Contributed Papers: Morphology, Systematics, and Phylogeny: Bees, Ants, and Wasps

Room W224 H (Convention Center)

**Moderators:** Rodolfo Probst¹ and Manuela Sann², ¹Museum of Zoology of the Univ. of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil, ²Museum of Natural History, Berlin, Germany

9:15 **3074** Vespidae phylogenomics and the origins of eusociality. **Patrick Piekarski** (pkpiekarski@gmail.com)¹, J. M. Carpenter², Alan Lemmon³, Emily Lemmon³, and Barbara Sharanowski¹, ¹Univ. of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, ²American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY, ³Florida State Univ., Tallahassee, FL

9:30 **3075** Phylogenetic relationships of apoid wasps and bees inferred from analyzing target DNA enrichment data. **Manuela Sann** (manuela.sann@mfn-berlin.de)¹, Ralph Peters², Oliver Niehuis², Christoph Mayer², Alexander Donath², Malte Petersen², Sarah Bank², Lars Podsiadlowski³, Karen Meusemann², Bernhard Misof², Christoph Bleidorn⁴, and Michael Ohl¹, ¹Museum of Natural History, Berlin, Germany, ²Zoological Research Museum Alexander Koenig, Bonn, Germany, ³Univ. of Bonn, Bonn, Germany, ⁴Univ. of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

9:45 **3076** The evolution of diet breadth in *Melissodes* Latreille (Hymenoptera: Apidae). **Karen Wright** (karen@sevilletta.unm.edu) and Kelly Miller, Univ. of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM

10:00 **3077** Brood parasitism in spider wasps, with special reference to its behavior of a species (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae). **Akira Shimizu** (shimizu-akira@tmu.ac.jp) and Hiroaki Kurushima, Tokyo Metropolitan Univ., Hachioji, Japan

10:15 BREAK

10:30 **3078** Taxonomic revision of the Neotropical velvet ant genus *Tallium* André with discussion of two novel setal types (Hymenoptera: Mutillidae). **Craig Brabant** (brabant@entomology.wisc.edu), Wisconsin Insect Research Collection, Madison, WI

10:45 **3079** Delineating boundaries: A taxonomic revision and phylogeny of the ant genus *Prenolepis* (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Formicinae). **Jason Williams** (jleewill@gmail.com) and John S. LaPolla, Towson Univ., Towson, MD

11:00 **3080** Ants of the *Pachycondyla* genus group in Ecuador: Phylogeny, taxonomy, and distribution. **Adrian Troya** (adrian.troya@epn.edu.ec) and Oscar Suing, National Polytechnic School, Quito, Ecuador

11:15 **3081** The phylogeny of the ant genus *Temnothorax*. **Matthew Prebus** (mmprebus@ucdavis.edu), Univ. of California, Davis, CA

11:30 **3082** Molecular and morphological characters as tools to resolve cryptic species taxonomy and phylogenetics — the case of the ant genus *Basiceros* (Formicidae: Myrmicinae: Attini). **Rodolfo Probst** (probstrodolfo@gmail.com)¹, Corrie Moreau², and Carlos Brandão¹, ¹Museum of Zoology of the Univ. of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil, ²The Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, IL

11:45 **3083** Microbial diversity and distribution within a widespread Neotropical ant host (*Cephalotes atratus*): An evolutionary and geographic perspective. **Shauna Price** (slprice@gmail.com) and Corrie Moreau, The Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, IL

Contributed Papers: Morphology, Systematics, and Phylogeny: Tenebrionids, Clerids, Staphylinids, and Scarabs

Room W225 A (Convention Center)

**Moderators:** John Leavengood¹ and Adam Brunke², ¹USDA - APHIS, Pharr, TX, ²Natural History Museum, Vienna, Austria

9:15 **3084** Phylogeography of trogolobitic beetles in Appalachia. **Karen Ober** (kober@holycross.edu), College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, MA

9:30 **3085** A phylogenomic study of the Tenebrionidae. **Kojun Kanda** (kojun.kanda@nau.edu)¹, Aaron Smith¹, and David Maddison², ¹Northern Arizona Univ., Flagstaff, AZ, ²Oregon State Univ., Corvallis, OR

9:45 **3086** A revised Amphidorini (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae) classification based on morphological and molecular data. **Aaron Smith** (aaron.smith@nau.edu)¹, Kojun Kanda¹, and M. Andrew Johnston², ¹Northern Arizona Univ., Flagstaff, AZ, ²Arizona State Univ., Tempe, AZ

10:00 **3087** Pantropical Carabidae: Studies of the genus *Plochionus* Dejean 1821, the tent-caterpillar hunters. **Beulah Garner** (b.garner@nhm.ac.uk), The Natural History Museum, London, United Kingdom

10:15 BREAK

10:30 **3088** Phylogeny of Cleroidea (Coleoptera): Morphological and palaeontological evidence. **Jiri Kolibac** (jkolibac@mzm.cz), Moravian Museum, Brno, Czech Republic

10:45 **3089** The New World Hydnocerinae (Coleoptera: Cleridae): Slowly bringing clarity to a tortured taxonomic history. **John Leavengood** (johnshorrorcorner@gmail.com), USDA - APHIS, Pharr, TX

11:00 **3090** Morphology of the wing apparatus and flight characteristics of featherwing beetles (Coleoptera: Ptiliidae), the smallest free-living insects. **Alexey Polilov** (polilov@gmail.com), Natalija Reshetnikova, and Sergey Farisenkov, Lomonosov Moscow State Univ., Moscow, Russian Federation

11:15 **3091** Unravelling the cryptic diversity of Australia's canthonine fauna (Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae: Canthonini) with a focus on *Lepanus* and allies. **Nicole Gunter** (ngunter@cmnh.org)¹, Geoff Monteith², and Tom Weir³, ¹Cleveland Museum of Natural History, Cleveland, OH, ²Queensland Museum, Brisbane, Australia, ³Australian National Insect Collection, Black Mountain, Australia

11:30 **3092** Towards the phylogenetic relationships of the genus *Batrisodes* Reitter (Staphylinidae: Pselaphinae) in the southern Appalachian Mountains, United States. **Laura Vasquez-Velez** (lvasque@clemson.edu), Clemson Univ., Clemson, SC

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11:45 **3093** Molecular phylogeny of the staphylinid beetle subfamily Aleocharinae (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae). **Vladimir Gusarov** (vladimir.gusarov@nhm.uio.no), Natural History Museum, Oslo, Norway

12:00 **3094** Extinct diversity and integrated, dated phylogeny of a megadiverse beetle lineage (Staphylinidae: Staphylinini) using data from µCT reconstruction of amber fossils. **Adam Brunke** (adam.j.brunke@gmail.com)¹, Nesrine Akkari¹, and Alexey Solodovnikov², ¹Natural History Museum, Vienna, Austria, ²Natural History Museum, Copenhagen, Denmark

Thursday, September 29, 2016 • Afternoon

Symposium: Dynamic Interactions at the Tick-Host-Pathogen Interface

Room W240 C (Convention Center)

Moderator and Organizer: Stephen Wikel, Quinnipiac Univ., Hamden, CT

1:30 **3095** Next-generation transcriptome and proteome approaches to better understand the transmission life-cycle of the tick *Ixodes ricinus*. **Michalis Kotsyfakis** (mich_kotsyfakis@yahoo.com), Czech Academy of Sciences, Branisovska, Czech Republic

2:00 **3096** Inhibition of nod-like receptor sensing by a tick salivary protein. **Joao Pedra** (jpedra@som.umaryland.edu), Xiaowei Wang, and Dana Shaw, Univ. of Maryland, Baltimore, MD

2:15 **3097** Evolutionary analysis of host resistance to cattle tick infestation and tick-borne disease in ungulates. **Nicholas Jonsson** (nicholas.jonsson@glasgow.ac.uk) and Michael Stear, Univ. of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom

2:30 **3098** Immunobiology of white-tailed deer response to vaccine targeting outbreak populations of cattle fever ticks in the U.S. **Adalberto Pérez de León** (beto.perezdeleon@ars.usda.gov)¹, Ashley Petersen², Lane Foil³, Felix Guerrero¹, Maxim Lebedev², and Alan Young², ¹USDA - ARS, Kerrville, TX, ²South Dakota State Univ., Brookings, SD, ³Louisiana State Univ., Clinton, LA

2:45 **3099** Emerging role of basophils in acquired protective immunity to tick infestation. **Hajime Karasuyama** (karasuyama mbch@tmd.ac.jp), Tokyo Medical and Dental Univ., Tokyo, Japan

Symposium: Invasive Bark and Ambrosia Beetles: A Pest Problem of Worldwide Significance

Room W414 C (Convention Center)

Moderators and Organizers: Steven Seybold¹ and Massimo Faccoli², ¹USDA - Forest Service, Davis, CA, ²Univ. of Padua, Padua, Italy

1:30 **3100** The walnut twig beetle, *Pityophthorus juglandis* Blackman (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae), in northern Italy. **Massimo Faccoli** (massimo.faccoli@unipd.it), Univ. of Padua, Padua, Italy

1:45 **3101** Non-native bark and ambrosia beetles in Canada: Pathways, spread, and impacts. **Leland Humble** (lhumble@nrcan.gc.ca)¹ and David Langor², ¹Natural Resources Canada, Victoria, BC, Canada, ²Natural Resources Canada, Edmonton, AB, Canada

2:00 **3102** Impact of extreme climatic events on host selection by exotic ambrosia beetles in eastern North America. **Christopher Ranger** (christopher.ranger@ars.usda.gov), USDA - ARS, Wooster, OH

2:15 **3103** California, USA: A hotbed of invasive bark and ambrosia beetles on conifers and hardwoods. **Steven Seybold** (sjseybold@gmail.com), USDA - Forest Service, Davis, CA

2:30 **3104** Neotropical bark and ambrosia beetles in southern Florida, USA: Long overlooked native or recently introduced invasive species? **Thomas H. Atkinson** (thatkinson.austin@gmail.com), The Univ. of Texas, Austin, TX

2:45 **3105** Biology and mechanism of invasion by the red turpentine beetle in China. **Zhen Zhang** (zhangzhen@caf.ac.cn), Chinese Academy of Forestry, Beijing, China

3:00 BREAK

3:15 **3106** Effect of habitat and climatic preferences on alien ambrosia beetle invasions in deciduous temperate forests. **Davide Rassati** (davide.rassati@unipd.it), Univ. of Padova, Legnaro, Italy

3:30 **3107** Biology and impact of Xyleborini ambrosia beetles in Japan. **Hisashi Kajimura** (kajimura@agr.nagoya-u.ac.jp), Nagoya Univ., Nagoya, Japan

3:45 **3108** The role of mating systems in bark and ambrosia beetle invasions. **Lawrence R. Kirkendall** (lawrence.kirkendall@zoo.uib.no), Univ. of Bergen, Bergen, Norway

4:00 **3109** Proactive empirical assessment of future invasive bark and ambrosia beetles. **Jiri Hulcr** (hulcr@ufl.edu), Univ. of Florida, Gainesville, FL

4:15 **3110** International cooperation and earlier detection of bark and ambrosia beetles. **Robert Rabaglia** (brabaglia@fs.fed.us), USDA - Forest Service, Washington, DC

Symposium: Millions of Hectares and Counting: Knowledge Gained during Recent Bark Beetle Outbreaks in Western North America

Room W314 A (Convention Center)

Moderators and Organizers: Christopher J. Fettig¹ and Ann M. Lynch², ¹USDA - Forest Service, Davis, CA, ²USDA - Forest Service, Tucson, AZ

1:30 **3111** Reconstructing historical *Dendroctonus ponderosae* activity in *Pinus contorta* forests in the northern Colorado Front Range. **Jose F. Negron** (jnegron@fs.fed.us) and Laurie S. Huckaby, USDA - Forest Service, Fort Collins, CO

1:45 **3112** Bark beetle dynamics across forested landscapes. **John E. Lundquist** (jlundquist@fs.fed.us)¹ and Robin Reich², ¹USDA - Forest Service, Anchorage, AK, ²Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO

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2:00 **3113** Extraordinary events in British Columbia: Chronicling the mountain pine beetle outbreak. *Lorraine Maclauchlan* (lorraine.maclauchlan@gov.bc.ca)¹ and Jodi Axelson², ¹British Columbia Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations, Kamloops, BC, Canada, ²British Columbia Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations, Williams Lake, BC, Canada

2:15 **3114** Mycoinsecticides: Developing new tools for bark beetle management. **Clifford Bradley** (cbradley@montana.com)¹, Egan Jankowski¹, Janina Bradley¹, Richard Hofstetter², Christopher J. Fettig³, Robert A. Progar⁴, Brytten E. Steed⁵, Steve Munson⁶, and Danielle Malesky⁶. ¹Montana BioAgriculture, Inc., Missoula, MT, ²Northern Arizona Univ., Flagstaff, AZ, ³USDA - Forest Service, Davis, CA, ⁴USDA - Forest Service, La Grande, OR, ⁵USDA - Forest Service, Missoula, MT, ⁶USDA - Forest Service, Ogden, UT

2:30 **3115** Makings of a good host: Condition-dependent success of trees and bark beetles. **Mary L. Reid** (mreid@ucalgary.ca) and Megan D. Goulding, Univ. of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada

2:45 **3116** Physiological, physical, and chemical characteristics of Engelmann and blue spruces related to spruce beetle host selection, colonization, and reproduction. **Daniel S. Ott** (daniel.ott@oregonstate.edu)¹, Christopher J. Fettig², Steve Munson³, Darrell W. Ross¹, Justin B. Runyon⁴, Frederick C.

Meinzer⁵, and Kimberly F. Wallin⁶, ¹Oregon State Univ., Corvallis, OR, ²USDA - Forest Service, Davis, CA, ³USDA - Forest Service, Ogden, UT, ⁴USDA - Forest Service, Bozeman, MT, ⁵USDA - Forest Service, Corvallis, OR, ⁶Univ. of Vermont, Burlington, VT

3:00 **BREAK**

3:15 **3117** Survivor response to high-severity bark beetle outbreaks in a spruce-fir forest in southern Arizona, U.S.A. **Ann M. Lynch** (alynch@fs.fed.us)¹ and Christopher D. O'Connor², ¹USDA - Forest Service, Tucson, AZ, ²USDA - Forest Service, Missoula, MT

3:30 **3118** Learning to speak beetle: Recent developments using sound in pest control. **Nicholas C. Aflitto** (na398@cornell.edu)¹, Richard W. Hofstetter², David Dunn³, James Windmill⁴, and Jeremy Gibson⁴, ¹Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY, ²Northern Arizona Univ., Flagstaff, AZ, ³Univ. of California, Santa Cruz, CA, ⁴Univ. of Strathclyde, Glasgow, United Kingdom

3:45 **3119** Exploiting the chemical ecology of the mountain pine beetle. **Robert A. Progar** (rprogar@fs.fed.us)¹, Christopher J. Fettig², and Nancy E. Gillette³, ¹USDA - Forest Service, La Grande, OR, ²USDA - Forest Service, Davis, CA, ³USDA - Forest Service, Berkeley, CA

4:00 **3120** Interactions among mountain pine beetle and associated mites and fungi in Colorado. **Javier E. Mercado** (jmercado01@fs.fed.us), USDA - Forest Service, Fort Collins, CO

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4:15 **3121** Do bark beetle (Dendroctonus spp.) outbreaks affect wildfires? Assessing beetle-induced changes to tree chemistry and flammability. **Justin B. Runyon** (jrunyon@fs.fed.us)¹, Michael J. Jenkins², and Wesley G. Page², ¹USDA - Forest Service, Bozeman, MT, ²Utah State Univ., Logan, UT

4:30 **3122** Carbon cycling in lodgepole pine forests after mountain pine beetle outbreaks. **E. Matthew Hansen** (matthansen@fs.fed.us)¹, Michael C. Amacher¹, Helga Van Miegroet², James N. Long², and Michael G. Ryan³, ¹USDA - Forest Service, Logan, UT, ²Utah State Univ., Logan, UT, ³Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO

4:45 **3123** Red turpentine beetle: Innocuous native becomes invasive tree killer in China with new concerns for North America. **Nancy E. Gillette** (beetlegillette@ yahoo.com)¹, Jianghua Sun², and Min Lu², ¹USDA - Forest Service, Berkeley, CA, ²Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

5:00 **3124** Coexistence of two aggressive species of pine bark beetle, *Dendroctonus frontalis* and *D. mesoamericanus*, in Chiapas, Mexico: Interactions and their influence on host colonization. **Alicia Niño-Domínguez** (pupa rlaveu@hotmail.com)¹, Brian T. Sullivan², Jorge Macías-Sámano¹, and Stephen R. Clarke³, ¹College of Southern Border, Tapachula, Mexico, ²USDA - Forest Service, Pineville, LA, ³USDA - Forest Service, Lufkin, TX

## Symposium: Breeding Honey Bees, Apis mellifera, for Resistance to Varroa destructor

### Room W414 B (Convention Center)

**Moderators and Organizers:** Ralph Büchler¹, Robert G. Danka², and Stephen Pernal³, ¹Agency of Agriculture Hesse, Kirchhain, Germany, ²USDA - ARS, Baton Rouge, LA, ³Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Beaverlodge, AB, Canada

1:30 **3125** Characteristics of a mite-resistant population of *Apis mellifera* in Northern Europe. **Barbara Locke** (barbara.locke@slu.se), Swedish Univ. of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden

1:45 **3126** Honey bees surviving *Varroa destructor* infestations in the world: Lessons we can take. **Yves Le Conte** (yves.leconte@avignon.inra.fr), INRA, Avignon, France

2:00 **3127** The development and basic biology of honey bees that express *Varroa*-sensitive hygiene. **Jeffrey Harris** (jharris@entomology.msstate.edu), Mississippi State Univ., Mississippi State, MS

2:15 **3128** Selection in Europe for VSH-based resistance in Buckfast and Carniolan bees. **Bart Jan Fernhout** (bartjan.fernhout@aristabeeresearch.org), Arista Bee Research, Boxmeer, Netherlands

2:30 **3129** Chemical ecology of VSH. **Fanny Mondet** (fanny.mondet@paca.inra.fr)¹, Cedric Alaux¹, Joachim de Miranda², Seo Hyun Kim³, Dominique Beslay¹, Alison Mercer³, and Yves Le Conte¹, ¹INRA, Avignon, France, ²Swedish Univ. of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden, ³Univ. of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand

2:45 **3130** Molecular and applied approaches to selecting honey bees (*Apis mellifera*) that are effective at removing *Varroa destructor* mites. **Greg J. Hunt** (ghunt@purdue.edu), Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN

### 3:00 BREAK

3:15 **3131** Grooming behaviour and resistance to *Varroa destructor*. **Ernesto Guzman** (eguzman@uoguelph.ca), Univ. of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada

3:30 **3132** Prospects for molecular markers to guide selective breeding of honey bees. **Leonard J. Foster** (foster@chibi.ubc.ca)¹, M. Marta Guarna¹, Shelley Hoover², Rob Currie³, and Stephen Pernal⁴, ¹The Univ. of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada, ²Alberta Agriculture and Rural Development, Lethbridge, AB, Canada, ³Univ. of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada, ⁴Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Beaverlodge, AB, Canada

3:45 **3133** Genomic mapping and candidate genes as approaches to MAS of VSH. **Lelania Bourgeois** (lanie.bourgeois@ars.usda.gov), USDA - ARS, Baton Rouge, LA

4:00 **3134** Proteomic marker-assisted selection for *Varroa* and disease resistance. **Stephen Pernal** (steve.pernal@agr.gc.ca), Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Beaverlodge, AB, Canada

4:15 **3135** Honey bee breeding program for increasing disease resistance and productivity. **Pierre Giovenazzo** (pierre.giovenazzo@bio.ulaval.ca)¹ and Georges Martin², ¹Univ. Laval, Québec City, QC, Canada, ²Center for Research in Animal Science, Deschambault, QC, Canada

4:30 **3136** Smartbees project: Breeding for varroa mite resistance and preservation of honey bee diversity in Europe. **Ralph Büchler** (ralph.buechler@llh.hessen.de)¹, Aleksandar Uzunov¹, and Kaspar Bienefeld², ¹Landesbetrieb Landwirtschaft Hessen, Kirchhain, Germany, ²Institute for Bee Research, Hohen Neuendorf, Germany

4:45 **3137** Status of breeding and use of Russian and VSH honey bees worldwide. **Robert G. Danka** (bob.danka@ars.usda.gov), USDA - ARS, Baton Rouge, LA

## Symposium: Harnessing the Power of Genomics Tools: Functional Genomics of Pollinator Health

### Room W340 A (Convention Center)

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

1:30 **3138** Genome-wide association mapping for studying the genetics of colony traits in honey bees (*Apis mellifera*). **Amro Zayed** (zayed@yorku.ca)¹, Brock Harpur¹, and Samir Kadri², ¹York Univ., Toronto, ON, Canada, ²São Paulo State Univ., Botucatu, Brazil

1:45 **3139** Genetic tools for selecting disease resistance in bee pollinators. **Jarkko Routtu** (jarkko.routtu@zoologie.uni-halle.de) and Robin Moritz, Martin Luther Univ., Halle, Germany

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2:00 **3140** Using honey bee genetics to breed for behavioral resistance to *Varroa* mites. **Jennifer M. Tsuruda** (jtsurud@clemson.edu)¹, Greg Hunt², and Miguel E. Arechavaleta-Velasco³, ¹Clemson Univ., Clemson, SC, ²Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN, ³National Institute of Forestry Agriculture and Livestock, Ajuchitlan, Mexico

2:15 **3141** Ecological effects of genetic diversity in host-parasite interactions. **Sophie Evison** (s.evison@sheffield.ac.uk)¹, Annette Jensen², and William O. H. Hughes³, ¹Univ. of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom, ²Univ. of Copenhagen, Frederiksberg, Denmark, ³Univ. of Sussex, Brighton, United Kingdom

2:30 **3142** Comparative genomics of *Parasaccharibacter apium*, a hive bacterium that benefits honey bee (Apis mellifera) health. **Vanessa Corby-Harris** (vanessa.corby@ars.usda.gov) and Kirk E. Anderson, USDA - ARS, Tucson, AZ

2:45 **3143** BioDirect™ to control *Varroa destructor* - new biologicals for effective protection from the devastating honey bee parasitic mite. **Alex Inberg** (alex.inberg@monsanto.com), Monsanto Company, Chesterfield, MO

**3:00 BREAK**

3:15 **3144** Transcriptomic approaches to identify and rapidly diagnose novel viruses infecting bee populations worldwide. **David Galbraith** (dag5031@gmail.com)¹, Joyce Sakamoto¹, Maryann Frazier¹, Yanping Chen², Diana Cox-Foster¹, Harland M. Patch¹, and Christina M. Grozinger¹, ¹Pennsylvania State Univ., University Park, PA, ²USDA - ARS, Beltsville, MD

3:30 **3145** Applied beenomics: New approaches to reduce honey bee disease. **Jay Evans** (evansj@ba.ars.usda.gov) and Yanping Chen, USDA - ARS, Beltsville, MD

3:45 **3146** A meta-analysis of transcriptomes to explore the molecular response of honey bees to pathogens. **Vincent Doublet** (vincentdoublet@zoologie.uni-halle.de)¹, Yvonne Poeschl¹, Andreas Gogol-Döring¹, Robert Paxton², and Christina M. Grozinger³, ¹German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research, Leipzig, Germany, ²Martin Luther Univ., Halle, Germany, ³Pennsylvania State Univ., University Park, PA

4:00 **3147** Impact of biotic and abiotic stressors on honey bee health (Apis mellifera). **Francesco Nazzi** (francesco.nazzi@uniud.it)¹ and Franco Pennacchio², ¹Univ. of Udine, Udine, Italy, ²Univ. of Naples Federico II, Portici, Italy

4:15 **3148** Staying healthy in times of stress: Genome-wide study of bumble bee diapause. **Etya Amsalem** (eua6@psu.edu)¹, David Galbraith¹, Jonathan Cnaani², Peter E. A. Teal³, and Christina M. Grozinger¹, ¹Pennsylvania State Univ., University Park, PA, ²BizBee, Ein Yahav, Israel, ³USDA - ARS, Gainesville, FL

4:30 **3149** Nutritional genomics of bumble bees. **S. Hollis Woodard** (hollis.woodard@ucr.edu), Univ. of California, Riverside, CA

4:45 **3150** DNA barcoding of pollen for pollinator health: Challenges and prospects. **Berry J. Brosi** (bbrosi@ memory.edu)¹, Karen Bell¹, Kevin Burgess², and Michael MacPherson³, ¹Emory Univ., Atlanta, GA, ²Columbus State Univ., Columbus, GA, ³Chapman Univ., Orange, CA

**Symposium: Invasive Ants: Biology and Control**

**Room W232 A (Convention Center)**

**Moderators and Organizers:** Sanford Porter¹, Joshua R. King², David Oi¹, and Robert Vander Meer¹, ¹USDA - ARS, Gainesville, FL, ²Univ. of Central Florida, Orlando, FL

1:30 **3151** Tawny crazy ant invasion: Chemical weapons and countermeasures, species displacement, and biotic homogenization. **Edward G. LeBrun** (edwardlebrun@austin.utexas.edu), The Univ. of Texas, Austin, TX

1:45 **3152** Developing strategies for the control of tawny crazy ants, *Nylanderia fulva*. **David Oi** (david oi@ars.usda.gov), USDA - ARS, Gainesville, FL

2:00 **3153** Challenges of "attempted" management of the invasive European red ant. **Eleanor Groden** (groden@umit.maine.edu) and Elissa S. Ballman, Univ. of Maine, Orono, ME

2:15 **3154** Ants without borders: The case of *Wasmannia europunctata*. **Cas Vanderwoude** (cas.vanderwoude@gmail.com), Univ. of Hawai'i, Hilo, HI

2:30 **3155** Globalization and the spread of invasive ants. **Cleo Bertelsmeier** (cleo.bertelsmeier@unil.ch)¹, Sébastien Ollier², and Laurent Keller¹, ¹Univ. of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland, ²Univ. of Paris Sud, Paris, France

2:45 **3156** Competition between invasive and native ants. **Joshua R. King** (joshua.king@ucf.edu), Univ. of Central Florida, Orlando, FL

