannidis** (filioan@otenet.gr) and Anastasia Sachinoglou, Institute of Industrial and Fodder Crops, Volos, Greece

12:15 **1514** Modeling the potential for hot spot remediation to resistance in western corn rootworm (*Diabrotica virgifera virgifera* LeConte). **Jeannette Martinez** (martinez.jeannette@epa.gov)¹, Nicholas Friedenberg², and Michael Caprio³, ¹U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, DC, ²Applied Biomathematics, Setauket, NY, ³Mississippi State Univ., Mississippi State, MS

Contributed Papers: Frontiers in Entomology: Uses and Symbiosis

Room W223 B (Convention Center)

**Moderators:** Mukti N. Ghimire¹ and Maria Pappas², ¹USDA - APHIS, Buzzards Bay, MA, ²Democritus Univ. of Thrace, Orestiada, Greece

9:15 **1515** Swapping symbionts: Consequences of bacterial partner replacement in a nested mealybug mutualism. **Stephanie Weldon** (s.r.weldon@gmail.com) and John McCutcheon, Univ. of Montana, Missoula, MT

9:30 **1516** The natural occurrence of aphid symbionts and effects of plant diversity. **Sharon Ztytynska** (sharon.ztytynska@tum.de) and Wolfgang Weisser, Technical Univ., Freising, Germany

9:45 **1517** Evolutionary shifts of symbiotic associates and their alkaloidal weaponry. **Rachelle Adams** (adams.1970@osu.edu)¹ and Tappey Jones², ¹The Ohio State Univ., Columbus, OH, ²Virginia Military Institute, Lexington, VA

10:00 **1518** Like honey bees, Mexican honey wasps are associated with unique bacterial species. **Jo-anne Holley** (jo.holley@utexas.edu) and Nancy Moran, The Univ. of Texas, Austin, TX
10:15 **BREAK**

10:30 **1519** The effect of fertilization type on trophic interaction networks and pest control in cereal fields. **Daniela Sint** (daniela.sint@uibk.ac.at), Oskar Rubbmark, Lena Manzl, and Michael Traugott, Univ. of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria

10:45 **1520** Use of carmine scale insects (Margarodidae: *Porphyrophora* spp.) in Eurasia: From the past to current time. **Roman Jashenko** (romajashenko@yahoo.com), Al-Farabi Kazakh National Univ., Almaty, Kazakhstan

11:00 **1521** IPM program in Texas: Role and relevance now and in the future. **Charles Allen** (ctallen@ag.tamu.edu), Texas A&M Univ., San Angelo, TX

11:15 **1522** Crop wild relatives as genetic resources for pollination and herbivore resistance. **Paul Egan** (paul.egan@slu.se)¹, Anne Muola², Daniela Weber¹, Amy Parachnowitsch³, and Johan Stenberg¹, ¹Swedish Univ. of Agricultural Sciences, Alnarp, Sweden, ²Swedish Univ. of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden, ³Evolutionary Biology Centre, Uppsala, Sweden

11:30 **1523** Promoting pollinator diversity in agriculture by planting specialty oilseed crops. **Matthew Thom** (matt.thom@ars.usda.gov)¹, Carrie Eberle², and Frank Forcella¹, ¹USDA - ARS, Morris, MN, ²Univ. of Wyoming, Laramie, WY

11:45 **1524** Multitrophic interactions in a lettuce crop covered with UV-absorbing nets. **Saioa Legarrea** (saioalegarrea@gmail.com)¹, Eduardo Velazquez², Elisa Viñuela³, and Alberto Fereres⁴, ¹Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics, Amsterdam, Netherlands, ²Intercultural Univ. of Chiapas, San Cristóbal de las Casas, Mexico, ³Polytechnic Univ., Madrid, Spain, ⁴Instituto de Ciencias Agrarias, Madrid, Spain

12:00 **1525** Functions of soil arthropods in reclaimed mine spoil ecosystem: A case study of the Kathara coalfield area of Jharkhand, India. **Braj Sinha** (b_kishoresinha@yahoo.co.in) and Amita Hembrom, Ranchi Univ., Ranchi, India

12:15 **1526** Current knowledge of anhydrobiosis in the sleeping chironomid *Polypedilum vanderplanki*. **Takahiro Kikawada** (kikawada@affrc.go.jp)¹, Richard Cornette¹, and Oleg Gusev², ¹National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences, Tsukuba, Japan, ²RIKEN, Yokohama, Japan

**Contributed Papers: Genetics and Evolutionary Entomology: Mating and Competition**

**Room W414 D (Convention Center)**

**Moderators:** Omaththage P. Perera¹ and Marco Gebiola², ¹USDA - ARS, Stoneville, MS, ²Univ. of Arizona, Tucson, AZ

9:15 **1527** Cytogenetic characteristics of pseudococcids (Hemiptera: Coccoidea: Pseudococcidae) of Indian origin. **Sompalyam Ramakrishna** (srkbuz@ymail.com), Bangalore Univ., Bangalore, India

9:30 **1528** Interplay between rapid evolution of leaf beetle host use and arthropod community dynamics. **Shunsuke Utsumi** (utsumi@fsc.hokudai.ac.jp), Hokkaido Univ., Horokanai, Japan

9:45 **1529** Resistance of western corn rootworm to Cry3Bb1-expressing corn. **Lisa Meihls** (lisa.meihls@ars.usda.gov)¹, Vered Tzin², Bruce Hibbard¹, and Georg Jander², ¹USDA - ARS, Columbia, MO, ²Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research, Ithaca, NY

10:00 **1530** QTL mapping of white pupae in a genetic sexing strain of melon fly, *Bactrocera cucurbitae* (Coquillett) (Diptera: Tephritidae), and applications for Sterile Insect Technique. **Sheina Sim** (ssim8@hawaii.edu) and Scott Geib, USDA - ARS, Hilo, HI

10:15 **BREAK**

10:30 **1531** Unorthodox reproductive strategies in *Cataglyphis* desert ants: Hybridizing lineages with genetic caste determination. **Hugo Darras** (hgdarras@gmail.com), Alexandre Kuhn, and Serge Aron, Free Univ. of Brussels, Brussels, Belgium

10:45 **1532** The genetic architecture of host races in the generalist aphid parasitoid *Aphidius ervi* Haliday (Hymenoptera: Braconidae). **Gabriel Ballesteros** (gballesteros@utalca.cl)¹, Jürgen Gadau², Fabrice Legeai³, Daniela Sepulveda¹, Lucia Briones¹, Blas Lavandero¹, and Christian Figueroa¹, ¹Univ. of Talca, Talca, Chile, ²Arizona State Univ., Tempe, AZ, ³INRA, Le Rheu, France

11:00 **1533** Presentation withdrawn

11:15 **1534** Aphid-specific expanded gene families are required for *Myzus persicae* colonisation of diverse plant species. **Yazhou Chen** (yazhou.chen@jic.ac.uk)¹, Tom Mathers², Sam Mugford¹, Cock Van Oosterhout³, David Swarbreck², and Saskia A. Hogenhout¹, ¹The John Innes Centre, Norwich, United Kingdom, ²The Genome Analysis Centre, Norwich, United Kingdom, ³Univ. of East Anglia, Norwich, United Kingdom

11:30 **1535** Determining the role of selection and drift in reproductive character displacement causing rapid diversification of montane crickets. **Ismail Saglam** (iksaglam@hacettepe.edu.tr)¹, Michael Miller², Sean O'Rourke², and Selim Caglar¹, ¹Hacettepe Univ., Ankara, Turkey, ²Univ. of California, Davis, CA

11:45 **1536** Promiscuous hosts and faithful cheaters: The role of mating systems in the evolution of obligate social parasitism. **Romain Dahan** (romain.a.dahan@gmail.com) and Christian Rabeling, Univ. of Rochester, Rochester, NY

12:00 **1537** Exploring sesquiterpenoid pheromone biosynthetic pathways in stink bugs (Pentatomidae). **Jason Lancaster** (jlancas7@vt.edu)¹, Ashot Khrimian², Dawn Gundersen-Rindal², Donald Weber², and Dorothea Tholl¹, ¹Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State Univ., Blacksburg, VA, ²USDA - ARS, Beltsville, MD
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12:15 **1538** Differential bracovirus gene expression among host-foodplant complex sources of the braconid parasitoid wasp, *Cotesia congregata*, likely reflects adaptations to host species and diet. **Karen Kester** (kmkester@vcu.edu)¹, **Justin Bredlau**¹, **Daniel Kuhar**², and **Dawn Gundersen-Rindal**², ¹Virginia Commonwealth Univ., Richmond, VA, ²USDA - ARS, Beltsville, MD

Contributed Papers: Insect Immunology:
Environment

Room W231B (Convention Center)

**Moderators:** Franziska Dickel¹ and Nathan Jones², ¹Univ. of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland, ²The Univ. of Texas, Austin, TX

9:15 **1539** Immune defence in context — the missing piece. **Paul Schmid-Hempel** (psh@env.ethz.ch), ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland

9:30 **1540** Microscopic analyses of larval *Aedes aegypti* reveal the essential role of gut microbiota in regulating growth and metabolism. **Luca Valzania** (valzania@uga.edu), Mark R. Brown, and Michael Strand, Univ. of Georgia, Athens, GA

9:45 **1541** Responses of *Galleria mellonella* immune system to ink injections and neem essential oil. **Maciej A. Pszczolkowski** (mpszczolkowski@missouristate.edu) and Katherine Haszcz, Missouri State Univ., Mountain Grove, MO

10:00 **1542** Mixed diets — the key to a healthy life? **Franziska Dickel** (franziska.dickel@jyu.fi)¹, **Johanna Mappes**¹, and **Dalial Freitak**², ¹Univ. of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland, ²Univ. of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

10:15 **BREAK**

10:30 **1543** Immune system and antimicrobial secretion use by the leaf cutting ants, *Atta* spp. (Formicidae: Attini), during a fungal infection. **Ernesto Bonadies** (ernestobonadies@hotmail.com)¹,² and Hermógenes Fernández-Marín², ¹Univ. of Panamá, Panama City, Panama, ²Institute for Scientific Research and High Technology Services, Panama, Panama

10:45 **1544** Parasitoids, caste, social form, and immune investment in the red imported fire ant, *Solenopsis invicta*. **Nathan Jones** (insectnate.nj@gmail.com), Robert Plowes, and Lawrence E. Gilbert, The Univ. of Texas, Austin, TX

11:00 **1545** Bedbug cellular immunity. **William Hentley** (w.hentley@sheffield.ac.uk), Michael T. Siva-Jothy, and Sophie Evison, Univ. of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom

11:15 **1546** Evolution of host immune responses and parasitoid virulence in a spatial context. **Peter Hambäck** (peter.hamback@su.se)¹, **Lisa Fors**¹, **Robert Markus**², and **Ulrich Theopold**¹, ¹Stockholm Univ., Stockholm, Sweden, ²Univ. of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom

11:30 **1547** Presentation withdrawn

11:45 **1548** Oral priming with *Bacillus thuringiensis* induces a shift in the immune response of *Tribolium castaneum*. **Barbara Milutinovic** (barbara.milutinovic@ist.ac.at)¹, **Jennifer Greenwood**², **Robert Peuß**², **Philip Rosenstiel**³, **Hinrich Schulenburg**³, and **Joachim Kurtz**², ¹Institute of Science and Technology Austria, Klosterneuburg, Austria, ²Univ. of Münster, Münster, Germany, ³Kiel Univ., Kiel, Germany

12:00 **1549** Collaboration between a soluble C-type lectin and calreticulin facilitates white spot syndrome virus infection in shrimp. **Xian-Wei Wang**, **Yi-Hui Xu**, **Jin-Dong Xu**, and **Jin-Xing Wang** (jxwang@sdu.edu.cn), Shandong Univ., Jinan, China

12:15 **1550** The effect of starvation on gypsy moth (*Lymantria dispar* L.) immune parameters and on activation of covert to overt form of nucleopolyhedrovirus. **Sergey Pavlushin** (sergey-pavlushin@mail.ru), **Irina Belousova**, **Ekaterina Chertkova**, **Yuriy Ahanaev**, and **Viatcheslav Martemyanov**, Institute of Systematics and Ecology of Animals, Novosibirsk, Russia

Contributed Papers: Invasive and Exotic
Entomology: Control and Tools

Room W340 B (Convention Center)

**Moderators:** Clifford Sadof¹ and Feng Zhang², ¹Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN, ²Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China

9:15 **1551** A new host of the brown marmorated stink bug, *Halyomorpha halys*: Pest management lessons from studies on host phenology and pest dynamics on southern pea. **Beatrice Dingha** (bndingha@ncat.edu) and Louis E. N. Jackai, North Carolina A&T State Univ., Greensboro, NC

9:30 **1552** Coconut rhinoceros beetle (*Oryctes rhinoceros*) and its management effort on Oahu in Hawaii. **Zhiqiang Cheng** (cheng241@hawaii.edu)¹, **Matthew Kellar**¹, **Arnold Hara**², and **Roshan Manandhar**¹, ¹Univ. of Hawai'i, Honolulu, HI, ²Univ. of Hawai'i, Hilo, HI

9:45 **1553** Biotype, plant virus, and insecticide resistance status of *Bemisia tabaci* populations in China. **Shaoli Wang** (wangshaoli@caas.cn), **Yang Yang**, and **Youjun Zhang**, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China

10:00 **1554** Is cold tolerance plasticity in *Epiphyas postvittana* (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae) related to variation in phosphoglucose isomerase? **Amy C. Morey** (morey041@umn.edu)¹ and **Robert Venette**², ¹Univ. of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN, ²USDA - Forest Service, St. Paul, MN

10:15 **BREAK**

10:30 **1555** Influence of clementine cultivar on tolerance of *Ceratitis capitata* to cold treatment. **Elena Llacer** (ellacer@ivia.es)¹, **Miquel Alonso**¹, **Josep Jaques**², and **Alberto Urbaneja**¹, ¹Valencian Institute of Agricultural Research, Moncada, Spain, ²Univ. Jaume I, Castelló de la Plana, Spain
10:45 **1556** Developing effective rootstock recommendations and disinfestation protocols for genetically diverse strains of grape phylloxera, *Daktulosphaira vitifoliae*. **Kevin Powell** (kevin.powell@ecodev.vic.gov.au), Dept. of Economic Development, Rutherglen, Australia

11:00 **1557** Tools for staging and managing the emerald ash borer in an urban forest. **Clifford S. Sadof** (csadof@purdue.edu), Matthew Ginzel, Gabriel Hughes, Adam Witte, and Donnie Peterson, Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN

11:15 **1558** Protocol for foreign exploration and field studies in the biological control of invasive weeds in the United States. **Massimo Cristofaro¹**, **Matthew Augé** (matthew.auge@gmail.com)² and Francesca Marini², ¹ENEA, Rome, Italy, ²Biotechnology and Biological Control Agency, Rome, Italy

11:30 **1559** Genetic and behavioral differentiation between two closely related whitefly parasitoids. **Muhammad Ahmed** (zaheerento@gmail.com)¹, Antonio Francis², Gregory Evans³, Eric Rohrig⁴, Lance Osborne⁵, and Catharine M. Mannion¹, ¹Univ. of Florida, Homestead, FL, ²Florida Dept. of Agriculture and Consumer Services, Apopka, FL, ³USDA - APHIS, Beltsville, MD, ⁴Florida Dept. of Agriculture and Consumer Services, Gainesville, FL, ⁵Univ. of Florida, Apopka, FL

11:45 **1560** Egg parasitoids of stink bugs infesting fruit trees in Japan, with special reference to the egg parasitoid guild of *Halyomorpha halys* (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae). **Kazunori Matsuo** (matsuosudachi@scs.kyushu-u.ac.jp)¹, Marisa Tomita², Tomohiro Honda³, Akihiko Takahashi⁴, Shunsuke Furihata⁵, Toshiharu Mita¹, Ken Tabuchi⁴, Kyo Itoyama³, Masatoshi Toyama⁶, Norman Johnson⁷, and Yoshimi Hirose¹, ¹Kyushu Univ., Fukuoka, Japan, ²Tokyo Univ. of Agriculture, Kanagawa, Japan, ³Meiji Univ., Kanagawa, Japan, ⁴NARO Tohoku Agricultural Research Center, Iwate, Japan, ⁵National Institute for Environmental Studies, Ibaraki, Japan, ⁶NARO Institute of Fruit Tree Science, Hiroshima, Japan, ⁷The Ohio State Univ., Columbus, OH

12:00 **1561** Potential classical biological control of spotted wing drosophila, *Drosophila suzukii* (Diptera: Drosophilidae), with parasitoids from China. **Feng Zhang** (f.zhang@cabi.org)¹,², Jinping Zhang¹,², Ren-Ya Liao², Pierre Girod³, Marc Kenis³, Guo-Hua Chen⁴, Laureline Rossignaud³, Chun Xiao⁴, Tim Haye³, and Yi Yu⁵, ¹CABI, Beijing, China, ²Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China, ³CABI, Delémont, Switzerland, ⁴Yunnan Agricultural Univ., Kunming, China, ⁵Shandong Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Jinan, China

12:15 **1562** The unusual dual reproductive strategy of *Lepidapion argentatum* (Col. Brentidae), a prospective biological control agent of French broom. **René Sforza** (rsforza@ars-ebcl.org)¹, Elven Kerdellant¹, and Thierry Thomann², ¹USDA - ARS, Saint-Gély-du-Fesc, France, ²CSIRO, Saint-Gély-du-Fesc, France

Contributed Papers: Medical and Veterinary Entomology: Mosquito 'Omics and Biological Control

Chapin Theater (Convention Center)

**Moderators:** Shavonn Whiten¹ and Heather Coatsworth², ¹Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State Univ., Blacksburg, VA, ²Simon Fraser Univ., Burnaby, BC, Canada

9:15 **1563** Mosquito salivary gland architecture: Implications for disease transmission and vector control. **Michael Wells** (mwells24@jhmi.edu) and Deborah Andrew, Johns Hopkins Univ., Baltimore, MD

9:30 **1564** The adult *Aedes aegypti* midgut peritrophic matrix proteome: A novel approach to vector and vector-borne disease control. **Shavonn Whiten** (shavonnw@vt.edu)¹,², Zach Adelman³, Richard Helm¹, and W. Ray¹, ¹Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State Univ., Blacksburg, VA, ²Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX, ³Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX

9:45 **1565** Characterization of two mosquito ortholog alpha-glucosidases that play a differential role in the susceptibility to *Lysinibacillus sphaericus* biolarvicides. Nathaly Nascimento, Ligia Ferreira, Tatiany Romão, Darleide Correia, Osvaldo de-Melo-Neto, and **Maria Helena Silva-Filha** (mhneves@cpqam.fiocruz.br), Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Recife, Brazil

10:00 **1566** Larvicidal activities of indigenous *Bacillus thuringiensis* isolates and nematode symbiotic bacterial toxins against the mosquito vector *Culex pipiens* (Diptera: Culicidae). **Ashraf Ahmed** (aalii@ksu.edu.sa), Talat El-Kersh, and Tahany Ayaad, King Saud Univ., Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

10:15 **BREAK**

10:30 **1567** Morphological and molecular characterization of a novel microsporidian parasite from the invasive Asian rock pool mosquito, *Aedes japonicus*. **Theodore Andreadis** (theodore.andreadis@ct.gov)¹, Hiroyuki Takaoka², Yasushi Otsuka³, and Charles Vossbrinck¹, ¹Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station, New Haven, CT, ²Univ. of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, ³Oita Univ., Oita, Japan

10:45 **1568** Differential transcription profiles in *Aedes aegypti* in response to larvicide. **Liming Zhao** (lmzhao@ufl.edu), Univ. of Florida, Vero Beach, FL

11:00 **1569** Foraging strategies for the mosquito-parasitic nematodes *Romanomermis iyengari* and *Strelkovimermis spiculatus*. **Yanli Xu** (xyll@neigaehrb.ac.cn)¹, Limin Dong², Yi Wang³, and Randy Gaugler³, ¹Chinese Academy of Sciences, Harbin, China, ²Northeast Agricultural Univ., Harbin, China, ³Rutgers, The State Univ. of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ

11:15 **1570** From phenotype to genotype: Creating resistant *Aedes aegypti* to prevent dengue transmission. **Heather Coatsworth** (hcoatswo@sfu.ca)¹, Paola Caicedo², Geoff Winsor¹, Clara Ocampo², and Carl Lowenberger¹, ¹Simon Fraser Univ., Burnaby, BC, Canada, ²CIDEIM, Cali, Colombia
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11:30 **1571** Differential expression in dengue-infected *Aedes albopictus* reveals important genes for anti-dengue response. **Hitoshi Tsujimoto** (htsujimo@nmsu.edu)¹, Nicolas Devitt², Anitha Sundararajan², Faye Schikey², Kathryn Hanley¹, and Immo Hansen¹, ¹New Mexico State Univ., Las Cruces, NM, ²National Center for Genome Resources, Santa Fe, NM

