10:30 **0219** Molecular identification of arthropod predators of cucumber beetles. **Molly Dieterich Mabin** (dieterich.9@osu.edu)¹, Celeste Welty¹, and Mary Gardiner². ¹The Ohio State Univ., Columbus, OH, ²The Ohio State Univ., Wooster, OH

10:45 **0220** Species composition and seasonality of the natural enemies of sugarcane aphid (*Melanaphis sacchari*) on susceptible and resistant sorghum. **Erin Maxson** (elmaxson@gmail.com)¹, Michael Brewer², and James Woolley¹, ¹Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX, ²Texas A&M AgriLife Research, Corpus Christi, TX

11:00 **0221** Natural enemies of western bean cutworm, *Striacosta albicosta*, in maize agroecosystems in western Nebraska. **Westen Archibald** (westen.archibald@gmail.com)¹, Robert Wright¹ and Julie Peterson², ¹Univ. of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE, ²Univ. of Nebraska, North Platte, NE

11:15 **0222** Do latitudinal gradients in arthropod predation pressure hold in simplified agroecosystems? **Hannah Gray** (grayx379@umn.edu) and David A. Andow, Univ. of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN

11:30 **0223** Influence of food supplementation during overwintering on the survival of *Hippodamia convergens* adults. **Nathan Mercer** (nhmercer13@gmail.com), John Obrycki, and Ric Bessin, Univ. of Kentucky, Lexington, KY

11:45 **0224** Relative importance of habitat management and plant quality on herbivore choice, consumptive and non-consumptive effects. **Margaret Lund** (lundmar6@msu.edu) and Zsofia Szendrei, Michigan State Univ., East Lansing, MI

12:00 **0225** Multi-scale land use effects on ant predation in agroecosystems. **Hannah J. Penn** (hannahjpenn@gmail.com) and James Harwood, Univ. of Kentucky, Lexington, KY

## Graduate Student Oral Competition: Ecology and Population Dynamics: Behavior

Room W240 D (Convention Center)

**Moderators:** Anders Huseth¹ and Murugesan Rangasamy², ¹North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC, ²Dow AgroSciences, Indianapolis, IN

9:15 **0226** Both spring warmth and winter chilling can affect spring phenology of butterflies. **Sandra Stålhandske** (sandra.stalhandske@zoologi.su.se), Karl Gotthard, and Olof Leimar, Stockholm Univ., Stockholm, Sweden

9:30 **0227** Seasonal effects on the morphology and reproductive behavior of *Narnia femorata* (Hemiptera: Coreidae). **Lauren Cirino** (lacirino@ufl.edu) and Christine W. Miller, Univ. of Florida, Gainesville, FL

9:45 **0228** Active pollen feeding and frequent flower visit by a stonefly species in *Corylopsis gotoana* (Hamamelidaceae). **Akira Wong Sato** (ws.akira@gmail.com) and Makoto Kato, Kyoto Univ., Kyoto, Japan

10:00 **0229** Interactions between thermoregulatory behavior and color plasticity in pipevine swallowtail (*Battus philenor*) caterpillars: Causes and consequences. **Matthew Nielsen** (nielsenm@email.arizona.edu) and Daniel Papaj, Univ. of Arizona, Tucson, AZ

10:15 BREAK

10:30 **0230** *Parasitodiplogaster* (Nematoda: Diplogastridae) infection of male fig wasps: Consequences for mutualism and coexistence. **Justin Van Goor** (jvangoor@iastate.edu) and John D. Nason, Iowa State Univ., Ames, IA

10:45 **0231** Examining bird-insect food webs to improve avian conservation efforts. **Ashley C. Kennedy** (kennedya@udel.edu) and Douglas W. Tallamy, Univ. of Delaware, Newark, DE

11:00 **0232** Do multimodal warning signals have an effect on decision making? A glimpse into jumping spider (Araneae: Salticidae) psychology. **Michael Vickers** (michaelvickers@ufl.edu) and Lisa Taylor, Univ. of Florida, Gainesville, FL

11:15 **0233** Individual specialization in the black and yellow mud dauber, *Sceliphron caementarium*, and implications for newly introduced spider species. **Erin Powell** (erinpowell@ufl.edu) and Lisa Taylor, Univ. of Florida, Gainesville, FL

11:30 **0234** Identifying floral hosts of cerambycid beetles using palynology. **Alexander Hazel** (xhazel@illinois.edu)¹ and Lawrence M. Hanks², ¹Univ. of Illinois, Champaign, IL, ²Univ. of Illinois, Urbana, IL

11:45 **0235** If you can't stand the heat: A temperature-driven shift in soil detritivore community dynamics could hold significant consequences for carbon flux and nutrient cycling in temperate forest ecosystems. **Eric Moore** (eamoore@bgsu.edu) and Shannon Pelini, Bowling Green State Univ., Bowling Green, OH

12:00 **0236** Effects of forest disturbance on the movement of ground-dwelling invertebrates. **Kayla I. Perry** (perry.1864@osu.edu)¹, Kimberly F. Wallin²,³, John Wenzel⁴, and Daniel Herms¹, ¹The Ohio State Univ., Wooster, OH, ²Univ. of Vermont, Burlington, VT, ³USDA - Forest Service, Burlington, VT, ⁴Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Rector, PA

12:15 **0237** Evaluating ecological landscape design as a tool for managing pests on urban trees. **Sarah Parsons** (separon@ncsu.edu) and Steven Frank, North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC

## Graduate Student Oral Competition: Insect Immunology

Room W232 A (Convention Center)

**Moderator:** Aaron Gross, Univ. of Florida, Gainesville, FL

9:15 **0238** The toll pathway modulated *Beauveria bassiana* infection in *Anopheles gambiae*. **Victoria Davidson** (victorea@ksu.edu) and Kristin Michel, Kansas State Univ., Manhattan, KS

9:30 **0239** Immune responses within tobacco hornworms (*Manduca sexta*) following consumption of *Solanum carolinense* trichomes. **Alexandra Serpi** (alex.serpi@psu.edu) and Andrew Stephenson, Pennsylvania State Univ., University Park, PA

9:45 **0240** Characterization and evolutionary implications of a recently acquired symbiotic poxvirus in parasitoid wasps. **Kelsey Coffman** (kcoffman@uga.edu) and Gaelen Burke, Univ. of Georgia, Athens, GA
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**10:00** **0241** Immune priming of the Asian citrus psyllid (*Diaphorina citri*). *Alex Arp* (aarp@ufl.edu) and Kirsten Pelz-Stelinski, Univ. of Florida, Lake Alfred, FL

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

**10:30** **0242** Genome-wide analysis of selection in immune genes within and among butterfly populations. *Naomi Keehnen* (naomi.keehnen@zoologi.su.se), Jason Hill, Sören Nylin, and Christopher Wheat, Stockholm Univ., Stockholm, Sweden

**10:45** **0243** Pathogen-induced paternal effects in a social insect. *Erin Cole* (cole.eri@husky.neu.edu)¹, Rebecca B. Rosengaus¹, Graham Thompson², and Jessica Empringham², ¹Northeastern Univ., Boston, MA, ²Univ. of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada

**11:00** **0244** Monarch butterfly-microbe interactions and their implications for disease resistance. *Erica Harris* (evharri@ memory.edu), Nicole Gerardo, and Jacobus C. De Roode, Emory Univ., Atlanta, GA

**11:15** **0245** Ecoimmunology of *Manduca sexta*: Therapeutic effects of plant chemistry on the immune response as a mediator of tritrophic interactions. *Michael Garvey* (garveym@purdue.edu)¹, Curtis Creighton², and Ian Kaplan¹, ¹Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN, ²Purdue Univ., Hammond, IN

## Graduate Student Oral Competition: Invasive and Exotic Entomology: Drosophilids

### Room W240 B (Convention Center)

**Moderators:** Matthew Buffington¹ and Anastasia Cooper², ¹USDA - ARS, Washington, DC, ²Kansas State Univ., Manhattan, KS

**9:15** **0246** Effect of abiotic factors on circadian rhythms, biology, and behavior of *Drosophila suzukii* (Diptera: Drosophilidae). *Richard Evans* (revans90@uga.edu) and Ashfaq Sial, Univ. of Georgia, Athens, GA

**9:30** **0247** Incorporation of yeast species into bait sprays for control of *Drosophila suzukii*. *Alix Whitener* (alix.crilly@wsu.edu)¹, Boyd Mori², Paul Becher², Peter Witzgall², and Elizabeth H. Beers¹, ¹Washington State Univ., Wenatchee, WA, ²Swedish Univ. of Agricultural Sciences, Alnarp, Sweden

**9:45** **0248** Attractiveness of different baits to *Drosophila suzukii* of different reproductive states. *Kyoo Park* (parkk@oregonstate.edu)¹, Vaughn Walton¹, Jana Lee², and Adam Cave², ¹Oregon State Univ., Corvallis, OR, ²USDA - ARS, Corvallis, OR

**10:00** **0249** Investigating wild flora for viable hosts of *Drosophila suzukii* (Diptera: Drosophilidae) in the southeastern U.S. *Joshua Grant* (joshua.grant25@uga.edu) and Ashfaq Sial, Univ. of Georgia, Athens, GA

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

**10:30** **0250** An exploration into pesticide resistance in spotted wing drosophila, *Drosophila suzukii*. *Grace Sward* (sward023@umn.edu) and Christopher R. Philips, Univ. of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN

**10:45** **0251** Improving the efficiency of monitoring tools for spotted wing drosophila, *Drosophila suzukii*. *Danielle Kirkpatrick* (kirkpa42@msu.edu), Larry Gut, and James R. Miller, Michigan State Univ., East Lansing, MI

**11:00** **0252** Monitoring and exclusion of *Drosophila suzukii* on fruit crops and wild hosts. *Lizabeth Herrera* (Irherrer@email.uark.edu), Don Johnson, and Barbara Lewis, Univ. of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR

**11:15** **0253** Susceptibility of selected boreal fruits and berries to the invasive pest spotted wing drosophila (*Drosophila suzukii*). *Catherine Little* (clittle@mun.ca)¹,², Tom Chapman¹, Debra Moreau³, and Kirk Hillier², ¹Memorial Univ. of Newfoundland, St. John's, NF, Canada, ²Acadia Univ., Wolfville, NS, Canada, ³Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Kentville, NS, Canada

**11:30** **0254** Interspecific competition between *Zaprionus indianus* and *Drosophila suzukii* in Virginia vineyards. *Meredith Shrader* (mcassell@vt.edu) and Douglas G. Pfeiffer, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State Univ., Blacksburg, VA

**11:45** **0255** Seeing spots in the southwest: What have we learned about spotted wing drosophila, *Drosophila suzukii* (Drosophilidae: Matsumura), in Oklahoma? *Haley Butler* (haley.butler@okstate.edu), Jackie Lee, and Eric Rebek, Oklahoma State Univ., Stillwater, OK

**12:00** **0256** Rebuilding raspberry IPM programs after invasion by spotted wing drosophila. *Heather Leach* (leachhea@msu.edu), Eric Hanson, Josh Moses, Steven VanTimmeren, and Rufus Isaacs, Michigan State Univ., East Lansing, MI

**12:15** **0257** Survey of *Zaprionus indianus* in Florida and oviposition behavior in berries. *Lindsy Iglesias* (liglesias@ufl.edu) and Oscar Liburd, Univ. of Florida, Gainesville, FL

## Graduate Student Oral Competition: Medical and Veterinary Entomology: Ticks

### Room W232 B (Convention Center)

**Moderators:** Ben Mans¹ and Clifford Keil², ¹Agricultural Research Council, Onderstepoort, South Africa, ²Pontifical Catholic Univ., Quito, Ecuador

**9:15** **0258** The prevalence of *Anaplasma phagocytophilum*, *Babesia microti*, and *Borrelia burgdorferi* in *Ixodes scapularis* and small mammals from two Provincial Parks in Manitoba, Canada. *Zach Polk* (polkzc25@gmail.com) and Kateryn Rochon, Univ. of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada

**9:30** **0259** Impact of saturation deficit on the diel questing patterns of the blacklegged tick (*Ixodes scapularis*) in laboratory and field studies. *Xia Lee* (xlee1@wisc.edu), Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI

**9:45** **0260** Regional discoveries of the ticks parasitizing Tennessee beef cattle. *David Theuret* (dtheuret@vols.utk.edu), David Paulson, and Rebecca Trout Fryxell, Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN

**10:00** **0261** Laboratory studies of host-seeking behavior in colonized nymphal *Amblyomma maculatum* Koch ticks (Acari: Ixodidae). **José Portugal III** (jsp281@msstate.edu), Robert Wills, and Jerome Goddard, Mississippi State Univ., Mississippi State, MS
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10:15 **BREAK**

10:30 **0262** *Ixodes scapularis* tick saliva proteins sequentially secreted every 24h during blood feeding. *Tae Kim* (taekim009@gmail.com)¹, *Lucas Tirloni*², *Antônio Pinto*³, *James Moresco*⁴, *John Yates* III⁴, *Itabajara Vaz*², and *Albert Mulenga*¹, ¹Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX, ²Federal Univ. of Rio Grande, Porto Alegre, Brazil, ³Pontifical Catholic Univ., Porto Alegre, Brazil, ⁴The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA

10:45 **0263** Ticks vs. the host immune system: A tug of war. *Mariam Bakshi* (mbakshi@cvm.tamu.edu), *Tae Kim*, *Željko Radulović*, *Lindsay Porter*, *Waithaka Mwangi*, and *Albert Mulenga*, *Texas A&M Univ.*, *College Station*, *TX*

11:00 **0264** Population genetic structure of the blacklegged tick (*Ixodes scapularis*) questing at different heights. *Mackenzie Tietjen* (kenzietietjen@tamu.edu)¹, *Maria Esteve-Gassent*¹, *Ivan Castro-Arellano*², *Andrew Li*³, and *Raul F. Medina*¹, ¹Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX, ²Texas State Univ., San Marcos, TX, ³USDA - ARS, Beltsville, MD

11:15 **0265** Sex specific expression of ionotropic and gustatory receptors in the Haller's organ of *Ixodes scapularis* ticks (Acari: Ixodidae). *Tanya Josek* (tanyajosek@gmail.com), *Hugh M. Robertson*, *Marianne Alleyne*, *Brian F. Allan*, and *Kimberly K. O. Walden*, *Univ. of Illinois, Champaign, IL*

11:30 **0266** Fluorescent properties of ticks (family Ixodidae). **Dakota Shade** (das09780@ucmo.edu), *Univ. of Central Missouri, Warrensburg, MO*

11:45 **0267** The salivary gland transcriptome of the causative agent of spring lamb paralysis, *Rhipicephalus eversti* evertsi. *Ronel Pienaar* (volschenkr@arc.agric.za)¹, *Minique de Castro*¹,²,³, *Daniel De Klerk*¹, *Abdalla Latif*¹, and *Ben Mans*¹,²,⁴, ¹Agricultural Research Council, Onderstepoort, South Africa, ²Univ. of South Africa, Pretoria, South Africa, ³Agricultural Research Council, Pretoria, South Africa, ⁴Univ. of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa

## Graduate Student Oral Competition: Urban Entomology in a Changing Environment: Biting Pests

### Room W232 C (Convention Center)

**Moderators:** Alvaro Romero¹ and Heather Jordan², ¹New Mexico State Univ., Las Cruces, NM, ²Mississippi State Univ., Mississippi State, MS

9:15 **0268** Effect of collection time and hunger level on the behavioral response to lures in the common bed bug, *Cimex lectularius*. *Desen Wang* (wds830706@163.com)¹,², ¹South China Agricultural Univ., Guangzhou, China, ²Rutgers, The State Univ. of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ

9:30 **0269** Reproductive compatibility and aggregation fidelity among populations and host-associated lineages of bed bugs, *Cimex lectularius*. *Zachary DeVries* (zcdevrie@ncsu.edu)¹, *Russell Mick*¹, *Ondrej Balvin*², and *Coby Schal*¹, ¹North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC, ²Czech Univ. of Life Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic

9:45 **0270** Evaluation of ingestible pesticides on bed bugs, *Cimex lectularius*. *Angela Sierras* (ajsierra@ncsu.edu) and *Coby Schal*, *North Carolina State Univ.*, *Raleigh, NC*

10:00 **0271** The molecular basis of odorant reception in the common bed bug. **Feng Liu** (fzl0009@auburn.edu) and *Nannan Liu*, *Auburn Univ.*, *Auburn, AL*

10:15 **BREAK**

10:30 **0272** Is the vector competence of the common bed bug, *Cimex lectularius* L., influenced by their microbiome and endosymbiotic activity? **Michael Fisher** (mlfishe2@ncsu.edu), *Wes Watson*, and *Coby Schal*, *North Carolina State Univ.*, *Raleigh, NC*

10:45 **0273** Turning a good bug bad: Comparative analysis of salivary proteins and symbioses in blood-feeding kissing bugs (Reduviidae: Triatominae) and their predatory relatives. **Eric Gordon** (erg55@cornell.edu) and *Christiane Weirauch*, *Univ. of California, Riverside, CA*

11:00 **0274** Short-range responses of the kissing bug, *Triatoma rubida*, to heat, moisture, and CO₂. **Andres Indacochea** (aindacoc@nmsu.edu) and *Alvaro Romero*, *New Mexico State Univ.*, *Las Cruces, NM*

## Contributed Papers: Agricultural and Forest Entomology: Behavioral and Chemical Ecology

### Room W224 F (Convention Center)

**Moderators:** R. Andrew Hayes¹ and Brett Blaauw², ¹Univ. of the Sunshine Coast, Sippy Downs, Australia, ²Rutgers, The State Univ. of New Jersey, Bridgeton, NJ

9:15 **0275** Assessment of beetle diversity, community composition, and potential threats to forestry using kairomone-baited traps at a landscape scale. *Sarai Olivier-Espejel* (sarai.olivier@fabi.up.ac.za), *Brett Hurley*, and *Jeff Garnas*, *Univ. of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa*

9:30 **0276** When stink bugs react: Host stimuli and the brown marmorated stink bug. **Brett Blaauw** (blaauw@aesop.rutgers.edu)¹, *Cesar Rodriguez*², *George C. Hamilton*³, and *Anne Nielsen*¹, ¹Rutgers, The State Univ. of New Jersey, Bridgeton, NJ, ²Rutgers, The State Univ. of New Jersey, Chatsworth, NJ, ³Rutgers, The State Univ. of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ

9:45 **0277** Krüppel homolog 1 (Kr-h1) mediates juvenile hormone action during metamorphosis of the oriental fruit fly, *Bactrocera dorsalis*. *Ya-Li Li*, *Hong Liu*, *Dong Wei*, *Jin-Jun Wang*, and *Wei Dou* (weidou9000@yahoo.com), *Southwest Univ., Chongqing, China*

10:00 **0278** The nest provisioning behavior of the wasp *Cerceris fumipennis*. *Ellie McCabe* (ellieannmccabe@gmail.com) and *Donald Chandler*, *Univ. of New Hampshire, Durham, NH*

10:15 **BREAK**

10:30 **0279** Predicting potential suitability areas of *Eucryptorrhynchus chinensis* (Olivier) in the world. *Ji Yingchao* (Yingchao2015@bjfu.edu.cn), *Beijing Forestry Univ.*, *Beijing, China*
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10:45 **0280** Acoustical communication in the remarkable cicada *Subpsaltria yangi* Chen. **Cong Wei** (congwei@nwsuaf.edu.cn) and Changqing Luo, Northwest A&F Univ., Yangling, China

11:00 **0281** Perturbation of a veterinary anthelmintic compromises multifunctional benefits provided by diverse dung beetle assemblages. **Paul Manning** (paul.manning@zoo.ox.ac.uk)¹,², Owen Lewis¹, Sarah Beynon², and Eleanor Slade¹, ¹Univ. of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, ²Dr. Beynon's Bug Farm, St. Davids, United Kingdom

11:15 **0282** Characterizing an Asian longhorned beetle (Anoplophora glabripennis) establishment event in an invaded suburban landscape. **Helen Hull-Sanders** (hhullsanders@gmail.com)¹ and R. Talbot Trotter², ¹Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, NJ, ²USDA - Forest Service, Hamden, CT

11:30 **0283** Measuring oviposition preference and survival of an invasive stem borer (Lepidoptera: Crambidae) on conventional and bioenergy crops. **Matthew VanWeelden** (mvanweel1@ufl.edu)¹, Blake E. Wilson², Julien M. Beuzelin³, Thomas E. Reagan³, and M. O. Way⁴, ¹Univ. of Florida, Belle Glade, FL, ²Louisiana State Univ. AgCenter, Baton Rouge, LA, ³Louisiana State Univ., Baton Rouge, LA, ⁴Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service, Beaumont, TX

11:45 **0284** Multi-trophic association of olive fruit, yeasts, and olive fruit fly (*Bactrocera oleae* Gmel.) with possible implications for pest management. **Elda Vitanovic** (elda@krs.hr)¹, Kyria Boundy-Mills², Hannah Burrack³, Frank Zalom², and Jeffrey Aldrich⁴, ¹Institute for Adriatic Crops and Karst Reclamation, Split, Croatia, ²Univ. of California, Davis, CA, ³North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC, ⁴Jeffrey R. Aldrich Consulting, LLC, Santa Cruz, CA

12:00 **0285** Variation in spatial scale of competing polydomous twig-nesting ants in coffee agroecosystems. **Kate Mathis** (kmathis@email.arizona.edu)¹, Santiago Ramirez², and Stacy M. Philpott³, ¹Univ. of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, ²Univ. of California, Davis, CA, ³Univ. of California, Santa Cruz, CA

12:15 **0286** Effect of starvation on digestive enzymes of male *H. serrata* Fab. (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae). **Sakharam Patil** (drsbpatil5576@yahoo.co.in), Savitribai Phule Pune Univ., Rajgurunagar, India

12:30 **0287** Ecology and behavior of brown marmorated stink bug (*Halyomorpha halys*) at the interface between fruit orchards and woodlands in the mid-Atlantic, USA. **Christopher Bergh** (cbergh@vt.edu)¹, Angelita Acebes-Doria¹, and Tracy C. Leskey², ¹Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State Univ., Winchester, VA, ²USDA - ARS, Kearneysville, WV

12:45 **0288** The optimal sex pheromone release rate for trapping the codling moth *Cydia pomonella* (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae) in the field. **Jing Xu** (xujing@ioz.ac.cn) and Runzhi Zhang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

1:00 **0289** Optimizing generic cerambycid pheromone lures for Australian biosecurity and biodiversity monitoring. **R. Andrew Hayes** (rhayes@usc.edu.au)¹, Helen Nahrung¹, Manon Griffiths², Pieter Arnold³, Lawrence M. Hanks⁴, and Jocelyn G. Millar⁵, ¹Univ. of the Sunshine Coast, Sippy Downs, Australia, ²Dept. of Agriculture and Fisheries, Dutton Park, Australia, ³Univ. of Queensland, St. Lucia, Australia, ⁴Univ. of Illinois, Urbana, IL, ⁵Univ. of California, Riverside, CA

Contributed Papers: Biological Control and Insect Pathology: Nematodes, Fungi, and Bt

Room W225 A (Convention Center)

**Moderators:** Timothy Johnson¹, Gabriela Lankin-Vega², and Javad Karimi³, ¹Marrone Bio Innovations, Inc., Danville, PA, ²Univ. of Chile, Santiago, Chile, ³Ferdowski Univ., Mashhad, Iran

9:15 **0290** Research on entomopathogenic *Steinernema* and *Heterorhabditis* nematodes for biological control of chive gnat (*Bradysia odoriphaga*, Yang and Zhang) in China. **Xun Yan** (yanxun@gdei.gd.cn) and Richou Han, Guangdong Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Guangzhou, China

9:30 **0291** Development of two novel microbes for management of insects, mites, and plant parasitic nematodes in North and Central America and Europe. **Timothy Johnson** (tjohnson@marronebio.com)¹, Melissa O'Neal¹, Bielinski Santos¹, Nicholas Vandervort², Cole Pearson¹, and Pamela G. Marrone¹, ¹Marrone Bio Innovations, Inc., Davis, CA, ²Marrone Bio Innovations, Inc., Cresco, IA

9:45 **0292** *Steinernema* sp. isolate Lican Ray: A good candidate for biological control of cutworms, *Agrotis* sp. **Gabriela Lankin-Vega** (glankin@uchile.cl), Giselle Vidal, Patricia Flores, Geraldine Allende, Eliana Burgos, Andrea Alvarado, Javier Ramirez, and Erwin Aballay, Univ. of Chile, Santiago, Chile

10:00 **0293** Field efficacy of entomopathogenic nematodes against the leopard moth borer, *Zeuzera pyrina* L. (Lepidoptera: Cossidae). **Elham Salari** (salari.elham@stu-mail.um.ac.ir)¹, Javad Karimi¹, Hussein Sadeghi-Nameghi¹, and Majid Fasihi Harandi², ¹Ferdowski Univ., Mashhad, Iran, ²Kerman Univ. of Medical Sciences, Kerman, Iran

10:15 BREAK

10:30 **0294** Controlling pests in open field eggplant grown in Florida with predatory mites and *Metarhizium anisopliae*. **Barry C. Kostyk** (bkostyk@ufl.edu) and Philip A. Stansly, Univ. of Florida, Immokalee, FL

10:45 **0295** Additive or synergistic interactions between bifenthrin and an emulsifiable formulation of *Beauveria bassiana* against insecticide-resistant annual bluegrass weevil, *Listronotus maculicollis*. **Shaohui Wu** (sw687@rci.rutgers.edu), Olga Kostromytska, and Albrecht M. Koppenhöfer, Rutgers, The State Univ. of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ
11:00 **0296** Field testing of a novel system for dissemination of an entomopathogenic fungus, *Isaria fumosorosea*, to control the Asian citrus psyllid, *Diaphorina citri*, on residential citrus. **Andrew Chow** (andrew.chow@tamuk.edu)¹, Joseph Patt², and Mamoudou Setamou¹, ¹Texas A&M Univ., Weslaco, TX, ²USDA - ARS, Ft. Pierce, FL

11:15 **0297** Development of insect pathogen fungi *Beauveria bassiana* (Balsamo) Vuillemin (Ascomycota: Hypocreales) as endophytic fungi and effect on plant growth of upland rice. **Rina Racmawati** (rina_rachmawati@yahoo.com), Rizal Rianfauzi, Toto Himawan, and Sri Karindah, Univ. of Brawijaya, Malang, Indonesia

11:30 **0298** The role of starvation on the synergy between a fungal pathogen and a pesticide. **Joanna Fisher** (jjf236@cornell.edu), Louela Castrillo, and Ann E. Hajek, Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY

11:45 **0299** Insecticidal activities of *Beauveria bassiana* and *Metarhizium* spp. against larval and adult housefly, *Musca domestica* L. Raliat Oyerinde, **Olalekan Soyelu** (jlekan2001@yahoo.co.uk) and Babajide Odu, Obafemi Awolowo Univ., lle-Ife, Nigeria

12:00 **0300** Entomopathogen fungi as biological control of macadamia felted coccid (*Eriococcus ironsidei*) in Hawaii. **Rosemary Gutierrez** (gr6@hawaii.edu)¹ and Mark Wright², ¹Univ. of Hawai'i, Hilo, HI, ²Univ. of Hawai'i, Honolulu, HI

12:15 **0301** Expression of Cry1Fa-toxin receptors during development of fall armyworm, *Spodoptera frugiperda*. **Heba Abdelgaffar** (habdelga@utk.edu), Lucas Hietala, Shivangi Patel, and Juan Luis Jurat-Fuentes, Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN

12:30 **0302** Research on *Varroa destructor* and viruses of honeybees. **Yi Zhang** (zy3001@163.com), Xun Yan, and Richou Han, Guangdong Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Guangzhou, China

10:00 **0306** Do ecological sieves narrow the field host range of a classical biological control agent candidate for the brown marmorated stink bug? **Paul Botch** (botchpau@msu.edu) and **Ernest Delfosse**, Michigan State Univ., East Lansing, MI

10:15 **BREAK**

10:30 **0307** Preemptive assessment of the biosafety of a classical biocontrol agent: Responses of *Trissolcus japonicus* to New Zealand's native Pentatomidae prior to the arrival of BMSB. **John Charles** (john.charles@plantandfood.co.nz), **Robin Gardner**-Gee, Sophie Hunt, Frances MacDonald, and Vicky Davis, The New Zealand Institute for Plant & Food Research, Ltd., Auckland, New Zealand