**3:00 BREAK**

3:15 **3157** Usurpation of plant-pollinator mutualisms by non-native ants. **David Holway** (dholway@ucsd.edu)¹, Erin Wilson Rankin², and Lori Lach³, ¹Univ. of California, La Jolla, CA, ²Univ. of California, Riverside, CA, ³James Cook Univ., Cairns, Australia

3:30 **3158** Fire ant biological control agents: *Pseudacteon decapitating flies and other parasites*. **Sanford Porter** (sanford.porter@ars.usda.gov)¹, Luis Calcaterra², Laura Varone², and Juan Briano², ¹USDA - ARS, Gainesville, FL, ²Foundation for the Study of Invasive Species, Hurlingham, Argentina

3:45 **3159** *Solenopsis invicta*: Biologically-based control. **Robert Vander Meer** (bob.vandermeer@ars.usda.gov), USDA - ARS, Gainesville, FL

4:00 **3160** Ecology of ant-fungal pathogen interactions and the implications for biocontrol. Raquel Loreto ¹,² and **David Hughes** (dph14@psu.edu)¹, ¹Pennsylvania State Univ., University Park, PA, ²Federal Univ. of Viçosa, Viçosa, Brazil

4:15 **3161** Bioprospecting: Sequencing of invasive pest ant transcriptomes to facilitate discovery of viral biocontrol agents. **Steven Valles** (steven.valles@ars.usda.gov), USDA - ARS, Gainesville, FL

4:30 **3162** Applied systematics of *Pheidole*: An interactive review of the world's most invasive ant lineage. **Eli Sarnat** (e.sarnat@gmail.com)¹, Georg Fischer², Benoit Guénard³, and Evan Economò ², ¹Antwork Consulting, LLC, Davis, CA, ²Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, Onna, Japan, ³Univ. of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

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# Symposium: Ecology, Surveillance, and Control of Biting Midges

## Room W330 A (Convention Center)

**Moderators and Organizers:** Lee Cohnstaedt¹, Simon T. Carpenter², and Glenn Bellis³, ¹USDA - ARS, Manhattan, KS, ²The Pirbright Institute, Woking, United Kingdom, ³Research Institute for the Environment and Livelihoods, Darwin, Australia

*This symposium is generously sponsored by the North American Deer Farmer's Association.*

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1:30 **3163** The use of antennal sensilla in the systematics of *Culicoides*. **Glenn Bellis** (glenn.bellis@agriculture.gov.au)¹ and Alan Dyce², ¹Research Institute for the Environment and Livelihoods, Darwin, Australia, ²CSIRO, Sydney, Australia

1:45 **3164** DNA barcoding for species identification of biting midges (Ceratopogonidae: *Culicoides*) from Australasia and Eastern Asia. **David Gopurenko** (david.gopurenko@dpi.nsw.gov.au)¹,², Andrew Mitchell³, and Glenn Bellis⁴, ¹New South Wales Dept. of Primary Industries, Wagga Wagga, Australia, ²Graham Centre for Agricultural Innovation, Wagga Wagga, Australia, ³Australian Museum, Sydney, Australia, ⁴Research Institute for the Environment and Livelihoods, Darwin, Australia

2:00 **3165** Searching for *Culicoides* vectors of bovine arboviruses in Japan. **Tohru Yanase** (tyanase@affrc.go.jp), National Institute of Animal Health, Kagoshima, Japan

2:15 **3166** *Culicoides imicola*: Phylogeography, population genetics, and invasive status in the Mediterranean basin. **Stéphanie Jacquet** (stephanie.jacquet@cirad.fr)¹, Karine Huber¹,², Hélène Guis¹, Thomas Balenghien¹, Christine Chevillon³,⁴, Jérémy Bouyer¹, and Claire Garros¹, ¹CIRAD, Montpellier, France, ²INRA, Montpellier, France, ³National Center for Scientific Research, Montpellier, France, ⁴IRD, Montpellier, France

2:30 **3167** Population dynamics of *Culicoides imicola* and *Culicoides schultzei* gp. in dairy farms in Israel. **Yuval Gotlieb** (yuvalgd@yahoo.com), Yonatan Saroya, and Eyal Klement, The Hebrew Univ., Rehovot, Israel

2:45 **3168** Bionomics and vector competence among pre-alpine *Culicoides* species in Switzerland. **Anca Paslaru** (ancaiona.paslaru@uzh.ch), Alexander Mathis, and Eva Veronesi, National Centre for Vector Entomology, Zürich, Switzerland

3:00 BREAK

3:15 **3169** *Culicoides* (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) as vectors of African horse sickness virus in South Africa. **Gert Venter** (venterg@arc.agric.za), Agricultural Research Council, Onderstepoort, South Africa

3:30 **3170** *Culicoides* species of the southeastern United States and their changing distributions. **Stacey Vigil** (svigil@uga.edu) and Joseph Corn, Univ. of Georgia, Athens, GA

3:45 **3171** Landscape-level spatial patterns of *Culicoides sonorensis* and bluetongue virus in Colorado. **Christie Mayo** (christie.mayo@colostate.edu), Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO

4:00 **3172** *Culicoides* spp. distribution and seasonal abundance on a Florida deer farm where hemorrhagic disease is endemic. **Katherine Sayler** (saylerk@ufl.edu)¹, Nathan Burkett-Cadena², Erik Blosser², Bethany McGregor², J. K. Blackburn¹, and Samantha Wisely¹, ¹Univ. of Florida, Gainesville, FL, ²Univ. of Florida, Vero Beach, FL

4:15 **3173** Overwintering and strategies for surviving adverse conditions in *Culicoides sonorensis*. **Emily McDermott** (emcde002@ucr.edu), Univ. of California, Riverside, CA

4:30 **3174** Exploring semiochemicals for improving monitoring and control of *Culicoides* spp. **Miguel Miranda** (ma.miranda@uib.es), and Carlos Barcelo, Univ. of the Balearic Islands, Palma, Spain

4:45 **3175** *Culicoides* and reassortant bluetongue viruses: A study of virus/vector/host interactions. **Christopher Sanders** (christopher.sanders@pirbright.ac.uk)¹, Eva Veronesi², Kyriaki Nomikou¹, Peter Mertens¹, and Simon T. Carpenter¹, ¹The Pirbright Institute, Woking, United Kingdom, ²National Centre for Vector Entomology, Zürich, Switzerland

5:00 **3176** Quantifying the vector's impact on the epidemiology of *Culicoides*-borne equine arboviruses. **Lara Harrup** (lara.harrup@pirbright.ac.uk)¹, Simon T. Carpenter¹, Simon Gubbins¹, and Gianni Lo Iacono², ¹The Pirbright Institute, Woking, United Kingdom, ²Univ. of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

5:15 **3177** What influence does entomology have on policy decisions during arbovirus outbreaks? **Simon T. Carpenter** (simon.carpenter@pirbright.ac.uk), The Pirbright Institute, Woking, United Kingdom

# Symposium: Biogeographical Lessons Learned from the West Indies

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

**Moderators and Organizers:** Jacqueline Miller¹ and Michael A. Ivie², ¹Florida Museum of Natural History, Gainesville, FL, ²Montana State Univ., Bozeman, MT

*This symposium is generously sponsored by The International Biodiversity Foundation, Inc.*

1:30 **3178** Biodiversity and biogeography of Lepidoptera in the Bahamas. **Jacqueline Miller** (jmiller@flmnh.ufl.edu), Florida Museum of Natural History, Gainesville, FL

1:45 **3179** Bahamian elateroid beetle diversity and geographic relations. **Paul J. Johnson** (paul.johnson@sdstate.edu), South Dakota State Univ., Brookings, SD

2:00 **3180** Role of Caribbean Islands in the diversification and biogeography of the neotropical *Heraclides* swallowtails. **Delano Lewis** (delano.lewis@ncu.edu.jm), Northern Caribbean Univ., Mandeville, Jamaica

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2:15 **3181** Firefly (Coleoptera: Lampyridae) species distribution across the Caribbean. **Oliver Keller** (okeller1977@gmail.com) and Marc Branham, Univ. of Florida, Gainesville, FL

2:30 **3182** Origin and biogeography of Greater Antillean water beetles: The genus *Crenitulus* like a model. **Albert Deler-Hernández** (adeler1982@gmail.com), Charles Univ., Prague, Czech Republic

2:45 **3183** The little fire ant, *Wasmannia europunctata* (Roger), in the West Indies: Native pest or successful invasive species? **Bert Rivera Marchand** (brivera@bc.inter.edu), Univ. of Puerto Rico, San Juan, PR

3:00 BREAK

3:15 **3184** Agricultural experiment station research collection: A centenary legacy of biodiversity. Edda Martinez¹, Rosa Franqui (franqui@eea.uprm.edu)¹, and Alejandro Segarra², ¹Museum of Entomology and Tropical Biodiversity, San Juan, PR, ²Univ. of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez, PR

3:30 **3185** The West Indian Beetle Fauna Project: 35 years update. **Michael A. Ivie** (mivie@montana.edu), Montana State Univ., Bozeman, MT

3:15 **3192** Scarab beetles collected by Charles Darwin in southern South America during the voyage of the H.M.S. Beagle. **Andrew B. T. Smith** (asmith@unl.edu), Canadian Museum of Nature, Ottawa, ON, Canada

3:30 **3193** Fabrician types of Scarabaeoidea in the Natural History Museum, London. **Maxwell Barclay** (m.barclay@nhm.ac.uk), The Natural History Museum, London, United Kingdom

3:45 **3194** Necrocenoses in the West African Savanna: Scarabs rule. **Frank Krell** (frank.krell@dmns.org)¹, Minnattallah Boutros², Christian Linder³, and Sylvia Krell-Westerwalbesloh⁴, ¹Denver Museum of Nature and Science, Denver, CO, ²GFA Consulting Group GmbH, Hamburg, Germany, ³On Your Own, Bielefeld, Germany, ⁴Univ. of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany

4:00 **3195** Guild structure in *Chrysina* beetles. **Don Thomas** (donald.thomas@ars.usda.gov)¹ and David C. Robacker², ¹USDA - ARS, Edinburg, TX, ²USDA - ARS, Weslaco, TX

4:15 **3196** Dung beetle (Scarabaeinae) endemisms in Costa Rica: A conundrum of speciation mechanisms. **Bert Kohlmann** (bkohlman@earth.ac.cr), Earth Univ., San José, Costa Rica

Symposium: SOLA Scarab Workers

Room W223 A (Convention Center)

**Moderator and Organizer:** Andrew B. T. Smith, Canadian Museum of Nature, Ottawa, ON, Canada

1:30 **3186** Elucidating dynastine (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) evolution with transcriptomic data. **Matthew Moore** (mrmoore19@ufl.edu)¹, Marc Branham¹, and R. Cave², ¹Univ. of Florida, Gainesville, FL, ²Univ. of Florida, Homestead, FL

1:45 **3187** Integrative phylogeny of dung beetles (Coleoptera: Scarabaeinae). **Sergei Tarasov** (sergxf@yandex.ru), Univ. of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

2:00 **3188** Extinct lineages of Scarabaeoidea based on quantitative morphological approaches. **Yuanyuan Lu** (luyanyuan442@163.com), Ming Bai, and Xing-Ke Yang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

2:15 **3189** Phylogeny of North American Sericini (Coleoptera: Melolonthinae). **Reese J. Worthington** (rworthin@go.olemiss.edu), Univ. of Mississippi, University, MS

2:30 **3190** First insights into the evolutionary history of the widespread African flower chafer genus *Eudicella* (Scarabaeidae: Cetoniinae) employing molecular phylogenetic methodology. **Matthias Seidel** (matthias.seidel@zns.uni-halle.de), National Museum, Prague, Czech Republic

2:45 **3191** Mechanisms of condition-dependent trait growth in the weapons of sexual selection: Insights from the beetles. **Laura C. Lavine** (lavine@wsu.edu)¹ and Doug Emlen², ¹Washington State Univ., Pullman, WA, ²Univ. of Montana, Missoula, MT

3:00 BREAK

Symposium: Regional Status of Microbial Control Programs

Room W232 B (Convention Center)

**Moderators and Organizers:** Steven P. Arthurs¹, Surendra Dara², and Ralf-Udo Ehlers³, ¹Univ. of Florida, Apopka, FL, ²Univ. of California, San Luis Obispo, CA, ³e-nema, Schwentinental, Germany

1:30 **3197** EU Regulation 2020: Stagnancy or new perspectives for biological control. **Ralf-Udo Ehlers** (ehlers@e-nema.de), e-nema, Schwentinental, Germany

1:45 **3198** Biopesticides – innovative technologies and strategies for pest control. **Tariq Butt** (t.butt@swansea.ac.uk), Gary Harper, Richard Massy, and James Taylor, Swansea Univ., Swansea, United Kingdom

2:00 **3199** Effect of regulation on commercial development of microbial biopesticides in the European Union. **Roma Gwynn** (rgwynn@biorationale.co.uk), Rationale Biopesticide Strategists, Duns, Scotland

2:15 **3200** Integration of microbial biopesticides in greenhouse floriculture: The Canadian experience. Graeme Murphy¹, Rose Buitenhuis², and **Michael Brownbridge** (michael.brownbridge@gmail.com)³, ¹Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs, Vineland, ON, Canada, ²Vineland Research and Innovation Centre, Vineland Station, ON, Canada, ³Vineland Research and Innovation Centre, Lincoln, ON, Canada

2:30 **3201** The potential of entomopathogenic fungi to manage coffee berry borer in Hawaii. **Robert Hollingsworth** (robert.hollingsworth@ars.usda.gov)¹ and Donald C. Steinkraus², ¹USDA - ARS, Hilo, HI, ²Univ. of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR

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2:45 **3202** Review of biopesticides and their markets in the United States. **Steven P. Arthurs** (spa@ufl.edu)¹ and Surendra Dara², ¹Univ. of Florida, Apopka, FL, ²Univ. of California, San Luis Obispo, CA

**3:00 BREAK**

3:15 **3203** Utilization of nucleopolyhedrovirus (NPVs) for control of lepidopteran pests in fruit and vegetable production. **William Stoneman** (bstoneman@andermattusa.com)¹, Gisela Brand², and Silvana Nidermann², ¹Andermatt Biocontrol AG, Madison, WI, ²Andermatt Biocontrol AG, Grossdietwil, Switzerland

3:30 **3204** Harvesting the power of fungal entomopathogens for controlling arthropod pests in Brazil. **Gabriel Mascarin** (gmmascar@gmail.com)¹, Mark Jackson², and Éverton Kamp Fernandes³, ¹Embrapa Rice and Beans, Santo Antônio de Goiás, Brazil, ²USDA - ARS, Peoria, IL, ³Federal Univ. of Goiás, Goiânia, Brazil

3:45 **3205** Overview of microbial control programmes in South Africa. **Justin Hatting** (HattingJ@arc.agric.za), Agricultural Research Council, Bethlehem, South Africa

4:00 **3206** Microbial control programmes in Eastern Africa. **Sunday Ekesi** (sekesi@icipe.org) and Jean Nguya Kalemba Maniania, International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology, Nairobi, Kenya

4:15 **3207** Microbial control: Progress from New Zealand. **Travis Glare** (travis.glare@lincoln.ac.nz)¹ and Maureen O'Callaghan², ¹Bio-Protection Research Centre, Lincoln, New Zealand, ²AgResearch, Ltd., Christchurch, New Zealand

**Symposium: Climate Change Impacts and Insect Population Dynamics**

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

**Moderators and Organizers:** James Bell¹, Carol Boggs², John Terblanche³, and Toke Høye⁴, ¹Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, United Kingdom, ²Univ. of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, ³Stellenbosch Univ., Stellenbosch, South Africa, ⁴Aarhus Univ., Rønde, Denmark

1:30 **3208** Insects and climate assessments: The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and the U.S. National Assessment. **Camille Parmesan** (camille.parmesan@plymouth.ac.uk), Plymouth Univ.'s Marine Institute, Plymouth, United Kingdom

1:45 **3209** Demography and climate change in insects. **Carol Boggs** (cboggs@seoe.sc.edu)¹,² and Nicole Kish¹,², ¹Univ. of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, ²Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory, Crested Butte, CO

2:00 **3210** Relative importance of climate, habitat, and species' traits on population dynamics. **Georgina Palmer** (georgina.palmer@york.ac.uk)¹, Jane Hill¹, Tom Brereton², David Brooks³, Jason Chapman⁴, Richard Fox², Tom Oliver⁵, and Chris Thomas¹, ¹Univ. of York, York, United Kingdom, ²Butterfly Conservation, Wareham, United Kingdom, ³Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, United Kingdom, ⁴Univ. of Exeter, Penryn, United Kingdom, ⁵Univ. of Reading, Reading, United Kingdom

2:15 **3211** Energetic and life history consequences of cold adaptation in *Drosophila melanogaster*. **Caroline M. Williams** (cmw@berkeley.edu)¹, Theodore Morgan², David Allison³, and Daniel Hahn⁴, ¹Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA, ²Kansas State Univ., Manhattan, KS, ³Univ. of Alabama, Birmingham, AL, ⁴Univ. of Florida, Gainesville, FL

2:30 **3212** No butterflies in the stomach: The collapse of insect-microbe symbiosis under climate change. **Dmitry Musolin** (musolin@gmail.com)¹,², Yoshitomo Kikuchi³, Akiyo Tada¹, Nobuhiro Hari¹, Takahiro Hosokawa⁴,⁵, Kenji Fujisaki¹, and Takema Fukatsu⁵, ¹Kyoto Univ., Kyoto, Japan, ²Saint Petersburg State Forest Technical Univ., St. Petersburg, Russia, ³National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Sapporo, Japan, ⁴Kyushu Univ., Fukuoka, Japan, ⁵Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Tsukuba, Japan

2:45 **3213** Hybridization in the context of a changing climate. **Sean Ryan** (ecophylic@gmail.com)¹,² and Jessica Hellmann¹,³, ¹Univ. of Notre Dame, South Bend, IN, ²USDA - ARS, Gainesville, FL, ³Univ. of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN

**3:00 BREAK**

3:15 **3214** Effects of weather and climate on butterfly population dynamics. **Tom Oliver** (t.oliver@reading.ac.uk), Univ. of Reading, Reading, United Kingdom

3:30 **3215** The role of climate change on insect herbivory rates derived from the fossil record. **Conrad Labandeira** (labandec@si.edu), Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History, Washington, DC

3:45 **3216** Climate change and rapid bumblebee and butterfly losses within and across continents. **Jeremy Kerr** (jkerr@uottawa.ca), Ottawa-Carleton Institute of Biology, Ottawa, ON, Canada

4:00 **3217** Winners and losers of Arctic climate change — insect and spider abundance variation across two decades in high-arctic Greenland. **Toke Høye** (tth@aias.au.dk)¹, Joseph Bowden², Sarah Loboda³, Christopher Buddle³, Niels Schmidt⁴, and Jade Savage⁵, ¹Aarhus Univ., Rønde, Denmark, ²Aarhus Univ., Aarhus, Denmark, ³McGill Univ., Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, QC, Canada, ⁴Aarhus Univ., Roskilde, Denmark, ⁵Bishop's Univ., Sherbrooke, QC, Canada

4:15 **3218** Understanding the impacts of climate change on agricultural insect pests across Africa. **Madeleine Barton** (mbarton@sun.ac.za) and John Terblanche, Stellenbosch Univ., Stellenbosch, South Africa

4:30 **3219** Climate change impacts pest and beneficial insects over the last half century: Insights from the UK. **James Bell** (james.bell@rothamsted.ac.uk)¹, Jessica Pérez Rodríguez², Chris Shortall¹, and Richard Harrington¹, ¹Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, United Kingdom, ²Univ. of València, València, Spain

4:45 **3220** Insect-plant phenological synchrony in a changing world. **Michael Singer** (michael.singer@plymouth.ac.uk), Plymouth Univ., Plymouth, United Kingdom

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5:00 **3221** Spatial synchrony in marine and terrestrial systems. **Lawrence Sheppard** (lwsheppard@ku.edu)¹, James Bell², Richard Harrington², Philip Reid³, and Daniel Reuman⁴, ¹Univ. of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, ²Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, United Kingdom, ³Sir Alister Hardy Foundation for Ocean Science, Plymouth, United Kingdom, ⁴Univ. of Kansas, Lawrence, KS

5:15 **3222** Invasion biology and climate change: Comparing retracting and expanding species. **Jane Hill** (jane.hill@york.ac.uk), Georgina Palmer, Phil Platts, and Chris Thomas, Univ. of York, York, United Kingdom

3:45 **3231** New technologies and opportunities for managing filth flies. **Alec Gerry** (alec.gerry@ucr.edu), Univ. of California, Riverside, CA

4:00 **3232** Of flies and beetles: Adapting gene drives to address global pest problems. **Nathaniel Grubbs** (npgrubbs@ncsu.edu), Fu-Chyun Chu, and Marcé Lorenzen, North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC

4:15 **3233** It's a trap! New traps for mosquito and bed bug control. **Roberto Pereira** (rpereira@ufl.edu), Univ. of Florida, Gainesville, FL

4:30 **3234** Insect control discovery at Evogene, Inc. **James Presnail** (james.presnail@evogene.com), Evogene, Inc., Saint Louis, MO

## Symposium: Next-Generation Technologies for Insect Control

### Room W224 D (Convention Center)

**Moderators and Organizers:** Murugesan Rangasamy¹, Nandi Nagaraj¹, Renata Bolognesi², Blair Siegfried³, and Swapna Priya Rajarapu⁴, ¹Dow AgroSciences, Indianapolis, IN, ²Monsanto Company, Chesterfield, MO, ³Univ. of Florida, Gainesville, FL, ⁴Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN

1:30 **3223** Western corn rootworm — integrated management strategies for IRM. **Matthew Carroll** (matthew.carroll@monsanto.com), Graham P. Head, and Sean Evans, Monsanto Company, St. Louis, MO

1:45 **3224** Presentation withdrawn

2:00 **3225** SmartStax® PRO corn — next-generation technology for corn rootworm management. **Bradley W. Hopkins** (bwhopkins@dow.com), Dwain M. Rule, and Nicholas Storer, Dow AgroSciences, Indianapolis, IN

2:15 **3226** SPEAR™: First commercialization of a cystine-knot insecticide. **John Sorenson** (JSorenson@vestaron.com), Vestaron Corporation, Kalamazoo, MI

2:30 **3227** New binary-toxin against western corn rootworm from a non-*Bacillus thuringiensis* bacterium. **Amit Sethi** (amit.sethi@pioneer.com)¹, Claudia Pérez-Ortega², Mark Nelson², Timothy M. Nowatzki¹, Nasser Yalpani¹, Lu Liu³, Gusui Wu¹, J. Lindsey Flexner¹, and Laura S. Higgins¹, ¹DuPont Pioneer, Johnston, IA, ²DuPont Pioneer, Wilmington, DE, ³DuPont Pioneer, Hayward, CA

2:45 **3228** Advancing microbial control in temperate orchard systems. **David Shapiro-Ilan** (david.shapiro@ars.usda.gov), USDA - ARS, Byron, GA

### 3:00 BREAK

3:15 **3229** Modification of a Bt toxin to target Asian citrus psyllid (*Diaphorina citri*; Hemiptera). Maria Fernandez Luna¹, **Yuting Chen** (yutingc@iastate.edu)¹, Michael B. Blackburn², David Hall³, Biviana Flores-Escobar¹, and Bryony Bonning¹, ¹Iowa State Univ., Ames, IA, ²USDA - ARS, Beltsville, MD, ³USDA - ARS, Ft. Pierce, FL

3:30 **3230** Controlling honey bee pests and pathogens in the 21st century. **James D. Ellis** (jdellis@ufl.edu), Univ. of Florida, Gainesville, FL

## Symposium: Effect of Global Climate Change on Vector-Borne Disease Transmission

### Room W240 B (Convention Center)

**Moderators and Organizers:** Ephantus J. Muturi¹, Allison Parker¹, and Paul A. Weston², ¹Univ. of Illinois, Champaign, IL, ²Charles Sturt Univ., Wagga Wagga, Australia

1:30 **3235** An overview of the potential impact of climate change on mosquitoes. **Ephantus Muturi** (emuturi2@illinois.edu), Univ. of Illinois, Champaign, IL

1:45 **3236** Research update on pathogenic landscape of Chagas and Lyme disease in the U.S.-Mexico transboundary region. **Teresa Arroyo** (teresa.feriaarroyo@utrgv.edu)¹, Maria Esteve-Gassent², Ivan Castro-Arellano³, Guadalupe Gordillo-Perez⁴, Ramiro Patino¹, and Adalberto Pérez de León⁵, ¹The Univ. of Texas, Edinburg, TX, ²Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX, ³Texas State Univ., San Marcos, TX, ⁴Research Unit on Infectious Diseases, Distrito Federal, Mexico, ⁵USDA - ARS, Kerrville, TX

2:00 **3237** On the edge: Climatic influences on Ae. aegypti indices and dengue virus transmission in the Sonoran desert region. **Kacey Ernst** (kernst@email.arizona.edu)¹, Corey Morin¹, Kathleen R. Walker¹, Andy Monaghan², Mary Hayden², Pablo Reyes-Castro¹, Teresa Joy¹, Mecedes Gameros³, Steve Haenchen¹, Eileen Guttierez-Jeffrey¹, Yves Carrière¹, and Michael A. Riehle¹, ¹Univ. of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, ²National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, ³Hospital General, Heroica Nogales, Mexico

2:15 **3238** Mechanistic modeling of the impact of climate variability and change on malaria transmission in Africa. **Elfatih Eltahir** (eltahir@mit.edu)¹, Noriko Endo¹, and Teresa Yamana², ¹Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, ²Columbia Univ., New York, NY

2:30 **3239** Climate change and emergence of Lyme disease in Canada: A local problem with global significance. **Nicholas Ogden** (nicholas.ogden@phac-aspc.gc.ca), Public Health Agency of Canada, Saint-Hyacinthe, QC, Canada

2:45 **3240** Climate change effects on rangewide potential distributions and abundances of insect vectors of disease. **Lindsay Campbell** (lpcampbell@ku.edu) and A. Townsend Peterson, Univ. of Kansas, Lawrence, KS

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3:00 BREAK

3:15 **3241** Presentation withdrawn

3:30 **3242** How habitat and land-use modify the distribution of a diverse mosquito vector assemblage. Michael Reiskind (michael_reiskind@ncsu.edu), North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC

Symposium: Neotropical Insect Galls

Room W224 A (Convention Center)

Moderators and Organizers: Valéria Maia and Barbara do Nascimento, Federal Univ. of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

1:30 **3243** Galls in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest. Valéria Maia (maiavcid@acd.ufrj.br), Federal Univ. of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

1:45 **3244** Gall morphotypes in the Neotropics and the need to standardize them. Rosy Mary Isaias (rosy.isaias@gmail.com), Federal Univ. of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil

2:00 **3245** Galls in Brazilian ferns and the chemical changes in galled and no-galled tissues. Marcelo dos Santos (marceloguerrasantos@gmail.com)¹, Valéria Maia², Bruno Oliveira¹, Luis Tietbohl³, and Leandro Rocha³, ¹State Univ. of Rio de Janeiro, São Gonçalo, Brazil, ²Federal Univ. of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, ³Federal Univ. of Fluminense, Niterói, Brazil

2:15 **3246** Presentation withdrawn

2:30 **3247** Galls from Brazilian tropical dry forest. Jarcilene Almeida-Cortez (jacortez@ufpe.br)¹ and Sheila Fernandes-Carvalho², ¹Federal Univ. of Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil, ²Federal Univ. of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

2:45 **3248** Insect galls from the Amazonian rainforest. Barbara do Nascimento (barbaraproenka@yahoo.com.br) and Valéria Maia, Federal Univ. of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

SD3249 Network of monophagous and oligophagous galling insects (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae) and associated parasitoids. Carolina Prauchner (carol_prauchner@hotmail.com), Fernando Luz, and Milton Mendonça Júnior, Federal Univ. of Rio Grande, Porto Alegre, Brazil

SD3250 First report of *Mycodiplosis Rübsaamen* (Insecta: Diptera) in galls of *Schismatodiplosis lantanae* (Insecta: Diptera). Erick Siqueira, **Barbara do Nascimento** (barbaraproenka@yahoo.com.br), and Valéria Maia, Federal Univ. of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

3:00 BREAK AND POSTER SESSION

Symposium: Engaging the World of Arthropod Education in a Digital Age

Room W230 A (Convention Center)

Moderators and Organizers: John Guyton¹, Rebecca Baldwin², and Andrine A. Shufran³, ¹Mississippi State Univ., Mississippi State, MS, ²Univ. of Florida, Gainesville, FL, ³Oklahoma State Univ., Stillwater, OK

1:30 **3251** Presentation withdrawn

1:45 **3252** From fighting ants to collecting and teaching. Wes Campana (wescampana@yahoo.com)¹,² and John Guyton², ¹Potrerillos, Panama, ²Mississippi State Univ., Mississippi State, MS

2:00 **3253** Using active learning to teach a practical use for insects. James Kopco (james.kopco@gmail.com)¹, Alyssa McDonough², and Deirdre Prischmann-Voldseth¹, ¹North Dakota State Univ., Fargo, ND, ²Minnesota State Univ., Moorhead, MN

2:15 **3254** Enabling entomology: How to design entomology education programming to serve audiences with disabilities. Alyssa McDonough (mcdonougal@mnstate.edu), Minnesota State Univ., Moorhead, MN

2:30 **3255** Using modern technologies to improve entomology literacy and insect conservation practices: Case examples and research outcomes. Douglas Golick (dgolick2@unl.edu), Louise Lynch, and Derek Pruitt, Univ. of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE

2:45 **3256** Presentation withdrawn

3:00 BREAK

3:15 **3257** Coming on strong: Use bess beetles to 'unplug' our students while engaging them in scientific inquiry. Robert Matthews (rwmatthews@gmail.com), Univ. of Georgia, Athens, GA

3:30 **3258** The world of invertebrate exhibitory. Jamie Sincage (jamie.sincage@disney.com), Disney's Animal Kingdom, Lake Buena Vista, FL

3:45 **3259** Chasing bugs from middle school to graduate school: The influences and the mentors. Matthew Thorn (mjt152@msstate.edu) and John Guyton, Mississippi State Univ., Mississippi State, MS

4:00 **3260** A world of curiosity from an undergraduate entomology student. Breanna Lyle (bl334@msstate.edu) and John Guyton, Mississippi State Univ., Mississippi State, MS

4:15 **3261** The Arthropod Project, sharing resources world-wide for entomological lessons, activities, and demonstrations. John Guyton (j.guyton@msstate.edu), Mississippi State Univ., Mississippi State, MS

4:30 **3262** Bug boxes for education and outreach. Rebecca Baldwin (baldwinr@ufl.edu), Univ. of Florida, Gainesville, FL

4:45 **3263** Introducing the Invertebrates in Education and Conservation Conference (IECC). Andrine A. Shufran (andrine@okstate.edu), Oklahoma State Univ., Stillwater, OK

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# Symposium: Entomologists without Borders: The Need for Collaboration Between Medical Professionals and Entomologists for the Betterment of Global Public Health

## Room W230 C (Convention Center)

**Moderators and Organizers:** Kyndall Dye, Jennifer Gordon, and Sydney Crawley, Univ. of Kentucky, Lexington, KY

1:30 **3264** The role of an entomologist in public health. **Mustapha Debboun** (mdebboun@hcphes.org), Harris County Public Health & Environmental Services, Houston, TX

1:45 **3265** Merging epidemiology and entomology to drive development of novel methods of vector control. **Tom Mascari** (thomas.m.mascari@gmail.com), S. C. Johnson & Son, Racine, WI

2:00 **3266** Entomology at CDC: Protecting the public from vector-borne diseases. **Janet McAllister** (jvm6@cdc.gov), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Fort Collins, CO

2:15 **3267** Comparison of US **Amblyomma, Dermacentor, and Rhipicephalus** ticks in their ability to transmit **R. rickettsii**. **Michael L. Levin** (mlevin@cdc.gov), Lindsay Killmaster, Alyssa Snellgrove, Lauren Schumacher, and Galina E. Zemtsova, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA

2:30 **3268** Working with public health professionals: Why they need to know about insects and diseases. **Janet Hurley** (ja-hurley@tamu.edu), Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service, Dallas, TX

2:45 **3269** Role of a state public health entomologist in global health. **Jerome Goddard** (jgoddard@entomology.msstate.edu), Mississippi State Univ., Mississippi State, MS

### 3:00 BREAK

3:15 **3270** Using online and real time monitoring dengue vector system to reduce dengue cases and its cost-benefit. **Alvaro Eiras** (alvaro.eiras@gmail.com), Chief Laboratory of Chemical Ecology and Insect Vectors, Pampuhla, Brazil

3:30 **3271** Cross-border transmission of onchocerciasis in Africa and its implications on 2025 elimination goal: Uganda case analysis. **Lakwo Thomson** (tlakwo@gmail.com), Ministry of Health, Kampala, Uganda

3:45 **3272** Plague epidemiology, ecology, and control in Uganda. **Ben Beard** (cbeard@cdc.gov), Martin Schreifer, Paul Mead, and Kenneth Gage, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Fort Collins, CO

4:00 **3273** Bridging the gap: Collaboration with traditional healers to expand surveillance for plague in northwest Uganda. **Mary Hayden** (mhayden@ucar.edu)¹, Emily Zeilinksi-Gutierrez², Apangu Titus³, Kevin Griffith², Andy Monaghan¹, Sean Moore¹, Paul Mead², Ben Beard², and Rebecca Eisen², ¹National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, ²Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Fort Collins, CO, ³Uganda Virus Research Institute, Entebbe, Uganda

### 4:15 Open Table Discussion

# Symposium: Insect Photography Symposium: Bringing the Small to the World

## Room W230 B (Convention Center)

**Moderators and Organizers:** Stephen Doggett¹ and Thomas V. Myers², ¹Westmead Hospital, Westmead, Australia, ²All-Rite Pest Control, Lexington, KY

1:30 **3274** Field macro techniques. **Thomas V. Myers** (tomvmyers@gmail.com), All-Rite Pest Control, Lexington, KY

1:45 **3275** Capturing mosquitoes. **Stephen Doggett** (stephen.doggett@health.nsw.gov.au), Westmead Hospital, Westmead, Australia

2:00 **3276** The art and science of high speed flash photography. **John C. Abbott** (jcabbott@mail.utexas.edu), St. Edward's Univ., Austin, TX

2:15 **3277** Managing light for better insect photographs. **Alexander L. Wild** (alexwild@illinois.edu), Univ. of Illinois, Champaign, IL

2:45 **3278** The secrets behind 3D printing. **Richard Naylor** (richard@bedbugfoundation.org), CimexStore, Monmouthshire, United Kingdom

### 3:00 BREAK

3:15 **3279** Cognysis: Capture the hidden world. Paul DeZeeuw¹ and **Roy Dunn** (hsfpix@gmail.com)², ¹Cognisys, Inc., Traverse City, MI, ²Cognisys, Inc., Westlake Village, CA

3:30 **3280** Zerene systems: The art of successful stacking. **Rik Littlefield** (rj.littlefield6@gmail.com), Zerene Systems, Richland, WA

3:45 **3281** High resolution imaging and 3D modeling of the massive to minuscule: Photomacrography. **Mark Smith** (mark@macroscopicsolutions.com), Macroscopic Solutions, Chicago, IL

# Symposium: International Graduate Student Showcase

## Room W340 B (Convention Center)

**Moderators and Organizers:** Paul Abram¹, Chandra Moffat², Carey Minteer³, Mervat Mahmoud⁴, and Boyd Mori⁵, ¹Univ. of Montréal, Montréal, QC, Canada, ²Univ. of New Brunswick, Fredericton, NB, Canada, ³USDA - ARS, Ft. Lauderdale, FL, ⁴South Valley Univ., Qena, Egypt, ⁵Swedish Univ. of Agricultural Sciences, Alnarp, Sweden

1:30 **3282** Dominance hierarchies in the carpenter bee *Xylocopa virginica*: Establishing, maintaining, and changing reproductive strategies. **Jess Vickruck** (jvickruck@gmail.com), Brock Univ., St. Catharines, ON, Canada

2:00 **3283** It takes a village: Insights into how termites and symbionts collaborate physiologically. **Brittany Peterson** (peter137@purdue.edu), Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN

2:15 **3284** Is sex allocation in mountain pine beetles, *Dendroctonus ponderosae*, a response to male-biased mortality? **Leanna Lachowsky** (leanna.lachowsky@gmail.com), Univ. of Calgary, Toronto, ON, Canada

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2:30 **3285** Novel constitutive and inducible antimicrobial activities against multidrug resistant bacterial pathogens in the eastern subterranean termite, *Reticulitermes flavipes*. **Yuan Zeng** (yzz0015@auburn.edu), Auburn Univ., Auburn, AL

2:45 **3286** How to escape parasitic manipulation? **Christoph Kurze** (christoph.kurze@zoologie.uni-halle.de), Martin Luther Univ., Halle, Germany

3:00 BREAK

3:15 **3287** Revising arbovirus ecology in South Australia: What spatial scale can tell us about human risk of infection. **Emily Flies** (emilyj77@gmail.com), Univ. of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia

3:30 **3288** The role of wolf spiders (Araneae: Lycosidae) on the biological control of the bollworm, *Helicoverpa* (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae), in cotton crops. **Dalila Rendon** (rendonda@gmail.com), Macquarie Univ., Sydney, Australia

3:45 **3289** When things are getting hot: Consequences of exposure to high temperatures on a parasitoid-host relationship. **M. Lukas Seehausen** (ml.seehausen@mail.utoronto.ca), Univ. of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

3:30 **3296** Presentation withdrawn

3:45 **3297** Characterization of the nano-fiber silk of Embioptera. **Janice S. Edgerly** (jedgerlyrooks@scu.edu)¹, Grace Stokes¹, and Jeff Yarger², ¹Santa Clara Univ., Santa Clara, CA, ²Arizona State Univ., Tempe, AZ

4:00 **3298** Effects of precipitation manipulation and biotic factors on grasshopper populations: Implications for responses to climate change. **David Branson** (dave.branson@ars.usda.gov), USDA - ARS, Sidney, MT

4:15 **3299** Bushcricket genitalia: Morphology, function, and their role in species isolation and female choice (Orthoptera: Ensifera). **Gerlind Lehmann** (gerlind.lehmann@t-online.de), Humboldt Univ., Berlin, Germany

4:30 **3300** Phylogeny of neotropical Phalangopsidae (Ensifera, Grylloidea). **Pedro Souza-Dias** (pedrogdias@gmail.com), Univ. of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

4:45 **3301** Cockroaches (Blattodea) of southern Louisiana: Morphology, diversity, and life histories. **Forest Huval** (lavuh07@yahoo.com), Louisiana State Univ., Baton Rouge, LA

Symposium: Orthopteroids Without Borders

Room W231 C (Convention Center)

**Moderators and Organizers:** Derek Woller¹ and Alexandre V. Latchininsky², ¹Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX, ²Univ. of Wyoming, Laramie, WY

1:30 **3290** The science of natural history. **Piotr Naskrecki** (p.naskrecki@conservation.org), Harvard Univ., Cambridge, MA

2:00 **3291** Orthopteroid insects: A perfect group to investigate ecology, conservation, and biogeography. **Paolo Fontana** (paolo_api fontana@fmach.it), Edmund Mach Foundation, Pergine Valsugana, Italy

2:15 **3292** Ecological factors affecting grasshopper outbreaks in Wyoming. **Douglas Smith** (dsmith59@uwyo.edu) and Alexandre Latchininsky, Univ. of Wyoming, Laramie, WY

2:30 **3293** Ultrafast, ultrashort, and ultrasonic — the ecological and evolutionary implications of an enigmatic acoustic communication system in a bush cricket. **David Robinson** (david.robinson@open.ac.uk)¹, Patricia Ash², Marion Hall¹, and Jürgen Rheinlaender³, ¹The Open Univ., Milton Keynes, United Kingdom, ²The Open Univ. in the South, Oxford, United Kingdom, ³Nordkirchen, Germany

2:45 **3294** Indicator plants in solitary phase and migration behavior of *Schistocerca piceifrons* in Yucatán, México. **Mario Poot Pech** (mpootpech@gmail.com), Esaú Ruíz Sánchez, and Horacio Ballina Gómez, Conkal Technological Institute, Conkal, Mexico

3:00 BREAK

3:15 **3295** Transcriptomic profiling of the chemosensory organs in grasshoppers with diverse feeding strategies. **Tyler Raszick** (tjraszick@gmail.com) and Hojun Song, Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX

Symposium: Sericigenous Insects and 3F's: Fibre, (Human) Food and Feed-Global Status, and Future Role in Resolving Global Challenges

Room W224 F (Convention Center)

**Moderators and Organizers:** Motoyuki Sumida¹ and C. J. Prabhakar², ³, ¹Mahasarakham Univ., Maha Sarakham, Thailand, ²Central Silk Board, Bangalore, India, ³Independent Sericulture Consultant, Bangalore, India

1:30 **3302** Enconomic and environmental impacts of endemic silkworm farming in Madagascar. **Catherine Craig** (craig@cpali.org)¹, ², ³, Mamy Ratsimbazafy⁴, Maminirina Randrianandrasana⁵, May R. Berenbaum⁵, Kerry Oneill⁶, and Lalaina Raharindimby⁴, ¹Washington State Univ., Pullman, WA, ²Harvard Univ., Cambridge, MA, ³Conservation through Poverty Alleviation, International, Walla Walla, WA, ⁴SEPALI Madagascar, Maroantsetra, Madagascar, ⁵Univ. of Illinois, Champaign, IL, ⁶CPALI, Ann Arbor, MI

1:45 **3303** Silk production and consumption trends - world scenario. **T. V. Maruthi** (sales@hanumanweaving.com), The Indian Silk Export Promotion Council, Mumbai, India

2:00 **3304** Silkworm as edible and medicinal resources for humans in China. **Jiping Liu** (liujiping@scau.edu.cn), South China Agricultural Univ., Guangzhou, China

2:15 **3305** Introduction of silkworms as livelihood option in new areas of Mid-India — experience of Madhya Pradesh, India. **Ajay Kumar Chaubey** (drakchaubey75@gmail.com)¹, Satyanand², Ravindra Singh³, and Ram Krishn Tiwari⁴, ¹Government College, Mundi, India, ²Government of Madhya Pradesh, Bhopal, India, ³Dept. of Sericulture, Hoshangabad, India, ⁴K. N. Government P.G. College, Gyanpur, India

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2:30 **3306** Northeastern India - an epicenter of silkworm as food practice. **Tourangbam Shantibala** (shantibro@yahoo.co.in)¹, R. K. Lokeshwari¹ and Manisha Choudhury², ¹Institute of Bioresources & Sustainable Development, Imphal, India, ²Regional Resource Centre for North Eastern States, Guwahati, India

2:45 **3307** Silkworm use for 3F's: A new dimension for the future. **C. J. Prabhakar** (prabhakarcj@gmail.com), Korada Mohan Rao, P. Jayarama Raju, and Periasamy Kumareshan, Central Silk Board, Bangalore, India

Symposium in Honor of the 2016 Recipients of Certificates of Distinction

Room W224 G (Convention Center)

**Moderators and Organizers:** Walter S. Leal¹, Alvin M. Simmons², Adriana Costero³, Wendell L. Roelofs⁴, and Patricia Scaraffia⁵, ¹Univ. of California, Davis, CA, ²USDA - ARS, Charleston, SC, ³National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, ⁴Cornell Univ., Geneva, NY, ⁵Tulane Univ., New Orleans, LA

1:30 **3308** Introductory Remarks. **Walter S. Leal** (wsleal@ucdavis.edu), Univ. of California, Davis, CA

1:31 **3309** Moderator Introduction. **Adriana Costero** (acostero@niaid.nih.gov), National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD

1:35 **3310** Malaria in Africa: Towards elimination. **Maureen Coetzee** (maureen.coetzee@wits.ac.za), Univ. of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

2:00 **3311** Moderator Introduction. **Wendell L. Roelofs** (wlr1@cornell.edu), Cornell Univ., Geneva, NY

2:05 **3312** Finding sources of wind-borne odor in moths and mosquitoes: Known mechanisms and outstanding issues. **Ring T. Cardé** (ring.carde@ucr.edu), Univ. of California, Riverside, CA

2:30 **3313** Moderator Introduction. **Patricia Scaraffia** (pscaraff@tulane.edu), Tulane Univ., New Orleans, LA

2:35 **3314** Biopesticides targeting voltage-gated ion channels: Efficacy and biosafety. **Angharad M. R. Gatehouse** (a.m.r.gatehouse@ncl.ac.uk), Newcastle Univ., Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom

Symposium: Insect Sex Determination

West Hall F3 (WF3) (Convention Center)

**Moderators and Organizers:** Leo Beukeboom¹, Daniel Bopp², Richard Meisel³, and Aaron Tarone⁴, ¹Univ. of Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands, ²Univ. of Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland, ³Univ. of Houston, Houston, TX, ⁴Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX

1:30 **3315** Diversity of insect sex determination mechanisms. **Leo Beukeboom** (l.w.beukeboom@rug.nl), Univ. of Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands

2:00 **3316** Lessons from Hymenoptera species: Insights into the evolutionary dynamics of sex-determining genes. **Martin Hasselmann** (martin.hasselmann@uni-hohenheim.de), Univ. of Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Germany

2:15 **3317** The evolution of doublesex in two parasitic wasp genera: *Nasonia* and *Muscidifurax*. **Eveline Verhulst** (e.c.verhulst@gmail.com), Wageningen Univ. and Research Centre, Wageningen, Netherlands

2:30 **3318** Sex determination in the house fly: Variations on a common theme. **Daniel Bopp** (daniel.bopp@imls.uzh.ch), Univ. of Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland

2:45 **3319** Sex chromosomes and sex determination in muscid flies. **Richard Meisel** (rpmeisel@uh.edu), Univ. of Houston, Houston, TX

3:00 **3320** Development and evaluation of male-only strains of the New World screwworm. **Max Scott** (max_scott@ncsu.edu), North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC

SD3321 Towards the identification of the *M*-factor in the housefly, *Musca domestica*. **Akash Sharma** (a.sharma@rug.nl)¹, Svenia Heinze², Yanli Wu³, Ernst Wimmer³, Mark Robinson², Leo Beukeboom¹, and Daniel Bopp², ¹Univ. of Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands, ²Univ. of Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland, ³Georg August Univ., Göttingen, Germany

SD3322 RNA metabolic labeling in XX versus XX/XY embryos of *Ceratitis capitata* and RNAseq differential analysis as a tool to identify male-specific early zygotic genes. **Angela Meccariello** (angela.meccariello@unina.it) and **Giuseppe Saccone**, Univ. of Napoli Federico II, Napoli, Italy

3:00 BREAK AND POSTER SESSION

3:30 **3323** Genes to behavior: Genomic studies of *Drosophila melanogaster* sex differences. **Michelle Arbeitman** (michelle.arbeitman@med.fsu.edu), Florida State Univ., Tallahassee, FL

3:45 **3324** Genetics of sex determination in the Mediterranean fruit fly: From basic to applied research. **Giuseppe Saccone** (giuseppe.saccone@unina.it), Univ. of Napoli Federico II, Napoli, Italy

4:00 **3325** Phylogenetic distribution and evolutionary dynamics of the "axis" sex determination genes *doublesex* and *transformer* in insects. **Elzemiek Geuverink** (e.geuverink@rug.nl), Univ. of Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands

4:15 **3326** Sex and the control of mosquito-borne infectious diseases. **Jake Tu** (jaketu@vt.edu), Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State Univ., Blacksburg, VA

4:30 **3327** The splice is right: Probing the evolutionary origins of an insect sexual differentiation pathway based on alternative RNA splicing. **Judy Wexler** (jrwexler@ucdavis.edu), Univ. of California, Davis, CA

4:45 **3328** Role of sex chromosomes in sex determination of moths and butterflies. **Frantisek Marec** (marec@entu.cas.cz), Czech Academy of Sciences, České Budějovice, Czech Republic

5:00 **3329** Sex determination pathways in lepidopteran insects. **Susumu Katsuma** (katsuma@ss.ab.a.u-tokyo.ac.jp), The Univ. of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

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5:15 **3330** Evolution of new sex chromosomes by lateral genome transfer of bacterial symbiont in pillbug.
**Richard Cordaux** (richard.cordaux@univ-poitiers.fr), National Center for Scientific Research, Poitiers, France

Symposium: Insect Gut Microbe Interactions

Room W330 B (Convention Center)

**Moderators and Organizers:** Bruno Lemaitre¹ and Angela Douglas²,
¹EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland, ²Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY

1:30 **3331** Interactions in the honey bee gut community.
**Waldan Kwong** (waldan.kwong@yale.edu)¹ and Nancy Moran², ¹Yale Univ., New Haven, CT, ²The Univ. of Texas, Austin, TX

1:45 **3332** Interplay between gut and systemic immune response in *Drosophila*. Bruno Lemaitre and **Jan Dudzic** (jan.dudzic@epfl.ch), EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland

2:00 **3333** Matrix reloaded: Structure and function of the peritrophic matrix in the midgut of the model beetle *Tribolium castaneum*. **Hans Merzendorfer** (hans.merzendorfer@biologie.uni-osnabrueck), Univ. of Osnabrück, Osnabrück, Germany

2:15 **3334** Host immune responses in *Riptortus-Burkholderia* gut symbiotic system. **Bok-Luel Lee** (brlee@pusan.ac.kr), Pusan National Univ., Busan, South Korea

2:30 **3335** The life stage of *Yersinia pestis* in the digestive tract of its flea vector. **Joseph Hinnebusch** (jhinnebusch@niaid.nih.gov), National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Hamilton, MT

2:45 **3336** Gut check in *Drosophila*: How microbes alter intestinal homeostasis. **Nicolas Buchon** (nicolas.buchon@cornell.edu), Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY

3:00 BREAK

3:15 **3337** Factors shaping complex gut microbiota in insects: What can we learn from cockroaches?
**Aram Mikaelyan** (arammikaelyan@gmail.com)¹², Niclas Lampert², Claire Thompson², and Andreas Brune¹,², ¹LOEWE-Center for Synthetic Microbiology, Marburg, Germany, ²Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, Marburg, Germany

3:30 **3338** The gut microbiota and host function in *Drosophila*. **Angela Douglas** (aes326@cornell.edu), Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY

Symposium: Trade-offs and Immunity:
Physiology, Life-History, and Evolution

Room W230 D (Convention Center)

**Moderators and Organizers:** Nicole Gerardo¹ and Seth M. Barribeau², ¹Emory Univ., Atlanta, GA, ²East Carolina Univ., Greenville, NC

1:30 **3339** Polyphenism determines the cost of immunity in pea aphids. **Benjamin Parker** (benjamin.j.parker@gmail.com)¹ and Seth Barribeau², ¹Emory Univ., Atlanta, GA, ²East Carolina Univ., Greenville, NC

1:45 **3340** A *Daphnia's* experience of infection: From immune cells to epidemic. **Stuart Auld** (s.k.auld@stir.ac.uk), Univ. of Stirling, Stirling, United Kingdom

2:00 **3341** 'Manipulation,' but not as we know it: Altered feeding behavior of mosquitoes is not dependent on infection with malaria parasites. Lauren Cator¹ and **Courtney Murdock** (cmurdock@uga.edu)², ¹Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom, ²Univ. of Georgia, Athens, GA

2:15 **3342** Transgenerational effects of biopesticide products in the Indian meal moth. **Joanne Littlefair** (j.e.littlefair@qmul.ac.uk), Alice Laughton, and Rob Knell, Queen Mary Univ. of London, London, United Kingdom

2:30 **3343** The influence of immune and stress genes in pathogen-induced trade-offs: What doesn't kill you makes you fitter, but sicker. **Colin McClure** (cdm28@bath.ac.uk), Univ. of Bath, Bath, United Kingdom

2:45 BREAK

3:00 **3344** Does immunity trade off with sex in Wellington tree weta? **Clint Kelly** (clintdkelly@icloud.com), Univ. of Québec, Montréal, QC, Canada

3:30 **3345** Taxes of a different state: Costs associated with insect immune priming. **Ben Sadd** (bmsadd@ilstu.edu), Illinois State Univ., Normal, IL

Symposium: Ant-Plant Interactions in a
Changing World

Room W224 H (Convention Center)