11:45 **1572** Proteomics informed by transcriptomics for characterising active transposable elements and genome annotation in *Aedes aegypti*. **Kevin Maringer** (kevin.maringer@mssm.edu)¹, Ana Fernandez-Sesma¹, David Matthews², and Andrew Davidson², ¹Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, ²Univ. of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom

12:00 **1573** Studies on host behavior manipulation by the mosquito-parasitic nematode *Strelkovimermis spiculatus*. **Hana Hají AllahverdiPour** (hh375@rci.rutgers.edu)¹,², Yi Wang¹, Reza Talaei-Hassanloui², Javad Karimi³, and Randy Gaugler¹, ¹Rutgers, The State Univ. of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ, ²Univ. of Tehran, Karaj, Iran, ³Ferdowsi Univ., Mashhad, Iran

Contributed Papers: Morphology, Systematics, and Phylogeny: Myriapoda and Insecta

Room W225 B (Convention Center)

**Moderators:** Gavin J. Svenson¹ and Megan M. Wilson², ¹Cleveland Museum of Natural History, Cleveland, OH, ²Rutgers, The State Univ. of New Jersey, Newark, NJ

9:15 **1574** A new dimension in documenting new species: High-detail imaging for myriapod taxonomy and first 3D cybertype of a new millipede species (Diplopoda, Myriapoda). **Nesrine Akkari** (nesrine.akkari@nhm-wien.ac.at)¹, Henrik Enghoff², and Brian Metscher³, ¹Natural History Museum, Vienna, Austria, ²Natural History Museum, Copenhagen, Denmark, ³Univ. of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

9:30 **1575** An illustrative approach to sexual isolation within giant helicopter damselflies (*Megaloprepus caerulatus*). **Megan M. Wilson** (meywilson@yahoo.com), Rutgers, The State Univ. of New Jersey, Newark, NJ

9:45 **1576** Holding on for dear life — the functional morphology of waterfall-dwelling damselflies in the Neotropics. **Christopher Beatty** (beattych@yahoo.com)¹, Sebastian Büss², Melissa Sánchez Herrera¹, and Stanislav Gorb², ¹Rutgers, The State Univ. of New Jersey, Newark, NJ, ²Christian Albrechts Univ. of Kiel, Kiel, Germany

10:00 **1577** Taxonomic significance of the epiphallus in the classification of Acridoidea and Pyrgomorphoidea (Orthoptera). **Mohd Usmani** (usmanikamil94@gmail.com) and Shahnila Usmani, Aligarh Muslim Univ., Aligarh, India

10:15 **BREAK**

10:30 **1578** Phylogeny of *Stagmatoptera* Burmeister, 1838 (Insecta: Mantodea) based on morphological and molecular evidence. **Henrique Rodrigues** (hmrbio@gmail.com)¹ and Gavin J. Svenson², ¹Case Western Reserve Univ., Cleveland, OH, ²Cleveland Museum of Natural History, Cleveland, OH

10:45 **1579** Extreme sexual size dimorphism led to sex-dependent life modalities during the evolution of flower simulating mantises. **Gavin J. Svenson** (gsvenson@cmnh.org)¹, Sydney Brannoch¹,², Henrique Rodrigues¹,², and Frank Wieland³, ¹Cleveland Museum of Natural History, Cleveland, OH, ²Case Western Reserve Univ., Cleveland, OH, ³Palatinate Museum of Natural History, Bad Dürkheim, Germany

11:00 **1580** Uncovering the evolutionary and morphological links between male and female praying mantis (Insecta: Mantodea) genitalia and mating behaviors. **Sydney Brannoch** (sbrannoch@case.edu) and Gavin J. Svenson, Cleveland Museum of Natural History, Cleveland, OH

11:15 **1581** Species diversity and phylogenetic analysis of termites (Isoptera) of the Western Ghats, India. **Kalleshwaraswamy Marulasiddappa** (kalleshwara@gmail.com)¹, A. S. Vidyashree¹, H. M. Mahadevaswamy², R. Asokan², Pavithra Basavanagoudappa¹, and S. K. Adarsha¹, ¹Univ. of Agricultural and Horticultural Sciences, Shivamogga, India, ²Indian Institute of Horticultural Research, Bangalore, India

11:30 **1582** Phylogenetic analysis of the *Degeeriella* complex (Insecta: Phthiraptera): Paraphyletic genera suggest a history of intraordinal switching. **Therese A. Catanach** (tacatanach@tamu.edu)¹, Veronica Pereyra², M. P. Valim³, Kevin P. Johnson⁴, and Jason Weckstein¹, ¹Drexel Univ., Philadelphia, PA, ²National Univ. of Tucuman, Tucuman, Argentina, ³Museum of Zoology of the University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil, ⁴Univ. of Illinois, Champaign, IL

11:45 **1583** The phylogeny of green lacewings (Neuroptera: Chrysopidae): Phylogenetic signal versus rapid radiation. **Ivonne Garzón** (ivonne.garzon@gmail.com)¹, Laura Breitkreuz², Michael S. Engel², and Shaun Winterton³, ¹Univ. of California, Sacramento, CA, ²Univ. of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, ³California Dept. of Food and Agriculture, Sacramento, CA

12:00 **1584** Morphological phylogeny of green lacewings (Neuroptera: Chrysopidae) with emphasis on a revised wing venation homology. **Laura Breitkreuz** (l-breitkreuz@ku.edu)¹, Ivonne Garzón², Shaun Winterton³, and Michael S. Engel¹, ¹Univ. of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, ²Univ. of California, Sacramento, CA, ³California Dept. of Food and Agriculture, Sacramento, CA

12:15 **1585** Small survivors: Unexpected diversity of *Hyposmocoma* (Lepidoptera: Cosmopterigidae) moths on a pummeled Hawaiian island. **Matthew J. Medeiros** (matt.j.medeiros@gmail.com)¹, William Haines², Mia Carleton³, and Daniel Rubinoff², ¹Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA, ²Univ. of Hawai'i, Honolulu, HI, ³Urban School of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
Contributed Papers: RNAi and Gene Expression Control in Insects: Pest Management

West Hall F4 (WF4) (Convention Center)

**Moderators:** Kun Yan Zhu¹ and Xu Hu², ¹Kansas State Univ., Manhattan, KS, ²DuPont Pioneer, Johnston, IA

9:15 **1586** The multicopper oxidase gene family in the brown planthopper, *Nilaparvata lugens*. *Yuxuan Ye* (nhyyx37@yeah.net) and Chuan-Xi Zhang, Zhejiang Univ., Hangzhou, China

9:30 **1587** Transcriptome-wide screening and functional analysis of cuticular protein family with the R&R Consensus in the brown planthopper, *Nilaparvata lugens*. *Penglu Pan* (plpan@zju.edu.cn) and Chuan-Xi Zhang, Zhejiang Univ., Hangzhou, China

9:45 **1588** A salivary sheath protein essential for the interaction of the brown planthopper with rice plants. *Huang Haijian* (huanghaijian@zju.edu.cn), Yanyuan Bao, and Chuan-Xi Zhang, Zhejiang Univ., Hangzhou, China

10:00 **1589** Suppression of DHFR expression reduces growth and fecundity in the Asian corn borer, *Ostrinia furnacalis*. *Jun Yang* (junyang@dlut.edu.cn), Yuexin Xia, Mingbo Qu, and Qing Yang, Dalian Univ. of Technology, Dalian, China

10:15 **BREAK**

10:30 **1590** Discovery of midgut genes for the RNA interference control of corn rootworm. *Xu Hu* (xu.hu@pioneer.com)¹, Nina Richtman¹, Jian-Zhou Zhao¹, Xiping Niu¹, Lisa Procyk¹, Meghan Oneal¹, Bliss Kernodle¹, Joe Steimel¹, Virginia Crane¹, Gary Sandahl¹, Julie Ritland¹, Albert Lu¹, James Presnail², and Gusui Wu¹, ¹DuPont Pioneer, Johnston, IA, ²Evogene, Inc., Saint Louis, MO

10:45 **1591** Identification and characterization of double stranded ribonucleases in *Diabrotica virgifera virgifera* (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) and *Ostrinia nubilalis* (Lepidoptera: Crambidae). *Anastasia Cooper* (anacooper@ksu.edu), Young Ho Kim, and Kun Yan Zhu, Kansas State Univ., Manhattan, KS

11:00 **1592** Transcriptomics-guided development of RNA interference strategies to manage whiteflies: A globally distributed vector of crop viruses. *Daniel Hasegawa* (daniel.k.hasegawa@gmail.com)¹, Wenbo Chen², Yi Zheng², Navneet Kaur³, William Wintermantel³, Alvin M. Simmons⁴, Zhangjun Fei², and Kai-Shu Ling⁴, ¹Cornell Univ., Charleston, SC, ²Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY, ³USDA - ARS, Salinas, CA, ⁴USDA - ARS, Charleston, SC

11:15 **1593** RNA interference mediated knockdown of *Serpin 2* reveals its function in antiviral activity and gut homeostasis in *Bombyx mori*. *Satyavathi Valluri* (vsatya@cdfd.org.in), R. M. Pavani, S. Srividya, K. Swethakumari, and S. Annapurna, Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics, Hyderabad, India

Tuesday, September 27, 2016 • Afternoon

Symposium: Bark and Ambrosia Beetles: Biology, Ecology, and Management

Room W414 C (Convention Center)

**Moderators and Organizers:** Fernando E. Vega¹, Richard W. Hofstetter², and Peter Biedermann³, ¹USDA - ARS, Beltsville, MD, ²Northern Arizona Univ., Flagstaff, AZ, ³Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, Jena, Germany

1:30 **1594** Bark beetles and conifers: A system characterized by cross-scale interactions and thresholds. *Kenneth Raffa* (raffa@entomology.wisc.edu), Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI

1:45 **1595** Conifer defense and resistance to bark beetles. *Paal Krokene* (krp@skogoglandskap.no), Norwegian Forest and Landscape Institute, Ås, Norway

2:00 **1596** Biology and ecology of the coffee berry borer, *Hypothenemus hampei*. *Fernando E. Vega* (fernando.vega@ars.usda.gov)¹ and *Francisco Infante*², ¹USDA - ARS, Beltsville, MD, ²College of the Southern Border, Tapachula, Mexico

2:15 **1597** What drives evolution of social behavior in bark and ambrosia beetles? *Peter Biedermann* (pbiedermann@ice.mpg.de), Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, Jena, Germany

2:30 **1598** Monogamous single-parenting matriarchs and sterile daughter helpers in a eusocial ambrosia beetle inhabiting living *Eucalyptus* trees. Shannon Smith¹, Deborah Kent¹, Jacobus Boomsma², Adam Stow³, Markus Riegler¹, and *Robert Mueller* (r.mueller@westernsydney.edu.au)¹, ¹Western Sydney Univ., Richmond, Australia, ²Univ. of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark, ³Macquarie Univ., Sydney, Australia

2:45 **1599** *Tomicus*, a particular genus of bark beetles. *François Lieutier* (francois.lieutier@univ-orleans.fr)¹, Massimo Faccoli², and Bo Långström³, ¹Univ. of Orléans, Orléans, France, ²Dept. of Agronomy, Food, Natural Resources, Animals and Environment, Legnaro, Italy, ³Swedish Univ. of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden

3:00 **BREAK**

3:15 **1600** Beetle acoustic communication affects microbial symbiotic associations. *Richard W. Hofstetter* (rich.hofstetter@nau.edu)¹, David Dunn², Brennan Copp¹, Peter Herron¹, and Nicholas C. Aflitto³, ¹Northern Arizona Univ., Flagstaff, AZ, ²Univ. of California, Santa Cruz, CA, ³Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY

3:30 **1601** Economics and politics. *Jean-Claude Grégoire* (jcgregoi@ulb.ac.be), Free Univ. of Brussels, Brussels, Belgium

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# Symposium: Status of Worldwide Honey Bee Health and Its Impacts on Agriculture

## Chapin Theater (Convention Center)

**Moderators and Organizers:** Jeffrey Pettis¹, Robyn Rose², and Peter Neumann³, ¹USDA - ARS, Beltsville, MD, ²USDA - APHIS, Riverdale, MD, ³Univ. of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

1:30 **1602** Pandemic DWV and global decline in honey bee health. **Robert Paxton** (robert.paxton@zoologie.uni-halle.de), Martin Luther Univ., Halle, Germany

1:45 **1603** The role of honey bees in worldwide food security. **Jeffrey Pettis** (jeff.pettis@ars.usda.gov), USDA - ARS, Beltsville, MD

2:00 **1604** Beekeeping practices in Southeast Asia: Which bee to choose, *Apis mellifera* or *Apis cerana*? **Panuwan Chantawannakul** (panuwan@gmail.com), Chiang Mai Univ., Chiang Mai, Thailand

2:15 **1605** Honey bee health in Brazil: Impacts of pathogens on Africanized vs. European bees. **Erica Teixeira** (erica@apta.sp.gov.br), APTA Regional, Santa Cecilia, Brazil

2:30 **1606** Honey bee health and potential impacts on agriculture in Canada. **Marta Guarna** (marta.guarna@agr.gc.ca), Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Beaverlodge, AB, Canada

2:45 **1607** APHIS national bee survey and world trade in bees. **Robyn Rose** (robyn.i.rose@aphis.usda.gov), USDA - APHIS, Riverdale, MD

### 3:00 BREAK

3:15 **1608** Next steps: Outreach and problem solving with beekeepers. **Dennis vanEngelsdorp** (dennis.vanengelsdorp@gmail.com), Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD

# Symposium: Insect-transmitted Phytoviruses and Agricultural Pandemics: Current Scenarios and Sustainable Management

## Room W231 B (Convention Center)

**Moderators and Organizers:** Rajagopalbabu Srinivasan¹ and Juan Alvarez², ¹Univ. of Georgia, Tifton, GA, ²DuPont, Newark, DE

1:30 **1609** An introduction to globally important arthropod-transmitted plant viruses: A case study with thrips-transmitted tomato spotted wilt virus management in peanut in the southeastern United States. **Rajagopalbabu Srinivasan** (babusri@uga.edu), Anita Shrestha, Pin-Chu Lai, Kathleen Marasigan, Mark R. Abney, and Albert K. Culbreath, Univ. of Georgia, Tifton, GA

2:00 **1610** Management options for arthropod-transmitted plant viruses and limitations. **Juan Alvarez** (juan.m.alvarez@dupont.com)¹ and Rajagopalbabu Srinivasan², ¹DuPont, Newark, DE, ²Univ. of Georgia, Tifton, GA

2:15 **1611** Managing thrips-transmitted Iris yellow spot tospovirus outbreaks in onion: Lots of progress but challenges remain. **Hanu Pappu** (hrp@cahnrs.wsu.edu), Washington State Univ., Pullman, WA

2:30 **1612** Grower-driven data reveals first principles in the management of potato virus Y incidence in seed potato production. **Russell L. Groves** (groves@entomology.wisc.edu)¹, Kenneth E. Frost², and Amy Charkowski¹, ¹Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, ²Oregon State Univ., Hermiston, OR

2:45 **1613** Vector-virus interactions in maize agroecosystems in East Africa. **Margaret (Peg) Redinbaugh** (peg.redinbaugh@ars.usda.gov)¹ and Subramanian Sevgan², ¹USDA - ARS, Wooster, OH, ²International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology, Nairobi, Kenya

### 3:00 BREAK

3:15 **1614** Emergence of whitefly complexes and associated plant viruses in China. Wang Xin-Ru, Wang Lan-Lan, Jun-Bo Luan, Shu-Sheng Liu and **Xiao-Wei Wang** (xiaowei_wang@zju.edu.cn), Zhejiang Univ., Hangzhou, China

3:30 **1615** Pea aphid host races in the Pacific Northwest: Interactions with legume viruses and implications for virus incidence in pulse crops. **Sanford D. Eigenbrode** (sanforde@uidaho.edu)¹ and Thomas Davis², ¹Univ. of Idaho, Moscow, ID, ²California Polytechnic State Univ., San Luis Obispo, CA

3:45 **1616** Aphid and whitefly-transmitted viruses impacting cucurbits production in southwestern United States. **Steven J. Castle** (steven.castle@ars.usda.gov)¹ and John Palumbo², ¹USDA - ARS, Maricopa, AZ, ²Univ. of Arizona, Yuma, AZ

4:00 **1617** Development and dissemination of thrips and tospovirus management strategies for vegetable production systems of East Africa. **Subramanian Sevgan** (ssubramania@icipe.org)¹, Jean Nguya Kalemba Manania¹, Johnson Nyasani¹, S. Niassy¹, AM. Muvea², Rael Bithia¹, Hanu Pappu³, Rainer Meyhoefer⁴, Gerald Moritz⁵, Henry Wainright⁶, and Sunday Ekesi¹, ¹International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology, Nairobi, Kenya, ²Jomo Kenyatta Univ. of Agriculture and Technology, Nairobi, Kenya, ³Washington State Univ., Pullman, WA, ⁴Leibniz Univ., Hannover, Germany, ⁵Martin Luther Univ. Halle, Germany, ⁶Real IPM Kenya, Nairobi, Kenya

4:15 **1618** Factors affecting aphid-luteovirus interactions in agricultural and non-managed ecosystems. **Laura Ingwell** (laura.ingwell@gmail.com)¹ and Nilsa A. Bosque-Pérez², ¹Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN, ²Univ. of Idaho, Moscow, ID

# Symposium: Advances in the Behavioral Ecology of Entomopathogenic Nematodes

## Room W315 B (Convention Center)

**Moderators and Organizers:** David Shapiro-Ilan¹ and Ed Lewis², ¹USDA - ARS, Byron, GA, ²Univ. of California, Davis, CA

1:30 **1619** Infection dynamics of entomopathogenic nematodes. **Ed Lewis** (eelewis@ucdavis.edu)¹ and David Shapiro-Ilan², ¹Univ. of California, Davis, CA, ²USDA - ARS, Byron, GA
1:45 **1620** Group behavior in insect parasitic nematode dispersal. **Paul Schliekelman** (pdschlie@uga.edu)¹, Ed Lewis², and David Shapiro-Ilan³, ¹Univ. of Georgia, Athens, GA, ²Univ. of California, Davis, CA, ³USDA - ARS, Byron, GA

2:00 **1621** Chemical signaling. **Fatma Kaplan** (fkaplan@ufl.edu)¹, David Shapiro-Ilan², and Ed Lewis³, ¹Univ. of Florida, Gainesville, FL, ²USDA - ARS, Byron, GA, ³Univ. of California, Davis, CA

2:15 **1622** Survival mechanism of entomopathogenic nematodes. **Itamar Glazer** (glazerit@volcani.agri.gov.il), Agricultural Research Organisation, Bet-Dagan, Israel

2:30 **1623** Exploiting the chemical ecology of the rhizosphere for crop protection. Ted Turlings¹ and **Denis Willett** (dwillett@ufl.edu)², ¹Univ. of Neuchâtel, Neuchâtel, Switzerland, ²Univ. of Florida, Lake Alfred, FL

2:45 **1624** Biogeography and diversity of traits of entomopathogenic nematodes. Xun Yan and **Richou Han** (hanrc@gdei.gd.cn), Guangdong Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Guangzhou, China

3:00 BREAK

3:15 **1625** Once upon a time in America: Soil food webs and biological control in citrus orchards. **Raquel Campos-Herrera** (rcherrera@ualg.pt)¹, Fahiem El-Borai², and Larry Duncan³, ¹Center for Biological Resources and Food Mediterranean, Faro, Portugal, ²Zagazig Univ., Zagazig, Egypt, ³Univ. of Florida, Lake Alfred, FL

3:30 **1626** Case study on host-pathogen relationships: S. scarabaei - turf system. **Albrecht Koppenhöfer** (koppenhofer@aesop.rutgers.edu), Rutgers, The State Univ. of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ

3:45 **1627** Fatal fighting among adult entomopathogenic nematodes. Annemie Zenner¹, Kathryn O'Callaghan¹, Apostolos Kapranas², and **Christine Griffin** (christine.griffin@nuim.ie)¹, ¹Maynooth Univ., Maynooth, Ireland, ²Univ. of Maynooth, Kildare, Ireland

4:00 **1628** Case study: Ecology of entomopathogenic nematodes in tropical fruit systems. **Claudia Dolinski** (claudia.dolinski@censanet.com.br)¹ and Liliana Parente Ribeiro², ¹State Univ. of Northern Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, ²State University of Northern Rio de Janeiro, Campos dos Goytacazes, Brazil

4:15 **1629** Ecological influence of *Steinernema carpocapsae* on native soil arthropods and nematode communities in pistachio orchards. **Amanda Hodson** (akhodson@ucdavis.edu) and Ed Lewis, Univ. of California, Davis, CA