10:45 **0308** Mass rearing of *Spalgis epius* (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae), a candidate biocontrol agent of mealybugs (Hemiptera: Pseudococcidae). **Melally Giddegowda Venkatesha** (venkatmelally@gmail.com), Bangalore Univ., Bangalore, India

11:00 **0309** Population fluctuation of Bagrada bug (*Bagrada hilaris*) and its natural enemies in Saltillo, Mexico. **Reyna Torres-Acosta** (rita_taz84@hotmail.com)¹, Veronica Hernandez-Hernandez¹, Richard Humber², Oscar E. Rosales-Escobar¹, and Sergio Sanchez-Peña¹, ¹Antonio Narro Agrarian Autonomous Univ., Saltillo, Mexico, ²USDA - ARS, Ithaca, NY

11:15 **0310** Predator effectiveness and their roles in controlling thrips on lettuce under hydroponic cultivation. **Sopon Uraichuen** (sopon.u@ku.ac.th) and Rattigan Submok, Kasetsart Univ., Nakhon Pathom, Thailand

11:30 **0311** Predatory thrips complex in northern Thailand. **Samaporn Saengyot** (sama_mju@yahoo.com), MaeJo Univ., San Sai, Thailand

11:45 **0312** Using parasitoid data from the native range to predict attack in the invaded range. **Gregory S. Wheeler** (greg.wheeler@ars.usda.gov)¹ and Fernando Mc Kay², ¹USDA - ARS, Ft. Lauderdale, FL, ²FuEDEI, Buenos Aires, Argentina

12:00 **0313** Potential Indian anthocorid predators – an overview. **Chandish Ballal** (ballalchandish@gmail.com)¹, Kazutaka Yamada², and Richa Varshney¹, ¹National Bureau of Agricultural Insect Resources, Bangalore, India, ²Tokushima Prefectural Museum, Tokushima, Japan

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

Room W224 D (Convention Center)

**Moderators:** Keith Stokes¹ and John Charles², ¹USDA - ARS, Albany, CA, ²The New Zealand Institute for Plant & Food Research, Ltd., Auckland, New Zealand

9:15 **0303** A meta-analytic comparison of biological control and natural top-down regulation. **Keith Stokes** (keith.stokes@ars.usda.gov)¹, Peter Stiling², and Paul Pratt¹, ¹USDA - ARS, Albany, CA, ²Univ. of South Florida, Tampa, FL

9:30 **0304** Classical and augmentative biological control in host-rich and host-poor environments. **Ernest Delfosse** (delfosse@cns.msu.edu)¹ and Paul Ode², ¹Michigan State Univ., East Lansing, MI, ²Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO

9:45 **0305** Biological control of the brown marmorated stink bug, *Halyomorpha halys* (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae), using *Euthyrhynchus floridanus* (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae). **Julio Medal** (julio.medal@freshfromflorida.com), Florida Dept. of Agriculture and Consumer Services, Gainesville, FL

Contributed Papers: Ecology and Population Dynamics: Sampling

West Hall F3 (WF3) (Convention Center)

**Moderators:** Christopher G. Adams¹ and Ellen Yerger², ¹Michigan State Univ., East Lansing, MI, ²Indiana Univ. of Pennsylvania, Indiana, PA

9:15 **0314** The life history, behavior, and conservation of the tiger spiketail dragonfly (*Cordulegaster erronea* Hagen) in New Jersey with notes on radiotelemetry studies. **David Moskowitz** (dmoskowitz@ecolsciences.com), Rutgers, The State Univ. of New Jersey, Rockaway, NJ
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9:30 **0315** Using ectoparasites to demonstrate population dynamics. **M. D. Meyer** (michael.meyer@cnu.edu), Kelsey Ekholm, Joseph Danielson, and Richard Sherwin, Christopher Newport Univ., Newport News, VA

9:45 **0316** Automatic detection and counting of rice planthoppers in paddy fields by image processing methods. **Qing Yao** (q-yao@126.com)¹, Zheng Wang¹, Guote Chen¹, Jiang Tang², and Baojun Yang², ¹Zhejiang Sci-Tech Univ., Hangzhou, China, ²China National Rice Research Institute, Hangzhou, China

10:00 **0317** A sampling program for the white mango scale *Aulacaspis tubercularis* Newstead (Hemiptera: Diaspididae). **Mario A. Urías-López** (urias.marioalfonso@inifap.gob.mx)¹, Urbano Nava-Camberos² and Luis M. Hernández-Fuentes³, ¹National Institute of Forest Research, Agriculture and Livestock, Santiago Ixcuintla, Mexico, ²Juarez Univ. of the State of Durango, Gómez Palacio, Mexico, ³INIFAP, Santiago Ixcuintla, Mexico

10:15 **BREAK**

10:30 **0318** Presentation withdrawn

10:45 **0319** Trapping of biological random walkers Part 1: Predictions for single-trap, multiple-release outcomes based on computer simulations. James Miller¹, Paul A. Weston², Christopher Adams¹, Jeffrey Schenker¹, and Peter S. McGhee (mcghee@msu.edu)¹, ¹Michigan State Univ., East Lansing, MI, ²Charles Sturt Univ., Wagga Wagga, Australia

11:00 **0320** Trapping of biological random walkers Part 2: Field results of single-trap, multiple-release experiments with codling moth, *Cydia pomonella*. **Christopher G. Adams** (adamsch@msu.edu), Larry Gut, Jeffrey Schenker, and James R. Miller, Michigan State Univ., East Lansing, MI

11:15 **0321** Trapping of biological random walkers Part 3: Two-dimensional heat equation as the foundation for translating catch number into absolute pest density. James R. Miller, **Jeffrey Schenker** (jeffrey@math.msu.edu), and Christopher G. Adams, Michigan State Univ., East Lansing, MI

11:30 **0322** A method to determine leaf area eaten by insect herbivores, with novel software that computes missing leaf portions. **Ellen Yerger** (ellen.yerger@iup.edu) and H. Edward Donley, Indiana Univ. of Pennsylvania, Indiana, PA

11:45 **0323** Visualizing age-specific daily activity levels and cohort survival in *D. melanogaster*: A minute-by-minute analysis. **Congwei Yu** (cowyu@ucdavis.edu)¹, Sarah Silverman², Xiongkui He¹, Ed Lewis², and James R. Carey², ¹China Agricultural Univ., Beijing, China, ²Univ. of California, Davis, CA

**Contributed Papers: Entomological Effects of Global Warming in Agriculture and Medical Entomology**

**Room W314 A (Convention Center)**

**Moderators:** Joon-Ho Lee¹, Byju N. Govindan², and Osama Seidahmed³, ¹Seoul National Univ., Seoul, South Korea, ²Washington State Univ., Pullman, WA, ³Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA

9:15 **0324** A mechanistic model for dengue under the coexistence of *Aedes aegypti* and *Aedes albopictus* in endemic areas. **Osama Seidahmed** (omekki@mit.edu) and Elfatih Eltahir, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA

9:30 **0325** *Cotesia vestalis* (Haliday) reduced basal and plastic responses to temperature may compromise efficacy of *Plutella xylostella* (L.) biological control under climate change. **Honest Machekano** (honest.machekano@studentmail.biust.ac.bw) and Casper Nyamukondiwa, Botswana International Univ. of Science and Technology, Palapye, Botswana

9:45 **0326** Predicting climate change impacts on the phenology of the bean bug *Riptortus pedestris* using simulation models in Korea. Hyoseok Lee, Hyoeun Kim, and **Joon-Ho Lee** (jh7lee@snu.ac.kr), Seoul National Univ., Seoul, South Korea

10:00 **0327** CLIMEX based potential distribution of *Tuta absoluta* (Meyrick) (Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae) under climate change. **Vaddi Sridhar** (vsridhar@iihr.res.in)¹, L. S. Vinesh², M. Jayashankar², and R. Ashokan², ¹Indian Institute of Horticultural Research, Bangalore, India, ²Indian Council of Agricultural Research, Bangalore, India

10:15 **BREAK**

10:30 **0328** Simulated effects of CO₂ and warming on cereal leaf beetle (*Oulema melanopus*) induced crop loss on winter wheat in the Pacific Northwest USA. **Byju N. Govindan** (ngbyju@gmail.com)¹, Sanford D. Eigenbrode², and Claudio Stockle¹, ¹Washington State Univ., Pullman, WA, ²Univ. of Idaho, Moscow, ID

**Contributed Papers: Entomology Around the World**

**Room W224 A (Convention Center)**

**Moderators:** Nannan Liu and Ming Li, Auburn Univ., Auburn, AL

9:15 **0329** Cold disinfestation for fruit flies – 100 years of research, regulation, and trade. **Caitano De Lima** (cpfdelima@hotmail.com)¹ and Joanne Wilson², ¹AgHort Solutions, Perth, Australia, ²Ministry for Primary Industries, Wellington, New Zealand

9:30 **0330** National moth week: A growing global event. **John Cambridge** (john.cambridge000@gmail.com)¹, David Moskowitz², and George C. Hamilton¹, ¹Rutgers, The State Univ. of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ, ²Rutgers, The State Univ. of New Jersey, Rockaway, NJ

9:45 **0331** Beetles, bugs, and butterflies — reflections on 25 years of bug camp. **Steven Murphree** (steve.murphree@belmont.edu), Belmont Univ., Nashville, TN

10:00 **0332** Eating larvae of *Pachymerus nucleorum* (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae): An endangered traditional practice in the north of Tocantins, Brazil. **Vivian Sandoval Gómez** (vivian.sandoval@gmail.com) and Virginia Sousa Soares, Federal Univ. of Tocantins, Araguaina, Brazil

10:15 **BREAK**
10:30 **0333** Insects and the public: Engagement, education, and outreach. **Luke Tilley** (luke@royensoc.co.uk), Royal Entomological Society, St. Albans, United Kingdom

10:45 **0334** Ecological engineering for rice insect pest management via biodiversity technology — approaches for up-scaling. **Zeng-Rong Zhu** (zrzhu2005@sina.com)¹, Kong Luen Heong¹,², Monina Escalada³, and Jiaan Cheng¹, ¹Zhejiang Univ., Hangzhou, China, ²CABI, Selangor, Malaysia, ³Visayas State Univ., Baybay City, Philippines

11:00 **0335** Early detection of pink bollworm (*Pectinophora gossypiella* (Saunders)) using remote sensing technologies. **Mona Yones** (monayones@yahoo.com)¹, Hassan Dahi², Eslam Farag², Walaa Gamil², and Mohamed Aboelghar², ¹National Authority for Remote Sensing and Space Sciences, Cairo, Egypt, ²Cairo Univ., Cairo, Egypt

11:15 **0336** Progress in developing an international grand challenge agenda for global entomology programming. **Phillip G. Mulder** (phil.mulder@okstate.edu)¹, C. David Gammel², Frank Zalom³, and Grayson Brown⁴, ¹Oklahoma State Univ., Stillwater, OK, ²Entomological Society of America, Annapolis, MD, ³Univ. of California, Davis, CA, ⁴Univ. of Kentucky, Lexington, KY

11:30 **0337** Taxonomic review of the tribe Eucosmini (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae) in the Korean peninsula. Bong-Kyu Byun and **Da-Som Kim** (n4311@hanmail.net), Hannam Univ., Daejeon, South Korea

11:45 **0338** Vinsectos: A survey of insects depicted on wine labels. **Jack Jenkins** (jackjenkins@qwestoffice.net), Pacific BioControl Corporation, Litchfield, AZ

12:00 **0339** Presentation withdrawn

12:15 **0340** Presentation withdrawn

12:30 **0341** Biogeography of hyperdiverse flightless weevils reflects the complex geological history of the Sunda Arc revealed through biogeographic model selection. **Matthew Van Dam** (matthewhvandam@gmail.com), Bavarian State Collection of Zoology, Munich, Germany

10:00 **0345** World's first automated mass digitization line for pinned insects. **Hannu Saarenmaa** (hannu.saarenmaa@uef.fi), Janne Karppinen, Riitta Tegelberg, and Zhengzhe Wu, Univ. of Eastern Finland, Joensuu, Finland

10:15 **BREAK**

10:30 **0346** Quantifying insect movement and behavior. **Michael Guidi** (michael.guidi@noldus.com), Noldus Information Technology, Asheville, NC

10:45 **0347** Quantifying functional diversity of insect communities. **Jeffrey Holland** (jdhollan@purdue.edu) and Ashley Kissick, Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN

11:00 **0348** Effects of radio transmitter attachment on flying insects: A case study using *Bombus terrestris*. **Brian Cutting** (brian.cutting@plantandfood.co.nz)¹, Lisa Evans¹, Ashleigh Weatherall², Anita Pearson², Nadège Goëbau³, and David Pattemore¹, ¹The New Zealand Institute for Plant & Food Research, Ltd., Hamilton, New Zealand, ²Univ. of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand, ³Agrocampus-Ouest, Rennes, France

11:15 **0349** DNA barcoding for the identification of North American Pyraustinae (Lepidoptera: Pyraloidea: Crambidae). **Zhaofu Yang** (zfy6511@gmail.com)¹, Jean-François Landry², Yalin Zhang¹, and Paul Hebert³, ¹Northwest A&F Univ., Yangling, China, ²Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Ottawa, ON, Canada, ³Univ. of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada

11:30 **0350** Ode-omatic ID: A system for automatically identifying dragonflies and damselflies (Odonata) from wings. **William R. Kuhn** (willkuhn@vt.edu)¹, Gareth Russell², and Jessica Ware¹, ¹Rutgers, The State Univ. of New Jersey, Newark, NJ, ²New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ

11:45 **0351** Exploiting plant DNA barcoding to determine nectar sources of Rift Valley fever, dengue, and malaria mosquito vectors. **Vincent Nyasembe** (vnyasembe@icipe.org), David Tchouassi, and Baldwyn Torto, International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology, Nairobi, Kenya

12:00 **0352** A tale of two datasets: Consilient approaches toward detailing the evolutionary history of ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). **Phillip Barden** (pbarden@amnh.org) and Jessica Ware, Rutgers, The State Univ. of New Jersey, Newark, NJ

12:15 **0353** Frontiers in live Strepsiptera collection: The *Elenchus koebelei* (Pierce) and *Triozocera mexicana* (Pierce) connection. **Marisano James** (mjajames@ucdavis.edu), Univ. of California, Davis, CA

## Contributed Papers: Frontiers in Entomology: Tools and Methods

### Room W224 G (Convention Center)

**Moderators:** Nikos Papadopoulos¹ and Pierre Martin², ¹Univ. of Thessaly, Nea Ionia, Greece, ²CIRAD, Montpellier, France

9:15 **0342** Innovation under pressure: New tools and methods in systemic injection. Joseph Doccola and **Don Grosman** (dgrosman@arborjet.com), Arborjet, Inc., Woburn, MA

9:30 **0343** Knowledge management for a wonderful (computerized) world. **Pierre Martin** (pierre.martin@cirad.fr)¹, Pierre Silvie² and François-Régis Goebel¹, ¹CIRAD, Montpellier, France, ²IRD/CIRAD, Montpellier, France

9:45 **0344** *Morpho* morphometrics: Shared ancestry and selection drive the evolution of wing size and shape in *Morpho* butterflies. **Vincent Debat** (debat@mnhn.fr), National Museum of Natural History, Paris, France

## Contributed Papers: Insect Chemical Ecology: Physiology

### Room W224 B (Convention Center)

**Moderators:** Julien Pelletier¹ and Jing-Jiang Zhou², ¹Keele Univ., Keele, United Kingdom, ²Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, United Kingdom

9:15 **0354** Sublethal effects of larval exposure to phosphine on reproductive activities of *Liposcelis entomophila* (Enderlein). **Yujie Lu** (luyujie1971@163.com), Henan Univ. of Technology, Zhengzhou, China
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9:30 **0355** Odorant receptor-based discovery of natural repellents of human lice. **Julien Pelletier** (j.pelletier@keele.ac.uk)¹, Pingxi Xu², Kyong Sup Yoon³, John M. Clark³, and Walter S. Leal². ¹Keele Univ., Keele, United Kingdom, ²Univ. of California, Davis, CA, ³Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA

9:45 **0356** Effects of overexpressing individual lignin biosynthetic enzymes on feeding and growth of corn earworms (*Helicoverpa zea*) and fall armyworms (*Spodoptera frugiperda*). **Patrick Dowd** (patrick.dowd@ars.usda.gov)¹, Thomas Clemente², and Scott E. Sattler³. ¹USDA - ARS, Peoria, IL, ²Univ. of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE, ³USDA - ARS, Lincoln, NE

10:00 **0357** Crystal structures and binding dynamics of odorant-binding protein 3 from two aphid species *Megoura viciae* and *Nasonovia ribisnigri*. Tom Northey¹, Herbert Ventthur², Filomena De Biasio³, Francois-Xavier Chauviac¹, Ambrose Cole¹, Karlos Ribeiro⁴, Gerarda Grossi³, Patrizia Falabella³, Lin Field⁴, Nicholas Keep¹, and **Jing-Jiang Zhou** (jing-jiang.zhou@rothamsted.ac.uk)⁴. ¹Univ. of London, London, United Kingdom, ²Univ. of La Frontera, Temuco, Chile, ³Univ. of Basilicata, Potenza, Italy, ⁴Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, United Kingdom

10:15 **BREAK**

10:30 **0358** Evolution of the frontal gland in termites (Isoptera) and its role in alarm communication. **Jan Sobotnik** (Sobotnik@seznam.cz)¹, David Sillam-Dussès²,³, Jitka Pflegerová¹, Valeria Palma Onetto¹, Barbora Krizkova¹, Petr Stiblik¹, František Júna¹, Kristýna Hošková¹, Cecilia Dahlsjö¹, and Thomas Bourguignon⁴. ¹Czech Univ. of Life Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic, ²Univ. of Paris 13, Villetaneuse, France, ³IRD, Bondy, France, ⁴The Univ. of Sydney, Camperdown, Australia

10:45 **0359** The sexy smell of sickness: Establishing a link between metabolic, immune, and pheromone pathways in *Drosophila*. Ian Keesey (ikeesey@ice.mpg.de)¹, Sarah Koerte¹, Nicolas Buchon², Markus Knaden¹, and Bill Hansson¹. ¹Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, Jena, Germany, ²Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY

11:00 **0360** Function of pheromone binding proteins in olfactory recognition of two sympatric *Dendrolimus*. **Sufang Zhang** (zhangsf@caf.ac.cn), Xiangbo Kong, Hongbin Wang, and Zhen Zhang, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Beijing, China

11:15 **0361** Electrophysiological and behavioral responses of tomato-potato psyllid, *Bactericera cockerelli*, to olfactory and visual stimuli. **Kye Chung Park** (kpark@plantandfood.co.nz), The New Zealand Institute for Plant & Food Research, Ltd., Christchurch, New Zealand

11:30 **0362** Analysis of polar cuticular lipids and their roles in semiochemical signaling. **Robert Renthal** (robert.renthal@utsa.edu), The Univ. of Texas, San Antonio, TX

11:45 **0363** Candidate chemosensory protein genes in whitefly *Bemisia tabaci* by transcriptome analysis. Ran Wang, Cheng Qu, **Fengqi Li** (pandit@163.com), and Chen Luo, Beijing Academy of Agriculture and Forestry Sciences, Beijing, China

12:00 **0364** Lock-in amplified gas chromatography – electroantennography implemented using a Deans switch. **Andrew Myrick** (ajm25@psu.edu) and Thomas C. Baker, Pennsylvania State Univ., University Park, PA

12:15 **0365** Linking ecological adaptations in olfaction-based reproductive behaviors in a phytophagous and a bloodsucking insect species. **Muhammad Binyameen** (mbinyameen@bzu.edu.pk)¹, Sarfraz Shad¹, Raheel Qadeer¹, Muhammad Khan¹, Rizwan Shah¹, Muhammad Imran¹, Mehboob Alam¹, Qasim Ali¹, Shahid Majeed², and Zahid Sarwar¹. ¹Bahauddin Zakariya Univ., Multan, Pakistan, ²Univ. of Agriculture, Faisalabad, Pakistan

Contributed Papers: Insect Chemical Ecology: Plant Protection

West Hall F1 (WF1) (Convention Center)

**Moderators:** Amanuel Tamiru Abamo¹ and Joseph Patt², ¹International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology, Mbita, Kenya, ²USDA - ARS, Ft. Pierce, FL

9:15 **0366** Effects of exogenous application of methyl jasmonate on foliar volatile emission in sweet orange (*Citrus sinensis*) and aggregation behavior of Asian citrus psyllid (*Diaphorina citri*). **Joseph Patt** (joseph.patt@ars.usda.gov), Paul S. Robbins, Rocco Alessandro, and Greg McCollum, USDA - ARS, Ft. Pierce, FL

9:30 **0367** Plant signalling: Opportunities for management of cereal stemborers in sub-Saharan Africa. **Tigist Tolosa** (ttolosa@icipe.org)¹,², Charles Midega¹, Johnnie van den Berg², Michael Birkett³, Christine Woodcock³, Toby Bruce³, John Pickett³, and Zeyaur Khan¹. ¹International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology, Nairobi, Kenya, ²North-West Univ., Potchefstroom, South Africa, ³Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, United Kingdom

9:45 **0368** Efforts to identify the major sex pheromone component of the mushroom sciarid fly, *Lycoriella ingenua*. **Stefanos Andreadis** (ssa18@psu.edu)¹, Kevin Cloonan¹, Andrew Myrick¹, Haibin Chen², and Thomas C. Baker¹. ¹Pennsylvania State Univ., University Park, PA, ²Wenzhou Medical Univ., Wenzhou, China

10:00 **0369** Repellency of phylogenetically diverse plant odors to *Contarinia nasturtii* (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae). **Chase Stratton** (castratt@uvm.edu)¹, Cesar Rodriguez-Saona², Elisabeth Hodgdon¹, and Yolanda Chen¹. ¹Univ. of Vermont, Burlington, VT, ²Rutgers, The State Univ. of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ

10:15 **BREAK**

10:30 **0370** Sulcatone and sulcatol as pheromone components of cerambycid beetles in the subfamily Lamiinae. **Linnea R. Meier** (linrmeier@gmail.com)¹, Judy A. Mongold-Diers¹, Yunfan Zou², Jocelyn G. Millar², and Lawrence M. Hanks³. ¹Univ. of Illinois, Champaign, IL, ²Univ. of California, Riverside, CA, ³Univ. of Illinois, Urbana, IL
10:45 **0371** Triterpenoids as determinants of birch chemical defense against gypsy moth (*Lymantria dispar*). Irina Belousova¹, Elena Chernyak², Sergey Morozov², and **Vyacheslav Martemyanov** (martemyanov79@yahoo.com)¹, ¹Institute of Systematics and Ecology of Animals, Novosibirsk, Russia, ²Novosibirsk Institute of Organic Chemistry, Novosibirsk, Russia

11:00 **0372** Laboratory and field assessment of candidate pheromone blends for mating disruption of the swede midge, *Contarinia nasturtii* (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae). **Elisabeth Hodgdon** (ehodgdon@uvm.edu)¹, Rebecca Hallett² and Yolanda Chen¹, ¹Univ. of Vermont, Burlington, VT, ²Univ. of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada

11:15 **0373** Two noctuid herbivores exhibit species-specific differences in survival, body development, muscle gene expression, and adult flight capacity in response to variation in host plant induced defenses. **Scott Portman** (slportman37@gmail.com)¹, Michelle Peiffer², Gary Felton², and James H. Marden², ¹Montana State Univ., Conrad, MT, ²Pennsylvania State Univ., University Park, PA

11:30 **0374** Role of caterpillar saliva in mediating transcripts encoding proteins for synthesis of plant secondary metabolites. **Ching-Wen Tan** (czt5069@psu.edu), Michelle Peiffer, and Gary Felton, Pennsylvania State Univ., University Park, PA

11:45 **0375** A rocky road to success — the sex pheromone of *Dendrolimus pini*. Dorota Staszek¹, Krzysztof Rudzinski¹, **Lidia Sukovata** (lsoukovata@ibles.waw.pl)², Monika Asztemborska¹, Rafal Szmigielski¹, Piotr Wawrzyniak¹, Marek Cieslak¹, Andrzej Kolk², and Jerzy Raczko¹, ¹Institute of Physical Chemistry, Warsaw, Poland, ²Forest Research Institute, Raszyn, Poland

12:00 **0376** A maize landrace with a novel indirect defense signaling trait possesses a strongly inducible (*E*)-caryophyllene synthase gene. **Amanuel Tamiru** (atamiru@icipe.org)¹, Annett Richter², Toby Bruce³, Christine Woodcock³, John Pickett³, Segenet Kelemu¹, Jörg Degenhardt², and Zeyaur Khan¹, ¹International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology, Nairobi, Kenya, ²Martin Luther Univ., Halle, Germany, ³Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, United Kingdom

Wen-Hao Deng, Min-Jing Zhang, Zhen Zhang, Shu-Sheng Liu, and Yin-Quan Liu, Zhejiang Univ., Hangzhou, China

10:00 **0380** Regulation of antimicrobial genes via insulin-like signaling pathway in silkworm, *Bombyx mori*. **Xiao-Juan Deng** (dengxj@scau.edu.cn), South China Agricultural Univ., Guangzhou, China

10:15 **BREAK**

10:30 **0381** Regulation and function of thioester-containing proteins in the *Drosophila* immune response against the pathogen *Photorhabdus. loannis* **Eleftherianos** (ioannise@gwu.edu), The George Washington Univ., Washington, DC

10:45 **0382** Transcriptional inhibition of BmToll9-1 by dsRNA in the silkworm larval midgut. **Jisheng Liu** (jisheng.liu@gzhu.edu.cn)¹, Wenli Liao¹, Guy Smagghe², and Luc Swevers³, ¹Guangzhou Univ., Guangzhou, China, ²Ghent Univ., Ghent, Belgium, ³Institute of Biosciences & Applications, Athens, Greece

11:00 **0383** Toward understanding the molecular and structural basis of the initiation of a serine protease cascade for insect immune responses. **Daisuke Takahashi**, Brandon Garcia, Brian Geisbrecht, and Michael Kanost (kanost@ksu.edu), Kansas State Univ., Manhattan, KS

11:15 **0384** Molecular changes in *Manduca sexta* accompanying enhanced immune competency across generations. **Wendy Smith** (w.smith@neu.edu), Rebeca B. Rosengaus, Steve Vollmer, and Chuck Roesel, Northeastern Univ., Boston, MA

11:30 **0385** The molecular basis of nutrient exchange in the whitefly symbiosis with two intracellular bacteria. **Junbo Luan** (jl2957@cornell.edu)¹, Wenbo Chen¹, Daniel Hasegawa¹, Alvin M. Simmons², Kai-Shu Ling², William Wintermantel³, Zhangjun Fei¹, Shu-Sheng Liu⁴, and Angela E. Douglas¹, ¹Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY, ²USDA - ARS, Charleston, SC, ³USDA - ARS, Salinas, CA, ⁴Zhejiang Univ., Hangzhou, China

11:45 **0386** Vaccination à la honey bees (*Apis mellifera*). **Dalial Freitak** (dalial.freitak@helsinki.fi)¹, Heli Salmela¹, and Gro V. Amdam², ¹Univ. of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland, ²Arizona State Univ., Tempe, AZ

12:00 **0387** How nutrition affects immunity and resistance in *Drosophila melanogaster*. **Fleur Ponton** (fleur.ponton@sydney.edu.au), Macquarie Univ., Marsfield, Australia

## Contributed Papers: Insect Immunology: Molecular

### Room W315 A (Convention Center)

**Moderators:** Germain Chevignon¹ and Fleur Ponton², ¹Univ. of Georgia, Athens, GA, ²Macquarie Univ., Marsfield, Australia

9:15 **0377** *In vitro* transcriptomic analyses of the aphid's secondary symbiont, *Hamiltonella defensa*. **Germain Chevignon** (gchevign@uga.edu), Kerry M. Oliver, and Michael Strand, Univ. of Georgia, Athens, GA

9:30 **0378** Transferrin-1 as an immune protein in *Manduca sexta* and *Drosophila melanogaster*. **Maureen Gorman** (mgorman@ksu.edu), Lisa Brummett, and Michael Kanost, Kansas State Univ., Manhattan, KS