**Moderators and Organizers:** Suzanne Koptur¹ and Paulo S. Oliveira²,
¹Florida International Univ., Miami, FL, ²State Univ. of Campinas, Campinas, Brazil

1:30 **3346** Ecology of leaf-cutting ants in human-modified landscapes. **Marcelo Tabarelli** (mtrelli@ufpe.br)¹, Inara Leal¹, and Rainer Wirth², ¹Federal Univ. of Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil, ²Univ. of Kaiserslautern, Kaiserslautern, Germany

1:45 **3347** Climate change and ant-mediated seed dispersal in temperate North America. **Robert Warren** (warrenrj@buffalostate.edu), State Univ. of New York, Buffalo, NY

2:00 **3348** Ant-fruit/seed interactions in fragmented Atlantic rainforest and Cerrado savanna. **Paulo S. Oliveira** (pso@unicamp.br)¹, Alexander Christianini², and Ana Gabriela Bieber³, ¹State Univ. of Campinas, Campinas, Brazil, ²Federal Univ. of São Carlos, Sorocaba, Brazil, ³State Univ. of Southwest Bahia, Itapetinga, Brazil

2:15 **3349** Myrmecochory in Brazilian Caatinga and its response to chronic anthropogenic disturbance. **Inara Leal** (irleal@ufpe.br)¹, Laura Leal¹, Gabriela Arcoverde¹, and Alan N. Andersen², ¹Federal Univ. of Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil, ²CSIRO, Winnellie, Australia

2:30 **3350** Diversity and specificity of ant-plant interactions in canopy communities of a primary and secondary tropical rainforest. **Petr Klimes** (peta.klimes@gmail.com), Czech Academy of Sciences, České Budějovice, Czech Republic

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2:45 **3351** Mutualistic ant-plant symbioses and habitat change in tropical forests. **Tom Fayle** (tmfayle@gmail.com)¹, Chua Wanji¹, Ed Turner², and Kalsum Yusah¹, ¹Univ. of Malaysia, Sabah, Malaysia, ²Univ. of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

3:00 **BREAK**

3:15 **3352** Plasticity and effectiveness of defense strategies against herbivory in ant-visited plants growing in variable abiotic habitat conditions. **Akira Yamawo** (yamawo.aki@gmail.com), Hirosaki Univ., Hirosaki, Japan

3:30 **3353** Interhabitat variation in the ecology of extrafloral nectar production and associated ant assemblages in Mexican landscapes. **Cecilia Diaz-Castelazo** (diazcastelazogm@gmail.com)¹ and Victor Rico-Gray², ¹Institute of Ecology, Xalapa, Mexico, ²Veracruzana Univ., Xalapa, Mexico

3:45 **3354** Urban ants and plants: Ant visitation to extrafloral nectaries and antiherbivore defense? **Suzanne Koptur** (kopturs@fiu.edu)¹, Ian Jones¹, Andrea Salas¹, Hong Liu¹, Hipólito Paulino-Neto², Maria Rodriguez¹, and Carl Weekley³, ¹Florida International Univ., Miami, FL, ²Univ. of São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto, Brazil, ³Archbold Biological Station, Venus, FL

4:00 **3355** Invasion biology and ant-plant systems in Australia. **Lori Lach** (lori.lach@jcu.edu.au), James Cook Univ., Cairns, Australia

4:15 **3356** The complexity and variable nature of ant- **Acacia** mutualisms in the African savanna. **Todd Palmer** (tmp@ufl.edu), Univ. of Florida, Gainesville, FL

4:30 **3357** Services and disservices of ant communities in tropical agroforestry. **Yann Clough** (yclough@gwdg.de)¹, Stacy M. Philpott², and Teja Tscharntke³, ¹Lund Univ., Lund, Sweden, ²Univ. of Toledo, Toledo, OH, ³Georg August Univ., Göttingen, Germany

4:45 **3358** Ant-plant-herbivore interactions in northern neotropical agroecosystems. **Inge Armbrecht** (inge.armbrecht@correounivalle.edu.co)¹ and Ivette Perfecto², ¹Univ. of Valle, Cali, Colombia, ²Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

5:00 **3359** Changing light conditions in pine rockland habitats affect the outcome of ant-plant interactions. **Ian Jones** (ijone002@fiu.edu)¹, Suzanne Koptur¹, Hilma R. Gallegos¹, Joseph P. Tardanico¹, Patricia A. Trainer¹, and Jorge E. Peña², ¹Florida International Univ., Miami, FL, ²Univ. of Florida, Homestead, FL

Symposium: Combining Insect Life Table, Consumption Rate, and Predation Rate for IPM and Biological Control

Room W224 C (Convention Center)

**Moderators and Organizers:** Remzi Atlihan¹, Chow-Yang Lee², Ayhan Gökçe³, Aurang Kavousi⁴, and Hsin Chi⁵, ¹Univ. of Yuzuncu Yil, Van, Turkey, ²Univ. of Science, Penang, Malaysia, ³Nigde Univ., Nigde, Turkey, ⁴Univ. of Zanjan, Zanjan, Iran, ⁵National Chung Hsing Univ. (Retired), Taichung, Taiwan

1:30 **3360** Biological control based on the age-stage, two-sex life table, predation rate, and population projection. **Hsin Chi** (hsinchi@dragon.nchu.edu.tw)¹, Jih-Zu Yu², De-Fen Mou³, Chih-Chung Lee³, and Cecil L. Smith⁴, ¹National Chung Hsing Univ. (Retired), Taichung, Taiwan, ²Taiwan Agricultural Research Institute, Taichung, Taiwan, ³National Chung Hsing Univ., Taichung, Taiwan, ⁴Georgia Museum of Natural History, Athens, GA

1:45 **3361** Demography and predation rate of *Chrysoperla carnea* (Neuroptera: Chrysopidae) fed on *Hyalopterus pruni* (Hemiptera: Aphididae). **Remzi Atlihan** (ratlihan@yyu.edu.tr) and Hazhar Abdulrahman, Univ. of Yuzuncu Yil, Van, Turkey

2:00 **3362** Life table of *Lasioderma serricorne* (F.) (Coleoptera: Anobiidae). Chiew-Liang Liew and **Chow-Yang Lee** (chowyang@usm.my), Univ. of Science, Penang, Malaysia

2:15 **3363** Presentation withdrawn

2:30 **3364** Combining insect life table and predation rate for IPM and biological control: A study of *Chrysoperla carnea* (Stephen) (Neuroptera: Chrysopidae) fed on *Myzus persicae* (Sulzer) (Homoptera: Aphididae). **Evin Polat Akköprü** (polatevin@gmail.com) and Remzi Atlihan, Univ. of Yuzuncu Yil, Van, Turkey

2:45 **3365** Ecological impacts of secondary bacteria symbionts on *Sitobion avenae* (Fabricius) (Hemiptera: Aphididae). **Zu-Qing Hu** (huzuqing@nwsuaf.edu.cn), Chen Luo, and Huiyan Zhao, Northwest A&F Univ., Yangling, China

3:00 **BREAK**

3:15 **3366** Effects of a bacterial symbiont on the competitive ability and fitness of host whitefly. **Dong Chu** (chinachudong@qau.edu.cn), Wen-Ping Zhang, Hong-Ran Li, and Yi-Wei Fang, Qingdao Agricultural Univ., Qingdao, China

3:30 **3367** Effects of quinoa (Chenopodioideae) on some biological traits of *Drosophila melanogaster*. **Eda Özel Güneş** (dnapolimeraz@gmail.com), Univ. of Necmettin Erbakan, Konya, Turkey

3:45 **3368** Comparison of life history traits of two closely related predatory mites, *Neoseiulus womersleyi* and *N. longispinosus* (Acari: Phytoseiidae), found in Taiwan. **Tetsuo Gotoh** (tetsuo.gotoh.acari@vc.ibaraki.ac.jp)¹, R. Sugawara¹, and Chyi-Chen Ho², ¹Ibaraki Univ., Ibaraki, Japan, ²Taiwan Agricultural Research Institute, Taichung, Taiwan

4:00 **3369** Use of life tables in aphid ecological studies on environmental stress factors. **Huiyan Zhao** (zhaohy@nwsuaf.edu.cn), Zu-Qing Hu, and Xiangshun Hu, Northwest A&F Univ., Yangling, China

4:15 **3370** Timing of control of *Frankliniella occidentalis* (Pergande) using *Beauveria bassiana* based on life table and stage-specific mortality. **Haihong Wang** (wanghaihong2020@sina.com) and Zhongren Lei, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China

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4:30 **3371** Influence of different hazelnut cultivars on some demographic characteristics of filbert aphid, *Myzocallis coryli* (Goeze). **Ali Güncan** (guncan.ali@gmail.com)¹ and Ebru Gümüş², ¹Ordu Univ., Ordu, Turkey, ²Hazelnut Research Institute, Giresun, Turkey

4:45 **3372** Life table and functional and numerical responses of *Aphelinus paramali* (Zehavi and Rosen) (Hymenoptera: Aphelinidae) reared on *Aphis gossypii* Glover (Hemiptera: Aphididae). **Yunus Bayram** (ybayram@hotmail.com)¹ and Erol Bayhan², ¹General Directorate of Food and Control, Ankara, Turkey, ²Dicle Univ., Diyarbakir, Turkey

5:00 **3373** Demographic effect of arrhenotokous parthenogenesis and bisexual reproduction of *Frankliniella occidentalis*. **Bin Zhang** (binzhang@qau.edu.cn), Bing-Qi Liu, and Chang-Ying Zheng, Qingdao Agricultural Univ., Qingdao, China

5:15 **3374** Age-dependent life table of *Myzus persicae* (Sulz.) (Hemiptera: Aphididae) from five different pepper varieties, *Capsicum annuum*, reared under laboratory conditions. **Mehmet Özgökçe** (msozgokce@gmail.com), Hilmi Kara, and Muhbet Oran, Univ. of Yuzuncu Yil, Van, Turkey

Symposium: From Genes to Grains: The Current Sugarcane Aphid Outbreak on Sorghum in the Southern U.S.

Room W224 B (Convention Center)

**Moderators and Organizers:** Xinzhi Ni¹, Karen Harris-Shultz¹, and Phillip Wadl², ¹USDA - ARS, Tifton, GA, ²USDA - ARS, Charleston, SC

1:30 **3375** Genome sequencing of the sugarcane aphid for microsatellite development and endosymbiont detection. **Phillip Wadl** (phillip.wadl@ars.usda.gov)¹, Karen Harris-Shultz², Xinwang Wang³, and Xinzhi Ni², ¹USDA - ARS, Charleston, SC, ²USDA - ARS, Tifton, GA, ³USDA - ARS, College Station, TX

1:45 **3376** Genetic diversity in *Melanaphis sacchari* and host-plant resistance in sugarcane. **Samuel Nibouche** (samuel.nibouche@cirad.fr), Hélène Delatte, Laurent Costet, and Bernard Reynaud, CIRAD, Saint-Pierre, France

2:00 **3377** Population genetics of the sugarcane aphid, *Melanaphis sacchari* (Zehntner), in the continental US. **Jocelyn Holt** (holtjocelyn@tamu.edu)¹, J. Scott Armstrong², Kyle Harrison¹, and Raul Medina¹, ¹Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX, ²USDA - ARS, Stillwater, OK

2:15 **3378** Endosymbionts of *Melanaphis sacchari*. **Adrian Pekarcik** (ajp0042@tigermail.auburn.edu)¹, Scott Santos¹, David Kerns², Gregg Nuessly³, and Alana Jacobson¹, ¹Auburn Univ., Auburn, AL, ²Louisiana State Univ. AgCenter, Winnsboro, LA, ³Univ. of Florida, Belle Glade, FL

2:30 **3379** Sugarcane aphid resistance in sorghum and its potential bioenergy grass hosts. **Karen Harris-Shultz** (karen.harris@ars.usda.gov), Xinzhi Ni, Joseph Knoll, Caitlin Cato, and William F. Anderson, USDA - ARS, Tifton, GA

2:45 **3380** Host plant defense against sugarcane aphid in sorghum and genetic mechanism of resistance to the new pest. **Yinghua Huang** (yinghua.huang@ars.usda.gov), USDA - ARS, Stillwater, OK

3:00 **BREAK**

3:15 **3381** Breeding for tolerance to the sugarcane aphid in sorghum. **Lloyd Mbulwe** (shinakalupupa@tamu.edu)¹, Gary C. Peterson², William Rooney¹, and John Armstrong³, ¹Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX, ²Texas A&M AgriLife Research, Lubbock, TX, ³USDA - ARS, Stillwater, OK

3:30 **3382** Towards efficient multi-scale methods for monitoring sugarcane aphid infestations in sorghum. **Norman Elliott** (norman.elliott@ars.usda.gov)¹, Tom Royer², Michael Brewer³, Nicholas Seiter⁴, Kris Giles², Allen Knutson⁵, Brian McCormack⁶, and Georges Backoulou², ¹USDA - ARS, Stillwater, OK, ²Oklahoma State Univ., Stillwater, OK, ³Texas A&M AgriLife Research, Corpus Christi, TX, ⁴Univ. of Arkansas, Monticello, AR, ⁵Texas A&M Univ., Dallas, TX, ⁶Kansas State Univ., Manhattan, KS

3:45 **3383** Season-long management of sugarcane aphid, *Melanaphis sacchari*, on sorghum in the state of Georgia. Phillip M. Roberts¹ and **G. David Buntin** (gbuntin@uga.edu)², ¹Univ. of Georgia, Tifton, GA, ²Univ. of Georgia, Griffin, GA

4:00 **3384** Strategies of sugarcane aphid management in sweet and grain sorghum. **Joseph Knoll** (joe.knoll@ars.usda.gov)¹, Xinzhi Ni¹, G. David Buntin², William F. Anderson¹, and Karen Harris-Shultz¹, ¹USDA - ARS, Tifton, GA, ²Univ. of Georgia, Griffin, GA

4:15 **3385** Developing integrated pest management practices for the sugarcane aphid in Arkansas. **Nicholas Seiter** (nseiter@uaex.edu), Univ. of Arkansas, Monticello, AR

4:30 **3386** Management of sugarcane aphid in Mississippi grain sorghum: What we've learned. **Angus Catchot** (acatchot@entomology.msstate.edu)¹, Jeff Gore², Don Cook², and Brittany Lipsey¹, ¹Mississippi State Univ., Mississippi State, MS, ²Mississippi State Univ., Stoneville, MS

4:45 **3387** Impacts of host, temperature, and fertilization on sugarcane aphid population dynamics. **Blake E. Wilson** (bwils26@lsu.edu)¹, Monique de Souza², Jeffrey Davis², Julien M. Beuzelin², Francis Reay-Jones³, Thomas E. Reagan², Lloyd T. Wilson⁴, and Yubin Yang⁴, ¹Louisiana State Univ. AgCenter, Baton Rouge, LA, ²Louisiana State Univ., Baton Rouge, LA, ³Clemson Univ., Florence, SC, ⁴Texas A&M AgriLife Research, Beaumont, TX

5:00 **3388** Variation in sorghum hybrid sensitivity and natural enemy activity provides opportunities for integrated management of sugarcane aphid. **Michael Brewer** (mjbrewer@ag.tamu.edu)¹, Erin Maxson², John Gordy³, Robert Bowling⁴, and James Woolley², ¹Texas A&M AgriLife Research, Corpus Christi, TX, ²Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX, ³Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service, Rosenberg, TX, ⁴Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service, Corpus Christi, TX

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# Symposium: Impact of Native and Invasive Alien True Bug Species in Agro-Ecosystems: Range Expansion, Pest Status, and Control Tactics

Chapin Theater (Convention Center)

**Moderators and Organizers:** Antonino Cusumano¹ and Raul Medina², ¹Wageningen Univ. and Research Centre, Wageningen, Netherlands, ²Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX

1:30 **3389** Chemical ecology of egg parasitoids associated with heteropterans: Implication for crop protection. **Stefano Colazza** (stefano.colazza@unipa.it), Univ. of Palermo, Palermo, Italy

1:45 **3390** Exploitation of insect and plant semiochemicals as tools for real-time control and detection of pests in crops. **Maria Blassioli-Moraes** (carolina.blassioli@embrapa.br), Mirian Michereff, Miguel Borges, and R. A. Laumann, Embrapa Genetic Resources and Biotechnology, Brasilia, Brazil

2:00 **3391** Pheromones of Pentatomoidea: New discoveries for application to pest management. **Donald C. Weber** (don.weber@ars.usda.gov)¹, Ashot Khrimian¹, Maria Blassioli-Moraes², and Jocelyn G. Millar³, ¹USDA - ARS, Beltsville, MD, ²Embrapa Genetic Resources and Biotechnology, Brasilia, Brazil, ³Univ. of California, Riverside, CA

2:15 **3392** Asymmetry in seasonal response of female *Riptortus pedestris* to synthetic pheromone. **Un Taek Lim** (utlim@andong.ac.kr) and M. Rahman, Andong National Univ., Andong, South Korea

2:30 **3393** An improved method for cuticular hydrocarbon profiling in *Murgantia histrionica* and other stink bugs. Michael Riedel¹, Michael Rostas (michael.rostas@lincoln.ac.nz)², Antonino Cusumano³, Ezio Peri⁴, and Stefano Colazza⁴, ¹Julius von Sachs Institute for Biological Sciences, Würzburg, Germany, ²Lincoln Univ., Canterbury, New Zealand, ³Wageningen Univ. and Research Centre, Wageningen, Netherlands, ⁴Univ. of Palermo, Palermo, Italy

2:45 **3394** Understanding the feeding behavior of some heteropteran crop pests. **Paula Mitchell** (mitchellp@winthrop.edu)¹ and Francesca Stubbins², ¹Winthrop Univ., Rock Hill, SC, ²Clemson Univ., Blackville, SC

3:00 **BREAK**

3:15 **3395** Understanding local dispersal to improve pest management. **Michael Toews** (mtoews@uga.edu)¹, Ta-i Huang², Ishakh Pulakkatu-Thodi³, and Rajagopalbabu Srinivasan¹, ¹Univ. of Georgia, Tifton, GA, ²Dow AgroSciences, Taipei, Taiwan, ³Univ. of Hawai'i, Honolulu, HI

3:30 **3396** Multifunctional strategies for management of stink bugs based on the ecology and biology of these pests and their natural enemies. **Glynn Tillman** (glynn.tillman@ars.usda.gov), USDA - ARS, Tifton, GA

3:45 **3397** Pest management impact of the brown marmorated stink bug, *Halyomorpha halys*, on field and vegetable crops in the Mid-Atlantic US. **Thomas P. Kuhar** (tkuhar@vt.edu), Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State Univ., Blacksburg, VA

4:00 **3398** When generalists specialize: Patterns of host utilization by *Halyomorpha halys* in the invaded range. **Michael J. Raupp** (mraupp@umd.edu)¹, Holly Martinson¹, P. Dilip Venugopal², Erik J. Bergmann¹, and Paula M. Shrewsbury¹, ¹Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD, ²U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, DC

4:15 **3399** Impact of *Megacopta cribraria* (Hemiptera: Plataspidae) in the soybean agro-ecosystem. **Joni L. Blount** (jonilb@uga.edu)¹, G. David Buntin¹, Phillip M. Roberts², Michael Toews², and Wayne Gardner¹, ¹Univ. of Georgia, Griffin, GA, ²Univ. of Georgia, Tifton, GA

4:30 **3400** Integrating multiple strategies for *Lygus lineolaris* management in cotton. **Fred Musser** (fm61@msstate.edu)¹, Scott Graham², Angus Catchot¹, Jeff Gore³, and Don Cook³, ¹Mississippi State Univ., Mississippi State, MS, ²Univ. of Tennessee, Jackson, TN, ³Mississippi State Univ., Stoneville, MS

4:45 **3401** Invasion, predictive distribution, and management of *Bagrada hilaris* in North America. **Thomas M. Perring** (thomas.perring@ucr.edu)¹, John Palumbo², Monica Papes³, and Darcy Reed¹, ¹Univ. of California, Riverside, CA, ²Univ. of Arizona, Yuma, AZ, ³Oklahoma State Univ., Stillwater, OK

5:00 **3402** Redbanded stink bug: Range expansion, pest status, and control tactics in US. **Suhas Vyavhare** (suhas.7@tamu.edu), Texas A&M AgriLife Research, Beaumont, TX

5:15 **3403** Towards identification of cotton boll rot genes utilized by stink bug-transmitted bacterial phytopathogens using a genomics approach. **Enrique Medrano** (gino.medrano@ars.usda.gov) and Alois Bell, USDA - ARS, College Station, TX

# Symposium: Innovative Application Technologies for Pest Management

Room W331B (Convention Center)

**Moderators and Organizers:** Anil Menon, Kenneth Brown, and Rebecca Willis, BASF, Research Triangle Park, NC

1:30 **3404** Assessment of field efficacy of an intelligent variable rate sprayer in Oregon nursery production. **Robin Rosetta** (robin.rosetta@oregonstate.edu)¹, Heping Zhu², Derek Wells¹, and Adam Clark², ¹Oregon State Univ., Aurora, OR, ²USDA - ARS, Wooster, OH

1:45 **3405** A new paradigm in termiticide application technology. **Kyle Jordan** (kyle.jordan@basf.com), BASF, Research Triangle Park, NC

2:00 **3406** Advances in closed-handling systems for the safe application of agro-chemicals. **Ram Ramalingam** (ram.ramalingam@syngenta.com), Syngenta, Greensboro, NC

2:15 **3407** Precision pest management — next-generation pest management using field sensors and Cloud-based computing platforms. **Johnny Park** (johnny.park@spensatech.com) and Chad Aeschliman, Spensa Technologies, Inc., West Lafayette, IN

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2:30 **3408** AgMusa: A new collaborative technology to optimize seedling health, transplanting and protection of sugarcane. **Walter Dias** (walter-henrique.dias@basf.com), BASF, Research Triangle Park, NC

2:45 **3409** Drift reduction technologies in 3-D crops using nozzles and formulation technology. **Jerome Schleier** (jjschleieriii@dow.com), Dow AgroSciences, Indianapolis, IN

3:00 BREAK

3:15 **3410** High-efficiency, targeted application technology for tephritid management. **H. Alejandro Arevalo** (alejandro.arevalo@basf.com), Siddharth Tiwari, and Richard Tyler, BASF, Research Triangle Park, NC

3:30 **3411** Assessing efficacy, exposure, and risk for pesticide drift reduction technologies. **Collin Preftakes** (cjpreftakes@gmail.com), Montana State Univ., Bozeman, MT

3:45 **3412** Interceptor G2: A new paradigm in public health. **James W. Austin** (james.austin@basf.com), BASF, Research Triangle Park, NC

3:15 **3419** Potential dispersion and establishment of red palm mite in Brazil using MaxEnt model. **Elisangela Fidelis de Morais** (elisangela.morais@embrapa.br)¹ and George Amaro², ¹Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation, Boa Vista, Brazil, ²Embrapa Roraima, Boa Vista, Brazil

3:30 **3420** Global prediction of invasion risk zones for the western corn rootworm *Diabrotica virgifera virgifera*: Integrating distribution models and fitness components. **Pedro Aragon** (paragon@mncn.csic.es)¹, Andrés Baselga², and Jorge Lobo¹, ¹National Museum of Natural Sciences, Madrid, Spain, ²Univ. of Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela, Spain

3:45 **3421** Accounting for climate-change-related uncertainty in projected suitable ranges of invasive species. **Frank Koch** (fhkoch@fs.fed.us)¹, Denys Yemshanov², Robert Venette³, and Kevin M. Potter⁴, ¹USDA - Forest Service, Research Triangle Park, NC, ²Natural Resources Canada, Sault Ste. Marie, ON, Canada, ³USDA - Forest Service, St. Paul, MN, ⁴North Carolina State Univ., Research Triangle Park, NC

4:00 **3422** Potential distribution and cost estimation of the damage caused by *Cryptotermes brevis* (Isoptera: Kalotermitidae) in the Azores. **Orlando Guerreiro** (orlandogue@gmail.com)¹, Pedro Cardoso²,³, João Ferreira⁴, Maria Ferreira², and Paulo Borges², ¹Univ. of the Azores, Azores, Portugal, ²Centre for Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Changes, Açores, Portugal, ³Univ. of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland, ⁴Univ. of Porto, Porto, Portugal

4:15 **3423** Modeling the spread of invasive species via human transport networks. **Dean Paini** (dean.paini@csiro.au)¹ and Paul Mwebaze², ¹CSIRO, Canberra, Australia, ²CSIRO, Brisbane, Australia

4:30 Panel Discussion

Symposium: Approaches for Modeling Insect Pest Potential Distribution and Spread

Room W331 C (Convention Center)

**Moderators and Organizers:** Sunil Kumar¹ and Lisa Neven², ¹Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO, ²USDA - ARS, Wapato, WA

1:30 **3413** Uncovering human-mediated pathways of invasive species introductions: New approaches for modeling spread and cost-effective surveillance. **Denys Yemshanov** (denys.yemshanov@nrcan-rncan.gc.ca)¹, Frank Koch², Robert G. Haight³, Robert Venette³, Bo Lu¹, Ronald Fournier¹, and Jean Turgeon¹, ¹Natural Resources Canada, Sault Ste. Marie, ON, Canada, ²USDA - Forest Service, Research Triangle Park, NC, ³USDA - Forest Service, St. Paul, MN

1:45 **3414** Modeling the spread of the pine processionary moth in relation with climate change and human activities. **Christelle Robinet** (christelle.robinet@orleans.inra.fr), Jérôme Rousselet, Mathieu Laparie, and Alain Roques, INRA, Orléans, France

2:00 **3415** Mapping global potential risk of establishment of apple maggot (*Rhagoletis pomonella*) using CLIMEX and MaxEnt niche models. **Sunil Kumar** (sunil.kumar@colostate.edu)¹, Wee Yee², and Lisa Neven², ¹Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO, ²USDA - ARS, Wapato, WA

2:15 **3416** Presentation withdrawn

2:30 **3417** Assessing damage severity of plant hopper and leaf folder in rice using hyperspectral remote sensing and multinomial logistic regression models. **Mathyam Prabhakar** (mprabhakar@crida.in)¹, Yenumula Prasad¹, Chintalapati Padmavathi², V. Laxmi², G. Katti², M. Thirupathi¹, G. Rao¹, and V. Sailaja¹, ¹Central Research Institute for Dryland Agriculture, Hyderabad, India, ²Directorate of Rice Research, Hyderabad, India

