3:45 **2004** Locusts as models for collective behavior.
**Amir Ayali** (ayali@tauex.tau.ac.il), Tel Aviv Univ., Tel Aviv, Israel

Symposium: Physiological Systems for Arthropod Pest Management in the 21st Century

Room W330 A (Convention Center)

**Moderators and Organizers:** Daniel R. Swale¹ and Lacey Jenson²,
¹Vanderbilt Univ., Nashville, TN, ²Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State Univ., Blacksburg, VA

1:30 **2005** Assessing the effects of hermetic storage on stored grain and pest physiology. **Scott Williams** (sbwillia88@gmail.com), Larry Murdock, and Dieudonne Baributsa, Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN

1:45 **2006** Beetleomics: Targeting the *Tribolium* gut for control. **Lindsey Perkin** (lindsey.perkin@ars.usda.gov), USDA - ARS, Manhattan, KS

2:00 **2007** Presentation withdrawn

2:15 **2008** Mosquito attraction and semiochemical analysis for mosquito vectors of dog heartworm. **Chris J. Holderman** (chrish2@ufl.edu), Univ. of Florida, Gainesville, FL

2:30 **2009** Regulatory frameworks and field-site considerations in advancing new genetic strategies for control of mosquito vectors of malaria. **James M. Mutunga** (jmutunga@icipe.org), International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology, Nairobi, Kenya

2:45 **2010** Differential RNAi approaches to enhance knockdown efficiency of target gene transcript in the highly DDT-resistant 91-R strain of *Drosophila melanogaster*. **Kyong Sup Yoon** (kyoon@siue.edu), Southern Illinois Univ., Edwardsville, IL

3:00 BREAK

3:15 **2011** Characterization of inward rectifying potassium channels in the salivary glands of arthropod disease vectors. **Daniel R. Swale** (dswale@agcenter.lsu.edu), Louisiana State Univ., Baton Rouge, LA

3:30 **2012** The muscarinic acetylcholine receptor: An important and underexplored component of the cholinergic system in arthropods. **Aaron Gross** (adgross@epi.ufl.edu) and Jeffrey Bloomquist, Univ. of Florida, Gainesville, FL

3:45 **2013** Discovery of resistance-breaking chemistries for varroa mite management. **Troy D. Anderson** (anderst@vt.edu), Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State Univ., Blacksburg, VA

4:00 **2014** Refining and redefining insecticide target sites. **Frank Rinkevich** (fdr5@lsu.edu), Louisiana State Univ., Baton Rouge, LA

4:15 **2015** Toxicity and potassium channel-directed effects of flonicamid analogs. **Jennina Taylor-Wells** (jtaylorwells@ufl.edu)¹, Paul R Carlier², Aaron Gross¹, Joseph Clements², and Jeffrey Bloomquist¹, ¹Univ. of Florida, Gainesville, FL, ²Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State Univ., Blacksburg, VA

4:30 **2016** Insect peptide neurohormone receptors as insecticide targets. **Andrew Nuss** (anuss@cabnr.unr.edu), Univ. of Nevada, Reno, NV

4:45 **2017** Mechanisms of action of pyrethroid insecticides. **Peng Xu** (xupengmsu@gmail.com), Michigan State Univ., East Lansing, MI

5:00 **2018** Control of biting midges: *Culicoides* attractants and toxicants. **Darren Snyder** (snyderd@ksu.edu), Kansas State Univ., Manhattan, KS

Symposium: The Limits of Respiratory Function: External and Internal Constraints on Insect Gas Exchange

Room W331B (Convention Center)

**Moderators and Organizers:** Philip Matthews¹, Kendra Greenlee², and Wilco Verberk³, ¹The Univ. of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada, ²North Dakota State Univ., Fargo, ND, ³Radboud Univ. Nijmegen, Nijmegen, Netherlands

This symposium is generously sponsored by Loligo Systems and Sable Systems International.

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1:30 **2019** What does it take to be a massive insect? Scaling of gas exchange capacities and tracheal structures in scarab beetles. **Jon F. Harrison** (j.harrison@asu.edu), C. Jaco Klok, Meghan Duell, Jacob Campbell, and Julian Wagner, Arizona State Univ., Tempe, AZ

2:00 **2020** Gills versus spiracles: The respiratory physiology of amphibious insects. **Philip Matthews** (pmatthews@zoology.ubc.ca), The Univ. of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada

2:15 **2021** Supply and demand: How would variation in atmospheric oxygen over geologic time have influenced insect tracheal and mitochondrial networks? **John VandenBrooks** (jvandenbrooks@midwestern.edu), Midwestern Univ., Glendale, AZ

2:30 **2022** Flight metabolic rate variation and its consequences on muscle metabolic machinery. **Charles Darveau** (cdarveau@uottawa.ca), Univ. of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada

2:45 **2023** Origin and evolution of insect respiratory proteins. **Thorsten Burmester** (thorsten.burmester@uni-hamburg.de), Univ. of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

3:00 BREAK

3:15 **2024** Temperature, oxygen, cell size, performance, and life history — an insect's perspective. **Marcin Czarnołęski** (marcin.czarnoleski@uj.edu.pl), Jagiellonian Univ., Krakow, Poland

3:30 **2025** Tracheal system structure and function changes within an instar in insects. **Kendra Greenlee** (kendra.greenlee@ndsu.edu), North Dakota State Univ., Fargo, ND

3:45 **2026** Diffusion-convection switches in insect respiratory gas exchange. **John Terblanche** (jst@sun.ac.za), Stellenbosch Univ., Stellenbosch, South Africa

4:00 **2027** Thermal tolerance and its plasticity are shaped by the reliance on diffusive gas exchange within the *Deronectes* group of European diving beetles.
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**Wilco Verberk** (wilco@aquaticecology.nl)¹, Piero Calosi², John Spicer³, Siegfried Kehl⁴, and David Bilton³,
¹Radboud Univ. Nijmegen, Nijmegen, Netherlands,
²Univ. of Québec, Rimouski, QC, Canada, ³Plymouth Univ., Plymouth, United Kingdom, ⁴Univ. of Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany

4:15 **2028** Does temperature impose limits on aquatic insects via oxygen delivery/respiratory processes?
**David Buchwalter** (david_buchwalter@ncsu.edu), North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC

4:30 **2029** Thermal tolerance of terrestrial insects: How do they solve a problem like hypoxia? **Leigh Boardman** (lboardman@ufl.edu), Univ. of Florida, Gainesville, FL

4:45 **2030** Interacting control systems and metabolic stimuli influence insect gas exchange patterns.
**Erica Heinrich** (echeinrich@ucsd.edu), Univ. of California, La Jolla, CA

5:00 **2031** Inspiration from expiration: How active ventilation in the hissing cockroach informs the design of microfluidic devices. **Joel Garrett** (jfg@vt.edu), Rafael Davalos, and John Socha, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State Univ., Blacksburg, VA

5:15 **2032** Respiration in the brown locust: Size, phase, and environment. **Frances Duncan** (frances.duncan@wits.ac.za), Univ. of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

3:15 **2038** Expression of *defensin* paralogs across house fly life history: Insights into fly-microbe interactions.
**Dana Nayduch** (dana.nayduch@ars.usda.gov), USDA - ARS, Manhattan, KS

3:30 **2039** Genome sequence of the bed bug reveals underlying aspects of *Cimex lectularius* biology.
**Jacob Hendershot** (henderj8@mail.uc.edu) and Joshua Benoit, Univ. of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH

## Symposium: Advances in the Molecular Biology and Microbial Ecology of Important Urban Pests

### Room W224 B (Convention Center)

**Moderators and Organizers:** Dana Nayduch¹ and Ludek Zurek²,
¹USDA - ARS, Manhattan, KS, ²Kansas State Univ., Manhattan, KS

1:30 **2033** An antifungal defense strategy in termites.
**Mark S. Bulmer** (mbulmer@towson.edu), Towson Univ., Towson, MD

2:00 **2034** Admixture mapping within a fire ant hybrid zone. **Elizabeth Wade** (elizabeth.wade@ars.usda.gov)¹, Pnina Cohen², Sean Ryan¹, Lucinda Lawson¹, Eyal Privman², Kenneth Ross³, and DeWayne Shoemaker¹,
¹USDA - ARS, Gainesville, FL, ²Univ. of Haifa, Haifa, Israel, ³Univ. of Georgia, Athens, GA

2:15 **2035** Caste and cuticle development of *Camponotus floridanus* lacking the endosymbiont *Blochmannia*.
**Marc Seid** (seidm2@scranton.edu), Veronica Sinotte, and Samantha Freedman, The Univ. of Scranton, Scranton, PA

2:30 **2036** Gut bacteria mediate aggregation in the German cockroach. **Ayako Wada-Katsumata** (akatsum@ncsu.edu)¹, Ludek Zurek², Godfrey Nalyana¹, Wendell L. Roelofs³, Aijun Zhang⁴, and Coby Schal¹,
¹North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC, ²Kansas State Univ., Manhattan, KS, ³Cornell Univ., Geneva, NY, ⁴USDA - ARS, Beltsville, MD

2:45 **2037** Insect pests represent a link between food animal farms and the urban environment for antibiotic resistance traits. **Ludek Zurek** (lzurek@ksu.edu) and Anuradha Ghosh, Kansas State Univ., Manhattan, KS

3:00 BREAK

## Undergraduate Student Oral Competition: Entomology Around the World

### Room W232 C (Convention Center)

**Moderator:** Chandra Moffat, Univ. of New Brunswick, Fredericton, NB, Canada

1:30 **2040** *Apis mellifera* visit different flowers of located in the northern of Bogotá (Colombia). **Felipe Sarmiento** (mcgomez@campestre.edu.co), Federico Villota, Ignacio Leyva, and Martha Cecilia Gómez Tobar, Gimnasio Campestre, Bogotá, Colombia

1:45 **2041** First taxonomic list of diurnal butterfly species was compiled from two areas, Soratama (environmental reserve in the northeast of the city) and Colombo-Sueco (environmental classroom) Usaquén-Bogotá, Colombia.
**Santiago Abril** (sguevara@campestre.edu.co), Alejandro Páez, Pablo Parodi, Sergio Perdomo, and Sussy Fidull Guevara, Gimnasio Campestre, Bogotá, Colombia

2:00 **2042** Review of the Family Cosmopterigidae Heinemann & Wocke, 1876 (Lepidoptera: Gelechoiodea) in Korea. **Hyun-Kyung Yoon** (hkyoon1130@gmail.com) and Bong-Kyu Byun, Hannam Univ., Daejeon, South Korea

2:15 **2043** A taxonomic review of the Genus *Phyllonorycter* Hübner (Lepidoptera: Gracillariidae) from South Korea.
**Da-Som Kim** (n4311@hanmail.net)¹, Chung-Won Choi², and Bong-Kyu Byun¹, 'Hannam Univ., Daejeon, South Korea, ²Sejong Univ., Seoul, South Korea

2:30 **2044** Bionomic and developmental study of *Laptaulax koreanus* (Coleoptera: Passalidae) in Korea.
**TaeHee Yoo** (019426@naver.com) and Bong-Kyu Byun, Hannam Univ., Daejeon, South Korea

2:45 **2045** Taxonomic study of the Psychidae (Lepidoptera) from Korea, with two newly recorded species.
**Seung Jin Roh** (gorsj@hanmail.net) and Bong-Kyu Byun, Hannam Univ., Daejeon, South Korea

3:00 BREAK

3:15 **2046** An updated checklist of the bees of the Commonwealth of Dominica (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Anthophila). **Shelby Kilpatrick** (entorocks527@tamu.edu)¹, Jason Gibbs², and James Woolley¹, ¹Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX, ²Michigan State Univ., East Lansing, MI

3:30 **2047** A survey of *Odontomachus* (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) and general observations of nesting preferences in the Commonwealth of Dominica in the West Indies. **Andrew Graf** (cipher_the_noble@tamu.edu) and James Woolley, Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX
3:45 **2048** A comparison of spider family diversity on vegetation between primary rainforest and secondary rainforest. Ryan Selking (optimus1@email.tamu.edu), Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX

4:00 **2049** Key to *Septobasidium* of the southeastern United States. Gabriel Somarriba (gabe.somarriba@gmail.com), Andrea Lucky, and Matthew Smith, Univ. of Florida, Gainesville, FL

4:15 **2050** Investigating the influence of geospatial attributes on spider species richness and diversity. Katherine Russell (krussell1995@gmail.com)¹, Alisa Coffin², Dawn Olson², Tim Strickland², and Jason Schmidt¹, ¹Univ. of Georgia, Tifton, GA, ²USDA - ARS, Tifton, GA

4:30 **2051** Illustrated guide to the tribe Coccidulini Mulsant, 1846 (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) of Mexico. Enya Ramírez Del Valle (ayne_icneumon_@hotmail.com) and Paulina Cifuentes Ruiz, National Autonomous Univ. of México, Mexico City, Mexico

4:45 **2052** Body morphometric, crop histologic structure, and their correlations with dragonflies preying habit (Anisoptera: Libellulidae: *Orthetrum sabina*, *Pantala flavescens*, and *Brachythemis contaminata*). Amelia Nugrahaningrum (nugrahaningrum.amelia@gmail.com)¹,², ¹Gadjah Mada Univ., Yogyakarta, Indonesia, ²Indonesia Dragonfly Society, Sleman, Indonesia

5:00 **2053** Differences in tarsal morphology between arboreal and nonarboreal ants. Andrew Nisip (andre.wnisip@ufl.edu) and Andrea Lucky, Univ. of Florida, Gainesville, FL

5:15 **2054** Phylogeography of symbiotic fungi grown by two sympatric fungus-gardening ant species. Joseph Luiso (jluiso@patriots.uttyler.edu) and Jon Seal, The Univ. of Texas, Tyler, TX

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

Room W230 B (Convention Center)

Moderator: Neelendra Joshi, Univ. of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR

1:30 **2055** Non-target effects of neonicotinoid seed treatment in a three-year field crop rotation. Aditi Dubey (aditid26@gmail.com)¹, Galen Dively¹, Margaret Lewis², and Kelly Hamby³, ¹Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD, ²Pennsylvania State Univ., University Park, PA, ³Univ. of California, Davis, CA

1:45 **2056** A season-long study of pesticide exposure in Ontario and Québec. Nadejda Tsvetkov (nadiats@yorku.ca)¹, Olivier Samson-Robert², Valérie Fournier², and Amro Zayed¹, ¹York Univ., Toronto, ON, Canada, ²Univ. Laval, Québec City, QC, Canada

2:00 **2057** Spatiotemporal associations between herbivory and neonicotinoid insecticides in milkweeds neighboring agricultural land. Paola Olaya-Arenas (polayaar@purdue.edu) and Ian Kaplan, Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN

2:15 **2058** Neonicotinoids in sunflower (*Helianthus annuus*) extra-floral nectar: How are beneficial insects affected? Mike Bredeson (michael.bredeson@sdstate.edu)¹ and Jonathan Lundgren², ¹South Dakota State Univ., Brookings, SD, ²Ecdysis Foundation, Estelline, SD

2:30 **2059** Comparison of neonicotinoid concentrations in target and non-target members of the soil invertebrate community of Pennsylvania soybean fields. Kirsten Pearsons (kfp5094@psu.edu) and John Tooker, Pennsylvania State Univ., University Park, PA

2:45 **2060** Assessing the impacts of systemically-applied imidacloprid on the generalist hemipteran predator *Jalysus wickhami*. Peter Nelson (pnelson@ncsu.edu), Hannah Burrack, and Clyde E. Sorenson, North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC

3:00 BREAK

3:15 **2061** Evaluation of residual toxicity of neonicotinoids and resistance issues in thrips management in peanut. Pin-Chu Lai (pclai@uga.edu), Mark R. Abney, Albert K. Culbreath, and Rajagopalbabu Srinivasan, Univ. of Georgia, Tifton, GA

3:30 **2062** Resistance in thrips to spinosyn and neonicotinoid insecticides. Danielle Sprague (dsprague@ufl.edu), Joseph E. Funderburk, and Mrittunjai Srivastava, Univ. of Florida, Quincy, FL

3:45 **2063** Current status of the susceptibility of *Helicoverpa armigera* (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) to insecticides in Brazil. Mariana Durigan (mariana.durigan@yahoo.com), Natália Leite, Dayana Sousa, Rogério Pereira, Douglas Amado, Alberto Correa, and Celso Omoto, Univ. of São Paulo, Piracicaba, Brazil

4:00 **2064** Chemical control of western bean cutworm (*Striacosta albicosta*): Susceptibility to insecticides and effects on non-target arthropods. Debora Goulart Montezano (deiagm@gmail.com)¹, Thomas Hunt², Jeffrey Bradshaw³, Blair Siegfried⁴, and Julie Peterson¹, ¹Univ. of Nebraska, North Platte, NE, ²Univ. of Nebraska, Concord, NE, ³Univ. of Nebraska, Scottsbluff, NE, ⁴Univ. of Florida, Gainesville, FL

4:15 **2065** Effects of systemic thiamethoxam exposure on the population dynamics of soybean aphids. Matheus Ribeiro (matheusgpmr@gmail.com)¹, Thomas Hunt², and Blair Siegfried³, ¹Univ. of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE, ²Univ. of Nebraska, Concord, NE, ³Univ. of Florida, Gainesville, FL

4:30 **2066** Length of thiamethoxam seed treatment activity against soybean aphid (Aphis glycines). Carlos Esquivel (esquivelpalma.1@buckeyemail.osu.edu), Luis A. Cañas, and Andrew Michel, The Ohio State Univ., Wooster, OH

4:45 **2067** The efficacy of sulfoxaflor and flupyradifurone on sugarcane aphids when temperatures change. Brittany Lipsey (bse37@msstate.edu)¹, Angus Catchot¹, Jeff Gore², Erick Larson¹, Don Cook², and Fred Musser¹, ¹Mississippi State Univ., Mississippi State, MS, ²Mississippi State Univ., Stoneville, MS
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5:00 **2068** Characterization of pyrethroid resistance in the western corn rootworm, *Diabrotica virgifera virgifera* LeConte. Dariane Souza (dariane lyra@hotmail.com)¹, Nicholas Miller², Blair Siegfried³, and Lance Meinke¹, ¹Univ. of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE, ²Univ. of Illinois, Chicago, IL, ³Univ. of Florida, Gainesville, FL

5:15 **2069** Roles of carboxyesterases in pyrethroid resistant house flies, *Musca domestica*. Xuechun Feng (xzf0005@auburn.edu) and Nannan Liu, Auburn Univ., Auburn, AL

## Graduate Student Oral Competition: Insect Chemical Ecology

### Room W230 D (Convention Center)

**Moderators:** Jason Wulff¹ and Amanda Winters², ¹Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX, ²Bowling Green State Univ., Bowling Green, OH

1:30 **2070** Olfactory mediated responses to host- and non-host volatiles by female grape berry moths (*Paralobesia viteana*). Michael Wolfin (msw266@cornell.edu), Gregory M. Loeb, and Charles E. Linn, Cornell Univ., Geneva, NY

1:45 **2071** Apples infested with the oriental fruit moth are a source of HIPVs for host-habitat location of the larval parasitoid *Lytopylus rufipes*. Chia-Ming Liu (cobras770920@hotmail.com)¹, Shigeru Matsuyama¹, Masatake Sasaki², Akihiro Arakawa³, and Yooichi Kainoh¹, ¹Univ. of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan, ²Fukushima Plant Protection Association, Fukushima-shi, Japan, ³Fukushima Agricultural Technology Centre, Fukushima-shi, Japan

2:00 **2072** Silk gland secretion of *Bombyx mori* larvae inhibits the production of herbivory-induced volatiles in mulberry leaves. Hiroki Takai (takai@ss.ab.a.u-tokyo.ac.jp), The Univ. of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

2:15 **2073** Evidence of shared chemistry between polyester bees of the genus *Colletes* Latreille and their brood parasites of the bee genus *Epeolus* Latreille. Thomas Onuferko (onuferko@yorku.ca)¹, Joshua Krupp², Joel Levine², and Laurence Packer¹, ¹York Univ., Toronto, ON, Canada, ²Univ. of Toronto, Mississauga, ON, Canada

2:30 **2074** The effect of caterpillar oral secretions on indirect plant defenses. Anne Jones (acj152@psu.edu), James Tumlinson, and Gary Felton, Pennsylvania State Univ., University Park, PA

2:45 **2075** Navel orangeworm (*Amyelois transitella*) performance and insecticide detoxification in the presence of the fungus *Aspergillus flavus*. Daniel Bush (dsbush2@illinois.edu)¹, Mark Demkovich¹, Joel Siegel², and May R. Berenbaum¹ ¹Univ. of Illinois, Champaign, IL, ²USDA - ARS, Parlier, CA

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3:15 **2076** Picture-winged fly (Diptera: Ulidiidae: *Euxesta*, *Chaetopsis* spp.) semiochemical investigations. David Owens (owensd119@ufl.edu)¹, Gregg Nuessly¹, Paul E. Kendra², Thomas Colquhoun³, Wayne S. Montgomery², Daniel Hahn³, and Dakshina Seal⁴, ¹Univ. of Florida, Belle Glade, FL, ²USDA - ARS, Miami, FL, ³Univ. of Florida, Gainesville, FL, ⁴Univ. of Florida, Homestead, FL

3:30 **2077** Effects of glucosonolates in host diets on parasitism by the endoparasitoid *Cotesia kariyai*. Kazumu Kuramitsu (tsuki.hi.hoshi.hoihoi@gmail.com) and Yooichi Kainoh, Univ. of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan

3:45 **2078** Developmental differences in olfactory processing for predaceous insects. Ulianova Vidal Gomez (uvidalgo@purdue.edu) and Ian Kaplan, Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN

4:00 **2079** Quest to identify the attractive volatile bouquet of selected fungal species isolated from the mushroom sciarid fly, *Lycoriella ingenua*, to gravid female flies. Kevin Cloonan (krc204@psu.edu)¹, Stefanos Andreadis¹, Haibin Chen², and Thomas C. Baker¹, ¹Pennsylvania State Univ., University Park, PA, ²Wenzhou Medical Univ., Wenzhou, China

4:15 **2080** Contextualizing combat: the effects of prior experience, cuticular hydrocarbons, and seasonality on territorial aggression in the red harvester ant, *Pogonomyrmex barbatus*. Elizabeth Cash (elizabeth.cash@asu.edu) and Jürgen Gadau, Arizona State Univ., Tempe, AZ

4:30 **2081** Extraordinary case of intrasexual cuticular hydrocarbon (CHC) profile dimorphism in a mason wasp, *Odynerus spinipes*, sheds light on genes involved in CHC biosynthesis. Victoria Moris (victoria.carla.moris@gmail.com)¹, Thomas Schmitt², and Oliver Niehuis¹, ¹Zoological Research Museum Alexander Koenig, Bonn, Germany, ²Univ. of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany

## Graduate Student Oral Competition: Integrated Pest Management and Sustainable Agriculture: Agricultural Systems

### Room W240 A (Convention Center)

**Moderator:** Doris Lagos-Kutz Ms., Dept. of Entomology, Univ. of Illinois, Urbana, IL

1:30 **2082** Impact of flea beetle feeding injury on cabbage and eggplant. James Mason (jmason91@vt.edu) and Thomas P. Kuhar, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State Univ., Blacksburg, VA

1:45 **2083** Foliar insecticides in soybean: Implications for spectral detection of pest stress. Tavvs Alves (alves011@umn.edu)¹,², Zach Marston¹, Ian MacRae³, and Robert Koch¹, ¹Univ. of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN, ²National Council for Scientific and Technological Development, Brasília, Brazil, ³Univ. of Minnesota, Crookston, MN

2:00 **2084** Influence of potassium, micronutrients, and their combinations as foliar applications to suppress soybean stem fly *Melanagromyza sojae* (Diptera: Agromyzidae) on four soybean common varieties. Hanan Alfy (hanan_isaac1@yahoo.com), Agricultural Research Center, Alexandria, Egypt

2:15 **2085** Lethal effects of short-wavelength visible light on insects. Kazuki Shibuya (bwtmh349@yahoo.co.jp)¹,², Mitsunari Sato¹, Yoshino Saito¹, Shun Onodera¹, and Masatoshi Hori¹, ¹Tohoku Univ., Sendai, Japan, ²Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Tokyo, Japan
2:30 **2086** Comparing the effects of organic and conventional soil management on plant gene expression and insect development. **Karol Krey** (karol.krey@wsu.edu), Dorrie Main, and William E. Snyder, Washington State Univ., Pullman, WA

2:45 **2087** Behavioral and developmental effects of mineral oil on potato pests. **Andrew Galimberti** (andrew.galimberti@maine.edu) and Andrei Alyokhin, Univ. of Maine, Orono, ME

3:00 **BREAK**

3:15 **2088** Control of codling moth (Cydia pomonella) using reduced pesticide rates and rapid reapplication. **Paul Owen-Smith** (pcowensmith@gmail.com), John Wise, and Matthew Grieshop, Michigan State Univ., East Lansing, MI

3:30 **2089** Temperature effects on mating and fruit infestation by the grape berry moth, *Paralobesia viteana* Clemens (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae). **Keith Mason** (masonk@msu.edu), Laura Bizzarri, and Rufus Isaacs, Michigan State Univ., East Lansing, MI

3:45 **2090** The role of botanical pesticides in IPM. Baoliang Tian¹, Qizhi Liu² and **Yanwei Wang** (cauwangyanwei@163.com)², ¹Henan Univ., Kaifeng, China, ²China Agricultural Univ., Beijing, China

4:00 **2091** Differences in fitness traits between E and Z pheromone races of European corn borer, *Ostrinia nubilalis*, on different host plants. **Holly Lynn Walker** (hollylyn@udel.edu) and Charles Mason, Univ. of Delaware, Newark, DE

4:15 **2092** Spider community responses to contrasting grazing management in upland calcareous grasslands. **Ashley Lyons** (lyonsa@edgehill.ac.uk), Edge Hill Univ., Ormskirk, United Kingdom

4:30 **2093** Assessment of a novel Hessian fly, *Mayetiola destructor* (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae), monitoring method under field conditions. **Ryan Schmid** (rbschmid@ksu.edu)¹,², Darren Snyder¹,³, Lee Cohnstaedt¹,³, and Brian McCormack¹,², ¹Kansas State Univ., Manhattan, KS, ²Plant Biosecurity Cooperative Research Centre, Bruce, Australia, ³USDA - ARS, Manhattan, KS

4:45 **2094** Revising sticky trap thresholds for corn rootworms (*Diabrotica spp.*): How long will these thresholds stick? **Trisha Leaf** (trisha.franz@gmail.com) and Ken Ostlie, Univ. of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN

5:00 **2095** Herbicide-induced effects in rice (*Oryza sativa*) on the rice water weevil (*Lessorhoptrus oryzophilus*). **Emily Kraus** (ekraus@agcenter.lsu.edu)¹ and Michael Stout², ¹Louisiana State Univ., Baton Rouge, LA, ²Louisiana State Univ. AgCenter, Baton Rouge, LA

Graduate Student Oral Competition: Medical and Veterinary Entomology: Biting Diptera

Room W230 A (Convention Center)

**Moderators:** Nicola Gallagher¹ and Michael Reiskind², ¹Syngenta, Columbus, OH, ²North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC

1:30 **2096** Population dynamics, species composition, and transmission potentials of *Simulium damnosum* Theobald complex (Diptera: Simuliidae) in three ecological zones in Osun State, southwestern Nigeria.