9:45 **0379** Mutualism meltdown between intracellular symbiotic bacteria and whitefly under high temperature stress. **Hong-Wei Shan** (hwshan2008@163.com),

## Contributed Papers: Insect-Plant Interactions in a Changing Climate: Abiotic Factors, Pollinators, and Pathogens

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

**Moderators:** Louis Nottingham¹ and Amanda Winters², ¹Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State Univ., Blacksburg, VA, ²Bowling Green State Univ., Bowling Green, OH

9:15 **0388** Consequences of land-use intensification on insect pollinator diversity and pollination services. **Jamie Stavert** (jamie.stavert@gmail.com)¹, Ignasi Bartomeus², David Pattemore³, Anne Gaskett¹, and Jacqueline Beggs¹, ¹Univ. of Auckland, Auckland,
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New Zealand, ²Biological Station of Doñana, Sevilla, Spain, ³The New Zealand Institute for Plant & Food Research, Ltd., Hamilton, New Zealand

9:30 **0389** Honeybee condition in urban ecosystems: Are cities hostile environments for insect pollinators? *Manuel Lequerica* (manuel.lequerica@sydney.edu.au), Paula Salonen, Tanya Latty, Caragh Threlfall, and Dieter Hochuli, The Univ. of Sydney, Sydney, Australia

9:45 **0390** Bee-flower interactions in relation to climate changes, foraging activity, and floral rewards of some Indian tree species. **Sunanda Dola** (drsunanda@gvptc.edu.in), Gayatri Vidya Parishad College for Degree and P. G. Courses, Visakhapatnam, India

10:00 **0391** Fungal endophyte can affect host selection behavior of cotton aphid (*Aphis gossypii*). **Wenqing Zhou** (alicia.wenqing@gmail.com)¹, Janice Krumm², James Starr¹, and Gregory Sword¹. ¹Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX, ²Widener Univ., Chester, PA

10:15 **BREAK**

10:30 **0392** Parthenium weed (*Parthenium hysterophorus* L.) associated phyllody phytoplasma and insect vector: A big threat for major agricultural crops. **Jam Ahmad** (jamnazire@yahoo.com) and Samina Ahmad, Univ. of Agriculture, Faisalabad, Pakistan

10:45 **0393** Assessing potential use of novel endophytes for insect pest control in tall fescue in Uruguay. **Ximena Cibils-Stewart** (xcibils@inia.org.uy)¹ and Alison Popay², ¹National Instute of Agricultural Research, Colonia, Uruguay, ²AgResearch, Ltd., Hamilton, New Zealand

11:00 **0394** Phytoplasma diseases in cassava. **Elizabeth Alvarez** (e.alvarez@cgiar.org), International Center for Tropical Agriculture, Cali, Colombia

11:15 **0395** Direct and indirect effects of predation and warming on herbivory and ecosystem processes. **Amanda Winters** (winteam@bgsu.edu) and Shannon Pelini, Bowling Green State Univ., Bowling Green, OH

11:30 **0396** Effect of atmospheric CO₂ rise on population size, development, and gene expression is different between populations of a seed beetle. **Midori Tuda** (tuda@grt.kyushu-u.ac.jp), Than Lin Aung, Than Hway Lwin, Kumiko Kagoshima, Kazuki Mori, and Kosuke Tashiro, Kyushu Univ., Fukuoka, Japan

11:45 **0397** Appearance of a new species increases community stability. **Zoltán László** (laszlozoltan@gmail.com)¹, Hunor Prázsmári¹, Tünde-Ilona Kelemen¹, Katalin Sólyom², and Béla Tóthmérész³, ¹Babeş Bolyai Univ., Cluj-Napoca, Romania, ²Univ. of Debrecen, Debrecen, Hungary, ³MTA-DE, Debrecen, Hungary

12:00 **0398** Future climate: Its effects on insect vectors and spread of plant diseases. **Piotr Trebicki** (piotr.trebicki@ecodev.vic.gov.au)¹, Rebecca Vandegeer², Nilsa A. Bosque-Pérez³, Kevin Powell⁴, Beatriz Dader⁵, Angela Freeman¹, Alan Yen², Glenn Fitzgerald¹, and Jo Luck⁶, ¹Dept. of Economic Development, Horsham, Australia, ²La Trobe Univ., Bundoora, Australia, ³Univ. of Idaho, Moscow, ID, ⁴Dept. of Economic Development, Rutherglen, Australia, ⁵Institute of Agricultural Sciences, Madrid, Spain, ⁶Plant Biosecurity Cooperative Research Centre, Bruce, Australia

12:15 **0399** Feared to forgotten: Did culture and climate subdue the Mexican bean beetle, *Epilachna varivestis?** **Louis Nottingham** (louisn@vt.edu) and Thomas P. Kuhar, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State Univ., Blacksburg, VA

12:30 **0400** Elevated CO₂ condition reduces the cabbage foliage quality and allelochemicals that consequently affect the performance of the herbivorous insect *Spodoptera litura* (Fab.). **Pham Anh Tuan** (tuan.nipp@gmail.com), Teakwood Papitchaya, and Shaw-Yhi Hwang, National Chung Hsing Univ., Taichung, Taiwan

12:45 **0401** Effect of climatic factors on pest incidence in chickpea (*Cicer arietinum* L.) across different sowing dates. Pavani Thatikonda¹, Ramesh Babu (tatinenir@yahoo.com)², Hari Sharma³, and Radhika K.⁴, ¹Professor Jayashankar Telangana State Agricultural Univ., Khammam, India, ²Acharya N. G. Ranga Agricultural Univ., Hyderabad, India, ³Dr. YS Parmar Univ. of Horticulture & Forestry, Nauni, Solan, India ⁴Acharya N. G. Ranga Agricultural Univ., Guntur, India

1:00 **0402** Impacts of elevated atmospheric CO₂ and O₂ on canopy defoliation in a northern temperate forest system. **Richard L. Lindroth** (richard.lindroth@wisc.edu), John Couture, Timothy D. Meehan, and Eric Kruger, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI

Contributed Papers: Integrated Pest Management and Sustainable Agriculture: Agronomic Crops

Room W230 A (Convention Center)

**Moderators:** Julien M. Beuzelin¹ and Luis Espino², ¹Louisiana State Univ., Baton Rouge, LA, ²Univ. of California Cooperative Extension, Colusa, CA

9:15 **0403** Effects of defoliation on Mississippi soybean yields. **Benjamin Thrash** (bct157@msstate.edu)¹, Angus Catchot¹, Jeff Gore², Don Cook², Fred Musser¹, Trent Irby¹, and Jason Krutz², ¹Mississippi State Univ., Mississippi State, MS, ²Mississippi State Univ., Stoneville, MS

9:30 **0404** Using remote sensing to improve the management of stink bugs in cotton in South Carolina. **Francis Reay-Jones** (freayjo@clemson.edu)¹, Jeremy Greene², Joe Maja², and Phil Bauer³, ¹Clemson Univ., Florence, SC, ²Clemson Univ., Blackville, SC, ³USDA - ARS, Florence, SC

9:45 **0405** Effects of foliar-applied jasmonic acid and seed-applied imidacloprid on phytohormone expression and twospotted spider mite populations in cotton. **Sebe Brown** (sbrown@agcenter.lsu.edu)¹, David Kerns¹ and Michael Stout², ¹Louisiana State Univ., Winnsboro, LA, ²Louisiana State Univ. AgCenter, Baton Rouge, LA

10:00 **0406** Phylogeography of a wheat pest (*Cephus cinctus*) revisited: Management implications. **Marie-Claude Bon** (mcbon@ars-ebcl.org)¹, Vincent Lesieur¹², Jean François Martin², Kim A. Hoelmer³, David K. Weaver⁴ and Terri Randolph⁵, ¹USDA - ARS, Montferrier-sur-Lez, France, ²Biological Center for the Management of Populations, Montferrier-le-Lez, France, ³USDA - ARS, Newark, DE, ⁴Montana State Univ., Bozeman, MT, ⁵Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO
10:15 **BREAK**

10:30 **0407** Effectiveness of monoterpenes as grain protectants against *Sitophilus oryzae* in stored wheat. **Samir Abdelgaleil** (samirabdelgaleil@gmail.com) and Mona Saad, Alexandria Univ., Alexandria, Egypt

10:45 **0408** Nutritional ecology of slug populations in Mid-Atlantic no-till grain fields. **Marion Le Gall** (marionlegall314@gmail.com) and John Tooker, Pennsylvania State Univ., University Park, PA

11:00 **0409** Does landscape structure influence cereal leaf beetle populations through enhancing the abundance of its specific parasitoid *Tetrastichus julis* in wheat fields? **Arash Kheirodin** (kheiroda@myumanitoba.ca)¹, Héctor A. Cárcamo², and Alejandro Costamagna¹, ¹Univ. of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada, ²Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Lethbridge, AB, Canada

11:15 **0410** A dynamic action threshold calculator for aphid management in cereal crops and its development into a mobile app. **Tyler Wist** (tyler.wist@agr.gc.ca)¹, Chrystel Olivier¹, Erl Svendsen¹, John Gavloski², Joan van Baaren³, and Owen Olfert¹, ¹Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Saskatoon, SK, Canada, ²Manitoba Agriculture, Food and Rural Initiatives, Carman, MB, Canada, ³Univ. of Rennes, Rennes, France

11:30 **0411** Interactive effects of soil silicon amendment and nitrogen fertilization on rice insect pest complex. **James Michael Villegas** (jamesvillegas12@gmail.com)¹, M. O. Way², and Michael Stout³, ¹Louisiana State Univ., Baton Rouge, LA, ²Texas A&M Univ., Beaumont, TX, ³Louisiana State Univ. AgCenter, Baton Rouge, LA

11:45 **0412** Developing a monitoring protocol using geostatistical Kriging to characterize the spatial distribution of tadpole shrimp (*Triops longicaudatus*) in California rice fields. **Joanna Bloese** (jbbloese@ucdavis.edu)¹, Luis Espino², Kevin Goding¹, Stacey Rice¹, and Larry Godfrey¹, ¹Univ. of California, Davis, CA, ²Univ. of California Cooperative Extension, Colusa, CA

12:00 **0413** Performance of Bt corn technologies in the Mid-South. **Don Cook** (dcook@drec.msstate.edu)¹, Angus Catchot², Nathan Little³, Nicholas Seiter⁴, Julien M. Beuzelin⁵, David Kerns⁶, Scott Stewart⁷, Gus Lorenz⁸, Larry Falconer¹, and Jeff Gore¹, ¹Mississippi State Univ., Stoneville, MS, ²Mississippi State Univ., Mississippi State, MS, ³USDA - ARS, Stoneville, MS, ⁴Univ. of Arkansas, Monticello, AR, ⁵Louisiana State Univ., Baton Rouge, LA, ⁶Louisiana State Univ., Winnsboro, LA, ⁷Univ. of Tennessee, Jackson, TN, ⁸Univ. of Arkansas, Lonoke, AR

12:15 **0414** Effects of corn grown in organically and conventionally managed soil on *Ostrinia nubilalis* behavior and populations. **Rebecca Schmidt-Jeffris** (schmidt-jeffris@cornell.edu) and Brian A. Nault, Cornell Univ., Geneva, NY

12:30 **0415** Dow Agrosciences transgenic corn strategy and field efficacy. **Kevin Johnson** (kdjohnson@dow.com)¹, Bradley W. Hopkins², Laura Campbell³, and Dwain M. Rule², ¹Dow AgroSciences, Danville, IL, ²Dow AgroSciences, Indianapolis, IN, ³Dow AgroSciences, Carbondale, IL

12:45 **0416** The reproductive ecology of female western corn rootworms (*Diabrotica virgifera virgifera* LeConte). **Sarah Hughson** (sahughson@gmail.com) and Joseph Spencer, Univ. of Illinois, Champaign, IL

## Contributed Papers: Integrated Pest Management and Sustainable Agriculture: Insecticides

### Room W224 E (Convention Center)

**Moderators:** Alejandro Calixto¹, Mahbuba Jahan², and K. S. Islam², ¹Dow AgroSciences, Wesley Chapel, FL, ²Bangladesh Agricultural Univ., Mymensingh, Bangladesh

9:15 **0417** Impacts of novel insecticides to three opiiine braconid parasitoids *Fopius arisanus* (Sonan), *Diachasmimorpha longicaudata* (Ashmead), and *Psylltalia fletcheri* (Silvestri) based on adult mortality under foliar cover spray application. **Steven Souder** (steven.souder@ars.usda.gov)¹,², Jaime Pinero³, Trevor Smith⁴, and Roger Vargas¹, ¹USDA - ARS, Hilo, HI, ²Univ. of Hawaii¹, Honolulu, HI, ³Lincoln Univ., Jefferson City, MO, ⁴Florida Dept. of Agriculture and Consumer Services, Gainesville, FL

9:30 **0418** Isoclast™ Active (Sulfoxaflor) for control of sap feeding insects in U.S. specialty crops. **Alejandro Calixto** (aacalixto@dow.com)¹, Melissa Willrich Siebert², Alistair McKay³, C. Kuniyoshi⁴, Jesse M. Richardson⁵, and James P. Mueller⁶, ¹Dow AgroSciences, Wesley Chapel, FL, ²Dow AgroSciences, Greenville, MS, ³Dow AgroSciences, Clovis, CA, ⁴Dow AgroSciences, Fresno, CA, ⁵Dow AgroSciences, Hesperia, CA, ⁶Dow AgroSciences, Brentwood, CA

9:45 **0419** Temporal profile of neonicotinoid concentrations in cotton, corn, and soybean resulting from insecticide seed treatments. **Adam Whalen** (daw153@msstate.edu)¹, Angus Catchot¹, Jeff Gore², Scott Stewart³, Gus Lorenz⁴, Don Cook², Fred Musser¹, Jeffrey Harris⁵, and Natraj Krishnan¹, ¹Mississippi State Univ., Mississippi State, MS, ²Mississippi State Univ., Stoneville, MS, ³Univ. of Tennessee, Jackson, TN, ⁴Univ. of Arkansas, Lonoke, AR, ⁵USDA - ARS, Baton Rouge, LA

10:00 **0420** Relative toxicity of some neonicotinoids insecticides and two common predators in controlling brown planthopper, *Nilaparvata lugens* (Stal). **Mahbuba Jahan** (jahan-bau@bau.edu.bd) and K. S. Islam, Bangladesh Agricultural Univ., Mymensingh, Bangladesh

10:15 **BREAK**

10:30 **0421** Effectiveness of insecticides against soybean stink bugs and side effects on *Telenomus podisi* and generalist predators. **Silvana Abbate** (silabbate@gmail.com)¹, Adela Ribeiro¹, Horacio Silva¹, Oscar Bentancur¹, and Enrique Castiglioni², ¹Univ. of the Republic, Paysandú, Uruguay, ²Univ. of the Republic, Rocha, Uruguay

10:45 **0422** Mode of action of triflumezopyrim (Pyrazalt™): A novel mesoionic insecticide for control of planthoppers in rice. **Luis Teixeira** (luis.a.teixeira@dupont.com)¹, Daniel Cordova¹, Eric Benner¹, Mark Schroeder¹, Daniel Vincent¹, Vineet Singh², Caleb Holyoke¹, Wenming Zhang¹, and Thomas Pahutski¹, ¹DuPont Crop Protection, Newark, DE, ²DuPont, Vadodara, Gujarat, India
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11:00 **0423** Triflumezopyrim (Pyrazalt™) — A new approach to rice plant hopper management in Asia Pacific. **Vineet Singh** (vineet.singh@dupont.com)¹, Luis Teixeira², Robert Leighty², Daniel Vincent², Daniel Cordova², Rameshwar Rattan¹, Gurulingappa Pampapathy³, Budi Irfan⁴, Iskandar Zulkarnain⁴, Pan Ya-Fei⁵, Haidern Zheng⁶, Quang Nguyen⁷, Wen Wu⁸, Sanjay Sharma⁹, Daisuke Yanagisawa¹⁰, Haruya Ogawa¹⁰, and Ung Park¹¹. ¹DuPont, Vadodara, India, ²DuPont Crop Protection, Newark, DE, ³DuPont, Bangalore, India, ⁴DuPont Agricultural Products, Jakarta, Indonesia, ⁵DuPont China Holding Company, Ltd., Shanghai, China, ⁶DuPont China Holding Company, Ltd., Wuhan, China, ⁷DuPont Vietnam Limited, Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam, ⁸DuPont China Holding Company, Ltd., Beijing, China, ⁹DuPont, Gurgaon, India, ¹⁰DuPont Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, Japan, ¹¹DuPont, Seoul, South Korea

11:15 **0424** Effects of Nealta® miticide on beneficial mites. **Katherine Walker** (katherine.walker@basf.com)¹, Surendra Dara², and Anna Howell³. ¹BASF, Research Triangle Park, NC, ²Univ. of California, San Luis Obispo, CA, ³Univ. of California, Ventura, CA

11:30 **0425** Nealta® miticide knows the good from the bad and the ugly. **Christa Ellers-Kirk** (christa.kirk@basf.com), Steve Broscious, Teresia Nyoike, Rianna Guethling, and Daniel O'Byrne, BASF, Research Triangle Park, NC

11:45 **0426** Nealta® miticide, a novel mode of action for spider mite control. **Anil Menon** (anil.menon@basf.com) and William Baxter, BASF, Research Triangle Park, NC

12:00 **0427** BASF Insecticides: A growing portfolio for North America and beyond. **Rebecca Willis** (rebecca.willis@basf.com), Daniel O'Byrne, Tommy Wofford, H. Alejandro Arevalo, Mark Peacock, and Christa Ellers-Kirk, BASF, Research Triangle Park, NC

12:15 **0428** Inscalis™: A new insecticide for piercing-sucking pest management. **Joe Stout** (joseph.stout@basf.com)¹, Teresia Nyoike², Tommy Wofford¹, Christa Ellers-Kirk¹, and H. Alejandro Arevalo¹. ¹BASF, Research Triangle Park, NC, ²Univ. of Florida, Gainesville, FL

12:30 **0429** Sivanto Prime: Protecting sorghum and alfalfa from sugarcane aphid and blue alfalfa aphid while preserving beneficial insects. **Amanda Beaudoin** (amanda.beaudoin@bayer.com) and Frank Rittemann, Bayer CropScience, Research Triangle Park, NC

12:45 **0430** Sivanto Prime: Protecting fruit and vegetable crops through a flexible fit in IPM programs. Amanda Beaudoin, **Adrian Duehl** (adrian.duehl@bayer.com), and Frank Rittemann, Bayer CropScience, Research Triangle Park, NC

1:00 **0431** Evaluation of insecticides and horticultural oils against scale insects in blueberries. **Bal Gautam** (bkgautam@uga.edu), Brian Little, and Ashfaq Sial, Univ. of Georgia, Athens, GA

Contributed Papers: Medical and Veterinary Entomology: Anopheles Vectors of Malaria

West Hall F2 (WF2) (Convention Center)

**Moderators:** Shune Oliver¹ and Brandyce St. Laurent², ¹Wits Research Institute for Malaria, Johannesburg, South Africa, ²National Institutes of Health, Rockville, MD

9:15 **0432** The effects of heavy metal pollution on the life history and expression of insecticide resistance in the major malaria vector *Anopheles arabiensis* (Diptera: Culicidae). **Shune Oliver** (shuneo@nicd.ac.za)¹,² and Basil Brooke¹, ¹Wits Research Institute for Malaria, Johannesburg, South Africa, ²National Institute for Communicable Diseases, Johannesburg, South Africa

9:30 **0433** Size doesn't matter: Why using mosquito wing length and body size as a proxy for vector competence doesn't work under variable conditions. **Lillian Shapiro** (llljacobs23@gmail.com), Rachel Thomas, and Matthew B. Thomas, Pennsylvania State Univ., University Park, PA

9:45 **0434** Adaptation to an inducible tissue-specific cell death system in the malaria vector, *Anopheles stephensi*: A case of the salivary gland. **Daisuke Yamamoto** (daisukey@jichi.ac.jp)¹, Megumi Sumitani², Katsumi Kasashima¹, Hideki Sezutsu², and Hiroyuki Matsuoka¹, ¹Jichi Medical Univ., Shimotsuke, Japan, ²National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences, Tsukuba, Japan

10:00 **0435** A case for employing functional education in the management of malaria in Ghana. Andreas Kudom and **Benjamin Mensah** (bmensah@ucc.edu.gh), Univ. of Cape Coast, Cape Coast, Ghana

10:15 BREAK

10:30 **0436** Increasing outdoor host seeking in *Anopheles gambiae* s.l. over six years of vector control on Bioko Island. **Jacob Meyers** (jacob.i.meyers@gmail.com)¹, Sharmila Pathikonda¹, Zachary Popkin-Hall¹, Matthew Medeiros¹, Godwin Fuseini², Abrahan Matias³, Guillermo Garcia³, Hans J Overgaard⁴, Vani Kulkarni¹, Vamsi Reddy¹, Christopher Schwabe², Jo Lines⁵, Immo Kleinschmidt⁵, and Michel A. Slotman¹. ¹Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX, ²Medical Care Development International, Silver Spring, MD, ³Medical Care Development International, Malabo, Equatorial Guinea, ⁴Norwegian Univ. of Life Sciences, Ås, Norway, ⁵London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

10:45 **0437** Delivery of insecticidal wall lining by community-based teams: Installation methods and acceptability in Bomi County, Liberia. Tuwuyor Belleh¹, **Jonas Ecke** (j_ecke@yahoo.com)², David Giesbrecht³, Julie Pontarollo¹, Oliver Pratt⁴, Victor Koko⁴, Sajid Kemal¹, Richard Allan⁵, and Levi Hinneh⁴. ¹The Mentor Initiative, Monrovia, Liberia, ²Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN, ³Univ. of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada, ⁴National Malaria Control Program Liberia, Monrovia, Liberia, ⁵The Mentor Initiative, Crawley, United Kingdom

11:00 **0438** Cow-baited tents as a tool to monitor and control malaria vectors in Cambodia. **Brandyce St. Laurent** (brandyce.stlaurent@nih.gov), National Institutes of Health, Rockville, MD
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11:15 **0439** Examination of the Nrf2 regulatory network in the Asian malaria mosquito, *Anopheles stephensi*. AEM Rubayet Elahi¹, Rebekah Ward², Hayden Roys², Sinthia Jahan², and **Helen Benes** (beneshelen@uams.edu)², ¹Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State Univ., Blacksburg, VA, ²Univ. of Arkansas, Little Rock, AR

11:30 **0440** Assessing the ecological risks of a hypothetical escape of genetically modified mosquitoes (*Anopheles gambiae*) from African insectaries. **Keith Hayes** (keith.hayes@csiro.au)¹, David Peel¹, Jessica Ford¹, Geoffrey Hosack¹, Anders Goncalves da Silva², Jeffrey Dambacher¹, Scott Foster¹, Ronald Thresher¹, Scott Ferson³, Nigel Beebe⁴, Simon Barry¹, and Paul de Barro⁵. ¹CSIRO, Hobart, Australia, ²Monash Univ., Melbourne, Australia, ³Applied Biomathematics, Setauket, NY, ⁴Univ. of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia, ⁵CSIRO, Brisbane, Australia

11:45 **0441** Distribution and abundance of *Anopheles* larvae in Toro Local Government Area, Bauchi State, Northeast Nigeria. **Akwashiki Ombugadu** (akwash24@gmail.com)¹,², Luka Isah³, Nannim Nanvyat¹, Mahanan Mafuyai¹, and Hasley Njila¹. ¹Entomological Society of Nigeria, Abuja, Nigeria, ²Ecological Society of Nigeria, Jos, Nigeria, ³Univ. of Jos, Jos, Nigeria

12:00 **0442** Presentation withdrawn

12:15 **0443** Impact of mass drug administration on the transmission of *Plasmodium falciparum* along the Thai-Myanmar border. **Victor Chaumeau** (victor.chaumeau@ird.fr)¹,², Phabele Phatharakokordbun³, Nithipa Kwansomboon⁴, Céline Montazeau¹, Bénédicte Fustec¹, Selma Metanne¹, Chiara Andolina⁵, Phubeth Ya-Umphan¹, Dominique Cerqueira³, Theeraphap Chareonviriyaphap⁴, Gilles Delmas³, François Nosten³, and Vincent Corbel¹. ¹Institute of Research for Development, Montpellier, France, ²Centre Hospitalier Univ., Montpellier, France, ³Shoklo Malaria Research Unit, Mae Sot, Thailand, ⁴Kasetsart Univ., Bangkok, Thailand, ⁵Shoklo Malaria Research Unit, Bangkok, Thailand

Contributed Papers: Medical and Veterinary Entomology: Forensic Entomology

Room W224 H (Convention Center)

**Moderators:** Kim Hung¹, Sibyl Bucheli², and Neal Haskell³. ¹North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC, ²Sam Houston State Univ., Huntsville, TX, ³Forensic Entomology Investigations, Rensselaer, IN

9:15 **0444** Responses of three filth fly families (Calliphoridae, Muscidae, and Sarcophagidae) to different odors. **Kim Hung** (kyhung@ncsu.edu), Steven Denning, Wes Watson, and Michael Reiskind, North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC

9:30 **0445** Fly-bacteria interactions on human cadavers during decomposition. **Sibyl Bucheli** (bucheli@shsu.edu), Keli King, Lauren Smith, Daniel Haarmann, Raymond Berry, and Aaron Lynne, Sam Houston State Univ., Huntsville, TX

9:45 **0446** Factors affecting diurnal flight and oviposition activity of blow flies (Diptera: Calliphoridae) in Indiana. **Neal Haskell** (blowfly@technologist.com), Forensic Entomology Investigations, Rensselaer, IN

10:00 **0447** Nocturnal oviposition in forensically important flies (Diptera: Calliphoridae) in South Africa. **Kirstin Williams** (kirstin.williams@durban.gov.za)¹ and Martin Villet², ¹Durban Natural Science Museum, Durban, South Africa, ²Rhodes Univ., Grahamstown, South Africa

10:15 **BREAK**

10:30 **0448** Human myiasis in rural South Africa. **Simon Kuria** (kkuria@wsu.ac.za)¹, Howard Kingu¹, Adupa Dhaffala¹, and Martin Villet², ¹Walter Sisulu Univ., Mthatha, South Africa, ²Rhodes Univ., Grahamstown, South Africa

10:45 **0449** Using micro-computed tomography in forensic entomology: A novel, non-destructive method for aging blow fly pupae. **Daniel Martín-Vega** (danielmvega@gmail.com)¹, Thomas Simonsen², and Martin Hall¹, ¹The Natural History Museum, London, United Kingdom, ²Natural History Museum, Aarhus, Denmark

11:00 **0450** Bacterial diversity and location within the internal organs of the blowfly *Lucilia sericata* (Meigen). **Natalie Gasz** (ngasz@deakin.edu.au) and Michelle Harvey, Deakin Univ. Australia, Geelong, Australia

11:15 **0451** Presentation withdrawn

Contributed Papers: Stored Products Entomology: Novel Strategies I

Room W224 C (Convention Center)

**Moderators:** Nazife Eroglu¹, Olajumoke Alabi², and Muhammad Saeed³, ¹Turkish Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey, Kocaeli, Turkey, ²Univ. of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria, ³Univ. of Haripur, Haripur, Pakistan

9:15 **0452** Potency of *Citrus paradisi* rind essential oil against the maize weevil, *Sitophilus zeamais*. Olufisayo Aina and **Olajumoke Alabi** (jmkalabi@yahoo.com), Univ. of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria

9:30 **0453** Effect of powder preparation of clove, ginger, garad, and galangal on the infestation of chickpea grains caused by adult cow pea weevil, *Callosobruchus maculatus*. **Faiza Salah** (faizaruba@yahoo.com), Univ. of Gezira, Wad Medani, Sudan

9:45 **0454** Potent Indian medicinal plant *Ixora coccinea* L. for the effective management of *Sitophilus oryzae* L. **P. Lakshmi Soujanya** (soujanyak.scientist@gmail.com)¹, J. C. Sekhar¹, Pradyumn Kumar², V. Dhanalaxmi³, P. Sravanthi³, and U. V. Mallavadhani³, ¹Indian Council of Agricultural Research, Hyderabad, India, ²Indian Council of Agricultural Research, New Delhi, India, ³Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, Secunderabad, India