2:45 **3418** Presentation withdrawn

3:00 BREAK

Symposium: International Perspectives
Contribute Towards a Clearer Understanding
of *Drosophila suzukii*

Room W231 A (Convention Center)

**Moderators and Organizers:** Vaughn Walton¹, Gianfranco Anfora², Nik G. Wiman³, and Ashfaq Sial⁴, ¹Oregon State Univ., Corvallis, OR, ²Edmund Mach Foundation Foundation, San Michele all'Adige, Italy, ³Oregon State Univ., Aurora, OR, ⁴Univ. of Georgia, Athens, GA

1:30 **3424** Overwintering and seasonal dynamics of spotted wing drosophila, *D. suzukii*, in the Okanagan-Columbia River basins, 2010-2014. **Howard Thistlewood** (howard.thistlewood@agr.gc.ca)¹, Paramjit Gill², Elizabeth Beers³, Peter Shearer⁴, Douglas Walsh⁵, Brigitte Rozema¹, Susanna Acheampong¹, Steve Castagnoli⁴, Peter Smytheman³, Alix Whitener³, and Wee Yee⁶, ¹Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Summerland, BC, Canada, ²The Univ. of British Columbia, Kelowna, BC, Canada, ³Washington State Univ., Wenatchee, WA, ⁴Oregon State Univ., Hood River, OR, ⁵Washington State Univ., Pullman, WA, ⁶USDA - ARS, Wapato, WA

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1:45 **3425** Detangling behavioral responses to semiochemicals in the spotted wing drosophila, *Drosophila suzukii*. *Paul Becher* (paul.becher@slu.se)¹, Boyd Mori¹, Santosh Revadi¹, Teun Dekker¹, Elizabeth H. Beers², and Peter Witzgall¹, ¹Swedish Univ. of Agricultural Sciences, Alnarp, Sweden, ²Washington State Univ., Wenatchee, WA

2:00 **3426** Can multiple tactics stop *Drosophila suzukii* L. D. Stringer (lloyd stringer@plantandfood.co.nz)¹, Jacqueline Beggs², Rory Maclellan³, John Kean⁴, and D. Max Suckling¹, ¹The New Zealand Institute for Plant and Food Research, Ltd., Christchurch, New Zealand, ²Univ. of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand, ³Ministry for Primary Industries, Wellington, New Zealand, ⁴Ag Research, Christchurch, New Zealand

2:15 **3427** *Drosophila suzukii* physiology and yeast associations. **Kelly Hamby** (kahamby@umd.edu), Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD

2:30 **3428** Seasonal phenology and research approaches for managing spotted wing drosophila in Central Europe. Felix Briem¹, Astrid Eben (astrid.eben@julius-kuehn.de)¹, Corinna Wallinger², Michael Traugott², Jürgen Gross¹, and Heidrun Vogt¹, ¹Julius Kühn Institute, Dossenheim, Germany, ²Univ. of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria

2:45 **3429** *Drosophila suzukii* impact on blueberry in Japan and pathogens for management. **Madoka Nakai** (madoka@cc.tuat.ac.jp), Tokyo Univ. of Agriculture and Technology, Tokyo, Japan

3:00 **BREAK**

3:15 **3430** *Drosophila suzukii* and its potential impact to wine grapes in Italy and Oregon. **Claudio Ioriatti** (claudio.ioriatti@fmach.it)¹, Rupinder Guzzon², Gianfranco Anfora², and Vaughn Walton³, ¹Centre for Technology Transfer, San Michele all'Adige, Italy, ²Edmund Mach Foundation, San Michele all'Adige, Italy, ³Oregon State Univ., Corvallis, OR

3:30 **3431** A synthesis of SWD host susceptibility: To oviposit or not. **Jana C. Lee** (jana.lee@ars.usda.gov), USDA - ARS, Corvallis, OR

3:45 **3432** *Drosophila suzukii* resistance against often used pesticides. **Ashfaq Sial** (ashsial@uga.edu)¹, Ruchir Mishra¹, Joanna Chiu², and Michael Adang¹, ¹Univ. of Georgia, Athens, GA, ²Univ. of California, Davis, CA

4:00 **3433** *Drosophila suzukii* alternate host and spatial distribution and improvement of pesticide efficacy. **Gregory M. Loeb** (gme1@cornell.edu)¹ and Richard Cowles², ¹Cornell Univ., Geneva, NY, ²Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station, Windsor, CT

4:15 **3434** Can we use integrated pest management to control *Drosophila suzukii*? Current UK practice. Jerry Cross¹, **Michelle Fountain** (michelle.fountain@emr.ac.uk)¹, David Buss¹, Andreja Dobrovin-Pennington¹, Alison Dolan², Dudley I. Farman³, David R. Hall³, Adrian Harris¹, Ralph Noble¹, and Bethan Shaw¹, ¹East Malling Research, Kent, United Kingdom, ²The James Hutton Institute, Invergowrie, United Kingdom, ³Univ. of Greenwich, Kent, United Kingdom

4:30 **3435** *Drosophila suzukii* in South Korea. **Hoonbok Yi** (yih@swu.ac.kr), Seoul Women's Univ., Seoul, South Korea

Symposium: Arthropod Saliva: From Basic
Science to Practical Applications

Room W331D (Convention Center)

**Moderators and Organizers:** Eric Calvo and Jesus G. Valenzuela, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Rockville, MD

1:30 **3436** Structural and functional diversity in genes encoding putative effectors in the gall midge *Mayetiola destructor*. **Ming-Shun Chen** (ming-shun.chen@ars.usda.gov)¹, Jeffrey J. Stuart², Xuming Liu³, and R. Jeff Whitworth³, ¹USDA - ARS, Manhattan, KS, ²Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN, ³Kansas State Univ., Manhattan, KS

1:45 **3437** A novel high molecular weight salivary protein from *Aedes aegypti* selectively kills lymphocytes by apoptosis. **Anderson Sa-Nunes** (sanunes@usp.br)¹, Bruna Bizzarro¹, Eliane Esteves¹, Jose Ramirez², Margareth Capurro¹, Jose Ribeiro², Andrea Fogaca¹, and Eric Calvo², ¹Univ. of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil, ²National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Rockville, MD

2:00 **3438** Role of skin immune cells and mosquito saliva on the host susceptibility to Dengue virus. **Dorothee Misse** (dorothee.misse@ird.fr), Research Institute for Development, Montpellier, France

2:15 **3439** Functional analyses of aphid saliva proteins that modulate plant processes. **Saskia A. Hogenhout** (saskia.hogenhout@jic.ac.uk), Claire Drurey, Thomas Vincent, Friederike Bernsdorff, Yazhou Chen, David Prince, Christine Wilson, and Sam Mugford, The John Innes Centre, Norwich, United Kingdom

2:30 **3440** Protein structure and the mechanism of salivary components from blood feeding arthropods. **John Andersen** (john.andersen@nih.gov), National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Bethesda, MD

2:45 **3441** Sand fly salivary proteins as markers of host exposure to leishmaniasis vectors. **Petr Volf** (volf@cesnet.cz), Tatiana Kostalova, Tereza Lestinova, Michal Sima, and Petra Sumova, Charles Univ., Prague, Czech Republic

3:00 **BREAK**

3:15 **3442** The salivary repertoires of anopheline mosquitoes: Functions, evolution, and potential applications. **Bruno Arca** (bruno.arca@uniroma1.it)¹, Claudio Struchiner², Fabrizio Lombardo¹, and Jose Ribeiro³, ¹Sapienza Univ., Rome, Italy, ²Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, ³National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Rockville, MD

3:30 **3443** Host-vector-pathogen interaction studies provide new data to block transmission of arboviral diseases. **Valerie Choumet** (valerie.choumet@pasteur.fr)¹, Alain Le Coupanec¹, Vincent Legros¹, and Dorothee Misse², ¹Pasteur Institute, Paris, France, ²Research Institute for Development, Montpellier, France

3:45 **3444** Modulators of blood feeding success in mosquitoes. **Eric Calvo** (ecalvo@niaid.nih.gov), National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Rockville, MD

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## Symposium: Mosquito Host Detection

### Room W330 C (Convention Center)

**Moderator and Organizer:** Matthew DeGennaro, Florida
International Univ., Miami, FL

1:30 **3445** Genetic analysis of ionotropic receptor function in *Aedes aegypti*. Matthew DeGennaro (mdegenna@fiu.edu), Florida International Univ., Miami, FL

1:45 **3446** Chemicals that produce anosmia in mosquitoes. Ulrich R. Bernier (uli.bernier@ars.usda.gov), USDA - ARS, Gainesville, FL

2:00 **3447** Chemosensory basis of malaria transmission. Conor McMeniman (cmcmenil@jhu.edu), Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD

2:15 **3448** Myriad of phytochemicals: Which ones are informative to plant-host-seeking mosquitoes and to us? Woodbridge Foster (foster.13@osu.edu)¹ and Babak Ebrahimi², ¹The Ohio State Univ., Columbus, OH, ²Florida International Univ., Miami, FL

2:45 **3449** In-flight integration of dynamic visual stimuli in *Aedes aegypti*. Jamie Theobald (theobald@fiu.edu), Michael Perez, and Matthew DeGennaro, Florida International Univ., Miami, FL

### 3:00 BREAK

3:15 **3450** Genetic and neural analysis of preference for human scent in evolutionarily divergent forms of the dengue fever mosquito *Aedes aegypti*. Carolyn McBride (csm7@princeton.edu), Princeton Univ., Princeton, NJ

3:30 **3451** When the bite is right: *Aedes aegypti* feeding patterns in nature. Laura Harrington (lch27@cornell.edu), Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY

3:45 **3452** Terabytes and mosquito bites: The genomics and molecular biology of olfaction in disease vector mosquitoes. Laurence J. Zwiebel (l.zwiebel@vanderbilt.edu), Vanderbilt Univ., Nashville, TN

## Symposium: Ecology and Systematics of Elateridae (Coleoptera)

### Room W224 E (Convention Center)

**Moderators and Organizers:** Frank Etzler¹ and Hume Douglas², ¹Montana State Univ., Bozeman, MT, ²Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Ottawa, ON, Canada

1:30 **3453** Elateridae of the southeastern United States. Blaine Mathison (bmathison1972@gmail.com), Georgia Museum of Natural History, Atlanta, GA

1:45 **3454** Presentation withdrawn

2:00 **3455** Matrix key to the elaterid genera of Canada and USA. Hume Douglas (humedgl@gmail.com), Canadian Food Inspection Agency, Ottawa, ON, Canada

2:15 **3456** On the importance of Gondwanan coleopteran taxa, particularly the Elateridae, and their importance in Chilean biodiversity conservation. Elizabeth T. Arias (etarias.bohart@berkeley.edu)¹ and Mario Elgueta², ¹Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA, ²Museum of Natural History, Santiago, Chile

2:30 **3457** Presentation withdrawn

2:45 **3458** Revisiting the neoteny in Lycidae: A preliminary study of case in Leptolycini (Lycidae: Lycinae). Vinicius Ferreira (vinicius.sfb@gmail.com), Montana State Univ., Bozeman, MT

### 3:00 BREAK

3:15 **3459** Systematics of the genus *Hemicrepidius* (Coleoptera: Elateridae) of the World. Frank Etzler (etzler.frank@gmail.com), Montana State Univ., Bozeman, MT

3:30 **3460** Systematics of the genus *Scaptolenus* (Elateridae: Cebrioninae). Erick Omar Martinez Luque (erickmtzluque@gmail.com), Autonomous Univ. of Querétaro, Santiago de Querétaro, Mexico

3:45 **3461** Development of microsatellite markers using next-generation sequence data for assessing the spatio-temporal distribution of wireworms. Carly Benefer (carly.benefer@plymouth.ac.uk), Plymouth Univ., Plymouth, United Kingdom

4:00 **3462** Wireworms of economic importance in Canada: Identification, distribution, and behaviour. Wim Van Herk (wim.vanherk@agr.gc.ca), Pacific Agri-Food Research Station, Agassiz, BC, Canada

4:15 **3463** Presentation withdrawn

## Symposium: Evolution of a Megadiverse Group: The Ichneumonoid Wasps (Hymenoptera: Braconidae, Ichneumonidae)

### Room W222 A (Convention Center)

**Moderators and Organizers:** Andrew D. Austin¹ and Jose Fernandez-Triana², ¹Univ. of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia, ²Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Ottawa, ON, Canada

1:30 **3464** Preliminar phylogeny of Metopiinae (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae). Mabel Alvarado (mag2199@hotmail.com), Univ. of Kansas, Lawrence, KS

1:45 **3465** Systematics and biology of the endemic Australian gall-forming mesostoine wasps (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Mesostoinae s.str.). Andrew D. Austin (andy.austin@adelaide.edu.au) and Erin Fagan-Jeffries, Univ. of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia

2:00 **3466** Systematics and the evolution of host use in Ichneumonidae. Andrew Bennett (andrew.bennett@agr.ga.ca), Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Ottawa, ON, Canada

2:15 **3467** Evolution of host range in Aphidiinae (Braconidae) and impacts on diversification. Barbara Sharanowski¹ and Amber Bass (umbassa@myumanitoba.ca)², ¹Univ. of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, ²Univ. of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada

2:30 **3468** Systematics of Microgastrinae wasps (Braconidae): An overview and proposal for worldwide studies. Jose Fernandez-Triana (jose.fernandez@agr.gc.ca), Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Ottawa, ON, Canada

2:45 **3469** Evolution of convergent adaptations in cryptine ichneumonid wasps: A morphospace approach. Bernardo Santos (bsantos@amnh.org), American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY

### 3:00 BREAK
3:15 **3470** Life, the Universe, and *Ophion*: Systematics and diversity of a little-known ichneumonid genus. **Marla Schwarzfeld** (marla.schwarzfeld@unbc.ca)¹ and Felix Sperling², ¹Univ. of Northern British Columbia, Prince George, BC, Canada, ²Univ. of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada

3:30 **3471** Host-parasitoid trophic interactions (Lepidoptera - Ichneumonoidea - Tachinidae) revealed through high-throughput sequencing in eastern North America. **Michael J. Sharkey** (msharkey@uky.edu), Sarah Meierotto, and Eric G. Chapman, Univ. of Kentucky, Lexington, KY

3:45 **3472** New World *Aleiodes/Aleiodini* (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Rogadinae) species-groups concepts revision. **Eduardo Shimbori** (shimbori@gmail.com)¹, Scott R. Shaw², Angelica Penteado-Dias¹, and Alejandro Zaldivar-Riverón³, ¹Federal Univ. of São Carlos, São Carlos, Brazil, ²Univ. of Wyoming, Laramie, WY, ³National Autonomous Univ. of México, Mexico City, Mexico

4:00 **3473** The Euphorinae (Baconidae), a messy group to deal with. **Julia Stigenberg** (julia.stigenberg@nrm.se), Swedish Museum of Natural History, Stockholm, Sweden

4:15 **3474** Presentation withdrawn

4:30 **3475** Phylogeny of Microgastrinae: Taxon sampling in the age of NGS. **James Whitfield** (jwhitfie@life.uiuc.edu), Univ. of Illinois, Champaign, IL

4:45 **3476** Phylogeny and biogeography of two cosmopolitan braconid wasp radiations: The doryctine tribes Rhaconotini and Spathiini. **Alejandro Zaldivar-Riverón** (azaldivar@ib.unam.mx)¹, Sergey Belokobylskij², and Rubi Meza-Lázaro¹, ¹National Autonomous Univ. of México, Mexico City, Mexico, ²Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russia

Symposium: Synthesis in Sternorrhyncha Systematics

Room W222 B (Convention Center)

Moderator and Organizer: Colin Favret, Univ. of Montréal, Montréal, QC, Canada

1:30 **3477** The fossil record of Sternorrhyncha. **Bo Wang** (bowang@nigpas.ac.cn)¹ and Jacek Szwedo², ¹Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, ²Univ. of Gdańsk, Gdańsk, Poland

2:00 **3478** Evolution of the diversity of phytophagous insects: Using aphids as good models. Jing Chen, Yuan Wang, Lin Liu, Rui Chen, Li-Yun Jiang, and **Ge-Xia Qiao** (qiaogx@ioz.ac.cn), Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

2:15 **3479** Leaving angiosperms to diversify on conifers in aphid — a case in Lachninae. **Rui Chen** (chrui11@live.cn)¹, Colin Favret², Jing Chen¹, Li-Yun Jiang¹, and Ge-Xia Qiao¹, ¹Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, ²Univ. of Montréal, Montréal, QC, Canada

2:30 **3480** Ecological specialization and speciation in the pea aphid complex, *Acyrthosiphon pisum* (Hemiptera, Aphididae. **Jean-Christophe Simon** (jean-christophe.simon@rennes.inra.fr)¹, Pierre Nouhaud¹, Julie Jaquiyer¹, and Jean Peccoud², ¹INRA, Le Rheu, France, ²Univ. of Poitiers, Poitiers, France

2:45 **3481** Systematics of the *Bemisia tabaci* species complex. **Tonny Kinene** (tonny.kinene@research.uwa.edu.au)¹, Peter Sseruwagi², James Wainaina¹, Paul de Barro³, Hua-Ling Wang⁴, Xiao-Wei Wang⁴, Shu-Sheng Liu⁴, Christopher Omongo⁵, Habibu Mugerwa⁶, Susan Seal⁶, John Colvin⁶, Donald Kachigamba⁷, Laura Kubatko⁸, and Laura Boykin⁹, ¹Univ. of Western Australia, Perth, Australia, ²Mikocheni Agriculture Research Institute, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, ³CSIRO, Brisbane, Australia, ⁴Zhejiang Univ., Hangzhou, China, ⁵National Agricultural Research Organisation, Kampala, Uganda, ⁶Univ. of Greenwich, Chatham, United Kingdom, ⁷Bvumbwe Research Station, Limbe, Malawi, ⁸The Ohio State Univ., Columbus, OH, ⁹Univ. of Western Australia, Crawley, Australia

SD3482 The systematics of the jumping plant-louse family Phacopteronidae (Hemiptera: Psylloidea). **Igor Malenovsky** (imalenovsky@mzm.cz)¹ and Daniel Burckhardt², ¹Masaryk Univ., Brno, Czech Republic, ²Natural History Museum, Basel, Switzerland

SD3483 Use of four genes in revision of the genus *Essigella* Del Guercio, 1909 (Sternorrhyncha: Aphididae: Lachninae). **Thomas Théry** (thomasjcthery@gmail.com) and Colin Favret, Univ. of Montréal, Montréal, QC, Canada

SD3484 Presentation withdrawn

SD3485 Aphid-endosymbiont interactions: Incongruent evolutionary patterns across taxonomic levels. **Jing Chen** (chenjing@ioz.ac.cn), Lin Liu, Li-Yun Jiang, and Ge-Xia Qiao, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

SD3486 Investigating cryptic speciation among lineages of hemlock adelgids (Hemiptera: Adelgidae). **Hana Aronowitz** (haronowi@uvm.edu)¹, Kimberly F. Wallin¹, Nathan Havill², and Robert Foottit³, ¹Univ. of Vermont, Burlington, VT, ²USDA - Forest Service, Hamden, CT, ³Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Ottawa, ON, Canada

SD3487 Acoustic divergence of closely related psylloid species (Hemiptera: Psylloidea). **Yi-Chang Liao** (b0910528106@hotmail.com) and Man-Miao Yang, National Chung Hsing Univ., Taichung, Taiwan

SD3488 Sound producing behavior of psylloids (Hemiptera: Psylloidea): Functional morphology and mechanisms. **Zong-Ze Wu** (abcde621621@yahoo.com.tw), Yi-Chang Liao, and Man-Miao Yang, National Chung Hsing Univ., Taichung, Taiwan

SD3489 Diversity of scale insects (Hemiptera: Cocco morpha) on oak trees in Israel. **Malkie Spodek** (malkiespodek@gmail.com)¹, Yair Ben-Dov², and Zvi Mendel², ¹The Steinhardt Museum of Natural History, Tel Aviv, Israel, ²Agricultural Research Organisation, Bet-Dagan, Israel

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**SD3490** Digitules, they're not just for scale insects anymore!
**Gary L. Miller** (gary.miller@ars.usda.gov)¹, Mark Metz², Aaron Dickey³, Gary R. Bauchan⁴, and Douglass Miller⁴
¹USDA - ARS, Belstville, MD, ²USDA - ARS, Washington, DC, ³USDA - ARS, Clay Center, NE, ⁴USDA - ARS, Beltsville, MD

**3:00 BREAK AND POSTER SESSION**

**3:15** **3491** Systematics of the invasive Mediterranean species of the *B. tabaci* complex. **Sona Vyskocilova** (s.vyskocilova@greenwich.ac.uk)¹, Susan Seal², Tonny Kinene³, Laura Boykin⁴, and John Colvin², ¹Univ. of Greenwich, Kent, United Kingdom, ²Univ. of Greenwich, Chatham, United Kingdom, ³Univ. of Western Australia, Perth, Australia, ⁴Univ. of Western Australia, Crawley, Australia

**3:30** **3492** Psylloidea phylogenomics: Resolving the psyllid tree. **Diana Percy** (d.percy@nhm.ac.uk)¹, Alex Crampton-Platt¹, Saemundur Sveinsson², David Ouvrard¹, and Daniel Burckhardt³, ¹The Natural History Museum, London, United Kingdom, ²Agricultural Univ. of Iceland, Hvanneyri, Iceland, ³Natural History Museum, Basel, Switzerland

**3:45** **3493** Current state of scale insect systematics, and challenges for the future. **Lyn Cook** (l.cook@uq.edu.au)¹, Penny Gullan², Nate Hardy³, and Alicia Toon¹, ¹Univ. of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia, ²The Australian National Univ., Acton, Australia, ³Auburn Univ., Auburn, AL

**4:00** **3494** Four hundred genera, zero percent 18S sequence divergence: Systematics of the explosive radiation of armored scale insects. **Benjamin Normark** (bnormark@ent.umass.edu), Scott Schneider, Daniel Peterson, and Akiko Okusu, Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA

**4:15** **3495** Sternorrhyncha online taxonomic databases: From information to research. **David Ouvrard** (d.ouvrard@nhm.ac.uk)¹, Colin Favret², Mayrolin Garcia Morales³, and Nate Hardy³, ¹The Natural History Museum, London, United Kingdom, ²Univ. of Montréal, Montréal, QC, Canada, ³Auburn Univ., Auburn, AL

**4:30** **3496** Synthesis in Sternorrhyncha systematics. **Colin Favret** (colinfavret@aphidnet.org)¹, Nate Hardy², Diana Percy³, Christopher H. Dietrich⁴, Hugh M. Robertson⁴, Kimberly K. O. Walden⁴, and Kevin P. Johnson⁴, ¹Univ. of Montréal, Montréal, QC, Canada, ²Auburn Univ., Auburn, AL, ³The Natural History Museum, London, United Kingdom, ⁴Univ. of Illinois, Champaign, IL

**Symposium: Wings and Powered Flight: Core Novelties in Insect Evolution**

**Room W315 A (Convention Center)**

**Moderators and Organizers:** Günther Pass¹ and Robert Dudley², ¹Univ. of Vienna, Vienna, Austria, ²Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA

**1:30** **3497** A century and a half of research on the evolution of insect flight. **David Alexander** (dalexander@ku.edu), Univ. of Kansas, Lawrence, KS

**1:45** **3498** Directed aerial descent in wingless canopy arthropods. **Stephen Yanoviak** (steve.yanoviak@louisville.edu)¹ and Robert Dudley², ¹Univ. of Louisville, Louisville, KY, ²Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA

**2:15** **3499** Reconstructing the flight behaviour of ancient insects from fossil evidence. **Robin Wootton** (r.j.wootton@exeter.ac.uk), Univ. of Exeter, Exeter, United Kingdom

**2:30** **3500** How the wings of insects, birds, bats, and seeds generate similar leading edge vortices to avoid stall. **David Lentink** (dlentink@stanford.edu), Stanford Univ., Palo Alto, CA

**2:45** **3501** Imaging the insect flight motor. **Simon Walker** (simon.walker@zoo.ox.ac.uk), Univ. of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

**3:00 BREAK**

**3:15** **3502** The oldest winged insects (Insecta: Pterygota). **Jakub Prokop** (jprokop@natur.cuni.cz)¹ and Thomas Hörnschemeyer², ¹Charles Univ., Prague, Czech Republic, ²Georg August Univ., Göttingen, Germany

**3:30** **3503** The origin and early diversification of pterygotes. **Arnold Staniczek** (arnold.staniczek@smns-bw.de) and Günter Bechly, State Musuem of Natural History, Stuttgart, Germany

**3:45** **3504** Presentation withdrawn

**4:15** **3505** Insect wing circulatory organs: Prime examples for the origin of evolutionary novelties. **Günther Pass** (guenther.pass@univie.ac.at)¹, Markus Tögel¹, Harald Krenn¹, and Achim Paululat², ¹Univ. of Vienna, Vienna, Austria, ²Univ. of Osnabrück, Osnabrück, Germany

**4:30** **3506** Evo-devo study of insect wing and its serial homologs: From apterygotes to pterygotes. **Takahiro Ohde** (ohdet@nibb.ac.jp) and Teruyuki Niimi, Nagoya Univ., Nagoya, Japan

**4:45** **3507** The molecular mechanisms underlying diversified wing venation among insects. **Osamu Shimii** (osamu.shimii@helsinki.fi)¹ and Mtsatsugu Hatakeyama², ¹Univ. of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland, ²National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences, Tsukuba, Japan

**5:00** **3508** Lobes or gills: Exploring the origin of insect wings from an evo-devo perspective. **Yoshinori Tomoyasu** (tomoyay@miamioh.edu), Miami Univ., Oxford, OH

**Symposium: Cold Physiology in a Warming World**

**Room W231 B (Convention Center)**

**Moderators and Organizers:** Kendra Greenlee¹, Julia Bowsher¹, Joseph P. Rinehart², and George D. Yocum², ¹North Dakota State Univ., Fargo, ND, ²USDA - ARS, Fargo, ND

**1:30** **3509** Is winter coming? How climate warming disrupts the diapause response **Scott Hayward** (s.a.hayward@bham.ac.uk), Univ. of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom

**2:00** **3510** Surviving climate change on the Antarctic peninsula: Cold and desiccation tolerance in the southernmost insect. **Richard E. Lee** (leere@miamioh.edu)¹ and David L. Denlinger², ¹Miami Univ., Oxford, OH, ²The Ohio State Univ., Columbus, OH

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2:15 **3511** Increasing low temperature variability and its implications for arthropod populations. **Steven Chown** (steven.chown@monash.edu), Monash Univ., Victoria, Australia

2:30 **3512** Struggling against entropy: Why the ability to maintain ion and water homeostasis strongly impacts insect chilling tolerance. Heath MacMillan¹ and **Johannes Overgaard** (johannes.overgaard@biology.au.dk)², ¹York Univ., Toronto, ON, Canada, ²Aarhus Univ., Aarhus, Denmark

2:45 **3513** Ice fraction formation during extracellular freezing in the larvae of two drosophilids, *Drosophila melanogaster* and *Chymomyza costata*. **Vladimir Kostal** (kostal@entu.cas.cz), Jan Rozsypal, and Tomas Stetina, Czech Academy of Sciences, České Budějovice, Czech Republic

**3:00 BREAK**

3:15 **3514** Climate, insects, and cryopreservation. **Arun Rajamohan** (arun.rajamohan@ars.usda.gov), USDA - ARS, Fargo, ND

3:30 **3515** A forty-year history of subzero tolerance studies of the beetle *Dendroides canadensis*. **John Duman** (duman.1@nd.edu) and Henry Vu, Univ. of Notre Dame, South Bend, IN

4:00 **3516** Insect eco-immunology in the cold: How will biotic interactions at low temperatures shape success in a warming world? **Laura Ferguson** (lfergus9@uwo.ca) and Brent J. Sinclair, Univ. of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada

4:15 **3517** Applying stress physiology to a pollinator crisis. **Joseph P. Rinehart** (joseph.rinehart@ars.usda.gov), USDA - ARS, Fargo, ND

4:30 **3518** Characterizing cold tolerance of an important pollinator, the alfalfa leafcutting bee, *Megachile rotundata*. **Meghan Bennett** (meghan.bennett@ndsu.edu)¹, Joseph P. Rinehart², George Yocum², and Kendra Greenlee¹, ¹North Dakota State Univ., Fargo, ND, ²USDA - ARS, Fargo, ND

4:45 **3519** Characterization of temperature stress response mechanisms in the alfalfa leafcutting bee, *Megachile rotundata*. **Alex Torson** (alex.s.torson@ndsu.edu), North Dakota State Univ., Fargo, ND

5:00 **3520** Pre-wintering conditions and post-winter performance in a solitary bee. Jordi Bosch¹, **William Kemp** (william.kemp@ars.usda.gov)², Fabio Sgolastra³, Theresa Pitts-Singer⁴, Xavier Arnan⁵,⁶, and Stefano Maini³, ¹Autonomous Univ. of Barcelona, Cerdanyola del Vallès, Spain, ²USDA - ARS, Fargo, ND, ³Univ. of Bologna, Bologna, Italy, ⁴USDA - ARS, Logan, UT, ⁵CREAF, Bellaterra, Spain, ⁶Federal Univ. of Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil

5:15 **3521** Historical changes in thermoregulatory traits of alpine butterflies: Environmental variability limits adaptive responses to recent climate change. **Heidi MacLean** (hmaclean@live.unc.edu), Aarhus Univ., Aarhus, Denmark

**Symposium: Mechanisms Affecting the Efficiency of RNA Interference in Insects**

**Room W331 A (Convention Center)**

**Moderators and Organizers:** Kun Yan Zhu¹, Subba Reddy Palli², and Jianzhen Zhang³, ¹Kansas State Univ., Manhattan, KS, ²Univ. of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, ³Shanxi Univ., Taiyuan, China

1:30 **3522** Core machinery and mechanisms of RNAi in *Diabrotica virgifera virgifera*. **Elane Fishilevich** (efishilevich@dow.com)¹, Ana Vélez², Huarong Li¹, Andrew Bowling¹, Chitvan Khajuria², Haichuan Wang², Kenneth Narval, and Blair Siegfried³, ¹Dow AgroSciences, Indianapolis, IN, ²Univ. of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE, ³Univ. of Florida, Gainesville, FL

1:45 **3523** Insights on the mechanisms of systemic RNAi in the desert locust. **Niels Wynant** (niels.wynant@bio.kuleuven.be), Dulce Cordeiro dos Santos, and Jozef Vanden Broeck, Catholic Univ., Leuven, Belgium

2:00 **3524** Understanding barriers to environmental RNAi in recalcitrant insect species. **Jeremy Kroemer** (jeremy.alan.kroemer@monsanto.com), Monsanto Company, Chesterfield, MO

2:15 **3525** Differential expression of miRNAs in response to dsRNA of various target genes in Noctuidae. **R. Asokan** (asokaniihr@gmail.com)¹, K. B. Rebijith¹, and N. K. Krishna Kumar², ¹Indian Institute of Horticultural Research, Bangalore, India, ²Indian Council of Agricultural Research, New Delhi, India

2:30 **3526** Enhanced RNAi efficiency of silkworm through overexpression of Ago2. **Zhiqian Li** (zqli@sippe.ac.cn)¹,², Baosheng Zeng¹, Lin Ling¹, Jun Xu¹, Lang You¹, Abu Aslam¹, Anjiang Tan¹, and Yongping Huang¹, ¹Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China, ²Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

2:45 **3527** Mechanism of cellular uptake of double-stranded RNA in insects. **Kun Yan Zhu** (kzhu@ksu.edu)¹, Xiao Da¹,², Young Ho Kim¹, and Anastasia Cooper¹, ¹Kansas State Univ., Manhattan, KS, ²China Agricultural Univ., Beijing, China

**3:00 BREAK**

3:15 **3528** Identifying factors that facilitate double-stranded RNA uptake and cell-to-cell transmission in mosquitoes and other dipteran insects. **Steve Whyard** (steve.whyard@umanitoba.ca), Aditi Partridge, Parker Lachance, David Giesbrecht, Cassidy Erdelyan, and David Boguski, Univ. of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada

3:30 **3529** Presentation withdrawn

3:45 **3530** Factors affecting dsRNA uptake and RNAi efficiency in Asian citrus psyllid, *Diaphorina citri* (Hemiptera: Liviidae). **Nabil Killiny** (nabilkilliny@ufl.edu), Univ. of Florida, Lake Alfred, FL

4:00 **3531** Identification of key players in RNA interference. **June-Sun Yoon** (june.yoon@uky.edu), Zhongjun Gong, Jayendra Shukla, and Subba Reddy Palli, Univ. of Kentucky, Lexington, KY

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4:15 **3532** Effect of dsRNase on the efficiency of RNA interference. **Jianzhen Zhang** (zjz@sxu.edu.cn)¹, Huifang Song¹, Enbo Ma¹, and Kun Yan Zhu², ¹Shanxi Univ., Taiyuan, China, ²Kansas State Univ., Manhattan, KS

4:30 **3533** The challenges of RNAi-mediated insect pest control and the search for novel dsRNA delivery methods. **Olivier Christiaens** (olchrist.christiaens@ugent.be)¹, Luc Swevers², and Guy Smagghe¹, ¹Ghent Univ., Ghent, Belgium, ²Institute of Biosciences & Applications, Athens, Greece

Symposium: Invasive Disease Vectors in Urban Environments: Current Challenges and Future Solutions

Room W414 D (Convention Center)

**Moderators and Organizers:** Ary Hoffmann¹, Brendan Trewin², and Jill Ulrich³. ¹The Univ. of Melbourne, Parkville, Australia, ²CSIRO, Brisbane, Australia, ³QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Brisbane, Australia

1:30 **3534** Changing paradigms of dengue control: A view from a dengue control veteran. **Scott Ritchie** (scott.ritchie@jcu.edu.au), James Cook Univ., Cairns, Australia

2:00 **3535** Characteristics of a successful *Wolbachia* release. **Ary Hoffmann** (ary@unimelb.edu.au), The Univ. of Melbourne, Parkville, Australia

2:15 **3536** *Aedes* species: Silent global spread and sustainable control options. **Raman Velayudhan** (velayudhanr@who.int), World Health Organisation, Geneva, Switzerland

2:30 **3537** Spatial surveillance and control strategies for *Aedes albopictus* in California: Is eradication feasible? **Christopher M. Barker** (cmbarker@ucdavis.edu), Univ. of California, Davis, CA

2:45 **3538** Challenges to mitigate dengue outbreaks using traditional vector control strategies: Do we need something else? **Rafael Maciel-de Freitas** (freitas@ioc.fiocruz.br), Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

3:00 BREAK

3:15 **3539** Presentation withdrawn

3:30 **3540** Estimating serotype interaction and temporal variation in dengue transmission using longitudinal serological data. **Robert Reiner** (rcreiner@indiana.edu), Indiana Univ., Bloomington, IN

3:45 **3541** Movement of mosquito vectors between permanent water storage containers: The role of urban landscape features. **Brendan Trewin** (brendan.trewin@csiro.au)¹, ²CSIRO, Brisbane, Australia; QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Brisbane, Australia, ³Univ. of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia

4:00 **3542** Presentation withdrawn

4:15 **3543** The need for self-dispersing mosquito control technologies in urban areas: Update on releases of genetically modified male mosquitoes for suppression of *Ae. aegypti* in the Florida Keys. Michael Doyle and Andrea L. Leal (aleal@keysmosquito.org), Florida Keys Mosquito Control District, Key West, FL

4:30 **3544** Drivers and trends in the future of mosquito-borne disease control. **Jill Ulrich** (jill.ulrich@qimrberghofer.edu.au), QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Brisbane, Australia

4:45 Panel Discussion

Symposium: Invasive Termite Species: Where Are They From, Where Are They Now, and Where Will They Be?

Room W240 D (Convention Center)

**Moderators and Organizers:** Nan-Yao Su¹, Thomas Chouvenc¹, and Hou-Feng Li², ¹Univ. of Florida, Davie, FL, ²National Chung Hsing Univ., Taichung, Taiwan

1:30 **3545** Urbanization and the spread of the western drywood termite. **Michael K. Rust** (michael.rust@ucr.edu), Univ. of California, Riverside, CA

1:45 **3546** The West Indian drywood termite, from enigmatic origin to dominant household pest. **Rudolph H. Scheffrahn** (rhsc@ufl.edu), Univ. of Florida, Ft. Lauderdale, FL

2:00 **3547** New insights into the where and how of invasions of *Reticulitermes flavipes*. **Edward Vargo** (ed.vargo@tamu.edu)¹, Anne-Genevieve Bagnere², Franck Dedeine³, Elfie Perdereau², Simon Dupont², and Mark Janowiecki¹, ¹Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX, ²Univ. of Tours, Tours, France, ³National Center for Scientific Research, Tours, France

2:15 **3548** Invasion of *Coptotermes gestroi* (Wassmann) from Asia. **Shawn Cheng** (shawn@frim.gov.my)¹, Dinaiz Thinagaran², and Seyedeh Zeinab Mohanna³, ¹Forest Research Institute, Malaysia, ²The Univ. of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, ³Univ. Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

2:30 **3549** Naturalization of the Asian subterranean termite in Taiwan. **Hou-Feng Li** (houfeng@nchu.edu.tw)¹, Chun-I Chiu¹, Hsin-Ting Yeh², and Ming-Jer Tsai², ³National Chung Hsing Univ., Taichung, Taiwan, ²National Taiwan Univ., Chu-Shan, Taiwan, ³National Taiwan Univ., Taipei, Taiwan

2:45 **3550** Origin and invasion history of *Coptotermes formosanus* in Japan. Akinori Yamada¹, Kunio Tsunoda², and **Tsuyoshi Yoshimura** (tsuyoshi@rish.kyoto-u.ac.jp)², ¹Nagasaki Univ., Nagasaki, Japan, ²Kyoto Univ., Uji, Japan

3:00 BREAK

3:15 **3551** Conquest of the Formosan subterranean termite. **Claudia Husseneder** (chusseneder@agcenter.lsu.edu)¹ and Chinmay Tikhe², ¹Louisiana State Univ., Baton Rouge, LA, ²Louisiana State Univ. AgCenter, Baton Rouge, LA

3:30 **3552** Formosan and Asian subterranean termite invasions in Hawaii. **J. Kenneth Grace** (kennethg@hawaii.edu), Univ. of Hawaii'i, Honolulu, HI

3:45 **3553** Hybridization between two termite invaders, *Coptotermes formosanus* and *C. gestroi*: Opportunities for gene flow between species. **Thomas Chouvenc** (tomchouv@ufl.edu) and Nan-Yao Su, Univ. of Florida, Davie, FL

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# Graduate Student Oral Competition: Morphology, Systematics, and Phylogeny: Hymenoptera

## Room W232 C (Convention Center)

**Moderators:** Barbara Sharanowski¹ and Jennifer Zaspel², ¹Univ. of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, ²Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN

1:30 **3554** Comparative functional morphology and kinematics of miniature trap-jaw ant (*Strumigenys* spp.) mandible strikes. **Josh Gibson** (jcgibso2@illinois.edu)¹, Doug Booher², and Andrew Suarez¹, ¹Univ. of Illinois, Champaign, IL, ²Univ. of California, Los Angeles, CA

1:45 **3555** Defensive traits exhibit an evolutionary trade-off and drive diversification in ants. **Benjamin Blanchard** (bblanchard@fieldmuseum.org) and Corrie Moreau, The Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, IL

2:00 **3556** Ultraconserved elements as a tool for species delimitation in *Sericomyrmex* fungus-farming ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). **Ana Jesovnik** (jesovnika@si.edu)¹ and Ted Schultz², ¹Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD, ²Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History, Washington, DC

2:15 **3557** Taxonomic study of the Japanese subfamilies of Calosotinae and Neanastatinae (Hymenoptera, Eupelmidae). **Taisuke Kawano** (pseudoidatenankafu@gmail.com) and Toshiharu Mita, Kyushu Univ., Fukuoka, Japan

2:30 **3558** Revision of Nearctic *Dendrocerus* (Hymenoptera, Megaspilidae): An integrative taxonomic approach. **Kyle Burks** (kyleburks@gmail.com), Pennsylvania State Univ., University Park, PA

2:45 **3559** The magnificent Megaspilidae: *Conostigmus* spp. (Hymenoptera: Megaspilidae) of the Nearctic. **Carolyn Trietsch** (carolyntrietsch@gmail.com), István Mikó, and Andrew Deans, Pennsylvania State Univ., University Park, PA

3:00 **BREAK**

3:15 **3560** Evolution of communication: a comparison across behaviourally diverse halictid bees. **Bernadette Wittwer** (wittwerb@unimelb.edu.au)¹, Abraham Hefetz², Mark Elgar¹, Naomi E. Pierce³, and Sarah Kocher⁴, ¹The Univ. of Melbourne, Parkville, Australia, ²Tel Aviv Univ., Tel Aviv, Israel, ³Harvard Univ., Cambridge, MA, ⁴Princeton Univ., Princeton, NJ

3:30 **3561** Presentation withdrawn

3:45 **3562** Systematics of mid-Mesozoic Apocrita (Hymenoptera) from northeastern China. **Longfeng Li** (fenger4499@163.com)¹, Chungkun Shih¹,², and Dong Ren¹, ¹Capital Normal Univ., Beijing, China, ²Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History, Washington, DC

4:00 **3563** Evolution and phylogeny of the parasitoid subfamily Sclesioninae (Hymenoptera: Platygastroidea). **Huayan Chen** (huayanc@gmail.com)¹, Norman Johnson¹, and Andrew Austin², ¹The Ohio State Univ., Columbus, OH, ²The Univ. of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia

4:15 **3564** Phylogenetic relationships among species in *Aphelinus* (Hymenoptera: Aphelinidae). **Xanthe Shirley** (xanthe23@tamu.edu)¹, Keith R. Hopper², Kristen Kuhn², and James Woolley¹, ¹Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX, ²USDA - ARS, Newark, DE

4:30 **3565** Color variation does matter when delimitating species: Lessons learned from Tribe Cirrospilini (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae). **Ryan Perry** (rperr003@ucr.edu), Univ. of California, Riverside, CA

4:45 **3566** The Wing Interference Patterns (WIPs) of *Parapanteles* (Braconidae: Microgastrinae) wasps: A powerful and accessible tool for species-level identification of small winged insects. **Kyle Parks** (kparks4@illinois.edu), James Whitfield, and Shuyang Jin, Univ. of Illinois, Champaign, IL

5:00 **3567** Revision and phylogeny of *Lytopylus* (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Agathidinae). **Ilgoo Kang** (ilgoo.kang@uky.edu) and Michael J. Sharkey, Univ. of Kentucky, Lexington, KY

5:15 **3568** Australian microgastrine parasitoid wasps: Systematics meets citizen science. **Erinn Fagan-Jeffries** (erinn.fagan-jeffries@adelaide.edu.au)¹, Andrew Austin¹, and Steven Cooper¹,², ¹The Univ. of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia, ²South Australian Museum, Adelaide, Australia

# Contributed Papers: Apidology, Sericulture, and Social Insects: Behavior

## Room W225 A (Convention Center)

**Moderators:** Sandra Rehan¹ and Lilia I. de Guzman², ¹Univ. of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, ²USDA - ARS, Baton Rouge, LA

1:30 **3569** Comparing the flight activities of two stocks of honey bees (*Apis mellifera*) using radio-frequency identification (RFID) technology. **Lilia I. de Guzman** (lilia.deguzman@ars.usda.gov), Amanda M. Frake, and Michael Simone-Finstrom, USDA - ARS, Baton Rouge, LA

1:45 **3570** Social cues and diet restriction may act through similar mechanisms to affect aggressive behavior in the honey bee (*Apis mellifera*). **Clare Rittschof** (clare.rittschof@uky.edu)¹, Gene E. Robinson², and Christina M. Grozinger³, ¹Univ. of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, ²Univ. of Illinois, Champaign, IL, ³Pennsylvania State Univ., University Park, PA

2:00 **3571** *Vespa soror* in Vietnam: Biological insights based on behavioral observations, and landmark morphometric and microsatellite analyses of workers and gynes. **Gard W. Otis** (gotis@uoguelph.ca)¹, Maggie Bain², Adrien Perrard³, Heather Mattila⁴, and Lien Nguyen⁵, ¹Univ. of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada, ²Univ. of Guelph, Puslinch, ON, Canada, ³American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY, ⁴Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA, ⁵Institute of Ecology and Biological Resources, Hanoi, Vietnam

2:15 **3572** Do kin selection and inter-colony distance mediate helping behavior in weaver ants? **Floria Mora-Kepfer Uy** (floriamk@bio.miami.edu), Univ. of Miami, Coral Gables, FL

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2:30 **3573** Context dependency of bumble bee nectar robbing. Elinor Lichtenberg (elinor@email.arizona.edu)¹, Rebecca E. Irwin², and Judith L. Bronstein¹.
¹Univ. of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, ²North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC

2:45 **3574** Effects of Cry1le toxin on survival, behavior, and midgut bacteria of honey bee, *Apis mellifera*. Pingli Dai (daipingli@caas.cn)¹,², Huiru Jia¹, Qingyun Diao¹, Jie Zhang¹, and James D. Ellis².
¹Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China, ²Univ. of Florida, Gainesville, FL

3:00 **BREAK**

3:15 **3575** Polymorphism in the red imported fire ant *Solenopsis invicta*: A closer look at task performance in digging and foraging behavior. **Jason Carbaugh** (jcarbaugh@tamu.edu) and S. Bradleigh Vinson, Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX

3:30 **3576** A bee on the brink of eusociality: How maternal manipulation leads to the formation of social hierarchies in the subsocial bee *Ceratina calcarata* (Hymenoptera: Apidae). **Sarah P. Lawson** (sarah.lawson@unh.edu) and Sandra Rehan, Univ. of New Hampshire, Durham, NH

3:45 **3577** The benefits of specialization in groups: Task switching, managing risk, and individual efficiency. **Anna Dornhaus** (dornhaus@email.arizona.edu), Univ. of Arizona, Tucson, AZ

4:00 **3578** Insulin receptor substrate (IRS) gene knock-down impacts complex behavior and shortens lifespan in honey bee workers. **Kate Ihle** (kateihle@gmail.com), Univ. of Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland

4:15 **3579** Variation in learning performance and its effect on foraging behaviour in the bumble bee *Bombus terrestris*. **Lisa Evans** (lisaEvans@plantandfood.co.nz)¹, Karen Smith², and Nigel E. Raine³.
¹The New Zealand Institute for Plant & Food Research, Ltd., Hamilton, New Zealand, ²Royal Holloway, Univ. of London, Egham, United Kingdom, ³Univ. of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada

4:30 **3580** The queen is not aggressive in the paper wasp *Polistes jokahamae*, but monopolistically or dominantly oviposits. **Hideto Yoshimura** (mieu510601@gmail.com), Jun'ichi Yamada, and Yoshihiro Yamada, Mie Univ., Tsu, Japan

4:45 **3581** Identification of stop signaling in foraging honey bee (*Apis mellifera* L.) colonies. **Parry Kietzman** (pmkietzm@ncsu.edu) and David Tarpy, North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC

5:00 **3582** Snap, trap, and chop: Comparative morphology and kinematics of spring-loaded mandibles in the ant genera *Myrmoteras*, *Mystrium*, and *Odontomachus*. **Fredrick Larabee** (larabeef@si.edu)¹, Adrian A. Smith², and Andrew Suarez³.
¹Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History, Washington, DC, ²North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences, Raleigh, NC, ³Univ. of Illinois, Champaign, IL

Contributed Papers: Apidology, Sericulture, and Social Insects: Ecology

Room W225 B (Convention Center)

**Moderators:** Jinmei Wu¹ and Callum Kingwell², ¹Jiangsu Univ. of Science and Technology, Zhenjiang, China, ²Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY

1:30 **3583** Ecological interactions between honey bees (*Apis mellifera*) and Talh trees (*Acacia gerrardii*) under the extreme hot-dry weather conditions. **Awad Hassan** (awad.univ@gmail.com)¹,² and Abdulaziz Alqarni²,
¹South Valley Univ., Qena, Egypt, ²King Saud Univ., Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

1:45 **3584** Ethological approach to reveal why only *Apis cerana japonica* suffers from the tracheal mite in Japan. **Yoshiko Sakamoto** (sakamoto.yoshiko@nies.go.jp)¹, Taro Maeda², Mikio Yoshiyama³, and Jeffrey Pettis⁴.
¹National Institute for Environmental Studies, Tsukuba, Japan, ²National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences, Tsukuba, Japan, ³National Institute of Livestock and Grassland Science, Tsukuba, Japan, ⁴USDA - ARS, Beltsville, MD

2:00 **3585** The evolutionary origins of social insect queen pheromones: Honesty and dynamics of fertility signal production in a socially polyphenic halictid bee. **Callum Kingwell** (callumkingwell@gmail.com)¹, Beryl Jones², and William Wcislo³.
¹Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY, ²Univ. of Illinois, Champaign, IL, ³Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama City, Panama

2:15 **3586** Role of forage availability and diversity for pollinator health in orchard landscapes. Meghan Milbrath, Rufus Isaacs and **Sarah Scott** (sbscott429@gmail.com), Michigan State Univ., East Lansing, MI

2:30 **3587** Honey bee neurogenomic responses to affiliative and agonistic social interactions. **Hagai Shpigler** (hagaishp@illinois.edu), Michael Saul, Emma Murdoch, Frida Corona, Amy Cash-Ahmed, and Gene E. Robinson, Univ. of Illinois, Champaign, IL

2:45 **3588** A meta-analysis of the role of the western honey bee (*Apis mellifera*) in plant-pollinator interaction networks worldwide. **Keng-Lou Hung** (kenglou.hung@gmail.com)¹, Matthias Albrecht², Jennifer Kingston¹, David Holway¹, and Joshua Kohn¹.
¹Univ. of California, La Jolla, CA, ²Agroscope, Zürich, Switzerland

3:00 **BREAK**

3:15 **3589** Chemical analysis of the Brazilian pepper, clover, and citrus honeys produced by the honey bee workers, *Apis mellifera* L. (Hymenoptera: Apidae). Othman Zaghloul¹, Nagda El-Sayed¹, **Nadia Hassona** (nadia.hassona@yahoo.com)¹, Mohamed Moursi², and Maher Abou-Lila².
¹Alexandria Univ., Alexandria, Egypt, ²Agriculture Research Station, Alexandria, Egypt

3:30 **3590** Floral trait variation affects bee foraging behaviors in cultivated sunflowers. **Rachel Mallinger** (rachel.mallinger@ars.usda.gov) and Jarrad Prasifka, USDA - ARS, Fargo, ND

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3:45 **3591** Colonies are people too: Personality and fitness in paper wasps (*Polistes fuscatus*). Jennifer M. Jandt (jjandt2@gmail.com)¹, Colby Behrens², Sarah Bengston³, and Amy L. Toth². ¹Univ. of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand, ²Iowa State Univ., Ames, IA, ³Univ. of Rochester, Rochester, NY

4:00 **3592** The impact of different combinations of *Varroa destructor* (Anderson and Trueman) and viruses on honey bee, *Apis mellifera* (L.), colony survival in winter. Rob Currie (rob.currie@umanitoba.ca)¹, Graham Parsons², and Zoe Rempel¹. ¹Univ. of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada, ²Saskatchewan Beekeepers Association, Prince Albert, SK, Canada

4:15 **3593** Mason bees and mud: Does nesting material provide an alternative mode of pesticide exposure in *Osmia lignaria*? Andi Kopit (andikopit16@gmail.com)¹, Theresa Pitts-Singer², and Ricardo Ramirez¹. ¹Utah State Univ., Logan, UT, ²USDA - ARS, Logan, UT

4:30 **3594** Pollinator gardens: An aesthetic approach for conservation of pollinators and enhancing ecosystem services in urban habitats. Timalapur Shivalingaswamy (shivalinga.swamytm@icar.gov.in), Raghavendra Anjanappa, Ankita Gupta, Shylesha Arakalagud, Sushil Jalali, and Abraham Verghese, National Bureau of Agricultural Insect Resources, Bangalore, India