4:30 **1630** Entomopathogenic nematode dispersal, foraging, and infection strategies: Cruisers, ambushers, sprinters, and scouts. **Parwinder Grewal** (parwinder.grewal@utrgv.edu)¹ and Harit Bal², ¹The Univ. of Texas, Edinberg, TX, ²The Ohio State Univ., Wooster, OH

4:45 **1631** Nematodes as model systems in behavioral ecology. **Adler Dillman** (adler.dillman@ucr.edu) and Tiffany Baiocchi, Univ. of California, Riverside, CA

Symposium: Rise or Demise? A Global Outlook on the Future of Classical Biological Weed Control

West Hall F1 (WF1) (Convention Center)

**Moderators and Organizers:** Mark Schwarzlaender¹, Hariet Hinz², Cliff Moran³, and Ikju Park¹, ¹Univ. of Idaho, Moscow, ID, ²CABI, Delémont, Switzerland, ³Univ. of Cape Town, Rondebosch, South Africa

1:30 **1632** How safe is weed biological control? A global review of direct non-target attack. **Hariet Hinz** (h.hinz@cabi.org)¹, Mark Schwarzländer², and Rachel Winston³, ¹CABI, Delémont, Switzerland, ²Univ. of Idaho, Moscow, ID, ³MIA Consulting, Shelley, ID

1:45 **1633** How specific can you get? Is the common reed, *Phragmites australis*, an anomaly? **Richard Casagrande** (casa@uri.edu)¹, Bernd Blossey², and Patrick Häfliger³, ¹Univ. of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI, ²Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY, ³CABI, Delémont, Switzerland

2:00 **1634** 110 years of continually successful weed biological control in Australia. **Andy Sheppard** (andy.sheppard@csiro.au)¹, Jim Cullen¹, and Bill Palmer², ¹CSIRO, Canberra, Australia, ²Queensland Dept. of Agriculture and Fisheries, Brisbane, Australia

2:15 **1635** Minimizing non-target effects: Making biocontrol safer and more effective. **Quentin Paynter** (paynterq@landcareresearch.co.nz)¹, Simon V. Fowler², and Ronny Groenteman², ¹Landcare Research, Auckland, New Zealand, ²Landcare Research, Lincoln, New Zealand

2:30 **1636** Finding intraspecific information and precise origins of plant invasions: Current and upcoming molecular methods. **John Gaskin** (john.gaskin@ars.usda.gov), USDA - ARS, Sidney, MT

2:45 **1637** Cryptic species and biological control: A brave new world? **Massimo Cristofaro** (massimo.cristofaro.cas@enea.it)¹, Marie-Claude Bon², Lincoln Smith², Alessio De Biase³, Radmila Petanović⁴, and Biljana Vidović⁴, ¹ENEA, Rome, Italy, ²USDA - ARS, Montferrier-sur-Lez, France, ³Univ. of Rome "La Sapienza", Rome, Italy, ⁴Univ. of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia

SD1638 Genomic approaches in weed biological control. Amanda Stahlke, **Mark Schwarzländer** (markschw@uidaho.edu), and Paul Hohenlohe, Univ. of Idaho, Moscow, ID

SD1639 Biological control of silverleaf nightshade (*Solanum elaeagnifolium*), one of the worst alien invasive weeds of the Mediterranean basin. **Javid Kashefi** (jkashef@ars-ebcl.org)¹, Marie-Claude Bon², Gualbert Gbèhounou³, Ahmet Uludag⁴, Anastasia Lagopodi⁵, Mohamed Bouhache⁶, and Carl Bell⁷, ¹USDA - ARS, Thessaloniki, Greece, ²USDA - ARS, Montferrier-sur-Lez, France, ³Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome, Italy, ⁴Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart Univ., Çanakkale, Turkey, ⁵Aristotle Univ. of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece, ⁶Agricultural and Veterinary Institute Hassan II, Rabat, Morocco, ⁷Univ. of California Cooperative Extension, Ventura, CA
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**SD1640** Proposed adoption of classical biological control by the Convention of Biological Diversity for the management of invasive alien species in natural ecosystems. Andy Sheppard¹ and **Piero Genovesi** (piero.genovesi@isprambiente.it)², ¹CSIRO, Canberra, Australia, ²ISPRA, Rome, Italy

**SD1641** Incorporating olfactory cues into risk assessment of the root weevil, *Mogulones crucifer*, as a biocontrol agent of *Cynoglossum officinale*. **Basu Kafle** (kafl6134@vandals.uidaho.edu), Sanford D. Eigenbrode, and Mark Schwarzländer, Univ. of Idaho, Moscow, ID

**SD1642** Role of chemical, visual, and tactile cues in the host selection behavior of the weevil *Ceutorhynchus cardariae*, a potential biological control agent for *Lepidium draba*. **Jessica Rendon** (rend7937@vandals.uidaho.edu)¹, Sanford D. Eigenbrode¹, Hariet Hinz², Urs Schaffner², and Mark Schwarzländer¹, ¹Univ. of Idaho, Moscow, ID, ²CABI, Delémont, Switzerland

### 3:00 BREAK AND POSTER SESSION

**3:15** **1643** Community-based implementation is vital to the wide-scale success of weed biological control in South Africa. **Martin Hill** (m.hill@ru.ac.za), Julie Coetzee, Iain Patterson, Philip Weyl, Grant Martin, and Jackie Hill, Rhodes Univ., Grahamstown, South Africa

**3:30** **1644** Simple citizen science monitoring programs generate a wealth of data to assess weed biocontrol effects. Aaron Weed¹ and **Mark Schwarzländer** (markschw@uidaho.edu)², ¹U.S. National Park Service, Fredericksburg, VA, ²Univ. of Idaho, Moscow, ID

**3:45** **1645** Growing prospects for classical biological control of weeds in Europe. **Richard Shaw** (r.shaw@cabi.org), CABI, Egham, United Kingdom

**4:00** **1646** *Tamarix* biocontrol in North America: Tracking success in the midst of controversy. **Dan Bean** (dan bean@state.co.us)¹ and Tom Dudley², ¹Colorado Dept. of Agriculture, Palisade, CO, ²Univ. of California, Santa Barbara, CA

**4:15** **1647** Weed biological control in California: Review of the past and prospects for the future. **Michael Pitcairn** (mike.pitcairn@cdfa.ca.gov), California Dept. of Food and Agriculture, Sacramento, CA

**4:30** **1648** Classical biological control programs for exotic weeds in the western USA: Long-term assessment of weed management, nontarget effects, and economic and ecological impacts. **Rich Hansen** (richard.w.hansen@aphis.usda.gov), USDA - APHIS, Fort Collins, CO

**4:45** **1649** Sleeping next to an elephant: Still keeping biological control in the management toolbox in Canada. **Rob Bourchier** (robert.bourchier@agr.gc.ca)¹, Aaron Weed², Lisa Tewksbury³, Naomi Cappuccino⁴, Sandy Smith⁵, Andre Gassmann⁶, and Richard Casagrande³, ¹Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Lethbridge, AB, Canada, ²U.S. National Park Service, Fredericksburg, VA, ³Univ. of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI, ⁴Carleton Univ., Ottawa, ON, Canada, ⁵Univ. of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, ⁶CABI, Delémont, Switzerland

**5:00** **1650** Pathogens continue to impress as weed biological control agents in Australia. **Louise Morin** (louise.morin@csiro.au), CSIRO, Canberra, Australia

**5:15** **1651** Bimodal host-finding studies improve environmental safety assessments of a weed biocontrol candidate, the weevil *Mogulones borraginis* on *Cynoglossum officinale*. **Ikju Park** (park0563@vandals.uidaho.edu)¹, Sanford D. Eigenbrode¹, Hariet Hinz², Urs Schaffner², and Mark Schwarzländer¹, ¹Univ. of Idaho, Moscow, ID, ²CABI, Delémont, Switzerland

## Symposium: Arthropod Movement in Agro-Ecosystems: Linking Individual Behaviours and Population Patterns Across Spatio-Temporal Scales. Just What Does Emerge?

### Room W330 B (Convention Center)

**Moderators and Organizers:** Hazel R. Parry, Cate Paull, and Nancy Schellhorn, CSIRO, Brisbane, Australia

**1:30** **1652** Resource exploitation: The role of movement, oviposition, and the landscape context. **Nancy A. Schellhorn** (nancy.schellhorn@csiro.au), CSIRO, Dutton Park, Australia

**1:45** **1653** Linking herbivore dispersal and population dynamics in complex landscapes. **Megan E. O'Rourke** (megorust@vt.edu)¹ and Katja Poveda², ¹Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State Univ., Blacksburg, VA, ²Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY

**2:00** **1654** Factors affecting movement of arthropods that transmit plant pathogens and implications for pathogen spread. **David Crowder** (dcrowder@wsu.edu), Washington State Univ., Pullman, WA

**2:15** **1655** Predicting biological control of cereal aphids across agricultural landscapes. **Mattias Jonsson** (mattias.jonsson@slu.se)¹, Riccardo Bommarco¹, Barbara Ekbom¹, Henrik Smith², Camilla Winqvist¹, Berta Caballero-Lopez³, Jan Bengtsson¹, and Ola Olsson², ¹Swedish Univ. of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden, ²Lund Univ., Lund, Sweden, ³Natural History Museum, Barcelona, Spain

**2:30** **1656** Piecing together patterns of western corn rootworm (*Diabrotica virgifera virgifera* LeConte) movement. **Joseph Spencer** (spencer1@illinois.edu) and Sarah Hughson, Univ. of Illinois, Champaign, IL

**2:45** **1657** The interaction between migratory capacity and pathogen load in the fall armyworm, *Spodoptera frugiperda*. **Aislinn Pearson** (aislinn.pearson@rothamsted.ac.uk)¹,², Robert Graham³, Jason Lim², Jason Chapman⁴, and Kenneth Wilson¹, ¹Lancaster Univ., Lancaster, United Kingdom, ²Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, United Kingdom, ³Harper Adams Univ., Newport, United Kingdom, ⁴Univ. of Exeter, Penryn, United Kingdom

### 3:00 BREAK

**3:15** **1658** Genetic signatures underpinning long-distance movement in a global insect pest, *Helicoverpa armigera*. **Christopher Jones** (christopher.jones@rothamsted.ac.uk)¹, Jason Lim¹, Chris Bass², and Jason Chapman¹,², ¹Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, United Kingdom, ²Univ. of Exeter, Penryn, United Kingdom
3:30 **1659** Linking *Helicoverpa* spp. moth behavior to landscape drivers: Implications for management.
**Cate Paull** (cate.paull@csiro.au)¹, Andrew Hulthen¹, and Nancy A. Schellhorn², ¹CSIRO, Brisbane, Australia, ²CSIRO, Dutton Park, Australia

3:45 **1660** From models to management: Simulating *Helicoverpa* movement behaviour in complex landscapes and the implications for Bt resistance. **Hazel R. Parry** (hazel.parry@csiro.au)¹, Cate Paull¹, Myron Zalucki², Anthony R. Ives³, and Nancy Schellhorn¹, ¹CSIRO, Brisbane, Australia, ²Univ. of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia, ³Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI

4:00 **1661** Intrinsic influences on establishment and dispersal success in fragmented landscapes: A spatially-explicit individual-based approach.
**Audrey Lustig** (audrey.lustig@lincolnuni.ac.nz) and Susan Worner, Lincoln Univ., Canterbury, New Zealand

4:15 **1662** BEESCOUT: A BEEHAVE landscape module to determine the scouting success in bees.
**Matthias Becher** (m.a.becher@exeter.ac.uk) and Juliet Osborne, Univ. of Exeter, Penryn, United Kingdom

4:45 **1663** Modelling monarch butterfly movement and egg-laying in a spatially-explicit Iowa, USA, landscape.
**Tyler Grant** (tgrant@iastate.edu)¹, Steven Bradbury¹, Hazel R. Parry², and Myron Zalucki³, ¹Iowa State Univ., Ames, IA, ²CSIRO, Brisbane, Australia, ³Univ. of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia

Symposium: Arthropods and Decomposition

Room W224 E (Convention Center)

**Moderators and Organizers:** Michael D. Ulyshen¹ and Jennifer L. Pechal², ¹USDA - Forest Service, Athens, GA, ²Michigan State Univ., East Lansing, MI

1:30 **1664** Mapping brown food webs on biogeochemical gradients. **Michael Kaspari** (mkaspari@ou.edu), Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK

1:45 **1665** Decomposition, thermal microclimates, and the consequences for ant biodiversity. **Terrence P. McGlynn** (terry.mcglynn@gmail.com) and Erica Parra, California State Univ., Carson, CA

2:00 **1666** Spatial and temporal variation in insect functional diversity effects on litter decomposition.
**André Frainer** (andre.frainer@uit.no)¹ and Brendan McKie², ¹Univ. of Tromsø The Arctic Univ. of Norway, Tromsø, Norway, ²Swedish Univ. of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden

2:15 **1667** The role of insects in fine woody debris decomposition. **Allison Stoklosa** (amstok7@gmail.com)¹ and Michael D. Ulyshen², ¹Drexel Univ., Philadelphia, PA, ²USDA - Forest Service, Athens, GA

2:30 **1668** The role of insects and microbes for dead-wood decomposition relative to global climate gradients.
**Sebastian Seibold** (sebastian-seibold@gmx.de), Technical Univ., Freising, Germany

2:45 **1669** The potential of insects to act as spore vectors.
**Rannveig Jacobsen** (rannveig.jacobsen@nmbu.no)¹, Tone Birkemoe¹, Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson¹, Hövard Kauserud², and Synnøve Botnen², ¹Norwegian Univ. of Life Sciences, Ås, Norway, ²Univ. of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

3:00 BREAK

3:15 **1670** Patterns and implications of insect-accelerated wood loss in southeastern U.S. forests. **Michael Ulyshen** (mulyshen@hotmail.com)¹, Sebastian Seibold², Michael Strickland³, Allison Stoklosa⁴, and Scott Horn¹, ¹USDA - Forest Service, Athens, GA, ²Technical Univ., Freising, Germany, ³Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State Univ., Blacksburg, VA, ⁴Drexel Univ., Philadelphia, PA

3:30 **1671** Resource subsidy influence on necrobiome networks. **Jennifer L. Pechal** (pechalje@msu.edu) and M. Eric Benbow, Michigan State Univ., East Lansing, MI

3:45 **1672** The dynamic necrobiome: The interacting web of organisms associated with animal death and decomposition. **M. Eric Benbow** (benbow@msu.edu)¹, Jennifer L. Pechal¹, Philip Barton², and Courtney R. Weatherbee¹, ¹Michigan State Univ., East Lansing, MI, ²The Australian National Univ., Canberra, Australia

4:00 **1673** Tri-trophic interactions mediating arthropod behavior on decomposing vertebrate carrion.
**Jeffery K. Tomberlin** (jktomberlin@tamu.edu)¹, Tawni L. Crippen², and Jonathan A. Cammack¹, ¹Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX, ²USDA - ARS, College Station, TX

4:15 **1674** Rhizospheric C-cycling: Implications of soil microarthropods. **Michael Strickland** (strick77@vt.edu), Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State Univ., Blacksburg, VA

4:30 **1675** Impact of dissolved oxygen levels on marine taphonomy and faunal scavenging of pig carcasses submerged at a variety of depths and habitats in the Salish Sea. **Gail Anderson** (ganderso@sfu.ca) and Lynne Bell, Simon Fraser Univ., Burnaby, BC, Canada

4:45 **1676** Experimental citizen science: Measuring dung decomposition by arthropods. **Riikka Kaartinen** (riikka.kaartinen@slu.se)¹, Bess Hardwick², and Tomas Roslin², ¹Swedish Univ. of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden, ²Univ. of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

5:00 **1677** Species traits predict biodiversity dynamics at carrion resource patches. **Philip Barton** (philip.barton@anu.edu.au), The Australian National Univ., Canberra, Australia

5:15 **1678** Seek and hide: Burying beetles exploit and then suppress microbial semiochemicals. **Stephen Trumbo** (stephen.trumbo@uconn.edu)¹, Charmaine Woodard Melvin², and Paula K. B. Philbrick², ¹Univ. of Connecticut, Waterbury, CT, ²Texas Tech Univ., Lubbock, TX

Symposium: Entomological Research in China:
Major Progresses and Perspectives

Room W414 B (Convention Center)

**Moderators and Organizers:** Tong-Xian Liu¹ and Le Kang², ¹Northwest A&F Univ., Yangling, China, ²Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

1:30 **1679** Current progress and perspectives of entomology in China. **Le Kang** (lkang@ioz.ac.cn), Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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2:00 **1680** The functional genomics of the brown planthopper. **Chuan-Xi Zhang** (chxzhang@zju.edu.cn), Hai-Jun Xu, and Yanyuan Bao, Zhejiang Univ., Hangzhou, China

2:30 **1681** Further insight into reproductive incompatibility between putative cryptic species of the *Bemisia tabaci* whitefly complex. **Shu-Sheng Liu** (shshliu@zju.edu.cn), Zhejiang Univ., Hangzhou, China

2:45 **1682** Genomic and molecular features in fungi to interact with insects. **Chengshu Wang** (cswang@sibs.ac.cn), Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China

3:00 BREAK

3:15 **1683** What controls the pupal-specific expression of cuticle protein genes in the silkworm, *Bombyx mori*? **Qili Feng** (qlfeng@scnu.edu.cn), South China Normal Univ., Guangzhou, China

3:30 **1684** Juvenile hormone signaling in *Drosophila*. **Sheng Li** (lisheng01@sibs.ac.cn), Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China

3:45 **1685** The peripheral pheromone olfactory systems in two moth species, *Helicoverpa armigera* and *Helicoverpa assulta*. **Chen-Zhu Wang** (czwang@ioz.ac.cn), Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

4:00 **1686** Status evolution of insect pests in Bt cotton ecosystem of China. **Kongming Wu** (kmwu@ippcaas.cn), Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China

4:15 **1687** Biology, ecology, and management of the diamondback moth in China. **Zhenyu Li** (zhenyuli@163.com)¹, Xia Feng¹, Shu-Sheng Liu², Minsheng You³, and Michael J. Furlong⁴. ¹Guangdong Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Guangzhou, China, ²Zhejiang Univ., Hangzhou, China, ³Fujian Agriculture and Forestry Univ., Fuzhou, China, ⁴Univ. of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia

4:30 **1688** Biological control of pest insects in protected environments in China: How far are we? **Tong-Xian Liu** (txliu@nwsuaf.edu.cn), Northwest A&F Univ., Yangling, China

Symposium: Industrialization of Insects as a
Food Ingredient

Room W222 A (Convention Center)

Moderator and Organizer: Florence Dunkel, Montana State Univ., Bozeman, MT

1:30 **1689** Perfect storm to nutritional security: Insects on the menu? **Sonny Ramaswamy** (sonny@nifa.usda.gov), USDA - NIFA, Washington, DC

2:00 **1690** Nutritional aspects of insects and the funding environment: SBIR grants and USDA - NIFA. **Jodi Williams** (jwilliams@nifa.usda.gov), USDA - ARS, Washington, DC

2:15 **1691** Current state of the art in insect mass rearing technologies and their potential application in insect farming. **Juan Morales-Ramos** (juan.moralesramos@ars.usda.gov) and M. Guadalupe Rojas, USDA - ARS, Stoneville, MS

2:30 **1692** Lessons from Thailand on industrializing insect ingredients. **Patrick Durst** (patrick.durst@fao.org), Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Bangkok, Thailand

2:45 **1693** Recognizing and alleviating the disgust factor. **Paul Rozin** (rozin@psych.upenn.edu), Univ. of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA

3:00 BREAK

3:15 **1694** Regulatory aspects of insects in food in the United States and Europe. **Palma Marone** (pamarone@verizon.net), Virginia Commonwealth Univ., Richmond, VA

3:30 **1695** Insects as food: History, culture, and modern use around the world. **Eraldo Costa-Neto** (eraldont@hotmail.com)¹ and Florence Dunkel², ¹Feira de Santana State Univ., Feira de Santana, Brazil, ²Montana State Univ., Bozeman, MT

3:45 **1696** Presentation withdrawn

4:00 **1697** The state of research on insects as food: A systematic review of the literature. **Charlotte Payne** (charlotte.payne@gmail.com)¹, Joshua Evans², Andrew Muller², and Rebecca Roberts³, ¹Univ. of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom, ²Nordic Food Lab, Frederiksberg, Denmark, ³Humboldt Univ., Berlin, Germany

4:15 **1698** Food microbiological considerations for the insect-based food industry. **Douglas Marshall** (douglasmarshall@eurofinsus.com), Eurofins Microbiology Laboratories, Inc., Fort Collins, CO