10:00 **0455** Insecticidal potential of Detia Diatomaceous Earth (DDE) against *Lasioderma serricorni* (Fabricius) (Coleoptera: Anobiidae). **Muhammad Saeed** (drsaeedhu@gmail.com)¹, Abid Farid¹, Sher Aslam Khan¹, Muhammad Liaquat¹, Naushad Ali¹, Usman Shakir¹, Imtiaz Ali Khan², Tahir Badshah¹, Ayub Khan¹, Zia ur Rehman¹, and Shah Masaud Khan¹, ¹Univ. of Haripur, Haripur, Pakistan, ²Univ. of Agriculture, Peshawar, Pakistan

10:15 **BREAK**
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10:30 **0456** Effect of grain types on the insecticidal efficacy of *Beauveria bassiana* (Balsamo) Vuillemin mixed with diatomaceous earth against four field strains of *Rhyzopertha dominica* (F.). **Tahira Riasat** (tahirariasat@yahoo.com), Government College Univ., Faisalabad, Pakistan

10:45 **0457** Toxicity of Turkish zeolites (Clinoptilolite) combined with food grade silico aerogel against adults of *Tribolium confusum* on malting barley. **Nazife Eroglu** (nazifeeroglu@hotmail.com)¹ and Mevlut Emekci², ¹Turkish Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey, Kocaeli, Turkey, ²Ankara Univ., Ankara, Turkey

11:00 **0458** Evaluation of deltamethrin (KObiol) against major storage insect species. **Kimondo Mutambuki** (mutambukikimo@yahoo.com)¹, John Mbugua¹, and Christopher Ngatia², ¹Kenya Agricultural and Livestock Research Organization, Nairobi, Kenya, ²Kenya

11:15 **0459** Toxic effect of mixtures of selected fixed oils and synthetic insecticides on the control of maize weevil *Sitophilus zeamais* (Motschulsky). **Samuel Babarinde** (sababarinde@lautech.edu.ng)¹, Oladele Olaniran¹, Adeola Odewole¹, Adetayo Adeleye¹, and Ebenezer Esan², ¹Ladoke Akintola Univ. of Technology, Ogbomoso, Nigeria, ²Obafemi Awolowo Univ., Ibadan, Nigeria

11:30 **0460** Bioefficacy of phytosanitary irradiation against the various ontogenic stages of the solenopsis mealybug, *Phenacoccus solenopsis* (Homoptera: Pseudococcidae). **Mahtab Zarin** (mahtabzarin1@yahoo.co.in), Ranjana Seth, and Rakesh Kumar Seth, Univ. of Delhi, New Delhi, India

11:45 **0461** Biology and biointensive management of *Callosobruchus theobromae* Linnaeus (Coleoptera: Bruchidae). **D. R. Thakur** (drdr4@rediffmail.com), Himachal Pradesh Univ., Shimla, India

12:00 **0462** Potential of microwave irradiation on the postharvest control of cowpea weevil and the proximate composition of cowpea seeds. **Christopher Echereobia** (echereobia@yahoo.com)¹, Elechi Asawalam², Kingsley Emeasor², and Kitherian Sahayaraj³, ¹Federal Univ. of Technology, Owerri, Nigeria, ²Michael Okpara Univ. of Agriculture, Umuahia, Nigeria, ³St. Xavier's College, Palayamkottai, India

12:15 **0463** Integrated release of predatory anthocorid *Xylocoris flavipes* (Reuter) and a parasitoid *Bracon hebetor* Say against three moth pests of stored grains. **Tripti Gupta** (tripti123gupta@gmail.com), Pest Control India Pvt., Ltd., Bangalore, India

12:30 **0464** Bioinsecticidal effect of *Ailanthus excelsa* Roxb. bark against *Tribolium castaneum* (Herbst) (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae). **Imamoddin Ustad** (imamoddin_94@yahoo.com)¹ and Anilkumar Pardeshi², ¹Marathwada Univ., Aurangabad, IN, India, ²M. S. P. Mandal's Deogiri College, Aurangabad, India

Contributed Papers: Urban Entomology in a
Changing Environment: Bed Bugs, Cockroaches,
and Flies

Room W331 A (Convention Center)

**Moderators:** Shujuan Li¹, Eric Benson², and Katlyn Amos³, ¹Univ. of Arizona, Maricopa, AZ, ²Clemson Univ., Clemson, SC, ³Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State Univ., Blacksburg, VA

9:15 **0465** Life quality impacts of bed bug (Cimex lectularius L.) infestations. **Shujuan Li** (lisj@cals.arizona.edu)¹, Dawn Gouge¹, Al Fournier¹, Tim Stock², Alvaro Romero³, Shaku Nair¹, Carrie Foss⁴, Ruth Kerzee⁵, David Stone², Megan Dunn⁶, and Deborah Young⁷, ¹Univ. of Arizona, Maricopa, AZ, ²Oregon State Univ., Corvallis, OR, ³New Mexico State Univ., Las Cruces, NM, ⁴Washington State Univ., Puyallup, WA, ⁵Midwest Pesticide Action Center, Chicago, IL, ⁶Northwest Center for Alternatives to Pesticides, Eugene, OR, ⁷Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO

9:30 **0466** Proactive, inspection-based bed bug management programs demonstrate efficacy and savings in California's multi-unit housing environments. **Andrew Sutherland** (amsutherland@ucanr.edu)¹, Dong-Hwan Choe², and Vernard Lewis³, ¹Univ. of California Cooperative Extension, Hayward, CA, ²Univ. of California, Riverside, CA, ³Univ. of California, Richmond, CA

9:45 **0467** The use of proteomics in creating a new detection method for the common bed bug, *Cimex lectularius*. **Natasha Gordon** (ngordon@airmidhealthgroup.com)¹, Luke O'Shaughnessy¹, David Fitzpatrick², Sean Doyle², and Bruce Mitchell¹, ¹Airmid Healthgroup, Ltd., Dublin, Ireland, ²Maynooth Univ., Kildare, Ireland

10:00 **0468** Bed bug egg hatch rate and nymph survival using four commercially-available insecticides applied as direct sprays. Kevin Hinson, **Eric Benson** (ebenson@clemson.edu), Patricia Zungoli, William Bridges, and Brittany Ellis, Clemson Univ., Clemson, SC

10:15 BREAK

10:30 **0469** Vacuuming bed bugs from naturally and artificially infested furniture. **Karen M. Vail** (kvail@utk.edu), Jennifer G. Chandler, John Glafenhein, and Rachel Harmon, Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN

10:45 **0470** Extreme pesticide use in response to bed bugs (Cimex lectularius) and German cockroach (Blattella germanica) infestations. **Dawn Gouge** (dhgouge@cals.arizona.edu)¹, Shujuan Li¹, Shaku Nair¹, Michael Wierda¹, Kevin Drake², Tim Stock³, and Al Fournier¹, ¹Univ. of Arizona, Maricopa, AZ, ²Arizona Dept. of Agriculture, Phoenix, AZ, ³Oregon State Univ., Corvallis, OR

11:00 **0471** Use of time-lapse photography (GoPro™ Cameras; GoPro, Inc., San Mateo, CA) to evaluate attractiveness of a novel fly bait in the field. **Katlyn Amos** (kamos@vt.edu)¹, Dini Miller¹, Molly L. Stedfast¹, and Nicola T. Gallagher², ¹Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State Univ., Blacksburg, VA, ²Syngenta, Greensboro, NC
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11:15 **0472** Novel house fly (*Musca domestica*) bioassay for assessing an early onset of behavioral change from bait intoxication. **David L. Cox** (david.cox@syngenta.com)¹ and Bob Cartwright², ¹Syngenta Crop Protection, Madera, CA, ²Syngenta Crop Protection, Greensboro, NC

11:30 **0473** Remote monitoring of urban insect pests. **Neil Spomer** (naspomer@dow.com)¹, Joe DeMark², and Ameya D. Gondhalekar³. ¹Dow AgroSciences, Indianapolis, IN, ²Dow AgroSciences, Fayetteville, AR, ³Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN

11:45 **0474** Mechanisms of the reduced cuticular penetration contributing high insecticide resistance in the common bed bug, *Cimex lectularius* L. **Reina Koganemaru** (rkoganemaru@gmail.com)¹, W. Ray², Richard Helm², Zach Adelman², and Dini Miller², ¹Sumitomo Chemical Co., Ltd., Takarazuka, Japan, ²Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State Univ., Blacksburg, VA

12:00 **0475** Using microsatellite markers and social network analysis to understand the dispersal of bed bugs in a multiunit dwelling. **Alexis M. Barbarin** (alexis_barbarin@ncsu.edu)¹, Edward Vargo², and Coby Schal¹, ¹North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC, ²Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX

12:15 **0476** Testing insecticide deployment strategies for German cockroach (*Blattella germanica* (L.)) resistance management. **Mahsa Fardisi** (mfardisi@purdue.edu), Michael Scharf, and Ameya D. Gondhalekar, Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN

12:00 **0481** The structure of gut communities in wild *Drosophila*. **Vince Martinson** (v.martinson@rochester.edu)¹, Angela Douglas², and John Jaenike¹, ¹Univ. of Rochester, Rochester, NY, ²Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY

12:15 **0482** Fungi associated with the grey-brown stinkbug (*Coenomorpha nervosa* Dallas) in pecan orchards in South Africa. **Vaughn Swart** (swartvr@ufs.ac.za)¹, Gert Marais¹, and Jaco Saaiman², ¹Univ. of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa, ²Rijk Zwaan South Africa (Pty.), Ltd., Krugersdorp, South Africa

## Monday, September 26, 2016 • AFTERNOON

### Symposium: Pest Shifting, Invasive Species, and Resistance Development in Key Growing Areas of the World and the Need for New Technology to Manage Insect Pests

**Room W314 B (Convention Center)**

**Moderators and Organizers:** Melissa Siebert¹ and Luis E. Gomez², ¹Dow AgroSciences, Greenville, MS, ²Dow AgroSciences, Indianapolis, IN

*This symposium is generously sponsored by Dow AgroSciences.*

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Dow AgroSciences

1:30 **0483** Case study 1: From introduction to IPM — history of the invasion of spotted wing drosophila (*Drosophila suzukii*) in the western United States. **David R. Haviland** (dhaviland@ucdavis.edu)¹, Robert A. Van Steenwyk², Elizabeth Beers³, Vaughn Walton⁴, and Jana Lee⁵, ¹Univ. of California Cooperative Extension, Bakersfield, CA, ²Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA, ³Washington State Univ., Wenatchee, WA, ⁴Oregon State Univ., Corvallis, OR, ⁵USDA — ARS, Corvallis, OR

2:00 **0484** Case study 2: Sugarcane aphid on grain sorghum. **David L. Kerns** (dkerns@agcenter.lsu.edu)¹, Michael Brewer², Robert Bowling³, and Mayra Aviles Gonzalez⁴, ¹Louisiana State Univ., Winnsboro, LA, ²Texas A&M AgriLife Research, Corpus Christi, TX, ³Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service, Corpus Christi, TX, ⁴Autonomous Univ. of Sinaloa, Costa Rica, Mexico

2:15 **0485** Case study 3: *Tuta absoluta* — field management and history of the invasion in southern Europe. **Antonio Monserrat** (antonio.monserrat@carm.es)¹, M. Andreu Ortin², and A. Castano Villar², ¹IMIDA, La Alberca-Murcia, Spain, ²Ministry of Agriculture and Water of the Region of Murcia, Murcia, Spain

2:30 **0486** Case study 4: *Tuta absoluta* — insecticide resistance management of this invasive species. **Pablo Bielza** (pablo.bielza@upct.es), Lidia Garcia-Vidal, and M. Martinez-Aguirre, Polytechnic Univ., Cartagena, Spain

2:45 **0487** Case study 5: *Helicoverpa armigera* — field management and history of invasion in Brazil. Paulo Degrande¹ and **Celso Omoto** (celso.omoto@usp.br)², ¹Federal Univ. of Grande Dourados, Dourados, Brazil, ²Univ. of São Paulo, Piracicaba, Brazil

## Contributed Papers: Arthropod Vectors of Animal and Plant Disease: Insect Endosymbionts and Microbiota

**Room W314 A (Convention Center)**

**Moderators:** Hagus Tarno¹, Harpreet Raina², and Vince Martinson³, ¹Univ. of Brawijaya, Malang, Indonesia, ²Univ. of Delhi, New Delhi, India, ³Univ. of Rochester, Rochester, NY

11:00 **0477** Understanding the role of bacterial endosymbionts in transmission of tomato yellow leaf curl virus disease by *Bemisia tabaci*. **Harpreet Raina** (hsraina007@gmail.com), Sonam Popli, and Raman Rajagopal, Univ. of Delhi, New Delhi, India

11:15 **0478** Ecological characterization of bacterial endosymbionts in field populations of the Asian citrus psyllid (*Diaphorina citri* Kuwayama). **Chia-Ching Chu** (merquisie@hotmail.com)¹, Torrence Gill¹, Mark Hoffmann², and Kirsten S. Pelz-Stelinski¹, ¹Univ. of Florida, Lake Alfred, FL, ²Univ. of California, Salinas, CA

11:30 **0479** Microbial community associated with ambrosia beetle (*Euplatypus parallelus*) on sonokembang (*Pterocarpus indicus*) in Malang. **Hagus Tarno** (h_gustarno@ub.ac.id), Erfan Septia, and Luqman Aini, Univ. of Brawijaya, Malang, Indonesia

11:45 **0480** Peptidoglycan Recognition Protein (PGRP) expression in the Asian citrus psyllid (*Diaphorina citri* Kuwayama) and implications for immune response to gram-negative bacteria. **Torrence Gill** (gilltorrence@hotmail.com), Alex Arp, and Kirsten Pelz-Stelinski, Univ. of Florida, Lake Alfred, FL
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3:00 BREAK

3:15 **0488** Case study 6: Managing neicotinoid target site resistant *Myzus persicae* (Sulzer) and *Aphis gossypii* Glover in Europe and South Korea.
**Maria Torne** (mtorne@dow.com)¹, Luis E. Gomez², Imre Mezei³, Raquel Abad Moyano¹, Jee Yi⁴, and Pablo Bielza⁵,¹Dow AgroSciences, Madrid, Spain, ²Dow AgroSciences, Indianapolis, IN, ³Dow AgroSciences, Budapest, Hungary, ⁴Dow AgroSciences, Seoul, South Korea, ⁵Polytechnic Univ., Cartagena, Spain

3:30 **0489** Case study 7: Sweet potato whitefly (*Bemisia tabaci*) in high value crops from Central America and Mexico. **Mariana Lastres Schindler** (lorenalastres@yahoo.es)¹, Mayra Aviles Gonzalez², Eswin Castañeda³, and Leonel Aviles⁴,¹Independent Consultant, Choluteca, Honduras, ²Autonomous Univ. of Sinaloa, Costa Rica, Mexico, ³Dow AgroSciences, Mixco, Guatemala, ⁴Dow AgroSciences, Culiacan, Mexico

3:45 **0490** Case study 8: Managing the challenges of the Asian citrus psyllid, *Diaphorina citri*, vector of the huanglongbing in Florida citrus: A mix of conventional and non-conventional approaches. **Harold Browning** (hwbr@citrusrdf.org), Univ. of Florida, Lake Alfred, FL

4:00 **0491** Emergency use authorizations — how regulators can help growers. **Nick Simmons** (nsimmons2@dow.com)¹, Paulo Milanezi², Valdirene Reno², Sheridawn Schoeman³, and Jamey Thomas¹,¹Dow AgroSciences, Indianapolis, IN, ²Dow AgroSciences, São Paulo, Brazil, ³Dow AgroSciences, Hitchin, United Kingdom

4:15 **0492** Pooling global resources to address regulatory requirements for managing emerging insect pests: A global approach for minor uses. **Daniel Kunkel** (kunkel@aesop.rutgers.edu), Keith Dorschner, Bill Barney, and Jerry Baron, IR-4 Project, Princeton, NJ

Symposium: Profiles of Forest Pests Ready to Cross Borders and Invade New Areas

Room W224 A (Convention Center)

**Moderators and Organizers:** Melody A. Keena¹, Alain Roques², and Yuri Baranchikov³, ¹USDA - Forest Service, Hamden, CT, ²INRA, Orléans, France, ³Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences, Krasnoyarsk, Russia

1:30 **0493** Nun moth, *Lymantria monacha* (Lepidoptera: Erebidae). **Melody A. Keena** (mkeena@fs.fed.us), USDA - Forest Service, Hamden, CT

1:45 **0494** Siberian moth, *Dendrolimus sibiricus* (Lepidoptera: Lasiocampidae). **Yuri Baranchikov** (baranchikov_yuri@yahoo.com), Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences, Krasnoyarsk, Russia

2:00 **0495** Pine processionary moth, *Thaumetopoea pityoccampa* (Lepidoptera: Notodontidae). **Alain Roques** (alain.roques@orleans.inra.fr), Jérôme Rousselet, and Christelle Robinet, INRA, Orléans, France

2:15 **0496** Emerald ash borer, *Agrilus planipennis* (Coleoptera: Buprestidae). **Therese Poland** (tpoland@fs.fed.us)¹, Deborah G. McCullough², and Leah S. Bauer¹, ¹USDA - Forest Service, Lansing, MI, ²Michigan State Univ., East Lansing, MI

2:30 **0497** Spotted lanternfly, *Lycorma delicatula* (Hemiptera: Fulgoridae). **Lawrence Barringer** (lbarringer@pa.gov), Bureau of Plant Industry, Harrisburg, PA

2:45 **0498** Mountain pine beetle, *Dendroctonus ponderosae* (Coleoptera: Curculionidae). **Christopher J. Fettig** (cfettig@fs.fed.us), USDA - Forest Service, Davis, CA

3:00 BREAK

3:15 **0499** European spruce bark beetle, *Ips typographus* (Coleoptera: Curculionidae). **Martin Schroeder** (martin.schroeder@slu.se)¹ and Bjørn Økland², ¹Swedish Univ. of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden, ²Norwegian Institute of Bioeconomy Research, Ås, Norway

3:30 **0500** Four-eyed fir bark beetle, *Polygraphus proximus* (Coleoptera: Curculionidae). **Ivan Kerchev** (ikea86@mail.ru), Russian Academy of Sciences, Tomsk, Russia

3:45 **0501** Pine sawyer beetle, *Monochamus galloprovincialis* (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae). **Géraldine Roux** (geraldine.roux@orleans.inra.fr), Julien Haran, Alain Roques, and Christelle Robinet, INRA, Orléans, France

4:00 **0502** Western conifer seed bug, *Leptoglossus occidentalis* (Hemiptera: Coreidae). **Marie-Anne Auger-Rozenberg** (marie-anne.auger-rozenberg@orleans.inra.fr)¹, Vincent Lesieur², Ana Farinha³, and Alain Roques¹, ¹INRA, Orléans, France, ²USDA - ARS, Montferrier-sur-Lez, France, ³Univ. of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal

4:15 **0503** Citrus longhorned beetle, *Anoplophora chinensis* (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae). **Jacob D. Wickham** (wickham@iccas.ac.cn), Chinese Academy of Sciences, Zhongguancun, China

4:30 **0504** Bronze birch borer, *Agrilus anxius* (Coleoptera: Buprestidae). **Claire E. Rutledge** (claire.rutledge@ct.gov), Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station, New Haven, CT

SD0505 Asian longhorned beetle, *Anoplophora glabripennis* (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae). **Maya Nehme** (mnehme@lri-lb.org)¹, Peter S. Meng², Kelli Hoover², and Melody A. Keena³, ¹American Univ., Beirut, Lebanon, ²Pennsylvania State Univ., University Park, PA, ³USDA - Forest Service, Hamden, CT

SD0506 Gypsy moth, *Lymantria dispar* (Lepidoptera: Erebidae). **Steve Munson** (smunson@fs.fed.us)¹, Victor Mastro², and William Wesela³, ¹USDA - Forest Service, Ogden, UT, ²USDA - APHIS, Buzzards Bay, MA, ³USDA - APHIS, Riverdale, MD

SD0507 Namangan longhorned beetle, *Xylotrechus namanganensis* (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae). **Adil Sattar** (adl1968@126.com), Xinjiang Agricultural Univ., Urumqi, China

SD0508 Sirex wood wasp, *Sirex noctilio* (Hymenoptera: Siricidae). **Stephanie Sopow** (stephanie.sopow@scionresearch.com)¹, Cecilia Romo², and John Bain³, ¹Scion, Rotorua, New Zealand, ²Scion, Christchurch, New Zealand, ³Springfield Associates, Rotorua, New Zealand

4:45 Discussion and Poster Session
Symposium: Insights into the Biology of Wild and Managed Native Bees

Room W224 C (Convention Center)

**Moderators and Organizers:** Hollis Woodard¹, Quinn McFrederick¹, and Theresa L. Pitts-Singer², ¹Univ. of California, Riverside, CA, ²USDA - ARS, Logan, UT

1:30 **0509** Pesticide impacts on bees: From individual behaviour to pollination services. **Nigel E. Raine** (nraine@uoguelph.ca)¹, Gemma Baron², Richard Gill³, Karen Smith², and Dara Stanley²,⁴, ¹Univ. of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada, ²Royal Holloway, Univ. of London, Egham, United Kingdom, ³Imperial College London, Ascot, United Kingdom, ⁴National Univ. of Ireland, Galway, Ireland

1:45 **0510** Bee foraging patterns across dynamic resource landscapes. **Shalene Jha** (sjha@austin.utexas.edu) and Nathaniel Pope, The Univ. of Texas, Austin, TX

2:00 **0511** Understanding land-use drivers of pollinator community composition in an agricultural landscape. **Sarah Cusser** (sarah.cusser@gmail.com) and Shalene Jha, The Univ. of Texas, Austin, TX

2:15 **0512** Mason bee pollination in Switzerland — Recent successes and future challenges. **Claudio Sedivy** (c.sedivy@wildbieneundpartner.ch), Wildbiene + Partner, Ltd., Switzerland

2:30 **0513** Temperature effects on the development and emergence of *Osmia* bees: Implications for their management as orchard pollinators. **Jordi Bosch** (jordi.bosch@uab.es)¹, William Kemp², and Fabio Sgolastra³, ¹Autonomous Univ. of Barcelona, Bellaterra, Spain, ²USDA - ARS, Fargo, ND, ³Univ. of Bologna, Bologna, Italy

2:45 **0514** Dietary pollen needs of adult female solitary bees for reproduction. **James H. Cane** (jim.cane@ars.usda.gov), USDA - ARS, Logan, UT

3:00 **BREAK**

3:15 **0515** Potential use of Brazilian native bees for crop pollination. **Breno Freitas** (freitas@ufc.br), Federal Univ. of Ceará, Fortaleza, Brazil

3:30 **0516** Pollinating California almonds with *Osmia lignaria*, the blue orchard bee. **Theresa L. Pitts-Singer** (theresa.pitts-singer@ars.usda.gov), USDA - ARS, Logan, UT

3:45 **0517** Bee community restoration and maintenance: Assessing differences in nesting to better understand bee diversity. **Alexandra Harmon-Threatt** (aht@illinois.edu), Univ. of Illinois, Champaign, IL

4:00 **0518** Measuring partner choice in plant — pollinator networks: Separating “rewiring” and “fidelity” from chance with a null model approach. **Mark Genung** (mark.a.genung@rutgers.edu), Rachael Winfree, and Molly MacLeod, Rutgers, The State Univ. of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ

4:15 **0519** Evaluating native perennial flowering strips for enhancing native bees and pollination services on farmlands in Montana. **Casey Delphia** (casey.delphia@montana.edu), Laura Burkle, and Kevin O'Neill, Montana State Univ., Bozeman, MT

4:30 **0520** Red Listing America's bumble bees: Status and trends among Bombus spp. in the Western Hemisphere. **Rich Hatfield** (rich@xerces.org)¹, Sheila R. Colla², Sarina Jepsen¹, Leif Richardson³, Robbin W. Thorp⁴, Paul Williams⁵, Marina Arbetman⁶, Michelle A. Duennes⁷, Natalia Escobedo-Kenefic⁸, Elaine Evans⁹, Sarah Foltz-Jordan¹, Aline Martins¹⁰, Oscar Martinez¹¹, Jorge Merida¹¹, Jose Montalva¹², Carolina Morales¹³, Esteban Pineda¹¹, Claus Rasmussen¹⁴, Philippe Sagot¹¹, Yamila Sasal¹³, Remy Vandame¹¹, and Soledad Villamil¹⁵, ¹The Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation, Portland, OR, ²York Univ., Toronto, ON, Canada, ³Univ. of Vermont, Burlington, VT, ⁴Univ. of California, Davis, CA, ⁵The Natural History Museum, London, United Kingdom, ⁶National Univ. of Comahue, Neuquén, Argentina, ⁷Univ. of California, Riverside, CA, ⁸San Carlos Univ. of Guatemala, Guatemala, ⁹Univ. of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN, ¹⁰Federal Univ. of Paraná, Brazil, ¹¹The College of the Southern Border, San Cristóbal de las Casas, Mexico, ¹²Salvemos Nuestro Abejorro, Chile, ¹³National Univ. of Comahue, Argentina, ¹⁴Aarhus Univ., Aarhus, Denmark, ¹⁵National Univ. of Sur, BahíasBlanca, Argentina

4:45 **0521** Effects of urbanization on pathogens levels and immune function of native bees. **Margarita López-Uribe** (mmlopezu@ncsu.edu), Rob R. Dunn, Steven Frank, and David Tarpy, North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC

5:00 **0522** Seasonal patterns of resource abundance and parasitism influence bumblebee (*Bombus impatiens*) colony success. **Rosemary Malfi** (rlmalfi@ucdavis.edu)¹, Jonathan Walter², and T'ai Roulston³, ¹Univ. of California, Davis, CA, ²Virginia Commonwealth Univ., Richmond, VA, ³Univ. of Virginia, Boyce, VA

5:15 **0523** Genetic susceptibility of wild bees to parasite infection? **Peter Graystock** (peter@graystock.info)¹, Quinn McFrederick¹, Claire Carvell², Andrew Bourke³, Matt Heard², Mark Beaumont⁴, and Seirian Sumner⁴, ¹Univ. of California, Riverside, CA, ²National Environment Research Council, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom, ³Univ. of East Anglia, Norwich, United Kingdom, ⁴Univ. of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom

Symposium: In Honor of Past ESA President Donald L. McLean: Electropenetrography (EPG) Without Borders: Plant Pathogen Vector Research Inspiring Novel Animal Disease Studies

West Hall F3 (WF3) (Convention Center)

**Moderators and Organizers:** Elaine Backus¹ and Andrew Li², ¹USDA - ARS, Parlier, CA, ²USDA - ARS, Beltsville, MD

1:30 **0524** How electropenetrography (EPG) can benefit animal-disease vector research: Overview of EPG history, principles, and applications. **Elaine Backus** (elaine.backus@ars.usda.gov), USDA - ARS, Parlier, CA

2:00 **0525** Identifying the mechanism of transmission of Xylella fastidiosa by sharpshooters via EPG research. **Holly Shugart** (hshugart@ufl.edu)¹ and Elaine Backus², ¹Univ. of Florida, Lake Alfred, FL, ²USDA - ARS, Parlier, CA
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2:15 **0526** Aphid feeding activities linked to non-circulative virus transmission. **Jeffrey A. Davis** (jeffdavis@agcenter.lsu.edu)¹, Everlyne Wosula², and Christopher Clark³, ¹Louisiana State Univ. AgCenter, Baton Rouge, LA, ²Univ. of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE, ³Louisiana State Univ., Baton Rouge, LA

2:30 **0527** Sand fly feeding physiology and potential for breakthroughs using electropenetrography. **Justin Talley** (justin.talley@okstate.edu) and Astri Wayadande, Oklahoma State Univ., Stillwater, OK

2:45 **0528** Modification of thrips feeding behaviors by tomato spotted wilt virus. **Diane E. Ullman** (deullman@ucdavis.edu) and Candice Stafford-Banks, Univ. of California, Davis, CA

**SD0529** A2EPG: New pattern recognition software for rapid analysis of electropenetrograms to study stylet probing behavior of aphids. **Francisco Adasme-Carreño** (francisco.adasme@gmail.com), Camila Muñoz-Gutierrez, Josselyn Salinas-Cornejo, and Claudio Ramirez, Univ. of Talca, Talca, Chile