4:45 **3595** Who are the 'lazy' ants? Inter-worker variation gives insight into potential functions of inactivity. Daniel Charbonneau (charbonneau.daniel@gmail.com) and Anna Dornhaus, Univ. of Arizona, Tucson, AZ

5:00 **3596** Sex and asex in termite societies. Toshihisa Yashiro (yashiro1@kais.kyoto-u.ac.jp) and Kenji Matsuura, Kyoto Univ., Kyoto, Japan

2:15 **3600** The roles of autophagy in the interactions of a whitefly with a plant virus it transmits. Xin-Ru Wang (wangxinru002@163.com), Lan-Lan Wang, Shu-Sheng Liu, and Xiao-Wei Wang, Zhejiang Univ., Hangzhou, China

2:30 **3601** Transovarial transmission of a begomovirus by its whitefly vector. Jing Wei, Ya-Zhou He (heyazhou@zju.edu.cn), Qi Guo, Shu-Sheng Liu, and Xiao-Wei Wang, Zhejiang Univ., Hangzhou, China

2:45 **3602** Potyvirus transmission and vector-virus interactions in cucurbit production systems. Kiran Gadhave (krg@uga.edu), Bhabesh Dutta, Jason M. Schmidt, and Rajagopalbabu Srinivasan, Univ. of Georgia, Tifton, GA

3:00 BREAK

3:15 **3603** Mungbean yellow mosaic India virus strains and weed begomoviruses transmitted by *Bemisia tabaci* in central India. Hiroaki Noda (noda@sun.cims.jp)¹, Takashi Wada², Rakesh Kumar Singh³, Parveen Ansari³, Rakesh Marabi⁴, and Niraj Tripathi⁴. ¹Japan International Cooperation Agency, Tsukuba, Japan, ²Japan International Cooperation Agency, Kumamoto, Japan, ³Rajmata Vijayaraje Scindia Krishi Vishwavidyalaya, Indore, India, ⁴Jawaharlal Nehru Agricultural University, Jabalpur, India

3:30 **3604** Factors affecting transmission rates of *Ca. Liberibacter asiaticus* by Asian citrus psyllid (*Diaphorina citri*). David Hall (david.hall@ars.usda.gov)¹, Eldesouky Ammar¹, and Michelle Cilia². ¹USDA - ARS, Ft. Pierce, FL, ²USDA - ARS, Ithaca, NY

3:45 **3605** Host-mediated effect of squash vein yellowing virus on whitefly biology and development. Deepak Shrestha (dshrestha@ufl.edu), Susan Webb, and Heather J. McAuslane, Univ. of Florida, Gainesville, FL

4:00 **3606** Sequential transmission of Potato virus Y strains by *Myzus persicae*. Shaunpius Mondal (sm2536@cornell.edu)¹ and Stewart Gray². ¹Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY, ²USDA - ARS, Ithaca, NY

4:15 **3607** The role of *Lygus* sp. in the epidemiology of BLTVA in potatoes in the Pacific Northwest. Josephine Antwi (josephine.antwi@oregonstate.edu), Silvia Rondon, Kenneth E. Frost, Aymeric Goyer, and Robert Cating, Oregon State Univ., Hermiston, OR

4:30 **3608** Implications of *Candidatus Liberibacter solanacerum* infection for management and ecology of potato psyllids. Sean Prager (sean.prager@ucr.edu), Michael Jones, and John T. Trumble, Univ. of California, Riverside, CA

4:45 **3609** Trunk injection of imidacloprid for the control of Asian citrus psyllid (Hemiptera: Liviidae). Ki Kim (ki@pacificaggroup.com), Florida Ag Research, Thonotosassa, FL

5:00 **3610** Thrips as vectors of an emerging maize disease: A case study of maize chlorotic mottle virus. Johnson Nyasani (jnyasani@icipe.org), Elizabeth Kusia, Regina Malit, and Sevgan Subramanian, International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology, Nairobi, Kenya

Contributed Papers: Arthropod Vectors of
Animal and Plant Diseases: Plant-Insect-
Pathogen Interactions

Room W240 A (Convention Center)

**Moderators:** Ki Kim¹ and Deepak Shrestha². ¹Univ. of Florida, Lake Alfred, FL, ²Univ. of Florida, Gainesville, FL

1:30 **3597** Phylogeny and natural host range of the whitefly *Bemisia tabaci* (Hemiptera: Aleyrodidae) sibling species group in western Ecuador. Jorge Paredes-Montero (jrparedes@email.arizona.edu) and Judith K. Brown, Univ. of Arizona, Tucson, AZ

1:45 **3598** Molecular analysis of thrips diversity and thrips-transmitted *Iris yellow spot virus* (Tospovirus: Bunyaviridae) from Pakistan. Romana Iftikhar (rmniftikhar299@gmail.com)¹, Muhammad Ashfaq², Paul Hebert², and Hanu Pappu³. ¹Pakistan Institute of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Islamabad, Pakistan, ²Univ. of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada, ³Washington State Univ., Pullman, WA

2:00 **3599** Identification of an aphid protein involved in *Turnip yellows virus* transmission by *Myzus persicae*. Michael Mulot¹, Sylvaine Boissinot¹, Baptiste Monsion², Maryam Rastegar³, Monique Erdinger¹, Nicole Bochet¹, and **Veronique Brault** (veronique.brault@colmar.inra.fr)¹, ¹INRA, Colmar, France, ²INRA, Montpellier, France, ³Shiraz Univ., Shiraz, Iran

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Contributed Papers: Biodiversity, Biogeography, and Conservation of Arthropods: Coleoptera

Room W414 A (Convention Center)

**Moderators:** Mukti N. Ghimire¹ and Margaret Thayer², ¹USDA - APHIS, Buzzards Bay, MA, ²The Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, IL

1:30 **3611** Tropical stream beetles show clade idiosyncratic biological patterns of narrow endemicity versus high connectivity across major landscapes. **Athena Lam** (athenawai@gmail.com)¹,², Matthew Van Dam², Johannes Bergsten³, and Michael Balke², ¹Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA, ²Bavarian State Collection of Zoology, Munich, Germany, ³Swedish Museum of Natural History, Stockholm, Sweden

1:45 **3612** Size- and context-dependent nest-staying behavior of males of the Japanese dung beetle, *Copris acutidens* (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae). **Mayumi Akamine** (acutidens2000@yahoo.co.jp), Nihon Univ., Fujisawa, Japan

2:00 **3613** The species versus subspecies conundrum in the Hercules beetles (genus *Dynastes*) and its biogeographic and conservation implications. **Jen-Pan Huang** (huangjp@umich.edu), Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

2:15 **3614** To the land beyond the end of the Earth, the rediscovery of the world's largest flightless dung beetle in southeast Angola, *Scarabaeus cancer* (Arrow) (Coleoptera: Scarabaeini). **Bruce D. Gill** (scarab57@xplornet.com)¹, T. Keith Philips², and Shaun Forgie³, ¹Rancho Uroxys, Woodlawn, ON, Canada, ²Western Kentucky Univ., Bowling Green, KY, ³Dung Beetle Innovations, Kumeu, New Zealand

2:30 **3615** Utilizing comparative genomic variation of two Appalachian litter beetles to assess land-use history effects on population structure. Michael Caterino and **Shelley Myers** (smyers2@clemson.edu), Clemson Univ., Clemson, SC

2:45 **3616** Niche and morphological evolution of the tortoise beetle tribe Dorynotini, within the context of geographical radiation (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Cassidinae). **Marianna V. P. Simões** (marianna_simoes1@ku.edu), Univ. of Kansas, Lawrence, KS

3:00 BREAK

3:15 **3617** Response of carabid beetle assemblages to variable retention harvest in boreal mixedwood forest after 15 years. **Linhao Wu** (linhao1@ualberta.ca), John Spence, and Jaime Pinzon, Univ. of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada

3:30 **3618** Nearly 500 genera and counting...an overview of Australian Staphylinidae (Coleoptera) and their distributions. **Margaret Thayer** (mthayer@fieldmuseum.org) and Alfred Newton, The Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, IL

3:45 **3619** Does the spatial distribution of high-cut stumps matter for the red-listed beetle species *Peltis grossa* (L.) (Coleoptera: Tragossitidae)? **Line Djupström** (line.djupstrom@skogforsk.se), Uppsala Science Park, Uppsala, Sweden

4:00 **3620** Fine-scale forest structure as a driver for spider and carabid distribution and composition. **Jaime Pinzon** (jpinzon@ualberta.ca), Linhao Wu, John Spence, and Fangliang He, Univ. of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada

4:15 **3621** Molecular evidence for ecological speciation in the Amazon basin: A case study using Lachnophorini ground beetles (Coleoptera: Carabidae). **Laura Zamorano** (Izamorano@calacademy.org), California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, CA

4:30 **3622** Habitat complexity mediates intraguild antagonism among predatory carabids. **Joseph Taylor** (joseph.m.taylor@wsu.edu) and William E. Snyder, Washington State Univ., Pullman, WA

4:45 **3623** The Pselaphinae (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae) of New Zealand and Australia: A comparison of faunas. **Donald Chandler** (donald.chandler@unh.edu), Univ. of New Hampshire, Durham, NH

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

West Hall F1 (WF1) (Convention Center)

**Moderators:** Kelsey Schall¹, Nader Sallam², and Yelitza Colmenarez³, ¹Univ. of California, Riverside, CA, ²Sugar Research Australia, Gordonvale, Australia, ³CABI, Botucatu, Brazil

1:30 **3624** Use of parasitoids as a biocontrol agent in the Neotropical region: Challenges and potential. **Yelitza Colmenarez** (y.colmenarez@cabi.org)¹, Marcus Sampaio², and Simone Jahnke³, ¹CABI, Botucatu, Brazil, ²Federal Univ. of Uberlândia, Uberlândia, Brazil, ³Federal Univ. of Rio Grande, Porto Alegre, Brazil

1:45 **3625** Molecular characterization of the harmful effect of *Nesidiocoris tenuis* to tomato. **Milena Chinchilla-Ramirez** (chinchilla_mil@gva.es)¹, Alberto Urbaneja¹, Victor Flors², and Meritxell Pérez-Hedo², ¹Valencian Institute of Agricultural Research, Moncada, Spain, ²Univ. Jaume I, Castelló de la Plana, Spain

2:00 **3626** Studies on *Adelina* sp., pathogen of the greyback canegrub, *Dermolepida albohirtum*, in Queensland canefields, Australia. **Nader Sallam** (nsallam@sugarresearch.com.au)¹, Sean Marshall², and Lisa Derby¹, ¹Sugar Research Australia, Gordonvale, Australia, ²AgResearch, Ltd., Christchurch, New Zealand

2:15 **3627** Baculovirus IE2 stimulates the expression of heat shock proteins in insect and mammalian cells to facilitate its proper functioning. **Yu-Chan Chao** (mbycchao@imb.sinica.edu.tw) and Hsuan Tung, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan

2:30 **3628** Occurence of baculovirus infecting the soybean looper, *Crysodeixis includens* (Walker) (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae), in Brazil. **Fernando Valicente** (fernando.valicente@embrapa.br)¹, Caio Luiz², Mariana Alves², Eloiso Campos², Victor Costa³, and Francisco Andrés Rodríguez-Dimate⁴, ¹Embrapa Corn and Sorghum, Sete Lagoas, Brazil, ²Federal Univ. of São João del-Rei, Sete Lagoas, Brazil, ³Federal Univ. of Lavras, Lavras, Brazil, ⁴Federal Univ. of Viçosa, Sete Lagoas, Brazil

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2:45 **3629** Implications of Argentine ant management for biological control of the Asian citrus psyllid and other citrus pests. **Kelsey Schall** (kscha008@ucr.edu) and Mark S. Hoddle, Univ. of California, Riverside, CA

3:00 **BREAK**

3:15 **3630** Arthropod predators of Asian citrus psyllid (*Diaphorina citri*) in southern California. **Aviva Goldmann** (agoldmann@gmail.com), Richard Stouthamer, and Paul F. Rugman-Jones, Univ. of California, Riverside, CA

3:30 **3631** Using population models as a predictive tool to guide biological control programs: Wheat stem sawfly as a case study. **Courtney Richmond** (richmond@rowan.edu)¹ and Tatyana Rand², ¹Rowan Univ., Glassboro, NJ, ²USDA - ARS, Sidney, MT

3:45 **3632** Understanding arthropod trophic relationships in Mediterranean lettuce crops by DNA-based gut-content analysis. **Nuria Agusti** (nuria.agusti@irta.cat), Priscila Gomez-Polo, Cristina Castañé, and Oscar Alomar, IRTA, Cabrils, Spain

4:00 **3633** Biological control with predaceous mites in open-field fruiting vegetable crops in Florida. **Jose Castillo** (jacastil@ufl.edu) and Philip A. Stansly, Univ. of Florida, Immokalee, FL

4:15 **3634** Characterization of the harmful effect of tomato on *Amblyseius swirskii*. **Angeliki Paspati** (paspatible@gva.es)¹, Alberto Urbaneja¹, and Joel González-Cabrera², ¹Valencian Institute of Agricultural Research, Moncada, Spain, ²Univ. of València, Burjassot, Spain

4:30 **3635** Impact of the predator *Chrysoperla carnea* (Stephens) (Neuroptera: Chrysopidae) on *Zeuzera pyrina* (Linnaeus) (Lepidoptera: Cossidae) populations attacking reclaimed apple orchards at Nobareia region in Egypt. **Ahmed Merghem** (ahmedmerghem@yahoo.com), Plant Protection Research Institute, Giza, Egypt

2:00 **3638** Altitudinal and geographic effects on communities of euglossine bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae) in three different phytophysiognomies of the Atlantic Forest of São Paulo State, Brazil. **Claudineia Costa** (claudineia@usp.br) and Tiago Francoy, Univ. of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

2:15 **3639** Dung beetle (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) community succession in an extreme coastal environment in Turkey. **Gregory Sullivan** (gregory.sullivan@uq.net.au)¹, Sebahat Ozman-Sullivan², Myron Zalucki¹, Greg Baxter¹, Unal Zeybekoglu², and Jean-Pierre Lumaret³, ¹Univ. of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia, ²Ondokuz Mayis Univ., Samsun, Turkey, ³Univ. of Montpellier, Montpellier, France

2:30 **3640** Comparing the evidence for range contractions versus range expansions in populations of the introduced Argentine ant (*Linepithema humile*) in northern California after 30-40 years. **Sean Menke** (menke@lakeforest.edu)¹, Philip Ward², and David Holway³, ¹Lake Forest College, Lake Forest, IL, ²Univ. of California, Davis, CA, ³Univ. of California, La Jolla, CA

2:45 **3641** Patch heterogeneity, mutualists and predators drive metacommunity dynamics in an aphid-plant system. **Matthias Senft** (matthias.senft@tum.de)¹, Mary Clancy², Jörg-Peter Schnitzler², Wolfgang Weisser¹, and Sharon Zytynska¹, ¹Technical Univ., Freising, Germany, ²Helmholtz Center München, Neuherberg, Germany

3:00 **BREAK**

3:15 **3642** Spatial distribution of selected beetles and bugs on an exposed beach of the Great Salt Lake, Utah, USA. **Grant De Jong** (gdejong@geiconsultants.com)¹, Shaun Roark¹, Ann Neville², Amanda Kovach¹, and Larry Elkin², ¹GEI Consultants, Inc., Denver, CO, ²Rio Tinto Kennecott Corp., South Jordan, UT

3:30 **3643** Interannual variation in the impacts of nutrient pulses on an arthropod foodweb. **Shannon Murphy** (shannon.m.murphy@du.edu)¹, Danny Lewis², and Gina M. Wimp², ¹Univ. of Denver, Denver, CO, ²Georgetown Univ., Washington, DC

3:45 **3644** Climate constrains range expansion of a population diverging under allochrony: The case of the pine processionary moth. **Martin Godefroid** (martin.godefroid@gmail.com)¹, Susana Rocha², Helena Santos³, Maria Rosa Paiva³, Christian Urban², Carole Kerdelhué¹, Manuela Branco², Jean-Yves Rasplus¹, and Jean-Pierre Rossi¹, ¹INRA, Montferrier-sur-Lez, France, ²High Institute of Agronomy, Lisbon, Portugal, ³Univ. Nova, Caparica, Portugal, ⁴INRA, Cestas, France

4:00 **3645** Metacommunity structure and diversity of aquatic insects in temporary and permanent waters. **Masahiro Suzuki** (gblies.zukky@gmail.com), Nao Yamamoto, Norio Hirai, and Minoru Ishii, Osaka Prefecture Univ., Sakai, Japan

4:15 **3646** Spatial and temporal dynamics of natural enemies in winter wheat and canola agroecosystems. **Casi N. Jessie** (casi.jessie@okstate.edu)¹, Kris Giles¹, Timothy J. Kring², Brian McCormack³, and James Hagler⁴, ¹Oklahoma State Univ., Stillwater, OK, ²Univ. of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR, ³Kansas State Univ., Manhattan, KS, ⁴USDA - ARS, Maricopa, AZ

**Contributed Papers: Ecology and Population Dynamics: Community**

Room W315 B (Convention Center)

**Moderators:** Grant De Jong¹ and Cedric Alaux², ¹GEI Consultants, Inc., Denver, CO, ²INRA, Avignon, France

1:30 **3636** Coleoptera assemblages in apple orchards along pesticide disturbance and landscape gradients. **Viktor Markó** (viktor.marko@uni-corvinus.hu)¹, Zoltán Elek², Anikó Kovács-Hostyánszki³, Ádám Kőrösi², László Somay³, Rita Földesi³, Ákos Varga¹, Ágnes Iván¹, and András Báldi³, ¹Szent István Univ., Budapest, Hungary, ²Eötvös Loránd Univ., Budapest, Hungary, ³MTA Centre for Ecological Research, Vácrátót, Hungary

1:45 **3637** Integrating landscape ecology and insect physiology: The case of overwintering survival in honey bees. **Cedric Alaux** (cedric.alaux@avignon.inra.fr)¹, Fabrice Allier², and Mickael Henry¹, ¹INRA, Avignon, France, ²ITSAP Institute of the Bee, Avignon, France

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4:30 **3647** Presentation withdrawn

4:45 **3648** Linking the green and brown worlds through nonconsumptive predator effects. **Michael Sitvarin** (michaelsitvarin@uky.edu)¹, Ann Rypstra², and James Harwood¹, ¹Univ. of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, ²Miami Univ., Oxford, OH

Contributed Papers: Physiology and Biochemistry: Neurophysiology and Hormone Regulation

Room W314 B (Convention Center)

**Moderators:** Andrew Jones¹ and Thomas Dykstra², ¹Oxford Brookes Univ., Oxford, United Kingdom, ²Dykstra Laboratories, Inc, Gainesville, FL

1:30 **3649** Diapause incidence of progeny in relation to photoperiod and temperature experienced by their parents in the cabbage beetle, *Colaphellus bowringi*. **Fangsen Xue** (xue_fangsen@hotmail.com), Haijun Xiao, and Haimin He, Jiangxi Agricultural Univ., Nanchang, China

1:45 **3650** RNA A-to-I editing broadens the transcriptome and pharmacological diversity of the mosquito RDL GABA receptor. **Andrew Jones** (a.jones@brookes.ac.uk)¹, Isabel Bermudez¹, and Jennina Taylor-Wells², ¹Oxford Brookes Univ., Oxford, United Kingdom, ²Univ. of Florida, Gainesville, FL

2:00 **3651** Constancy and variability of identified glomeruli in the antennal lobe of heliothine moths. **Xin-Cheng Zhao** (xincheng@henau.edu.cn), Henan Agricultural Univ., Zhengzhou, China

2:15 **3652** Regulation of the ecdysone signaling in *Spodoptera litura*. **Lihua Huang** (huanglh@scnu.edu.cn), South China Normal Univ., Guangzhou, China

2:30 **3653** Two competing theories of insect olfaction must both be rejected. **Thomas Dykstra** (dykstralabs@yahoo.com) and Drew Swaggerty, Dykstra Laboratories, Inc, Gainesville, FL

2:45 **3654** Regulation of ecdysteroid biosynthesis and action in the desert locust, *Schistocerca gregaria*. **Cynthia Lenaerts** (cynthia.lenaerts@bio.kuleuven.be), Elisabeth Marchal, Pieter Van Wielendaele, Paulien Peeters, Dorien Cools, Jolien Palmans, and Jozef Vanden Broeck, Catholic Univ., Leuven, Belgium

3:00 BREAK

3:15 **3655** Morphology of the female reproductive system and physiological age-grading of *Megamelus scutellaris* (Hemiptera: Delphacidae), a biological control agent of water hyacinth. **Michael Grodowitz** (michael.grodowitz@ars.usda.gov)¹, Elizabeth Mattison², Ted Center³, and Philip Tipping², ¹USDA - ARS, Stoneville, MS, ²USDA - ARS, Ft. Lauderdale, FL, ³USDA - ARS (Retired), Ft. Lauderdale, FL

3:30 **3656** Metabolomic and lipidomic insights into photoperiodically induced diapause in the green-veined white (*Pieris napi*). **Philipp Lehmann** (philipp.lehmann@zoologi.su.se)¹, Karl Gotthard¹, Vladimir Kostal², Sören Nylin¹, Peter Pruisscher¹, and Christopher Wheat¹, ¹Stockholm Univ., Stockholm, Sweden, ²Czech Academy of Sciences, České Budějovice, Czech Republic

3:45 **3657** Presentation withdrawn

4:00 **3658** Neurobiology of self-defense: Multiple nerves and identified neurons control the defense glands of stick insects. Konrad Stolz, Christoph-Rüdiger von Bredow, Yvette von Bredow, Reinhard Lakes-Harlan, Tina Trenczek, and **Johannes Strauss** (johannes.strauss@physzool.bio.uni-giessen.de), Justus Liebig Univ., Gießen, Germany

4:15 **3659** DINEr — A Database for Insect Neuropeptide Research. **Aniruddha Pandit** (aniruddha.pandit@glasgow.ac.uk), Joseph Yeoh, Shireen Davies, and Julian Dow, Univ. of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom

4:30 **3660** Function of lateral cell cluster projection neurons in moth olfactory processing. **Neil J. Vickers** (n.vickers@utah.edu)¹, Christine Fogarty-Celestino², Seong-Gyu Lee¹, Christoph Kleineidam³, and Jeffrey Stagg¹, ¹Univ. of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, ²Juan Diego Catholic High School, Draper, UT, ³Univ. of Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany

4:45 **3661** Role of octopamine in control of foregut contraction in the black field cricket (*Teleogryllus commodus*) and the Australian plague locust (*Chortoicetes terminifera*). **Paul D. Cooper** (paul.cooper@anu.edu.au)¹ and James Woodman², ¹The Australian National Univ., Canberra, Australia, ²Australian Government Dept. of Agriculture, Canberra, Australia

5:00 **3662** The physiological-developmental mechanisms regulating metamorphosis in solitary bees. **Bryan Helm** (bryan.r.helm@ndsu.edu)¹, Joseph P. Rinehart², George Yocum², Kendra Greenlee¹, and Julia Bowsher¹, ¹North Dakota State Univ., Fargo, ND, ²USDA - ARS, Fargo, ND

Contributed Papers: Physiology and Biochemistry: Toxicology, Metabolism, and Nutrition

Room W223 B (Convention Center)

**Moderators:** Juliana Rangel Posada¹ and Rebecca Clark², ¹Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX, ²Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA

1:30 **3663** Antioxidative enzyme expression in honey bee (*Apis mellifera*) queens as an assessment of reproductive quality. **Alejandra Gonzalez** (alejandracula@tamu.edu) and Juliana Rangel Posada, Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX

1:45 **3664** Tissue nonautonomous effects of fat body methionine metabolism on epithelial repair in *Drosophila melanogaster*. **Fumiaki Obata** (fumiaki.obata@crick.ac.uk)¹,², Soshiro Kashio², Liu Zhang², Tomonori Katsuyama²,³, Takahiro Chihara²,³, and Masayuki Miura²,³, ¹The Francis Crick Institute, London, United Kingdom, ²The Univ. of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, ³Agency for Medical Research and Development, Tokyo, Japan

2:00 **3665** Dietary rescue of phenotype: You are what you eat. **Margaret Allen** (meg.allen@ars.usda.gov), USDA - ARS, Stoneville, MS

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2:15 **3666** Characterization of two venom peptides of social wasp *Parapolybia varia*. *Kyungjae Yoon* (kongbob89@snu.ac.kr)¹, Kyungmun Kim¹, A-Young Kim², Woo Young Bang³, ChangMu Kim³, Joo-Hong Yeo³, Young Ho Koh⁴, and Si Hyeock Lee¹. ¹Seoul National Univ., Seoul, South Korea, ²Hallym Univ., Anyang, South Korea, ³National Institute of Biological Resources, Incheon, South Korea, ⁴Hallym Univ., Chuncheon, South Korea

2:30 **3667** The GPCR/G-protein/Adenylyl Cyclase/Protein Kinase A pathway in insecticide resistance of the mosquito *Culex quinquefasciatus*. *Ting Li* (litingwinner@gmail.com) and Nannan Liu, Auburn Univ., Auburn, AL

2:45 **3668** Nutrition physiology of the pear psylla, *Cacopsylla pyri*. *Guillaume Le Goff* (guillaume.legoff@uclouvain.be)¹, Olivier Lebbe¹, Gertrude Lohaus², Aurore Richel³, Nicolas Jacquet³, Virginie Byttebier³, and Thierry Hance¹. ¹Catholic Univ. of Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, ²Bergische Univ., Wuppertal, Germany, ³Univ. of Liège, Gembloux, Belgium

3:00 **BREAK**

3:15 **3669** Mechanisms of spinosad resistance in European populations of the tomato leafminer. Madeleine Berger¹, Mirel Puinean¹, Pablo Bielza², Rob Jacobson³, Lin Field¹, Chris Bass⁴, and Martin Williamson (martin.williamson@rothamsted.ac.uk)¹. ¹Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, United Kingdom, ²Polytechnic Univ. Cartagena, Spain, ³RJC, Ltd., Yorkshire, United Kingdom, ⁴Univ. of Exeter, Penryn, United Kingdom