**Linda Oforka** (lindaoforka@gmail.com)¹, Monsuru Adeleke², Joseph Anikwe¹, Winifred Ayinke Makanjuola¹, and Henry Fadamiro³, ¹Univ. of Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria, ²Osun State Univ., Osogbo, Nigeria, ³Auburn Univ., Auburn, AL

**2097** Gnats, rivers, and people: A spatial and social analysis of black fly (Diptera: Simuliidae) nuisance swarms. **Rebecca Wilson** (rcwilson@umd.edu) and William O. Lamp, Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD

**2098** A combined morphological and molecular approach in study some phlebotomine sandflies of medical importance from Sudan. **Sara Saeed** (sarakhider@hotmail.com)¹,², Omran Osman², Luisa Nardini¹, and Lizette Koekemoer¹, ¹Wits Research Institute for Malaria, Johannesburg, South Africa, ²Univ. of Khartoum, Khartoum, Sudan

**2099** Mosquito surveillance in the Tongatapu Island Group, Kingdom of Tonga. **Tom Swan** (tomswanie@gmail.com)¹, Jon Harding¹, and Milen Marinov², ¹Univ. of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand, ²Ministry for Primary Industries, Auckland, New Zealand

**2100** Dengue fever surveillance in Asia using text mining cluster analysis. **Andrea Villanes** (avillan@ncsu.edu), North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC

**2101** Zooprophylaxis and endectocides: Using cattle in the war on malaria. **Annie Rich** (aerich@uga.edu) and Nancy Hinkle, Univ. of Georgia, Athens, GA

3:00 **BREAK**

**2102** Characterization of immunogenic proteins in *Aedes* saliva with antibodies of indigenous dengue patients in northern Taiwan. **Tsai-Ying Yen** (farscape@ms38.hinet.net) and Kun-Hsien Tsai, National Taiwan Univ., Taipei, Taiwan

**2103** The interplay of carbon dioxide, human skin odor, and visual cues in the host-seeking behavior of *Aedes aegypti*. **Benjamin DeMasi-Sumner** (bdema001@ucr.edu), Univ. of California, Riverside, CA

**2104** Fitness effects of permethrin resistance in the yellow fever mosquito, *Aedes aegypti*. **Leticia Smith** (lbs97@cornell.edu), Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY

**2105** The effects of non-traditional IGRs on *Aedes aegypti* mosquitoes. **Kristen Stevens** (kcstevens93@ufl.edu), Philip G. Koehler, and Roberto M. Pereira, Univ. of Florida, Gainesville, FL

**2106** Examining the consequences of land use on vector diversity. **Meredith Spence** (mrspenc2@ncsu.edu) and Michael Reiskind, North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC

**2107** Midgut basal lamina remodeling during arbovirus dissemination in *Aedes aegypti*. **Asher Kantor** (amkt33@mail.missouri.edu)¹, Shengzhang Dong¹, Rollie Clem², Lorena Passarelli², and Alexander Franz¹, ¹Univ. of Missouri, Columbia, MO, ²Kansas State Univ., Manhattan, KS

**2108** Increasing the effective duration of mosquito suppression on a small spatial scale (less than 0.25 ha). **Andrea Skiles** (glennskiles@gmail.com)¹, Grayson Brown¹, Kyndall Dye¹, and Nicola T. Gallagher², ¹Univ. of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, ²Syngenta, Greensboro, NC
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## Graduate Student Oral Competition: Morphology, Systematics, and Phylogeny: Beetles, Bugs, and Others

### Room W230 C (Convention Center)

**Moderators:** Joseph V. McHugh¹ and Helen LeBlanc², ¹Univ. of Georgia, Athens, GA, ²Univ. of Ontario Institute of Technology, Oshawa, ON, Canada

1:30 **2109** Why the long face? Insights into the mechanical behavior of the rostrum in the genus *Curculio* Linnaeus, 1758. **Michael Andrew Jansen** (entojansen@gmail.com), Arizona State Univ., Tempe, AZ

1:45 **2110** Allometry and morphometrics of colored facial markings in three species of burying beetle (Coleoptera: *Nicrophorus*). **Jillian Wormington** (jillianwormington@gmail.com) and Barney Luttbeg, Oklahoma State Univ., Stillwater, OK

2:00 **2111** Preliminary phylogeny and revised classification of sap beetles in the Carpophilinae (Coleoptera: Nitidulidae). **Gareth Powell** (powellg@purdue.edu)¹, Andrew R. Cline², and Jennifer Zaspel¹, ¹Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN, ²California Dept. of Food and Agriculture, Sacramento, CA

2:15 **2112** Novel trait evolution in weevils (Coleoptera: Curculionidae): Insights from *Diaprepes abbreviatus*. **Kyle DeMarr** (kad259@cornell.edu)¹ and Steve Davis², ¹Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY, ²American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY

2:30 **2113** Preliminary phylogeny of the South American xyleborine genera *Coptoborus* and *Theoborus* (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae). **Rachel Osborn** (rachelkosborn@gmail.com)¹ and Anthony I. Cognato², ¹Michigan State Univ., Okemos, MI, ²Michigan State Univ., East Lansing, MI

2:45 **2114** Phylogenetic revision of the Neotropical weevil genus *Trichodocerus* Chevrolat (Coleoptera: Curculionidae). **Salvatore S. Anzaldo** (sanzaldo@asu.edu), Arizona State Univ., Tempe, AZ

### 3:00 BREAK

3:15 **2115** Phylogenetics and revision of the rove beetle genus *Phlaeopterus* Motschulsky, 1853 (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Omaliinae). **Logan Mullen** (ljmullen2@alaska.edu) and Derek Sikes, Univ. of Alaska Museum, Fairbanks, AK

3:30 **2116** The systematics and microbial associations of psyllids (Hemiptera: Psylloidea): What is the biosecurity risk? **Francesco Martoni** (francesco.martoni@lincolnuni.ac.nz)¹, Simon Bulman², and Karen Armstrong³, ¹Lincoln Univ., Lincoln, New Zealand, ²Plant and Food Research, Lincoln, New Zealand, ³Plant Biosecurity Cooperative Research Centre, Canberra, Australia

3:45 **2117** A tale of two ends: Evolution of head and male genitalic morphology of *Nannocoris* Reuter (Hemiptera: Schizopteridae). Christiane Weirauch and **Sarah Frankenberg** (sfran012@ucr.edu), Univ. of California, Riverside, CA

4:00 **2118** Molecular and morphology-based phylogeny of Australian Orthotylini (Heteroptera: Miridae: Orthotylinae). **Marina Cheng** (marina.cheng@unsw.edu.au)¹ and Gerry Cassis², ¹Univ. of New South Wales, Kensington, Australia, ²Univ. of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

4:15 **2119** Blunt labium, acute problem: Taxonomic mess in the *Corixidea* genus group (Heteroptera: Schizopteridae). **Alexander Knyshov** (aknys001@ucr.edu), Rochelle Hoey-Chamberlain, and Christiane Weirauch, Univ. of California, Riverside, CA

4:30 **2120** Significance of male supra-anal plate and cerci in the classification of Acridoidea and Pyrgomorphoidea (Orthoptera). **Shahnila Usmani** (persona.usmani@gmail.com), Aligarh Muslim Univ., Aligarh, India

4:45 **2121** Evaluation of body-size effect on parameters of calling and courtship songs of the two-spotted cricket, *Gryllus bimaculatus*. **Atsushi Miyashita** (4298898886@mail.ecc.u-tokyo.ac.jp), Hayato Kizaki, Kazuhisa Sekimizu, and Chikara Kaito, The Univ. of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

5:00 **2122** Towards a comprehensive knowledge of Pyrgomorphidae (Orthoptera: Caelifera) systematics. **Ricardo Marino-Perez** (pselliopus@yahoo.com.mx) and Hojun Song, Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX

5:15 **2123** Function of internal genitalia of bushcrickets: Comparative evidence of copulatory courtship (Orthoptera: Ensifera: Tettigoniidae). **Nadja Wulff** (nadja_wulff@yahoo.de) and Gerlind Lehmann, Humboldt Univ., Berlin, Germany

## Contributed Papers: Agricultural and Forest Entomology: Forest Insects

### Room W225 B (Convention Center)

**Moderators:** Angela M. Mech¹ and Alvaro Fuentealba², ¹Univ. of Georgia, Athens, GA, ²Concordia Univ., Montréal, QC, Canada

1:30 **2124** Determining the role of bacterial symbionts on the heat tolerance of *Adelges tsugae*. **Angela M. Mech** (angmech@gmail.com) and Gaelen Burke, Univ. of Georgia, Athens, GA

1:45 **2125** Prediction of the large scale outbreak patterns of pine caterpillars under climate scenarios. **Hongbin Wang** (wanghb@caf.ac.cn), Sufang Zhang, Xiangbo Kong, and Zhen Zhang, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Beijing, China

2:00 **2126** Chemical communication of *Ips subelongatus* in relation to its hosts, nonhosts, and major associated fungi. **Xiangbo Kong** (xbkong@sina.com), Hongbin Wang, Sufang Zhang, and Zhen Zhang, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Beijing, China

2:15 **2127** Incidence of *Monochamus* species and pinewood nematode in Nova Scotia Christmas tree plantations. **Suzanne Blatt** (suzanne.blatt@agr.gc.ca)¹, Charlane Bishop², Karen Burgher-MacLellan¹, and Jon Sweeney³, ¹Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Kentville, NS, Canada, ²Christmas Tree Council of Nova Scotia, Newtonville, NS, Canada, ³Natural Resources Canada, Fredericton, NB, Canada
2:30 **2128** Thermal limitations to the biological control of *Gonipterus* sp. n. 2 in *Eucalyptus* plantations.
**Michelle Schröder** (michelle.schroder@fabi.up.ac.za), Michael Wingfield, Brett Hurley, and Jeff Garnas, Univ. of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa

2:45 **2129** Molecular markers confirm the origin and reveal complex global invasion history of the eucalyptus gall wasp, *Leptocybe invasa*. **Gudrun Dittrich-Schröder** (gudrun.dittrich@fabi.up.ac.za)¹, Brett Hurley¹, Michael Wingfield¹, Bernard Slippers¹, Simon Lawson<fnref n="2" />, and Helen Nahrung<fnref n="2" />. ¹Univ. of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa, ²Univ. of the Sunshine Coast, Sippy Downs, Australia

3:00 **BREAK**

3:15 **2130** Impact of climate change on the evolution of the pine processionary moth, *Thaumetopoea pityocampa* (Lepidoptera Notodontidae), at the Aures, Algeria.
**Nacer Tarai** (tarainacer@yahoo.fr)¹ and Mihi Ali<fnref n="2" />, ¹Univ. of Biskra, Biskra, Algeria, ²Univ. of Setif, Setif, Algeria

3:30 **2131** Mountain pine beetle, *Dendroctonus ponderosae*, as an emerging threat to eastern pine forests of North America. **Brian Aukema** (brianaukema@umn.edu)¹, Robert Venette<fnref n="2" />, Mark Abrahamson³, and Derek Rosenberger¹. ¹Univ. of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN, ²USDA - Forest Service, St. Paul, MN, ³Minnesota Dept. of Agriculture, St. Paul, MN

3:45 **2132** Responses of *Tomicus piniperda* and *Acanthocinus aedilis* in stands with different amounts of created deadwood. **Jan Weslien** (jan.weslien@skogforsk.se), The Forestry Research Institute of Sweden, Uppsala, Sweden

4:00 **2133** High release rate MCH dispensers increase efficiency of applications to prevent Douglas-fir beetle (*Dendroctonus pseudotsugae*) infestations.
**Darrell W. Ross** (darrell.ross@oregonstate.edu)¹, Harrison Brookes¹, and Kimberly F. Wallin<fnref n="2" />. ¹Oregon State Univ., Corvallis, OR, ²Univ. of Vermont, Burlington, VT

4:15 **2134** Modelling range shifts of native and invasive forest insects under changing climate.
**Päivi Lyytikäinen-Saarenmaa** (paivi.lyytikainen-saarenmaa@helsinki.fi)¹, Tuula Kantola¹, Hannu Saarenmaa<fnref n="2" />, and Robert Coulson³. ¹Univ. of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland, ²Univ. of Eastern Finland, Joensuu, Finland, ³Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX

4:30 **2135** PCR multiplexes to discriminate *Fusarium* symbionts of exotic *Euwallacea* ambrosia beetles.
**Matther Kasson** (mtkasson@mail.wvu.edu) and Dylan Short, West Virginia Univ., Morgantown, WV

4:45 **2136** New approaches for studying natural enemies of the mountain pine beetle (*Dendroctonus ponderosae*) in standing trees may answer long-standing questions.
**Lawrence Haimowitz** (lhaimowi@uwyo.edu), Univ. of Wyoming, Laramie, WY

5:00 **2137** Black spruce susceptibility to Eastern spruce budworm defoliation under a changing climate: Phenological and biochemical responses.
**Alvaro Fuentealba** (alvaro.fuentealba-morales.1@ulaval.ca)¹,<fnref n="2" />, Emma Despland<fnref n="2" />, Deepa Pureswaran³, and Eric Bauce¹. ¹Univ. Laval, Québec City, QC, Canada,

**Contributed Papers: Functional Genomics and Transgenesis**

**Room W223 B (Convention Center)**

**Moderators:** Alexie Papanicolaou¹ and Margaret Allen<fnref n="2" />, ¹Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Richmond, Australia, ²USDA - ARS, Stoneville, MS

1:30 **2138** Transcriptomic analysis reveals the molecular mechanism of *Conopomorpha sinensis* Bradley (Lepidoptera: Gracillariidae) preference for host-plant. **Xiang Meng** (mengxiangxs@126.com), Guangdong Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Guangzhou, China

1:45 **2139** Genomic interactions of whitefly (*Bemisia tabaci*, MEAM 1) with ToCV and management of whitefly through RNAi. **Navneet Kaur** (navneet.kaur@ars.usda.gov)¹, Wenbo Chen<fnref n="2" />, Yi Zheng<fnref n="2" />, Daniel Hasegawa<fnref n="2" />, Kai-Shu Ling³, Zhangjun Fei<fnref n="2" />, and William Wintermantel¹, ¹USDA - ARS, Salinas, CA, ²Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY, ³USDA - ARS, Charleston, SC

2:00 **2140** Expansion of a bitter taste receptor family in a polyphagous insect herbivore. **Wei Xu** (w.xu@murdoch.edu.au)¹, Alexie Papanicolaou<fnref n="2" />, Hui-Jie Zhang³, and Alisha Anderson⁴, ¹Murdoch Univ., Murdoch, Australia, ²Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Richmond, Australia, ³CSIRO, Black Mountain, Australia, ⁴CSIRO, Acton, Australia

2:15 **2141** Behavioral and molecular mechanisms of pheromone transmission in honey bees (*Apis mellifera*). **Rong Ma** (rong.ma@utexas.edu)¹, Gabriel Villar<fnref n="2" />, Christina M. Grozinger<fnref n="2" />, and Juliana Rangel³, ¹The Univ. of Texas, Austin, TX, ²Pennsylvania State Univ., University Park, PA, ³Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX

2:30 **2142** Molecular mechanism underlying wing dimorphism in planthoppers. **Hai-Jun Xu** (haijunxu@zju.edu.cn) and Chuan-Xi Zhang, Zhejiang Univ., Hangzhou, China

2:45 **2143** Genome-wide association study reveals genetic determinants of nutritional phenotypes in insect-bacterial symbiosis. **Seung Ho Chung** (sc776@cornell.edu) and Angela Douglas, Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY

3:00 **BREAK**

3:15 **2144** Chitinase 7 is required for cuticle laminar organization and chitin deposition in *Tribolium castaneum*. **Mi Young Noh** (annemi@chonnam.ac.kr)¹, Subbaratnam Muthukrishnan<fnref n="2" />, Karl J. Kramer<fnref n="2" />, and Yasuyuki Arakane¹, ¹Chonnam National Univ., Gwangju, South Korea, ²Kansas State Univ., Manhattan, KS

3:30 **2145** Presentation withdrawn

3:45 **2146** CRISPR/Cas9-induced anosmia in the crop pest moth *Spodoptera littoralis*. Fotini Koutroumpa¹, Christelle Monsempes¹, Marie-Christine François¹, Corinne Royer<fnref n="2" />, Anne de Cian³, Jean-Paul Concordet³, and **Emmanuelle Jacquin-Joly** (emmanuelle.jacquin@versailles.inra.fr)¹, ¹INRA, Versailles, France, ²INRA, Villeurbanne, France, ³National Museum of Natural History, Paris, France

<footnote n="2">²Concordia Univ., Montréal, QC, Canada, ³Natural Resources Canada, Québec City, QC, Canada</footnote>
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4:00 **2147** Pipeline technology from Oxitec, Ltd.: Genetic control of *Aedes* mosquitoes. **Edward Sulston** (edward.sulston@pmb.ox.ac.uk)¹, Kelly Matzen², Simon Warner², and Sebastian Shimeld¹, ¹Univ. of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, ²Oxitec Ltd, Abingdon, United Kingdom

4:15 **2148** Analysis of the sex determination pathway in the African malaria mosquito, *Anopheles gambiae*. **Jaroslaw Krzywinski** (jaroslaw.krzywinski@pirbright.ac.uk) and Elzbieta Krzywinska, The Pirbright Institute, Pirbright, United Kingdom

4:30 **2149** Knockout of DNA damage repair genes in the disease vector *Aedes aegypti*. **Justin Overcash** (justmo1@vt.edu)¹,², Azadeh A. Aryan², Zach Adelman¹, and Kevin M. Myles², ¹Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX, ²Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State Univ., Blacksburg, VA

4:45 **2150** Does the Y-chromosome facilitate sexual dimorphic evolution in insects or constrain autosomal evolution? **Ian Kutch** (kutch.bio@knights.ucf.edu) and Ken Fedorka, Univ. of Central Florida, Orlando, FL

5:00 **2151** Constraints, independence, and evolution of thermal plasticity: Probing genetic architecture of long and short-term thermal plasticity. **Daniel Hahn** (dahahn@ufl.edu)¹, Alison Gerken², and Theodore Morgan², ¹Univ. of Florida, Gainesville, FL, ²Kansas State Univ., Manhattan, KS

Contributed Papers: Insect Chemical Ecology

Room W314 B (Convention Center)

**Moderators:** Jeffrey Aldrich¹ and Dipsikha Bora², ¹Univ. of California, Davis, CA, ²Dibrugarh Univ., Dibrugarh, India

1:30 **2152** How competitive interactions between parasitoid species are shaped by herbivores, a model study. **Lia Hemerik** (lia.hemerik@wur.nl)¹, Erik Poelman¹, Astrid Potiek², and Tibor Bukovinszky³, ¹Wageningen Univ. and Research Centre, Wageningen, Netherlands, ²Univ. of Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany, ³Koppert BV, Berkel en Rodenrijs, Netherlands

1:45 **2153** Restricted diet breadth and host defense specific adaptation in *Antheraea assamensis* Helfer: A case study. **Dipsikha Bora** (dipsikhabora03@yahoo.com), Amrita Mech, Bhabesh Deka, and Urbbi Devi, Dibrugarh Univ., Dibrugarh, India

2:00 **2154** Pollinator interactions with the “sweet” scent of cocoa flowers. **Sarah Arnold** (s.e.j.arnold@greenwich.ac.uk)¹, Samantha Forbes², Puran Bridgemohan³, Dudley Farman¹, David Hall¹, Daniel Bray¹, Gustavo Spinelli⁴, Garvin Perry⁵, Leroy Grey⁶, Steven Belmain¹, and Philip Stevenson¹⁷, ¹Univ. of Greenwich, Chatham, United Kingdom, ²James Cook Univ., Townsville, Australia, ³Univ. of Trinidad and Tobago, Carapichaima, Trinidad and Tobago, ⁴Museum of La Plata, La Plata, Argentina, ⁵Univ. of Trinidad and Tobago, Centeno via Arima, Trinidad and Tobago, ⁶Ministry of Agriculture, Kingston, Jamaica, ⁷Royal Botanic Gardens, Surrey, United Kingdom

2:15 **2155** Caste specific volatiles in the red imported fire ants, *Solenopsis invicta*. **Jian Chen** (jian.chen@ars.usda.gov) and Michael Grodowitz, USDA - ARS, Stoneville, MS

2:30 **2156** Pharmacophagy in green lacewings (Neuroptera: Chrysopidae: *Chrysopa* spp.)? **Jeffrey Aldrich** (drjeffaldrich@gmail.com)¹, Kamlesh R. Chauhan², and Qing-He Zhang³, ¹Univ. of California, Davis, CA, ²USDA - ARS, Beltsville, MD, ³Sterling International, Inc., Spokane, WA

2:45 **2157** Suboptimal larval habitats modulate oviposition of the malaria vector mosquito *Anopheles gambiae*. **Eunho Suh** (eunhosuh@gmail.com)¹, Dong-Hwan Choe², Ahmed Saveer¹, and Laurence Zwiebel¹, ¹Vanderbilt Univ., Nashville, TN, ²Univ. of California, Riverside, CA

3:00 BREAK

3:15 **2158** Identification of the aggregation pheromone of the American cockroach, *Periplaneta americana*. **Masayuki Sakuma** (sakuma@kais.kyoto-u.ac.jp)¹, Yukihiro Nishimura¹, Masashi Tanaka¹, Tamio Ueno², Noritada Matsuo², and Yasuyuki Koutani², ¹Kyoto Univ., Kyoto, Japan, ²Dainihon Jochugiku Co., Ltd, Osaka, Japan

3:30 **2159** The pollination ecology of *Platanthera* orchids by snow mosquitoes. **Chloé Lahondère** (lahonder@uw.edu), Clement Vinauger, Ryo Okubo, and Jeff Riffell, Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA

3:45 **2160** Regulation of worker reproduction in the polydomous ant species *Novomessor cockerelli*. **Jessica Ebie** (jebie@asu.edu), Bert Hölldobler, and Jürgen Liebig, Arizona State Univ., Tempe, AZ

4:00 **2161** The evolution of geadephagan chemical defense: A phylogenetic understanding of the diversity and stasis of compounds and gland structures in carabid beetles. **Kipling Will** (kipwill@berkeley.edu)¹, Athula Attygalle², Aman Gill³, Wendy Moore⁴, and Tanya Renner⁵, ¹Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA, ²Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, NJ, ³Stony Brook Univ., Stony Brook, NY, ⁴Univ. of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, ⁵San Diego State Univ., San Diego, CA

4:15 **2162** Deciphering the nestmate recognition system in a stingless bee (Hymenoptera: Apidae, *Melipona scutellaris*). **Fabio Nascimento** (fsnascim@usp.br), Daniela Nascimento, and Ivelize Tannure-Nascimento, Univ. of São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto, Brazil

4:30 **2163** Plants, microbes, and odorants in insect host location: Who's making the message? **Charles Linn Jr.** (cel1@cornell.edu)¹, Sara Volo², Ronald Chilson³, Michael Wolfin¹, and Gregory M. Loeb¹, ¹Cornell Univ., Geneva, NY, ²Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva, NY, ³Penn Yan Academy High School, Penn Yan, NY

4:45 **2164** Identification and field evaluation of yeast volatiles attractive to *Philornis downsi*, a hematophagous invasive parasite of Darwin's finches in the Galapagos. **Dong Cha** (dongho.cha1@gmail.com)¹, Alejandro Mieles¹, Charlotte Causton², Paola Lahuatte², Andrea Cahuana², Piedad Lincango²,³, and Stephen Teale¹, ¹State Univ. of New York, Syracuse, NY, ²Charles Darwin Foundation for the Galapagos Islands, Galapagos Islands, Ecuador, ³Central Univ. of Ecuador, Quito, Ecuador
# Congratulations to the 2016 ESA Science Policy Fellows

<figure><img src="image_393.png" /><figcaption>**Dr. Jason R. Cryan**
North Carolina
Museum of Natural
Sciences</figcaption></figure>

<figure><img src="image_394.png" /><figcaption>**Dr. Michelle A. Duennes**
University of California,
Riverside</figcaption></figure>

<figure><img src="image_395.png" /><figcaption>**Dr. Jennifer R. Gordon**
SC Johnson and Sons,
Inc.</figcaption></figure>

<figure><img src="image_396.png" /><figcaption>**Mr. Joe Kaser**
University of Minnesota</figcaption></figure>

<figure><img src="image_397.png" /><figcaption>**Dr. Glen Scoles**
USDA-ARS</figcaption></figure>

## CONNECT to a WORLD of RESEARCH during ICE 2016

### Visit ESA's Virtual Posters

In addition to taking part in the hundreds of scientific sessions and physical posters in Orlando, be sure to view the Virtual Posters authored by researchers from around the world. Make new connections around the globe.

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Virtual Posters are available daily alongside regular posters in the Exhibit Hall.