4:30 **1699** Edible grasshoppers promoting collaboration in the Middle East. **Dror Tamir** (drorta@tzatzar.biz), Steak Tzar Tzar, Tnuvot, Israel

4:45 **1700** Considerations for development and commercialization of insect based foods. **George Cavender** (gcavender2@unl.edu), Univ. of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE

Symposium: Insects and the Global Human
Experience

Room W314 A (Convention Center)

Moderator and Organizer: Gene Kritsky, Mount St. Joseph Univ., Cincinnati, OH

1:30 **1701** Insects Incorporated: Cultural entomology connects all disciplines as an online resource. **Barrett Klein** (barrett@pupating.org), Univ. of Wisconsin, La Crosse, WI

1:45 **1702** Insects as examples of parallel mythology. **Ronald Cherry** (Pinesnpets@aol.com), Univ. of Florida, Belle Glade, FL

2:00 **1703** Beekeeping from antiquity through the Middle Ages. **Gene Kritsky** (cdarwin@aol.com), Mount St. Joseph Univ., Cincinnati, OH

2:15 **1704** What makes a don of Cambridge University and pioneer of the American prairie become a champion of Darwinism? **Carol Anelli** (anelli.7@osu.edu), The Ohio State Univ., Columbus, OH

2:30 **1705** Insects in Japanese tradition and culture. **Nan-Yao Su** (nysu@ufl.edu), Univ. of Florida, Davie, FL
2:45 **1706** Insects in Japanese and French art, ca. 1900.
**Sandra Schachat** (schachatsr@si.edu), Mississippi
State Univ., Mississippi State, MS

**3:00 BREAK**

3:15 **1707** Insectography: Insects in the world of fiction.
**Erin Bauer** (ebauer2@unl.edu), Univ. of Nebraska,
Lincoln, NE

3:30 **1708** The mother of entomology: 17th century artist and revolutionary, Maria Sybilla Merian.
**Michelle A. Duennes** (mduennes@life.illinois.edu),
Univ. of Illinois, Champaign, IL

3:45 **1709** Bugs and the blues: Insects as tricksters in early blues music.
**Robert K. D. Peterson** (bpeterson@montana.edu), Montana State Univ., Bozeman, MT

4:00 **1710** For the record: The contribution of insects in popular music.
**Stephen R. Clarke** (sclarke@fs.fed.us),
USDA - Forest Service, Lufkin, TX

4:15 **1711** Entomoludology: Usage of insects in video games.
**Matan Shelomi** (mshelomi@ice.mpg.de), Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, Jena, Germany

4:30 **1712** Insects in fireworks.
**Joseph R. Coelho** (coelho@quincy.edu), Quincy Univ., Quincy, IL

4:45 **1713** Public perceptions of insect diversity: How many "bugs" might there be?
**John Acorn** (jacorn@ualberta.ca), Univ. of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada

3:30 **1721** Myrmecophily in xanthopygine rove beetles (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae).
**Stylianos Chatzimanolis** (stylianos-chatzimanolis@utc.edu), Univ. of Tennessee, Chattanooga, TN

3:45 **1722** Myrmecophile chemo-evo-devo: Genetic architecture of the tergal gland, a preadaptation for social parasitism in aleocharine rove beetles.
**Joseph Parker** (dibasic@gmail.com), Columbia Univ., New York, NY

4:00 **1723** Poorly known and possible myrmecophiles in the spider beetles and dung beetles: How rare can they be?
**T. Keith Philips** (keith.philips@wku.edu), Western Kentucky Univ., Bowling Green, KY

**Symposium: Biology and Evolution of Social Insect Symbionts**

**Room W240 D (Convention Center)**

**Moderators and Organizers:** Joseph Parker¹ and Christoph von Beeren², ¹Columbia Univ., New York, NY, ²The Rockefeller Univ., New York, NY

1:30 **1714** Multi-level mutualism: Interaction specificity in a community of ants, aphids, mealybugs, and bacteria.
**Aniek Ivens** (aivens@rockefeller.edu), The Rockefeller Univ., New York, NY

1:45 **1715** Artificial selection on beneficial gut microbiomes of bees.
**Ulrich G. Mueller** (umueller@mail.utexas.edu) and Rong Ma, The Univ. of Texas, Austin, TX

2:00 **1716** Host specificity in phorid parasitoids of ants.
**Don Feener** (donald.feener@utah.edu), Univ. of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT

2:15 **1717** Biodiversity, life-history adaptations, and network structure of army ant-symbiont communities.
**Christoph von Beeren** (cvonbeeren@mail.rockefeller.edu), The Rockefeller Univ., New York, NY

2:30 **1718** Systematics and diversification of the eucharitid ant parasitoids (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea).
**Elizabeth Murray** (em573@cornell.edu), Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY

2:45 **1719** Beetles breaking the ant acoustical code: New insights into a host-parasite relationship.
**Andrea Di Giulio** (andrea.digiulio@uniroma3.it), Univ. of Roma Tre, Rome, Italy

**3:00 BREAK**

3:15 **1720** Molecular phylogeny of the flanged bombardier beetles (Carabidae: Paussinae).
**Wendy Moore** (wmoore@arizona.edu), Univ. of Arizona, Tucson, AZ

**Symposium: Emerging Technologies for Tomorrow's Collaborative Discoveries**

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

**Moderator and Organizer:** Tamra Lincoln, USDA - ARS, Columbia, MO

1:30 **1724** It's a bird. It's a plane. No, it's weed biocontrol by drone.
**Carey Minteer** (carey.minteer@ars.usda.gov)¹, Thomas Spencer², Victor Wilhelm², Travis Barnett², Michael Hensch², and Philip Tipping¹, ¹USDA - ARS, Ft. Lauderdale, FL, ²U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Jacksonville, FL

1:45 **1725** Natural history matters: Using 19th century techniques to solve 21st century pest problems.
**Lauren M. Diepenbrock** (laurendiepenbrock@gmail.com), Katharine Swoboda-Bhattarai, and Hannah Burrack, North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC

2:00 **1726** The genome-wide analysis of innate immunity in a pupal endoparasitoid wasp, *Pteromalus puparum*.
**Lei Yang** (11316090@zju.edu.cn)¹, Qi Fang¹, Zhichao Yan¹, Zhe Lin², and Gongyin Ye¹, ¹Zhejiang Univ., Hangzhou, China, ²State Key Laboratory of Integrated Management of Pest Insects and Rodents, Beijing, China

2:15 **1727** Using the latest generation of harmonic radar and microtags to track the retention capacity of the invasive brown marmorated stink bug in vegetables and tree fruit augmented with semiochemicals.
**William R. Morrison** (william.morrison@ars.usda.gov)¹, Doo-Hyung Lee², Bruce Colpitts³, Charles Vincent⁴, Gilles Boiteau⁵, and Tracy C. Leskey¹, ¹USDA - ARS, Kearneysville, WV, ²Gachon Univ., Seongnam, South Korea, ³Univ. of New Brunswick, Fredericton, NB, Canada, ⁴Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, QC, Canada, ⁵Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Fredericton, NB, Canada

2:30 **1728** Insect research without the bug: Eicosanoid inhibition in cell culture.
**Tamra Lincoln** (treallf@gmail.com)¹, Cynthia Goodman¹, Yaofa Li², Kaile Zhou³, Joseph Ringbauer¹, and David Stanley¹, ¹USDA - ARS, Columbia, MO, ²Hebei Academy of Agricultural and Forestry Sciences, Baoding, China, ³Univ. of Missouri, Columbia, MO

2:45 **1729** Laser ablation tomography: High resolution imaging, 3D modeling, and quantitative analysis.
**Benjamin Hall** (hall.benjamin@gmail.com), Brian Reinhardt, Andrew Yanders, Asheesh Lanba, and Josh Biosenski, L4iS, State College, PA
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**SD1730** Cuticle comparative analyses between endo- and ecto-parasitoids using electron microscopy and genomic approaches. **Jiale Wang** (jialewang@zju.edu.cn), Qi Fang, Zhichao Yan, and Gongyin Ye, Zhejiang Univ., Hangzhou, China

**SD1731** Sex-biased expression of microRNAs in an endoparasitoid wasp, *Pteromalus puparum*. **Shan Xiao** (xiaoshan9401@126.com), Qi Fang, and Gongyin Ye, Zhejiang Univ., Hangzhou, China

**SD1732** Prostaglandin activity in established cell lines. **Kaile Zhou** (kailezhou1991@gmail.com)¹, Cynthia Goodman², Tamra Lincoln², Yaofa Li³, Joseph Ringbauer², and David Stanley², ¹Univ. of Missouri, Columbia, MO, ²USDA - ARS, Columbia, MO, ³Hebei Academy of Agricultural and Forestry Sciences, Baoding, China

**SD1733** New kids on the block: Regulatory issues around emerging pests and emerging technologies. **Johanna Elsensohn** (jeelsens@ncsu.edu), Zachary Brown, and Hannah Burrack, North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC

### 3:00 BREAK AND POSTER SESSION

**3:15** **1734** Stable isotope labeling gives insight into strategies for managing resistance in western corn rootworm, *Diabrotica virgifera virgifera* LeConte. Sally Taylor and **Christian Krupke** (ckrupke@purdue.edu), Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN

**3:30** **1735** Effectiveness of various entomopathogenic nematode species on the control of larval *Diabrotica virgifera virgifera* (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae). **Ryan Winslow Geisert** (rwg5h8@mail.missouri.edu) and Thomas A. Coudron, USDA - ARS, Columbia, MO

**3:45** **1736** Video evaluation, timelapse, and photo geolocation: Tools for integrating research and extension. **Anthony J. McMechan** (justin.mcmechan@gmail.com), Univ. of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE

**2:30** **1740** Biodiversity services in agroecosystems. **Teja Tscharntke** (ttschar@gwdg.de), Georg August Univ., Göttingen, Germany

**2:45** **1741** Designing landscapes for multiple services. **Douglas A. Landis** (landisd@msu.edu), Michigan State Univ., East Lansing, MI

### 3:00 BREAK

**3:15** **1742** Fruits of the insects — managing pollinator and predator communities for sustainable agriculture. **Riccardo Bommarco** (riccardo.bommarco@slu.se), Swedish Univ. of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden

**3:30** **1743** Effects of land use and plant diversity on insect diversity and consequences for ecosystem functioning. **Wolfgang Weisser** (wolfgang.weisser@tum.de)¹, Martin Grossner², Nadja Simons², Anne Ebeling³, Sebastian Meyer², and Lionel Hertzog², ¹Technical Univ., Freising, Germany, ²Technical Univ., München, Germany, ³Univ. of Jena, Jena, Germany

**3:45** **1744** Landscape effects on pollination services. **Hisatomo Taki** (htaki@affrc.go.jp), Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute, Tsukuba, Japan

**4:00** **1745** Deforestation and human disease. Amy Vittor¹ and **Nathan Burkett-Cadena** (nburkettcadenanufl.edu)², ¹Univ. of Florida, Gainesville, FL, ²Univ. of Florida, Vero Beach, FL

**4:15** **1746** Climate change effects on insects and ecosystem services. **Chelse Prather** (cprather@radford.edu)¹ and Angela Laws², ¹Radford Univ., Radford, VA, ²Univ. of Houston, Houston, TX

**4:30** **1747** Economic values of harvesting grasshoppers for food versus control. **Rene Cerritos** (renecerritos@gmail.com), National Autonomous Univ. of México, Mexico City, Mexico

**4:45** **Reception**

## Symposium: Insect Effects on Ecosystem Services

### Room W414 D (Convention Center)

**Moderators and Organizers:** Timothy D. Schowalter¹ and Teja Tscharntke², ¹Louisiana State Univ., Baton Rouge, LA, ²Georg August Univ., Göttingen, Germany

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We greatly appreciate funding from the National Science Foundation Grant DEB-1565406 for travel support for international speakers, travel awards for graduate students and early career professionals and funding for the reception following this symposium.

**1:30** **1737** Overview of insect effects on ecosystem services. **Timothy D. Schowalter** (tschowalter@agcenter.lsu.edu), Louisiana State Univ., Baton Rouge, LA

**2:00** **1738** Grasshopper stimulation of grassland productivity. **Gary Belovsky** (belovsky.1@nd.edu) and Jennifer Slade, Univ. of Notre Dame, South Bend, IN

**2:15** **1739** Ecosystem services of dung beetles in Australia. **Bernard Doube** (bernardo@internode.on.net), Dung Beetle Solutions, Bridgewater, Australia

## Symposium: Novel Insecticidal Agents and Next-Gen Approaches for Insect Control

### Room W225 A (Convention Center)

**Moderators and Organizers:** William Moar¹ and Kenneth Narva², ¹Monsanto Company, St. Louis, MO, ²Dow AgroSciences, Indianapolis, IN

**1:30** **1748** Novel pesticidal protein discovery: What's next in a post-next-gen sequencing world? **Kimberly Sampson** (kimberly.sampson@bayer.com), James Doroghazi, Elyse Rodgers-Vieira, Jessica Monserrate, and Jelena Zaitseva, Bayer CropScience, Morrisville, NC

**1:45** **1749** Novel protein for corn rootworm control. **Yong Yin** (yong.yin@monsanto.com)¹, David Bowen², Catherine Chay¹, Jason Milligan¹, Gregory Bean¹, Arlene Howe¹, Stanislaw Flasinski¹, Renata Bolognesi², and James Roberts², ¹Monsanto Company, St. Louis, MO, ²Monsanto Company, Chesterfield, MO

**2:00** **1750** *Bacillus thuringiensis* insecticidal proteins for control of *Diabrotica virgifera virgifera*. **Kenneth Narva** (knarva@dow.com)¹, Colin Berry², Jean-Louis Schwartz³, Raffi Aroian⁴, and Vimbai Chikwana¹
¹Dow AgroSciences, Indianapolis, IN, ²Cardiff Univ., Cardiff, United Kingdom, ³Univ. of Montréal, Montréal, QC, Canada, ⁴Univ. of Massachusetts, Worcester, MA

2:15 **1751** Modification of *a Bacillus thuringiensis* toxin to target soybean aphid (*Aphis glycines*). **Biviana Flores-Escobar** (biviana@iastate.edu), Benjamin Diest, Maria Fernandez Luna, and Bryony Bonning, Iowa State Univ., Ames, IA

2:30 **1752** Continuous evolution of the *B. thuringiensis* toxin Cry1Ac can overcome Bt resistance in insects. Thomas Malvar¹, Ahmed Badran², **Victor Guzov** (victor.m.guzov@monsanto.com)³, Qing Huai⁴, Melissa Kemp⁴, Prashanth Vishwanath⁴, Wendy Kain⁵, Ping Wang⁵, Artem Evdokimov⁶, Farhad Moshiri⁴, Keith Turner⁴, and David Liu², ¹Monsanto Company, North Stonington, CT, ²Harvard Univ., Cambridge, MA, ³Monsanto Company, Cambridge, MA, ⁴Monsanto Company, Chesterfield, MO, ⁵Cornell Univ., Geneva, NY, ⁶HarkerBIO, LLC, Buffalo, NY

2:45 **1753** *Bacillus thuringiensis* toxin classification – the need for change? **Neil Crickmore** (n.crickmore@sussex.ac.uk), Univ. of Sussex, Brighton, United Kingdom

3:00 **BREAK**

3:15 **1754** Highly efficacious recombinant bacterial larvicides for mosquito vector control based on endotoxins of *Bacillus thuringiensis* and *Lysinibacillus sphaericus*. **Brian Federici** (brian.federici@ucr.edu)¹, Dennis Bedishi¹, Hyun-Woo Park², Robert Hice¹, and Margaret Wirth¹, ¹Univ. of California, Riverside, CA, ²California Baptist Univ., Riverside, CA

3:30 **1755** Structural and functional characterization of a new corn rootworm active protein from a *Pseudomonas* strain. **Lu Liu** (lu.liu@pioneer.com)¹, Jarred Oral¹, James English¹, Azalea Ong¹, Ingrid Udranszky¹, Brad Poland², David Cerf¹, Mark McDonald¹, and Genhai Zhu¹, ¹DuPont Pioneer, Hayward, CA, ²DuPont Pioneer, Johnston, IA

3:45 **1756** Structural basis for a shared mode of action between a pair of corn rootworm actives from a *Bacillus thuringienses* and a non-*Bacillus* bacterial source. **Nasser Yalpani** (nasser.yalpani@pioneer.com)¹, Timothy M. Nowatzki¹, Amit Sethi¹, Brad Poland¹, Jian-Zhou Zhao¹, and Lu Liu², ¹DuPont Pioneer, Johnston, IA, ²DuPont Pioneer, Hayward, CA

4:00 **1757** The future of cystine-knot peptides in insecticide development. **Robert Kennedy** (rmkennedy@vestaron.com), Vestaron Corporation, Kalamazoo, MI

4:15 **1758** Preliminary ecological risk assessment of a new Bt protein (Cry51Aa2.834_16) effective for controlling targeted sucking insect pests in cotton using laboratory and field data. **Aqeel Ahmad**, Peter Asliimwe, **Pamela Bachman**, Jennifer Fridley, **Peter Jensen** (peter.d.jensen@monsanto.com), Steven Levine, Jianguo Tan, and Joshua Uffman, Monsanto Company, St. Louis, MO

4:30 **1759** Use of species sensitivity distributions in the characterization of risk of novel insecticidal proteins to non-target organisms. **Chad Boeckman** (chad.boeckman@pioneer.com), DuPont Pioneer, Johnston, IA

4:45 **1760** Insect resistance management for next-generation insecticidal traits. **Miles Lepping** (mdlepping@dow.com) and Nicholas Storer, Dow AgroSciences, Indianapolis, IN

## Symposium: Evolution of Biological Clocks

### Room W224 C (Convention Center)

**Moderators and Organizers:** Astrid Groot¹ and Charalambos Kyriacou², ¹Univ. of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands, ²Univ. of Leicester, Leicester, United Kingdom

1:30 **1761** Circadian clock control of the monarch butterfly seasonal migration. **Christine Merlin** (cmerlin@bio.tamu.edu), Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX

2:00 **1762** Circatidal clock in the mangrove cricket. **Hideharu Numata** (numata@ethol.zool.kyoto-u.ac.jp), Kyoto Univ., Kyoto, Japan

2:30 **1763** From genome to function: Circadian and circalunar timing adaptations in the intertidal insect *Clunio marinus*. Tobias Kaiser and Birgit Poehn (birgit-poehn@univie.ac.at), Max F. Perutz Laboratories, Vienna, Austria

3:00 **BREAK**

3:15 **1764** Evolution of timing in insects and crustacea. **Charalambos Kyriacou** (cpk@leicester.ac.uk), Univ. of Leicester, Leicester, United Kingdom

3:30 **1765** The linden bug, *Pyrrhocoris apterus*, a model for insect seasonality. **Marketa Hejnikova** (hejnikova@entu.cas.cz), Lenka Pivarciova, and David Dolezel, Czech Academy of Sciences, České Budějovice, Czech Republic

3:45 **1766** Observation of circadian behavior in the large black chafer, *Holotrichia parallela*. **Yuta Kawasaki** (utakwsk@sci.osaka-cu.ac.jp), Osaka City Univ., Osaka, Japan

4:00 **1767** Evolution of timing sexual behaviors in moths. **Astrid Groot** (a.t.groot@uva.nl), Univ. of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands

4:15 **Panel Discussion**

## Symposium: Interactions Between the Insect Immune System and Parasites

### Room W331D (Convention Center)

**Moderators and Organizers:** Michael R. Strand¹ and Francesco Pennacchio², ¹Univ. of Georgia, Athens, GA, ²Univ. of Napoli Federico II, Napoli, Italy

1:30 **1768** Genes and symbionts: The evolution of virus resistance in *Drosophila*. **Francis Jiggins** (fmj1001@cam.ac.uk), Chuan Cao, and Julien Martinez, Univ. of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

1:45 **1769** *Wolbachia*-insect associations and antiviral immunity. **Karyn Johnson** (karynj@uq.edu.au), Aleksej Stevanovic, and Zhee Sheen Wong, Univ. of Queensland, St. Lucia, Australia

2:00 **1770** Innate immune response and parasite evasion in malaria vector mosquitoes. **George Christophides** (g.christophides@imperial.ac.uk), Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
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2:15 **1771** Host-virus interactions: Lessons from the model organism *Drosophila melanogaster*. **Jean-Luc Imler** (jl.imler@unistra.fr), National Centre for Scientific Research, Strasbourg, France

2:30 **1772** The regulation of humoral control immunity in mosquitoes. **Kristin Michel** (kmichel@ksu.edu), Victoria Davidson, Melissa Gulley, David Meekins, and Xin Zhang, Kansas State Univ., Manhattan, KS

2:45 **1773** Microbial community and redox homeostasis in the mosquito gut ecosystem. **Jiannong Xu** (jxu@nmsu.edu), New Mexico State Univ., Las Cruces, NM