**SD0530** Laser surgery of cornicles of the brown citrus aphid, *Toxoptera citricida* (Kirk), alters their fitness and stylet probing behavior. **Serine Alfaress** (serine@ufl.edu), Timothy Ebert, Michael Rogers, and Nabil Killiny, Univ. of Florida, Lake Alfred, FL

**SD0531** Methods of correlating electropenetrography waveform data to hemipteran probing behavior and pathogen transmission. **Eldesouky Ammar** (eldammar@hotmail.com)¹, Holly Shugart², Michael Rogers², David Hall¹, and Robert Shatters¹, ¹USDA - ARS, Ft. Pierce, FL, ²Univ. of Florida, Lake Alfred, FL

**SD0532** Below-ground sweet potato storage root herbivory by *Cylas formicarius* alters above-ground *Myzus persicae* stylet probing behavior and population dynamics. **Jie Chen** (jchen31@lsu.edu), Jeffrey Davis, Julien Beuzelin, and Michael Stout, Louisiana State Univ. AgCenter, Baton Rouge, LA

**SD0533** Capabilities of the new "Universal" AC-DC monitor for electropenetrography (EPG). **Andrew Dowell** (andygator3@gmail.com)¹, Elaine Backus², Felix Cervantes², Jane Todd³, and Margaret (Peg) Redinbaugh³, ¹EPG Technologies, Inc., Gainesville, FL, ²USDA - ARS, Parlier, CA, ³USDA - ARS, Wooster, OH

**SD0534** High applied voltage during electropenetrography has no effect on stylet probing in *Diaphorina citri* (Hemiptera: Liviidae): Should we be surprised? **Timothy Ebert** (tebert@ufl.edu) and Michael Rogers, Univ. of Florida, Lake Alfred, FL

**SD0535** Evaluation of novel aphid resistance genes in black raspberry using electropenetrography. **Danielle Lightle**¹, Michael Dossett², Chad Finn³ and **Jana Lee** (jana.lee@ars.usda.gov)³, ¹Univ. of California, Orland, CA, ²Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Agassiz, BC, Canada, ³USDA - ARS, Corvallis, OR

**SD0536** Assessing the effects of temperature on stylet probing behaviors of the potato psyllid, *Bactericera cockerelli*, and transmission of 'Candidatus Liberibacter solanacearum', using EPG technology. **Tariq Mustafa** (tariq.mustafa@wsu.edu), Christian Carlos, and Joseph Munyaneza, USDA - ARS, Wapato, WA

**SD0537** EPG as a tool to unravel the unusual stylet penetration behavior of a galling aphid. **Sophie Pointeau** (sophie.pointeau@laposte.net)¹, France Dardeau¹, Stephanie Bankhead-Dronnet¹, Anas Cherqui², François Lieutier¹, Arnaud Ameline², and Aurelien Salle¹, ¹Univ. of Orléans, Orléans, France, ²Univ. of Picardie Jules Verne, Amiens, France

**SD0538** Stylet probing behaviors of the invasive kudzu bug, *Megacopta cribraria*, using electropenetrography. **Francesca Stubbins** (sstubbi@clemson.edu)¹, Paula Mitchell², Francis Reay-Jones³, and Jeremy Greene¹, ¹Clemson Univ., Blackville, SC, ²Winthrop Univ., Rock Hill, SC, ³Clemson Univ., Florence, SC

**SD0539** Electropenetrography of leafhoppers (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae) feeding on cultivated grapevines. **Charles Vincent** (charles.vincent@agr.gc.ca)¹, Philippe Giordanengo², Pierre Lemoyne¹, Chrystel Olivier³, Jacques Lasnier⁴, Yves Mauffette⁵, and Julien Saguez⁶, ¹Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, QC, Canada, ²Univ. of Picardie Jules Verne, Amiens, France, ³Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Saskatoon, SK, Canada, ⁴Ag-Cord, Inc., Granby, QC, Canada, ⁵Univ. of Québec, Montréal, QC, Canada, ⁶Entomological Society of Québec, Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, QC, Canada

3:00 BREAK & POSTER SESSION

3:15 **0540** Biting the hand that feeds you: Mosquito stylet-probing behavior revealed by EPG. **Astri Wayadande** (a.wayadande@okstate.edu) and Bruce Noden, Oklahoma State Univ., Stillwater, OK

3:30 **0541** Characterization of *Lygus* spp. feeding behavior on cotton using EPG and histology. **Felix Cervantes** (felix.cervantes@ars.usda.gov), USDA - ARS, Parlier, CA

3:45 **0542** EPG (electropenetrography) studies with neotropical pentatomids: Waveforms and feeding sites. **Tiago Lucini** (tiago_lucini@hotmail.com)¹ and Antônio Panizzi², ¹Federal Univ. of Paraná, Curitiba, Brazil, ²National Wheat Research Center, Passo Fundo, Brazil

4:00 **0543** Chemical ecology of virus-infected Brassicaceae and impact on aphid vector feeding and colonization. **Arnaud Ameline** (arnaud.ameline@u-picardie.fr), Quentin Chesnais, D. Halter, Q. Fouche, Anas Cherqui, Aude Couty, P. Hugueney, V. Ziegler Graff, and Veronique Brault, Univ. of Picardie Jules Verne, Amiens, France

4:15 **0544** EPG applications in studies of chemical ecology and interactions among *Bemisia tabaci*, *Cucurbit chlorotic yellows virus*, and cucumber. **Feng-Ming Yan** (fmyan@henau.edu.cn), Jing-Jing Li, Shao-Hua Lu, Xue-Li Wang, and Xiang-Zhi Liang, Henan Agricultural Univ., Zhengzhou, China

4:30 **0545** EPG as a tool for improving management of an insect-associated plant pathogen: Asian citrus psyllid and huanglongbing. **Michael Rogers** (mrgrs@ufl.edu)¹, Timothy Ebert¹, and Rosana Serikawa², ¹Univ. of Florida, Lake Alfred, FL, ²DuPont do Brazil S.A., Ferro, Brazil

4:45 **0546** Use of EMG, EPG, and *in vitro* tick feeding systems to study mechanisms of blood feeding and effects of acaricides and pharmacological agents on blood feeding in ixodid ticks. **Andrew Li** (andrew.li@ars.usda.gov), USDA - ARS, Beltsville, MD

5:00 Panel Discussion
# Symposium: Biodiversity, Distribution, Behavior, and Activity of Forensically Important Entomofauna and Microbiota in Different Ecoregions

## Room W224 D (Convention Center)

**Moderators and Organizers:** M. Denise Gemmellaro, Rutgers, The State Univ. of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ

1:30 **0547** Diversity and seasonality of entomofauna succession on decomposing pigs (*Sus scrofa* Linn.) in two biogeoclimatic zones of Nigeria. Isaac Adeyemi (winitel@yahoo.co.uk), River State Univ. of Science and Technology, Port Harcourt, Nigeria

1:45 **0548** A comparison of blow fly abundance and oviposition on carrion exposed in woodlots and cornfields? Rebecca Stock (becajstock@yahoo.co.uk), Saint Joseph's College, Rensselaer, IN

2:00 **0549** Seasonal and geographic variation in biodiversity of forensically important blowflies (Diptera: Calliphoridae) in New Jersey, USA. Lauren M. Weidner (laurenmweidner@gmail.com), Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN

2:15 **0550** First survey of forensically important insects in Sicily with a particular focus on volcanic caves. M. Denise Gemmellaro (denise.gemmellaro@rutgers.edu)¹, Claudia Maria Sollami², Carmelo Bucolo³, Elisa Musumeci³, and Lauren M. Weidner⁴. ¹Rutgers, The State Univ. of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ, ²Univ. Consortium, Caltanissetta, Italy, ³Gruppo Grotte Catania del Club Alpino Italiano Sezione dell'Etna, Catania, Italy, ⁴Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN

2:30 **0551** Effect of temperature on development of *Lucilia sericata* (Meigen) (Diptera: Calliphoridae) and its forensic application in Korea. Sang Shin (shinfbr@nate.com), Ji Hye Park, Su Jeong Jeon, Kwang Soo Ko, and Seong Hwan Park, Korea Univ., Seoul, South Korea

2:45 **0552** Electrophysiological responses of *Chrysomya rufifacies* (Diptera: Calliphoridae) to active volatile organic compounds released by human decomposition. Stephanie Kolodij (helene.leblanc@uoit.ca) and Helene N. LeBlanc, Univ. of Ontario, Oshawa, ON, Canada

## 3:00 BREAK

3:15 **0553** Interaction of abiotic and biotic mechanisms influence blow fly coexistence on carrion patches. Sherah VanLaerhoven (vanlaerh@uwindsor.ca), Vincenzo A. Pacheco, and Krystal R. Hans, Univ. of Windsor, Windsor, ON, Canada

3:30 **0554** Nested biodiversity: The importance of the insect microbiome in carrion food webs and implications for the forensic sciences. Courtney Watherbee (weath108@msu.edu), Jennifer L. Pechal, Courtney Larson, McKinley Brewer, and M. Eric Benbow, Michigan State Univ., East Lansing, MI

3:45 **0555** Megadiversity gets into the CSI room: Barcoding forensically important flies in Ecuador. Emilia Moreno (emiliamorenoc@gmail.com)¹, David Donoso², and Alvaro Barragán¹, ¹Pontifical Catholic Univ., Quito, Ecuador, ²Univ. of Cuenca, Cuenca, Ecuador

4:00 **0556** Molecular ecology in forensic entomology. Meaghan Pimsler (mlpimsler@gmail.com), Univ. of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL

4:15 **0557** Genetic variation in blow fly life history traits. Aaron Tarone (amtarone@ag.tamu.edu), Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX

4:30 **0558** Blow fly genomics: Past, present, and future. Christine Picard (cpicard@iupui.edu), Indiana Univ.-Purdue Univ., Indianapolis, IN

4:45 **0559** Spatio-temporal and sampling effects on carrion insect communities: Considerations for generating a large forensic dataset. Anne Perez (aperez2@saintjoe.edu), Saint Joseph's College, Rensselaer, IN

5:00 **0560** The role of a PMI-prediction model in evaluating forensic entomology experimental design, the importance of covariates, and the utility of response variables for estimating time since death. Jeffrey Wells (jedwell@fiu.edu), Florida International Univ., Miami, FL

# Symposium: Building the Biodiversity Knowledge Graph for Insects - Components, Progress, and Challenges

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

**Moderators and Organizers:** Nico Franz¹ and Katja C. Seltmann², ¹Arizona State Univ., Tempe, AZ, ²Univ. of California, Santa Barbara, CA

1:30 **0561** Towards a global virtual natural history collection: GBIF and access to entomological specimens. Donald Hobern (dhobern@gbif.org), Global Biodiversity Information Facility, Copenhagen, Denmark

1:45 **0562** Biodiversity informatics at the Instituto de Ciencias Naturales: Experiences and perspectives from a megadiverse Latin American country. Lauren Raz (lraz.icn@gmail.com), National Univ. of Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia

2:00 **0563** Entomological outputs from The Natural History Museum (NHM) digitization programme. Vincent Smith (vince@vsmith.info), The Natural History Museum, London, United Kingdom

2:15 **0564** Biodiversity storytelling through digitization: Highlighting institution-based research. Vaughn Shirey (vmshirey@gmail.com), Drexel Univ., Philadelphia, PA

2:30 **0565** Extracting linked open data from taxonomic publications. Terry Catapano (catapanoth@gmail.com), New York, NY

2:45 **0566** Mobilizing historical literature and specimen data to study host plant associations in weevils (Curculionoidea). Guanyang Zhang (guanyang.zhang@asu.edu), Natalia Rahman, Sean Noudali, and Nico Franz, Arizona State Univ., Tempe, AZ

## 3:00 BREAK

3:15 **0567** TraitBank: An open digital repository for organism traits. Katja Schulz (schulzk@si.edu), Jennifer Hammock, and Sarah Miller, Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History, Washington, DC
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3:30 **0568** From catalogs to phenotypes: The evolution and current status of TaxonWorks with emphasis on its utility for entomologists. **Matthew J. Yoder** (diapriid@gmail.com), Univ. of Illinois, Champaign, IL

3:45 **0569** Addressing the name: meaning drift challenge in open-ended biodiversity information environments. **Nico Franz** (nico.franz@asu.edu)¹, Salvatore S. Anzaldo¹, Edward Gilbert¹, Michael Andrew Jansen¹, M. Andrew Johnston¹, and Bertram Ludäscher², ¹Arizona State Univ., Tempe, AZ, ²Univ. of Illinois, Champaign, IL

4:00 **0570** Genomic tools for all entomologists: aTRAM and its use in insect phylogenomics. **Julie Allen** (juliema@illinois.edu)¹, Kevin P. Johnson¹, and Bret M. Boyd², ¹Univ. of Illinois, Champaign, IL, ²Univ. of Florida, Gainesville, FL

4:15 **0571** Natural history collections in support of conservation. **Katja C. Seltmann** (seltmann@ccber.ucsb.edu), Lisa Stratton, and Mireia Beas-Moix, Univ. of California, Santa Barbara, CA

4:30 **0572** Exploring patterns of darkling beetle distributions in the genus *Eleodes* (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae), from the specimen up. **M. Andrew Johnston** (ajohnston@asu.edu) and Edward Gilbert, Arizona State Univ., Tempe, AZ

4:45 **Discussion**

**Symposium: Data without Borders: Collecting, Digitizing, Using, and Re-using Biological Specimen Data**

**Room W224 E (Convention Center)**

**Moderators and Organizers:** Deborah Paul¹, Pamela Soltis²,³, Paul Flemons⁴, and Nicole Fisher⁵, ¹Integrated Digitized Biological Collections (iDigBio), Tallahassee, FL, ²Integrated Digitized Biological Collections (iDigBio), Gainesville, FL, ³Univ. of Florida, Gainesville, FL, ⁴Atlas of Living Australia, Sydney, Australia, ⁵Australian National Insect Collection, Canberra, Australia

1:30 **0573** Specimen data in integrated biodiversity research. **Pamela Soltis** (psoltis@flmnh.ufl.edu), Integrated Digitized Biological Collections (iDigBio), Gainesville, FL

1:45 **0574** Like blood from that stone we always hear about: A quest to extract meaningful data from historical grasshopper specimens. **Derek Woller** (asilid@gmail.com) and Hojun Song, Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX

2:00 **0575** Acquisition, management, and analysis of historical and contemporary data to discern legacy effects of ecological extinction on insect biodiversity. **Robert Kula** (robert.kula@ars.usda.gov)¹, John Lill², Eugenio Nearns³, and Harmony Dalgleish⁴, ¹USDA - ARS, Washington, DC, ²The George Washington Univ., Washington, DC, ³Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN, ⁴College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA

2:15 **0576** Using digital natural history collection specimen data to investigate the future of bee conservation. **Jonathan Koch** (jonathan.b.koch@gmail.com)¹, Joan M. Meiners², and Amber D. Tripodi³, ¹Univ. of Hawai'i, Hilo, HI, ²Univ. of Florida, Gainesville, FL, ³USDA - ARS, Logan, UT

2:30 **0577** Viewing specimen data through the prism of collection events: Benefits of a collecting event first approach. **Sarah Schmits** (scschmits@ku.edu) and Andrew Short, Univ. of Kansas, Lawrence, KS

2:45 **0578** The usefulness of DNA-barcoding databases for routine taxonomic research and identification of Lepidoptera. **Andrei Sourakov** (asourakov@flmnh.ufl.edu), Univ. of Florida, Gainesville, FL

**3:00 BREAK**

3:15 **0579** The intersection of data domains underlying insect systematics: Case studies in parasitic Hymenoptera. **Norman Johnson** (johnson.2@osu.edu), The Ohio State Univ., Columbus, OH

3:30 **0580** Preventing bugs in data analysis: Data skills to improve the reliability and effectiveness of entomological research. **Tracy Teal** (tkteal@datacarpentry.org), Univ. of California, Davis, CA

3:45 **0581** Developing best practices for data management across all stages of the data life cycle. **Amber Budden** (aebudden@dataone.unm.edu), DataONE, Albuquerque, NM

4:00 **0582** Data capture methodologies in digitisation of bee pollinators. **Nicole Fisher** (nicole.fisher@csiro.au), Australian National Insect Collection, Canberra, Australia

4:15 **0583** Arthropod collection digitization and networking across the new world. **Neil Cobb** (neil.cobb@nau.edu)¹, Edward Gilbert², Nico Franz² and Katja C. Seltmann³, ¹Northern Arizona Univ., Flagstaff, AZ, ²Arizona State Univ., Tempe, AZ, ³Univ. of California, Santa Barbara, CA

4:30 **0584** Database before you label — the key to a digitized collections future. **Derek S. Sikes** (dssikes@alaska.edu), Univ. of Alaska, Fairbanks, AK

4:45 **0585** Troubleshooting industrial insect digitisation. **Vladimir Blagoderov** (vlab@nhm.ac.uk) and Laurence Livermore, The Natural History Museum, London, United Kingdom

5:00 **0586** DAMmed if you do or don't: Life cycles of digital assets. **Lawrence Gall** (lawrence.gall@yale.edu), Yale Univ., New Haven, CT

5:15 **0587** Involving undergraduates in the digital community: Leveraging collections preservation, research, and outreach through a network of natural history collections clubs. **Kari Harris** (kari.panhorst@smail.astate.edu), Arkansas State Univ., Jonesboro, AR
# Symposium: From Diet Breadth to Diversification: Understanding Host Shifts in Phytophagous Insects

## Room W340 B (Convention Center)

**Moderators and Organizers:** Peri Mason¹, Angela Smilanich², and M. Deane Bowers¹, ¹Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO, ²Univ. of Nevada, Reno, NV

1:30 **0588** Phytophagous insects: Adaptation, constraint, and diversity. **Douglas J. Futuyma** (douglas.futuyma@ stonybrook.edu), Stony Brook Univ., Stony Brook, NY

2:00 **0589** Ecological factors promoting host shifts in the silver-spotted skipper. **Martha Weiss** (weissm@ georgetown.edu)¹, John Lill², and Eric Lind³, ¹Georgetown Univ., Washington, DC, ²The George Washington Univ., Washington, DC, ³Univ. of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN

2:15 **0590** Insects do not colonize Latin binomials: Exploring contingency, intraspecific variation, and multi-species interactions with *Lycaeides melissa* (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae) and Great Basin host plants. **Matthew L. Forister** (mforister@unr.edu)¹, Joshua Harrison¹, Su'ad Yoon¹, Alex Buerkle², James A. Fordyce³, Zachariah Gompert², Lauren Lucas⁴, and Chris Nice⁵, ¹Univ. of Nevada, Reno, NV, ²Univ. of Wyoming, Laramie, WY, ³Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, ⁴Utah State Univ., Logan, UT, ⁵Texas State Univ., San Marcos, TX

2:30 **0591** Host range expansion and the insect immune response. **Angela Smilanich** (asmilanich@unr.edu)¹, Peri Mason², Carmen Mo¹, Nadya Muchoney¹, Tara Langus¹, Su'ad Yoon¹, and M. Deane Bowers², ¹Univ. of Nevada, Reno, NV, ²Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO

2:45 **0592** Do gut microbiota mediate host shifts in leaf-feeding caterpillars? **Tobin Hammer** (tobin.hammer@ colorado.edu), Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO

## 3:00 BREAK

3:15 **0593** Host shifts and the geographic mosaic of coevolution. **Timothy P. Craig** (tcraig@d.umn.edu), Univ. of Minnesota, Duluth, MN

3:30 **0594** Predicting novel interactions between plants and herbivorous insects. **Ian S. Pearse** (ianspearse@ gmail.com)¹ and Florian Altermatt², ¹Illinois Natural History Survey, Champaign, IL, ²Eawag, Dübendorf, Switzerland

3:45 **0595** Resolving the parasite paradox: Ecological fitting facilitates host switching in sloppy fitness space. **Salvatore Agosta** (sagosta@vcu.edu), Virginia Commonwealth Univ., Richmond, VA

4:00 **0596** Does variation in host traits promote host shifting and diversification in goldenrod-insect communities? **Chandra Moffat** (chandra.moffat@gmail. com) and Stephen Heard, Univ. of New Brunswick, Fredericton, NB, Canada

4:15 **0597** The plastic bridge hypothesis: Does plant plasticity promote host shifts in phytophagous insects? **Peri Mason** (peri.mason@colorado.edu), Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO

4:30 **0598** Host use evolves and affects taxonomic diversification differently across plant-feeding insects. **Nate Hardy** (nbhardy@gmail.com), Auburn Univ., Auburn, AL

4:45 **0599** Repeatability of host-associated genetic divergence in plant-feeding insects. **Tommi Nyman** (tommi.nyman@uef.fi)¹, Sanna Leppänen¹, Kaisa Värri², and Tobias Malm³, ¹Univ. of Eastern Finland, Joensuu, Finland, ²Univ. of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, Finland, ³Swedish Museum of Natural History, Stockholm, Sweden

5:00 **0600** Host breadth, host shifts, and herbivore diversification. **James Fordyce** (battusboy@gmail. com)¹ and Christopher Hamm², ¹Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, ²Univ. of Kansas, Lawrence, KS

5:15 **0601** What is host range? **Niklas Janz** (niklas.janz@ zoologi.su.se), Stockholm Univ., Stockholm, Sweden

# Symposium: Biological Control of the Invasive Brown Marmorated Stink Bug, *Halyomorpha halys*, by Exotic and Native Parasitoids and Predators: A Global Perspective

## Room W315 A (Convention Center)

**Moderators and Organizers:** Paula Shrewsbury¹ and Tim Haye², ¹Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD, ²CABI, Delémont, Switzerland

1:30 **Panel Discussion: An introduction to *Halyomorpha halys*, an invasive global pest**

1:45 **0602** Systematics of holarctic *Trissolcus* Ashmead, natural enemies of BMSB. **Elijah Talamas** (elijah.talamas@ ars.usda.gov)¹, Matthew L. Buffington¹, Norman Johnson², and Marie-Claude Bon³, ¹USDA - ARS, Washington, DC, ²The Ohio State Univ., Columbus, OH, ³USDA - ARS, Montferrier-sur-Lez, France

2:00 **0603** Survey and impact of native natural enemies on the invasive brown marmorated stink bug, *Halyomorpha halys*, in ornamental nurseries in the eastern United States. **Paula Shrewsbury** (pshrewsbury@umd. edu), Ashley L. Jones, Cerruti Hooks, Michael J. Raupp, and David E. Jennings, Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD

2:15 **0604** Impact of native natural enemies on brown marmorated stink bug in eastern U.S. tree fruit and vegetable ecosystems. **James F. Walgenbach** (jim_walgenbach@ncsu.edu) and Emily Ogburn, North Carolina State Univ., Mills River, NC

2:30 **0605** A survey of native parasitoids of *Halyomorpha halys* in Northern Italy and Switzerland. **Elena Costi** (costi.elena@yahoo.it)¹, Lara Maistrello¹, Marco Pansa², Tim Haye³, and Luciana Tavella², ¹University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Reggio Emilia, Italy, ²Univ. of Torino, Grugliasco, Italy, ³CABI, Delémont, Switzerland

2:45 **0606** *Halyomorpha halys* as an evolutionary trap: Implications for biological control. **Paul Abram** (paul-abram@hotmail.com)¹, Tara Gariepy², Tim Haye³, Victor Burte⁴, Guy Boivin⁵, and Jacques Brodeur¹, ¹Univ. of Montréal, Montréal, QC, Canada, ²Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, London, ON, Canada, ³CABI, Delémont, Switzerland, ⁴Sophia Institute of Agrobio-technology, Sophia Antipolis, France, ⁵Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Québec, QC, Canada
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**3:00 BREAK**

3:15 **0607** Competitive interactions of native and exotic parasitoids on *Halyomorpha halys* host eggs.
**Joanna Konopka** (jkonopk@uwo.ca)¹, Tim Haye², Tara Gariepy³, Danny Poinapen¹, David Holdsworth¹, and Jeremy McNeil¹, ¹Western Univ., London, ON, Canada, ²CABI, Delémont, Switzerland, ³Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, London, ON, Canada

3:30 **0608** What lies beyond traditional host range testing: Host choice behavior in *Trissolcus japonicus* (Hymenoptera: Scelionidae), a classical biological control agent of *Halyomorpha halys*. *Christine Dieckhoff* (christine.dieckhoff@ars.usda.gov), Kathy Tatman, and Kim A. Hoelmer, USDA - ARS, Newark, DE

3:45 **0609** Biological control of brown marmorated stink bug in California: Status and prospects. **Ricky Lara** (jlara007@ucr.edu)¹, Mark S. Hoddle¹, and Charles H. Pickett², ¹Univ. of California, Riverside, CA, ²California Dept. of Food and Agriculture, Sacramento, CA

4:00 **0610** Habitat specialization of exotic and native parasitoids: Complexity in biocontrol of a polyphagous, mobile host. **Megan Herlihy** (megan.herlihy@ars.usda.gov)¹, Elijah Talamas², and Donald Weber¹, ¹USDA - ARS, Beltsville, MD, ²USDA - ARS, Washington, DC

4:15 **0611** Using gut content analysis to identify predators of *Halyomorpha halys*. **John Pote** (pote30@gmail.com)¹, Anne Nielsen¹, and Dina M. Fonseca², ¹Rutgers, The State Univ. of New Jersey, Bridgeton, NJ, ²Rutgers, The State Univ. of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ

## Symposium: Status and Prospects for Biological Control in the 21st Century (IOBC)

### Room W232 A (Convention Center)

**Moderators and Organizers:** Russell Messing¹ and Jacques Brodeur², ¹Univ. of Hawai'i, Kapaa, HI, ²Univ. of Montréal, Montréal, QC, Canada

1:30 **0612** Public perception and the loss of biocontrol cachet. **Mark Wright** (markwrig@hawaii.edu)¹ and Russell Messing², ¹Univ. of Hawai'i, Honolulu, HI, ²Univ. of Hawai'i, Kapaa, HI

1:45 **0613** Biological control in a historical context: Shifting paradigms in classical biological control. **George Heimpel** (heimp001@umn.edu), Univ. of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN

2:00 **0614** Classical biological control successes and socio-economic impact: A brief history and outlook to the future. **Ulrich Kuhlmann** (u.kuhlmann@cabi.org)¹ and Matthew Cock², ¹CABI, Delémont, Switzerland, ²CABI, Wallingford, United Kingdom

2:15 **0615** Augmentative biological control: We can do much better! **Joop van Lenteren** (joop.vanlenteren@wur.nl), Wageningen Univ. and Research Centre, Wageningen, Netherlands

2:30 **0616** Biological control as a conservation tool in the Everglades. **Ellen C. Lake** (ellen.lake@ars.usda.gov)¹, Melissa Smith¹, Hillary Cooley², LeRoy Rodgers³, and Philip Tipping¹, ¹USDA - ARS, Ft. Lauderdale, FL, ²National Park Service, Homestead, FL, ³South Florida Water Management District, West Palm Beach, FL

2:45 **0617** The genetics of biocontrol agents in the age of omics. **Richard Stouthamer** (richard.stouthamer@ucr.edu), Univ. of California, Riverside, CA

**3:00 BREAK**

3:15 **0618** Economic value of biological control in integrated pest management. **George Frisvold** (frisvold@cals.arizona.edu)¹, Steven Naranjo², and Peter Ellsworth³, ¹Univ. of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, ²USDA - ARS, Maricopa, AZ, ³Univ. of Arizona, Maricopa, AZ

3:30 **0619** Accounting for rapid evolution in weed biocontrol agents: A step towards increasing predictability. **Linda Buergi** (buergil@onid.oregonstate.edu)¹, Peter McEvoy¹, and Evrim Karacetin², ¹Oregon State Univ., Corvallis, OR, ²Erciyes Univ., Kayseri, Turkey

3:45 **0620** Trading biodiversity for pest problems: The role of complex communities in reducing pests. **Jonathan Lundgren** (jgl.entomology@gmail.com)¹ and Scott Fausti², ¹Ecdysis Foundation, Estelline, SD, ²South Dakota State Univ., Brookings, SD