For a list of Virtual Posters, please see the Virtual Poster listings in this program book.
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5:00 **2165** Red imported fire ant (*Solenopsis invicta* Buren) foraging behavior in the presence of swarming bacteria *Proteus mirabilis*. **Elida Espinoza** (ellyspnz@gmail.com)¹, Tawni L. Crippen², Jeffery K. Tomberlin¹, and Roger Gold¹, ¹Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX, ²USDA - ARS, College Station, TX

5:15 **2166** *Meloe* nest parasites locally adapt chemistry and behavior to match bee hosts. **Leslie Saul-Gershenz** (Isaulgershenz@ucdavis.edu), Univ. of California, Davis, CA

Contributed Papers: Medical and Veterinary Entomology: Repellents, Toxicants, and Resistance

Room W231 C (Convention Center)

**Moderators:** M. Patricia Juárez¹ and Juli Wuliandari², ¹Biochemical Research Institute of La Plata, La Plata, Argentina, ²The Univ. of Melbourne, Parkville, Australia

1:30 **2167** Insecticide resistance at the surface: Contribution of the integument genes in *Triatoma infestans*. **M. Patricia Juárez** (mjuarez@isis.unlp.edu.ar) and Gustavo Calderón Fernández, Biochemical Research Institute of La Plata, La Plata, Argentina

1:45 **2168** Acetylcholinesterases of arthropod ectoparasites: Roles in organophosphate resistance and host-parasite interaction. **Kevin B. Temeyer** (kevin.temeyer@ars.usda.gov)¹, Fan Tong², Jeffrey Bloomquist², Paul R Carlier³, Maxim Totrov⁴, Daniel R. Swale⁵, Andrew Li⁶, and Adalberto A. Pérez de León¹, ¹USDA - ARS, Kerrville, TX, ²Univ. of Florida, Gainesville, FL, ³Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State Univ., Blacksburg, VA, ⁴Molsoft LLC, San Diego, CA, ⁵Louisiana State Univ., Baton Rouge, LA, ⁶USDA - ARS, Beltsville, MD

2:00 **2169** Assessment of efficacy of essential oil based combination(s) against the dengue vector *Aedes aegypti* (Diptera: Culicidae) in NE India. **Bulbuli Khanikor** (khanikorbululi@yahoo.co.in), Riju Sarma, Sudarshana Mahanta, Sangeeta Hakmao, Sumana Das, Tulika Kuli, Rashmita Ardao, Kamal Adhikari, Alomwara Begum, Rima Rabha, and Chayanika Devi, Gauhati Univ., Guwahati, India

2:15 **2170** Association between three mutations, F1565C, V1023G and S996P, in the voltage-sensitive sodium channel gene and knockdown resistance (kdr) in *Aedes aegypti* from Yogyakarta, Indonesia. **Juli Wuliandari** (jwuliandari@gmail.com)¹, Siu Fai Lee¹, Vanessa White¹, Warsito Tantowijoyo², Ary Hoffmann¹, and Nancy Endersby-Harshman¹, ¹The Univ. of Melbourne, Parkville, Australia, ²Eliminate Dengue Project, Yogyakarta, Indonesia

2:30 **2171** MicroRNA-275 directly targets sarco/endoplasmic reticulum Ca²⁺ adenosine triphosphatase (SERCA) to control key functions in the mosquito gut. **Bo Zhao** (nkzhaobo@gmail.com)¹,², Keira Lucas¹, Tusar Saha¹, Jisu Ha¹, Chun-Hong Chen³, Sourav Roy¹, and Alexander Raikhel¹, ¹Univ. of California, Riverside, CA, ²North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC, ³Institute of Molecular and Genomic Medicine, Zhunan, Taiwan

2:45 **2172** Cytochrome P450 monooxigenase genes (CYP) associated with pyrethroid resistance in the Chagas disease vector *Triatoma infestans*. **Nicolás Pedrini** (nicopedrini@yahoo.com)¹, Gustavo Calderón-Fernández¹, Jhon Salamanca-Moreno¹, Suresh Kumar², Wilma Fleita¹, and M. Patricia Juárez¹, ¹Biochemical Research Institute of La Plata, La Plata, Argentina, ²Management & Science Univ., Selangor, Malaysia

3:00 BREAK

3:15 **2173** Solution for developing countries: a novel in-vitro bioassay to explore the repellent effects of compounds against the mosquito *Aedes aegypti* (Diptera: Culicidae). **Junaid Rehman** (junaiddua@gmail.com), Univ. of Mississippi, Univ., MS

3:30 **2174** Popular homemade Brazilian mosquito repellent recipe may be misleading. **Kaiming Tan** (ktan@ucdavis.edu)¹, Garisson Buss¹, Ana C. A. Melo¹,², and Walter S. Leal¹, ¹Univ. of California, Davis, CA, ²Federal Univ. of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

3:45 **2175** Laboratory evaluation of residual efficacy of Deltamethrin K-OTHRINE 250 WG and pirimiphos-methyl ACTELLIC 300 CS on different wall surfaces against *Culex quinquefasciatus* Say (Diptera: Culicidae). **Kolade Ibrahim** (koladeibrahim@hotmail.com), Kabir Popoola Kok, and Kenneth Akure, Univ. of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria

4:00 **2176** Global research and development of a non-DEET insect repellent ethyl butylacetylaminopropionate (IR3535). **Howard Epstein** (howard.epstein@emdgroup.com), EMD Performance Materials Corp., Philadelphia, PA

4:15 **2177** Quantitative analysis of vector movement behavior following subacute exposure to behavior modifiers. **Kyndall Dye** (kyndall.dye@uky.edu), Univ. of Kentucky, Lexington, KY

4:30 **2178** Mosquitocidal activity and mode of action of the isoxazoline fluralaner. **Shiyao Jiang** (shiyao.jiang@ufl.edu)¹, Maia Tsikolia¹,², Ulrich Bernier², and Jeffrey Bloomquist¹, ¹Univ. of Florida, Gainesville, FL, ²USDA - ARS, Gainesville, FL

4:45 **2179** Green synthesis of silver nanoparticle (AgNPs) from *Argemone mexicana* for control of the dengue vector *Aedes aegypti*. **Siva Kamalakannan** (kamal410@yahoo.com) and Kadarkarai Murugan, Bharathiar Univ., Coimbatore, India

5:00 **2180** Insecticidal properties of three plant extracts against *Culex quinquefasciatus* Say and *Aedes aegypti* Linnaeus. **Abhay Khandagle** (ajkhandagle@gmail.com), Arts, Commerce and Science College, Pune, India

5:15 **2181** Studies on knockdown resistance (kdr) mutations in *Aedes aegypti* and *Aedes albopictus* in India. **Neera Kapoor** (neerakapoor@ignou.ac.in), Indira Gandhi National Open Univ., New Delhi, India
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# The Entomological Foundation

Many volunteers and donors support the Entomological Foundation throughout the year and we could not fulfill our mission without their support. Branch volunteers and donors were reported to ESA HQ by the Branch Presidents. Any omissions are regretted. The Entomological Foundation appreciates all donations, including those that were made anonymously and all who made bids at the National and Branch meeting silent auctions.

Financial and silent auction donors listed below are from August 1, 2015 - August 1, 2016.*

## Gold level

BASF

Fran Gylling

Gary R. Mullen

Sujaya Rao

Ernest S. Delfosse

Steven Gylling

Sarah Myers

Nan-Yao Su

Gylling Data Management, Inc.

Geoffrey Kater

Bonnie B. Pendleton

## Silver level

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Herbert T. Streu

Patricia F. O'Leary

Doris L. Paroonagian

## All other donors

Barbara Abraham

Veenu Aishwarya

Carol M. Anelli

Antoine Barreaux

James E. Bath

May R. Berenbaum

Amy Berkov

Jeffrey D. Bradshaw

Gary J. Brewer

E. Alan Cameron

Robert Ciardullo, BCE

Theresa M. Cira

Joel Coates

Anita M. Collins

Colwell A. Cook

Charles F. Cowher

John W. Dale, BCE-Emeritus

Franklyn Aroha Davis

Bernice Bacon DeMarco

Jacob I. Dixon

John J. Drea

Florence V. Dunkel

EARTHSHARE

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Laura Weiser Erlandson

Mark F. Feldlaufer

Allan S. Felsot

Frances Geller

Jennifer Lynn Graham

Philip A. Grau

Eric Grissell

James D. Harper

Michelle Hartzer, BCE

Muhammad Haseeb

Charlotte Elizabeth Herbert

Anna N. Hess

Stephen D. Hight

Erin W. Hodgson

David B. Hogg, BCE

Sara Hu

Janet Hurley

Louis E. Jackai

Adrian S. Juttner

Gail E. Kampmeier

Susan Whitney King

Lidia Komondy

Dennis D. Kopp

Amy K. Korman, BCE

Rayda K. Krell

Caitlin C. Krueger

William O. Lamp

Ryan Alexander St. Laurent

Robert J. Lavigne

Jacquelyn A. Lee

Chow-Yang Lee, BCE

Donald R. Lewis

Robert A. Lubrano, BCE

Thiago Mastrangelo

Michael L. May

Dennis Tyler Mays

J. E. McPherson

Jacqueline Y. Miller

Douglass R. Miller

Anne Deavours Miskelley

AbdulAziz M.A. Mohamed

Chester G. Moore

Patrick J. Moran

Amy C. Morey

Eric Jason Morse, ACE

Kathleen D. Murray

Christine Alepa

Steven E. Naranjo

A. Nilsen

Larry D. Novy, BCE

Christina P. O'Connell

Reno Parker

Suppaluck Polsomboon

Salvatore W. Porcellini

Peter W. Price

Edward B. Radcliffe

Victoria Maris Rottman

Michael K. Rust

Jonathan B. Sanders

Frederick J. Santana, BCE-Emeritus

Ana Paula dos Santos de Carvalho

James E. Sargent

James T. Sarnese

Susan M. Sawyer

Timothy D. Schowalter

Jeffrey P. Shapiro

Marianne Shockley

Eric H. Smith, BCE

Thomas C. Sparks

Hiroko Tabunoki

Irene Terry

William L. Tietjen

Karen M. Vail

Suresh Shamji Varsani

M. O. Way

Donald C. Weber

Garnett Whitehurst

Broc G. Zoller

## Support the Entomological Foundation

The Entomological Foundation is building the future of our profession by supporting the needs of educators in grades K-12. We promote science literacy through insect-based education. Please help support our work by purchasing a raffle ticket at the ESA Booth, donating through the app, or bidding during the Silent Auction Sunday through Friday. Stop by the ESA Booth to learn more.

<footnote>* Every effort has been made to list all donors to the Entomological Foundation. If your donation was omitted from this list, please contact cstelzig@entsoc.org so that we may research the issue.</footnote>
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## Invited Lecture Featuring
Dr. Juan Andres Bisset Lazcano

### Room W331 A (Convention Center)

**Moderator and Organizer:** Walter S. Leal, Univ. of California, Davis, CA

4:30 **2182** Introduction of the Speaker. **Walter S. Leal** (wsleal@ucdavis.edu), Univ. of California, Davis, CA

4:35 **2183** *Aedes aegypti* management strategies for dengue control in Cuba. **Juan Bisset** (bisset@ipk.sld.cu), Institute of Tropical Medicine Pedro Kouri, Havana, Cuba

5:30 Reception honoring Dr. Juan Bisset
Located in Salon 11/12, Rosen Plaza Hotel
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## Wednesday, September 28, 2016 • Morning

### Keynote Presentation Featuring
Dr. Jules Hoffmann

### Valencia Room (Convention Center)

**Moderators and Organizers:** Walter S. Leal¹, Alvin M. Simmons², and Elena Levashina³, ¹Univ. of California, Davis, CA, ²USDA - ARS, Charleston, SC, ³Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology, Berlin, Germany

8:00 **2184** Introduction of the Keynote Speaker. **Elena Levashina** (levashina@mpiib-berlin.mpg.de), Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology, Berlin, Germany

8:05 **2185** Innate immunity: From insects to humans. **Jules Hoffmann** (v.wolf@unistra.fr), Strasbourg Univ. Institute for Advanced Study, Strasbourg, France

## Symposium: Agronomic and Economic Benefits of Seed Treatments: The IPM Perspective

### Room W331 A (Convention Center)

**Moderators and Organizers:** Palle Pedersen¹, Bill Striegel², and Bradley W. Hopkins³, ¹Syngenta Plant Protection, Greensboro, NC, ²Bayer CropScience, Research Triangle Park, NC, ³Dow AgroSciences, Indianapolis, IN

9:15 **2186** Seed treatments and modern agriculture: Do seed treatments breach IPM principles? **Kevin Steffey**¹ and **Marlin Rice** (marlinrice@gmail.com)², ¹Dow AgroSciences, Indianapolis, IN, ²DuPont Pioneer, Johnston, IA

9:30 **2187** History of seed treatments and their advantage. **Ray Knake** (ray.knake@aol.com), Ray Knake Consulting, Johnston, IA

9:45 **2188** Agronomic advantages and benefits of seed treatments. **Shawn Conley** (spconley@wisc.edu), Paul D. Mitchell, and Adam Gaspar, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI

10:00 **2189** Enhancing IPM with neonicotinoid seed treatments in the Mid-Southern U.S. **Jeff Gore** (jgore@drec.msstate.edu)¹, Angus Catchot², Don Cook¹, Scott Stewart³, Gus Lorenz⁴, Glenn Studebaker⁵, and David L. Kerns⁶, ¹Mississippi State Univ., Stoneville, MS, ²Mississippi State Univ., Mississippi State, MS, ³Univ. of Tennessee, Jackson, TN, ⁴Univ. of Arkansas, Lonoke, AR, ⁵Univ. of Arkansas Cooperative Extension Service, Keiser, AR, ⁶Louisiana State Univ., Winnsboro, LA

### 10:15 BREAK

10:30 **2190** Insecticidal seed treatment — a physiological assessment *re* soybean yield - bean leaf beetle - Bean pod mottle virus. **James Specht** (jspecht1@unl.edu), Univ. of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE

10:45 **2191** Current US regulatory process. **James Aidala** (jaidala@lawbc.com), Bergeson & Campbell, Washington, DC

11:00 **2192** Economic benefits of neonicotinoid insecticides in the U.S. and Canada: Implications for IPM. **Peter Nowak** (pnowak@wisc.edu), Paul D. Mitchell, and Nicola Carey, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI

11:15 **2193** The role of seed treatments and the seed treatment application across the seed industry. **Jane DeMarchi** (jdemarchi@amseed.org), American Seed Trade Association, Alexandria, VA

### 11:30 Panel Discussion

## Symposium: Public-Private Partnerships for Development of Next-Generation Pest Management Methods

### Room W314 A (Convention Center)

**Moderators and Organizers:** Bryony Bonning¹ and Subba Reddy Palli², ¹Iowa State Univ., Ames, IA, ²Univ. of Kentucky, Lexington, KY

9:15 **2194** The Center for Arthropod Management Technologies: Industry perspective. **Ronald Flannagan** (ron.flannagan@monsanto.com)¹, Kevin Donohue², Kimberly Sampson³, John Dorsch⁴, Amit Sethi⁵, Dror Avisar⁶, and Tom Meade⁷, ¹Monsanto Company, Chesterfield, MO, ²Syngenta Crop Protection, Research Triangle Park, NC, ³Bayer CropScience, Morrisville, NC, ⁴BASF, Research Triangle Park, NC, ⁵DuPont Pioneer, Johnston, IA, ⁶FuturaGene Ltd., Park Tamar, Israel, ⁷Dow AgroSciences, Indianapolis, IN

9:30 **2195** Developing novel cell lines from selected insects. **Cynthia Goodman** (cindy.goodman@ars.usda.gov) and David Stanley, USDA - ARS, Columbia, MO

9:45 **2196** Mechanisms of transcytosis across the gut of *Spodoptera frugiperda*. **Mariah Kemmerer** (mjkem@iastate.edu) and Bryony Bonning, Iowa State Univ., Ames, IA

10:00 **2197** Insect resistance traits for control of insect pests in transgenic crops. **Tom Meade** (meade@dow.com), Dow AgroSciences, Indianapolis, IN

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10:15 **BREAK**

10:30 **2198** Identification of factors responsible for differential efficiency of RNAi between coleopteran and lepidopteran insects. **Megha Kalsi** (mehhakalsi@uky.edu)¹, Jayendra Shukla¹, Amit Sethi², Kenneth Narva³, Elane Fishilevich³, and Subba Reddy Palli¹. ¹Univ. of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, ²DuPont Pioneer, Johnston, IA, ³Dow AgroSciences, Indianapolis, IN

10:45 **2199** Enveloped porous nanoparticles for RNA delivery to insects. **Bruce Webb** (bawebb@email.uky.edu), Stephen Rankin, and Barbara Knutson, Univ. of Kentucky, Lexington, KY

11:00 **2200** Use of RNAi for agricultural pest control. **Renata Bolognesi** (renata.bolognesi@monsanto.com), Monsanto Company, Chesterfield, MO

11:15 **2201** RNA-based biocontrol for Colorado potato beetle and corn rootworm control. Pascale Feldmann¹, Jason Vincent², and **Kevin Donohue** (kevin.donohue@syngenta.com)³, ¹Syngenta, Zwijnaarde, Belgium, ²Syngenta, Bracknell, United Kingdom, ³Syngenta Crop Protection, Research Triangle Park, NC

10:45 **2207** Do different management approaches result in reduced Nosema ceranae levels? **Brenna E. Traver** (bet12@psu.edu)¹, Robyn Underwood², Kristine Nichols³, and Dennis vanEngelsdorp⁴. ¹Pennsylvania State Univ., Schuylkill Haven, PA, ²Kutztown Univ., Kutztown, PA, ³Rodale Institute, Kutztown, PA, ⁴Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD

11:00 **2208** Treatment of varroa mites with formic acid and thymol in Africanized honey bee colonies in Costa Rica. **Rafael Calderon Fallas** (rafael.calderon.fallas@una.cr)¹, Marianyela Ramirez², and Fernando Ramirez². ¹National University of Costa Rica, Heredia, Costa Rica, ²Tropical Bee Research Center, Heredia, Costa Rica

11:15 **2209** Pests and pathogens of honey bees in East Africa. **Harland M. Patch** (hmpatch@psu.edu)¹, Christina M. Grozinger¹, Elliu Muli²,³, and Maryann Frazier¹. ¹Pennsylvania State Univ., University Park, PA, ²International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology, Nairobi, Kenya, ³South Eastern Kenya Univ., Kitui, Kenya

11:30 **Panel Discussion**

**Symposium: IPM Strategies for the Management and Sustainability of Honey Bees (Apis mellifera) Across the Globe**

**Room W224 F (Convention Center)**

**Moderators and Organizers:** Jennifer M. Tsuruda¹ and Juliana Rangel², ¹Clemson Univ., Clemson, SC, ²Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX

9:15 **2202** Non-chemical control of varroa mites in honey bee colonies. **Meghan McConnell** (memconnell89@gmail.com) and Dennis vanEngelsdorp, Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD

9:30 **2203** RNAi therapeutics as a non-chemical control method for Varroa and viruses. **Gerald Hayes** (gerald.w.hayes.jr@monsanto.com), Monsanto Company, St. Louis, MO

9:45 **2204** Evaluation of the predatory mite *Stratiolaelaps scimitus* for biological control of the honey bee ectoparasitic mite *Varroa destructor*. **Juliana Rangel** (jrangel@tamu.edu) and Lauren Ward, Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX

10:00 **2205** Marker-assisted selection for disease-resistance traits is an effective IPM tool in honey bees. **Shelley Hoover** (shelley.hoover@gov.ab.ca)¹, Miriam Bixby², Stephen Pernal³, Rob Currie⁴, Marta Guarna³, and Leonard J. Foster². ¹The Univ. of British Columbia, Lethbridge, AB, Canada, ²The Univ. of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada, ³Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Beaverlodge, AB, Canada, ⁴Univ. of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada

10:15 **BREAK**

10:30 **2206** Sustainability of honey bees through increased genetic diversity at the colony and population levels. **David Tarpy** (drtarpy@ncsu.edu), North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC

**Symposium: Insect Vectors as Drivers of Emerging Plant Diseases**

**Room W230 D (Convention Center)**

**Moderators and Organizers:** Alberto Fereres¹, Rodrigo Almeida², and Joao R. S. Lopes³, ¹Institute of Agricultural Sciences, Madrid, Spain, ²Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA, ³Univ. of São Paulo, Piracicaba, Brazil

9:15 **2210** Behavioral responses of insect vectors of plant disease to climate change. **Alberto Fereres** (a.fereres@csic.es), Institute of Agricultural Sciences, Madrid, Spain

9:30 **2211** Environmental factors and infection with *Candidatus Liberibacter asiaticus* influence long-range dispersal of the Asian citrus psyllid. **Xavier Martini** (xmartini@ufl.edu), Hannah Lewis-Rosenblum, Mark Hoffmann, Kirsten P. Stelinski, and Lukasz Stelinski, Univ. of Florida, Lake Alfred, FL

9:45 **2212** Manipulation of host-derived olfactory cues by vector-borne pathogens. **Mark Mescher** (mcmescher@psu.edu), Pennsylvania State Univ., University Park, PA

10:00 **2213** *Xylella fastidiosa* as a new worldwide emerging vector-borne plant pathogen. **Rodrigo Almeida** (rodrigo@nature.berkeley.edu), Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA

10:15 **BREAK**

10:30 **2214** Epidemiological significance of vector behavior: Interactions with plant resistance traits and climate. **Matthew P. Daugherty** (matt.daugherty@ucr.edu)¹, Adam Zellinger², and Rodrigo Almeida². ¹Univ. of California, Riverside, CA, ²Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA

10:45 **2215** Presentation withdrawn

11:00 **Panel Discussion**
# Symposium: Insects, Ecosystem Functioning, and Services: New Questions and Experimental Perspectives

## Room W224 C (Convention Center)

**Moderators and Organizers:** Jorge Noriega, Joaquin Hortal, and Ana Santos, National Museum of Natural Sciences, Madrid, Spain

9:15 **2216** How good is our knowledge of the ecosystem services provided by insects from an experimental perspective? **Jorge Noriega** (jnorieg@hotmail.com), Ana Santos, and Joaquin Hortal, National Museum of Natural Sciences, Madrid, Spain

9:30 **2217** Extending the trait-based approach to multi-trophic systems to assess effects on ecosystem processes - First attempts and perspectives. **Marco Moretti** (marco.moretti@wsl.ch), Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL, Birmensdorf, Switzerland

9:45 **2218** Impacts of fertilization amount and quality on top-down control of crop pest insects. **Laura Riggi** (laura.riggi@slu.se), Swedish Univ. of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden

10:00 **2219** Heavy metal bees: How do they indicate the transference of heavy metals through terrestrial food webs? **Yasmine Antonini** (antonini.y@gmail.com), Nathália de Oliveira Nascimento, and Alessandra Rodrigues Kozovits, Federal Univ. of Ouro Preto, Ouro Preto, Brazil

10:15 **BREAK**

10:30 **2220** Adding honey bees increases oilseed yields but also affects wild pollinators. **Sandra Lindström** (sandra.lindstrom@hushallningssallskapet.se), Swedish Univ. of Agricultural Sciences, Lund, Sweden

10:45 **2221** Impacts of insect herbivory and nitrogen deposition on grassland plant communities and functioning. **Pernilla Borgström** (pernilla.borgstrom@slu.se), Swedish Univ. of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden

11:00 **Panel Discussion**

# Symposium: Using Insect Diversity to Plan and Manage Conservation in Transformed Landscapes

## Room W224 D (Convention Center)

**Moderators and Organizers:** James Pryke¹ and Rene Gaigher², ¹Stellenbosch Univ., Stellenbosch, South Africa, ²Stellenbosch Univ., Matieland, South Africa

9:15 **2222** Using multiple arthropod taxa to determine conservation targets for ecological networks within timber plantations. **James Pryke** (j pryke@sun.ac.za), Stellenbosch Univ., Stellenbosch, South Africa

9:30 **2223** Drivers of ground-dwelling arthropod species richness and assemblage structure in the savannah biome. **Colin Schoeman** (colin.schoeman@univen.ac.za)¹, Michelle Hamer², and Stefan Foord¹, ¹Univ. of Venda, Thohoyando, South Africa, ²South African National Biodiverstiy Institute, Silverton, South Africa

9:45 **2224** Potential of old fields for increasing habitat heterogeneity and connectivity for arthropod natural enemies in farmland mosaics. **Rene Gaigher** (reneg@sun.ac.za)¹, James Pryke², and Michael J. Samways², ¹Stellenbosch Univ., Matieland, South Africa, ²Stellenbosch Univ., Stellenbosch, South Africa

10:00 **2225** Enhancing insect diversity in agricultural landscapes while providing multiple additional benefits. **Morgan Shields** (morgan.shields@lincolnuni.ac.nz), Lincoln Univ., Lincoln, New Zealand

10:15 **BREAK**

10:30 **2226** Presentation withdrawn

10:45 **2227** The effect of plantations and road in fragmenting natural forest arthropod populations. **Francois Roets** (fr@sun.ac.za), Stellenbosch Univ., Stellenbosch, South Africa

11:00 **2228** The importance of natural forests for maintaining biodiversity and ecological processes within a production landscape. **Inam Yekwayo** (yekwayoinam@gmail.com), James Pryke, Francois Roets, and Michael J. Samways, Stellenbosch Univ., Stellenbosch, South Africa

11:15 **2229** Identifying surrogates for conserving insect diversity in human-modified landscapes in south-eastern Australia. **Ding Li Yong** (zoothera@yahoo.com) and Philip Barton, The Australian National Univ., Canberra, Australia

# Symposium: Biological Control Perspective in South and Southeast Asia

## Room W414 B (Convention Center)

**Moderators and Organizers:** Alberto Barrion and Divina Amalin, De La Salle Univ., Manila, Philippines

9:15 **2230** Biological control initiatives of the Central Bicol State University of Agriculture (CBSUA), Bicol region, Southern Luzon, Philippines. **Maria Dulce Mostoles** (mdjmostoles@yahoo.com) and Lilia Pasiona, Central Bicol State Univ. of Agriculture, Camarines Sur, Philippines

9:30 **2231** Search for potential biological control agent of cattle fever tick in the Philippines. **Mary Jane Flores** (mary.jane.flores@dlsu.edu.ph)¹, Bianca Mari Dizon¹, Yasmin Dawud¹, Bianca Victoria Pena¹, Divina Amalin¹, John A. Goolsby², and Alexis Racelis³, ¹De La Salle Univ., Manila, Philippines, ²USDA - ARS, Edinburg, TX, ³The Univ. of Texas, Edinburg, TX

9:45 **2232** Presence of *Wolbachia* sp. in mosquito species of metro Manila, Philippines. **Thaddeus Carvajal** (thaddeus.carvajal@dlsu.edu.ph)¹, Kristin Joyce Go², Monique Martinez², Jayson Capistrano², Vincent Stefano², Divina Amalin², and Kozo Watanabe¹, ¹Ehime Univ., Matsuyama, Japan, ²De La Salle Univ., Manila, Philippines

10:00 **2233** Biological control of invasive pest species in the Philippines: The case of coconut scale insect, **Aspidiotus rigidus**. **Billy Joel Almarinez** (billy.almarinez@dlsu.edu.ph), Divina Amalin, and Jose Santos Carandang, De La Salle Univ., Manila, Philippines

10:15 **BREAK**

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10:30 **2234** Ecological engineering: A new paradigm in rice pest management in China with emphasis on biological control. **Zhongxian Lyu** (luzxmh2004@yahoo.com), Zhejiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Hangzhou, China

10:45 **2235** Push-pull: A climate-smart platform technology for enhancing food security in Africa. **Charles Midega** (cmidega@mbita.icipe.org),¹ Zeyaur Khan¹, Jimmy Pittchar¹, Toby Bruce², and John Pickett², ¹International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology, Nairobi, Kenya, ²Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, United Kingdom

11:00 **2236** Rice ecosystem services in tropical Asia — an overview based on LEGATO approaches and results. **Josef Settele** (josef.settele@ufz.de)¹, Joachim Spangenberg², Kong Luen Heong³, Ingolf Kühn⁴, Stefan Klotz⁴, Nguyen Quynh Anh⁵, Johnathen Anthony⁶, Gertrudo Arida⁷, Dang Kinh Bac⁸, Alexis Beaurepaire⁹, Silke Beck¹, Erwin Bergmeier¹⁰, Benjamin Burkhard⁸, Roland Brandl¹¹, Jesus Victor Bustamante¹², Adam Butler¹³, Jimmy Cabbigat¹², Le Canh¹⁴, Josie Catindig¹⁵, Ho Chien¹⁶, Le Cuong¹⁶, Monina Escalada¹⁷, Christophe Dominik¹, Markus Franzén⁴, Christoph Görg¹, Volker Grescho⁴, Sabine Grossmann⁴, Geoffrey Gurr¹⁸, Buyung Hadi¹⁵, Le Hai¹⁹, Alexander Harpke⁴, Norbert Hirneisen²⁰, Finbarr G. Horgan¹⁵, Stefan Hotes²¹, Yuzuru Isoda²², Reinhold Jahn⁹, Helen Kettle¹³, Thimo Klotzbücher⁹, Fanny Langerwisch²³, Wai-Hong Loke²⁴, Yu-Pin Lin⁶, Zhong-Xian Lu²⁵, Keng-Yeang Lum²⁶, Damasa Magcale-Macandog²⁷, Glenn Marion¹³, Leonardo Marquez⁷, Anika Marxen⁴, Robin Moritz², Felix Müller⁸, Paolo Oliveira²³, Jürgen Ott⁴, Lyubomir Penev²⁸, Thai Pham²⁹, Nico Radermacher¹⁰, Beatriz Rodriguez-Labajos³⁰, Christina Sann¹⁰, Cornelia Sattler⁴, Martin Schädler⁴, Stefan Scheu³¹, Anja Schmidt⁴, Oliver Schweiger⁴, Ralf Seppelt¹, Susanne Stoll-Kleemann³², Vera Tekken³², Kirsten Thonicke²³, Andi Trisyono³³, Teja Tscharntke¹⁰, Manfred Türke³⁴, Tomáš Václavík¹, Doris Vetterlein⁴, Stefan Vidal¹⁰, Silvia Villareal¹⁵, Wolfgang Weisser³⁴, Catrin Westphal¹⁰, Zeng-Rong Zhu³⁵, and Martin Wiemers⁴, ¹Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, Leipzig, Germany, ²Sustainable Europe Research Institute SERI Germany e.V., Vorsterstr, Cologne, Germany, ³CGIAR Consortium, Montpellier, France, ⁴Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, Halle, Germany, ⁵Univ. of Social Sciences and Humanities, Hanoi, Vietnam, ⁶National Taiwan Univ., Taipei, Taiwan, ⁷Philippine Rice Research Institute, Nueva Ecija, Philippines, ⁸Kiel Univ., Kiel, Germany, ⁹Martin Luther Univ., Halle, Germany, ¹⁰Georg August Univ., Göttingen, Germany, ¹¹Univ. of Marburg, Marburg, Germany, ¹²LEGATO, Ifugao, Philippines, ¹³Biomathematics & Statistics Scotland, Edinburgh, Scotland, ¹⁴Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology, Hanoi, Vietnam, ¹⁵International Rice Research Institute, Metro Manila, Philippines, ¹⁶Southern Regional Plant Protection Center, Tien Giang, Vietnam, ¹⁷Visayas State Univ., Baybay City, Philippines, ¹⁸Charles Sturt Univ., Orange, Australia, ¹⁹Tien Giang Univ., Tien Giang, Vietnam, ²⁰Science & Communication, Bonn, Germany, ²¹Philips Univ., Marburg, Germany, ²²Tohoku Univ., Sendai, Japan, ²³Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Potsdam, Germany, ²⁴CABI,