3:00 BREAK

3:15 **1774** Honey bee-parasite immune suppression by parasites and pathogens. **Francesco Pennacchio** (ibrahim@igb.cnr.it)¹ and **Francesco Nazzi**², ¹Univ. of Napoli Federico II, Napoli, Italy, ²Univ. of Udine, Udine, Italy

3:30 **1775** Nematodes and bacteria: Allies in the suppression of insect immune defenses. **Heidi Goodrich-Blair** (hgblair@bact.wisc.edu)¹, Ángel Casanova-Torres¹, Elisabeth Hussa², Helge Bode³, Adler Dillman⁴, Ionnis Eleftherianos⁵, Steve Forst⁶, and Jean-Marc Reichhart⁷, ¹Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, ²Millsaps College, Jackson, MS, ³Goethe-Univ., Frankfurt, Germany, ⁴Univ. of California, Riverside, CA, ⁵The George Washington Univ., Washington, DC, ⁶Univ. of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, ⁷Univ. of Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France

3:45 **1776** The role of novel viruses as parasite mutualists. **Gaelen Burke** (grburke@uga.edu) and **Kelsey Coffman**, Univ. of Georgia, Athens, GA

4:00 **1777** Molecular analysis of immune-suppressive virus-like particles from cynipid wasp *Leptopilina heterotoma*, a generalist parasite of *Drosophila* spp. **Shubha Govind** (sgovind@ccny.cuny.edu)¹, Mary Ellen Heavner¹, Johnny Ramroop¹, Brian Wey¹ and Shaneen Singh², ¹City Univ. of New York, New York, NY, ²City Univ. of New York, Brooklyn, NY

4:15 **1778** Molecular response of *Manduca sexta* immune tissues to parasitization by the bracovirus-associated wasp *Cotesia congregata*. **Elisabeth Huguet** (elisabeth.huguet@univ-tours.fr), National Center for Scientific Research, Tours, France

4:30 **1779** *Drosophila-Leptopilina* wasps interactions: Inter-species variation, mechanisms, and evolution. **Marylène Poirié** (poirie@sophia.inra.fr), Nice Sophia Antipolis Univ., Sophia Antipolis, France

4:45 **1780** How different parasitoids respond to immunity of the same host. **Xue-xin Chen** (xxchen@zju.edu.cn), Zhi-zhi Wang, Xi-qian Ye, Min Shi, Qijuan Gu, Ze-huan Wang, Jia-ni Zou and Le-qing Zhan, Zhejiang Univ., Hangzhou, China

5:00 **1781** Epigenetic interactions between insects and parasitic fungi. **Krishnendu Mukherjee** (krishnendu.mukherjee@agr.uni-giessen.de)¹ and Andreas Vilcinskas², ¹Univ. of Giessen, Giessen, Germany, ²Justus Liebig Univ., Gießen, Germany

Symposium: Parasitoids, Polydnnaviruses, and Pathogens: Genomes to Immune Physiology

Room W330 C (Convention Center)

**Moderators and Organizers:** Bruce Webb¹ and Nathalie Volkoff², ¹Univ. of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, ²INRA, Montpellier, France

1:30 **1782** Mechanisms of transfer of virulence molecules in ichneumonid wasps. **Anne-Nathalie Volkoff** (volkoff@supagro.inra.fr)¹, Apolline Pichon¹, Magali Eychenne¹, Marc Ravallec¹, Annie Bézier², Matthieu Leibold², Véronique Jouan¹, Serge Urbach³, Valérie Barbe⁴, Jean-Michel Drezen⁵, Fabrice Legeai⁶, and Don Stoltz⁷, ¹INRA, Montpellier, France, ²François Rabelais Univ., Tours, France, ³National Center for Scientific Research, Montpellier, France, ⁴National Sequencing Centre, Evry, France, ⁵National Center for Scientific Research, Tours, France, ⁶INRA, Le Rheu, France, ⁷Dalhousie Univ., Halifax, NS, Canada

1:45 **1783** Advancing on the understanding of the genome, gene expression, and potential for biotechnological exploitation of the polydnnavirus associated with *Cotesia flavipes*. **Fernando L. Cônsoli** (fconsoli@usp.br)¹, Guilherme Rossi¹, Bruna Merlin¹, Simone Prado², and Fabio Dossi¹, ¹Univ. of São Paulo, Piracicaba, Brazil, ²Embrapa Environment, Jaguariuna, Brazil

2:00 **1784** Comparative genomics of parasitoid wasps and what it says on the evolution of their endogenous bracovirus. **Jean-Michel Drezen** (drezen@univ-tours.fr)¹, Jeremy Gauthier², Annie Bézier², Jean-Marc Aury³, Valérie Barbe³, Anthony Bretaudieu⁴, Fabrice Legeai⁵, Karine Musset², Philippe Gayral², Elisabeth Huguet¹, and Elisabeth Herniou², ¹National Center for Scientific Research, Tours, France, ²François Rabelais Univ., Tours, France, ³National Sequencing Center, Evry, France, ⁴INRA, Rennes, France, ⁵INRA, Le Rheu, France

2:15 **1785** On the evolutionary origins of banchine polydnnaviruses. **Michel Cusson** (mcusson@rncan.gc.ca)¹, Catherine Béliveau¹, Alejandro Cohen², Don Stewart³, G. Periquet⁴, Abdelmadjid Djoumad³, Lisa Kuhn², Don Stoltz², Brian Boyle⁵, Anne-Nathalie Volkoff⁶, Elisabeth Herniou⁴, and Jean-Michel Drezen⁷, ¹Natural Resources Canada, Québec City, QC, Canada, ²Dalhousie Univ., Halifax, NS, Canada, ³Natural Resources Canada, Halifax, NS, Canada, ⁴François Rabelais Univ., Tours, France, ⁵Univ. Laval, Québec City, QC, Canada, ⁶INRA, Montpellier, France, ⁷National Center for Scientific Research, Tours, France

2:30 **1786** Molecular pathways shared between host-parasitoid interaction in insect and other animals: The case of teratocyte extracellular enolase. **Gerarda Grossi**¹, **Annalisa Grimaldi**², **Rosa Cardone**³, **Simona Laurino**¹, and **Patrizia Falabella** (patrizia.falabella@unibas.it)¹, ¹Univ. of Basilicata, Potenza, Italy, ²Univ. of Insubria, Varese, Italy, ³Univ. of Bari, Bari, Italy

2:45 **1787** A trigger factor for the emergence of parasitoid wasp larvae from the host. **Yoichi Hayakawa** (hayakayo@cc.saga-u.ac.jp), Saga Univ., Saga, Japan

3:00 BREAK
3:15 **1788** When two types of polynaviruses work on the same host: What we can draw from their genomes and gene expressions. **Min Shi** (shimin0623@zju.edu.cn), Xi-qian Ye, Ze-huan Wang, and Xue-xin Chen, Zhejiang Univ., Hangzhou, China

3:30 **Discussion**

**Symposium: Plant Piercing-Sucking Insects and Vectors without Borders**

Room W232 B (Convention Center)

**Moderators and Organizers:** Chrystel Olivier¹, Charles Vincent², Julien Saguez³, and Philippe Giordanengo⁴. ¹Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, London, ON, Canada, ²Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, QC, Canada, ³Entomological Society of Québec, Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, QC, Canada, ⁴INRA, Sophia Antipolis, France

1:30 **1789** Potential vectors of maize bushy stunt disease in native corn grown at high elevations in southeast Mexico. **Edel Perez** (edellopez1987@gmail.com)¹, Tyler Wist², Dana Nordin², Tim Dumonceaux², Mauricio Luna-Rodriguez¹, and Chrystel Olivier³. ¹Univ. Veracruzana, Xalapa, Mexico, ²Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Saskatoon, SK, Canada, ³Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, London, ON, Canada

1:45 **1790** The acrostyle within aphid stylets: Role in plant virus transmission and plant-aphid interaction. **Marilyne Uzest** (uzest@supagro.inra.fr), INRA, Montpellier, France

2:00 **1791** When a Palearctic bacterium meets a Nearctic insect vector: Genetic and ecological insights into the emergence of the grapevine *Candidatus Phytoplasma vitis* and *Ca. P. vitialni* epidemics in Europe. Sylvie Malembic-Maher¹, Delphine Desque¹, Dima Khalil¹, Pascal Salar¹, Jean-Luc Danet¹, Sibylle Duret¹, Jelena Jović², Slobodan Krnajić², Elisa Angelini³, Luisa Filippin³, Ibolya Ember⁴, Maria Kolber⁵, Michele Della Bartola⁶, Alberto Materazzi⁶, Michael Maixner⁷, Laure Beven¹, Nathalie Bouvery¹, and **Xavier Foissac** (foissac@bordeaux.inra.fr)¹. ¹INRA, Villenave d'Ornon, France, ²Institute for Plant Protection and Environment, Zemun, Serbia, ³CREA, Conegliano, Italy, ⁴Univ. of Budapest, Budapest, Hungary, ⁵Genlogs Biodiagnostika Kft., Celldömölk, Hungary, ⁶Univ. of Pisa, Pisa, Italy, ⁷Julius Kühn Institute, Siebeldingen, Germany

2:15 **1792** Why host acquired insect-specific toxins and regulations when you are a plant pathogen? Facts and lessons from the aphid / *Cyt / Dickeya dadantii* model. **Yvan Rabhé** (Yvan.Rahbe@lyon.inra.fr)¹,² and Guy Condemine², ¹INRA, Villeurbanne, France, ²Univ. of Lyon, Villeurbanne, France

2:30 **1793** Vector manipulation by viruses: The pathosystem Brassicaceae-aphids-phytoviruses, a study case. **Quentin Chesnais** (quentin.chesnais@u-picardie.fr)¹, Aude Couty¹, Marilyne Uzest², Veronique Brault³, and Arnaud Ameline¹, ¹Univ. of Picardie Jules Verne, Amiens, France, ²INRA, Montpellier, France, ³INRA, Colmar, France

2:45 **1794** Effect of mineral oil on the aphid–potato–PVY system. **Sebastien Boquel** (boquel.s@gmail.com), Jianhua Zhang, Xianzhou Nie, and Yvan Pelletier,

Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Fredericton, NB, Canada

3:00 **BREAK**

3:15 **1795** Phytoplasma disease in canola. **Chrystel Olivier** (drchrystelolivier@gmail.com), Tyler Wist, Tim Dumonceaux and Christine Hammond, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Saskatoon, SK, Canada

3:30 **1796** Tritrophic interactions between leafhoppers, grapevines, and phytoplasmas in Canadian vineyards: An overview. **Julien Saguez** (saguez@yahoo.com)¹, Charles Vincent², Jacques Lasnier³, Tim Dumonceaux⁴, Christine Hammond⁴, Lorne Stobbs⁵, Philippe Giordanengo⁶, and Chrystel Olivier⁴, ¹Entomological Soceity of Québec, Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, QC, Canada, ²Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, QC, Canada, ³Ag-Cord, Inc., Granby, QC, Canada, ⁴Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Saskatoon, SK, Canada, ⁵Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Vineland, ON, Canada, ⁶INRA, Sophia Antipolis, France

3:45 **1797** Presentation withdrawn

**Symposium: Advances in Pest Management**

Room W240 C (Convention Center)

**Moderators and Organizers:** Olivia Reynolds¹ and Eric B. Jang², ¹New South Wales Dept. of Primary Industries, Menangle, Australia, ²USDA - ARS, Hilo, HI

1:30 **1798** Ecological approaches to enhance biological control of insect pests. **Geoffrey Gurr** (geoff.gurr@gmail.edu.au)¹,²,³, ¹Charles Sturt Univ., Orange, Australia, ²Fujian Agriculture and Forestry Univ., Fuzhou, China, ³Ministry of Agriculture, Fuzhou, China

2:00 **1799** Biosensors to support socially acceptable pest management technologies for surveillance, management, and eradication of invasive species. **D. Max Suckling** (max.suckling@plantandfood.co.nz)¹, Flore Mas², and Kye Chung Park², ¹The New Zealand Institute for Plant & Food Research Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand, ²The New Zealand Institute for Plant & Food Research Ltd, Christchurch, New Zealand

2:30 **1800** Toxic and beneficial effects of plant essential oils on arthropod pests lead to novel control methods. **Nikos Papadopoulos** (nikopap@uth.gr)¹, Charalampos Ioannou², Dimitrios Papachristos³, Stella Papanastasiou², and Christos Gerofotis², ¹Univ. of Thessaly, Nea Ionia, Greece, ²Univ. of Thessaly, Volos, Greece, ³Benaki Phytopathological Institute, Kifissia, Greece

2:45 **1801** Two in one: Use of sterile insects to transmit entomopathogenic fungi and induce sterility.

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**Pablo Liedo** (pliedo@ecosur.mx)¹, **Pablo Montoya**², and **Jorge Toledo**¹. ¹College of the Southern Border, **Tapachula, Mexico**, ²**Secretariat of Agriculture, Livestock, Rural Development, Fisheries and Food, Tapachula, Mexico**

**3:00 BREAK**

3:15 **1802** The development of monitoring systems for pests based on internet of things (IOTs) technology. **En-Cheng Yang** (ecyang@ntu.edu.tw), **Jo-Air Jiang**, **Tzu-Shiang Lin**, **Chien-Hao Wang**, and **Min-Sheng Liao**, **National Taiwan Univ., Taipei, Taiwan**

3:30 **1803** Computer simulation of pest detection applied to invasive tephritids. **Nicholas Manoukis** (nicholas.manoukis@ars.usda.gov), USDA - ARS, Hilo, HI

3:45 **1804** Stable isotope technology for the determination of pest natal origins. **Karen Armstrong** (karen.armstrong@lincoln.ac.nz)¹,², **Peter Holder**¹,², **D. Murphy**²,³, **C Allen**²,³, **Peter Crisp**²,⁴, **W. Woods**²,⁵, and **Bernie Domiak**²,⁶, ¹**Lincoln Univ., Christchurch, New Zealand**, ²**Plant Biosecurity Cooperative Research Centre, Canberra, Australia**, ³**Queensland Univ. of Technology, Brisbane, Australia**, ⁴**South Australian Research and Development Institute, Adelaide, Australia**, ⁵**Dept. of Agriculture and Food, Perth, Australia**, ⁶**New South Wales Dept. of Primary Industries, Orange, Australia**

4:00 **1805** New trap dispensers to improve detection programs for area-wide control of fruit flies (Diptera: Tephritidae): Implications of chemical degradation of trimmed lure multi-lure dispensers weathered under California climatic conditions. **Roger Vargas** (roger.vargas@ars.usda.gov)¹, **Steven Souder**¹, **Joseph G. Morse**², **Elizabeth Grafton-Cardwell**³, **David R. Haviland**⁴, **John Kabashima**⁵, **Ben Faber**⁶, **Bruce Mackey**⁷, **Eddie Nkomo**⁸, **Peter Cook**⁸, and **John Stark**⁹. ¹**USDA - ARS, Hilo, HI**, ²**Univ. of California, Riverside, CA**, ³**Univ. of California, Exeter, CA**, ⁴**Univ. of California Cooperative Extension, Bakersfield, CA**, ⁵**Univ. of California Cooperative Extension, Costa Mesa, CA**, ⁶**Univ. of California Cooperative Extension, Ventura, CA**, ⁷**USDA - ARS, Albany, CA**, ⁸**Farma Tech International, North Bend, WA**, ⁹**Washington State Univ., Puyallup, WA**

2:15

¹USDA - ARS, Ames, IA, ²Iowa State Univ., Ames, IA, ³Univ. of São Paulo, Piracicaba, Brazil, ⁴North-West Univ., Potchefstroom, South Africa

**1808** Role of Bt cotton in global IPM. **Lewis Wilson** (lewis.wilson@csiro.au)¹, **Steven Naranjo**², **Hari Sharma**³, **Kongming Wu**⁴, **Jeff Gore**⁵, and **Silvana V. Paula-Moraes**⁶, ¹**CSIRO, Narrabri, Australia**, ²**USDA - ARS, Maricopa, AZ**, ³**Dr. YS Parmar Univ. of Horticulture & Forestry, Nauni, Solan, India**, ⁴**Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China**, ⁵**Mississippi State Univ., Stoneville, MS**, ⁶**Embrapa Cerrados, Planaltina, Brazil**

2:30

**1809** Economics of Bt crops and virus-resistant crops: A global view. **David Zilberman** (zilber11@berkeley.edu) and Scott Kaplan, Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA

**3:00 BREAK**

3:15

**1810** Environmental effects of insect resistant genetically-engineered crops and implications for regulation. **Jörg Romeis** (joerg.romeis@agroscope.admin.ch)¹, **Michael Meissle**¹, and **Yunhe Li**², ¹**Agroscope, Zürich, Switzerland**, ²**Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China**

3:30

**1811** Resistance management in insect resistant genetically-engineered crops. **Rick Roush** (rtr10@psu.edu)¹ and **Sharon Downes**², ¹**Pennsylvania State Univ., University Park, PA**, ²**CSIRO, Narrabri, Australia**

3:45

**1812** Bt eggplant: A bold step for Bangladesh and hope for the Philippines. **Anthony M. Shelton** (ams5@cornell.edu)¹, **Desiree Hautea**², **Joseph E. Huesing**³, and **Gour Pada Das**⁴, ¹**Cornell Univ., Geneva, NY**, ²**Univ. of the Philippines, Laguna, Philippines**, ³**USAID, Washington, DC**, ⁴**Sathguru, Dhaka, Bangladesh**

4:00

**1813** Bt rice in China: From biosafety assessment to public acceptance. **Junce Tian** (tianjunce@163.com), **Gongyin Ye**, **Zeng-Bing Lu**, **Cong Dang**, **Duo Ning**, and **Nai-Shun Han**, **Zhejiang Univ., Hangzhou, China**

4:15

**1814** Beyond Bt: Exploiting arachnid venom peptide toxins to control crop pests. **Elaine Fitches** (e.c.fitches@durham.ac.uk)¹, **Jake De Their**¹, **Erich Nakasu**², **Prashant S. Pyati**¹, **Michelle Powell**³, **Martin Edwards**⁴, **Angharad M. R. Gatehouse**⁴, and **John Gatehouse**¹, ¹**Durham Univ., Durham, United Kingdom**, ²**Embrapa Vegetables, Brasília, Brazil**, ³**Fera Science Ltd., York, United Kingdom**, ⁴**Newcastle Univ., Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom**

4:30

**1815** RNAi for insect control. **Murugesan Rangasamy** (mrangasamy@dow.com), **Huarong Li**, **Elane Fishilevich**, **Meghan Frey**, **Sarah Worden**, **Miles Lepping**, **Premchand Gandra**, **Chaoxian Geng**, and **Kenneth Narva**, **Dow AgroSciences, Indianapolis, IN**

**4:45 Discussion**

**Symposium: Research Frontiers into the Use of Preventive Medicine in Arthropod Pest Management**

**Room W240 B (Convention Center)**

**Moderators and Organizers:** Christian Nansen¹ and Kevin Heinz², ¹Univ. of California, Davis, CA, ²Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX

**1:30 Panel Discussion**

**Symposium: Insect-Resistant Genetically Engineered Crops: Current Status, Concerns, and Future Prospects**

**Room W414 A (Convention Center)**

**Moderators and Organizers:** Anthony M. Shelton¹ and Jörg Romeis², ¹Cornell Univ., Geneva, NY, ²Agroscope, Zürich, Switzerland

1:30 **1806** Insect resistant genetically-engineered crops: Regulations, acceptance, and barriers. **Nicholas Storer** (nstorer@dow.com)¹, **Matthew Cahill**², **Filip Cnudde**³, **Raju Kapoor**⁴, and **Angel Saavedra**⁵, ¹**Dow AgroSciences, Indianapolis, IN**, ²**Dow AgroSciences, Sydney, Australia**, ³**Dow AgroSciences, Brussels, Belgium**, ⁴**Dow AgroSciences, New Delhi, India**, ⁵**Dow AgroSciences, Guadalajara, Mexico**

2:00 **1807** Role of Bt maize in global IPM. **Richard Hellmich** (richard.hellmich@ars.usda.gov)¹, **Aaron Gassmann**², **Celso Omoto**³, and **Johnnie van den Berg**⁴,
1:45 **1816** Herbivore defenses induced in *Arabidopsis* by beneficial soil bacteria. Mina Aziz, Ranjith Nadipalli, Jin-Lin Zhang, and **Paul Pare** (paul.pare@ttu.edu), Texas Tech Univ., Lubbock, TX

2:00 **1817** Mutualistic soil fungi and plant nutrition jointly influence plant-herbivore interactions. **Rachel Vannette** (raleva@stanford.edu), Stanford Univ., Stanford, CA