4:00 **0621** Future directions in biological control. Jacques Brodeur¹, Russell Messing² and **Barbara Barratt** (barbara.barratt@agresearch.co.nz)³, ¹Univ. of Montréal, Montréal, QC, Canada, ²Univ. of Hawai'i, Kapaa, HI, ³AgResearch Ltd, Mosgiel, New Zealand

## Symposium: New Tools and Strategies for Integrated Pest Management (IPM) on Transgenic (Bt) and Non-Transgenic (Conventional) Cotton Crops

### Room W330 C (Convention Center)

**Moderators and Organizers:** Robert Mensah¹, Lewis Wilson², and Megha N. Parajulee³, ¹New South Wales Dept. of Primary Industries, Narrabri, Australia, ²CSIRO, Narrabri, Australia, ³Texas A&M AgriLife Research, Lubbock, TX

1:30 **0622** Integrated pest management in Ethiopia: Development and use of a supplementary food spray to manage pests and beneficial insects on conventional cotton crops. **Tadesse Amera** (atadesse2002@yahoo.com)¹, Robert Mensah², and Atalo Belay³, ¹Swedish Univ. of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden, ²New South Wales Dept. of Primary Industries, Narrabri, Australia, ³Pesticide Action Nexus Association, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

1:45 **0623** Biosafety of transgenic crops to the non-target arthropods. **Hari Sharma** (vcuhf@yahoo.com), Dr. YS Parmar Univ. of Horticulture & Forestry, Nauni, Solan, India

2:00 **0624** Cotton pest management in Bt cotton system in northern China. **Feng Ge** (gef@ioz.ac.cn)¹, Fang Ouyang¹, and Xingyuan Men², ¹Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, ²Shandong Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Jinan, China

2:15 **0625** Revised targets and tools in IPM for insect pests of cotton in India. **Shashikant Udikeri** (ssudikeri@rediffmail.com), Indian Ministry of Agriculture, Bangalore, India
2:30 **0626** Cotton IPM in the Texas High Plains: Host-plant mediated management system. **Megha N. Parajulee** (m-parajulee@tamu.edu), Texas A&M AgriLife Research, Lubbock, TX

2:45 **0627** IPM in cotton cropping systems: Development and exploitation of a new semiochemical product for cotton IPM. **Robert Mensah** (robert.mensah@dpi.nsw.gov.au)¹, David Leach², Alison Young¹, and Nick Watts³, ¹New South Wales Dept. of Primary Industries, Narrabri, Australia, ²Southern Cross Univ., Lismore, Australia, ³Growth Agriculture Pty, Ltd., Wee Waa, Australia

3:00 **BREAK**

3:15 **0628** Strategies to manage emergent pests in GM-cotton: A case study with *Nezara viridula*. **Simone Heimoana** (simone.heimoana@csiro.au), CSIRO, Narrabri, Australia

3:30 **0629** EPG investigation of feeding behavioral response of cotton aphid, *Aphis gossypii* (Glover), to elevated CO₂. **Fajun Chen** (fajunchen@njau.edu.cn)¹, Shoulin Jiang¹, Guijun Wan¹, and Megha N. Parajulee², ¹Nanjing Agricultural Univ., Nanjing, China, ²Texas A&M AgriLife Research, Lubbock, TX

3:45 **0630** Habitat management and biological control in Bt cotton. **Fang Ouyang** (ouyangf@ioz.ac.cn)¹, Quanfeng Yang¹, and Yongsheng Zhang², ¹Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, ²Hunan Agricultural Univ., Changsha, China

4:00 **0631** Integrated regional thrips management in southwestern United States cotton. **Robert Bowling** (robert.bowling@ag.tamu.edu)¹, Megha N. Parajulee², and Michael Brewer³, ¹Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service, Corpus Christi, TX, ²Texas A&M AgriLife Research, Lubbock, TX, ³Texas A&M AgriLife Research, Corpus Christi, TX

Symposium: Population Consequences of Pest
Management Tactics on Non-Target Species

Room W222 A (Convention Center)

Moderator and Organizer: David A. Andow, Univ. of Minnesota,
St. Paul, MN

1:30 **Introduction**

1:45 **0632** Source, movement, and exposure levels for neonics in a maize/soybean/wheat-dominated ecosystem. **Arthur W. Schaafsma** (aschaafs@uoguelph.ca)¹, Victor Limay-Rios¹, Yingen Xue¹, Jocelyn L. Smith¹, Luis Forero¹, and Tracey Baute², ¹Univ. of Guelph, Ridgetown, ON, Canada, ²Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs, Ridgetown, ON, Canada

2:00 **0633** Neonicotinoid insecticides alter plant defenses and drive changes in arthropod communities in crop plants. **Ada Szczepaniec** (ada.szczepaniec@ag.tamu.edu)¹, Jason Wulff², and Micky Eubanks², ¹Texas A&M Univ., Amarillo, TX, ²Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX

2:15 **0634** Transfer of entomotoxins to non-target insect eggs and potential population and community effects. **Debora Pires Paula** (debora.pires@embrapa.br), Embrapa Cenargen, Brasília, Brazil

2:30 **0635** Mirid outbreaks associated with Bt cotton in China. **Yanhui Lu** (yhlu@ippcaas.cn) and Kongming Wu, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China

2:45 **0636** The role of biotic interactions in non-target pest outbreaks in transgenic Bt cotton. **Adam Zeilinger** (arz@berkeley.edu)¹, Dawn Olson², and David A. Andow³, ¹Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA, ²USDA - ARS, Tifton, GA, ³Univ. of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN

3:00 **BREAK**

3:15 **0637** Southeastern USA Regional landscape patterns and population dynamics of the stink bug *Euchistus servus*. **Dawn Olson** (dawn.olson@ars.usda.gov)¹, Kristina Prescott², Adam Zeilinger³, Suqin Hou⁴, Alisa Coffin¹, John Ruberson⁵, and David A. Andow², ¹USDA - ARS, Tifton, GA, ²Univ. of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN, ³Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA, ⁴Harvard Univ., Boston, MA, ⁵Kansas State Univ., Manhattan, KS

3:30 **0638** Population dynamics of stink bugs in landscapes with Bt cotton. **David A. Andow** (dandow@umn.edu)¹, Dawn Olson², and John Ruberson³, ¹Univ. of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN, ²USDA - ARS, Tifton, GA, ³Kansas State Univ., Manhattan, KS

3:45 **0639** Population modeling to estimate the viability of endangered butterflies exposed to stress. **John Stark** (starkj@wsu.edu)¹, Catherine Johnson², and Xuedong Chen³, ¹Washington State Univ., Puyallup, WA, ²U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Sacramento, CA, ³Univ. of Florida, Lake Alfred, FL

4:00 **0640** Non-target effects of neonicotinoid insecticides on honey bee (Apis mellifera L.) and bumble bee (Bombus impatiens Cresson) queens and colony development. **Judy Wu-Smart** (jwu-smart@unl.edu)¹ and Marla Spivak², ¹Univ. of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE, ²Univ. of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN

4:15 **0641** Impact of cropping systems on bee community and colony fitness in water-limited agroecosystems. **Fabian Menalled** (menalled@montana.edu), Subodh Adhikari, Laura Burkle, Kevin O'Neill, and David K. Weaver, Montana State Univ., Bozeman, MT

4:30 **0642** Cascading effects of neonicotinoids on biological control in a soil food chain. **Margaret Douglas** (mrd276@psu.edu) and John Tooker, Pennsylvania State Univ., University Park, PA

4:45 **0643** Life history approach to the protection of ecosystem services. **John Banks** (jebanks@csumb.edu)¹, Azmy Ackleh², Roger Vargas³, and John Stark⁴, ¹California State Univ., Seaside, CA, ²Univ. of Louisiana, Lafayette, LA, ³USDA - ARS, Hilo, HI, ⁴Washington State Univ., Puyallup, WA
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# Symposium: Entomology Around the World: Past, Present, and Future Challenges

## Room W240 A (Convention Center)

**Moderators and Organizers:** Michelle Samuel-Foo¹, Mamoudou Setamou², Simon Zebelo³, and Joseph Munyaneza⁴. ¹Univ. of Florida, Gainesville, FL, ²Texas A&M Univ., Weslaco, TX, ³Auburn Univ., Auburn, AL, ⁴USDA - ARS, Wapato, WA

1:30 **0644** From biocontrol to precision-IPM in Africa: Challenges and opportunities. **Manuele Tamo** (m.tamo@cgiar.org)¹, Barry R. Pittendrigh², Saber Miresmailli³, Victor Font², Ben Blalock², Elie Dannon¹, Benjamin Datinon¹, Michael Agyekum⁴, Cynthia Donavan⁴, and Eustache Biaou⁵. ¹International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, Cotonou, Benin, ²Univ. of Illinois, Champaign, IL, ³Ecoation Innovative Solutions, Inc., North Vancouver, BC, Canada, ⁴Michigan State Univ., East Lansing, MI, ⁵INRA, Cotonou, Benin

2:00 **0645** Psyllids and *Liberibacter*: An emerging and global challenge for the tree fruit and vegetable industry. **Joseph Munyaneza** (joseph.munyaneza@ars.usda.gov)¹ and Mamoudou Setamou², ¹USDA - ARS, Wapato, WA, ²Texas A&M Univ., Weslaco, TX

2:30 **0646** The IR-4 Project and Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada: Working together to serve specialty crops across borders. Michelle Samuel-Foo¹, Shirley Archambault², and **Tamika Garrick** (tgarrick09@ufl.edu)¹, ¹Univ. of Florida, Gainesville, FL, ²Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Gatineau, QC, Canada

2:45 **0647** Fruit fly biological control in the Pacific and technology transfer to Africa. **Luc Leblanc** (leblancl@ctahr.hawaii.edu)¹, Ernest Harris², Kemo Badji³, and Roger Vargas², ¹Univ. of Idaho, Moscow, ID, ²USDA - ARS, Hilo, HI, ³Crop Protection Directorate, Dakar, Senegal

3:00 **BREAK**

3:15 **0648** Applying quantitative ecology and integrated management on smallholders' farms: An example of maize stores in the Republic of Benin. **William Meikle** (william.meikle@ars.usda.gov)¹, Niels Holst², and Richard Markham³, ¹USDA - ARS, Tucson, AZ, ²Aarhus Univ., Slagelse, Denmark, ³Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research, Bruce, Australia

3:30 **0649** Malaria and kwashiorkor: Working with western culture scientists. **Florence Dunkel** (fdunkel@montana.edu)¹ and Sarah Halvorson², ¹Montana State Univ., Bozeman, MT, ²Univ. of Montana, Missoula, MT

3:45 **0650** New threats to soybeans in the Americas from Old World bollworm. **Fikru Haile** (fikru.haile@pioneer.com), DuPont Pioneer, Johnston, IA

4:00 **0651** Pest management of major invasive pest species: Varroa mite and scale insects in the Caribbean islands. **Lambert Kanga** (lambert.kanga@famu.edu)¹, Walker A. Jones², and James Rish³, ¹Florida A&M Univ., Tallahassee, FL, ²USDA - ARS, Stoneville, MS, ³Tupelo Honey, Inc., Wewahitchka, FL

# Symposium: Global Status, Acceptance, and Challenges of GM Crops

## Room W224 H (Convention Center)

**Moderators and Organizers:** Murugesan Rangasamy¹, Nandi Nagaraj¹, and Srinivas Parimi², ¹Dow AgroSciences, Indianapolis, IN, ²Mahyco, Jalna, India

*This symposium is generously sponsored by the CropLife International Plant Biotech Product Stewardship Project Team and Excellence Through Stewardship.*

CropLife
INTERNATIONAL

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EXCELLENCE THROUGH
STEWARDSHIP®

1:30 **0652** Relevance of biotech crops in enhancing global food security in the face of anticipated global climate change. **Channapatna Prakash** (prakash@mytu.tuskegee.edu), Tuskegee Univ., Tuskegee, AL

1:45 **0653** Genetically modified crops: An African perspective. **Jennifer Thomson** (jennifer.thomson@uct.ac.za), Univ. of Cape Town, Rondebosch, South Africa

2:00 **0654** Biosafety regulatory framework for genetically modified organisms in Brazil. **Alda Lerayer** (alda.lerayer@gmail.com) and Marcelo Moraes, Council for Information on Biotechnology, São Paulo, Brazil

2:15 **0655** The role of biotechnology and new breeding technologies for global food security. **Maurice Moloney** (gifs.director@usask.ca), Global Insitute for Food Security, Saskatoon, SK, Canada

2:30 **0656** Plant transgenic technology, regulatory environment, and public response - Indian experience in the last three decades. **S. Raghavendra Rao** (srraodbt@yahoo.com)¹ and V. Siva Reddy², ¹National Certification System for Tissue Culture Raised Plants, New Delhi, India, ²Regional Centre of Biotechnology, New Delhi, India

2:45 **0657** Experience with GM IR Crops in Argentina. Martin Lema¹,², Agustina Whelan¹,², and **Patricia Gramuglia** (pgramuglia@magyp.gob.ar)¹, ¹Ministry of Agrolndustry, Buenos Aires, Argentina, ²National Univ. of Quilmes, Buenos Aires, Argentina

3:00 **BREAK**

3:15 **0658** GM technologies for staple crops in Africa — the case of R&D in Uganda regulations and public perceptions. **Andrew Kiggundu** (akiggundu@gmail.com), National Agricultural Research Organisation, Kampala, Uganda

3:30 **0659** Talking to a concerned public about genetic engineering. **Kevin Folta** (kfolta@ufl.edu), Univ. of Florida, Gainesville, FL

3:45 **0660** Status, acceptance, challenges of GM crops — China perspective. **Zhihong Lang** (langzhihong@caas.cn), Jie Zhang, and Dafang Huang, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China

4:00 **0661** Stewarding GM crops for product integrity, durability, and acceptance. **Chris Holdgreve** (choldgreve@ets.bio), Excellence Through Stewardship, Washington, DC
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# Symposium: Where are the Six Legs of Advanced Entomology Publishing Taking Us?

Room W224 F (Convention Center)

**Moderators and Organizers:** Frank Krell¹ and Lyubomir Penev²,
¹Denver Museum of Nature and Science, Denver, CO, ²Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and Pensoft Publishers, Sofia, Bulgaria

1:30 **0662** New opportunities and trends in scholarly publishing. Michiel Thijssen¹, Frank Krell², and Marti Huetink (huetink@brill.com)¹, ¹Brill, Leiden, Netherlands, ²Denver Museum of Nature and Science, Denver, CO

1:45 **0663** How to get your paper published — from a publisher's perspective. Violeta Ribarska (vribarsk@wiley.com)¹ and Lin Field², ¹Wiley, Oxford, United Kingdom, ²Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, United Kingdom

2:00 **0664** Journal choice in a crowded world. Fiona Williams (fiona.williams@oup.com)¹, Matthew Jozwiak², Ian Sherman³, and Lauren Godwin¹, ¹Oxford Univ. Press USA, Cary, NC, ²Oxford Univ. Press USA, New York, NY, ³Oxford Univ. Press, Oxford, United Kingdom

2:15 **0665** Adding value in journal publishing: Your paper is more than a paper at Springer. Zuzana Bernhart (zuzana.bernhart@springer.com), Springer Science + Business Media B.V., Dordrecht, Netherlands

2:30 **0666** Open Science: A publishing perspective from PLOS. Catriona MacCallum (cmaccallum@plos.org), PLOS, Cambridge, United Kingdom

2:45 **0667** How PeerJ improves the publishing process and author experience. Peter Binfield (pete@peerj.com), PeerJ, Inc., Corte Madera, CA

## 3:00 BREAK

3:15 **0668** Invertebrate Systematics: Current and future directions of a phylogenetics journal with a global perspective. Jennifer Forster (jenny.foster@csiro.au)¹ and Andrew Austin², ¹CSIRO, Clayton, Australia, ²Univ. of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia

3:30 **0669** Zootaxa: A mega-journal for biodiveristy discovery and publication. Zhi-Qiang Zhang (zhangz@landcareresearch.co.nz), Landcare Research, Auckland, New Zealand

3:45 **0670** ZooBank and the publishing world. Richard Pyle (deepreef@bishopmuseum.org), Bishop Museum, Honolulu, HI

4:00 **0671** Biodiversity publishing becomes part of the research process: Integrated narrative and data publication in the ARPHA platform. Lyubomir Penev (penev@pensoft.net), Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and Pensoft Publishers, Sofia, Bulgaria

4:15 **0672** Legal and ethical reasons for free and open biodiversity information. Willi Egloff (egloff_bader@bluewin.ch) and Donat Agosti, Plazi GmbH, Bern, Switzerland

# Symposium: An Emerging Food Supply: Edible Insects

Room W230 B (Convention Center)

**Moderator and Organizer:** Marianne Shockley, Univ. of Georgia, Athens, GA

1:30 **0673** Transparency in the fledgling insects for food and feed industry: How open source philosophy could sink or save the entomophagy movement. Robert Allen (rna@aspirefg.com), Aspire, Buda, TX

1:45 **0674** Why don't we eat bugs in Western culture: The anthropology perspective. Julie Lesnik (julie.lesnik@gmail.com), Wayne State Univ., Detroit, MI

2:00 **0675** The greatest opportunities to drive forward entomophagy. Kaison Tanabe (kaisontanabe@gmail.com), EntoBento, San Diego, CA

2:15 **0676** Entomophagy in Thailand and beyond: Rearing practices of Acheta domesticus and Teloegryllus testaceus in Thailand, a model for entomophagy education. Kiah Brash (kiah.brasch@gmail.com), Rustle Up Some Grub, Minneapolis, MN; Univ. of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN

2:30 **0677** Mainstreaming edible insects: The next steps. Kevin Bachhuber (kevin@bigcricketfarms.com), Big Cricket Farms, Youngstown, OH

2:45 **0678** Bring insexy back: Hopping cricket bars into the mainstream. Patrick Crowley (pat@chapul.com), Chapul, Salt Lake City, UT

## 3:00 BREAK

3:15 **0679** Health safety and nutritional value of black soldier flies driven-feed. Marwa Abdel Hamid Shumo (mshummo@hotmail.com), Univ. of Bonn, Bonn, Germany

3:30 **0680** Entomophagy from a humanities perspective. David Gracer (david_gracer@hotmail.com), Community College of Rhode Island, Warwick, RI

3:45 **0681** Advances in the scaling of human grade edible insect farming. Jarrod Goldin (jarrod@entomofarms.com), Entomo Farms, Norwood, ON, Canada

4:00 **0682** Insect allergy? No, not from bites and stings this time. Louis N. Sorkin (sorkin@amnh.org), American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY

4:15 **0683** Cultural and economic uses of insects in Oaxaca, Mexico. Marianne Shockley (entomolo@uga.edu)¹, Alicia Fonseca Muñoz², Liliana Robles Bautista³, Paulina Alejandra Flores Rios², Jeffery K. Tomberlin⁴, and Rafael Perez Pacheco², ¹Univ. of Georgia, Athens, GA, ²National Polytechnic Institute, Oaxaca, Mexico, ³Benito Juárez Autonomous Univ., Oaxaca, Mexico, ⁴Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX

## 4:30 Discussion

## 4:45 Tasting
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# Symposium: In the Light of Morphometrics: Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution of Insect Morphology

## Room W314 A (Convention Center)

**Moderators and Organizers:** Kazuo Takahashi¹, Chris Klingenberg², and Haruki Tatsuta³. ¹Okayama Univ., Okayama, Japan, ²The Univ. of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom, ³Univ. of the Ryukyus, Nishihara, Japan

1:30 **0684** Insect morphometrics: New developments and applications. **Chris Klingenberg** (cpk@manchester.ac.uk), The Univ. of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom

2:00 **0685** Hidden biodiversity in hoverflies assessed by wing geometric morphometrics: Conservation implications. **Vesna Milankov** (vesna.milankov@dbe.uns.ac.rs), Jasmina Ludoški, Ljubinka Francuski, and Marko Djurakic, Univ. of Novi Sad, Novi Sad, Serbia

2:15 **0686** Inferring phylogenetic origins of dimorphic sexual trait in a beetle *Oedemera sexualis*. **Haruki Tatsuta** (htatsuta@agr.u-ryukyuo.ac.jp)¹, Taruwa Ogasa¹, Daisuke Satomi², Shin-ichi Kudo³, and Chiharu Koshio³, ¹Univ. of the Ryukyus, Nishihara, Japan, ²Kobe Univ., Kobe, Japan, ³Naruto Univ. of Education, Naruto, Japan

2:30 **0687** Detecting divergent sexual selection operating upon divergent genital morphologies. **Yasuoki Takami** (takami@people.kobe-u.ac.jp) and Sogo Takahashi, Kobe Univ., Kobe, Japan

2:45 **0688** Ecological adaptation and morphological divergence in the snail feeding carabid beetle *Damaster blaptoides*. **Junji Konuma** (junji.konuma@sci.toho-u.ac.jp), Toho Univ., Chiba, Japan

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3:15 **0689** Through the looking-glass: Morphological diversity pattern of ants is reflected in the sympatric ant-mimicking spiders or not? **Yoshiaki Hashimoto** (yoshiaki@hitohaku.jp), Univ. of Hyogo Museum of Nature and Human Activities, Sanda, Japan

3:30 **0690** On the importance of shape in a ménage à trois among an orchid, a female bee, and a male bee. **Yannick Staedler** (yannick.staedler@univie.ac.at)¹, Jürg Schönenberger¹, Philipp Schlüter², Susanne Pamperl¹, and Sara Manafzadeh², ¹Univ. of Vienna, Vienna, Austria, ²Univ. of Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland

3:45 **0691** Interspecific variation of wing asymmetry in Syrphidae. **Adam Tofilski** (rotofils@cyf-kr.edu.pl), Agricultural Univ. of Krakow, Krakow, Poland

4:00 **0692** HSP90 as a global genetic modulator for male genital morphology in *Drosophila melanogaster*. **Kazuo Takahashi** (kaz_tak@cc.okayama-u.ac.jp)¹ and Hiroyoshi Iwata², ¹Okayama Univ., Okayama, Japan, ²The Univ. of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

4:15 **0693** Morphometrics meets network theory: Modularity and the origin of camouflage patterns of butterfly and moth wings. **Takao Suzuki** (homaresuzuki@gmail.com), National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences, Tsukuba, Japan

4:30 **0694** Understanding the evolution of *Drosophila* wing shape: An integrative approach using geometric morphometrics. **Hugo Benitez** (hugobenitez@gmail.com)¹ and Chris Klingenberg², ¹Univ. of Tarapacá, Arica, Chile, ²The Univ. of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom

4:45 **0695** Quantitative morphological study of Scarabaeoidea. **Xing-Ke Yang** (yangxk@ioz.ac.cn) and Ming Bai, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

5:00 **0696** Landmarks, semilandmarks, and outlines in medical entomology. **Jean-Pierre Dujardin** (dujardinbe@gmail.com), IRD, Montpellier, France

# Symposium: What Constitutes Responsible Field Release of Transgenic Insects?

## Room W414 C (Convention Center)

**Moderator and Organizer:** Fred Gould, North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC

1:30 **0697** Creating a responsible development pathway for mosquitoes with engineered drive. **Stephanie James** (sjames@fnih.org), Foundation for the National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD

1:45 **0698** Engineered and natural gene drives: Examining the risks. **Jason Rasgon** (jlr54@psu.edu), Pennsylvania State Univ., University Park, PA

2:00 **0699** Anticipatory governance of gene drive systems. **Jennifer Kuzma** (jkuzma@ncsu.edu), North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC

2:15 **0700** Pre-release engagement with the public: The case of *Aedes aegypti*. **Beth Ranson** (branson@keysmosquito.org) and Michael Doyle, Florida Keys Mosquito Control District, Key West, FL

2:30 **0701** Diverse approaches for public engagement. **Jason Delborne** (jadelbor@ncsu.edu), North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC

2:45 **0702** Towards responsible field testing of transgenic new world screwworm fly in Panama. **Carolina Concha** (carolacmcl@yahoo.com), Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama City, Panama

### 3:00 BREAK

3:15 **0703** An African perspective on release of engineered *Anopheles*. **Mamadou Coulibaly** (doudou@icermali.org), Malaria Research and Training Center, Bamako, Mali

3:30 **0704** The Brazilian experience with Projecto *Aedes Transgenico*. **Margareth Capurro** (mcapurro@icb.usp.br), Univ. of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

### 3:45 Discussion

# Symposium: Workshop on Gene Editing Technologies

## Room W414 A (Convention Center)

**Moderators and Organizers:** Anjiang Tan¹ and Subba Reddy Palli², ¹Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China, ²Univ. of Kentucky, Lexington, KY

1:30 **0705** A primer on genome editing technologies and their use in insects. **Nicholas M. Teets** (n.teets@ufl.edu), Univ. of Kentucky, Lexington, KY
2:00 **0706** Development of genome editing tools and their applications in the silkworm, *Bombyx mori*. **Hideki Sezutsu** (hsezutsu@affrc.go.jp), National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences, Tsukuba, Japan

2:30 **0707** Genetic control of Lepidoptera using genome editing tools. **Yong Ping Huang** (yphuang@sibs.ac.cn), Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China

2:45 **0708** Genome editing in the cricket *Gryllus bimaculatus*. **Taro Mito** (mito.taro@tokushima-u.ac.jp), Tokushima Univ., Tokushima, Japan

3:00 BREAK

3:15 **0709** Blocking malaria transmission with genetically engineered symbiotic bacteria from vector mosquitoes. **Sibao Wang** (sibaowang@sibs.ac.cn), Shanghai Institute of Plant Physiology and Ecology, Shanghai, China

3:30 **0710** Functional genomic analysis of *Ros*-promoted silk production. **Li Ma** (lima@gmail.com), Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China

3:45 **0711** Sex regulation of *Bombyx mori* by editing doublesex. **Jun Xu** (xujun@sibs.ac.cn)¹, Anthony James², Yongping Huang¹, and Anjiang Tan¹. ¹Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China, ²Univ. of California, Irvine, CA

4:00 **0712** Mutation of an imaginal disc-derived wing morphogenesis gene in *Bombyx mori*. **Muwang Li** (mwli@just.edu.cn), Xiaojing Liu, and Chengxiang Hou, Jiangsu Univ. of Science and Technology, Zhenjiang, China

4:15 **0713** Applications of transgenesis and genome editing in lepidopteran functional genomics. **Anjiang Tan** (ajtan01@sibs.ac.cn)¹, Taichu Wang², and Baosheng Zeng³, ¹Shanghai Institute of Plant Physiology and Ecology, Shanghai, China, ²Anhui Academy of Agricultural Science, Hefei, China, ³Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China

**Symposium: Novel Contributions of Chemical Ecology to Global IPM**

Room W223 A (Convention Center)

**Moderators and Organizers:** Baldwyn Torto¹ and Christian Borgemeister², ¹International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology, Nairobi, Kenya, ²Univ. of Bonn, Bonn, Germany

1:30 **0714** Potential of chemical ecology for application in IPM. **James H. Tumlinson** (jht2@psu.edu), Pennsylvania State Univ., University Park, PA

2:00 **0715** Role of leguminous plants in sandfly chemical ecology. **David Tchouassi** (dtchouassi@icipe.org)¹, Julia Wanjiru¹, Christian Borgemeister², and Baldwyn Torto¹, ¹International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology, Nairobi, Kenya, ²Univ. of Bonn, Bonn, Germany

2:15 **0716** Below ground chemical ecology and IPM. **Hans T. Alborn** (hans.alborn@ars.usda.gov), USDA - ARS, Gainesville, FL

2:30 **0717** Choices have consequences for a specialist spider mite attracted to edible nightshades. **Lucy Murungi** (lucykananu@yahoo.com) and Baldwyn Torto, International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology, Nairobi, Kenya

2:45 **0718** Chemical communication in the Chilean leafroller species *Proeulia auraria* and *P. triquetra*. **Jan Bergmann** (bergmann05@gmail.com)¹, Maria Fernanda Flores², Alda Romero³, M. Oyarzun⁴, and Tania Zaviezo⁵, ¹Pontifical Catholic Univ., Valapariso, Chile, ²Institute of Chemistry, Valparaiso, Chile, ³Catholic Univ. of Chile, Santiago, Chile, ⁴Pontifical Catholic Univ., Vicuña Mackenna, Chile, ⁵Pontifical Catholic Univ., Santiago, Chile