Selangor, Malaysia, ²⁵Zhejiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Hangzhou, China, ²⁶CABI, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, ²⁷Univ. of the Philippines, Los Baños, Philippines, ²⁸Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and Pensoft Publishers, Sofia, Bulgaria, ²⁹Vietnam National Museum of Nature, Hanoi, Vietnam, ³⁰Autonomous Univ. of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, ³¹Technical Univ., Darmstad, Germany, ³²Ernst Moritz Arndt Univ., Greifswald, Germany, ³³Univ. of Gadjah Mada, Yogyakarta, Indonesia, ³⁴Technical Univ., Freising, Germany, ³⁵Zhejiang Univ., Hangzhou, China

11:15 **2237** The two faces of arthropod biodiversity exploration for natural enemies of rice insect pests in Hainan Island, China. **Qianhua Yuan**¹, **Ducheng Cai**¹, **Alberto Barrion** (bertbarriontapaysr@yahoo.com)², and Kong Luen Heong³, ¹Hainan Univ., Hainan, China, ²De La Salle Univ., Manila, Philippines, ³CABI, Selangor, Malaysia

11:30 **2238** Biodiversity of natural biological control agents in the agricultural landscape of irrigated low-land rice in Brunei Darussalam. **Amaniah Besar** (barc@gmail.com)¹, **Alberto Barrion**², and **Sastroutomo Soetikno**³, ¹Brunei Agricultural Research Center, Darussalam, Brunei, ²De La Salle Univ., Manila, Philippines, ³CABI, Selangor, Malaysia

## Symposium: Critical Factors Modifying the Effects of Climate Change on the Distributions of Vector-Borne Diseases

### Room W230 B (Convention Center)

**Moderators and Organizers:** Jean Tsao¹ and Howard Ginsberg², ¹Michigan State Univ., East Lansing, MI, ²U.S. Geological Survey, Kingston, RI

9:15 **2239** Interactions of climate change with geology, infrastructure, and human demography: Implications for vectors and pathogens. **Howard Ginsberg** (hginsberg@usgs.gov), U.S. Geological Survey, Kingston, RI

9:45 **2240** An investigation of key abiotic and genetic factors affecting blacklegged tick population dynamics in the eastern United States. **Genevieve Pang** (gcpang@gmail.com)¹, Howard Ginsberg², Graham J. Hickling³, Nicholas Ogden⁴, and Jean I. Tsao¹, ¹Michigan State Univ., East Lansing, MI, ²U.S. Geological Survey, Kingston, RI, ³Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, ⁴Public Health Agency of Canada, Saint-Hyacinthe, QC, Canada

10:00 **2241** Community ecology of mosquito vectors: Linking larval competition, climate change, and vector-borne disease. **Sarah Bowden** (sabowden@uga.edu), Univ. of Georgia, Athens, GA

### 10:15 BREAK

10:30 **2242** Effect of climate change on disease transmission by temperate vectors. **Matthew Baylis** (matthew.baylis@liverpool.ac.uk)¹, Maya Wardeh¹, Cyril Caminade¹, Elizabeth Sutton², Elisabeth Waldmann³, and Marcus Blagrove¹, ¹Univ. of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom, ²Univ. of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, ³Friedrich Alexander Univ., Erlangen, Germany

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10:45 **2243** The impact of irrigation in arid areas of the Middle East and North Africa on the emergence of visceral leishmaniasis. **Elyes Zhioua** (elyes.zhioua@gmail.com), Pasteur Institute, Tunis, Tunisia

11:00 **2244** Presentation withdrawn

11:15 **2245** Local modulation of climate change impact on vector-borne diseases. **Uriel Kitron** (ukitron@ memory.edu), Emory Univ., Atlanta, GA

11:45 **Discussion**

Symposium: Department of Defense Entomology and Global Public Health: Working Together to Combat Vector Borne Disease and Protect the Environment

Room W222 B (Convention Center)

**Moderator and Organizer:** Mark Pomerinke, U.S. Armed Forces Pest Management Board, Silver Spring, MD

9:15 **2246** Military entomology: Contributions to medical entomology and global public health. **Jamie Blow** (jamie.a.blow.mil@mail.mil), Armed Forces Pest Management Board, Silver Spring, MD

9:30 **2247** Is military entomology evidence-based? **Steven Schofield** (steven.schofield@forces.gc.ca), Dept. of National Defence, Ottawa, ON, Canada

9:45 **2248** Novel use of an old technology: Thermal fogging for *Aedes aegypti* larval control. **James Cilek** (james.e.cilek.civ@mail.mil), Navy Entomology Center of Excellence, Jacksonville, FL

10:00 **2249** Phytochemical synergists for insecticides: Replacements for piperonyl butoxide. **Joel R. Coats** (jcoats@iastate.edu)¹, Edmund Norris¹, Aaron Gross², and Lyric Bartholomay¹, ¹Iowa State Univ., Ames, IA, ²Univ. of Florida, Gainesville, FL

10:15 **BREAK**

10:30 **2250** Fipronil as a systemic insecticide for vector control. **Richard Poche** (richard@genesislabs.com), Larisa Polyakova, and Daniel Hartman, Genesis Laboratories, Inc., Wellington, CO

10:45 **2251** Biosurveillance efforts and the public health significance of mass migration in the Syria refugee crisis. **Yvonne-Marie Linton** (linton.yvonne3@gmail.com)¹, Koray Ergunay², Filiz Gunay², Ozge Kasap², Luke Mitchell¹, Rami Mukbel³, Nawal Hijjawi⁴, and Bulent Alten⁵, ¹Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit, Suitland, MD, ²Hacettepe Univ., Ankara, Turkey, ³Jordanian Univ. of Science and Technology, Irbid, Jordan, ⁴Hashemite Univ., Zarqa, Jordan, ⁵Hacettepe Univ., Beytepe, Turkey

11:00 **2252** The Vectormap project: A global resource combining multiple data sources used to inform vector-borne disease risk assessment. **David Pecor** (pecord@si.edu)¹, Jeffrey Clark², and Desmond Foley³, ¹Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit, Suitland, MD, ²U.S. Army Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Silver Spring, MD, ³Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Washington, DC

11:15 **2253** Navy entomology during Continuing Promise 2015: Strengthening international partnerships and advancing global public health. **James Dunford** (james.c.dunford.mil@mail.mil), Navy and Marine Corps Public Health Center, Portsmouth, VA

11:30 **2254** Combating vector borne disease in the Pacific. **Elizabeth Gerardo** (elizabeth.m.gerardo2.mil@mail.mil), Navy Environmental and Preventive Medicine Unit Six, Pearl Harbor, HI

11:45 **2255** Pathway to implementing novel technologies in Hawaii to address avian malaria. **Joshua Fisher** (joshua_fisher@fws.gov), U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Honolulu, HI

12:00 **2256** USDA research in support of deployed military troops. **Robert Aldridge** (robert.aldridge@ars.usda.gov), Seth Britch, and Kenneth J. Linthicum, USDA - ARS, Gainesville, FL

12:15 **2257** Highlights of the U.S. Armed Forces Pest Management Board research program for deployed war-fighter protection against disease vectors of public health importance. **Daniel Szumlas** (daniel.e.szumlas.mil@mail.mil), Armed Forces Pest Management Board, Silver Spring, MD

Symposium: Modern Studies of Gerromorphan Insects: Behavior, Phylogeny, Physiology, and Ecology

Room W224 H (Convention Center)

**Moderators and Organizers:** Tetsuo Harada¹ and John Spence², ¹Kochi Univ., Kochi, Japan, ²Univ. of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada

9:15 **2258** Photoperiodic response in body color and reproductive diapause in a waterstrider, *Limnoporus esakii*. **Shiro Nakao** (nakao@kpu.ac.jp), Kyoto Prefectural Univ., Kyoto, Japan

9:30 **2259** Effect of sex, hunger, and relative body size on the use of ripple signals in the interactions among water striders, *Gerris latiabdominis*. **Jae Hak Son** (dunnynson@gmail.com), Seoul National Univ., Seoul, South Korea; Univ. of Houston, Houston, TX

9:45 **2260** Cool coma temperature and oceanographic properties in habitat of oceanic sea skaters, *Halobates*. **Takahiro Furuki** (tfuruki9269@gmail.com), Kochi Univ., Kochi, Japan

10:00 **2261** Life history traits and temperature changes in accordance with global warming in a water strider, *Aquarius paludum*. **Tetsuo Harada** (haratets@kochi-u.ac.jp), Kochi Univ., Kochi, Japan

10:15 **BREAK**

10:30 **2262** Migration and dispersal patterns of semiaquatic bugs from lentic and lotic freshwater habitats. **Tomas Ditrich** (ditom@pf.jcu.cz), Univ. of South Bohemia, České Budějovice, Czech Republic

10:45 **2263** The biology and natural history of *Gigantometra gigas*, the Earth's most ancient gerrid, making its last stand in Hainan Island, China. **Pingying Chen** (chpingy@mail2.sysu.edu.cn), Sun Yat-sen Univ., Guangzhou, China

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11:00 **2264** Life histories, seasonal adaptation, and population dynamics of five gerrids on a single pond: Results of a 25-year 'bug-count'. **John Spence** (jspence@ualberta.ca), Univ. of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada

Symposium: Weaving Your Web: Science Communication and Social Media for Insect Scientists

Room W414 A (Convention Center)

**Moderators and Organizers:** Margaret Hardy¹ and Gwen Pearson²,
¹Univ. of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia, ²Purdue Univ., West
Lafayette, IN

9:15 **2265** Science communication as a career: How, why, and when to build your expertise. **Gwen Pearson** (gpearso@purdue.edu), Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN

9:30 **2266** Evolution of a science communicator: Promoting your work and career with social media. **Aaron Pomerantz** (apomerantz@ufl.edu) and Michael Bentley, Univ. of Florida, Gainesville, FL

9:45 **2267** Web comics, entomology, and outreach education. **Carly M. Tribull** (ctribull@amnh.org), American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY

10:00 **2268** Training science communicators in Africa. **Joy Owango** (joy.owango@tcc-africa.org), Training Centre in Communication, Nairobi, Kenya

10:15 **BREAK**

10:30 **2269** Science communication to help shape policy and funding. **Rayda Krell** (rayda.krell@earthlink.net), Rayda K. Krell, LLC, Entomological and Agricultural Communications, Ridgefield, CT

10:45 **2270** If you can sell bugs, you can sell anything: How studying and promoting insects can somehow lead to a career in television. **Phil Torres** (phillip.juan.torres@gmail.com), Al Jazeera America, Los Angeles, CA

11:00 **Discussion**

Symposium: Insect Genetic Technologies: State
of the Art and Promise for the Future

Room W340 B (Convention Center)

**Moderators and Organizers:** Jennifer A. Brisson¹ and
Marcé Lorenzen², ¹Univ. of Rochester, Rochester, NY,
²North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC

9:15 **2271** CRISPR gene drives for engineering pest populations. **Kevin Esvelt** (esvelt@mit.edu), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA

9:45 **2272** Engineered sterile insects: From lab to field. **Luke Alphey** (luke.alphey@pirbright.ac.uk), The Pirbright Institute, Woking, United Kingdom

10:00 **2273** Genetic engineering of fruit fly genomes for population control. **Alfred Handler** (al.handler@ars.usda.gov), USDA - ARS, Gainesville, FL

10:15 **BREAK**

10:30 **2274** Decoding complex systemic protein expression patterns towards single cells using on-demand exon flipping. **Koen Venken** (kv134369@bcm.edu), Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX

10:45 **2275** Silkworm transgenics. **Hanfu Xu** (xuhf@swu.edu.cn), Southwest Univ., Chongqing, China

11:00 **2276** Trials and tribulations associated with transforming a non-model organism. **Marcé Lorenzen** (marce.lorenzen@ncsu.edu), North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC

11:15 **2277** Developing the CRISPR/Cas9 system in the pea aphid. **Jennifer A. Brisson** (jbrisso3@ur.rochester.edu), Univ. of Rochester, Rochester, NY

11:30 **2278** The origin of novel complex traits addressed with phylogenetic and transgenic experiments in butterflies. Antónia Monteiro¹, Jeffrey Oliver², Nesibe Oszu¹, Bin Chen³, and **Heidi Connahs** (hconnahs@gmail.com)¹, ¹National Univ. of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore, ²Yale Univ., New Haven, CT, ³Chongqing Normal Univ., Chongqing, China

11:45 **2279** Functional genomics techniques in *Drosophila* and their potential application in non-model insects. **Stephanie Mohr** (smohr@genetics.med.harvard.edu)¹, Yanhui Hu¹, Ben Housden¹, Ben Ewen-Campen¹, Raghuvir Viswanatha¹, Shuailiang Lin², Jianquan Ni², Liz Perkins¹ and Norbert Perrimon¹,³, ¹Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, ²Tsinghua Univ., Beijing, China, ³The Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Boston, MA

12:00 **2280** Genetic technologies in honey bees. **Martin Beye** (martin.beye@uni-duesseldorf.de), Heinrich Heine Univ., Düsseldorf, Germany

12:15 **2281** Genome-engineering with CRISPR-Cas9 in the mosquito *Aedes aegypti*. **Ben Matthews** (bmatthews@mail.rockefeller.edu)¹, Katie Kistler¹,², and Leslie Vosshall¹, ¹The Rockefeller Univ., New York, NY, ²The Howard Hughes Medical Institute, New York, NY

Symposium: Jumping Genes: Horizontal Gene Transfer in Insects and Beyond

Room W340 A (Convention Center)

**Moderators and Organizers:** Yannick Pauchet and Roy Kirsch, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, Jena, Germany

9:15 **2282** Lateral gene transfer from bacteria to animals, including humans. **Julie Dunning-Hotopp** (jdhotopp@som.umaryland.edu), Univ. of Maryland, Baltimore, MD

9:45 **2283** Horizontal gene transfers and evolution of plant parasitism by invertebrates. **Etienne Danchin** (etienne.danchin@sophia.inra.fr)¹, Marie-Noëlle Rosso², John Jones³, Annelies Haegeman⁴, Bernard Henrissat⁵, and Pierre Pontarotti⁵, ¹Sophia Institute of Agrobiotechnology, Sophia Antipolis, France, ²INRA, Marseille, France, ³The James Hutton Institute, Dundee, United Kingdom, ⁴Institute for Agricultural and Fisheries Research, Melle, Belgium, ⁵Aix-Marseille Univ., Marseille, France

10:15 **BREAK**

10:30 **2284** How important are bacteria-eukaryote lateral gene transfers to arthropod evolution? **John H. Werren** (werr@mail.rochester.edu), Univ. of Rochester, Rochester, NY

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10:45 **2285** Evolutionary history of plant cell wall degrading enzymes in phytophagous beetles. **Yannick Pauchet** (ypauchet@ice.mpg.de), Roy Kirsch, André Busch, and David Heckel, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, Jena, Germany

11:00 **2286** Evolution of pectin breakdown in herbivorous beetles. **Roy Kirsch** (rkirsch@ice.mpg.de), Wiebke Häger, David Heckel, and Yannick Pauchet, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, Jena, Germany

11:15 **2287** A horizontally transferred gene enables arthropods to detoxify cyanide, a common plant defense compound. **Nicky Wybouw** (n.r.wybouw@uva.nl)¹, Wannes Dermauw², Rene Feyereisen², and Thomas Van Leeuwen², ¹Univ. of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands, ²Ghent Univ., Ghent, Belgium

11:30 **2288** Frequency and mechanism of horizontal transfer of transposable elements from moth to virus. **Clément Gilbert** (clement.gilbert@univ-poitiers.fr)¹, Jean Peccoud¹, Elisabeth Herniou², Aurélien Chateigner², and Richard Cordaux³, ¹Univ. of Poitiers, Poitiers, France, ²François Rabelais Univ., Tours, France, ³National Center for Scientific Research, Poitiers, France

Symposium: Endocrine and Neural Network in Control of Physiology

Room W330 C (Convention Center)

**Moderators and Organizers:** Jan Veenstra¹ and Yoonseong Park²,
¹Univ. of Bordeaux, Pessac, France, ²Kansas State Univ.,
Manhattan, KS

9:15 **2289** Disruption of neuropeptidergic system in arthropod pest control: Are we there yet? **Yoonseong Park** (ypark@ksu.edu), Kansas State Univ., Manhattan, KS

9:45 **2290** Elucidating physiological roles of the ancient glycoprotein hormone, GPA2/GPB5, and its receptor in the mosquito, *Aedes aegypti*. David Rocco, Andreea Matei, Doo Hyun Kim, and **Jean-Paul Paluzzi** (paluzzi@yorku.ca), York Univ., Toronto, ON, Canada

10:00 **2291** Neuropeptide signaling in the red imported fire ant in nutrition, reproduction, and division of labor. **Patricia V. Pietrantonio** (p-pietrantonio@tamu.edu), Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX

10:15 **BREAK**

10:30 **2292** Mapping the neuropeptidergic network in *Drosophila melanogaster*. **Michael Texada** (texadam@janelia.hhmi.org)¹ and James W. Truman², ¹The Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Ashburn, VA, ²Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA

10:45 **2293** The *Drosophila* enteroendocrine network. **Jan Veenstra** (jan.veenstra@u-bordeaux.fr)¹, Michael Texada², and James W. Truman³, ¹Univ. of Bordeaux, Pessac, France, ²The Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Ashburn, VA, ³Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA

11:00 **2294** Endocrine and neuronal control of intestinal plasticity in *Drosophila melanogaster*. Irene Miguel-Aliaga and **Jake Jacobson** (jake.jacobson@csc.mrc.ac.uk), Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

11:30 **2295** Peptide-receptor couples implicated in the control of feeding and digestion in locusts. **Jozef Vanden Broeck** (jozef.vandenbroeck@bio.kuleuven.be), Catholic Univ., Leuven, Belgium

11:45 **2296** Neuropeptides and their potential physiological functions in the oriental fruit fly, *Bactrocera dorsalis* (Hendel). **Hongbo Jiang** (jhb8342@swu.edu.cn), Southwest Univ., Chongqing, China

Symposium: Securing Borders While Promoting Trade: Regional Approaches to Control Agricultural Pests in the Greater Caribbean Area

Room W223 A (Convention Center)

**Moderator and Organizer:** Robert G. Ahern, Agricultural Health and Food Safety, San Jose, Costa Rica

9:15 **2297** The Greater Caribbean Safeguarding Initiative — promoting collaboration and cooperation on regional safeguarding activities to detect and mitigate the impact of plant pests and diseases. **Dennis Martin** (dennis.w.martin@aphis.usda.gov) and Andrea Simao, USDA - APHIS, Riverdale, MD

9:45 **2298** A model for securing borders while promoting trade: Case study of the Jamaica/USDA-APHIS preclearance. **Carol Thomas** (carol.thomas@iica.int), Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture, Warrens, Barbados

10:15 **BREAK**

10:30 **2299** Market access through a systems approach: Study of the clean stock program. **Marco González** (marco.v.gonzalez@aphis.usda.gov), USDA - APHIS, San Jose, Costa Rica

10:45 **2300** Thwarting the invasion: How a regional approach mitigated the impact of exotic arthropods in the greater Caribbean basin. **Wayne De Chi** (wayne.dechi@aphis.usda.gov)¹ and Amy L. Roda², ¹USDA - APHIS, Port of Spain, Trinidad, and Tobago, ²USDA - APHIS, Miami, FL

11:00 **2301** Modernizing agricultural health systems for improved trade and economic development in the CARIFORUM region. **Janet Lawrence** (janet.lawrence@iica.int)¹, Carol Thomas¹, and Robert Ahern², ¹Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture, Warrens, Barbados, ²Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture, San José, Costa Rica
# Symposium: Advances in Insect Control and in Resistance Management

Room W224 B (Convention Center)

**Moderators and Organizers:** A. Rami Horowitz¹ and Isaac Ishaaya², ¹Gilat Research Center and Katif Research Center, M.P. Negev, Israel, ²Agricultural Research Organisation, Bet-Dagan, Israel

This symposium is generously sponsored by Adama Agricultural Solutions Ltd.

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9:15 **2302** Advances in insect control and in resistance management: An overview. **Isaac Ishaaya** (vpisha@volcani.agri.gov.il)¹ and A. Rami Horowitz², ¹Agricultural Research Organisation, Bet-Dagan, Israel, ²Gilat Research Center and Katif Research Center, M.P. Negev, Israel

9:30 **2303** Botanical insecticides finding their place in the 21st century. **Murray B. Isman** (murray.isman@ubc.ca), The Univ. of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada

10:00 **2304** Advances in organic farming. **Elias Bloom** (elias.bloom@email.wsu.edu) and David Crowder, Washington State Univ., Pullman, WA

## 10:15 BREAK

10:30 **2305** Disruption of insect reproductive systems as a tool in pest control. **Ally R. Harari** (aharari@volcani.agri.gov.il)¹, Rakefet Sharon², and Phyllis Weintraub³, ¹Agricultural Research Organisation, Bet-Dagan, Israel, ²Northern Research & Development, Kiryat Shemona, Israel, ³Agricultural Research Organisation, Gilat, Israel

10:45 **2306** Enhancing performance of biorational insecticides with novel delivery systems in tree fruit IPM. **John Wise** (wisejohn@msu.edu), Anthony Hale VanWoerkom, Srdjan Aćimović, George Sundin, Bert M. Clegg, and Christine Vandervoort, Michigan State Univ., East Lansing, MI

11:00 **2307** Presentation withdrawn

11:15 **2308** Role of mixtures in bed bug management. **Yasmin Akhtar** (yasmin.akhtar@ubc.ca) and Murray B. Isman, The Univ. of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada

11:30 **2309** Pyrethroid resistance in *Helicoverpa armigera* conferred by the chimeric P450 CYP337B3. Nicole Joußen and **David Heckel** (heckel@ice.mpg.de), Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, Jena, Germany

11:45 **2310** Dynamics of insecticide resistance in *Bemisia* species. **A. Rami Horowitz** (hrami@volcani.agri.gov.il)¹ and Isaac Ishaaya², ¹Gilat Research Center and Katif Research Center, M. P. Negev, Israel, ²Agricultural Research Organisation, Bet-Dagan, Israel

12:00 **2311** Mechanism of insecticide resistance in diamondback moth (Lepidoptera: Plutellidae) with special reference to target-site mutations. **Denise Steinbach** (denise.steinbach@bayer.com)¹,² and Ralf Nauen², ¹Martin Luther Univ., Halle, Germany, ²Bayer CropScience, Monheim, Germany

12:15 **2312** Insecticide resistance and its impact on vector control. Basil Brooke¹ and **Mark Paine** (mark.paine@lstmed.ac.uk)², ¹Wits Research Institute for Malaria, Johannesburg, South Africa, ²Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, United Kingdom

# Symposium: What Happens When Pest Occurrence Data is Shared: End of the World or New Horizons?

Room W224 E (Convention Center)

**Moderator and Organizer:** Joseph LaForest, Univ. of Georgia, Tifton, GA

9:15 **2313** What happens when pest occurrence data is shared: End of the world or new horizons? **Joseph LaForest** (laforest@uga.edu), Univ. of Georgia, Tifton, GA

9:30 **2314** For the greater good: Perspectives of a plant disease diagnostician on sharing data. **Carrie L. Harmon** (clharmon@ufl.edu), Univ. of Florida, Gainesville, FL

9:45 **2315** Perspectives of an early detection system with Citizen Science reporters. **C. T. Bargeron** (cbargeron@uga.edu), Univ. of Georgia, Tifton, GA

10:00 **2316** Aggregating pest-sampling records and the advantages of using multiple data platforms. **Wendy Johnson** (wendyann@ksu.edu) and Brian McCormack, Kansas State Univ., Manhattan, KS

## 10:15 BREAK

10:30 **2317** Perspectives of an extension and research network on sharing data. **Scott Isard** (sai10@psu.edu), Pennsylvania State Univ., University Park, PA

10:45 **2318** Perspectives of a state Department of Agriculture on data sharing. **Angie Ambourn** (angie.ambourn@state.mn.us), Monika Chandler, and Mark Abrahamson, Minnesota Dept. of Agriculture, St. Paul, MN

11:00 **2319** Perspectives of agribusiness intelligence. **Joe Russo** (russo@zedxinc.com), Zedx, Inc., Hamburg, PA

11:15 **2320** Perspectives of a network hub: Accommodating data standards and providing services for self-service exchange of information. **Rebekah Wallace** (bekahwal@uga.edu), Univ. of Georgia, Tifton, GA

# Symposium: Sirex noctilio: A Global Forest Insect

Room W330 B (Convention Center)

**Moderators and Organizers:** Jeremy D. Allison¹ and Bernard Slippers², ¹Natural Resources Canada, Sault Ste. Marie, ON, Canada, ²Univ. of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa

9:15 **2321** Population ecology of *S. noctilio* and its biological control agents. **Juan Corley** (jcorley@bariloche.inta.gov.ar), Victoria Lantschner, Deborah Fischbein, Andres Martinez, and José Villacide, INTA, Bariloche, Argentina

9:30 **2322** Patterns in *Sirex noctilio*-associated tree mortality across four continents. **Flora Krivak-Tetley** (flora.e.krivak-tetley.gr@dartmouth.edu)¹, Matthew Ayres¹, and Andrew M. Liebhold², ¹Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, ²USDA - Forest Service, Morgantown, WV

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9:45 **2323** Important factors that limit *Sirex noctilio* in North America. **Laurel J. Haavik** (ljhaavik@gmail.com)¹, Kevin J. Dodds², Kathleen Ryan³, and Jeremy Allison⁴. ¹Univ. of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, ²USDA - Forest Service, Durham, NH, ³Silv-Econ Ltd., Newmarket, ON, Canada, ⁴Natural Resources Canada, Sault Ste. Marie, ON, Canada

10:00 **2324** Interactions of *Sirex noctilio* in North American Forests. Jeremy D. Allison¹, Kevin J. Dodds², Laurel J. Haavik (ljhaavik@gmail.com)³, and Jean Turgeon¹. ¹Natural Resources Canada, Sault Ste. Marie, ON, Canada, ²USDA - Forest Service, Durham, NH, ³Univ. of Kansas, Lawrence, KS

10:15 **BREAK**

10:30 **2325** *Sirex noctilio* history and interactions in Australian plantations. **Helen Nahrung** (hnahrung@usc.edu.au)¹, Manon Griffiths², and Angus Carnegie³, ¹Univ. of the Sunshine Coast, Sippy Downs, Australia, ²Dept. of Agriculture and Fisheries, Dutton Park, Australia, ³New South Wales Dept. of Primary Industries, New South Wales, Australia

10:45 **2326** The global diversity of *Deladenus siricidicola*. **Osmond Mlonyeni** (osmond.mlonyemi@fabi.up.ac.za)¹, Katrin Fitza¹, Jeff Garnas¹, Jaco Greeff¹, Michael Wingfield¹, Brenda Wingfield¹, Matthew Ayres², Maria Lombardero³, and Bernard Slippers¹. ¹Univ. of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa, ²Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, ³Univ. of Santiago, Lugo, Spain

11:00 **2327** *Sirex-Deladenus*-environment interactions: Lessons from tens of thousands of dissections. **Brett Hurley** (brett.hurley@up.ac.za), Jeff Garnas, Bernard Slippers, and Michael Wingfield, Univ. of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa

11:15 **2328** *Sirex noctilio-Amylostereum-Deladenus* interactions in North America. **Ann E. Hajek** (aeh4@cornell.edu)¹, Louela Castrillo¹, Stefanie Kroll¹, Tonya Bittner¹, Jacob Henry¹, Laurel J. Haavik², Jeremy Allison³, György Csóka⁴, Juan Pajares⁵, and David Williams⁶. ¹Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY, ²Univ. of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, ³Natural Resources Canada, Sault Ste. Marie, ON, Canada, ⁴Forest Research Institute, Métrafüred, Hungary, ⁵Univ. of Valladolid, Palencia, Spain, ⁶USDA - APHIS, Buzzards Bay, MA

11:30 **2329** *Sirex noctilio* — microbial symbiont interactions and nutrition. **Brian Thompson** (brian.thompson@montana.edu), Montana State Univ., Conrad, MT

11:45 **2330** The genomes of *Sirex noctilio*, *Amylostereum areolatum*, and *Deladenus siricidicola*: Insights into symbiosis and invasion processes. **Alisa Postma Smidt** (alisa.postma@fabi.up.ac.za), Magriet van der Nest, Osmond Mlonyeni, Katrin Fitza, Edohan Clasen, Gabriella Barnard, Sze-Huei Yek, Martin Coetzee, Michael Wingfield, Fourie Joubert, and Bernard Slippers, Univ. of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa

12:00 **2331** The chemistry between a male and a female *Sirex noctilio*. **Katalin Boroczky** (kborocz@ncsu.edu)¹ and Coby Schal², ¹Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY, ²North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC

12:15 **2332** *Sirex noctilio* venom and host plant interactions. **Jeffrey Dean** (jeffdean@bch.msstate.edu)¹, John Bordeaux², and Walter Lorenz², ¹Mississippi State Univ., Mississippi State, MS, ²Univ. of Georgia, Athens, GA

## Symposium: Medical and Veterinary Entomology in Florida

### Room W414 C (Convention Center)

**Moderator and Organizer:** Rui-De Xue, Anastasia Mosquito Control District, St. Augustine, FL

9:15 **2333** Program overview of USDA/ARS/Center for Medical, Agriculture, and Veterinary Entomology. **Kenneth Linthicum** (kenneth.linthicum@ars.usda.gov), USDA - ARS, Gainesville, FL

9:45 **2334** The Mosquito Wars: A history of Florida's war against mosquitoes. **Gordon Patterson** (patterso@fit.edu), Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, FL

10:00 **2335** Highlights of veterinary entomology in Florida. **Jerome A. Hogsette** (jerry.hogsette@ars.usda.gov), USDA - ARS, Gainesville, FL

10:15 **BREAK**

10:30 **2336** *Aedes aegypti* and *Aedes albopictus* in Florida. **L. Philip Lounibos** (lounibos@ufl.edu), Univ. of Florida, Vero Beach, FL

10:45 **2337** Mosquito control program in Florida. **Adriane Rogers** (adriane.rogers@freshfromflorida.com), Florida Dept. of Agriculture and Consumer Services, Tallahassee, FL

11:00 **2338** Infectivity and importance of Florida vectors in dog heartworm transmission. **Phillip E. Kaufman** (pkaufman@ufl.edu), Univ. of Florida, Gainesville, FL

11:15 **2339** Presentation withdrawn

11:30 **2340** Benefits from applied research and collaboration in Anastasia Mosquito Control District. **Rui-De Xue** (rudy.xue@yahoo.com), Anastasia Mosquito Control District, St. Augustine, FL

11:45 **Florida Entomological Society activity**

## Symposium: Microbiome and Vector Immunity

### Room W230 C (Convention Center)

**Moderator and Organizer:** George Dimopoulos, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD

9:15 **2341** Tsetse's (*Glossina* sp.) symbiotic bacteria regulate host immuno-stimulatory pathways. **Brian Weiss** (brian.weiss@yale.edu), Serap Aksoy, and Joshua Benoit, Yale Univ., New Haven, CT

9:30 **2342** Role of the microbiome in mosquito development. **Kerri L. Coon** (kerri@uga.edu), Michael Strand, Luca Valzania, Kevin J. Vogel, and Mark R. Brown, Univ. of Georgia, Athens, GA

9:45 **2343** The mosquito microbiota: Implications in the control of mosquito-borne diseases. **Guido Favia** (guido.favia@unicam.it), Univ. of Camerino, Camerino, Italy

10:00 **2344** The mosquito microbiome: Fighting bugs with bugs. **George Dimopoulos** (gdimopo1@jhu.edu), Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD

10:15 **BREAK**

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10:30 **2345** Tick gut microbiota and transmission of the Lyme disease agent. **Erol Fikrig** (erol.fikrig@yale.edu), Yale Univ., New Haven, CT

11:00 **2346** Microbiome and the healthy *Anopheles* mosquito. **Ken Vernick** (kvernick@pasteur.fr), Pasteur Institute, Paris, France

Symposium: The Role of Microbiota in Vectors

Room W331 B (Convention Center)

**Moderators and Organizers:** Mariangela Bonizzoni¹ and Shannon Bennett², ¹Univ. of Pavia, Pavia, Italy, ²California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, CA

9:15 **2347** The activity of the obligate mutualist *Wigglesworthia* within field-caught tsetse flies. **Rita Rio** (rita rio@mail.wvu.edu), West Virginia Univ., Morgantown, WV

9:30 **2348** Exploring the role of endosymbionts in male reproductive physiology: Impact on ejaculate composition and function in the tsetse fly *Glossina m. morsitans*. **Francesca Scolari** (francesca.scolari@unipv.it)¹, Grazia Savini¹, Anna Malacrida¹, Serap Aksoy², and Geoffrey Attardo², ¹Univ. of Pavia, Pavia, Italy, ²Yale Univ., New Haven, CT

9:45 **2349** Paratransgenic strategies to control transmission of Chagas disease and leishmaniasis. **Ravi Durvasula** (ravi.durvasula@va.org), Univ. of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM

10:00 **2350** Microbiota of *Anopheles gambiae* mosquitoes: Impacts of environmental changes and role on larval survival. **Guiyun Yan** (guiyuny@uci.edu), Univ. of California, Irvine, CA

10:15 **BREAK**

10:30 **2351** Integrated analysis of miRNAs and transcriptomes in *Aedes albopictus* midgut reveals the differential expression profiles of immune-related genes during dengue virus serotype-2 infection. **Xiao-Guang Chen** (xgchen2001@hotmail.com), Southern Medical Univ., Guangzhou, China

10:45 **2352** Non-retroviral RNA virus integrations in *Aedes albopictus*. **Mariangela Bonizzoni** (mbonizzoni@gmail.com), Univ. of Pavia, Pavia, Italy

Symposium: The Use of Plant Resources Against Biting Flies

Room W414 D (Convention Center)

**Moderators and Organizers:** Tong-Yan Zhao¹ and Gunter Muller², ¹Beijing Institute of Microbiology & Epidemiology, Beijing, China, ²The Hebrew Univ., Jerusalem, Israel

9:15 **2353** Attractive toxic sugar baits (ATSB): From basic science to product. **Gunter Muller** (guntercmuller@hotmail.com)¹ and John Beier², ¹The Hebrew Univ., Jerusalem, Israel, ²Univ. of Miami, Miami, FL

9:30 **2354** Bromeliads (Family Bromeliaceae) as habitat and potential sugar resources for mosquitoes. **Lisa L. Drake** (ldrakeamcd@gmail.com), Catherine Lippi, and Rui-De Xue, Anastasia Mosquito Control District, St. Augustine, FL

9:45 **2355** Flower attraction for adult mosquitoes. **Daniel L. Kline** (dan.kline@ars.usda.gov)¹ and Phillip E. Kaufman², ¹USDA - ARS, Gainesville, FL, ²Univ. of Florida, Gainesville, FL

10:00 **2356** Botanical based repellents against biting flies in China. **Tong-Yan Zhao** (tongyanzhao@126.com), Beijing Institute of Microbiology & Epidemiology, Beijing, China

10:15 **BREAK**

10:30 **2357** Impact of vegetation types on efficacy of ATSB against two species of *Culex* mosquitoes. **Whitney Qualls** (w.qualls@med.miami.edu)¹, Rui-De Xue², and Gunter Muller³, ¹Univ. of Miami, Miami, FL, ²Anastasia Mosquito Control District, St. Augustine, FL, ³The Hebrew Univ., Jerusalem, Israel

10:45 **2358** Attractive toxic sugar baits (ATSB): A new, efficient, and environmentally friendly control for malaria vectors. **Mohamed Traore** (mohamedmoumine@gmail.com), Malaria Research and Training Center, Bamako, Mali

11:00 **2359** Control of sand flies with attractive toxic sugar baits (ATSB). **Edita Revey** (edita@tx.technion.ac.il), Univ. of Haifa, Haifa, Israel

11:15 **2360** Barrier spraying for mosquito control (Diptera: Culicidae). **James Clauson** (jamesclauson@comcast.net), Beach Mosquito Control District, Panama, FL

11:30 **2361** Fifty plus years of integrated management of aquatic weeds and mosquitoes in Lee County, Florida. **Wayne Gale** (gale@lcmcd.org), Lee County Mosquito Control District, Lehigh Acres, FL

Symposium: Vertebrate Host Factors: Effect on Vector Biology

Room W230 A (Convention Center)

**Moderators and Organizers:** Shirley Luckhart¹, Luciano Moriera², and Michael A. Riehle³, ¹Univ. of California, Davis, CA, ²Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Belo Horizonte, Brazil, ³Univ. of Arizona, Tucson, AZ

9:15 **2362** Presentation withdrawn

9:30 **2363** Amino acid transceptors and the regulation of mosquito reproduction. **Immo Hansen** (immoh@nmsu.edu), New Mexico State Univ., Las Cruces, NM

9:45 **2364** Non-blood formulations to support the gonotrophic cycle in vector mosquitoes. **R. Jason Pitts** (j.pitts@vanderbilt.edu), Vanderbilt Univ., Nashville, TN

10:00 **2365** Host complement: Evasion to protect midgut and activation to shape microbiome. **Ayman Khattab** (ayman.khattab@helsinki.fi), Marta Barroso, Marija Malusev, Tiera Miettinen, Willem de Vos, and Seppo Meri, Univ. of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

10:15 **BREAK**

10:30 **2366** Strive to survive: Adaptive responses between the mosquito and the malaria parasite. **Stefan Kanzok** (skanzok@luc.edu), Loyola Univ., Chicago, IL

10:45 **2367** Targeting malaria vectors through their blood meals for malaria transmission control. **Brian D. Foy** (brian.foy@colostate.edu), Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO

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11:00 **2368** Hemozoin as an immune stimulant of the mosquito *Anopheles gambiae* response against the malaria parasite. **Maria Simões** (maria.luisa.simoes@ihmt.unl.pt)¹,², Luzia Gonçalves¹, and Henrique Silveira¹, ¹New Univ. of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal, ²Johns Hopkins Univ., Baltimore, MD

11:15 **2369** Immune response and insulin signaling alter mosquito feeding behavior to enhance malaria transmission potential. **Lauren Cator** (l.cator@imperial.ac.uk)¹, Jose Pietri², Courtney Murdock³, Justin George⁴, Johanna Ohm⁵, Ed Lewis², Thomas C. Baker⁵, Andrew Read⁵, Shirley Luckhart², and Matthew B. Thomas⁵, ¹Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom, ²Univ. of California, Davis, CA, ³Univ. of Georgia, Athens, GA, ⁴USDA - ARS, Ft. Pierce, FL, ⁵Pennsylvania State Univ., University Park, PA

## Symposium: Molecular Bases of Behavior in Kissing Bug Vectors of Human Disease

### Room W330 A (Convention Center)

**Moderator and Organizer:** Marcelo Lorenzo, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Belo Horizonte, Brazil

9:15 **2370** The thermal sense of disease-vector insects: On physics, receptors, and behavior. **Claudio Lazzari** (claudio.lazzari@univ-tours.fr), Univ. of Tours, Tours, France

9:30 **2371** Neuropeptides and olfaction in *Rhodnius prolixus*. *José Latorre-Estivalis* (josmantorres@gmail.com), Laboratory of Insect Neurobiology, La Plata, Argentina

9:45 **2372** Salts control feeding decisions in kissing bugs: Linking peripheral detection to behavior. **Romina Barrozo** (rbarrozo@bg.fcen.uba.ar), CONICET, Buenos Aires, Argentina

10:00 **2373** New pieces in the puzzle: The molecular circadian clock of *Rhodnius prolixus*. **Rafaela Bruno** (rafaelabruno@gmail.com), Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

10:15 **BREAK**

10:30 **2374** The antennal transcriptome of a Chagas disease vector. **Marcelo Lorenzo** (marcelo@cpqrr.fiocruz.br), Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Belo Horizonte, Brazil

10:45 **2375** Behavioral and molecular changes induced by trypanosome infection in triatomine. **Alessandra Guarneri** (guarneri@cpqrr.fiocruz.br), Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Belo Horizonte, Brazil

11:00 **2376** Chemosensory transcriptomes in Chagas disease vectors: Insights to understand the domiciliation process. **Myriam Harry** (myriam.harry@egce.cnrs-gif.fr), Univ. of Paris-Sud, Gif-sur-Yvette, France

## Symposium: 9th International Symposium on the Chrysomelidae

### Room W224 A (Convention Center)

**Moderators and Organizers:** Michael Schmitt¹ and Caroline S. Chaboo², ¹Ernst Moritz Arndt Univ., Greifswald, Germany, ²Univ. of Kansas, Lawrence, KS

9:15 **2377** The relationship of Galerucini and Alticini based on mitochondrial genomes (Coleoptera: Chrysomeloidea: Chrysomelidae). **RuiE Nie** (niere@ioz.ac.cn)¹, Xing-Ke Yang¹, and Alfried Vogler²,³, ¹Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, ²Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom, ³The Natural History Museum, London, United Kingdom

9:30 **2378** Geometric morphometrics of the hindwing shape of leaf beetles: Modularity of the hindwing pattern. Jing Ren, Ming Bai, Xing-Ke Yang, and **Si-Qin Ge** (gesq@ioz.ac.cn), Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

9:45 **2379** *Delocrania* Guérin, 1844, a genus at the transition from 'hispines' to tortoise beetles (Chrysomelidae: Cassidinae s.l.). **Caroline Chaboo** (cschaboo@ku.edu), Univ. of Kansas, Lawrence, KS

10:00 **2380** *Oulema* taxonomy using microCT. **Michael Schmitt** (michael.schmitt@uni-greifswald.de) and Gabriele Uhl, Ernst Moritz Arndt Univ., Greifswald, Germany

SD2381 Phylogenetic analysis on morphological characters and evolution in host-plant use of the seed beetle genus *Caryedes* (Hummel) (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Bruchinae). Isaac Jorge and **Cibele Ribeiro-Costa** (cibele.ribeirocosta@gmail.com), Federal Univ. of Paraná, Curitiba, Brazil

SD2382 Morphological phylogeny of Cassidini Gyllenhal 1813 (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Cassidinae). **Sara López Pérez** (slope.p@hotmail.com), Univ. City, Cubiculo, Mexico

10:15 **BREAK AND POSTER SESSION**

10:30 **2383** Dynamics of diversification in the Bruchinae. **Geoffrey Morse** (gmorse@sandiego.edu), Univ. of San Diego, San Diego, CA

10:45 **2384** Recent advances in the knowledge of Mexican Alticinae. **David Furth** (furthd@si.edu), Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History, Washington, DC

11:00 **2385** Opaque to CoL: A highly diverse coleopteran subfamily and its invisible digital footprint. **R. Wills Flowers** (rflowers7@earthlink.net), Florida A&M Univ., Tallahassee, FL

11:15 **2386** Fitness effects of polyandry in *Acromis sparsa* (Chrysomelidae: Cassidinae). **Paula Trillo** (ptrillo@gettysburg.edu), Gettysburg College, Gettysburg, PA

11:30 **2387** Chrysomelidae (Coleoptera) ecology in a tropical montane forest in Southeast Brazil. **Margarete de Macedo** (margaretevmacedo@gmail.com), Vivian Flinte, Carolina Colares, André Abejanella, Carlos Vinicius da S. Gomes, and Ricardo Monteiro, Federal Univ. of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

11:45 **2388** Quo vadis biodiversity? Species richness after twenty years of taxonomic revision on Afrotropical Galerucinae (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae). **Thomas Wagner** (thwagner@uni-koblenz.de), Univ. of Koblenz-Landau, Koblenz, Germany

12:00 **2389** Discovering a new Alticini frontier: Leaf litter- and moss-inhabiting species. **Adelita Linzmeier** (alinzmeier@yahoo.com.br), Federal Univ. of Fronteira Sul, Realeza, Brazil
Symposium: Insect Molecular Physiology and
Ecology: The Post-Genomic Era

Room W224 G (Convention Center)

**Moderator and Organizer:** Klaus Hoffmann, Univ. of Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany

9:15 **2390** RNA-interference – a tool for evaluating hormonal functions in insects. **Klaus Hoffmann** (klaus.hoffmann@uni-bayreuth.de)¹, Intisar Hassanien¹, Laura Vannini², Mohadmed Abdel-latief¹, and Franziska Wende¹, ¹Univ. of Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany, ²Univ. of Siena, Siena, Italy

9:30 **2391** Advances in insect neuroendocrinology/physiology through genomics and peptidomics: Diuresis in *Rhodnius prolixus*. *Ian Orchard* (ian.orchard@utoronto.ca) and Angela Lange, Univ. of Toronto, Mississauga, ON, Canada

9:45 **2392** Bioengineering of TMOF to control mosquitoes and other insects. **Dov Borovsky** (dovborovsky@gmail.com)¹, Charles A. Powell², Robert Shatters¹, Arieh Zaritsky³, and Etan Ben Dov⁴, ¹USDA - ARS, Ft. Pierce, FL, ²Univ. of Florida, Ft. Pierce, FL, ³Ben-Gurion Univ. of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel, ⁴Achva Academic College, Beer Sheva, Israel

10:00 **2393** Cold case files: Molecular mechanisms of insect winter hardiness. **Kenneth Storey** (kenneth.storey@carleton.ca), Carleton Univ., Ottawa, ON, Canada

10:15 BREAK

10:30 **2394** The role of the circadian clock in photoperiodism of the bean bug *Riptortus pedestris*. **Shin Goto** (shingoto@sci.osaka-cu.ac.jp)¹ and Hideharu Numata², ¹Osaka City Univ., Osaka, Japan, ²Kyoto Univ., Kyoto, Japan

10:45 **2395** Sequestration and transport proteins in leaf beetle larvae. **Wilhelm Boland** (boland@ice.mpg.de), Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, Jena, Germany

11:00 **2396** The coleopteran gut and targets for pest control. **Brenda Oppert** (bso@ksu.edu), Kansas State Univ., Manhattan, KS

11:15 **2397** Functional proteomics-assisted selection of protease inhibitors useful in plant protection against coleopteran herbivores. **Dominique Michaud** (dominique.michaud@fsaa.ulaval.ca) and Asieh Rasoolizadeh, Univ. Laval, Québec City, QC, Canada

Symposium: The Insect Circulatory System: Vital
but Widely Neglected!

Room W222 A (Convention Center)

**Moderators and Organizers:** Julian F. Hillyer¹ and Günther Pass², ¹Vanderbilt Univ., Nashville, TN, ²Univ. of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

9:15 **2398** Development and transdifferentiation of the heart-associated alary muscles in *Drosophila*. **Manfred Frasch** (mfrasch@biologie.uni-erlangen.de), Christoph Schaub, Ingolf Reim, and Johannes März, Univ. of Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany

9:30 **2399** The ups and downs of cardiac contractility: How RFamides impact heart rate. **Ruthann Nichols** (nicholsr@umich.edu), Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

9:45 **2400** Mechanism and drive for the accessory hearts of the cricket ovipositor. Reinhold Hustert¹, **Alexander Böhm** (a.boehm@univie.ac.at)², and Günther Pass², ¹Univ. of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany, ²Univ. of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

10:00 **2401** Ultrastructure of the heart in different mosquito species. **Gustavo Martins** (gmartins@ufv.br), Henrique da Silva, Ana Leodido, and Caroline Gonçalves Macedo, Federal Univ. of Viçosa, Viçosa, Brazil

10:15 BREAK

10:30 **2402** Structural mechanics of hemolymph circulation in mosquitoes. **Julian F. Hillyer** (julian.hillyer@vanderbilt.edu), Vanderbilt Univ., Nashville, TN

10:45 **2403** Circulatory and immune system interactions in a mosquito. **Leah T. Sigle** (leah.t.sigle@vanderbilt.edu) and Julian F. Hillyer, Vanderbilt Univ., Nashville, TN

11:00 **2404** New methods for understanding flow production in the dorsal vessel. **John Socha** (jjsocha@vt.edu)¹, Matthew Giarra¹, Jon Harrison², Melissa Kenny¹, Laura Miller³, Craig Goergen⁴, and Pavlos Vlachos⁴, ¹Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State Univ., Blacksburg, VA, ²Arizona State Univ., Tempe, AZ, ³Univ. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, ⁴Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN

11:15 **2405** Butterfly hemolymph as a complex fluid and mechanical challenges of its flow through complex shaped channels. **Konstantin G. Kornev** (kkornev@clemson.edu), Pavel Aprelev, Chadwick Walls, Arthur Salamatin, Peter H. Adler, and Charles E. Beard, Clemson Univ., Clemson, SC

Symposium: Psocids as Global Pests of Stored
Products

Room W231 A (Convention Center)

**Moderators and Organizers:** James Throne¹ and Christos Athanassiou², ¹USDA - ARS, Parlier, CA, ²Univ. of Thessaly, Nea Ionia, Greece

9:15 **2406** Psocids as global pests of stored products. **James Throne** (james.throne@ars.usda.gov), USDA - ARS, Parlier, CA

9:30 **2407** Biology and ecology of stored-product psocid pests. Christos Athanassiou¹, **Nickolas Kavallieratos** (nick_kaval@hotmail.com)², James Throne³, and Christos Nakas¹, ¹Univ. of Thessaly, Nea Ionia, Greece, ²Agricultural Univ. of Athens, Attica, Greece, ³USDA - ARS, Parlier, CA

9:45 **2408** Sampling, trapping, and attractants for stored-product psocid pests. **James Campbell** (james.campbell@ars.usda.gov)¹, John Diaz-Montano², Thomas Phillips³, and James Throne⁴, ¹USDA - ARS, Manhattan, KS, ²Colombian Corporation for Agricultural Research, Rionegro, Colombia, ³Kansas State Univ., Manhattan, KS, ⁴USDA - ARS, Parlier, CA

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**10:00** **2409** Chemical control of stored-product psocid pests. **Christos Athanassiou** (athanassiou@agr.uth.gr)¹, James Throne², Frank Arthur³, Nickolas Kavallieratos⁴, and Thomas Phillips⁵, ¹Univ. of Thessaly, Nea Ionia, Greece, ²USDA - ARS, Parlier, CA, ³USDA - ARS, Manhattan, KS, ⁴Agricultural Univ. of Athens, Attica, Greece, ⁵Kansas State Univ., Manhattan, KS

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

**10:30** **2410** Alternatives to insecticides for control of stored-product psocid pests. **George Opit** (george.opit@okstate.edu), Oklahoma State Univ., Stillwater, OK

**10:45** **2411** Mitochondrial genomes in *Liposcelis*: Minicircles with varied gene rearrangement. **Jin-Jun Wang** (jjwang7008@yahoo.com), Wei Dou, and Dan Dan Wei, Southwest Univ., Chongqing, China

**11:00** **2412** Molecular methods for identification of stored-product psocid pests. **Zhihong Li** (lizh@cau.edu.cn)¹, Qianqian Yang¹, Bingyi Cui¹, Aohan Pang¹, Shiqian Feng¹, Zuzana Kucerová², Vaclav Stejskal², George Opit³, and Yang Cao⁴, ¹China Agricultural Univ., Beijing, China, ²Crop Research Institute, Prague, Czech Republic, ³Oklahoma State Univ., Stillwater, OK, ⁴Academy of State Administration of Grain, Beijing, China

## Symposium: Ecology and Adaptation for Survival of Termites

### Room W331C (Convention Center)

**Moderator and Organizer:** Kok-Boon Neoh, National Chung Hsing Univ., Taichung, Taiwan

**9:15** **Welcoming Remarks**

**9:30** **2413** Presentation withdrawn

**10:00** **2414** Effects of group size and starvation on survival of *Coptotermes gestroi* foragers. **Ives Haifig** (haifig@ufu.br)¹ and Ana Maria Costa-Leonardo², ¹Federal Univ. of Uberlândia, Monte Carmelo, Brazil, ²São Paulo State Univ., Rio Claro, Brazil

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

**10:30** **2415** Effect of flooding on the survival and population distribution of Formosan subterranean termites in New Orleans, Louisiana. **Mary Cornelius** (mary.cornelius@ars.usda.gov), USDA - ARS, Beltsville, MD

**10:45** **2416** Surveillance of ectoparasitic fungus *Laboulbeniopsis termitarius* Thaxt on *Reticulitermes* spp. in Japan. **Guswenrivo Ikhsan** (ikhsan.guswenrivo@biomaterial.lipi.go.id)¹,², Hiroki Sato³, Tsuyoshi Yoshimura¹, and Izumi Fujimoto¹, ¹Kyoto Univ., Uji, Japan, ²Indonesian Institute of Sciences, West Java, Indonesia, ³Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute, Ibaraki, Japan

**11:00** **2417** Foraging activities of *Coptotermes formosanus* and *Reticulitermes flaviceps* and potential genes associated with foraging behavior through transcriptome analysis. **Dayu Zhang** (zhangdayu@zafu.edu.cn), Zhejiang A&F Univ., Hangzhou, China

**11:15** **2418** Ecological adaptation of the sympatric *Macrotermes* spp. **Kok-Boon Neoh** (neohkokboon@nchu.edu.tw), National Chung Hsing Univ., Taichung, Taiwan

**12:00** **Concluding Remarks**

## Symposium: Novel Techniques in Urban IPM

### Room W331D (Convention Center)

**Moderator and Organizer:** Dong-Hwan Choe, Univ. of California, Riverside, CA

**9:15** **2419** Semiochemical-based trapping technologies for consumer markets. **Qing-He Zhang** (qing-he@rescue.com), Sterling International, Inc., Spokane, WA

**9:30** **2420** The use of attractants for western yellowjacket IPM. **Kathleen Campbell** (kathleen.campbell@ucr.edu), Univ. of California, Riverside, CA

**9:45** **2421** A novel approach to insect trap design: Location of attractants. **Dangsheng Liang** (dliang@apexbait.com), Apex Bait Technologies, Inc., Santa Clara, CA

**10:00** **2422** Enhancing biological control of citrus pests with hydrogel baits for sustainable Argentine ant, *Linepithema humile*, management. **Jia-Wei Tay** (jiawei@ucr.edu), Univ. of California, Riverside, CA

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

**10:30** **2423** RNAi and baiting: Novel techniques for Argentine ant control. **Kevin Welzel** (kwelz001@ucr.edu), Univ. of California, Riverside, CA

**10:45** **2424** The trail pheromone, neurohormone, and application of RNAi to control the fire ant. **Man-Yeon Choi** (mychoi@ars.usda.gov)¹ and Robert Vander Meer², ¹USDA - ARS, Corvallis, OR, ²USDA - ARS, Gainesville, FL

**11:00** **2425** Microbes as tools and targets for termite control. **Chinmay Tikhe** (cvtikhe@gmail.com)¹, Chris Gissendanner², and Claudia Husseneder³, ¹Louisiana State Univ. AgCenter, Baton Rouge, LA, ²Univ. of Louisiana, Monroe, LA, ³Louisiana State Univ., Baton Rouge, LA