2:15 **1818** A lipid-mediated cross-talk between insect defense and drought stress responses. **Michael Kolomiets** (Mike.Kolomiets@agnet.tamu.edu)¹, Eli Borrego¹, Pei-Cheng Huang¹, Christian Nansen², and Shawn Christensen³, ¹Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX, ²Univ. of California, Davis, CA, ³USDA - ARS, Gainesville, FL

2:30 **1819** Beating the bugs in the cranberry bogs — nutrients influence plant resistance. **Elvira de Lange** (elvira.delange@rutgers.edu)¹,², Vera Kyryczenko-Roth², Jennifer Johnson-Cicalese², Joan Davenport³, Nicholi Vorsa¹,², and Cesar Rodriguez-Saona¹,², ¹Rutgers, The State Univ. of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ, ²Rutgers, The State Univ. of New Jersey, Chatsworth, NJ, ³Washington State Univ., Prosser, WA

2:45 **1820** Plant feeding pest and predatory mites, from lab to field, implications for IPM. **Eric Palevsky** (palevsky@volcani.agri.gov.il)¹, Moshe Inbar², and Sharon Warburg¹,², ¹Agricultural Research Organisation, Ramat Yishay, Israel, ²Univ. of Haifa, Haifa, Israel

3:00 **BREAK**

3:15 **1821** Ecological modelling of the effects of water hyacinth nutrient composition on the performance of a biological control agent. **Emily Bick** (enbick@ucdavis.edu)¹, Paul Pratt², and Christian Nansen¹, ¹Univ. of California, Davis, CA, ²USDA - ARS, Albany, CA

3:30 **1822** *Parasaccharibacter apium*, gen. nov., sp. nov., improves honey bee (Hymenoptera: Apidae) resistance to *Nosema*. Lucy Snyder, Charlotte Meador, Rebecca Naldo, Brendon Mott, **Kirk E. Anderson** (kirk.anderson@ars.usda.gov) and Vanessa Corby-Harris, USDA - ARS, Tucson, AZ

3:45 **1823** Efficacy of probiotics for improved honey bee colony health. **Ryan Schwarz** (ryan.schwarz@ars.usda.gov)¹, Jay Evans¹, and Nancy Moran², ¹USDA - ARS, Beltsville, MD, ²The Univ. of Texas, Austin, TX

4:00 **1824** Remote sensing of nutrient-induced host plant susceptibility and biotic stress responses. **Christian Nansen** (chrnansen@ucdavis.edu), Univ. of California, Davis, CA

4:15 **1825** Crop rotation and plant nutrition modulate crop-pest interactions: Evidence from ecoinformatics datasets. **Jay Rosenheim** (jarosenheim@ucdavis.edu)¹, Matthew Meisner¹, and Andrew Forbes², ¹Univ. of California, Davis, CA, ²Univ. of Iowa, Iowa City, IA

4:30 **Discussion**

**Symposium: Forest Insect Invasions in a**
**Changing Climate: Mechanisms and Risks**

**Room W224 D (Convention Center)**

**Moderators and Organizers:** Dylan Parry¹, Christelle Robinet², and Patrick Tobin³, ¹State Univ. of New York, Syracuse, NY, ²INRA, Orléans, France, ³Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA

1:30 **1826** Forest insect invasion in a changing climate: An overview. **Dylan Parry** (dparry@esf.edu)¹, Christelle Robinet², and Patrick Tobin³, ¹State Univ. of New York, Syracuse, NY, ²INRA, Orléans, France, ³Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA

1:45 **1827** Adoption of novel hosts following a climatically induced range expansion of mountain pine beetle. **Nadir Erbilgin** (erbilgin@ualberta.ca), Univ. of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada

2:00 **1828** Potential responses of the invasive European woodwasp, *Sirex noctilio*, to a warming world. **José Villacide** (jvillacide@bariloche.inta.gov.ar), Victoria Lantschner, and Juan C. Corley, National Agricultural Technology Institute, Bariloche, Argentina

2:15 **1829** The range expansion of the pine processionary moth in a changing world: How a well understood multifactorial process could tangle up. **Mathieu Laparie** (mathieu.laparie@orleans.inra.fr), Christelle Robinet, Jérôme Rousselet, and Alain Roques, INRA, Orléans, France

2:30 **1830** The opening and closing of climatic envelopes in the gypsy moth invasion of North America. **Kristine Grayson** (kgrayson@richmond.edu)¹, Lily Thompson², Trevor Faske², Patrick Tobin³, Christopher Friedline², Andrew Eckert², Dylan Parry⁴, and Derek Johnson², ¹Univ. of Richmond, Richmond, VA, ²Virginia Commonwealth Univ., Richmond, VA, ³Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA, ⁴State Univ. of New York, Syracuse, NY

2:45 **1831** Spread and pathway modelling to support pest risk assessment under global change. **Wopke van der Werf** (wopke.vanderwerf@wur.nl)¹, Bob Douma¹, Christelle Robinet², Lia Hemerik¹, and Monique Mourits¹, ¹Wageningen Univ. and Research Centre, Wageningen, Netherlands, ²INRA, Orléans, France

3:00 **BREAK**

3:15 **1832** Brown marmorated stink bug: The invasion potential under current and future climates. **Darren Kriticos** (darren.kriticos@csiro.au)¹, Hernando Acosta², John M. Kean³, Senait Senay⁴, and Craig Phillips³, ¹CSIRO, Canberra, Australia, ²Ministry of Primary Industries, Wellington, New Zealand, ³AgResearch Ltd, Christchurch, New Zealand, ⁴Lincoln Univ., Canterbury, New Zealand

3:30 **1833** The International Pest Risk Research Group: Developing and promoting improved methods for pest risk modelling and mapping. **Richard Baker** (richard.baker@fera.gsi.gov.uk)¹, Frank Koch², Darren Kriticos³, Amy C. Morey⁴, and Robert Venette⁵, ¹The Food and Environmental Research Agency, York, United Kingdom, ²USDA - Forest Service, Research Triangle Park, NC, ³CSIRO, Canberra, Australia, ⁴Univ. of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN, ⁵USDA - Forest Service, St. Paul, MN
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3:45 **1834** Impacts of climate change on habitat suitability for invasive alien species: Support for the Mix-Master hypothesis? **Robert Venette** (rvenette@fs.fed.us)¹, Frank Koch², Denys Yemshanov³, and Kevin M. Potter⁴, ¹USDA - Forest Service, St. Paul, MN, ²USDA - Forest Service, Research Triangle Park, NC, ³Natural Resources Canada, Sault Ste. Marie, ON, Canada, ⁴North Carolina State Univ., Research Triangle Park, NC

## Symposium: Hitchhikers in Florida: History and Control

### Room W224 H (Convention Center)

**Moderators and Organizers:** Vivek Kumar¹ and Garima Kakkar², ¹Univ. of Florida, Apopka, FL, ²Fort Lauderdale Research & Education Center, Davie, FL

1:30 **1835** History of alien invasive arthropod detections in Florida. **Norman Leppla** (ncleppla@ufl.edu)¹, J. Howard Frank¹, Micheal Thomas², and Paul Skelley³, ¹Univ. of Florida, Gainesville, FL, ²Florida Dept. of Agriculture and Consumer Services, Gainesville, FL, ³Florida State Collection of Arthropods, Gainesville, FL

2:00 **1836** Introduced urban pests in Florida. Roberto Pereira and **Philip G. Koehler** (pgk@ufl.edu), Univ. of Florida, Gainesville, FL

2:15 **1837** Unseen hitchhikers to Florida: Entomophilic nematodes. **Robin Giblin-Davis** (giblin@ufl.edu)¹, Natsumi Kanzaki², and Kerrie Davies³, ¹Univ. of Florida, Davie, FL, ²Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute, Tsukuba, Japan, ³Univ. of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia

2:30 **1838** Florida's exotic snails and slugs. **John L. Capinera** (capinera@ufl.edu), Univ. of Florida, Gainesville, FL

2:45 **1839** Florida exotic whitefly invaders from the last decade. **Cindy L. McKenzie** (cindy.mckenzie@ars.usda.gov)¹, Aaron Dickey², Ian Stocks³, Vivek Kumar⁴, and Lance Osborne⁴, ¹USDA - ARS, Ft. Pierce, FL, ²USDA - ARS, Clay Center, NE, ³Florida Dept. of Agriculture and Consumer Services, Gainesville, FL, ⁴Univ. of Florida, Apopka, FL

3:00 **BREAK**

3:15 **1840** Banker plants: Using a systems approach for dealing with exotic invasives in Florida. **Lance Osborne** (lsosborn@ufl.edu)¹, Vivek Kumar¹, Garima Kakkar², and Cindy L. McKenzie³, ¹Univ. of Florida, Apopka, FL, ²Fort Lauderdale Research & Education Center, Davie, FL, ³USDA - ARS, Ft. Pierce, FL

3:30 **1841** History, biology, ecology, behavior, and management of redbay beetle (Xyloborus glabratus) and other non-native ambrosia beetles in Florida. **Russell Mizell** (rfmizell@ufl.edu), Univ. of Florida, Quincy, FL

3:45 **1842** Biocontrol in Florida using herbivores, parasitoids, and predators. **Eric Rohrig** (eric.rohrig@freshfromflorida.com)¹ and J. Howard Frank², ¹Florida Dept. of Agriculture and Consumer Services, Gainesville, FL, ²Univ. of Florida, Gainesville, FL

4:00 **1843** Biology, behavior, and management of chilli thrips, and other invasive thrips (Thysanoptera: Thripidae) in south Florida. **Vivek Kumar** (vivekiari@ufl.edu)¹, Garima Kakkar², Cindy L. McKenzie³, Dakshina Seal⁴, and Lance Osborne¹, ¹Univ. of Florida, Apopka, FL, ²Fort Lauderdale Research & Education Center, Davie, FL, ³USDA - ARS, Ft. Pierce, FL, ⁴Univ. of Florida, Homestead, FL

4:15 **1844** Biology and control of Mexican bromeliad weevil in Florida. **Ronald D. Cave** (rdcave@ufl.edu)¹ and Teresa M. Cooper², ¹Univ. of Florida, Ft. Pierce, FL, ²Univ. of Florida, Gainesville, FL

4:30 **1845** Application of RNA interference (RNAi) as an invasive pest control strategy in Florida. **Robert Shatters** (robert.shatters@ars.usda.gov)¹, John Ramos¹, Ritesh Jain², Kasie Sturgeon², Charles A. Powell², William Dawson³, Siddarame Gowda³, Magali Grando⁴, Cássia Ceccon⁴, and Dov Borovsky¹, ¹USDA - ARS, Ft. Pierce, FL, ²Univ. of Florida, Ft. Pierce, FL, ³Univ. of Florida, Lake Alfred, FL, ⁴Univ. of Passo Fundo, Passo Fundo, Brazil

## Symposium: No More Invasive Insect Species: Is Quarantine the Answer?

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

**Moderators and Organizers:** Aziz Ajlan¹, Khalid Alhudaib², and J. R. Faleiro³, ¹King Faisal Univ., Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, ²King Faisal Univ., Hofuf, Saudi Arabia, ³Ministry of Agriculture, Al-Hassa, Saudi Arabia

1:30 **1846** Application of qualitative and quantitative quarantine methods for the management of red palm weevil, *Rhynchophorus ferrugineus* Olivier (Curculionidae: Coleoptera), in date palm farms. **Polana S. P. V. Vidyasagar** (vidyasagar49@yahoo.com), King Saud Univ., Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

2:00 **1847** Challenges in prevention of borers' invasion. **Victoria Soroker** (sorokerv@volcani.agri.gov.il)¹, Yuval Cohen¹, A. Hetzroni¹, and Pompeo Suma², ¹Agricultural Research Organisation, Bet-Dagan, Israel, ²Univ. of Catania, Catania, Italy

2:30 **1848** Evaluation of some insecticides for the control of the African bollworm, *Helicoverpa armigera* Hübner (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae), on sorghum in the rain-fed and irrigated areas in the Sudan. **Elnayer Suliman** (elnayer_s@hotmail.com), Gedarif Research Station, Sudan

2:45 **BREAK**

3:15 **1849** Diptera associated with citrus in the plain of Mitidja East (Ain Taya, Algeria). **Faiza Marniche** (fexena@hotmail.fr)¹, Amel Milla¹, and Salaheddine Doumandji², ¹National Veterinary School, El Alia, Algeria, ²National School of Agronomy, El Harrach, Algeria

3:30 **1850** Implicit health consequences of the 2012 floods in Rivers State. **Mekeu Noutcha** (naemekeu@yahoo.com) and F. Nwoko-Omere, Univ. of Port Harcourt, Rivers State, Nigeria

3:45 **Discussion**
# Symposium: The Role of National, Regional, and International Plant Protection Organizations to Prevent the Introduction and Spread of Plant Pests

## Room W224 F (Convention Center)

**Moderators and Organizers:** Lisa Neven¹ and Rebecca Lee²,
¹USDA - ARS, Wapato, WA, ²North American Plant Protection
Organization, Ontario, ON, Canada

1:30 **1851** Inter-organizational collaboration to protect plant resources while facilitating trade. Rebecca Lee¹ and **Stephanie Bloem** (sbloem.nappo@gmail.com)², ¹North American Plant Protection Organization, Ontario, ON, Canada, ²North American Plant Protection Organization, Raleigh, NC

1:45 **1852** Entomology in support of plant health — role of EPPO. **Philippe Reynaud** (philippe.reynaud@anses.fr)¹ and **Françoise Petter**², ¹ANSES, Montferrier-sur-Lez, France, ²European and Mediterranean Plant Protection Organization, Paris, France

2:00 **1853** Wanted, dead or alive non-viable: The role of regulation in keeping pest risk off New Zealand's shores. **Joanne Wilson** (joanne.wilson@mpi.govt.nz) and **Stephen Butcher**, Ministry for Primary Industries, Wellington, New Zealand

2:15 **1854** Inter-American cooperation in plant protection. **Lourdes Fonalleras** (lourdes.fonalleras@iica.int)¹, Carol Thomas², and Robert Ahern³, ¹Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture, Montevideo, Uruguay, ²Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture, Warrens, Barbados, ³Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture, San José, Costa Rica

2:30 **1855** The emergency response mechanism as a tool to preventing spread of plant pests. **Maclean Vaqalo** (macleanv@spc.int) and **Josua Wainiqolo**, Secretariat of the Pacific Community, Suva, Fiji

2:45 **1856** Relevant programs to prevent the introduction and spread of plant pests: The case of Mexico. **Francisco Trujillo** (trujillo@senasica.gob.mx), Secretariat of Agriculture, Livestock, Rural Development, Fisheries and Food, Mexico City, Mexico

### 3:00 BREAK

3:15 **1857** The role of research in support of regulatory decisions. **Lisa Neven** (lisa.neven@ars.usda.gov), USDA - ARS, Wapato, WA

3:30 **1858** Fighting invasive species through training. **Carlos Urias** (svegetal@oirsa.org), Regional International Organization for Agricultural Health, San Salvador, El Salvador

3:45 **1859** Achieving Aichi biodiversity targets: Prevention, control, or eradication of invasive alien species that threaten biodiversity, agricultural production, and human well-being. **Junko Shimura** (junko.shimura@cbd.int), Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity, Montréal, QC, Canada

4:00 **1860** International efforts to develop phytosanitary treatment standards. **Guy J. Hallman** (g.j.hallman@iaea.org) and **Rui Pereira**, Joint FAO/IAEA Division of Nuclear Techniques in Food and Agriculture, Vienna, Austria

4:15 **1861** An alien buried in the snow: Risk assessment of invasive alien species in the Canadian context. **Thierry Poiré** (thierry.poire@inspection.gc.ca), Canadian Food Inspection Agency, Ottawa, ON, Canada

4:30 **1862** How to build consensus globally to prevent the introduction and spread of plant pests while facilitating safe trade. **Jingyuan Xia**, and **Craig Fedchock** (craig.fedchock@fao.org), International Plant Protection Convention, Rome, Italy

### 4:45 Panel Discussion

# Symposium: Forensic Entomology without Borders: Uniting the Worldwide Forensic Entomology Community

## Room W222 B (Convention Center)

**Moderators and Organizers:** Michelle Sanford¹, Adrienne Brundage², Meaghan Pimsler², and Charity Owings³, ¹Harris County Institute of Forensic Sciences, Houston, TX, ²Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX, ³Indiana Univ.-Purdue Univ., Indianapolis, IN

1:30 **1863** Multiple independent discoveries, paradigm shifts, and testing the facilitation hypothesis of ecological succession. **J. P. Michaud** (jean-philippe.michaud@rcmp-grc.gc.ca)¹, Gaëtan Moreau², and Kenneth Schoenly³, ¹Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Airdrie, AB, Canada, ²Univ. of Moncton, Moncton, NB, Canada, ³California State Univ., Turlock, CA

1:45 **1864** The problem of temperature in forensic entomology casework. **Michelle Sanford** (michelle.sanford@ifs.hctx.net), Harris County Institute of Forensic Sciences, Houston, TX

2:00 **1865** History, accomplishments, and challenges of forensic entomology in Australia. **James Wallman** (jwallman@uow.edu.au), Univ. of Wollongong, Wollongong, Australia

2:15 **1866** Phenotypic plasticity in necrophagous flies — a (serious) source of error in forensic entomology? **Jens Amendt** (amendt@em.uni-frankfurt.de), Institute for Forensic Medicine, Frankfurt, Germany

2:30 **1867** High resolution gene expression analysis for estimating the age of blow fly pupae. **Barbara Zajac** (zajac@med.uni-frankfurt.de), University Hospital of Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany

2:45 **1868** Identification of necrophagous insects in Brazil: Status and challenges. **Patricia J. Thyssen** (thyssenpj@yahoo.com.br), Univ. of Campinas, Campinas, Brazil

**SD1869** Bacterial fauna associated with forensically important flies in Thailand. Tarinee Chaiwong¹, T. Srivoramas¹, M. Sueabsamran Panya¹, P. Panomket¹, Michelle Sanford², and **Adrienne Brundage** (adrienne.brundage@tamu.edu)³, ¹Ubon Ratchathani Univ., Ubon Ratchathani, Thailand, ²Harris County Institute of Forensic Sciences, Houston, TX, ³Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX

### 3:00 BREAK AND POSTER SESSION

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3:15 **1870** A comparative study of the decomposition and insect succession pattern between a human corpse and animal carcasses. **Jiangfeng Wang** (jfwang@suda.edu.cn), Soochow Univ., Suzhou, China

3:30 **1871** Mediators of population genetic structure in Indiana blow flies (Diptera: Calliphoridae). **Charity Owings** (charityowings@gmail.com) and Christine Picard, Indiana Univ.-Purdue Univ., Indianapolis, IN

3:45 **1872** The adult fly: An underestimated tool in forensic entomology. **Victoria Bernhardt** (victoria.bernhardt@hotmail.de), Institute for Forensic Medicine, Frankfurt, Germany

4:00 **1873** Entomotoxicology: Development and validation of CG-MS and LC/MS-MS methods for nicotine, metanfetamine, endosulfan, and coumatetraryl detection in blowflies. **Paola Magni** (doc.magni@gmail.com)¹, Marco Pazzi², Marco Vincenti², and Ian Dadour³, ¹Murdoch Univ., Crawley, Australia, ²Univ. of Turin, Torino, Italy, ³Boston Univ., Boston, MA

## Symposium: Reducing Transmission Rates of Infectious Diseases by Targeting Mosquito Olfaction

### Room W331 A (Convention Center)

**Moderators and Organizers:** Kostas Iatrou¹ and Walter S. Leal², ¹National Centre for Scientific Research, Athens, Greece, ²Univ. of California, Davis, CA

1:30 **1874** Neurogenetics of mosquito behavior. **Leslie Vosshall** (leslie@mail.rockefeller.edu), The Rockefeller Univ., New York, NY

2:00 **1875** Behavioral control of mosquitoes using odorants. **Anandasankar Ray** (anand.ray@ucr.edu), Univ. of California, Riverside, CA

2:15 **1876** Olfaction gene expression changes in three behavioral states of the yellow fever mosquito. **Luciano V. Cosme** (cosme.simple@gmail.com)¹, Craig J. Coates², and Michel A. Slotman², ¹Yale Univ., New Haven, CT, ²Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX

2:30 **1877** Prospecting of olfactory proteins from the American trypanosomiasis vector *Rhodnius prolixus* (Heteroptera: Reduviidae). **Ana C. A. Melo** (anamelo@iq.ufrj.br)¹, Daniele S. Oliveira¹, Thiago A. Franco¹, Nathalia F. Brito¹, Pingxi Xu², Monica F. Moreira¹, Marcia R. Soares¹, and Walter S. Leal², ¹Federal Univ. of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, ²Univ. of California, Davis, CA