3:00 BREAK

3:15 **0719** Presentation withdrawn

3:30 **0720** Chemical ecology of leaf miners in east Africa. **Komi Fiaboe** (kfiaboe@icipe.org)¹, Caroline Foba¹, Komivi Akutse¹, Samuel Muchemi¹, Lucy Murungi¹, Robert Musundire², Ayuka Fombong¹, David Tchouassi¹, Sunday Ekesi¹, and Baldwyn Torto¹, ¹International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology, Nairobi, Kenya, ²Chinhoyi Univ. of Technology, Chinhoyi, Zimbabwe

3:45 **0721** Contribution of chemical ecology towards developing IPM strategies for vegetable legumes and brassicas in tropical Asia. **Srinivasan Ramasamy** (srini.ramasamy@worldveg.org)¹ and Krm Bhanu², ¹AVRDC-The World Vegetable Center, Tainan, Taiwan, ²Biocontrol Research Laboratories, Mumbai, India

**Symposium: Sex and Drugs and Bee Control: The Chemical Ecology of Pollination**

Room W224 B (Convention Center)

**Moderators and Organizers:** Lynn S. Adler¹, Phil Stevenson², and Rebecca E. Irwin³, ¹Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, ²Royal Botanic Gardens, Surrey, United Kingdom, ³Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH

1:30 **0722** How it takes honey to make a honey bee — and pollen and nectar to make a pollinator. **May R. Berenbaum** (maybe@illinois.edu), Univ. of Illinois, Champaign, IL

2:00 **0723** Chemical information structuring the plant interaction network. **André Kessler** (ak357@cornell.edu), Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY

2:15 **0724** Connecting floral advertisement and reward: Probing the hidden chemistry of nectar. **Robert Raguso and Geoffrey Broadhead** (gtb49@cornell.edu), Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY

2:30 **0725** Scented sweets: Exploring the multifaceted roles of nectar volatiles. **Amy Parachnowitsch** (amy.parachnowitsch@ebc.uu.se)¹, Rosie Burdon¹, Robert Gegear², Robert Junker³, André Kessler⁴, and Robert Raguso⁴, ¹Uppsala Univ., Uppsala, Sweden, ²Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA, ³Univ. of Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria, ⁴Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY
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2:45 **0726** From orchids to monkeyflowers: How floral volatiles shape pollinator behavior. **Kelsey Byers** (kelsey.byers@systbot.uzh.ch)¹, H. Bradshaw Jr.², Jeff Riffell², Roman Kellenberger¹, and Philipp Schlüter¹. ¹Univ. of Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland, ²Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA

3:00 **BREAK**

3:15 **0727** How pollen affects learning in bees. **Natalie Hempel de Ibarra** (n.hempel@exeter.ac.uk)¹ and Elizabeth Nicholls². ¹Univ. of Exeter, Exeter, United Kingdom, ²Univ. of Sussex, Sussex, United Kingdom

3:30 **0728** Mycorrhizal fungi alter floral traits important to pollination, bee fitness, and crop yield. **Leif Richardson** (leifr7@gmail.com), Alison Brody, and Taylor Ricketts, Univ. of Vermont, Burlington, VT

3:45 **0729** Floral scent mimicry by a pollinator-vectored plant pathogen. **Scott McArt** (shm33@cornell.edu)¹, Timothy Miles², Cesar Rodriguez³, Annamiek Schilder⁴, Lynn S. Adler⁵, and Matthew Grieshop⁴. ¹Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY, ²California State Univ., Seaside, CA, ³Rutgers, The State Univ. of New Jersey, Chatsworth, NJ, ⁴Michigan State Univ., East Lansing, MI, ⁵Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA

4:00 **0730** Specialist flowers face a trade-off between rewarding pollinators and defense against nectar robbery. **Phil Stevenson** (p.stevenson@kew.org)¹, S. Barlow¹, Sebastien Kessler², Geraldine A. Wright², Marta Barberis², and Iain Farrell¹. ¹Royal Botanic Gardens, Surrey, United Kingdom, ²Newcastle Univ., Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom

4:15 **0731** Nicotine and the honey bee. **Susan Nicolson** (swnicolson@zoology.up.ac.za)¹ and Ezette Durand². ¹Univ. of Pretoria, Hatfield, South Africa, ²Univ. of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa

4:30 **0732** Sipping from a poisoned chalice: How do plant drugs, toxins, and pesticides in nectar affect bee behaviour? **Geraldine A. Wright** (jeri.wright@newcastle.ac.uk), Newcastle Univ., Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom

4:45 **0733** Pharmacy bee hive — use of natural drugs to increase pollinator health. **Silvio Erler** (erler.silvio@gmail.com), Martin Luther Univ., Halle, Germany

5:00 **0734** The self-medicating bee? Impacts of nectar secondary compounds on bee foraging and disease. **Rebecca E. Irwin** (reirwin@ncsu.edu)¹, Dash Donnelly¹, Leif Richardson², Phil Stevenson³, and Lynn S. Adler⁴. ¹North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC, ²Univ. of Vermont, Burlington, VT, ³Univ. of Greenwich, Kent, United Kingdom, ⁴Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA

5:15 **0735** Getting sick and getting healthy: The impact of plant species on *Crithidia* infection in bumble bees. **Lynn S. Adler** (lsadler@ent.umass.edu)¹, Philip Stevenson², and Rebecca E. Irwin³. ¹Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, ²Univ. of Greenwich, Chatham, United Kingdom, ³North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC

**Symposium: Social Insect Pathobiology**

Room W224 G (Convention Center)

**Moderators and Organizers:** Rebeca B. Rosengaus¹ and Elke Genersch². ¹Northeastern Univ., Boston, MA, ²Institute for Bee Research, Hohen Neuendorf, Germany

1:30 **0736** Worms that sterilize queens: Dynamics and mechanisms. **Mark Brown** (mark.brown@rhul.ac.uk), Royal Holloway, Univ. of London, Egham, United Kingdom

1:45 **0737** Fungal pathogen adaptations in social insects — Pandora's Box. **Annette Bruun Jensen** (abj@plen.ku.dk), Univ. of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

2:00 **0738** Pathobiology of *Paenibacillus larvae*, a deathly bacterial pathogen of honey bees (*Apis mellifera*). **Elke Genersch** (elke.genersch@hu-berlin.de), Institute for Bee Research, Hohen Neuendorf, Germany; Freie Univ., Berlin, Germany

2:15 **0739** Zombie ants: Precise manipulation of social insect behavior by a microbe. **David Hughes and Colleen Mangold** (cav154@psu.edu), Pennsylvania State Univ., University Park, PA

2:30 **0740** Immunocompetence in a social wasp: A special tool for testing ecological and evolutionary hypotheses. **Fabio Manfredini** (fmanfredini79@gmail.com), Pennsylvania State Univ., University Park, PA

2:45 **0741** Pathogen-induced transgenerational effects in termites. **Rebeca B. Rosengaus** (r.rosengaus@neu.edu)¹, Erin Cole¹, and Graham Thompson². ¹Northeastern Univ., Boston, MA, ²Univ. of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada

3:00 **BREAK**

3:15 **0742** Royal decree: Gene expression in transgenerationally immune primed bumblebee workers mimics a primary immune response. **Ben Sadd**¹, **Seth M. Barribeau** (barribeau14@ecu.edu)², and Paul Schmid-Hempel³. ¹Illinois State Univ., Normal, IL, ²East Carolina Univ., Greenville, NC, ³ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland

3:30 **0743** Honey bee social immunity: Resin collection. **Marla Spivak** (spiva001@umn.edu)¹, Renata Borba¹, and Michael Wilson². ¹Univ. of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN, ²Univ. of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN

3:45 **0744** Benefits and costs of social immunization in ants. Matthias Konrad and **Sylvia Cremer** (sylvia.cremer@ist.ac.at), Institute of Science and Technology Austria, Klosterneuburg, Austria

4:00 **0745** Defending the hive: Social mechanisms complement individual immunity in honey bees. **Michael Simone-Finstrom** (michael.simonefinstrom@ars.usda.gov), USDA - ARS, Baton Rouge, LA
Symposium: The Biochemical Signaling Interface
Between Invaders and Their Insect Hosts

Room W330 A (Convention Center)

**Moderators and Organizers:** Qisheng Song¹, David W. Stanley², Yonggyun Kim³, and Gongyin Ye⁴. ¹Univ. of Missouri, Columbia, MO, ²USDA - ARS, Columbia, MO, ³Andong National Univ., Andong, South Korea, ⁴Zhejiang Univ., Hangzhou, China

1:30 **0746** Eicosanoid signaling in insect immunity.
**David W. Stanley** (stanleyd@missouri.edu)¹, Lei Zhang², Cynthia Goodman¹, and Joseph Ringbauer¹, ¹USDA - ARS, Columbia, MO, ²Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China

1:45 **0747** Eicosanoid signaling involved in expression of NADPH-dependent oxidase in insect cellular immunity. **Youngjin Park** (happy2pyj@gmail.com)¹, David Stanley², and Yonggyun Kim¹, ¹Andong National Univ., Andong, South Korea, ²USDA - ARS, Columbia, MO

2:00 **0748** Molecular and functional characterization of a prostaglandin E₂ synthase in the blacklegged tick, *Ixodes scapularis* Say. **Joshua R. Urban** (josurb@ksu.edu) and Yoonseong Park, Kansas State Univ., Manhattan, KS

2:15 **0749** Immunity function against the entomopathogenic fungi *Beauveria bassiana* by insect molting fluids.
**Jie Zhang** (zhangjie01@sibs.ac.cn), Bing Yang, Jingmin Guan, Qiaoli Zhang, and Erjun Ling, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China

2:30 **0750** High throughput profiling of the cotton bollworm, *Helicoverpa armigera*, immunotranscriptome.
**Zhen Zou** (zouzhen@ioz.ac.cn), Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

2:45 **0751** Immunity during insect development:
Endocrine regulation. **Qisheng Song** (songq@missouri.edu), Hongwei Zhang, and Shengzhang Dong, Univ. of Missouri, Columbia, MO

3:00 BREAK

3:15 **0752** Bursicon homodimer actions in the immune response of *Helicoverpa armigera*. Mengfang Du¹, Xiaoguang Liu¹, Xinming Yin¹, Qisheng Song², and **Shiheng An** (anshiheng@aliyun.com)¹, ¹Henan Agriculture Univ., Zhengzhou, China, ²Univ. of Missouri, Columbia, MO

3:30 **0753** Effects of the endoparasitoid *Cotesia chilonis* parasitism, venom, and calyx fluid on immunity of its host *Chilo suppressalis* larvae. **Qi Fang** (fangqi@zju.edu.cn), Zwen Teng, Gang Xu, Shiyu Gan, Xuan Chen, and Gongyin Ye, Zhejiang Univ., Hangzhou, China

3:45 **0754** A venom serpin isoform from *Pteromalus puparum* suppresses the host prephenoloxidase cascade by forming complexes with host hemolyph proteinases. **Zhichao Yan** (yan_zc@126.com)¹, Qi Fang¹, Lei Wang², Yu Zhu¹, and Gongyin Ye¹, ¹Zhejiang Univ., Hangzhou, China, ²Anhui Agricultural Univ., Hefei, China

Symposium: Deciphering Complex Signaling
Mechanisms in Insect-Plant Interactions

West Hall F1 (WF1) (Convention Center)

**Moderator and Organizer:** Joe Louis, Univ. of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE

1:30 **0755** Herbivory-induced calcium signaling in the activation of plant defense. **Axel Mithöfer** (amithoefer@ice.mpg.de), Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, Jena, Germany

1:45 **0756** Influence of plant fatty acid desaturases on plant-aphid interactions. **Fiona L. Goggin** (fgoggin@uark.edu), Univ. of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR

2:00 **0757** Stone cells and the conifer defense syndrome.
**Justin G. A. Whitehill** (whiteh5@msl.ubc.ca), The Univ. of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada

2:15 **0758** Signalling pathways and plant defence mechanisms to aphids. **Karam Singh** (karam.singh@csiro.au), CSIRO, Floreat, Australia

2:30 **0759** An herbivore-induced plant volatile functions as a direct defense and within-plant priming signal.
**Matthias Erb** (matthias.erb@ips.unibe.ch), Univ. of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

2:45 **0760** The mechanism in the adaption of *Spodoptera litura* to its new host plant. **Sichun Zheng** (szcheng62@126.com), South China Normal Univ., Guangzhou, China

3:00 BREAK

3:15 **0761** "Omic" approaches to decipher plant defense mechanisms against insect pests. **Joe Louis** (joelouis@unl.edu), Univ. of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE

3:30 **0762** Genetic uncoupling of growth-defense tradeoffs in plant interactions with insect herbivores.
**Gregg A. Howe** (howeg@msu.edu), Michigan State Univ., East Lansing, MI

3:45 **0763** Regulation of plant defense against the polyphagous green peach aphid. **Jyoti Shah** (shah@unt.edu), Univ. of North Texas, Denton, TX

4:00 **0764** Identifying genes that underlie whitefly resistance in cassava. **Linda Walling** (linda.walling@ucr.edu), Univ. of California, Riverside, CA

4:15 **0765** Mediation of plant perception of herbivory by the third trophic level. **Gary Felton** (gwf10@psu.edu), Pennsylvania State Univ., University Park, PA

4:30 **0766** Manipulation of plant metabolism by proteins and small molecules in aphid saliva. **Georg Jander** (jander@cornell.edu), Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research, Ithaca, NY

4:45 **0767** Herbivory, local adaptation, and population genetics of invasive weed *Solanum elaeagnifolium* (Solanaceae). **Rupesh Kariyat** (rupesh.kariyat@usys.ethz.ch), ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland

Symposium: Integrated Pest Management
Components and Packages for Tropical Crops

Room W331D (Convention Center)

**Moderators and Organizers:** Rangaswamy R. Muniappan¹ and Short Heinrichs², ¹Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State Univ., Blacksburg, VA, ²IAPPS, Lincoln, NE
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1:30 **0768** The role of IPM in USAID's feed the future initiative. **John Bowman** (jobowman@usaid.gov), USAID Bureau for Food Security, Washington, DC

1:45 **0769** Integrated pest management of chickpea leaf miner, *Liriomyza cicerina* (Rondani). **L. Ali** (l.ali@cgiar.org)¹, Mustapha El Bouhssini², and A. Sabraoui¹, ¹International Center for Agriculture Research in the Dry Areas, Rabat, Morocco, ²International Center for Agriculture Research in the Dry Areas, Aleppo, Syria

2:00 **0770** Integrated pest management strategy of red palm weevil, *Rhynchophorus ferrugineus* Olivier, in the Near East and north African region. **Shoki Aldobai** (shoki.aldobai@fao.org)¹ and J. R. Faleiro², ¹Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Cairo, Egypt, ²Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Al-Hassa, Saudi Arabia

2:15 **0771** Towards development of a parasitoid cottage industry in the Sahel for biological control of the millet head miner. **N. Ba** (ba@gmail.com)¹, Ibrahim Baoua², A. Kabore³, Laouali Amadou⁴, L. Karimoune¹, H. Salha¹, L. Dabire⁵, Rangaswamy R. Muniappan⁶, and George Norton⁶, ¹International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics, Niger, Niger, ²Univ. of Maradi, Niger, Niger, ³INERA, Burkina Faso, Burkina Faso, ⁴National Institute of Agronomy Research in Niger, Maradi, Niger, ⁵INERA, Niger, Niger, ⁶Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State Univ., Blacksburg, VA

2:30 **0772** Management of *Eriophyes dimocarpus* on Longan in Vietnam using safe and biological approaches. **Tran Thi My Hanh** (hoavn2003@gmail.com), Nguyen Thi Thoa, and Nguyen Hoa, Southern Horticultural Research Institute, Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam

2:45 **0773** An integrated pest management (IPM) strategy to manage bean pod borer (*Maruca vitrata*) on yard-long bean in southeast Asia. **Sopana Yule** (sopana.yule@worldveg.org)¹, Ramasamy Srinivasan², Vu Hai³, and Khodsimouang Soukhavong⁴, ¹AVRDC-The World Vegetable Center, Kamphaeng Saen, Thailand, ²AVRDC-The World Vegetable Center, Shanhua, Taiwan, ³Vietnam Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Thanh Tri, Vietnam, ⁴Dept. of Agriculture, Vientiane, Laos

3:00 BREAK

3:15 **0774** Biological control: A non-obvious option for managing insect pests in cowpea. **Elie Dannon** (e.dannon@cgiar.org)¹, Benjamin Datinon¹, Ramasamy Srinivasan², Joelle Toffa¹, David Arodokoun³, Barry R. Pittendrigh⁴, and Manuele Tamo¹, ¹International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, Cotonou, Benin, ²AVRDC-The World Vegetable Center, Shanhua, Taiwan, ³INRA, Cotonou, Benin, ⁴Univ. of Illinois, Champaign, IL

3:30 **0775** IPM as a strategic approach for management of virus diseases in vegetable crops in the tropics. **Naidu Rayapati** (naidu.rayapati@wsu.edu), Washington State Univ., Prosser, WA

3:45 **0776** Pest management in rain-fed crops in the semi-arid tropics: Prospects and problems. **Sumit Vashisth** (raentomology@cgiar.org)¹, Jaba Jagdish², and Hari Sharma², ¹International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics, Patancheru, India, ²Dr. YS Parmar Univ. of Horticulture & Forestry, Nauni, Solan, India

4:00 **0777** Reducing insect pest vulnerabilities in rice value chain using ecologically-based IPM strategy. **Buyung Hadi** (b.hadi@irri.org), Josie Catindig, Silvia Villareal, and Charles Garcia, International Rice Research Institute, Metro Manila, Philippines

4:15 **0778** Presentation withdrawn

4:30 **0779** Development and dissemination of vegetable integrated pest management (IPM) practices and packages in Nepal. **Sulav Paudel** (spaudel111@gmail.com)¹, Rangaswamy R. Muniappan², and Edwin Rajotte³, ¹IDE Nepal, Kathmandu, Nepal, ²Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State Univ., Blacksburg, VA, ³Pennsylvania State Univ., University Park, PA

4:45 Discussion

Symposium: True Bugs (Heteroptera) from the Neotropics: Advances on Basic and Applied Research

Room W230 C (Convention Center)

**Moderators and Organizers:** Antônio Panizzi¹,² and Jocelia Grazia³, ¹National Wheat Research Center, Passo Fundo, Brazil, ²Embrapa Trigo, Passo Fundo, Brazil, ³Federal Univ. of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil

1:30 **0780** The family Aradidae – Taxonomy, diversity, and distribution in the neotropical region. **Ernst Heiss** (aradus@aon.at), Trioler Country Museum, Innsbruck, Austria

1:45 **0781** Diversity, classification, and evolution of neotropical stink bugs (Hemiptera: Pentatomoidea) associated with cultivated plants. **Cristiano Schwertner** (acrosternum@yahoo.com.br)¹ and Jocelia Grazia², ¹Federal Univ. of São Paulo, Diadema, Brazil, ²Federal Univ. of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil

2:00 **0782** Shield bugs in the new world: An update on the knowledge of the neotropical Scutelleridae. **Joe Eger** (jeeger@dow.com)¹, Aline Barcellos², and Luciana Weiler³, ¹Dow AgroSciences, Tampa, FL, ²Zoobotanical Foundation, Porto Alegre, Brazil, ³Federal Univ. of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil

2:15 **0783** The status of Heteroptera research in Latin America. **Dimitri Forero** (forero-i@javeriana.edu.co), Pontifical Xavierian Univ., Bogotá, Colombia

2:30 **0784** First insights into the phylogenetic relationships of the *Euschistus*-group. **Kim Barão** (kbarao@yahoo.com.br), Federal Univ. of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil

2:45 **0785** Aquatic bugs (Heteroptera: Gerromorpha & Nepomorpha) from the neotropics. **Felipe Moreira** (felipe.moreira@ioc.fiocruz.br), Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

3:00 BREAK
3:15 **0786** Seasonal occurrence, host plants, and morphological and physiological changes of the redbanded stink bug, *Piezodorus guildinii* (Westwood) (Heteroptera: Pentatomidae) in Uruguay. **María Zerbino** (szerbino@inia.org.uy)¹, Antônio Panizzi², and Nora Altier¹, ¹National Institute of Agricultural Investigations, Colonia, Uruguay, ²National Wheat Research Center, Passo Fundo, Brazil

3:30 **0787** Pheromone strategies to manage neotropical stink bugs and its natural enemies in arable crops: An *Euschistus heros* model. **Miguel Borges** (miguel.borges@embrapa.br), Embrapa Genetic Resources and Biotechnology, Brasília, Brazil

3:45 **0788** Stink bug sheath, saliva, and cell rupture feeding as cause of host injury. **Antônio Panizzi** (antonio.panizzi@embrapa.br)¹ and Tiago Lucini², ¹Embrapa Wheat, Passo Fundo, Brazil, ²Federal Univ. of Paraná, Curitiba, Brazil

4:00 **0789** The potential risk losses caused by *Dichelops melacanthus* (Dallas) to maize in the neotropics. Ivan Cruz¹ and Antônio Panizzi (antonio.panizzi@embrapa.br)², ¹Embrapa Corn and Sorghum, Sete Lagoas, Brazil, ²Embrapa Trigo, Passo Fundo, Brazil

4:15 **0790** The bronze bug, *Thaumastocoris peregrinus* Carpintero & Dellapé (Hemiptera: Thaumastocoridae): Challenging *Eucalyptus* plantations in the Neotropics. **Carlos Wilcken** (cwilcken@fca.unesp.br), São Paulo State Univ., Botucatu, Brazil

4:30 **0791** Role of endosymbionts and potential applications on neotropical true bug's management. **Simone Prado** (simone.prado@embrapa.br), Embrapa Environment, Jaguariúna, Brazil

4:45 **0792** Geographical and temporal variability of stink bug susceptibility to insecticides in Brazil. **Daniel Sosa-Gómez** (daniel.sosa-gomez@embrapa.br)¹ and Patricia Husch², ¹Embrapa Soy, Londrina, Brazil, ²Federal Univ. of Paraná, Curitiba, Brazil

5:00 **0793** Neotropical stink bugs and biological control. **Walker A. Jones** (walker.jones@ars.usda.gov), USDA - ARS, Stoneville, MS

2:00 **0796** Characterizing the molecular biology of *Limonius californicus* and its application to pest management. **Kevin Wanner** (kwanner@montana.edu), Montana State Univ., Bozeman, MT

2:15 **0797** Cultural control of wireworms an alternative management strategy. **Anuar Morales-Rodriguez** (am434@cornell.edu), Univ. of California, Riverside, CA

2:30 **0798** The effect of conservation agriculture on *Agriotes* spp. populations: First results of the life+ project helpsoil. **Lorenzo Furlan** (lorenzo.furlan@venetoagricoltura.org), Veneto Agricoltura, Legnaro, Italy

2:45 **0799** Smells good but claims your life: An attract and kill strategy for wireworm control in potato. **Stefan Vidal** (svidal@gwdg.de), Georg August Univ., Göttingen, Germany

3:00 BREAK

3:15 **0800** Timing of application of *Metarhizium brunneum* against wireworms in Swiss crop rotation schemes. **Giselher Grabenweger** (giselher.grabenweger@agroscope.admin.ch), Agroscope, Zürich, Switzerland

3:30 **0801** Toward a comprehensive strategy for wireworm biocontrol. **Todd Kabaluk** (todd.kabaluk@agr.gc.ca), Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Agassiz, BC, Canada

3:45 **0802** Click beetle IPM. **Bob Vernon** (vernonbs@agr.gc.ca) and Wim van Herk, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Agassiz, BC, Canada

4:00 **0803** Wireworms in potatoes: Management strategies and more. **Christine Noronha** (christine.noronha@agr.gc.ca), Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Charlottetown, PEI, Canada

4:15 **0804** Challenges of controlling wireworms with insecticides in potatoes in the mid-Atlantic U.S. **John D. Aigner** (daigner@vt.edu) and Thomas P. Kuhar, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State Univ., Blacksburg, VA

4:30 **0805** Integrated control of wireworms in Florida sugarcane. Ronald H. Cherry and **Michael Karounos** (wompum@ufl.edu), Univ. of Florida, Belle Glade, FL

Symposium: Wireworm and Click Beetle
Management: IPM Toolbox for the 21st Century

Room W331 C (Convention Center)

**Moderators and Organizers:** Bob Vernon¹ and Anuar Morales-Rodriguez², ¹Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Agassiz, BC, Canada, ²Univ. of California, Riverside, CA

1:30 **0794** Wireworm management using trap crops. **Ashish Adhikari** (ashish.adhikari@msu.montana.edu)¹, Gadi V. P. Reddy¹, and Bob Vernon², ¹Montana State Univ., Conrad, MT, ²Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Agassiz, BC, Canada

1:45 **0795** Biology, ecology, and control of wireworms (Coleoptera: Elateridae) in cereal crops. **Ivan Milosavljevic** (ivan.milosavljevic@email.wsu.edu)¹, Aaron Esser², and David Crowder¹, ¹Washington State Univ., Pullman, WA, ²Washington State Univ., Ritzville, WA

Symposium: Scarabs without Borders: Lessons
from a Century of Invasions

Room W222 B (Convention Center)

**Moderators and Organizers:** Trevor Jackson¹ and Michael G. Klein², ¹AgResearch, Ltd., Christchurch, New Zealand, ²The Ohio State Univ., Heber, AZ

1:30 **0806** Scarabs without borders: Where are they now? **Trevor Jackson** (trevor.jackson@agresearch.co.nz), AgResearch, Ltd., Christchurch, New Zealand

1:45 **0807** Scarab Central resources at the University of Nebraska: We have what you need, and you collect what we want. **Brett C. Ratcliffe** (bratcliffe@unl.edu), Univ. of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE

2:00 **0808** The Japanese beetle: Still bugging us 100 years later. **Michael G. Klein** (klein.10@osu.edu), The Ohio State Univ., Heber, AZ
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2:15 **0809** Introduction of exotic Scarabaeine dung beetle species to southwestern Australia: Winners and losers after 35 years. **James Ridsdill-Smith** (james.ridsdell-smith@csiro.au)¹, John Matthiessen², David Cousins³, and Robert Emery³, ¹Univ. of Western Australia, Perth, Australia, ²CSIRO, Perth, Australia, ³Dept. of Agriculture and Food, South Perth, Australia

2:30 **0810** Continental shifts — African black beetle (*Heteronychus arator*) invades Australasia. **Alison Popay** (alison.popay@agresearch.co.nz) and Warren King, AgResearch, Ltd., Hamilton, New Zealand

2:45 **0811** The rhinoceros beetle invasion of Guam: An unprecedented disaster. **Aubrey Moore** (amoore@uguam.uog.edu)¹, Roland Quitugua¹, Trevor Jackson², Sean Marshall², and Matthew Siderhurst³, ¹Univ. of Guam, Mangilao, Guam, ²AgResearch, Ltd., Christchurch, New Zealand, ³Eastern Mennonite Univ., Harrisonburg, VA

3:00 **BREAK**

3:15 **0812** Detection of an invasive biotype of *Oryctes rhinoceros* (L.) in the Pacific. **Sean Marshall** (sean.marshall@agresearch.co.nz)¹, Maclean Vaqalo², Aubrey Moore³, Roland Quitugua³, and Trevor Jackson¹, ¹AgResearch, Ltd., Christchurch, New Zealand, ²Secretariat of the Pacific Community, Suva, Fiji, ³Univ. of Guam, Mangilao, Guam

3:30 **0813** Control of rhinoceros beetle in endemic outbreak areas. **Ramle Moslim** (ramle@mpob.gov.my) and Norman Kamarudin, Malaysian Palm Oil Board, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

3:45 **0814** Tools to combat beetles threatening the Hawaiian Islands. **Mary Liz Jameson** (maryliz.jameson@gmail.com), Joshua Dunlap, and Emmy Engasser, Wichita State Univ., Wichita, KS

4:00 **0815** Semiochemistry of scarabs: A European perspective. **Jozsef Vuts** (jozsef.vuts@rohamstead.ac.uk)¹, Christine Woodcock¹, Zoltan Imrei², John Pickett¹, Mike Birkett¹, and Miklos Toth², ¹Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, United Kingdom, ²Plant Protection Institute, Budapest, Hungary

4:15 **0816** Chemical controls used to manage invasive and native scarab pests of turf and ornamentals in the United States. **David Shetlar** (shetlar.1@osu.edu), The Ohio State Univ., Columbus, OH