**11:15** **2426** Dummy-egg carrying provides an effective pesticide delivery system for termite control. **Kenji Matsuura** (kenjijpn@kais.kyoto-u.ac.jp), Kyoto Univ., Kyoto, Japan

## Graduate Student Oral Competition: Biological Control and Insect Pathology: Biological Control

### Room W240 A (Convention Center)

**Moderators:** Lisia de Lima Matos¹ and Anthony S. DiMeglio², ¹Chicago, IL, ²Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State Univ., Blacksburg, VA

**9:15** **2427** Population dynamics, vertical distribution, and natural parasitism of eggs of *Chrysodeixis includens* by *Trichogramma* spp. in soybean. **Diego Fraga** (diegoffraga@gmail.com)¹, Cesar Rodriguez-Saona², Antonio Busoli¹, Oniel Aguirre-Gil¹, and Leandro Souza¹, ¹São Paulo State Univ., Jaboticabal, Brazil, ²Rutgers, The State Univ. of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ

**9:30** **2428** Storage strategies for a factitious host *Corcyra cephalonica* (Stainton) (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae). **Enakshi Ghosh** (enakshi.ghosh1@gmail.com) and Chandish Ballal, National Bureau of Agricultural Insect Resources, Bangalore, India
9:45 **2429** The effects of a nutrient-rich diet on the fertility of the parasitic wasp *Tamarixia radiata* Waterston (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae). **Dani Ruais** (daniruais@gmail.com), Anna Soper, and Valerie Mellano, California State Polytechnic Univ., Pomona, CA

10:00 **2430** Assessing the efficacy of hymenopteran parasitoids as biological control agents of cutworms (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) in field crops in Canada. **R. W. M. Udari Wanigasekara** (udari_madu@yahoo.com)¹ and Barbara Sharanowski², ¹Univ. of Manitoba, Manitoba, MB, Canada, ²Univ. of Central Florida, Orlando, FL

10:15 BREAK

10:30 **2431** Agroecology of a salad crop pest in New Zealand. **Ryan Rayl** (ryan.rayl@lincolnuni.ac.nz), Lincoln Univ., Prebbleton, New Zealand

10:45 **2432** Evaluation of cool-season and warm-season intercrops for aphid biological control in organic pecan orchards. **Tzu-Chin Liu** (jean2036@uga.edu) and James Dutcher, Univ. of Georgia, Tifton, GA

11:00 **2433** Testing the intermediate landscape complexity hypothesis for augmentative biological control. **Ricardo Perez-Alvarez** (mrp245@cornell.edu)¹, Brian A. Nault², and Katja Poveda¹, ¹Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY, ²Cornell Univ., Geneva, NY

11:15 **2434** Evaluation of the *Aphidius colemani-Rhopalosiphum padi* banker plant system in Oklahoma greenhouse production. **Tracey Payton Miller** (tracey payton@okstate.edu)¹, Eric Rebek¹, Steven Frank², Kris Giles¹, and Mike Schnelle¹, ¹Oklahoma State Univ., Stillwater, OK, ²North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC

11:30 **2435** Effect of land-use intensity on aphid natural enemies in Paysandú, Uruguay. **Sara Emery** (semery@berkeley.edu)¹, Adela Ribeiro², and Nicholas Mills¹, ¹Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA, ²Univ. of the Republic, Paysandú, Uruguay

11:45 **2436** The influence of landscape complexity and natural enemy movement on soybean aphid populations in Manitoba, Canada. **K. G. L. I. Samaranayake** (ishansamaranayake@yahoo.com) and Alejandro Costamagna, Univ. of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada

9:45 **2439** Microbial ecology of the bee brood cell. **Kristen Brochu** (kb532@cornell.edu) and Bryan N. Danforth, Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY

10:00 **2440** Attack levels by internal and external parasitoids provide conflicting evidence for the direction of host shift in diverging populations of gall midges. **Noa Keidar** (noakeidar@gmail.com) and Netta Dorchin, Tel Aviv Univ., Tel Aviv, Israel

10:15 BREAK

10:30 **2441** Disentangling associational effects: Resource density and resource frequency affect insect search behavior in complex environments. **Thomas Verschut** (thomas.verschut@su.se)¹, Paul Becher², Peter Anderson², and Peter Hambäck¹, ¹Stockholm Univ., Stockholm, Sweden, ²Swedish Univ. of Agricultural Sciences, Alnarp, Sweden

10:45 **2442** Post-capture activity of wild-caught *Drosophila simulans* as a signature of age and activity in wild populations. **Sarah Silverman** (ssilverman@ucdavis.edu)¹, Congwei Yu², Ed Lewis¹, and James R. Carey¹, ¹Univ. of California, Davis, CA, ²China Agricultural Univ., Beijing, China

11:00 **2443** Connections between the dung arthropod community and cattle management practices in eastern South Dakota. **Jacob Pecenka** (jacob.pecenka@gmail.com)¹ and Jonathan Lundgren², ¹South Dakota State Univ., Brookings, SD, ²Ecdysis Foundation, Estelline, SD

11:15 **2444** Presentation withdrawn

11:30 **2445** Phage diversity and function in a tripartite symbiosis in pea aphids. **Jayce W. Brandt** (jayce@uga.edu), Kerry M. Oliver, and Michael Strand, Univ. of Georgia, Athens, GA

11:45 **2446** Assessing morphological differentiation between host-associated populations of *Monelliospis pecanis* (Hemiptera: Aphididae). **Kyle Harrison** (kharrison@tamu.edu) and Raul F. Medina, Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX

12:00 **2447** Presentation withdrawn

Graduate Student Oral Competition: Ecology and Population Dynamics: Ecology and Evolution

Room W240 C (Convention Center)

**Moderators:** James Nieh¹ and Jeremy Greene², ¹Univ. of California, San Diego, CA, ²Clemson Univ., Blackville, SC

9:15 **2437** Multitrophic interactions: The influence of *Arsenophonus* on *Toxoptera citricida* (Hemiptera: Aphididae). **Bianca Soares** (biancarbogim@yahoo.com.br) and Fernando Cônsoli, Univ. of São Paulo, Piracicaba, Brazil

9:30 **2438** Sex makes them sleepy: The impact of aphid sexuality on parasitoid diapause. **Kévin Tougeron** (kevin.tougeron@umontreal.ca)¹,², Jacques Brodeur¹, Joan van Baaren², and Cécile Le Lann², ¹Univ. of Montréal, Montréal, QC, Canada, ²Univ. of Rennes, Rennes, France

Graduate Student Oral Competition: Ecology and Population Dynamics: Pollinators

Room W240 B (Convention Center)

**Moderators:** Troy D. Anderson¹ and Dayna Collett², ¹Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State Univ., Blacksburg, VA, ²Oklahoma State Univ., Stillwater, OK

9:15 **2448** The ecology and identification of common parasitoids (Diptera: Conopidae: *Physocephala*) in central and mid-coast Maine and behavioral changes of the bumble bee hosts. **Kalyn Bickerman-Martens** (kalyn.bickerman@umit.maine.edu) and Frank Drummond, Univ. of Maine, Orono, ME

9:30 **2449** *Bombus impatiens* in the pumpkin patch: A tale of population trends and pollination services featuring three years of molecular analysis and visitation rates. **R. Carley Miller** (rxm452@psu.edu)¹, James Strange², Shelby J. Fleischer¹, Amber D. Tripodi², and Dana Roberts¹, ¹Pennsylvania State Univ., University Park, PA, ²USDA - ARS, Logan, UT

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9:45 **2450** Effects of habitat enhancement on bumble bee (*Bombus spp.*) foraging preferences and common eastern bumble bee (*Bombus impatiens*) population density. *Knute Gundersen* (gundersenknute@gmail.com)¹, James Strange², and Rufus Isaacs¹, ¹Michigan State Univ., East Lansing, MI, ²USDA - ARS, Logan, UT

10:00 **2451** The relationship between pollen diversity and foraging effort in honey bees and bumble bees. *Danny Minahan* (dfminahan@wisc.edu)¹ and Johanne Brunet², ¹Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, ²USDA - ARS, Madison, WI

10:15 **BREAK**

10:30 **2452** Pollinator habitat along highway rights-of-way: Preliminary results of a comparison of pollinator communities under different meadow management regimes and quantification of common roadside pollutants in floral resources of adjacent wildflowers. *Lisa Kuder* (lkuder@umd.edu), Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD

10:45 **2453** How many flowers are enough? Increasing floral resources to maintain pollinator diversity (syrphid flies and halictid bees) in an urban landscape. *Maria-Carolina Simao* (simao@umich.edu), Jill Matthijs, and Ivette Perfecto, Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

11:00 **2454** Palynological analysis of pollen collected by honey bees (*Apis mellifera*) in developed areas in four regions of the United States. *Juliana Rangel*¹, *Pierre Lau* (plau0168@tamu.edu)², Zachary Y. Huang³, Vaughn Bryant¹, Ana Cabrera⁴, Daniel Schmehl⁴, Joseph Sullivan⁵, and James D. Ellis⁶, ¹Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX, ²Texas A&M Univ., Bryan, TX, ³Michigan State Univ., East Lansing, MI, ⁴Bayer Crop-Science, Research Triangle Park, NC, ⁵Ardea Consulting, Woodland, CA, ⁶Univ. of Florida, Gainesville, FL

11:15 **2455** Who does it better? Diversity and contributions of wild sour cherry (*Prunus cerasus*) pollinators with comparisons to managed bees. *Charlie Bailey* (charliep.bailey@yahoo.ca)¹ and Cory Sheffield², ¹Univ. of Regina, Regina, SK, Canada, ²Royal Saskatchewan Museum, Regina, SK, Canada

11:30 **2456** Pollination biology of two native orchid (Orchidaceae) species in south Florida. *Haleigh Ray* (hray12@ufl.edu) and Jennifer Gillett-Kaufman, Univ. of Florida, Gainesville, FL

11:45 **2457** Presentation withdrawn

## Graduate Student Oral Competition: Genetics and Evolutionary Entomology: Population Genetics

Room W232 B (Convention Center)

**Moderators:** Nate Hardy¹ and Stephen Losey², ¹Auburn Univ., Auburn, AL, ²Kansas State Univ., Manhattan, KS

9:15 **2458** Entomological time travel: Reconstructing the invasion history of the buckeye butterflies (genus *Junonia*) from Florida, USA. *Melanie Lalonde* (umlalonm@myumanitoba.ca) and Jeffrey Marcus, Univ. of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada

9:30 **2459** Candidate genes for diapause induction in speckled wood (*Pararge aegeria*) population crosses. *Peter Pruisscher* (peter.pruisscher@zoologi.su.se), Sören Nylin, Karl Gotthard, and Christopher Wheat, Stockholm Univ., Stockholm, Sweden

9:45 **2460** Advances in finding Alba: The supergene affecting life history and color polymorphism in a *Colias* butterfly. *Alyssa Woronik* (alyssa.woronik@zoologi.su.se)¹, Constanti Stefanescu², and Christopher Wheat¹, ¹Stockholm Univ., Stockholm, Sweden, ²Natural History Museum, Granollers, Spain

10:00 **2461** Macroevolutionary trade-offs in plant-feeding Hemiptera and Lepidoptera. *Daniel Peterson* (daniel.alex.peterson@gmail.com)¹, Nate Hardy², and Benjamin Normark¹, ¹Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, ²Auburn Univ., Auburn, AL

10:15 **BREAK**

10:30 **2462** The ontogeny of intersexual communication in damselflies: Combining experimental and phylogenetic approaches. *Beatriz Willink* (beatriz.willink@biol.lu.se), Katie Duryea, and Erik Svensson, Lund Univ., Lund, Sweden

10:45 **2463** The role of gene expression evolution in scale insect host use adaptation. *Nicholas Christodoulides* (nzc0035@auburn.edu) and Nate Hardy, Auburn Univ., Auburn, AL

11:00 **2464** Population genetic structures of *Laodelphax striatellus* (Fallén) and *Sogatella furcifera* (Horváth) (Hemiptera: Delphacidae) in Asia. *Hwa Yeun Nam* (jessienam@snu.ac.kr), Byungin Sohn, and Joon-Ho Lee, Seoul National Univ., Seoul, South Korea

11:15 **2465** Invasion pathways and population genetics of the coconut rhinoceros beetle (*Oryctes rhinoceros*). *Jonathan Bradley Reil* (jbreil@hawaii.edu), Michael San Jose, and Daniel Rubinoff, Univ. of Hawai'i, Honolulu, HI

11:30 **2466** Using next generation sequencing to uncover population structure and species boundaries in *Bactrocera dorsalis* and its sister species. *Michael San Jose* (mdsjose@hawaii.edu)¹, Luc Leblanc², Scott Geib³, Norman Barr⁴, and Daniel Rubinoff¹, ¹Univ. of Hawai'i, Honolulu, HI, ²Univ. of Idaho, Moscow, ID, ³USDA - ARS, Hilo, HI, ⁴USDA - APHIS, Edinburg, TX

11:45 **2467** Gene regulatory differences among monogyne and polygyne red imported fire ants (*Solenopsis invicta*). *Joan King* (joanie.mars@uga.edu)¹, Sasha Kay², Kenneth Ross¹, and Brendan Hunt², ¹Univ. of Georgia, Athens, GA, ²Univ. of Georgia, Griffin, GA

12:00 **2468** Social pheromones: Mapping their effect on the insect brain. *Justin Croft* (jcroft3@uwo.ca), Alison Camiletti, and Graham Thompson, Univ. of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada

12:15 **2469** What's the buzz in *Drosophila* genome size evolution: A phylogenetic comparison of *Sophophora* and *Drosophila*. *Carl Hjelmen* (cehjelmen09@tamu.edu) and J. Spencer Johnston, Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX
Graduate Student Oral Competition: Invasive and Exotic Entomology: Invasives

Room W240 D (Convention Center)

**Moderators:** Chris J. Holderman¹ and John Cho², ¹Univ. of Florida, Gainesville, FL, ²Arizona State Univ., Tempe, AZ

9:15 **2470** Distribution of the genus *Lissorhoptrus* (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) in the world and possibility of further invasions into China. **Chunyan Jiang** (jiangchunyan2006@163.com)¹, Runzhi Zhang¹, Muhammad Haseeb², and Charles W. O'Brien³, ¹Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, ²Florida A&M Univ., Tallahassee, FL, ³Univ. of Arizona, Tucson, AZ

9:30 **2471** Presentation withdrawn

9:45 **2472** Knowledge of California residents on Asian citrus psyllid (Diaphorina citri) and citrus greening disease. **Ashley Van Vliet** (acvanvliet@cpp.edu), Anna Soper, and Valerie Mellano, California State Polytechnic Univ., Pomona, CA

10:00 **2473** First report of invasive populations of Asian longhorned beetle in Korea, with evidence of multiple invasions. **Seunghyun Lee** (chiyark@snu.ac.kr) and Seunghwan Lee, Seoul National Univ., Seoul, South Korea

10:15 BREAK

10:30 **2474** Determination of the distribution and factors predicting emerald ash borer (Agrilus planipennis) infestation in white fringetrees (Chionanthus virginicus). **Donnie Peterson** (peterson.143@wright.edu) and Don Cipollini, Wright State Univ., Dayton, OH

10:45 **2475** Can clusters of treated ash trees protect neighboring untreated ash and maintain recruitment during the emerald ash borer invasion? **Erin M. O'Brien** (obrien.501@osu.edu) and Daniel Herms, The Ohio State Univ., Wooster, OH

11:00 **2476** Influence of temperature on the reproductive and developmental biology of *Ontsira mellipes* (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) when reared on the exotic host *Anoplophora glabripennis* (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae). **Julian Golec** (juliang@udel.edu)¹, Jian Duan², Judith A. Hough-Goldstein¹, and Ellen M. Aparicio², ¹Univ. of Delaware, Newark, DE, ²USDA - ARS, Newark, DE

11:15 **2477** Pheromone and general odorant detection by the Asian longhorned beetle (*Anoplophora glabripennis*) measured via single sensillum recording (SSR). **Loyal Hall** (lph1@psu.edu) and Thomas C. Baker, Pennsylvania State Univ., University Park, PA

11:30 **2478** Responses of parasitoid wasps to eggs and pheromones of cerambycid beetles in field bioassays. **Todd Johnson** (tdjohns2@illinois.edu)¹ and Lawrence M. Hanks², ¹Univ. of Illinois, Champaign, IL, ²Univ. of Illinois, Urbana, IL

11:45 **2479** Contrasting the species diversity and value of urban forests in inner-city and suburban Cleveland, OH. **Christopher B. Riley** (riley.595@osu.edu)¹, Daniel Herms², and Mary Gardiner², ¹The Ohio State Univ., Columbus, OH, ²The Ohio State Univ., Wooster, OH

Graduate Student Oral Competition: Physiology and Biochemistry: Abiotic/Biotic Effects

Room W232 C (Convention Center)

**Moderators:** Elsa Youngsteadt¹ and Alana Pindar², ¹North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC, ²Univ. of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada

9:15 **2480** Desiccation resistance in tropical insects: Causes and mechanisms underlying variability in a Panama ant community. **Jelena Bujan** (jelena.bujan@ou.edu)¹, Stephen Yanoviak², and Michael Kaspari¹, ¹Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, ²Univ. of Louisville, Louisville, KY

9:30 **2481** Higher upper lethal temperatures of winter insects compared to summer. **Henry Vu** (henry.vu.16@nd.edu) and John Duman, Univ. of Notre Dame, South Bend, IN

9:45 **2482** Cold tolerance of the crape myrtle bark scale, *Eriococcus lagerstroemiae* Kuwana (Hemiptera: Eriococcidae), an exotic pest in the southeastern United States. **Zinan Wang** (zwang67@lsu.edu)¹, Rodrigo Diaz², and Yan Chen², ¹Louisiana State Univ., Baton Rouge, LA, ²Louisiana State Univ., Hammond, LA

10:00 **2483** Effects of cold acclimation on structure and transport function in insect ionoregulatory tissues (or, everything you always wanted to know about cricket rectums but were afraid to ask). **Lauren Des Marteaux** (ldesmart@uwo.ca) and Brent Sinclair, Univ. of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada

10:15 BREAK

10:30 **2484** Sublethal effects of cold on emerald ash borer (Coleoptera: Buprestidae): Energy reserves and flight capacity. **Dylan Tussey** (tusse001@umn.edu)¹, Brian Aukema¹, and Robert Venette², ¹Univ. of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN, ²USDA - Forest Service, St. Paul, MN

10:45 **2485** Investigating the molecular basis of pyrethroid selectivity at acarine sodium channels. **Alix Blockley** (alix.blockley@rothamsted.ac.uk)¹, Joel Gonzalez-Cabrera², Melanie Akkoese³, T. G. Emyr Davies¹, B. A. Wallace⁴, Andreas Turberg³, Ian Mellor⁵, Lin Field¹, and Martin Williamson¹, ¹Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, United Kingdom, ²Univ. of Valencia, Valencia, Spain, ³Bayer CropScience, Monheim am Rhein, Germany, ⁴Univ. of London, London, United Kingdom, ⁵Univ. of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom

11:00 **2486** Using RNA-seq to understand the endocrine control of condition dependent weapons in the Asian rhinoceros beetle (*Trypoxylus dichotomus*). **Robert Zinna** (robert.zinna@wsu.edu)¹, Laura C. Lavine¹, Doug Emlen², and Ian Dworkin³, ¹Washington State Univ., Pullman, WA, ²Univ. of Montana, Missoula, MT, ³McMaster Univ., Hamilton, ON, Canada

11:15 **2487** Advances in western corn rootworm, *Diabrotica virgifera virgifera*, artificial diets. **Man Huynh** (mphd32@mail.missouri.edu)¹,², Thomas A. Coudron³, Lisa Meihls³, Stephen L. Lapointe⁴, Randall P. Niedz⁴, and Bruce Hibbard³, ¹Univ. of Missouri, Columbia, MO, ²Can Tho Univ., Can Tho, Vietnam, ³USDA - ARS, Columbia, MO, ⁴USDA - ARS, Ft. Pierce, FL

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11:30 **2488** Metabolic differences between fast/slow life histories of damselflies (Odonata: Zygoptera). **Tanya Dann** (tanyadannartist@gmail.com)¹, Laura Ferguson², Ruth Jakobs³, Gerry Closs¹, and Brent Sinclair², ¹Univ. of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand, ²Univ. of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada, ³Bielefeld Univ., Bielefeld, Germany

11:45 **2489** Control of vitellogenesis in *Bactericera cockerelli* (Sulc). **Freddy Ibanez** (fibanez@neo.tamu.edu) and Cecilia Tamborindeguy, Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX

12:00 **2490** Gut symbionts of a hemipteran insect, *Riptortus pedestris*, play essential roles in juvenile hormone-mediated host development and reproduction. **Jun Beom Lee** (wind2000net@gmail.com)¹, Kyoung-Eun Park¹, Ho Am Jang¹, Ho Jeong Eo¹, Chan-Hee Kim¹, Toyomi Kotaki², Yoshitomo Kikuchi³, and Bok-Luel Lee¹, ¹Pusan National Univ., Busan, South Korea, ²National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences, Tsukuba, Japan, ³National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Sapporo, Japan

12:15 **2491** Cardiac regulation of viral infection in a model social insect. **Scott O'Neal** (onealst@vt.edu)¹, Daniel R. Swale², Jeffrey Bloomquist³, and Troy D. Anderson¹, ¹Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State Univ., Blacksburg, VA, ²Louisiana State Univ., Baton Rouge, LA, ³Univ. of Florida, Gainesville, FL

Contributed Papers: Agricultural and Forest Entomology: Fruits, Vegetables, Cereals, and Grains

Room W231C (Convention Center)

**Moderators:** Michael J. Eskelson¹ and Charmaine Theron², ¹Univ. of Nebraska, Ogallala, NE, ²Univ. of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa

9:15 **2492** Exclusion nets for pest management in northeastern apple orchards: An entomological perspective. **Gerald Chouinard** (gerald.chouinard@irda.qc.ca), Jonathan Veilleux, Francine Pelletier, Daniel Cormier, and Alessandro Dieni, IRDA, St-Bruno, QC, Canada

9:30 **2493** The autecology of fruit flies (Tephritidae) and false codling moth on multicrop farms in the Western Cape region of South Africa. **Martin Gilbert** (mg@cri.co.za), Citrus Research International, Stellenbosch, South Africa

9:45 **2494** Management of *Erionota torus* Evans (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae): A threatened pest on banana by using biorationals in South India. **Sharanabasappa Deshmukh** (sharanu.deshmukh@gmail.com) and Kalleshwsara Swamy, Univ. of Agricultural and Horticultural Sciences, Shimoga, India

10:00 **2495** Biology of the barred fruit-tree tortrix, *Pandemis cerasana* (Hübner) (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae), causes damage in cherry orchards. **Ayse Ozdem** (aozdem1@hotmail.com), Plant Protection Central Research Institute, Ankara, Turkey

10:15 **BREAK**

10:30 **2496** Oviposition propensity of *Bactrocera dorsalis* (Hendel) (Diptera: Tephritidae) on citrus varieties in South Africa: Implications for export markets. **Charmaine Theron** (cdtheron@zoology.up.ac.za)¹, Aruna Manrakhan², and Christopher Weldon¹, ¹Univ. of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa, ²Citrus Research International, Nelspruit, South Africa

10:45 **2497** An ecoinformatics approach to citrus pest management in California. **Bodil Cass** (bncass@ucdavis.edu) and Jay Rosenheim, Univ. of California, Davis, CA

11:00 **2498** Auchenorrhyncha (Hemiptera: Homoptera) as potential pests in citrus, olive, and tomato crops in Greece. **Antonios Tsagkarakis** (atsagarakis@aua.gr)¹, Argyro Ampatzi¹, Dimitrios Afentoulis¹, Aikaterini Chaldeou¹, Argyro Kalaitzaki², Evangelos Kontogiannis¹, Aikaterini Koutsogiannopoulou¹, Zoi Thanou¹, Konstantina Voulgaraki¹, and Sakis Drosopoulos¹, ¹Agricultural Univ. of Athens, Athens, Greece, ²Institute of Olive Tree, Subtropical Crops & Viticulture, Chania, Greece

11:15 **2499** Biology of *Thrips tabaci* Lindeman on onion cultivars. **Mohammad Shafiq Ansari** (mohdsansari@yahoo.com), Maher Moraiet, and Rabiya Basri, Aligarh Muslim Univ., Aligarh, India

11:30 **2500** Characterization of tadpole shrimp (*Triops longicaudatus*) injury to rice and its effect on rice seedling establishment. **Luis Espino** (laespino@ucanr.edu), Univ. of California Cooperative Extension, Colusa, CA

11:45 **2501** *Spodoptera frugiperda* damage potential and larval response during vegetative and reproductive stages of maize development. **Paulo da Silva** (paulor.silva@pioneer.com)¹, Vinicius de Faria¹, Taline das Neves², and Josemar Foresti¹, ¹DuPont do Brasil S.A., Planaltina, Brazil, ²DuPont do Brasil S.A., Itumbiara, Brazil

12:00 **2502** Impact of cover cropping on the epigeal arthropod community in dryland Nebraska cornfields. **Michael J. Eskelson** (michael.eskelson@unl.edu)¹, Charles A. Burr², and Julie Peterson², ¹Univ. of Nebraska, Ogallala, NE, ²Univ. of Nebraska, North Platte, NE

12:15 **2503** Impact of perennial non-crop habitat at center-pivot irrigation corners on ecosystem services for adjacent maize fields. **Julie Peterson** (julie.peterson@unl.edu) and Kayla A. Mollet, Univ. of Nebraska, North Platte, NE

12:30 **2504** Indian tropical root and tuber crops entomology: Challenges and strategies. **Palaniswami Mari** (palaniswamims@gmail.com), Indian Council of Agricultural Research, Trivandrum, India

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Contributed Papers: Agricultural and Forest Entomology: Pesticide Efficacy and Resistance Management

Room W232 A (Convention Center)

**Moderators:** Amanda Jacobson¹ and Jocelyn Smith², ¹Dow AgroSciences, Greenville, MS, ²Univ. of Guelph, Ridgetown, ON, Canada

9:15 **2505** Isoclast™ Active broad spectrum sap-feeding insecticide: Global overview and updates. **Luis E. Gomez** (egomez2@dow.com)¹, Michael Shaw¹, Nick Simmons¹, and Armando Casino², ¹Dow AgroSciences, Indianapolis, IN, ²Dow AgroSciences, Horgen, Switzerland

9:30 **2506** Isoclast™ Active broad spectrum sap-feeding insecticide: Understanding of the mode of action and implications for resistance management. **Michael Shaw** (mcshaw@dow.com), Luis E. Gomez, Gerald B. Watson, and Thomas C. Sparks, Dow AgroSciences, Indianapolis, IN

9:45 **2507** Isoclast™ Active for control of sap feeding insects in U.S. commodity crops. **Amanda Jacobson** (ajjacobson@dow.com)¹, Melissa Willrich Siebert¹, Kevin Johnson², Mike Lovelace³, Patricia Prasifka⁴, Jesse M. Richardson⁵, Dave Ruen⁶, Larry Walton⁷, and Harvey A. Yoshida⁸, ¹Dow AgroSciences, Greenville, MS, ²Dow AgroSciences, Danville, IL, ³Dow AgroSciences, Lubbock, TX, ⁴Dow AgroSciences, West Fargo, ND, ⁵Dow AgroSciences, Hesperia, CA, ⁶Dow AgroSciences, Lanesboro, MN, ⁷Dow AgroSciences, Tupelo, MS, ⁸Dow AgroSciences, Richland, WA