3:30 **3670** Food protein-carbohydrate content influences amino acid metabolism in the wing-dimorphic cricket *Gryllus firmus*. *Rebecca Clark* (r11clark@gmail.com)¹, Spencer T. Behmer², and Anthony J. Zera³. ¹Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA, ²Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX, ³Univ. of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE

3:45 **3671** A novel protein active from a *Pseudomonas* strain with unique mode of action against western corn rootworm, *Diaborica virgifera virgifera* (LeConte). Nuria Jiménez-Juárez¹, Mark Nelson (mark.e.nelson@pioneer.com)¹, Jarred Oral², Lu Liu², Gusui Wu³, Priyesh Patel¹, Claudia Pérez-Ortega¹, and Ute Schellenberger²,⁴. ¹DuPont Pioneer, Wilmington, DE, ²DuPont Pioneer, Hayward, CA, ³DuPont Pioneer, Johnston, IA, ⁴OMT Therapeutics, Palo Alto, CA

4:00 **3672** Metabolic mechanisms mediating the miserable months: Metabolomics of periodic arousal in insect diapause. **Chao Chen** (chaochenjxau@126.com), Nicholas M. Teets, Thomas Powell, and Daniel Hahn, Univ. of Florida, Gainesville, FL

4:15 **3673** The structure, transcriptional regulation, and function of *Helicoverpa armigera* sterol carrier protein-2, an important insecticidal target from the cotton bollworm. **Rong Peng** (pengrong@mail.ccnu.edu.cn), Central China Normal Univ., Wuhan, China

4:30 **3674** Expressing a moth ABCC2 gene in transgenic *Drosophila* causes Bt Cry1Ac susceptibility without requiring a cadherin-like protein receptor. **Simon Baxter** (simon.baxter@adelaide.edu.au), Tristan Stevens, and Sisi Song, Univ. of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia

4:45 **3675** Identification of a Cry2Ab receptor in four Lepidoptera. **John Mathis** (john.mathis@pioneer.com)¹, Catherine Finke¹, James Becker¹, and Mark Nelson², ¹DuPont Pioneer, Johnston, IA, ²DuPont Pioneer, Wilmington, DE

5:00 **3676** Studies on locomotory behaviour of susceptible and insecticide-resistant populations of *Plutella xylostella* (Linnaeus). **Anureet Chandi** (anureetchandi@pau.edu), Punjab Agricultural Univ., Ludhiana, India

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

**Room W224 G (Convention Center)**

**Moderators:** Md. Habibullah Bahar¹, Thierry Hance², and Maryam Yazdani³. ¹Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Saskatoon, SK, Canada, ²Catholic Univ. of Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, ³Univ. of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia

3:30 **3677** Larval interspecific competition influences adult behaviour of two aphid parasitoids: *Aphidius rhopalosiphii* and *Aphidius ervi* (Hymenoptera: Aphidiinae). **Thierry Hance** (thierry.hance@uclouvain.be) and Isabelle Frère, Catholic Univ. of Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium

3:45 **3678** Comparison of two release methods for establishing *Oobius agrili* (Hymenoptera: Encyrtidae), the introduced egg parasitoid of *Agrilus planipennis* (Coleoptera: Buprestidae), in Michigan. **Toby R. Petrice** (tpetrice@fs.fed.us)¹,², Forrest Ravlin², Leah S. Bauer¹, Therese Poland¹, Kenneth Raffa³, and Deborah G. McCullough², ¹USDA - Forest Service, Lansing, MI, ²Michigan State Univ., East Lansing, MI, ³Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI

4:00 **3679** *Dolichogenidea tasmanica* (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) as a potential biocontrol agent of light brown apple moth (LBAM), *Epiphyas postvittana* (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae). **Maryam Yazdani** (maryam.yazdani@adelaide.edu.au) and Michael Keller, Univ. of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia

4:15 **3680** Potential use of factitious and artificial hosts for mass rearing *Trichogramma* sp. in different countries. **Jureerat Rattanatip** (jureerat.rattanatip@uclouvain.be)¹, Gregory Sempo², and Thierry Hance¹. ¹Catholic Univ. of Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, ²Free Univ. of Brussels, Brussels, Belgium

4:30 **3681** A three-year field study on the biological control of diamondback moth (*Plutella xylostella*) in Saskatchewan, Canada. **Md. Habibullah Bahar** (bablu91@yahoo.com)¹,², Juliana J. Soroka², Owen Olfert², and Chrystel Olivier², ¹AgQuest (Alta), Inc., Taber, AB, Canada, ²Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Saskatoon, SK, Canada

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4:45 **3682** Parasitism rate, functional response, and preference of the endoparasitoid *Campoletis sonorensis* (Cameron, 1886) to native and invasive hosts.
**Henry Murillo** (hmp6@alu.ua.es)¹, Maria Angeles Marcos¹ and Sherah VanLaerhoven², ¹Univ. of Alicante, San Vicente del Raspeig, Spain, ²Univ. of Windsor, Windsor, ON, Canada

5:00 **3683** Biological characteristics and adaptability of larval parasitoids associated with *Liriomyza huidobrensis* (Blanchard) (Diptera: Agromyzidae) in exploiting their host. **I. Wayan Supartha** (yansupartha@yahoo.com), Univ. of Udayana, Denpasar, Indonesia

Thursday, September 29, 2016 • Evening

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Chapin Theater (Convention Center)

**Moderators and Organizers:** Walter S. Leal¹, Alvin M. Simmons², and John Pickett³, ¹Univ. of California, Davis, CA, ²USDA - ARS, Charleston, SC, ³Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, United Kingdom

6:00 **3684** Introduction. **John Pickett** (john.pickett@rothamsted.ac.uk), Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, United Kingdom

6:05 **3685** How insects smell, and why we should care.
**John Hildebrand** (jhildebr@email.arizona.edu), Univ. of Arizona, Tucson, AZ

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## Friday, September 30, 2016 • Morning

### Plenary Presentation Featuring Dr. Fred Gould

**Chapin Theater (Convention Center)**

**Moderators and Organizers:** Walter S. Leal¹, Alvin M. Simmons², and May R. Berenbaum³, ¹Univ. of California, Davis, CA, ²USDA - ARS, Charleston, SC, ³Univ. of Illinois, Champaign, IL

8:00 **3686** Introduction of the Plenary Speaker. **May R. Berenbaum** (maybe@illinois.edu), Univ. of Illinois, Champaign, IL

8:05 **3687** Will genetically engineered pests protect health, biodiversity, and crop production? **Fred Gould** (fred_gould@ncsu.edu), North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC

### Plenary Presentation Featuring Dr. John A. Pickett

**Valencia Room (Convention Center)**

**Moderators and Organizers:** Walter S. Leal¹, Alvin M. Simmons², and James Tumlinson³, ¹Univ. of California, Davis, CA, ²USDA - ARS, Charleston, SC, ³Pennsylvania State Univ., University Park, PA

8:00 **3688** Introduction of the Plenary Speaker. **James Tumlinson** (jht2@psu.edu), Pennsylvania State Univ., University Park, PA

8:05 **3689** Agro-ecological manipulation of insect behaviour shows how to exploit signaling between insects and their hosts via GM. **John Pickett** (john.pickett@rothamstead.ac.uk)¹ and **Zeyaur Khan**², ¹Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, United Kingdom, ²International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology, Nairobi, Kenya

### Poster Session 4: Agriculture and Forest Entomology, Part 2

**West Hall C (Convention Center)**

D3738 Odor differences between brown rice plant hopper and health rice plant based on electronic nose. **Zhou Zhiyan** (zyzhou@scau.edu.cn), South China Agricultural Univ., Guangzhou, China

D3739 Fresh market green bean protection in Egypt's upper Nile Valley: The USAID feed the future farmer to farmer initiative. **Thomas Anderson** (tom@entoniche.com)¹ and Henry Van T. Cotter², ¹Entoniche Consulting LLC, Clayton, NC, ²North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC

D3740 Flight parameters and the nutritive requirements for flight of *Drosophila suzukii*. **Jessica Wong** (wongjes@oregonstate.edu)¹, Adam Cave², and Jana Lee², ¹Oregon State Univ., Corvallis, OR, ²USDA - ARS, Corvallis, OR

D3741 Relationship among strain of *Bacillus thuringiensis*, tannic acid and mid-gut protease with *Spodoptera exigua*. **Na-Young Jin** (dool12340@nate.com), You-Kyoung Lee, Yu-Seop Kim, Jun-Hack Jeon, Bo-Ram Lee, Hee Ji Kim, Young-Nam Youn, and Yong-Man Yu, Chungnam National Univ., Daejeon, South Korea

D3742 Parasitism of silk moths by the tachinid *Compsilura concinnata* along forest compositional gradients. **Rea Manderino** (rmanderi@syr.edu)¹, Patrick Tobin², and Dylan Parry¹, ¹State Univ. of New York, Syracuse, NY, ²Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA

D3743 Tree-crop agroforestry systems promote natural control of the millet head miner, *Heliocheilus albipunctella*. **Thierry Brévault** (thierry.brevault@cirad.fr)¹,², Ahmadou Sow²,³, Ibrahima Thiaw⁴,⁵, Gérard Delvare¹, and Valérie Soti¹,⁴, ¹CIRAD, Montpellier, France, ²BIOPASS, Dakar, Senegal, ³Univ. Cheikh Anta Diop, Dakar, Senegal, ⁴Center of Ecological Monitoring, Dakar, Senegal, ⁵Gaston Berger Univ., Saint Louis, Senegal

D3744 Acute toxicity of botanochemicals thymol and ginger oil against paddy leaf folder *Cnaphalocrocis medinalis* (Guenee) (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae). **Ayyasamy Regupathy** (ayyasamy.regu@gmail.com) and M. Sivasankari, Annamalai Univ., Chidambaram, India

D3745 Effect of *Beauveria bassiana* Vuill. on nymphs of *Thaumastocoris peregrinus*. **Flávio Cechim** (flaviera@gmail.com)¹, Raquel Ribeiro², Sidinei Dallacort³, Flavia Tedesco³, Everton Lozano³, and Michele Potrich³, ¹Federal Institute of Paraná, Campus Quedas do Iguaçú, QuedassdosIguaçú, PR, Brazil, ²Federal Univ. of Technology of Paraná, Pato Branco, Brazil, ³Federal Univ. of Technology of Paraná, Dois Vizinhos, Brazil

D3746 Indoor-rearing conditions of the fungus gnat, *Bradytica agrestis* (Diptera: Sciaridae), and their mortalities against several insecticides. **Hyun Ju Jang** (jangheunju@naver.com), Yong-Man Yu, and Young-Nam Youn, Chungnam National Univ., Daejeon, South Korea

D3747 X-ray irradiation as a quarantine treatment for the control of six insect pests in cut flower boxes. **Wooseong Cho** (whiteckh916@naver.com)¹, Hyun-Na Koo¹, Seung-Hwan Yun¹, Wonjin Kang¹, Hyun Kyung Kim¹, Jeong Oh Yang², and Gil-Hah Kim¹, ¹Chungbuk National Univ., Cheongju, South Korea, ²Animal and Plant Quarantine Agency, Suwon, South Korea

D3748 Eradication of the sweetpotato weevil, *Cylas formicarius* (Coleoptera: Curculionidae), from Kume Island, Okinawa, Japan by using a combination of the sterile insect technique and the male annihilation technique. **Dai Haraguchi** (hrguchid@pref.okinawa.lg.jp)¹, Takashi Matsuyama², Yasutsune Sadoyama², Tsuquo Kohama¹, Kunio Kinjo¹, Norikuni Kumano², Keiko Ohno-Shiromoto⁴, and Takashi Kuriwada⁵, ¹Okinawa Prefectural Agricultural Research Center, Itoman, Japan, ²Okinawa Prefectural Plant Protection Center, Naha, Japan, ³Obihiro Univ. of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine, Obihiro, Japan, ⁴Ryukyu-Sankei Co., Ltd., Naha, Japan, ⁵Kagoshima Univ., Kagoshima, Japan

D3749 Pest control effects according to low spray volume of pesticide in apple orchard. **Yong-Man Yu** (ymyu@cnu.ac.kr), Na-Young Jin, You-Kyoung Lee, Yu-Seop Kim, Jun-Hack Jeon, Bo-Ram Lee, Hee Ji Kim, and Young-Nam Youn, Chungnam National Univ., Daejeon, South Korea
**D3750** Fastac® CS Insecticide: Alpha-cypermethrin in an innovative formulation. **Daniel O'Byrne** (daniel.obyrne@basf.com)¹, Rebecca Willis¹, Christa Ellers-Kirk¹, Rianna Guethling¹, Claude Taranta², Siddharth Tiwari¹, and Richard Tyler¹. ¹BASF, Research Triangle Park, NC, ²BASF, Limburgerhof, Germany

**D3751** *Delia* species (Diptera: Anthonyiidae) and chlorpyrifos-resistance survey in brassica vegetable growing areas in Canada. **Josée Owen** (josee.owen@agr.gc.ca)¹, Peggy Dixon², Bob Vernon³, Renee Prasad⁴, and Ian Scott⁵. ¹Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Fredericton, NB, Canada, ²Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, St. John's, NF, Canada, ³Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Agassiz, BC, Canada, ⁴E.S. Cropconsult, Ltd., Surrey, BC, Canada, ⁵Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, London, ON, Canada

**D3752** Control of southern fire ant, *Solenopsis xyloni*, in tree nuts with Altrevin™ fire ant bait insecticide. **Anna Chapman** (anna.chapman@basf.com)¹, H. Alejandro Arevalo², and Doug Haller¹. ¹BASF, Durham, NC, ²BASF, Research Triangle Park, NC

**D3753** Presentation withdrawn

**D3754** Effect of tobacco thrips on yield in different varieties of upland cotton. F. Bourland¹, Glenn Studebaker (gstudebaker@uaex.edu)² and Logan Towles¹, ¹Univ. of Arkansas, Keiser, AR, ²Univ. of Arkansas Cooperative Extension Service, Keiser, AR

**D3755** Screening new genotypes of St. Augustine grass for resistance to southern chinch bug (Hemiptera: Blissidae). **Nicole B. Benda** (nbenda@ufl.edu), Kevin Kenworthy, and Kenneth Quesenberry, Univ. of Florida, Gainesville, FL

**D3756** Expression of host plant resistance in melon to sweetpotato whitefly in the desert southwest United States. **Eric Natwick** (etnatwick@ucanr.edu)¹, James McCreight², and William Wintermantel², ¹Univ. of California Cooperative Extension, Holtville, CA, ²USDA - ARS, Salinas, CA

**D3757** Development and use of LED traps for monitoring the southern green stink bug, *Nezara viridula* (Heteroptera: Pentatomidae). **Nobuyuki Endo** (enobu@affrc.go.jp)¹ and Mantaro Hironaka², ¹NARO Kyushu Okinawa Agricultural Research Center, Koshi, Japan, ²Hamamatsu Univ. School of Medicine, Shizuoka, Japan

**D3758** Research on the occurrence and attraction traps development of *Chilo suppressalis* (Walker) in the bioenergy crop *Miscanthus sacchariflorus* cv. Geodae 1 in Korea. **Nakjung Choi** (njchoi@korea.kr) and June-Yeol Choi, National Institute of Crop Science, Wanju, South Korea

**D3759** The United Kingdom suction trap network – a potential early warning system for the presence of new pests and diseases. **Fiona Highet** (fiona.highet@sasa.gsi.gov.uk)¹, Mairi Carnegie¹, Maria Sjölund¹, Adrian Roberts², James Bell³, and Jon Pickup¹, ¹Science and Advice for Scottish Agriculture, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, ²Biomathematics & Statistics Scotland, Edinburgh, Scotland, ³Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, United Kingdom

**D3760** A binary (pheromone-host plant volatile) lure combined with acetic acid could enhance bisexual monitoring of codling moth (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae). **Esteban Basoalto** (esteban.basoalto@uach.cl)¹, Valentina Mujica², Liliana Cichón³, Eduardo Fuentes-Contreras⁴, Wilson Barros-Parada⁴, and Alan L. Knight⁵, ¹Univ. Austral, Valdivia, Chile, ²National Institute of Agricultural Research, Rincón del Colorado, Uruguay, ³INTA, General Roca, Argentina, ⁴Univ. of Talca, Talca, Chile, ⁵USDA - ARS, Wapato, WA

**D3761** Monitoring, forecasting, and risk warning systems for field crop insects for the Canadian prairie ecoregion. **Jennifer Otani** (jennifer.otani@agr.gc.ca)¹, Scott Meers², Scott Hartley³, John Gavloski⁴, and Owen Olfert⁵, ¹Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Beaverlodge, AB, Canada, ²Alberta Agriculture and Rural Development, Brooks, AB, Canada, ³Saskatchewan Agriculture, Regina, SK, Canada, ⁴Manitoba Agriculture, Food and Rural Initiatives, Carman, MB, Canada, ⁵Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Saskatoon, SK, Canada

**D3762** Influence of fire on ambrosia beetles (Curculionidae, Scolytinae and Platypodinae) in rubber tree plantations (*Hevea brasiliensis*) in southern Brazil. **Gabriela Pinheiro** (gabrielac.pinheiro95@gmail.com) and Carlos Flechtmann, São Paulo State Univ., Ilha Solteira, Brazil

**D3763** Flight response of the California fivespined ips, *Ips paraconfusus* Lanier (Coleoptera: Curculionidae), to lure treatments. **Todd Murray** (tmurray@wsu.edu)¹, Nicholas C. Aflitto², Elizabeth A. Willhite³, and David Wakarchuk⁴, ¹Washington State Univ., Stevenson, WA, ²Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY, ³USDA - Forest Service, Sandy, OR, ⁴Synergy Semiochemicals Corp, Burnaby, BC, Canada

**D3764** Conditional decisions to stay or disperse in cooperatively breeding beetles. **Jon Andreja Nuotclà** (jon.nuotcla@iee.unibe.ch) and Michael Taborsky, Univ. of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

**D3765** Damage of bark beetles on the establishment of radiata pine can be reduced through ethological control. **Miguel Angel Poisson** (mpoisson@arauco.cl), Rodrigo Ahumada, and Hernán Martínez, Bioforest S.A., Coronel, Chile

**D3766** Presentation withdrawn

**D3767** Microbial associates of the eusocial ambrosia beetle *Austroplatypus incompertus*. **Robert Mueller** (r.mueller@westernsydney.edu.au), Shannon Smith, and Markus Riegler, Western Sydney Univ., Richmond, Australia

**D3768** Landing rate of the walnut twig beetle, *Pityophthorus juglandis*, on two western North American walnut species, *Juglans californica* and *J. major*. **Irene Lona** (ilona1@mail.csuchico.edu)¹, Donald Miller¹, Colleen Hatfield¹, Richard Rosecrance¹, and Steven Seybold², ¹California State Univ., Chico, CA, ²USDA - Forest Service, Davis, CA
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**D3769** Gypsy moth (*Lymantria dispar* L.) mtDNA phylogeography in forests of Europe, a base to monitor the migration of potentially dangerous populations. **Nikola Lackovic** (nikolal@sumins.hr)¹, Dimitrios Avtzis², Milan Pernek¹, Damjan Franjevic³, Andreas Linde⁴, and Christian Stauffer⁵, ¹Croatian Forest Research Institute, Jastrebarsko, Croatia, ²Forest Research Institute, Thessaloniki, Greece, ³Univ. of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia, ⁴Univ. of Applied Sciences, Eberswalde, Germany, ⁵Univ. of Natural Resources & Applied Life Sciences, Vienna, Austria

**D3770** An accurate detection of *Bursaphelenchus xylophilus* and *B. mucronatus*, caused by pine wilt disease, by Multiplex PCR using species-specific primers from *Monochamus alternatus* and *M. saltuarius* insect vectors. **Chansik Jung** (csjung@korea.kr), Myeong Jin Jang, Sang-Tae Seo, Sun Keun Lee, and Kwang Sik Choi, National Institute of Forest Science, Seoul, South Korea

**D3771** A systems approach towards understanding the underlying molecular and physiological biology of the large pine weevil (*Hylobius abietis*) through transcriptomic analyses. Joseph Yeoh¹, Richard Marley¹, Daegan Inward², **Anthony Dornan** (anthony.dornan@glasgow.ac.uk)¹, Shireen Davies¹, and Julian Dow¹, ¹Univ. of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom, ²Forest Research, Farnham, United Kingdom

**D3772** Comparison of different pheromone traps for the capture of adults of the processionary pine moth, *Thaumetopoea pityocampa* (Denis and Schiffermüller) (Lepidoptera: Thaumetopoeidae), and assessment of its control with mating disruption. Christos Athanassiou¹, Nickolas Kavallieratos², **Dimitris Kontodimas** (d.kontodimas@bpi.gr)³, Maria Boukouvala⁴, Anastassia Nikolaidou¹, Dimitra Markoyiannaki Printziou⁵, Pasquale Trematerra⁶, Marco Colacci⁶, David Pardo Talavera⁷, Jose Sancho Sanchez⁸, and Santiago Galvez Settier⁸, ¹Univ. of Thessaly, Nea Ionia, Greece, ²Agricultural Univ. of Athens, Attica, Greece, ³Benaki Phytopathological Institute, Athens, Greece, ⁴Agricultural Univ. of Athens, Athens, Greece, ⁵Benaki Phytopathological Institute, Kifissia, Greece, ⁶Univ. of Molise, Campobasso, Italy, ⁷Sansan Prodesing S.L., Valencia, Spain, ⁸Technological Institute of Plastics, Valencia, Spain

**D3773** Interception strategies for managing ambrosia beetles (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) in tree nurseries. **Michael Reding** (mike.reding@ars.usda.gov)¹, Christopher Ranger¹, Peter B. Schultz², and Jason B. Oliver³, ¹USDA - ARS, Wooster, OH, ²Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State Univ., Virginia Beach, VA, ³Tennessee State Univ., McMinnville, TN

**D3774** Developing and improving survey methods for emerald ash borer and other woodboring beetles. **Joseph Francese** (joe.francese@aphis.usda.gov)¹, Benjamin Sorensen², Nadeer Youssef³, Vanessa Lopez⁴, Jacek Hilszcznański⁵, Jason B. Oliver³, and David Lance¹, ¹USDA - APHIS, Buzzards Bay, MA, ²USDA - APHIS, Brighton, MI, ³Tennessee State Univ., McMinnville, TN, ⁴Xavier Univ., Cincinnati, OH, ⁵Forest Research Institute, Raszyn, Poland

**D3775** Buprestid and cerambycid trapping: The progression of 13 years of trapping. **Nadeer Youssef** (nyoussef@blomand.net)¹, Jason B. Oliver¹, Donna Fare², William Klingeman³, Joseph Francese⁴, Joshua P. Basham¹, Joseph Lampley¹, Debbie Eskandarnia¹, and Garrett Roper¹, ¹Tennessee State Univ., McMinnville, TN, ²U.S. National Arboretum, McMinnville, TN, ³Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, ⁴USDA - APHIS, Buzzards Bay, MA

**D3776** Trapping forest Coleoptera: What works best? **Richard Redak** (richard.redak@ucr.edu)¹ and Jeremy Allison², ¹Univ. of California, Riverside, CA, ²Natural Resources Canada, Sault Ste. Marie, ON, Canada

**D3777** Walnut twig beetle trapping yields insights for monitoring secondary pest Scolytinae in Tennessee. **William Klingeman** (wklingem@utk.edu)¹, Alicia Bray², Jason B. Oliver³, Christopher Ranger⁴, and Debra Palmquist⁵, ¹Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, ²Central Connecticut State Univ., New Britain, CT, ³Tennessee State Univ., McMinnville, TN, ⁴USDA - ARS, Wooster, OH, ⁵USDA - ARS, Peoria, IL

**D3778** A 10-year evaluation of intellectual property in entomology. **Ronda L. Hamm** (rlhamm@dow.com) and Anne Gregg, Dow AgroSciences, Indianapolis, IN

**D3779** Diterpene resin acids in conifer interfere with insect juvenile hormone-mediated gene regulation in *Tribolium castaneum* and development in *Plodia interpunctella*. **Chan-Seok Yun** (godddung@kribb.re.kr)¹, Alexander Raikhel², Hyun-Woo Oh¹, Doo-Sang Park¹, Jun Hyoung Jeon¹, and Sang Woon Shin², ¹Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Daejeon, South Korea, ²Univ. of California, Riverside, CA

**D3780** Agroforestry coffee system with rainforest alliance certification and insect biodiversity in Villa Rica, Peru. **Alfonso Lizárraga** (alizarraga@cientifica.edu.pe), Scientific Univ. of the South, Lima, Peru

**D3781** Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) pesticides policy and integrated pest management in certified plantations in Brazil. **Pedro Lemes** (pedrolemes@hotmail.com)¹, José Zanuncio², José Eduardo Serrão², and Simon Lawson³, ¹Federal Univ. of Minas Gerais, Montes Claros, Brazil, ²Federal Univ. of Viçosa, Viçosa, Brazil, ³Univ. of the Sunshine Coast, Sippy Downs, Australia

**D3782** Arthropod Management Tests: Metamorphosis of an ESA journal. **Jon Babcock** (jmbabcock@dow.com)¹, Eric Natwick², and Lisa Junker³, ¹Dow AgroSciences, Indianapolis, IN, ²Univ. of California, Holtville, CA, ³Entomological Society of America, Annapolis, MD

**D3783** Educating the next generation - funding opportunities in food, agricultural, natural resources and human sciences education. **Joyce Parker** (joyce.parker@nifa.usda.gov) and Siva Sureshwaran, USDA - NIFA, Washington, DC

**D3784** eFile: A new web-based platform for United States Department of Agriculture permits. **Wayne F. Wehling** (wayne.f.wehling@aphis.usda.gov), USDA - APHIS, Riverdale, MD
D3785 Educational impact of NPDN taxonomic training videos. **Ariane McCorquodale** (amccorquodale@ufl.edu) and Amanda C. Hodges, Univ. of Florida, Gainesville, FL

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

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

### West Hall C (Convention Center)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

D3804 Seasonal pattern of protective compounds in honey from *Apis mellifera* L. 1758 in Brazil. Maria Auxiliadora Jacob¹, Stephan Carvalho², Wilson Abreu¹, Elisângela Carvalho¹, and **César Carvalho** (cfcarvalho@den.ufla.br)¹, ¹Federal Univ. of Lavras, Lavras, Brazil, ²Federal Univ. of Uberlândia, Uberlândia, Brazil