2:45 **1878** Inhibition of insect odorant receptor function through antagonism of the odorant receptor co-receptor subunit. **Charles W. Luetje** (cluetje@med.miami.edu), Devin Kepchia, and Sissi Chen, Univ. of Miami, Miami, FL

### 3:00 BREAK

3:15 **1879** Mosquito anosmia-inducing and odor perception-enhancing compounds of natural origin targeting Orco function for malaria transmission control. **Kostas Iatrou** (iatrou@bio.demokritos.gr) and Panagiota Tsitoura, National Centre for Scientific Research, Athens, Greece

3:30 **1880** The role of grass volatiles in oviposition site selection by malaria mosquitoes. **Rickard Ignell** (rickard.ignell@slu.se), Swedish Univ. of Agricultural Sciences, Alnarp, Sweden

3:45 **1881** Exploiting the evolutionary dynamics of chemosensation in mosquitoes for vector management. **Zainulabeuddin Syed** (zainulabeuddin.syed.5@nd.edu), Univ. of Notre Dame, South Bend, IN

4:00 **1882** Mosquito olfaction: Reception of semiochemicals of medical importance. **Walter S. Leal** (wsleal@ucdavis.edu), Univ. of California, Davis, CA

## Symposium: Ticks Are Different: The Impact of Tick Biology on Their Role As Vectors

### Room W224 A (Convention Center)

**Moderators and Organizers:** Nicholas Ogden¹ and Gabriele Margos², ¹Public Health Agency of Canada, Saint-Hyacinthe, QC, Canada, ²Bavarian Health and Food Safety Authority, Ober-schleissheim, Germany

1:30 **1883** Ticks are different. **Annapaola Rizzoli** (annapaola.rizzoli@fmach.it), Edmund Mach Foundation, Trento, Italy

2:00 **1884** Interactions among *Ixodes scapularis*-borne pathogens in the United States. **Maria Diuk-Wasser** (mad2256@columbia.edu), Columbia Univ., New York, NY

2:30 **1885** Host specialization in ticks and the circulation of tick-borne disease agents. **Karen McCoy** (karen.mccoy@ird.fr), National Center for Scientific Research, Montpellier, France

2:45 **1886** Presentation withdrawn

### 3:00 BREAK

3:15 **1887** The role of pathogen genomics in assessing tick-borne pathogen evolutionary dynamics. **Giovanna Carpi** (gcarpi1@jhu.edu), Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD

3:30 **1888** Evidence for host-genotype associations of *Borrelia burgdorferi sensu stricto*. **Samir Mechai** (samir.mechai@umontreal.ca), Univ. of Montréal, Québec, QC, Canada

### 3:45 Discussion

**SD1889** Pathogenic bacteria in *Ixodes uriae* in Newfoundland and Labrador. **Hannah Munro** (hannah.munro@mun.ca), Memorial Univ. of Newfoundland, St. John's, NF, Canada

**SD1890** *Borrelia bavariensis* — vector adaptation and species invasion. Fanny Gatzmann¹, Noemie Becker², Dirk Metzler², Ai Takano³, Hiroki Kawabata⁴, Andreas Sing⁵, Melissa Rieger⁵, **Gabriele Margos** (gmargos1@gmail.com)⁵, and Volker Fingerle⁵, ¹German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany, ²Ludwig Maximilians Univ., München, Germany, ³Yagamuchi Univ., Yagamuchi, Japan, ⁴National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo, Japan, ⁵Bavarian Health and Food Safety Authority, Oberschleissheim, Germany
**SD1891** Spatial heterogeneity in *Ixodes scapularis* distribution in the Lyme disease emergence zone in southern Canada. **Marion Ripoche** (marion.ripoche@umontreal.ca), Univ. of Montréal, Saint-Hyacinthe, QC, Canada

**SD1892** Distribution of ticks and the risk of Lyme disease and other tick-borne pathogens of public health significance in Ontario, Canada. **Katie Clow** (kclow@uoguelph.ca), Univ. of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada

**SD1893** eTick: A Lyme disease surveillance and public health information tool. **Jules Koffi** (jules.konan.koffi@phac-aspc.gc.ca)¹, Jade Savage², Karine Thivierge³, L. Robbin Lindsay⁴, Catherine Bouchard⁵, and Nicholas Ogden¹. ¹Public Health Agency of Canada, Saint-Hyacinthe, QC, Canada, ²Bishop's Univ., Sherbrooke, QC, Canada, ³National Institute of Public Health of Québec, Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, QC, Canada, ⁴Public Health Agency of Canada, Winnipeg, MB, Canada, ⁵Univ. of Montréal, Saint-Hyacinthe, QC, Canada

4:15 **Poster Session**

## Symposium: Advances in Ant Systematics: Global Sampling, New Phylogenetic Methods, and Major Taxonomic Changes

### Room W231 A (Convention Center)

**Moderators and Organizers:** Andrea Lucky¹ and Philip S. Ward², ¹Univ. of Florida, Gainesville, FL, ²Univ. of California, Davis, CA

1:30 **1894** Advances in our understanding of ant taxonomy and evolution. **Philip Ward** (psward@ucdavis.edu), Univ. of California, Davis, CA

1:45 **1895** Ant evolution in the age of genomics. **Corrie Moreau** (cmoreau@fieldmuseum.org), The Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, IL

2:00 **1896** Fossil ants and the dawn of phylogenomics. **John S. LaPolla** (jlapolla@towson.edu), Towson Univ., Towson, MD

2:15 **1897** Reconciling global macroecological pattern and macroevolutionary processes in ant biodiversity. **Evan Economo** (evaneconomo@gmail.com)¹, Benoit Guenard², Michael Weiser³, and Nitish Narula¹, ¹Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, Onna, Japan, ²Univ. of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China, ³Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK

2:30 **1898** Pavement ants to population genomics: Bringing citizen science into the molecular era. **Andrea Lucky** (alucky@ufl.edu)¹, Tyler Vitone¹, Rob R. Dunn², Caroline Storer¹, Jiri Hulcr¹, Stuart McDaniel¹, and Adam Payton¹, ¹Univ. of Florida, Gainesville, FL, ²North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC

2:45 **1899** Phylogenomic methods advance our understanding of the evolution of formicine ants. **Bonnie Blaimer** (bonnieblaimer@gmail.com)¹, Seán Brady¹, Ted Schultz¹, Brian L. Fisher², and Philip Ward³, ¹Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History, Washington, DC, ²California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, CA, ³Univ. of California, Davis, CA

3:00 **BREAK**

3:15 **1900** Biodiversity genomics and the future of ant systematics. **Michael Branstetter** (mgbranstetter@gmail.com), Univ. of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT

3:30 **1901** Tropical cloud forest ants: Who are they and where did they come from? **John Longino** (jacklongino@gmail.com), Univ. of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT

3:45 **1902** Male ants: Past, present, and prospects. **Brendon Boudinot** (boudinotb@gmail.com), Univ. of California, Davis, CA

4:00 **1903** It is time for taxonomists to embrace morphology. **Flavia Esteves** (flaviaesteves@gmail.com), California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, CA

4:15 **1904** Advances in taxonomy and evolution of the Ectatomminae. **Rodrigo Feitosa** (rsmfeitosa@gmail.com), Gabriela Camacho, and Marcio R. Pie, Federal Univ. of Paraná, Curitiba, Brazil

4:30 **1905** Resolving Dorylinae: Promises and pitfalls of phylogenomics. **Marek L. Borowiec** (mlborowiec@ucdavis.edu), Univ. of California, Davis, CA

4:45 **1906** Evolution, biogeography, and diversification of the genus *Terataner*. **Francisco Hita Garcia** (fhitagarcia@gmail.com)¹ and Evan Economo², ¹Hessian State Museum, Darmstadt, Germany, ²Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, Onna, Japan

5:00 **1907** The evolution of biomechanical complexity during the global radiation of *Strumigenys*. **Doug Booher** (dboher@ucla.edu)¹ and Evan Economo², ¹Univ. of California, Los Angeles, CA, ²Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, Onna, Japan

5:15 **1908** Speciation patterns and evolution of convergently evolved obligate social parasites of fungus-growing ants. **Christian Rabeling** (crabeling@gmail.com)¹, Mauricio Bacci², Ted Schultz³, and Martin Bollazzi⁴, ¹Univ. of Rochester, Rochester, NY, ²São Paulo State Univ., São Paulo, Brazil, ³Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History, Washington, DC, ⁴Univ. of the Republic, Montevideo, Uruguay

## Symposium: Phylogeny and Evolution of Weevils (Coleoptera: Curculionoidea): A Symposium in Honor of Guillermo “Willy” Kuschel

### West Hall F3 (WF3) (Convention Center)

**Moderators and Organizers:** Duane D. McKenna and Dave Clarke, Univ. of Memphis, Memphis, TN

1:30 **1909** The 1,000 Curculionidae Phylogeny and Evolution Project (1K Weevils): An overview and preliminary results. **Duane D. McKenna** (dmckenna@memphis.edu), Univ. of Memphis, Memphis, TN

2:00 **1910** Towards a comprehensive view of weevil morphological evolution: Prospects and progress from the 1K Weevils project. **Dave Clarke** (djclarke@memphis.edu)¹, Adriana Marvaldi², Rolf Oberprieler³, and Duane D. McKenna¹, ¹Univ. of Memphis, Memphis, TN, ²National Univ. of La Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina, ³CSIRO, Canberra, Australia
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2:15 **1911** A backbone Phylogeny of Curculionidae from adult and larval morphology: Where do we stand after improving taxon and character sampling?
**Adriana E. Marvaldi** (marvaldi@fcnym.unlp.edu.ar)¹, Dave Clarke², Rolf Oberprieler³, Miguel Alonso-Zarazaga⁴, Robert D. Anderson⁵, Roberto Caldara⁶, Steve Davis⁷, Jiri Hulcr⁸, Andrew Johnson⁸, Analia Lanteri⁹, Christopher Lyal¹⁰, Massimo Meregalli¹¹, Marek Wanat¹², and Duane D. McKenna², ¹National Univ. of La Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina, ²Univ. of Memphis, Memphis, TN, ³CSIRO, Canberra, Australia, ⁴National Museum of Natural History, Madrid, Spain, ⁵Canadian Museum of Nature, Ottawa, ON, Canada, ⁶Univ. of Milan, Milano, Italy, ⁷American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY, ⁸Univ. of Florida, Gainesville, FL, ⁹Univ. of La Plata, La Plata, Argentina, ¹⁰The Natural History Museum, London, United Kingdom, ¹¹Univ. of Turin, Torino, Italy, ¹²Univ. of Wroclaw, Wroclaw, Poland

2:30 **1912** The fossil record of weevils — separating facts from fiction. **Rolf Oberprieler** (rolf.oberprieler@csiro.au)¹ and Steve Davis², ¹CSIRO, Canberra, Australia, ²American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY

2:45 **1913** Preliminary look at the phylogeny of New Zealand weevils. **Richard A. B. Leschen** (leschenr@landcareresearch.co.nz)¹, Talia Brav-Cubitt¹, Thomas Buckley¹, Samuel Brown², Steve Davis³, and Natish Anand¹, ¹Landcare Research, Auckland, New Zealand, ²Lincoln Univ., Lincoln, New Zealand, ³American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY

SD1914 Weevil mitogenomics. **Conrad Gillett** (c.gillett@uea.ac.uk)¹, Alex Crampton-Platt², Martijn Timmermans³, Bjarte Jordal⁴, Brent Emerson⁵, and Alfried Vogler²,⁶, ¹Univ. of East Anglia, Anglia, United Kingdom, ²The Natural History Museum, London, United Kingdom, ³Vrije Univ., Amsterdam, Netherlands, ⁴Univ. of Bergen, Bergen, Norway, ⁵Institute of Natural Products and Argobiology, La Laguna, Spain, ⁶Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

SD1915 Barcoding European weevils: The Molecular Weevil Identification Project. André Schütte¹, Peter Stüben², and **Jonas Astrin** (j.astrin.zfmk@uni-bonn.de)¹, ¹Zoological Research Museum Alexander Koenig, Bonn, Germany, ²Curculio Institute, Mönchengladbach, Germany

SD1916 Taxonomy and evolution of New Zealand broad-nosed weevils (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Entiminae).
**Samuel Brown** (xsdjbx@gmail.com)¹, Karen Armstrong², Barbara Barratt³, Robert Cruickshank¹, and Craig Phillips⁴, ¹Lincoln Univ., Lincoln, New Zealand, ²Lincoln Univ., Christchurch, New Zealand, ³AgResearch Ltd, Mosgiel, New Zealand, ⁴AgResearch Ltd, Christchurch, New Zealand

SD1917 Introductions and the potential for interspecies gene flow in endemic Galápagos weevils (Entiminae: Naupactini). **Andrea Sequeira** (asequeir@wellesley.edu), Flavia Mendonca de Souza, Sarah Pangburn, and Mary Kate Dornon, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA

SD1918 A phylogenetic approach to the aquatic weevil tribe Bagoini (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) using morphological characters of imagoes. Roberto Caldara¹, Massimo

Meregalli², Charles W. O'Brien³, and **Lois B. O'Brien** (lbobrien@cox.net)³, ¹Univ. of Milan, Milano, Italy, ²Univ. of Turin, Torino, Italy, ³Univ. of Arizona, Tucson, AZ

SD1919 Towards a reconstruction of the higher classification of the subfamily Ceutorhynchinae (Coleoptera: Curculionidae): A morphological approach. **Hiraku Yoshitake** (zoumushi@affrc.go.jp)¹, Steve Davis², and Enzo Colonnelli³, ¹National Institute for Agro-Environmental Sciences, Tsukuba, Japan, ²American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY, ³Rome, Italy

3:00 BREAK AND POSTER SESSION

3:15 **1920** Primitive weevils. **Robert S. Anderson** (randerson@mus-nature.ca), Canadian Museum of Nature, Ottawa, ON, Canada

3:30 **1921** Evolution of Anthribidae: Which evidence describes the history of diversification? **José Ricardo Mermudes** (jrermermudes@gmail.com) and Ingrid Mattos, Federal Univ. of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

3:45 **1922** Phylogeny of Entiminae, with special reference to the tribe Naupactini. **Analía Lanteri** (alanteri@fcnym.unlp.edu.ar)¹, María Guadalupe del Rio², Vanina Pereyra¹, and Adriana Marvaldi³, ¹National Univ. of La Plata, La Plata, Argentina, ²Museum of La Plata, La Plata, Argentina, ³National Univ. of La Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina

4:00 **1923** Host plant use and its impact on patterns of evolutionary diversification in the weevil subfamily Ceutorhynchinae (Curculionidae: Coleoptera). **Harald Letsch** (harald.letsch@univie.ac.at)¹, Ariel Leib Leonid Friedman², Enzo Colonnelli³, Duane D. McKenna⁴, and Hiraku Yoshitake⁵, ¹Univ. of Vienna, Vienna, Austria, ²Tel Aviv Univ., Tel Aviv, Israel, ³Rome, Italy, ⁴Univ. of Memphis, Memphis, TN, ⁵National Institute for Agro-Environmental Sciences, Tsukuba, Japan

4:15 **1924** Phylogenetics and evolution of Platypodinae. **Bjarte Jordal** (bjarte.jordal@um.uib.no), Univ. of Bergen, Bergen, Norway

4:30 **1925** Scolytinae relationships resolved: Genomic, morphological, and symbiont data. **Andrew Johnson** (ajj@ufl.edu)¹, Duane D. McKenna², Alan Lemmon³, Emily Lemmon³, and Jiri Hulcr¹, ¹Univ. of Florida, Gainesville, FL, ²Univ. of Memphis, Memphis, TN, ³Florida State Univ., Tallahassee, FL

4:45 **1926** Making sense of the Molytinae. **Christopher Lyal** (c.lyal@nhm.ac.uk), The Natural History Museum, London, United Kingdom

5:00 **1927** Towards a new concept of Cryptorhynchinae (Coleoptera: Curculionoidea). **Alexander Riedel** (riedel@smnk.de)¹, Rene Tänzler², Joan Pons³, and Michael Balke², ¹State Museum of Natural History, Karlsruhe, Germany, ²Bavarian State Collection of Zoology, Munich, Germany, ³Mediterranean Institute for Advanced Studies, Esporles, Spain

5:15 **1928** Effects of insect-host interactions on the diversification of palm-associated weevils. **Bruno de Medeiros** (souzademedeiros@fas.harvard.edu) and Brian Farrell, Harvard Univ., Cambridge, MA
Symposium: Progress in Insect Phylogenomics:
The Scale and Complexity of Next-Gen Datasets
and Analyses

Room W315 A (Convention Center)

**Moderators and Organizers:** Akito Y. Kawahara¹, Jessica Ware²,
Michelle Trautwein³, and David K. Yeates⁴. ¹Univ. of Florida,
Gainesville, FL, ²American Museum of Natural History, New
York, NY, ³California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, CA,
⁴CSIRO, Acton, Australia

1:30 **1929** Adaptive radiation in morphologically unremarkable scorpions. **Lauren Esposito** (espositola@gmail.com), California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, CA

1:45 **1930** Divergence time methodology for big datasets: Fossil calibrations and FASTDATE. Tomas Flouri¹ and Manpreet Kohli (mkk24@njit.edu)², ¹Heidelberg Institute of Theoretical Studies, Crete, Greece, ²Rutgers, The State Univ. of New Jersey, Newark, NJ

2:00 **1931** Genome evolution and phylogenomics of heritable bacterial symbionts in insects. **Gordon Bennett** (gordon.bennett@utexas.edu), Univ. of Hawai'i, Honolulu, HI

2:15 **1932** Using transcriptome based phylogenomics to address previously intractable acalyprate fly phylogeny (Diptera: Cyclorrhapha). **Keith M. Bayless** (kmbayles@ncsu.edu)¹, Karen Meusemann², Michelle Trautwein³, and Brian M. Wiegmann¹, ¹North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC, ²CSIRO, Canberra, Australia, ³California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, CA

2:30 **1933** There is more than just phylogeny from the 1KITE. **Xin Zhou** (xinzhou@genomics.cn), BGI, Shenzhen, China

2:45 **1934** A Pool-Seq approach to integrate genome and transcriptome variation affecting male fitness in the 12-spotted skimmer, *Libellula pulchella*. **Ruud Schilder** (rjs360@psu.edu), Pennsylvania State Univ., University Park, PA

3:00 **BREAK**

3:15 **1935** Fleas, flies, scorpionflies: Phylogenetic relationships of antliophora based on transcriptomics. **Karen Meusemann** (mail@karen-meusemann.de)¹, David Yeates², Bernhard Misof³, Frank Friedrich⁴, Rolf Beutel⁵, Katharina Schneeberg⁵, and Alexandros Vasilikopoulos³. ¹Univ. of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany, ²CSIRO, Australia, ³Zoological Research Museum Alexander Koenig, Bonn, Germany, ⁴Univ. of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany, ⁵Friedrich Schiller Univ., Jena, Germany

3:30 **1936** Model selection for phylogenomics. **Paul B. Frandsen** (paul.frandsen@rutgers.edu)¹, Bernhard Misof², Christoph Mayer², and Karl Kjer³, ¹Smithsonian Institution, Herndon, VA, ²Zoological Research Museum Alexander Koenig, Bonn, Germany, ³Univ. of California, Davis, CA

3:45 **1937** Phylogeny of Lepidoptera utilizing transcriptomes and hybrid enrichment data. **Akito Y. Kawahara** (kawahara@flmnh.ufl.edu)¹, Jesse Breinholt¹, Karen Meusemann², Andreas Zwick³, Charles Mitter³, Ralph Peters⁴, Karl Kjer⁵, and Bernhard Misof⁴. ¹Univ. of Florida, Gainesville, FL, ²CSIRO, Canberra, Australia, ³Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD, ⁴Zoological Research Museum Alexander Koenig, Bonn, Germany, ⁵Univ. of California, Davis, CA

4:00 **1938** Morphology and phylogenomics: Two sides of the same medal. **Benjamin Wipfler** (bwipfle@gwdg.de), Friedrich Schiller Univ., Jena, Germany

4:15 **1939** Transodonata: What 1KITE has taught us about the evolution of dragonflies and damselflies. **Jessica Ware** (jware42@andromeda.rutgers.edu)¹, Alexander Blanke², Oliver Niehuis³, Karl M. Kjer⁴, Bernhard Misof³, and Carola Greve³, ¹American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY, ²Univ. of Hull, Hull, United Kingdom, ³Zoological Research Museum Alexander Koenig, Bonn, Germany, ⁴Rutgers, The State Univ. of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ

4:30 **1940** Phylogenomics of the hemipteroid insect orders. **Kevin P. Johnson** (kjohnson@inhs.uiuc.edu), Univ. of Illinois, Champaign, IL