10:00 **2508** Isoclast™ Active: management of economically important insect pests in northern Latin America. **Leonel Aviles** (lavilesmorales@dow.com)¹, Alejandro Cedeño², Eswin Castañeda³, Efrain Becerra⁴, and Melissa Willrich Siebert⁵, ¹Dow AgroSciences, Culiacan, Mexico, ²Dow AgroSciences, San José, Costa Rica, ³Dow AgroSciences, Mixco, Guatemala, ⁴Dow AgroSciences, Bogotá, Colombia, ⁵Dow AgroSciences, Greenville, MS

10:15 **BREAK**

10:30 **2509** Harvanta™, a new diamide insecticide with the a.i. Cyclapryn™ (Cyclaniliprole). **Sean Whipple** (whipples@iskbc.com)¹, Masayuki Morita², Taku Hamamoto³, and Tohru Koyanagi³, ¹ISK Biosciences Corporation, Kearney, MO, ²Ishihara Sangyo Kaisha, Ltd., Osaka, Japan, ³Ishihara Sangyo Kaisha, Ltd., Kusatsu, Japan

10:45 **2510** Beneath the surface: A novel bifenthrin formulation with targeted mobility. **Caleigh Irwin** (cirwin@vivecrop.com), Matthew Coulter, Gary Poon, Danielle Norton, Kelly Greig, Jordan Dinglasan, and Darren Anderson, Vive Crop Protection, Toronto, ON, Canada

11:00 **2511** Comparative efficacy of granular and new chemistry insecticides against *Chilo partellus* Swinhoe and their effect against natural enemies in maize. **Muhammad Sufyan** (muhammad.sufyan@uaf.edu.pk), Ahmad Nawaz, Muhammad Jalal Arif, Muhammad Dildar Gogi, and Shahid Majeed, Univ. of Agriculture, Faisalabad, Pakistan

11:15 **2512** Efficacy of *Melia azedarach* L. extracts and selected products in management of the adult tomato leafminer, *Tuta absoluta* Povolny. **Efat Abou-Fakhr Hammad** (ima27@mail.aub.edu), Zeinab Haidar, and Josiane El Chemaly, Lebanese Univ., Beirut, Lebanon

11:30 **2513** Predicting the efficacy of biopesticides against *Locust migratoria manilensis* in China. **Hongmei Li** (h.li@cabi.org)¹,², Yinmin Liu²,³, Dave Moore⁴, Bethan Perkins⁵, and Arabella B. K. Taylor⁴, ¹CABI, Beijing, China, ²Chinese Ministry of Agriculture, Beijing, China, ³Gansu Agricultural Univ., Lanzhou, China, ⁴CABI, Ascot, United Kingdom, ⁵Assimila Ltd., London, United Kingdom

11:45 **2514** Determination of time of insecticide application against *Phthorimaea operculella* in the field conditions. **Pervin Erdogan** (pervinerdogan@gmail.com), Plant Protection Central Research Institute, Ankara, Turkey

12:00 **2515** Testing *Beauveria bassiana* and chlorantraniliprole to control *Earias vitella* (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae). **Kashif Ali** (chkashif20@gmail.com)¹ and Waqas Wakil², ¹Government College Univ., Faisalabad, Pakistan, ²Univ. of Agriculture, Faisalabad, Pakistan

12:15 **2516** Evolution of spinosad resistance in Colorado potato beetle, *Leptinotarsa decemlineata*, in the eastern US: Variation, dominance, and cross-resistance. **Mitchell Baker** (mitchell.baker@qc.cuny.edu)¹, Kathleen Schnaars-Uvino², Coby Klein¹, David Mota-Sanchez³, and Andrei Alyokhin⁴, ¹City Univ. of New York, Flushing, NY, ²Univ. of Jamestown, Jamestown, ND, ³Michigan State Univ., East Lansing, MI, ⁴Univ. of Maine, Orono, ME

12:30 **2517** Characterizing the development of *Helicoverpa zea* injury to different cotton tissue types and different Bt protein combinations for use in IRM modeling. **Mohammad-Amir Aghaee** (maghaee@ncsu.edu)¹, Dominic Reisig², Michael Caprio³, Don Cook⁴, J eremy Greene⁵, Fred Musser³, and Francis Reay-Jones⁶, ¹North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC, ²North Carolina State Univ., Plymouth, NC, ³Mississippi State Univ., Mississippi State, MS, ⁴Mississippi State Univ., Stoneville, MS, ⁵Clemson Univ., Blackville, SC, ⁶Clemson Univ., Florence, SC

12:45 **2518** Assessment of the role of neonicotinoid seed treatments to manage early season corn pests. **Jocelyn Smith** (jocelyn.smith@uoguelph.ca)¹, Tracey Baute², and Arthur Schaafsma¹, ¹Univ. of Guelph, Ridgetown, ON, Canada, ²Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs, Ridgetown, ON, Canada

1:00 **2519** Mode of inheritance of insecticide resistance to imidacloprid in the brown planthopper, *Nilaparvata lugens*. **Sachiyo Sanada-Morimura** (sanadas@affrc.go.jp), Tomohisa Fujii, and Masaya Matsumura, NARO Kyushu Okinawa Agricultural Research Center, Kumamoto, Japan

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Contributed Papers: Ecology and Population Dynamics: Community Services

Room W225 A (Convention Center)

**Moderators:** Joshua Campbell¹ and Colton Zirkle², ¹Univ. of Florida, Gainesville, FL, ²Univ. of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR

9:15 **2520** Insect vs. wind pollination of the Ozark chinquapin, *Castanea ozarkensis*. **Colton Zirkle** (coltonzirkle@gmail.com) and Ashley P. G. Dowling, Univ. of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR

9:30 **2521** European skipper butterfly (*Thymelicus lineola*) associated with reduced seed development of showy lady's-slipper orchid (*Cyprripedium reginae*). **Paul Mosquin** (mosquin@rti.org)¹, Peter Hall², Paul Catling², and Ted Mosquin³, ¹RTI International, Chapel Hill, NC, ²Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Ottawa, ON, Canada, ³Mosquin Bio-Information Ltd., Balderson, ON, Canada

9:45 **2522** The evolution of symbiosis in firebugs (Hemiptera: Pyrrhocoridae). **Adam Martinez** (adam.martinez@uni-mainz.de) and Martin Kaltenpoth, Johannes Gutenberg Univ., Mainz, Germany

10:00 **2523** Crab spiders (Thomisidae) attract insect flower-visitors without UV signaling. **Ellen Welti** (elwelti@k-state.edu), Savannah Putnam, and Anthony Joern, Kansas State Univ., Manhattan, KS

10:15 **BREAK**

10:30 **2524** Increased pollinator habitat enhances fruit set in Australian cacao. **Samantha Forbes** (samantha.forbes@my.jcu.edu.au) and Tobin Northfield, James Cook Univ., Cairns, Australia

10:45 **2525** Landscape effects on mason bee fitness mediated by diet diversity and pesticide exposure. **Mary Centrella** (mlc344@cornell.edu), Katia Poveda, and Bryan N. Danforth, Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY

11:00 **2526** Pollinators and other arthropod attraction to native wildflower plantings in Florida. **Joshua Campbell** (joshuacampbell@ufl.edu), James D. Ellis, Cory Stanley-Stahr, Jaret C. Daniels, and Cherice Smithers, Univ. of Florida, Gainesville, FL

11:15 **2527** Effects of lead contamination in sunflowers on pollinator behavior. **Frances S. Sivakoff** (sivakoff.3@osu.edu) and Mary Gardiner, The Ohio State Univ., Wooster, OH

11:30 **2528** Burning love: The attraction of soil invertebrates occupying a burn chronosequence to macro and micronutrients. **Caitlin Maloney** (cemalon@bgsu.edu) and Shannon Pelini, Bowling Green State Univ., Bowling Green, OH

11:45 **2529** Effects of pine straw removal on arthropods in longleaf pine communities. **Samuel Buzuleciu** (sabuzule@ncsu.edu) and Clyde E. Sorenson, North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC

12:00 **2530** The effects of elevational soil micronutrient variation on decomposer abundance and activity in a tropical forest. **Cari Ritzenthaler** (carir@bgsu.edu)¹, Creighton Litton², Christian Giardina³, and Shannon Pelini¹, ¹Bowling Green State Univ., Bowling Green, OH, ²Univ. of Hawai'i, Honolulu, HI, ³USDA - Forest Service, Hilo, HI

12:15 **2531** Use of color cues by bumble bees foraging for multiple floral rewards. **Daniel Papaj** (papaj@email. arizona.edu), Univ. of Arizona, Tucson, AZ

Contributed Papers: Ecology and Population Dynamics: Interactions

Room W225 B (Convention Center)

**Moderators:** K. Supriya¹ and Sarah Bengston², ¹Univ. of Chicago, Chicago, IL, ²Univ. of Rochester, Rochester, NY

9:15 **2532** Competition between insectivorous ants and birds in eastern Himalayas. **K. Supriya** (ksupriya@uchicago.edu), Univ. of Chicago, Chicago, IL

9:30 **2533** Mammalian "bad" breath is lifesaving for plant-dwelling insects. **Moshe Inbar** (minbar@research. haifa.ac.il), Univ. of Haifa, Haifa, Israel

9:45 **2534** Sexual conflict may hinder population growth through spatial sexual segregation due to counter-harassment behavior. **Kaori Tsurui** (tsuruikaori@gmail.com)¹, Tsuyoshi Ohishi², Norikuni Kumano³, Kiyohito Teruya², Tetsuya Toyosato⁴, and Kazuki Tsuji¹, ¹Univ. of the Ryukyus, Nishihara, Japan, ²Okinawa Prefectural Plant Protection Center, Naha, Japan, ³Obihiro Univ. of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine, Obihiro, Japan, ⁴Ryukyu-Sankei Co. Ltd., Tomigusuku, Japan

10:00 **2535** Biotic resistance to an invasive forest insect-fungus mutualism. Brian Bodart¹, and Daniel S. Gruner (dsgruner@umd.edu)³, ¹Montana State Univ., Conrad, MT, ²Univ. of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR, ³Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD

10:15 **BREAK**

10:30 **2536** Predator-prey interactions among mites in open environment I: Learned oviposition site shift reduces offspring predation. **Hatsune Otsuki** (ootsuki.hatsune.44e@st.kyoto-u.ac.jp) and Shuichi Yano, Kyoto Univ., Kyoto, Japan

10:45 **2537** Predator-prey interactions among mites in open environment II: Further interactions between spider mite and predatory mite offspring. **Shuichi Yano** (yano@kais.kyoto-u.ac.jp) and Hatsune Otsuki, Kyoto Univ., Kyoto, Japan

11:00 **2538** Specificity and stability in an obligate, vertically transmitted symbiosis: An experimental analysis. **Jon Seal** (trachymyrmex@gmail.com), The Univ. of Texas, Tyler, TX

11:15 **2539** Patterns of floral resource use by the invasive Argentine ant, *Linepithema humile*, and a native ant, *Anoplolepis custodiens*, in a biodiversity hotspot. **Palesa Mothapo** (mothapo@sun.ac.za) and Theresa Wossler, Stellenbosch Univ., Stellenbosch, South Africa

11:30 **2540** Competition of the cotton bollworm (*Helicoverpa armigera*), corn earworm (*Helicoverpa zea*), and fall armyworm (*Spodoptera frugiperda*) on non-Bt corn. **José P. G. Silva** (jpgfdsilva@gmail.com)¹, Edson Baldin¹, Thomas Hunt², and Silvana V. Paula-Moraes³, ¹São Paulo State Univ., Botucatu, Brazil, ²Univ. of Nebraska, Concord, NE, ³Embrapa Cerrados, Planaltina, Brazil
11:45 **2541** A new case of social parasitism in four western *Temnothorax* ant species and the implications for colony interactions. **Sarah Bengston** (sbengsto@gmail.com) and Christian Rabeling, Univ. of Rochester, Rochester, NY

12:00 **2542** Converging strategies in plant-manipulating insects: Insect-induced effects on plants and possible mechanisms used by leaf-miners to manipulate their host-plant. **David Giron** (david.giron@univ-tours.fr)¹, Géraldine Dubreuil¹, Mélanie Body², Hui Zhang¹, Franck Dedeine¹, Graham Stone³, Carlos Lopez-Vaamonde⁴, and Elisabeth Huguet¹. ¹National Center for Scientific Research, Tours, France, ²Univ. of Missouri, Columbia, MO, ³Univ. of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, ⁴INRA, Orléans, France

12:15 **2543** Trade-offs associated with investment in winged individuals by an *Aphis glycines* colony under strong predation. **Aldo Ríos Martínez** (aldorios@live.com) and Alejandro Costamagna, Univ. of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada

12:30 **2544** Do native mites suppress invasive herbivores on eastern hemlock? **Elizabeth Whitney** (ewhitney@uri.edu)¹, Claire Wilson¹, Robert Schaeffer², and Evan L. Preisser¹. ¹Univ. of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI, ²Tufts Univ., Medford, MA

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

West Hall F3 (WF3) (Convention Center)

**Moderators:** Zunnu Akhtar¹ and Jason Wulff², ¹Univ. of Agriculture, Faisalabad, Pakistan, ²Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX

9:15 **2545** Optimum® Leptra™ insect protection and efficacy of its individual events in South America. **Herbert Eichenseer** (herb.eichenseer@pioneer.com)¹, Paulo da Silva², Vinicius de Faria², Josemar Foresti², Maria Celiz³, and Gerardo Rapetti⁴, ¹DuPont Pioneer, Johnston, IA, ²DuPont do Brasil S.A., Planaltina, Brazil, ³DuPont Pioneer, Jesus Maria, Argentina, ⁴DuPont Pioneer, Pergamino, Argentina

9:30 **2546** Discovery of a two-component lepidopteran active protein family from plants. Jeffrey Sopa¹, **Eric Schepers** (eric.j.schepers@cgr.dupont.com)², Judson Flattum³, Kara Gredell³, Natalie Stoner³, Janet Rice³, Mark Nelson³, Nuria Jiménez Juárez³, Deborah Clark³, Jennifer Barry², Keven Hayes², James English⁴, Scott Diehn², Nasser Yalpani², and Lu Liu⁴, ¹DuPont Crop Protection, Wilmington, DE, ²DuPont Pioneer, Johnston, IA, ³DuPont Pioneer, Wilmington, DE, ⁴DuPont Pioneer, Hayward, CA

9:45 **2547** Tier-based study of Bt rice revealed non-target effects on thrips. **Zunnu Akhtar** (zunnuraen@gmail.com), Univ. of Agriculture, Faisalabad, Pakistan

10:00 **2548** Elucidating the metabolic and target site mechanisms of phenylpyrazole resistance in the brown planthopper, *Nilaparvata lugens*. **William Garrood** (william.garrood@rothamsted.ac.uk)¹, Christoph Zimmer², Martin Williamson¹, Ralf Nauen³, Chris Bass², and T. G. Emyr Davies¹, ¹Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, United Kingdom, ²Univ. of Exeter, Penryn, United Kingdom, ³Bayer CropScience, Monheim, Germany

10:15 BREAK

10:30 **2549** Characterization of the TRP channel gene family in the brown planthopper (*Nilaparvata lugens*). **Cong-Fen Gao** (gaocongfen@njau.edu.cn), Shun-fan Wu, and Chun-Dong Niu, Nanjing Agricultural Univ., Nanjing, China

10:45 **2550** Genomic identification of variation and novel insecticide resistance genes in the field population of the brown planthopper, *Nilaparvata lugens*. **Rui Pang** (pr839@163.com), Sun Yat-sen Univ., Guangzhou, China

11:00 **2551** Direct effects of insecticides on plants: Soybean transcriptome responses to neonicotinoids and spider mites. **Jason Wulff** (j_wulff@tamu.edu)¹, Ada Szczepaniec², Ricardo Ramirez³, Cecilia Tamborindeguy¹, and Micky Eubanks¹, ¹Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX, ²Texas A&M Univ., Amarillo, TX, ³Utah State Univ., Logan, UT

11:15 **2552** Effects of different seed treatment formulations on the drift generated through Heubach meter from the seeds of cotton. **Hayder Abdelgader** (abdelgaderh@yahoo.com), Agricultural Research Corporation, Wad Madani, Sudan

11:30 **2553** Documenting reductions in pesticide risk: Two decades of change in lettuce pest management. **Al Fournier** (founier@cals.arizona.edu)¹, Paul Jepson², Michael Guzy², Wayne Dixon¹, John Palumbo³, and Peter Ellsworth¹, ¹Univ. of Arizona, Maricopa, AZ, ²Oregon State Univ., Corvallis, OR, ³Univ. of Arizona, Yuma, AZ

11:45 **2554** Sublethal effects of some insecticides on life table parameters of *Tuta absoluta* (Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae). **Mir Jalil Hejazi** (mjhejazi@tabrizu.ac.ir), Zahra Nozad-Bonab, and Shahzad Iranipour, Univ. of Tabriz, Tabriz, Iran

12:00 **2555** Insecticide resistance and resistance monitoring with the American serpentine leafminer, *Liriomyza trifolii* (Diptera: Agromyzidae). **J. Scott Ferguson** (scott@atoconsult.com), Atlantic Turf & Ornamental Consulting, Vero Beach, FL

12:15 **2556** Resistance to six insecticides in populations of diamondback moth, *Plutella xylostella* (Lepidoptera: Plutellidae), in Thailand. **Suprada Sukonthabhirom na Pattalung** (bsuprada@gmail.com) and Somsak Siripontangmun, Plant Protection Research and Development Office, Bangkok, Thailand

Contributed Papers: Insect Chemical Ecology: Attractants

Room W314 B (Convention Center)

**Moderators:** Aijun Zhang¹ and Juan Cibrian², ¹USDA - ARS, Beltsville, MD, ²Colegio de Postgraduados, Montecillo, Mexico

9:15 **2557** The advantages of semiochemical-based attract and kill techniques in insect pest management. **Kavita Sharma** (kavita.sharma@iscatech.com)¹, Marcos Botton², Rafael Borges³, Ruben Machota Jr.⁴, Jesse Saroli¹, Jonathan Rico¹, Rodrigo Oliveira da Silva¹, ¹Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, United Kingdom, ²Univ. of Exeter, Penryn, United Kingdom, ³Bayer CropScience, Monheim, Germany

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Carmem Bernardi¹, William Urrutia¹, Leandro Ernesto Jost Mafra³, and Agenor Mafra-Neto¹, ¹ISCA Technologies, Inc., Riverside, CA, ²Embrapa Grape and Wine, Bento Goncalves, Brazil, ³ISCA Technologies Ltda., Ijui, Brazil, ⁴Federal Univ. of Pelotas, Pelotas, Brazil, ⁵ISCA Technologies Ltda., Vacaria, Brazil

9:30 **2558** The advantages of semiochemical-based attract and kill techniques in insect pest management: agricultural case studies. Rodrigo Oliveira da Silva¹, William Urrutia (william.urrutia@iscatech.com)¹, Josh Ponce¹, Carmem Bernardi¹, Marcos Botton², Rafael Borges³, Ruben Machota Jr⁴, Jonathan Rico¹, Jesse Saroli¹, Kavita Sharma¹, Leandro Ernesto Jost Mafra⁵, and Agenor Mafra-Neto¹, ¹ISCA Technologies, Inc., Riverside, CA, ²Embrapa Grape and Wine, Bento Goncalves, Brazil, ³ISCA Technologies Ltda., Ijui, Brazil, ⁴Federal Univ. of Pelotas, Pelotas, Brazil, ⁵ISCA Technologies Ltda., Vacaria, Brazil

9:45 **2559** Pyrophilous insects attracted by infrared traps. **Thi Phuong Hoang** (phuongnfs@gmail.com) and Stefan Schütz, Georg August Univ., Göttingen, Germany

10:00 **2560** Attraction of the common bed bug (Cimex lectularius) to their defensive secretions. **Mark F. Feldlaufer** (mark.feldlaufer@ars.usda.gov)¹, Kevin Ulrich², and Matthew Kramer¹, ¹USDA - ARS, Beltsville, MD, ²Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD

10:15 **BREAK**

10:30 **2561** Evaluation of food attractants and methyl eugenol for mass trapping of *Bactrocera invadens* on bush mango in Ibadan, southwest Nigeria. **Juliana Ugwu** (amakajul01@yahoo.com)¹, Adebayo Omoloye², and Akindele Ogunfunmilayo³, ¹Forestry Research Institute of Nigeria, Ibadan, Nigeria, ²Univ. of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria, ³Nigeria Agricultural Quarantine Services, Ibadan, Nigeria

10:45 **2562** Olfactory responses of African rice gall midge (Orseolaia oryzivora) Harris and Gagné (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae) females to host plant volatiles. **Emmanuel Ogah** (emmamarg2005@yahoo.com)¹, ², Toby Bruce², Lesley Smart², Christine Woodcock², John Caulfield², Michael Birkett², John Pickett², and Francis Nwilene³, ¹Ebonyi State Univ., Abakaliki, Nigeria, ²Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, United Kingdom, ³African Rice Center, Ibadan, Nigeria

11:00 **2563** Isolation and identification of sexual pheromone of Hypsipyla grandella (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae). **Juan Cibrian** (jcibrian@colpos.mx) and Jose Pineda, Graduate College, Montecillo, Mexico

11:15 **2564** Attractive blend for spotted wing drosophila, *Drosophila suzukii* (Matsumura). **Aijun Zhang** (aijun. zhang@ars.usda.gov), Yan Feng, Robert Bruton, and Alexis Park, USDA - ARS, Beltsville, MD

11:30 **2565** Synergistic / additive interactions among components of food-based baits underlie female attraction in three invasive fruit fly species. **Jaime Pinero** (pineroj@lincolnu.edu)¹, Steven Souder², Trevor Smith³, Abbie Fox⁴, and Roger Vargas², ¹Lincoln Univ., Jefferson City, MO, ²USDA - ARS, Hilo, HI, ³Florida Dept. of Agriculture and Consumer Services, Gainesville, FL, ⁴USDA - APHIS, Palmetto, FL

11:45 **2566** Presentation withdrawn

12:00 **2567** Identification and field evaluation of peach and pear volatiles attractive to the Oriental fruit moth, *Grapholita molesta*. **Pengfei Lu** (lpengfei224@126.com)¹, Haili Qiao², ³, and You-Qing Luo¹, ¹Beijing Forestry Univ., Beijing, China, ²Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing, China, ³Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China

12:15 **2568** SPME sampling studies on date palm (Phoenix dactylifera) and red palm weevil (Rhynchophorus ferrugineus). **Paraj Shukla** (parajshukla@gmail.com)¹, Asma Al-Nujiban², M. M. Abdel-Azim¹, Ahmed Badjah-Hadj-Ahmed¹, and Saleh A. Aldosari¹, ¹King Saud Univ., Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, ²Qassim Univ., Qassim, Saudi Arabia

12:30 **2569** Host orientation of *Trissolcus japonicus* (Hymenoptera: Scelionidae) by using the volatile chemicals emitted from *Halymorpha halys* (Stål) (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae). **Jinping Zhang** (j.zhang@cabi.org)¹, Yongzhi Zhong², Guo-Hua Chen², Tim Haye³, and Feng Zhang⁴, ¹CABI, Beijing, China, ²Yunnan Agricultural Univ., Kunming, China, ³CABI, Delémont, Switzerland, ⁴Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China

Contributed Papers: Integrated Pest Management and Sustainable Agriculture: Biological Pest Management

Room W231 B (Convention Center)

Moderators: Abiola Oke¹ and Sean Coyle², ¹National Horticultural Research Institute, Ibadan, Nigeria, ²Texas A&M AgriLife Research, Lubbock, TX

9:15 **2570** Evaluation of insecticidal properties of some bio-extracts and a bio-agent performance on aphid (Sitobion avenae F.) (Hemiptera: Aphididae) incidence on wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) crop. **Muhammad Ali** (ali.klasra@gmail.com)¹, Muhammad Ashfaq¹, Naureen Rana², Syed Muhammad Zakria¹, and Azhar-uddin-Bahtti¹, ¹Univ. of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan, ²Univ. of Agriculture, Faisalabad, Pakistan

9:30 **2571** Economic and ecological benefits of botanical pesticides for control of insect pests on common beans (Phaseolus vulgaris L.). **Prisila Mkenda** (mayoprisca@gmail.com)¹, Patrick Ndakidemi², Philip Stevenson³, and Steven Belmain³, ¹Sokoine Univ. of Agriculture, Arusha, Tanzania, ²Nelson Mandela African Institution of Science and Technology, Arusha, Tanzania, ³Univ. of Greenwich, Chatham, United Kingdom

9:45 **2572** Efficacy of *Moringa oleifera* root oil extract as a seed protectant against *Callosobruchus maculatus* (F.) (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) on cowpea. **Mary Adewole** (modupeadewole75@gmail.com)¹, Olajumoke Alabi¹, and Oluwafemi Pitan², ¹Univ. of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria, ²Federal Univ. of Agriculture, Abeokuta, Nigeria

10:00 **2573** Value of lady beetles in sugarcane aphid management on Texas High Plains sorghum. **Sean Coyle** (sean.coyle@ag.tamu.edu), Abdul Hakeem, and Megha Parajulee, Texas A&M AgriLife Research, Lubbock, TX
10:15 **BREAK**

10:30 **2574** Effects of natural enemies and alate immigration on soybean aphid population dynamics. **Alejandro Costamagna** (ale costamagna@umanitoba.ca)¹, Jordan Bannerman¹, Nicola Koper¹, Brian McCormack², and David W. Ragsdale³. ¹Univ. of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada. ²Kansas State Univ., Manhattan, KS. ³Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX

10:45 **2575** Host plant effects: Parasitism success of *Peristenus digoneutis* on lygus bugs in canola and alfalfa. **Diana Fernández** (dianac0994@gmail.com)¹, Héctor A. Cárcamo², and Robert Laird¹. ¹Univ. of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, AB, Canada. ²Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Lethbridge, AB, Canada

11:00 **2576** Effect of haying regime on beneficial arthropods in prairie hay. **Wayne Ohnesorg** (wohnesorg2@unl.edu)¹, Robert Wright², and Thomas Hunt³. ¹Univ. of Nebraska, Norfolk, NE. ²Univ. of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE. ³Univ. of Nebraska, Concord, NE

11:15 **2577** Using *Typha angustifolia* pollen to build a standing army of the zoophytophagous predatory mite *Euseius gallicus* in protected ornamentals. **Juliette Pijnakker** (juliette.pijnakker@biobestgroup.com)¹, Amandine De Souza², Diana Overgaag¹, Yves Arijs³, and Felix Wackers³. ¹Biobest, De Lier, Netherlands. ²Biobest, Orange, France. ³Biobest, Westerlo, Belgium

11:30 **2578** Detection of *Apanteles* spp. (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) larval parasitoid of tomato leafminer, *Tuta absoluta* (Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae), on greenhouse tomato in Abeokuta, Ogun State, Nigeria. **Abiola Oke** (oke2abiola@yahoo.com)¹, Rauf Kolawole², Oladapo Ogunremi³, Olufemi Akinsola³, and Solape Awe³. ¹National Horticultural Research Institute, Ibadan, Nigeria. ²Dizengoff Nigeria Limited, Lagos, Nigeria. ³Ogun State Agricultural Development Program, Abeokuta, Nigeria

11:45 **2579** Evaluation of S/NPV as an effective tool in management of *Spodoptera litura* (Fab.) in cabbage crop. **Tulsi Bhardwaj** (tbhardwaj2003@yahoo.com), Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi, India

12:00 **2580** Consequences of bacterial inoculation on the ovipositional behavior and development of Japanese beetle (*Popillia japonica*) in bermudagrass. **R. Murphey Coy** (rmc0023@tigermail.auburn.edu), David Held, and Joseph Kloepper, Auburn Univ., Auburn, AL