4:30 **0817** Management of scarabs in the regulated urban environment. **Michael Brownbridge** (michael.brownbridge@vinelandresearch.com), Vineland Research and Innovation Centre, Vineland Station, ON, Canada

4:45 **0818** Management of pest scarabs in Mexico. **Miguel Najera Rincon** (minaj47@hotmail.com)¹,², Trevor Jackson³, Guadalupe Zitlalpopoca Hernandez², and John Larsen², ¹INIFAP, Uruapan, Mexico, ²National Autonomous Univ. of México, Morelia, Mexico, ³AgResearch, Ltd., Christchurch, New Zealand

5:00 **0819** *Phyllophaga* pheromones and sex attractants: Juggling the many species. **Paul S. Robbins** (paul.robbins@ars.usda.gov), USDA - ARS, Ft. Pierce, FL

SD0820 Management of pest scarabs in Japan. **Shin Asano** (sangaku@abs.agr.hokudai.ac.jp)¹ and Kazuhiro Iiyama², ¹Hokkaido Univ., Sapporo, Japan, ²Kyushu Univ., Fukuoka, Japan

SD0821 An eradication program for rhinoceros beetle in Hawai'i. **Darcy Oishi** (darcy.e.oishi@hawai'i.gov), Division of Plant Industry, Honolulu, HI

SD0822 Comparing the challenges and successes of Japanese beetle (Popillia japonica Newman 1841) mitigation in two western North American states (Oregon and Utah). **Clint Burfitt** (clintburfitt@hotmail.com)¹, Diana Kearns¹, Alan Mudge¹, and Kristopher Watson², ¹Oregon Dept. of Agriculture, Salem, OR, ²Utah Dept. of Agriculture and Food, Salt Lake City, UT

SD0823 Detoxification enzymes in Japanese beetle adults and larvae: Prospects for management and eradication. **David Held** (dwh0004@auburn.edu), Adekunle Adesanya, and Nannan Liu, Auburn Univ., Auburn, AL

SD0824 Presentation withdrawn

SD0825 Lures and traps for NE Chinese scarab pests. **Ri-zhao Chen** (bobob1972@163.com)¹ and Michael G. Klein², ¹Jilin Agricultural Univ., Changchun, China, ²The Ohio State Univ., Heber, AZ

SD0826 Insecticides and bio-pesticides for scarab quarantine use in nurseries: Potential and reality. **Jason B. Oliver** (joliver@tnstate.edu)¹, Karla Addesso¹, Christopher Ranger², Michael E. Reding², and Michael G. Klein³, ¹Tennessee State Univ., McMinnville, TN, ²USDA - ARS, Wooster, OH, ³The Ohio State Univ., Heber, AZ

SD0827 Eradication of Japanese beetle from Palisade, Colorado. **Bob Hammon** (bob.hammon@mesacounty.us), Colorado State Univ., Grand Junction, CO

SD0828 Japanese beetle: The California experience. **Jason Leathers** (jason.leathers@cdfa.ca.gov) and Kevin Hoffman, California Dept. of Food and Agriculture, Sacramento, CA

5:15 **Poster Session**

**Symposium: Innovative Strategies of Mosquito Control**

*Room W331 A (Convention Center)*

**Moderators and Organizers:** Stephen Dobson¹ and Roberto Barrera², ¹Univ. of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, ²Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, San Juan, PR

1:30 **0829** Innovation: The hall of mirrors in mosquito control. **Daniel A. Strickman** (dan.strickman@gatesfoundation.org), Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Seattle, WA

1:45 **0830** Evaluation of combined strategies for controlling mosquito-borne diseases. **Alun L. Lloyd** (alun_lloyd@ncsu.edu)¹, Kenichi Okamoto², and Fred Gould¹, ¹North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC, ²Yale Univ., New Haven, CT

2:00 **0831** Integrating vaccines and vector control for dengue prevention. **Thomas W. Scott** (twscott@ucdavis.edu), Univ. of California, Davis, CA
2:15 **0832** Novel malaria and NTD vector control insecticides and tools: Crossing the finish line. **Nick Hamon** (nick.hamon@ivcc.com)¹, Sarah Rees¹, David Malone¹, and Daniel A. Strickman², ¹IVCC, Liverpool, United Kingdom, ²USDA - ARS, Beltsville, MD

2:30 **0833** Insecticide-treated house screens to reduce infestations of dengue vectors. **Pablo Manrique-Saide** (pablo_manrique2000@hotmail.com), Autonomous Univ. of Yucatán, Merida, Mexico

2:45 **0834** Electrostatic netting as an insecticide-resistance breaking tool for malaria vector control. Bart Knols and **Marit Farenhorst** (marit@in2care.org), In2Care B.V., Wageningen, Netherlands

**3:00 BREAK**

3:15 **0835** Control of container *Aedes* mosquito vectors using trapping devices. **Roberto Barrera** (amz9@cdc.gov), Veronica Acevedo, Gilberto Felix, Ryan Hemme, Jesus Vazquez, Jorge Munoz, and Manuel Amador, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, San Juan, PR

3:30 **0836** Advancing a paradigm: Spatial repellents for control of vector-borne disease. **Nicole L. Achee** (nachee@nd.edu), Univ. of Notre Dame, South Bend, IN

3:45 **0837** New methods for improving the impacts of larvicides and adulticides. **Greg Devine** (greg.devine@qimrberghofer.edu.au), QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Herston, Australia

4:00 **0838** Male mosquitoes as vehicles for insecticide. **Corey L. Brelsfoard** (cbrelsfoard@mosquitomate.com), MosquitoMate, Inc., Lexington, KY

4:15 **0839** R&D activities of the Joint FAO/IAEA Insect Pest Control Laboratory toward sterile insect technique (SIT)-based population control of mosquito species. **Jeremie Gilles** (j.gilles@iaea.org)¹, Rosemary Lees², and Kostas Bourtzis², ¹Joint FAO/IAEA Division of Nuclear Techniques in Food and Agriculture, Seibersdorf, Austria, ²International Atomic Energy Agency, Vienna, Austria

4:30 **0840** Comparing transgenic mosquito technique and SIT mosquito programs. Danilo Carvalho and **André Costa-da-Silva** (alcosta@icb.usp.br), Univ. of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

4:45 **0841** Developing a *Wolbachia*-based strategy to control dengue in China. **Zhiyong Xi** (xizy@msu.edu), Michigan State Univ., East Lansing, MI

5:00 **0842** A bacterium in the fight against dengue. **Luciano Moreira** (luciano@cpqrr.fiocruz.br), Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Belo Horizonte, Brazil

5:15 **0843** *Wolbachia* biopesticide regulation and application in the USA. **Stephen Dobson** (sdobson@uky.edu), Univ. of Kentucky, Lexington, KY

**Symposium: Vector-Borne Diseases of Livestock**

**Room W331 B (Convention Center)**

**Moderators and Organizers:** D. Scott McVey¹ and Roman Kucheryavenko², ¹USDA - ARS, Manhattan, KS, ²National Scientific Center, Kharkiv, Ukraine

1:30 **0844** African swine fever in Ukraine: History of eradication, present, and prospects. **Roman Kucheryavenko** (rkucheryavenko@ukr.net), National Scientific Center, Kharkiv, Ukraine

2:00 **0845** *Ornithodoros verrucosus* in Ukraine: Evaluating regional presence and its possible impact on the epidemiology of African swine fever. **Filatov Serhii** (filatovmidge@gmail.com), National Scientific Center, Kharkiv, Ukraine

2:15 **0846** Equine piroplasmosis and associated tick vectors. **Glen Scoles** (scoles@vetmed.wsu.edu), USDA - ARS, Pullman, WA

2:30 **0847** Dynamic of tick and bovine babesiosis in central Brazil in a world of potential climatic changes. **Renato Andreotti** (renato.andreotti@embrapa.br), Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation, Campo Grande, Brazil

2:45 **0848** The population genetics of potential Rift Valley fever mosquito vectors in the United States. **Lee Cohnstaedt** (lee.cohnstaedt@ars.usda.gov) and Phillip Schumm, USDA - ARS, Manhattan, KS

**3:00 BREAK**

3:15 **0849** Strategies used in the control and management of Rift Valley fever in Africa. **Phelix Majiwa** (majiwaparc.agric.za)¹,² and Robert Maluleke¹, ¹Agricultural Research Council, Onderstepoort, South Africa, ²Univ. of Pretoria, Onderstepoort, South Africa

3:30 **0850** *Culicoides*: The controller of orbivirus transmission. **Barbara Drolet** (barbara.drolet@ars.usda.gov), Christopher Lehiy, Lindsey Reister, Mark Ruder, and D. Scott McVey, USDA - ARS, Manhattan, KS

3:45 **0851** Predictive biology and control strategies for vector-borne diseases of livestock. **D. Scott McVey** (scott.mcvey@ars.usda.gov), Barbara Drolet, and Lee Cohnstaedt, USDA - ARS, Manhattan, KS

**Symposium: Evolution and Biology of Chalcidoidea: Integrating Genomics, Fossils, Microbiomes, and Natural History**

**Room W340 A (Convention Center)**

**Moderators and Organizers:** James Woolley¹, John M. Heraty², and Astrid Cruaud³, ¹Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX, ²Univ. of California, Riverside, CA, ³INRA, Montferrier-sur-Lez, France

1:30 **0852** Fossil chalcidoid wasps and the history of megadiversity. **Lars Krogmann** (lars.krogmann@smns-bw.de)¹, Ralph Peters², Roger A. Burks³, and John M. Heraty³, ¹State Museum of Natural History, Stuttgart, Germany, ²Alexander Koenig Zoological Research Museum, Bonn, Germany, ³Univ. of California, Riverside, CA

1:45 **0853** The most ancestral genus of Mymaridae, with comments on generic relationships and evolution within the family. **John Huber** (john.huber@agr.gc.ca), Natural Resources Canada, Ottawa, ON, Canada

2:00 **0854** Phylogenomics, genomics, and our understanding of Chalcidoidea evolution. **Ralph Peters** (ralph_peters@hotmail.com), Alexander Koenig Zoological Research Museum, Bonn, Germany
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2:15 **0855** There is more than one way to jump: Eupelmidae, Encyrptidae, and the interplay between phylogenomics and morphology. **James Woolley** (jimwoolley@tamu.edu), Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX

2:30 **0856** Figs and wasps arm-in-arm: An 80 million year walk in the jungle. **Jean-Yves Rasplus** (rasplus@supagro.inra.fr) and Astrid Cruaud, INRA, Montferrier-sur-Lez, France

2:45 **0857** Unjumbling the jumbled trichogrammatids: NGS to the rescue. **Astrid Cruaud** (cruaud@supagro.inra.fr)¹, Geraldine Bout², Guenaëlle Genson¹, and Jean-Yves Rasplus¹, ¹INRA, Montferrier-sur-Lez, France, ²INRA, Sophia Antipolis, France

3:00 **BREAK**

3:15 **0858** What exactly is an aphelinid anyway? **Andrew Polaszek** (a.polaszek@nhm.ac.uk), The Natural History Museum, London, United Kingdom

3:30 **0859** The role of the symbiont *Cardinium* in shaping the ecology and evolution of *Encarsia*. **Marco Gebiola** (marco.gebiola@gmail.com)¹, Suzanne E. Kelly¹, Peter Hammerstein², Massimo Giorgini³, and Martha Hunter¹, ¹Univ. of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, ²Humboldt Univ., Berlin, Germany, ³National Research Council of Italy, Portici, Italy

3:45 **0860** Genomics and adaptation in *Wolbachia*, an obligate reproductive parasite in *Trichogramma* wasps. **Amelia Lindsey** (alind005@ucr.edu)¹, John H. Werren², Stephen Richards³, and Richard Stouthamer¹, ¹Univ. of California, Riverside, CA, ²Univ. of Rochester, Rochester, NY, ³Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX

4:00 **0861** Genetics and genomics of *Aphelinus* — keeping ahead in the parasitism race. **Keith R. Hopper** (khopper@udel.edu), USDA - ARS, Newark, DE

4:15 **0862** Morphometrics and the description of cryptic species in the Chalcidoidea. **Hannes Baur** (baur.hannes@gmail.com), Natural History Museum of the Civic Community, Bern, Switzerland

4:30 **0863** Immature development of Chalcidoidea: Trends, functional ecology, and comparison with other parasitoids. **Alex Gumovsky** (entedon@gmail.com)¹,², ¹National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kiev, Ukraine, ²Univ. of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

4:45 **0864** Insights into Eurytomidae and Chalcididae: What does the future hold? **Michael Gates** (michael.gates@ars.usda.gov), USDA - ARS, Washington, DC

5:00 **0865** Unraveling the ant parasitic Eucharitidae — taxonomic and biological approaches. **John M. Heraty** (john.heraty@ucr.edu)¹, Jason Mottern², Roger A. Burks¹, Ralph Peters³, Alan Lemmon⁴, Emily Lemmon⁴, and D. Darling⁵, ¹Univ. of California, Riverside, CA, ²USDA - ARS, Washington, DC, ³Alexander Koenig Zoological Research Museum, Bonn, Germany, ⁴Florida State U niv., Tallahassee, FL, ⁵Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, ON, Canada

5:15 **0866** Biological control in the 21st century — do chalcids still count? **Erica Kistner** (erica.kistner@ucr.edu) and Mark S. Hoddle, Univ. of California, Riverside, CA

Symposium: Recent Advances in Heteropteran (Hemiptera) Systematics and Evolution

Room W231C (Convention Center)

**Moderators and Organizers:** Thomas J. Henry¹ and Wenjun Bu², ¹USDA - ARS, Washington, DC, ²Nankai Univ., Tianjin, China

1:30 **0867** Species biodiversity can be overestimated using a fixed threshold: Insights from DNA barcoding of the genus *Cletus* (Hemiptera: Coreidae) and COI data from phylogeographical studies. **Haiguang Zhang** (haiguangzhang123@163.com)¹, Minhua Lv¹, Wenbo Yi¹, Weibing Zhu², and Wenjun Bu¹, ¹Nankai Univ., Tianjin, China, ²Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China

1:45 **0868** Millipede assassin bugs (Heteroptera: Reduviidae: Ectrichodiinae) show off: Evolution of aposematic coloration and extreme sexual dimorphism. **Michael Forthman** (mfort001@ucr.edu), Univ. of California, Riverside, CA

2:00 **0869** Sea-level fluctuation and host-plant habitat requirements influence the Pleistocene history of the invasive species *Amphiareus obscuriceps* (Hemiptera: Anthocoridae): Inferences from molecular phylogeography and ecological niche modeling. **Danli Zhang** (danlizhang2012@163.com)¹, Zhen Ye¹, Kazutaka Yamada², Yahui Zhen¹, Chenguang Zheng¹, and Wenjun Bu¹, ¹Nankai Univ., Tianjin, China, ²Tokushima Prefectural Museum, Tokushima, Japan

2:15 **0870** From leaf litter to canopy: Uncovering the biodiversity of Dipsocoromorpha. **Christiane Weirauch** (christiane.weirauch@ucr.edu), Rochelle Hoey-Chamberlain, Alexander Knyshov, Stephanie Leon, and Sarah Frankenberg, Univ. of California, Riverside, CA

2:30 **0871** The classification of the Pentatomidae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera): Past, present, and future. **David Rider** (david.rider@ndsu.edu)¹ and Cristiano Schwertner², ¹North Dakota State Univ., Fargo, ND, ²Federal Univ. of São Paulo, Diadema, Brazil

2:45 **0872** The origin and evolution of the Tingidae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera). **Eric Guilbert** (guilbert@mnhn.fr)¹ and Marcus Guidoti², ¹National Museum of Natural History, Paris, France, ²Federal Univ. of Rio Grande de Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil

3:00 **BREAK**

3:15 **0873** Phylogeny and tribal assessment of the Isometopinae (Hemiptera: Miridae) and discussion of their relationship with the Cylapinae, including "Psallopini". **Thomas Henry** (thomas.henry@ars.usda.gov)¹ and Andrzej Wolski², ¹USDA - ARS, Washington, DC, ²Opole Univ., Opole, Poland

3:30 **0874** Presentation withdawn

3:45 **0875** Phylogeny and character evolution in Eccritotarsini (Heteroptera: Bryocorinae). **Fedor Konstantinov** (fkonstantinov@gmail.com)¹ and Anna Namyatova², ¹St. Petersburg State Univ., St. Petersburg, Russia, ²Univ. of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
4:00 **0876** From pretarsi to purines: How knowledge of relationships in the Phyлинаe, based on new and novel synapomorphies, have changed. **Katrina Menard** (kmenard@ou.edu)¹ and Randall T. Schuh², ¹Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History, Norman, OK, ²American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY

4:15 **0877** Geographical isolation and Pleistocene climate fluctuations as motors in speciation: Case study on mountain stream insects of the genus *Pseudovelia* (Hemiptera: Veliidae). **Zhen Ye** (yezhen1987331@163.com)¹, Pingping Chen², and Wenjun Bu¹, ¹Nankai Univ., Tianjin, China, ²Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Leiden, Netherlands

3:30 **0885** BuprestidID: An interactive tool for the identification of the metallic wood-boring beetles (Coleoptera: Buprestidae). **Gavin Martin** (gmartin33@live.com)¹, Nathan Lord¹, Seth M. Bybee¹, and Charles L Bellamy², ¹Brigham Young Univ., Provo, UT, ²California Dept. of Food and Agriculture, Sacramento, CA

3:45 **0886** Taxonomic catalog of the fauna of Brazil — families Buprestidae and Cerambycidae. **Marcela Monné** (mlmonne2@gmail.com) and Miguel Monné, Federal Univ. of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

4:00 **0887** Longicorn ID: A tool for identification of larval Cerambycidae. **Eugenio Nearns** (gino@nearns.com)¹, Nathan Lord², Steve Lingafelter³, Antonio Santos-Silva⁴, Kelly Miller⁵, and Jennifer Zaspel¹, ¹Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN, ²Brigham Young Univ., Provo, UT, ³USDA - ARS, Washington, DC, ⁴Univ. of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil, ⁵Univ. of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM

4:15 **0888** Cerambycidae in the tropical dry forest of western Mexico. Felipe Noguera, **Nayeli Gutiérrez** (pinedaaa@gmail.com), and Cisteil Pérez-Hernández, National Autonomous Univ. of México, Mexico City, Mexico

4:30 **0889** Isolation and identification of a male-produced attractant pheromone for the invasive velvet long-horned beetle, *Trichoferus campestris* (Cerambycinae: Hesperophanini). **Ann M. Ray** (raya6@xavier.edu)¹, Joseph Francese², Yunfan Zou³, Kristopher Watson⁴, Jocelyn G. Millar³, Damon Crook², and Baode Wang², ¹Xavier Univ., Cincinnati, OH, ²USDA - APHIS, Buzzards Bay, MA, ³Univ. of California, Riverside, CA, ⁴Utah Dept. of Agriculture and Food, Salt Lake City, UT

4:45 **0890** Phylogeny of Polyrhaphidini and their placement among the Lamiinae (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae). **Diego de Santana Souza** (diegosantanasouza@hotmail.com)¹, Luciane Marinoni¹, Marcela Monné², and Jesús Gómez-Zurita³, ¹Federal Univ. of Paraná, Curitiba, Brazil, ²Federal Univ. of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, ³Pompeu Fabra Univ., Barcelona, Spain

5:00 **0891** A simple method for observing female genitalia with inflation for Cerambycidae. **Junsuke Yamasako** (mesoxxmesosa@hotmail.com), The Univ. of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Symposium: Systematics, Biogeography, and
Ecology of Cerambycidae and Buprestidae

Room W231 A (Convention Center)

**Moderators and Organizers:** Eugenio Nearns¹ and Ann M. Ray², ¹Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN, ²Xavier Univ., Cincinnati, OH

1:30 **0878** Crepuscular cerambycids favor trees with moist wood. **Amy Berkov** (berkov@sci.ccny.cuny.edu)¹, Christina Torres¹, Héctor Barrios², and Sara Pinzon-Navarro³, ¹City College of New York, New York, NY, ²Univ. of Panamá, Panama City, Panama, ³Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama City, Panama

1:45 **0879** Cladistic analysis of the tribe Eburiini Blanchard 1945 (Cerambycidae, Cerambycinae). **Juan Pablo Botero** (jp_bot@yahoo.com) and Marcela Monné, Federal Univ. of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

2:00 **0880** Cladistic analysis of the genus *Cosmisoma* Audinet-Serville, 1834 (Cerambycidae, Cerambycinae). **Allan Carelli Aragão** (allancarelli@hotmail.com) and Marcela Monné, Federal Univ. of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

2:15 **0881** Isolation by adaptation in *Monochamus clamator*: Host plants as a selective pressure. **Patrick Gorring** (psg7@cornell.edu) and Brian Ferrell, Harvard Univ., Cambridge, MA

2:30 **0882** Phylogenomic data resolve the enigmatic higher-level phylogeny of longhorned beetles (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae). **Stephanie Haddad** (stephanyhaddad@gmail.com)¹, Seunggwang Shin², Alan Lemmon³, Emily Lemmon³, and Duane D. McKenna¹, ¹Univ. of Memphis, Memphis, TN, ²North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC, ³Florida State Univ., Tallahassee, FL

2:45 **0883** West meets East: How do tropical beetles disperse across Beringia? Evolutionary origin of *Callipogon relictus* and allied species (Cerambycidae: Prioninae) in the rainforests of the new and old worlds. **Sang Kim** (sikim@g.harvard.edu) and Brian Ferrell, Harvard Univ., Cambridge, MA

3:00 BREAK

3:15 **0884** Community structure of cerambycid beetles in a forest mosaic on the Osa Peninsula, Costa Rica. **Lin Li** (lincarrieli@gmail.com)¹, Reinaldo Aguilar², and Amy Berkov¹, ¹City College of New York, New York, NY, ²Los Charcos de Osa, Rincon de Osa, Costa Rica

Symposium: Bt Mode of Action, Resistance
Mechanisms, and Global Patterns

Room W230 D (Convention Center)

**Moderators and Organizers:** Alejandra Bravo and Mario Soberón, National Autonomous Univ. of México, Cuernavaca, Mexico

1:30 **0892** Global patterns of field-evolved resistance to Bt crops: Successes and failures. **Bruce Tabashnik** (brucet@ag.arizona.edu) and Yves Carriere, Univ. of Arizona, Tucson, AZ

1:45 **0893** The status or resistance of maize stem borers to Bt maize in South Africa. **Johnnie Van der Berg** (johnnie.vandenberg@nwu.ac.za)¹, Annemie Erasmus², and Hannalene du Plessis¹, ¹North-West Univ., Potchefstroom, South Africa, ²Agricultural Research Council, Potchefstroom, South Africa

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2:00 **0894** Resistance monitoring to Bt maize: The case of Spain after 17 years of cultivation. **Gema Farinos** (gpfarinos@cib.csic.es), Center of Biological Research, Madrid, Spain

2:15 **0895** Insect resistance to Bt toxins in Brazil and Latin America. **Rose Monnerat** (rose.monnerat@embrapa.br), Embrapa Genetic Resources and Biotechnology, Brasilia, Brazil

2:30 **0896** Mode of action of Bt 3d-Cry toxins and use of genetically modified toxins to counter pest resistance. **Mario Soberón** (mario@ibt.unam.mx) and Alejandra Bravo, National Autonomous Univ. of México, Cuernavaca, Mexico

2:45 **0897** Mode of action of Vip3 proteins. **Juan Ferre** (juan.ferre@uv.es), Univ. of Valencia, Valencia, Spain

3:00 BREAK

3:15 **0898** The expanding role of ABC proteins in Cry toxin mode of action. **David G. Heckel** (heckel@ice.mpg.de), Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, Jena, Germany

3:30 **0899** Resistance to *Bacillus thuringiensis* Cry toxins in the cabbage looper, *Trichoplusia ni*. *Ping Wang* (pingwang@cornell.edu), Cornell Univ., Geneva, NY

3:45 **0900** Resistance to Cry1Ac and Cry2Ab in the pink bollworm, *Pectinophora gossypiella*. **Jeffrey A. Fabrick** (jeff.fabrick@ars.usda.gov), USDA - ARS, Maricopa, AZ

4:00 **0901** Molecular characterization of resistance to Bt corn in *Spodoptera frugiperda*. **Juan Luis Jurat-Fuentes** (jurat@utk.edu), Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN

4:15 **0902** Bt resistance in fall armyworm: Diversity in cross-resistance, inheritance, and fitness costs. **Fangneng Huang** (fhunag@agcenter.lsu.edu), Louisiana State Univ., Baton Rouge, LA

4:30 **0903** Considering amino acid sequence similarity of toxins for development of sustainable Bt crop pyramids. **Yves Carriere** (ycarrier@ag.arizona.edu)¹, Neil Crickmore², and Bruce Tabashnik¹, ¹Univ. of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, ²Univ. of Sussex, Brighton, United Kingdom

4:45 **0904** Interaction between chafer and Bt, a story of insects environmental adaptation. **Changlong Shu** (clshu@ippcaas.cn) and Jie Zhang, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China

5:00 **0905** Emerging resistance to Bt crops in Latin America prompts new implementation paradigm for IRM. **Timothy J. Dennehy** (timothy.dennehy@bayer.com), Univ. of Arizona, Tucson, AZ

5:15 **0906** Farm level aspects of IRM, IPM connections. **William Hutchison** (hutch002@umn.edu), Univ. of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN

Symposium: The Physiological Ecology of Insect Flight: From Millisecond Escape to Long-Distance Migration

Room W414 B (Convention Center)

**Moderators and Organizers:** Robert Dudley¹ and Jason Chapman², ¹Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA, ²Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, United Kingdom

1:30 **0907** Sensory motor integration in the flight system of *Drosophila*. **Michael Dickinson** (flyman@caltech.edu), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA

1:45 **0908** Catching the breeze: How flying insects sense airflow. **Sanjay Sane** (sane@ncbs.res.in)¹, Taruni Roy², and Dinesh Natesan³, ¹National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bangalore, India, ²National Center for Biological Sciences, Bangalore, India, ³Neurobiology, Bangalore, India

2:00 **0909** Evasive maneuvers in freely flying fruit flies consist of rapid visually-directed banked turns. **Florian Muijires** (florian.muijres@wur.nl), Wageningen Univ. and Research Centre, Wageningen, Netherlands

2:15 **0910** Predator versus prey: Biomechanics, behavior, and strategy during aerial predation in dragonflies. **Stacey Combes** (sacombes@ucdavis.edu), Univ. of California, Davis, CA

2:30 **0911** Hawkmoth flight in unsteady flows. **Ty Hedrick** (thedrick@bio.unc.edu), Univ. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC

2:45 **0912** Bumblebee flight across a 9000m simulated elevational gradient. **Michael E. Dillon** (michael.dillon@uwyo.edu)¹ and Robert Dudley², ¹Univ. of Wyoming, Laramie, WY, ²Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA

3:00 BREAK

3:15 **0913** Ants in the atmosphere: Colony founding, mating, and dispersal in ant queens. **Jackson Helms** (jackson.a.helms-1@ou.edu), Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK

3:30 **0914** Using stable isotopic tools to track insect origins and movements at continental scales. **Keith Hobson** (khobson6@uwo.ca), Univ. of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada

3:45 **0915** Wind drift compensation in a suite of migratory neotropical Lepidoptera. **Robert Dudley** (wings@socrates.berkeley.edu)¹ and Robert B. Srygley², ¹Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA, ²USDA - ARS, Sidney, MT

4:00 **0916** Monarch butterflies are not true navigators. **Henrik Mouritsen** (henrik.mouritsen@uni-oldenburg.de)¹, Rachael Derbyshire², Julia Stalleicken¹, Ole Mouritsen³, Barrie Frost⁴, and Ryan Norris², ¹Univ. of Oldenburg, Oldenburg, Germany, ²Univ. of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada, ³Aalborg Univ., Aalborg, Denmark, ⁴Queen's Univ., Kingston, ON, Canada

4:15 **0917** Monarchs as a model system for studying animal migration and infectious diseases. **Sonia Altizer** (saltizer@uga.edu), Univ. of Georgia, Athens, GA

4:30 **0918** Radar observations of locust flight capability, and implications for locust management. **V. Alistair Drake** (a.drake@adfa.edu.au), Univ. of New South Wales, Canberra, Australia