4:45 **1941** The phylogeny of Trichoptera: Coordinating big datasets. **Karl M. Kjer** (kjer@aesop.rutgers.edu)¹, Paul B. Frandsen², and Xin Zhou³, ¹Rutgers, The State Univ. of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ, ²Smithsonian Institution, Herndon, VA, ³BGI, Shenzhen, China

5:00 **1942** Inferring the evolutionary history of wasps, ants, and bees from transcriptomic data (Insecta: Hymenoptera). **Oliver Niehuis** (o.niehuis.zfmk@uni-bonn.de)¹, Karen Meusemann², Alexander Donath¹, Xin Zhou³, Bernhard Misof¹, Ralph Peters¹, Shalin Liu³, Malte Petersen¹, Christoph Mayer¹, Lars Krogmann⁴, and Lars Podsiadlowski⁵, ¹Zoological Research Museum Alexander Koenig, Bonn, Germany, ²CSIRO, Canberra, Australia, ³BGI, Shenzhen, China, ⁴State Museum of Natural History, Stuttgart, Germany, ⁵Univ. of Bonn, Bonn, Germany

Symposium: Systematics and Diversity of
Aquatic Beetles: An Emerging Model System in
Evolutionary Biology

Room W223 A (Convention Center)

**Moderator and Organizer:** Andrew Short, Univ. of Kansas,
Lawrence, KS

1:30 **1943** Phylogenetics and diversification of the whirligig beetles (Coleoptera: Gyrinidae): A role for sexual selection? **Grey Gustafson** (gtgustafson@gmail.com), Univ. of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM

1:45 **1944** Sexual selection and diversification patterns in diving beetles (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae). **Kelly Miller** (kbmiller@unm.edu), Univ. of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM

2:00 **1945** Systematic survey of the genus *Laccophilus* (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae) — future prospects outlined. **Olof Biström** (olof.bistrom@helsinki.fi), Univ. of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

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2:15 **1946** Unraveling time and space in the evolution of diving beetles: A phylogenomic perspective to the biogeography of Gondwana. **Aurelie Desamore** (aurelie.desamore@nrm.se), Swedish Museum of Natural History, Stockholm, Sweden

2:30 **1947** Phylogeny, distribution, and speciation in the endemic river-dwelling genus *Pachynectes* (Bidessini) on Madagascar. **Johannes Bergsten** (johannes.bergsten@nrm.se)¹ and Rasa Bukontaite², ¹Swedish Museum of Natural History, Stockholm, Sweden, ²Stockholm Univ., Stockholm, Sweden

2:45 **1948** Phylogeny and classification of Noteridae. **Stephen Baca** (s953b810@ku.edu), Emmanuel Toussaint, and Andrew Short, Univ. of Kansas, Lawrence, KS

3:00 **BREAK**

3:15 **1949** Infrageneric structure of New Guinea *Exocelina* predaceous diving beetles. **Helena Shaverdo** (shaverdo@mail.ru)¹ and Michael Balke², ¹Vienna Museum of Natural History, Vienna, Austria, ²Bavarian State Collection of Zoology, Munich, Germany

3:30 **1950** Diversity and endemism in water beetles of the South African Cape. **David Bilton** (d.bilton@plymouth.ac.uk), Plymouth Univ., Plymouth, United Kingdom

3:45 **1951** The aquatic beetle fauna of Qinghai-Xizang Plateau, China. **Fenglong Jia** (fenglongjia@aliyun.com), Sun Yat-sen Univ., Guangzhou, China

4:00 **1952** CReAC: A cyberinfrastructure platform for facilitating systematic and evolutionary research on aquatic beetles. **Andrew Short** (aezshort@ku.edu), Univ. of Kansas, Lawrence, KS

4:15 **1953** Phylogeny and biogeography of the Lutrochidae and their relatives. **Crystal Maier** (crystal.maier@gmail.com), Univ. of Kansas, Lawrence, KS

4:30 **1954** 100 million years of waterfall beetle evolution. **Emmanuel Toussaint** (emmanuel.touss1@gmail.com) and Andrew Short, Univ. of Kansas, Lawrence, KS

4:45 **1955** Reconstructing the evolutionary history of the Acidocerinae (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae): Advances in the *Chasmogenus* group. **Jennifer Girón** (entiminae@gmail.com) and Andrew Short, Univ. of Kansas, Lawrence, KS

5:00 **1956** Phylogenetic analysis of Berosini with a focus on *Berosus* Leach, 1817 (Insecta: Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae). **Bruno Clarkson** (brclarkson@gmail.com), Federal Univ. of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Symposium: The Evolution of Lepidoptera:
Bringing it All Together

Room W224 G (Convention Center)

**Moderators and Organizers:** Andreas Zwick¹ and Jae-Cheon Sohn², ¹CSIRO, Acton, Australia, ²Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History, Washington, DC

1:30 **1957** Higher phylogeny of Lepidoptera: Recent progress and future prospects. **Charles Mitter** (cmitter@umd.edu), Michael Cummings, Adam Bazinet, and Kim Mitter, Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD

2:00

**1958** Discovery and characterization of a new family of primitive moths (Aenigmatineidae) from Kangaroo Island, South Australia. **Douglas Hilton** (dhilton@unimelb.edu.au)¹, Axel Kallies¹, Liz Milla¹, Jadranka Rota², Niklas Wahlberg², Stephen Wilcox¹, Richard V. Glatz³, David Young³, Glenn Cocking⁴, Ted Edwards⁴, George Gibbs⁵, Mike Halsey⁶, and Niels Kristensen⁷, ¹The Univ. of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia, ²Lund Univ., Lund, Sweden, ³D'Estrees Entomology Scientific Services, MacGillivray, Australia, ⁴CSIRO, Acton, Australia, ⁵Victoria Univ., Kelburn, New Zealand, ⁶La Trobe Univ., Yackandandah, Australia, ⁷Univ. of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

2:15

**1959** A preliminary phylogeny of Heliozelidae (Lepidoptera: Adeloidea), with a focus on endemic Australian genera. **Liz Milla** (emilla@student.unimelb.edu.au)¹, David Young², Axel Kallies¹, Stephen Wilcox¹, Tom McConville³, Qike Wang¹, Brian Goodey⁴, Mike Halsey⁵, Camiel Doorenweerd⁶, Erik van Nieukerken⁶, and Douglas Hilton¹, ¹The Univ. of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia, ²D'Estrees Entomology Scientific Services, MacGillivray, Australia, ³The Univ. of Melbourne, Washington, DC, Australia, ⁴Colchester, United Kingdom, ⁵La Trobe Univ., Yackandandah, Australia, ⁶Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Leiden, Netherlands

2:30

**1960** The evolution of aposematism and chemical defense in Zygaenidae (Lepidoptera: Zygaenoidea). Chia-Hsuan Wei and **Shen-Horn Yen** (shenhornyen@faculty.nsysu.edu.tw), National Sun Yat-Sen Univ., Kaohsiung, Taiwan

2:45

**1961** New insights and renewed focus on the behavioural and mechanical traits of the larvae of the limacodid-group and related families (Lepidoptera: Aididae, Anomoeotidae, Dalceridae, Himantopteridae, Limacodidae, Megalopygidae, and Somabrachyidae). Steen Dupont¹ and **Marc Epstein** (marc.epstein@cdfa.ca.gov)², ¹The Natural History Museum, London, United Kingdom, ²California Dept. of Food and Agriculture, Sacramento, CA

3:00

**BREAK**

3:15

**1962** Redefining *Adelpha malea* fundania abundance and geographical distribution: A case of an overlooked species in Mexican scientific collections. **Blanca Prado** (brp_c@yahoo.com)¹, Carmen Pozo¹, Moisés Luis-Martinez² and Noemi Salas-Suárez¹, ¹College of the Southern Border, Chetumal, Mexico, ²National Autonomous Univ. of México, Mexico City, Mexico

3:30

**1963** Status of the phylogenetic-classification of the Blastobasidae (Lepidoptera: Gelechioidea) and insights to the evolution of host-plant preferences within its major clades. **David Adamski** (adamskid@si.edu), Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History, Washington, DC

3:45

**1964** Pyraloidea: Resolution with highly derived genera and additional taxa. **M. Alma Solis** (alma.solis@ars.usda.gov)¹ and Charles Mitter², ¹USDA - ARS, Washington, DC, ²Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD
4:00 **1965** Phylotransciprotmics of the Noctuoidea.
**Jesse Breinholt** (jessebreinholt@gmail.com)¹,
Nicholas Homziak¹, Lei Xiao¹, Andreas Zwick², and
Akito Y. Kawahara¹. ¹Univ. of Florida, Gainesville, FL,
²CSIRO, Acton, Australia

4:15 **1966** Since 2012: Updates and recent progresses in studies of fossil Lepidoptera. **Jae-Cheon Sohn** (jay.c.sohn@gmail.com)¹, Donald R. Davis², Conrad Labandeira², Maria Heikkilä², Charles Mitter³, Carmen Soriano⁴, and Sei-Woong Choi¹. ¹Mokpo National Univ., Moppo, South Korea, ²Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History, Washington, DC, ³Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD, ⁴U.S. Dept. of Energy, Lemont, IL

4:30 **1967** An improved time frame for the diversification of Lepidoptera. **Maria Heikkilä** (heikkilam@si.edu)¹, Jae-Cheon Sohn², Charles Mitter³, Michael Cummings³, Rienk de Jong⁴, Dany Azar⁵, Donald R. Davis¹, Conrad Labandeira¹, Thomas Simonsen⁶, Wolfram Mey⁷, and Kim Mitter³. ¹Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History, Washington, DC, ²Mokpo National Univ., Moppo, South Korea, ³Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD, ⁴Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Leiden, Netherlands, ⁵Lebanese Univ., Fanar-Matn, Lebanon, ⁶Natural History Museum, Aarhus, Denmark, ⁷Museum of Natural History, Berlin, Germany

4:45 **1968** Genetic mining of Lepidoptera in museum collections — from DNA barcodes to genomes.
**Andreas Zwick** (andreas.zwick@csiro.au) and
Diana Hartley, CSIRO, Acton, Australia

**Symposium: Insect Biocomposites: Cuticles and Peritrophic Matrices**

Room W331 C (Convention Center)

**Moderators and Organizers:** Michael Kanost¹, Tsunaki Asano², and Hans Merzendorfer³. ¹Kansas State Univ., Manhattan, KS, ²Tokyo Metropolitan Univ., Tokyo, Japan, ³Univ. of Siegen, Siegen, Germany

1:30 **1969** The assembly and turnover of the enigmatic insect cuticle. **Subbaratnam Muthukrishnan** (smk@k-state.edu), Kansas State Univ., Manhattan, KS

2:00 **1970** Cuticle formation in *Cimex lectularius*. Bernard Moussian (bernard.moussian@tuebingen.mpg.de), Christin Froschauer and Klaus Reinhardt, Technical Univ., Dresden, Germany

2:15 **1971** Major cuticular proteins in adult *Tribolium castaneum*. **Yasuyuki Arakane** (arakane@chonnam.ac.kr)¹, Mi Young Noh¹, Seulgi Mun¹, Neal Dittmer², Karl J. Kramer³, Subbaratnam Muthukrishnan², and Michael Kanost². ¹Chonnam National Univ., Gwangju, South Korea, ²Kansas State Univ., Manhattan, KS, ³USDA - ARS, Manhattan, KS

2:30 **1972** Structural analysis on insect cuticular proteins.
**Neal Dittmer** (ndittmer@ksu.edu), Kansas State Univ.,
Manhattan, KS

2:45 **1973** Laccase activation during the molting process.
**Tsunaki Asano** (asano-tsunaki@tmu.ac.jp)¹ and
Michael Kanost². ¹Tokyo Metropolitan Univ., Tokyo,
Japan, ²Kansas State Univ., Manhattan, KS

3:00 **BREAK**

3:15 **1974** Cuticle chitin degradation: An unrevealed complex process. **Qing Yang** (qingyang@dlut.edu.cn), Dalian Univ. of Technology, Dalian, China

3:30 **1975** Serosal cuticle formation and its waterproofing function during insect embryogenesis. **Gustavo Rezende** (grezende@uenf.br)¹, Luana Farnesi², Helena Vargas¹, Chris Jacobs³, Ademir Martins², Maurijn van der Zee⁴, and Denise Valle². ¹State University of Northern Rio de Janeiro, Campos dos Goytacazes, Brazil, ²Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, ³Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, Jena, Germany, ⁴Leiden Univ., Leiden, Netherlands

3:45 **1976** Body shape regulation by cuticular proteins in *Drosophila melanogaster*. **Reiko Tajiri** (rtajiri1@gmail.com), The Univ. of Tokyo, Chiba, Japan

4:00 **1977** Molecular bases underlying the diversity of color pattern and color vision in dragonflies.
**Ryo Futahashi** (ryo-futahashi@aist.go.jp)¹ and Takema Fukatsu². ¹National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Ibaraki, Japan, ²Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Tsukuba, Japan

4:15 **1978** New insights into lepidopteran peritrophic matrix synthesis. **Umut Toprak** (utoprak@agri.ankara.edu.tr)¹, Dwayne Hegedus², and Martin Erlandson². ¹Univ. of Ankara, Ankara, Turkey, ²Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Saskatoon, Canada

4:30 **1979** Functional analysis of peritrophic matrix proteins in the larval midgut of *Tribolium castaneum*. **Marco Kelkenberg** (kelkenberg@biologie.uni-osnabrueck.de)¹, Sinu Agrawal², and Khurshida Begum². ¹Univ. of Osnabrück, Osnabrück, Germany, ²Kansas State Univ., Manhattan, KS

4:45 **1980** Mucin fragments in caterpillar frass alter herbivore defenses in maize. **Dawn Luthe** (dsl14@psu.edu), Pennsylvania State Univ., University Park, PA

**Symposium: Ion Channels as Targets of Synthetic and Natural Neurotoxins**

Room W340 B (Convention Center)

**Moderators and Organizers:** Ke Dong¹ and Vincent Salgado², ¹Michigan State Univ., East Lansing, MI, ²BASF, Research Triangle Park, NC

This symposium is generously sponsored by BASF, Mitsui Chemical Agro, Inc., Sumitomo Chemical Company, Syngenta and Zhong Shan Lan Ju Daily Chemical Industrial Co. LTD.

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1:30 **1981** Mapping the receptor sites of scorpion toxins at voltage-gated sodium channels. **Michael Gurevitz** (mamgur@post.tau.ac.il), Tel Aviv Univ., Tel Aviv, Israel
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1:45 **1982** Glutamate-gated chloride channels of insects and ticks are targeted by okaramines, natural product leads for insecticides and acaricides. **David Sattelle** (d.sattelle@ucl.ac.uk)¹, Makoto Ihara², Shogo Furutani², Steven Buckingham¹, Kristin Lees¹, Freddie Partridge¹, Hideo Hayashi³, and Kazuhiko Matsuda², ¹Univ. College London, London, United Kingdom, ²Kinki Univ., Nara, Japan, ³Osaka Prefecture Univ., Osaka, Japan

2:00 **1983** Charge reversal mutations in the voltage sensor of domain III enhanced the sensitivity of an insect sodium channel to a scorpion β-toxin. **Yuzhe Du** (duy@msu.edu), Michigan State Univ., East Lansing, MI

2:15 **1984** Investigating sodium channel function with insect toxins. Graham Nicholson¹, Glenn F. King², and **Frank Bosmans** (frankbosmans@jhmi.edu)³, ¹Univ. of Technology, Sydney, Australia, ²Univ. of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia, ³Johns Hopkins Univ. School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD

2:30 **1985** Mode of action of haedoxan A from *Phryma leptostachya*. **Zhaonong Hu** (huzhaonong@live.cn), Northwest A&F Univ., Yangling, China

2:45 **1986** Mechanisms of resistance to insecticides targeting RDL GABA receptors. **Toshifumi Nakao** (toshifumi.nakao@mitsui-chem.co.jp), Mitsui Chemicals Agro, Inc., Mobara, Japan

3:00 **BREAK**

3:15 **1987** The α-α interface: A hidden binding site of neonicotinoids at nicotinic acetylcholine receptors. **Kazuhiko Matsuda** (kmatsuda@nara.kindai.ac.jp), Kinki Univ., Nara, Japan

3:30 **1988** Interactions of spinosad with insect nicotinic acetylcholine receptors. **Trent Perry** (trentp@unimelb.edu.au), The Univ. of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia

3:45 **1989** Allosteric modulation of tick nicotinic acetylcholine receptor alpha 5 and alpha 6 by spinosad. **Mirel Puinean** (mirel.puinean@rothamsted.ac.uk), Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, United Kingdom

4:00 **1990** Diamide insecticides: Understanding the basis for insect selectivity and target-site resistance. **Daniel Cordova** (daniel.cordova@dupont.com)¹, Eric Benner¹, Yong Tao², Steven Gutteridge¹, George Lahm¹, Thomas Selby¹, and Alan Williams³, ¹DuPont Crop Protection, Newark, DE, ²Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, ³Cardiff Univ., Cardiff, United Kingdom

4:15 **1991** Making a pest of *Drosophila*: Understanding field resistance to diamide insecticides. **Lucy Firth** (lucy.firth@syngenta.com), Jenny Willis, and Liz Hirst, Syngenta, Bracknell, United Kingdom

4:30 **1992** TRPV channels as insecticide targets. **Vincent Salgado** (vincent.salgado@basf.com)¹, Ramani Kandasamy¹, Katherine Lelito¹, Brecht London¹, Alexandre Nesterov¹, Lynn Stam¹, Christian Spalthoff², and Martin Goepfert², ¹BASF, Research Triangle Park, NC, ²Georg August Univ., Göttingen, Germany

4:45 **1993** Potassium channels as targets of synthetic neurotoxins. **Jeffrey R. Bloomquist** (jbquist@epi.ufl.edu)¹, Maxim Totrov², and Paul R Carlier³, ¹Univ. of Florida, Gainesville, FL, ²Molsoft LLC, San Diego, CA, ³Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State Univ., Blacksburg, VA

5:00 **1994** Pyrethroids and voltage sensors in sodium channels. **Eugenio Eduardo Oliveira** (eugenio@ufv.br), Federal Univ. of Viçosa, Viçosa, Brazil

5:15 **1995** Pyrethroids activate olfactory receptors and elicit spatial repellency in *Drosophila melanogaster*. **Ke Dong** (dongk@cns.msu.edu), Michigan State Univ., East Lansing, MI

Symposium: Mechanisms and Consequences of Phase Change in the Desert Locust, *Schistocerca gregaria*

Room W232 A (Convention Center)

Moderators and Organizers: Arianne Cease and Stephen Rogers, Arizona State Univ., Tempe, AZ

1:30 **1996** How should we quantify behavioural phase state in locusts across treatments, strains, and species? **Swidbert Ott** (sol20@leicester.ac.uk), Univ. of Leicester, United Kingdom

1:45 **1997** Diet mixing in locusts: Physiological and molecular insights. **Spencer Behmer** (s-behmer@tamu.edu)¹, Gregory Sword¹, Corinna Krempl², and Heiko Vogel², ¹Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX, ²Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, Jena, Germany

2:00 **1998** Monoamine receptors and swarming behaviour in locusts. **Heleen Verlinden** (heleen.verlinden@bio.kuleuven.be)¹, Rut Vleugels¹, and Jozef Vanden Broeck², ¹Univ. of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, ²Catholic Univ., Leuven, Belgium

2:15 **1999** Integrating ecology and phase polyphenism into preventative locust management. **Gregory Sword** (gasword@tamu.edu), Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX

2:30 **2000** Transcriptome analysis for investigating the molecular basis of phase change in the desert locust, *Schistocerca gregaria*. **Rik Verdonck** (rik.verdonck@bio.kuleuven.be)¹, Jozef Vanden Broeck², and **Swidbert Ott**³, ¹Univ. of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, ²Catholic Univ., Leuven, Belgium, ³Univ. of Leicester, Leicester, United Kingdom

2:45 **2001** The role of yellow protein in sexual signalling between gregarious locusts. **Darron Cullen** (darron.cullen@bio.kuleuven.be)¹, Stephen Simpson², Jozef Vanden Broeck³, and Gregory Sword⁴, ¹Univ. of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, ²The Univ. of Sydney, Camperdown, Australia, ³Catholic Univ., Leuven, Belgium, ⁴Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX

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3:15 **2002** Phylogenetic perspective on the evolution of phase polyphenism. **Hojun Song** (hsong@tamu.edu), Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX

3:30 **2003** Circadian biology of *Schistocerca gregaria* **Forskål. Tom Matheson** (tm75@le.ac.uk)¹, Jonathan Shand¹, Nathaniel Davies¹, H Dowse², Edward Gaten¹, Benjamin Hunt¹, Stephen Huston³, and Ezio Rosato¹, ¹Univ. of Leicester, Leicester, United Kingdom, ²Univ. of Maine, Orono, ME, ³Janelia Farm Research Campus, Ashburn, VA