12:15 **2581** An assessment of juvenomimic activity of *Catharanthus roseus* on growth and development of *Dysdercus koenigii*. **Sunil Kayesth** (kayesth@yahoo.co.in) and Kamal Gupta, Univ. of Delhi, New Delhi, India

**Contributed Papers: Invasive and Exotic Entomology: Geography and Biology**

Room W223 B (Convention Center)

**Moderators:** Stephen Taerum¹ and Rebecca Hallett², ¹Forestry and Agricultural Biotechnology Institute, Pretoria, South Africa, ²Univ. of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada

9:15 **2582** Risk of introduction, establishment, and spread of exotic insect and mite pests on imported apples in Nepal. **Samudra Joshi** (samudralaljoshi@hotmail.com), Lalitpur, Nepal

9:30 **2583** New exotic insect pests on California ficus trees. **Gevork Arakelian** (garakelian@acwm.lacounty.gov), Los Angeles County Dept. of Agricultural Commissioner/Weights & Measures, South Gate, CA

9:45 **2584** Cotton mealybug, *Phenacoccus solenopsis* Tinsley: An emerging threat to cotton production in the Sudan. **Hassan Kannan** (hkannan_4@hotmail.com), Agricultural Research Corporation, Wad Madani, Sudan

10:00 **2585** Global risk of the invasive soybean aphid, *Aphis glycines*. **Rebecca Hallett** (rhallett@uoguelph.ca)¹, Ross Weiss², Owen Olfert², and Darren Kriticos³, ¹Univ. of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada. ²Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Saskatoon, SK, Canada, ³CSIRO, Canberra, Australia

10:15 **BREAK**

10:30 **2586** Invasion of *Bactrocera dorsalis* (Hendel) (Diptera: Tephritidae): Population structure and invasion routes for southern Africa. **Minette Karsten** (minettek@sun.ac.za)¹, Pia Addison¹, and Aruna Manrakhan², ¹Stellenbosch Univ., Stellenbosch, South Africa. ²Citrus Research International, Nelspruit, South Africa

10:45 **2587** Assessment of the population of invader fly *Bactrocera invadens* Drew, Tsuruta and White (Diptera: Tephritidae) on mango and guava using methyl eugenol as an attractant. **Elechi Asawalam** (elechiasw@yahoo.com), Henry Ezenna, and Angelica Umunnakwe, Michael Okpara Univ. of Agriculture, Umuahia, Nigeria

11:00 **2588** Range overlap between highly invasive, cosmopolitan ant species: Identifying regions at risk. **Matthew Boot** (matthewrboot@gmail.com) and Corrie Moreau, The Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, IL

11:15 **2589** Why is the invasive brown spruce longhorn beetle (*Tetropium fuscum*) spreading so slowly in North America? **Stephen Heard** (stephen.heard@unb.ca)¹, Jennifer Anderson¹, Kenneth Dearborn¹, Allyson Heustis¹, Deepa S. Pureswaran², and Jon Sweeney³, ¹Univ. of New Brunswick, Fredericton, NB, Canada, ²Natural Resources Canada, Québec City, QC, Canada, ³Natural Resources Canada, Fredericton, NB, Canada

11:30 **2590** Untangling the movement patterns of the red turpentine beetle (*Dendroctonus valens*) and its fungal symbiont, *Leptographium procerum*. **Stephen Taerum** (stephen.taerum@fabi.up.ac.za)¹, Z. de Beer¹, and Michael Wingfield², ¹Forestry and Agricultural Biotechnology Institute, Pretoria, South Africa, ²Univ. of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa
11:45 **2591** Biology of *Palmelampius heinrichi* O'Brien, 2000 (Curculionidae), a new invasive species of the humid tropics of Colombia causing fruit-fall of peach palm, *Bactris gasipaes*. **Heinrich Lehmann-Danzinger** (hlehman@uni-goettingen.de)¹, Maria Elena Burbano Torres², and Rainer Daxl¹, ¹Univ. of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany, ²Univ. of Valle, Cali, Colombia

12:00 **2592** Vertical transfer of nematodes associated with alates of *Coptotermes formosanus* and *Coptotermes gestroi* (Isoptera: Rhinotermitidae). Nan-Yao Su¹, and **Jeremiah Foley** (folejr@ufl.edu)¹,², ¹Univ. of Florida, Davie, FL, ²USDA - ARS, Ft. Lauderdale, FL

Contributed Papers: Medical and Veterinary Entomology: Flies of Veterinary Importance

West Hall F4 (WF4) (Convention Center)

**Moderators:** Sonja L. Swiger¹, Tatiana Torres², and Thomas Spranghers³, ¹Texas A&M Univ., Stephenville, TX, ²Univ. of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil, ³Ghent Univ., Ghent, Belgium

9:15 **2593** Efficacy of PT® Alpine® Pressurized Fly Bait (BASF) on house flies. **Sonja L. Swiger** (slswiger@ag.tamu.edu)¹, Samantha Hays², and Ashley Mata³, ¹Texas A&M Univ., Stephenville, TX, ²Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX, ³Tarleton State Univ., Stephenville, TX

9:30 **2594** Presentation withdrawn

9:45 **2595** Evolution of feeding preferences in Oestroidea (Diptera: Calyptratae). **Tatiana Torres** (tttorres@ib.usp.br), Gisele Cardoso, Raquel Monfardini, and Marina Deszo, Univ. of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

10:00 **2596** The potential for biting flies to mechanically transmit blood-borne viruses causing livestock disease. **Jo Stoner** (jo.stoner@pirbright.ac.uk), Laura Tugwell, Jennifer Eyre, and Anthony Wilson, The Pirbright Institute, Woking, United Kingdom

10:15 **BREAK**

10:30 **2597** Antennal lobe morphology of the stable fly (*Stomoxys calcitrans*) and the horn fly (*Haematobia irritans*). **Pia Olafson** (pia.olafson@ars.usda.gov)¹ and Ligia Borges², ¹USDA - ARS, Kerrville, TX, ²Federal Univ. of Goias, Goiânia, Brazil

10:45 **2598** Modelling with Impact: developing insect population models to improve control in partnership with industry and policy. **Anthony Wilson** (anthony.wilson@pirbright.ac.uk)¹, Neil Morrison², David Windsor³, Paulo Cancado⁴, and Tim Lysyk⁵, ¹The Pirbright Institute, Woking, United Kingdom, ²Oxitec Ltd., Abingdon, United Kingdom, ³Dept. of Agriculture and Food, Bunbury, Australia, ⁴Embrapa Beef Cattle, Campo Grande, Brazil, ⁵Lethbridge, AB, Canada

11:00 **2599** Insect protein fractionation. **Catriona Lakemond** (catriona.lakemond@wur.nl), Wageningen Univ. and Research Centre, Wageningen, Netherlands

11:15 **2600** Black soldier fly (*Hermetia illucens*) prepupae as a potential feedstuff for piglets. **Thomas Spranghers** (thomas.spranghers@ugent.be), Joris Michiels, Mia Eeckhout, Patrick De Clercq, and Stefaan De Smet, Ghent Univ., Ghent, Belgium

11:30 **2601** Horizontal and vertical distribution of face fly larvae (*Musca autumnalis*) in response to temperature and moisture gradients in dung pats. **Fallon Fowler** (fefowler@ncsu.edu), Morgan Malone, and Wes Watson, North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC

11:45 **2602** Comparison of geometric morphometric markers between South Africa, southern Mozambique, and Swaziland tsetse populations. **Chantel de Beer** (debeerc@arc.agric.za)¹, Gert Venter¹, and Marc J.B. Vreysen², ¹Agricultural Research Council, Onderstepoort, South Africa, ²International Atomic Energy Agency, Vienna, Austria

12:00 **2603** Insects, a sustainable source of animal protein? **Dennis Oonincx** (dennisoonincx@gmail.com) and Arnold van Huis, Wageningen Univ. and Research Centre, Wageningen, Netherlands

12:15 **2604** Evaluation of insecticidal properties of plant essential oils against *Musca domestica* L. **Rashmi Morey** (moreyrashmi@gmail.com), Arts, Commerce and Science College, Pune, India

Contributed Papers: Medical and Veterinary Entomology: Ticks I

West Hall F1 (WF1) (Convention Center)

**Moderators:** Lance Durden¹, Dmitry Apanaskevich¹, and Kirby Stafford III², ¹Georgia Southern Univ., Statesboro, GA, ²Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station, New Haven, CT

9:15 **2605** Systematics of the *Dermacentor* ticks (Acari: Ixodidae). **Dmitry Apanaskevich** (dapanaskevich@georgiasouthern.edu) and Maria Apanaskevich, Georgia Southern Univ., Statesboro, GA

9:30 **2606** Temporal and spatial variation in abundance of *Dermacentor andersoni* and *Dermacentor variabilis* in western Canada. **Shaun Dergousoff** (shaun.dergousoff@agr.gc.ca)¹, Neil Chilton², Kateryn Rochon³, and Tim Lysyk⁴, ¹Lethbridge Research and Development Centre, Lethbridge, AB, Canada, ²Univ. of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada, ³Univ. of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada, ⁴Lethbridge, AB, Canada

9:45 **2607** Phenology and ecology of tick species parasitic on cattle and wildlife in Oklahoma. **Trisha Dubie** (trishd@okstate.edu), Bruce Noden, and Justin Talley, Oklahoma State Univ., Stillwater, OK

10:00 **2608** Ticks (Acari: Ixodidae) parasitizing dogs, cats, humans, and some wild vertebrates in Alaska: Invasion potential. **Lance Durden** (ldurden@georgiasouthern.edu)¹, Kimberlee Beckmen², and Robert Gerlach³, ¹Georgia Southern Univ., Statesboro, GA, ²Alaska Dept. of Fish and Game, Fairbanks, AK, ³Alaska Dept. of Environmental Conservation, Anchorage, AK

10:15 **BREAK**

10:30 **2609** The infection landscape captured in nymphal ticks from a coastal county in the US northeast. **Andrea Egizi** (andrea.egizi@co.monmouth.nj.us) and Robert Jordan, Monmouth County Mosquito Control Division, Tinton Falls, NJ

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10:45 **2610** Biotic and abiotic factors affecting blacklegged tick (*Ixodes scapularis*) distribution and tick-borne disease prevalence in Onondaga County, New York.
Nicholas Piedmonte (nppiedmo@syr.edu)¹,
Melissa Prusinski², H. Brian Underwood¹, Stephen
Shaw¹, and Melissa K. Fierke¹, ¹State Univ. of New York,
Syracuse, NY, ²New York State Dept. of Health, Albany, NY

11:00 **2611** *Ixodes* ticks, birds, and tick-borne diseases: The European terrestrial cycle. *Dieter Heylen* (dieter.heylen@uantwerpen.be), Univ. of Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium

11:15 **2612** Biology of the tropical and temperate lineages of *Rhipicephalus sanguineus* sensu lato (Acari: Ixodidae) under different laboratory conditions. **Marcelo Labruna** (labruna@usp.br), Monize Gerardi, Felipe Krawczak, and Jonas Moraes-Filho, Univ. of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

11:30 **2613** Integrated tick management of the blacklegged tick to reduce the risk of Lyme disease. **Kirby C. Stafford III** (kirby.stafford@ct.gov), Scott Williams, and Goudarz Molaei, Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station, New Haven, CT

11:45 **2614** *Theileria equi* detection in *Hyalomma anatolicum anatolicum* along with ticks identifying features by scanning electron microscopy from Punjab province, India. **Deepak Sumbria** (deepak_sumbria@yahoo.com), L. Singla, and Amrita Sharma, Guru Angad Dev Veterinary and Animal Sciences Univ., Ludhiana, India

12:00 **2615** Current insights into hemoglobin digestion in blood feeding ticks using *Ixodes ricinus* as a model organism. **Daniel Sojka** (sojkadan@gmail.com), Czech Academy of Sciences, České Budějovice, Czech Republic

12:15 **2616** Risk of encountering ticks and tick-borne pathogens within a rapidly growing metropolitan area in the United States southern Great Plains. **Bruce Noden** (bruce.noden@okstate.edu), Scott Loss, Courtney Maichak, and Faithful Williams, Oklahoma State Univ., Stillwater, OK

9:45 **2619** Effect of sub-sterilizing ionizing radiation on oxidative stress and DNA damage in irradiated tropical pest *Spodoptera litura* (Fabr.) and its F₁ progeny.
**Zubeda Khan** (zubeda729@yahoo.in) and Rakesh Kumar Seth, Univ. of Delhi, New Delhi, India

10:00 **2620** Can the silkworm (*Bombyx mori*) be used as a human disease model? **Hiroko Tabunoki** (h_tabuno@cc.tuat.ac.jp)¹, Katsuhiro Ito¹, Hidemasa Bono², and Takeshi Yokoyama¹, ¹Tokyo Univ. of Agriculture and Technology, Fuchū, Japan, ²Research Organization of Information and Systems, Shizuoka, Japan

10:15 BREAK

10:30 **2621** Photo-enzymatic repair of CPD and potential effect of nucleotide excision repair for 6-4PP decreasing in the twospotted mite, *Tetranychus urticae*. **Yasumasa Murata** (murata.yasumasa.22e@st.kyoto-u.ac.jp) and Masahiro Osakabe, Kyoto Univ., Kyoto, Japan

10:45 **2622** Ecology and evolutionary history shape the thermal niche. **Lacy D. Chick** (lacy.chick@case.edu)¹, Andrew Nguyen², Clint Penick³, Rob R. Dunn³, Nathan J. Sanders⁴, and Sarah Diamond¹, ¹Case Western Reserve Univ., Cleveland, OH, ²Univ. of Vermont, Burlington, VT, ³North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC, ⁴Univ. of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

11:00 **2623** Fine structure of the hoverfly, *Episyrphus balteatus* De Geer (Diptera: Syrphidae). Sheng-Jie Zhang, Fan Fan, Xiaofan Yang, and **Guoshu Wei** (weiguoshu03@aliyun.com), Agricultural Univ. of Hebei, Baoding, China

11:15 **2624** Recombinant expression, purification, and chitin binding specificity of different CPAP3s from *Bombyx mori*. **Mingbo Qu** (mingboqu@dlut.edu.cn), Yuezhou Ren, and Qing Yang, Dalian Univ. of Technology, Dalian, China

11:30 **2625** Crystal structure and inhibitor discovery of insect group I chitinase from *Ostrinia furnacalis*. **Tian Liu** (tianliu@dlut.edu.cn), Lei Chen, Yong Zhou, and Qing Yang, Dalian Univ. of Technology, Dalian, China

11:45 **2626** Structural characterization of type-II farnesyl diphosphate synthase from the spruce budworm, *Choristoneura fumiferana*. **Marie-Éve Picard** (marie-eve.picard.8@ulaval.ca)¹,², Aline Barbar¹, Audrey Nisole³, Catherine Béliveau³, Stephanie Sen⁴, Rong Shi¹,², and Michel Cusson¹,³, ¹Univ. Laval, Québec City, QC, Canada, ²PROTEO et IBIS, Quebec City, QC, Canada, ³Natural Resources Canada, Québec City, QC, Canada, ⁴The College of New Jersey, Ewing, NJ

12:00 **2627** Vibration enhances vision-dependent antennal response against approaching conspecifics in the Japanese pine sawyer beetle, *Monochamus alternatus* (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae). **Midori Fukaya** (viridisetviridis@gmail.com)¹ and Takuma Takanashi², ¹Nihon Univ., Fujisawa, Japan, ²Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute, Tsukuba, Japan

12:15 **2628** Exploiting the termite digestome for biofuel production. **S. Priya Rajarapu** (prajarapu@purdue.edu), Peter Dunn, and Michael Scharf, Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN

**Contributed Papers: Physiology and Biochemistry: Fundamental**

Room W315 A (Convention Center)

**Moderators:** S. Priya Rajarapu¹ and Lacy D. Chick², ¹Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN, ²Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN

9:15 **2617** Field evaluation of 5% EGX-101 in spray formulation (Bio-D: Bedbug Control) to control tropical bed bug, *Cimex hemipterus*, infestation. **Saiful Azlan Nordin** (saifulazlan87@gmail.com) and Hidayatulfathi Othman, National Univ. of Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

9:30 **2618** Cuticular proteins in *Anopheles gambiae*: Their deployment in different structures and involvement in chitin-binding and sclerotization. **Judy Willis** (jhwillis@uga.edu), Laura Vannini, Yihong Zhou, Majors Badgett, John Bowen, and Ron Orlando, Univ. of Georgia, Athens, GA
**12:30** **2629** Effects of caloric restriction on immune responses against *Staphylococcus aureus* in silkworm, *Bombyx mori*. Peng Lyu (lvpeng_zj@hotmail.com), Ye Pan, and Keping Chen, Jiangsu Univ., Zhenjiang, China

Contributed Papers: Physiology and
Biochemistry: Molecular, Genetics, and Genomics

Room W315 B (Convention Center)

**Moderators:** Sima Jonusaite¹ and Lili Huang², ¹York Univ., Toronto, ON, Canada, ²Jiangxi Entry-Exit Inspection and Quarantine Bureau, Nanchang, China

**9:15** **2630** Inheritance of critical daylength among different geographic population in the Asian corn borer, *Ostrinia furnacalis*. Lili Huang (121120328@qq.com)¹, Chao Chen², and Fangsen Xue², ¹Jiangxi Entry-Exit Inspection and Quarantine Bureau, Nanchang, China, ²Jiangxi Agricultural Univ., Nanchang, China

**9:30** **2631** Real-time PCR assay for the identification of *Thrips palmi* Karny in Thailand. Charuwat Taekul (charuwatt@gmail.com), Ittipon Bannakan, Rungnapha Thongkreng, and Nuttima Kositcharoenkul, Dept. of Agriculture, Bangkok, Thailand

**9:45** **2632** Putative ammonia transporter expression in anal papillae of *Aedes aegypti* and response to high environmental ammonia. Andrew Donini (adonini@yorku.ca), Helen Chasiotis, Lidiya Misyura, Phuong Bui, and Adrian Ionescu, York Univ., Toronto, ON, Canada

**10:00** **2633** Characterization of the role of occluding septate junctions in the maintenance of salt and water balance in larval mosquito (*Aedes aegypti*). Sima Jonusaite (artks@yorku.ca), Scott P. Kelly, and Andrew Donini, York Univ., Toronto, ON, Canada

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

**10:30** **2634** Physiological constraints of coping with energetic stress in the eusocial honey bee. Christopher Mayack (cmayack@gmail.com)¹,², Frank Hirche², Ying Wang³, Gabriele I. Stangl², and Gro V. Amdam³, ¹Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA, ²Martin Luther Univ., Halle, Germany, ³Arizona State Univ., Tempe, AZ

**10:45** **2635** Transcriptional patterns underlying nutrition-stress interactions in the polyphagous agricultural pest *Helicoverpa zea*: How can diet modulate responses to Bt toxin and the entomopathogenic fungus *Beauveria bassiana*? Carrie Deans (cadeans@tamu.edu)¹, Spencer T. Behmer², Patricia Tamez Guerra³, Heiko Vogel⁴, and Gregory Sword², ¹Univ. of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN, ²Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX, ³Autonomous Univ. of Nuevo León, Nuevo Leon, Mexico, ⁴Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, Jena, Germany

**11:00** **2636** Function and crystal structure of a *Bombyx mori* Omega-class glutathione transferase. Kohji Yamamoto (yamamok@agr.kyushu-u.ac.jp), Kyushu Univ., Fukuoka, Japan

**11:15** **2637** Phytosterol metabolism in the generalist caterpillar *Helicoverpa armigera*. Xiangfeng Jing (jxf_zb@sina.cn) and Jincheng Zheng, Northwest A&F Univ., Yangling, China

**11:30** **2638** Identification of the main venom proteins of cotton mealybug parasitoid *Aenasius bambawalei* Hayat by RNA-Seq analysis. Hoor Shaina (shaina1463@gmail.com)¹, Zain Ul Abdin¹, Bruce Webb², and Atif Manzoor¹, ¹Univ. of Agriculture, Faisalabad, Pakistan, ²Univ. of Kentucky, Lexington, KY

**11:45** **2639** Identification and expression profiles of sex-specific *doublesex* transcripts in the non-holometabolous scale insects (Hemiptera: Cocco morpha). Isabelle M. Vea (isabelle.vea@gmail.com)¹, Sumika Yonei¹, Takahiro Shiotsuki², Akiya Joraku², Teruyuki Niimi³, and Chieka Minakuchi¹, ¹Nagoya Univ., Nagoya, Japan, ²National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences, Tsukuba, Japan, ³National Institute for Basic Biology, Okazaki, Japan

**12:00** **2640** Molecular and physiological studies of the host regulation factor of endoparasitoid *Aenasius bambawalei* Hayat (Hymenoptera: Encyrtidae). Zain Ul Abdin (zainunibas@gmail.com), Hoor Shaina, Saqi Kosar Abbas, and Atif Manzoor, Univ. of Agriculture, Faisalabad, Pakistan

**12:15** **2641** Biochemical profiling of recombinantly expressed cytochrome P450's of *Apis mellifera* (Hymenoptera: Apidae). Marion Zaworra (marion.zaworra@bayer.com)¹,², Bettina Lueke², and Ralf Nauen², ¹Univ. of Bonn, Bonn, Germany, ²Bayer CropScience, Monheim, Germany

**12:30** **2642** Transcriptome-based proteome analysis to identify peptides and proteins involved in immunity and reproduction from male accessory glands and ejaculatory duct of *Bactrocera dorsalis*. Dong Wei (dong_wei1988@yahoo.com)¹, Hui-Min Li¹, Chuan-Bei Tian¹, Guy Smaghe², Fu-Xian Jia¹, Wei Dou¹, and Jin-Jun Wang¹, ¹Southwest Univ., Chongqing, China, ²Ghent Univ., Ghent, Belgium

**12:45** **2643** Identification of a strong promoter in cultured cells of *Polypedilum vanderplanki* as a tool to reveal molecular background underlying anhydrobiosis. Yoichiro Sogame (sogame@affrc.go.jp)¹, Jun Okada¹, Shingo Kikuta², Ruslan Deviatiarov³, Richard Cornette¹, Oleg Gusev⁴, and Takahiro Kikawada¹, ¹National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences, Tsukuba, Japan, ²Tokyo Univ. of Agriculture and Technology, Koganei, Japan, ³Kazan Federal Univ., Kazan, Russia, ⁴RIKEN, Yokohama, Japan

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Contributed Papers: Stored Products Entomology:
Fumigants and Hypoxia

West Hall F2 (WF2) (Convention Center)

**Moderators:** Vaclav Stejskal¹, Muhammad Afzal², and Ellen Thoms³, ¹Crop Research Institute, Prague, Czech Republic, ²Quaid-i-Azam Univ., Islamabad, Pakistan, ³Douglas Products, Gainesville, FL

9:15 **2644** Commercial fumigant fitness and bio-pesticide potential against resistant strains of quarantine insect pests. **Muhammad Afzal** (chafzal64@yahoo.com)¹, Abdul Khaliq¹, Muhammad Irfan Ullah¹, Muhammad Ahmad¹, Muhammad Saqib¹, and Akhlaq Ahmad², ¹Univ. of Sargodha, Sargodha, Pakistan, ²Pakistan Agricultural Research Council, Karachi, Pakistan

9:30 **2645** Chemical composition of *Phyllantus fraternus* from Nigeria: A potential source of biofumigants. **Jacobs Mobolade Adesina** (mobolade72@gmail.com)¹, Yallappa Rajashekar², Tonsing Nghailun³, and **Anjanappa Raghavendra**⁴, ¹Rufus Giwa Polytechnic, Owo, Nigeria, ²Institute of Bioresources & Sustainable Development, Imphal, India, ³Institute of Bioresources & Sustainable Development, Manipur, India, ⁴National Bureau of Agricultural Insect Resources, Karnataka, India

9:45 **2646** Global uses for sulfuryl fluoride (ProFume® gas fumigant) for post-harvest pest control. **Ellen Thoms** (ellen.thoms@douglasproducts.com)¹ and Barb Nead-Nylander², ¹Douglas Products, Gainesville, FL, ²Douglas Products, Rancho Santa Margarita, CA

10:00 **2647** Co-fumigation with phosphine (PH₃) and sulfuryl fluoride (SO₂F₂) for the management of strongly phosphine-resistant insect pests of stored grain. **Rajeswaran Jagadeesan** (raj.jagadeesan@daf.qld.gov.au)¹,², Manoj Nayak¹, Hervoika Pavic¹, Virginetenshia Singarayan¹, and Paul Ebert², ¹Queensland Dept. of Agriculture and Fisheries, Brisbane, Australia, ²Univ. of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia

10:15 **BREAK**

10:30 **2648** ECO₂FUME® for control of western flower thrips, *Frankliniella occidentalis* (Pergande), on tomatoes and green pepper at low temperature storage conditions. **Sait Erturk** (saiterturk@gmail.com)¹, Murat Olculu², Mustafa Alkan¹, Rifat Goztas³, and Arda Taner⁴, ¹Plant Protection Central Research Institute, Ankara, Turkey, ²Biological Control Research Institute, Adana, Turkey, ³Agrifa Agriculture Products Trade Ltd., Mersin, Turkey, ⁴Cytec Industry, Inc., Adana, Turkey

10:45 **2649** Advances in developing alternative treatment for postharvest pest control. **Yong-Biao Liu** (yongbiao.liu@ars.usda.gov), USDA - ARS, Salinas, CA

11:00 **2650** Nitric oxide fumigation for control of certain quarantine pests on imported fresh commodities. **Xikui Wei** (xikui.wei@aphis.usda.gov)¹, Woodward Bailey¹, and Yong-Biao Liu², ¹USDA - APHIS, Miami, FL, ²USDA - ARS, Salinas, CA

11:15 **2651** Flour-mill fumigation using hydrogen cyanide and phosphine insecticide gases. **Vaclav Stejskal** (stejskal@vurv.cz), Crop Research Institute, Prague, Czech Republic

11:30 **2652** Efficacy of ozone fumigation against phosphine susceptible and resistant strains of *Rhyzopertha dominica*. **Xinyi E.** (xinyi608@gmail.com), Bhadriraju Subramanyam, and Beibei Li, Kansas State Univ., Manhattan, KS

11:45 **2653** Influence of hypoxia on cowpea weevil egg-laying behavior and progeny development. **Kabita Kharel** (kkharel@purdue.edu), Dieudonne Baributsa, Scott Williams, and Linda J. Mason, Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN

12:00 **2654** Cumulative oxygen consumption during development of two post-harvest pests (*Callosobruchus maculatus* Fabricius and *Plodia interpunctella* Huebner). **Hannah Quellhorst** (hquellho@purdue.edu)¹, Dieudonne Baributsa², Scott Williams², and Larry Murdock², ¹Purdue Improved Crop Storage Lab, West Lafayette, IN, ²Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN

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Join us for a night to remember under the ICE big-top for Cirque I-C-E!

This event is expected to sell out, visit the registration desk to inquire about ticket availability.

Join your fellow attendees for an all-immersive experience under the ICE big-top the night before the Congress ends. Cirque performers will surround and entertain you from the moment you enter the event.

This unique dining experience will allow you an up-close-and-personal view of the most memorizing performances of the week. This is a dinner experience you will not want to miss!

Gala ticket includes:

* a four-course dinner

* complimentary drink ticket for cocktail hour

* wine service with dinner (two bottles per table).

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 29

7:30 – 8:30 PM • Cocktail Reception

8:30 – 10:00 PM • Dinner

Ticket: $90 USD
per person

Farewell Dinner: Hot Florida Nights!

Friday September 30 • 7:00 PM • Valencia Room, Convention Center

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Join us to celebrate a week of learning, sharing, and camaraderie with colleagues and friends!

Hot Latin and salsa beats showcasing the hottest in music from south Florida will cap off our fantastic week in Florida. Heavy hors-d'oeuvre and a cash bar will be available.

See you there!