4:45 **0919** Doppler weather radar detects emigratory flights of beet armyworms, *Spodoptera exigua*, during a major pest outbreak. **John Westbrook** (john.westbrook@ars.usda.gov) and Ritchie Eyster, USDA - ARS, College Station, TX

5:00 **0920** From worms in the fields to moth DNA — a history of *Spodoptera frugiperda* migration in North America. **Robert L. Meagher** (rob.meagher@ars.usda.gov)¹, Rodney N. Nagoshi¹, Shelby J. Fleischer², and John Westbrook³, ¹USDA - ARS, Gainesville, FL, ²Pennsylvania State Univ., University Park, PA, ³USDA - ARS, College Station, TX

5:15 **0921** Go with the flow? Wind selectivity and orientation in high-flying insect migrants. **Jason Chapman** (jason.chapman@rothamsted.ac.uk), Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, United Kingdom

Symposium: Emerging Technologies for Successful Applications of dsRNA to Reduce Pests and Pathogens in Agriculture

West Hall F2 (WF2) (Convention Center)

**Moderators and Organizers:** William Moar¹ and Wayne B. Hunter²,
¹Monsanto Company, St. Louis, MO, ²USDA - ARS, Ft. Pierce, FL

1:30 **0922** RNAi-mediated insect pest management: Challenges and opportunities. **James A. Baum** (james.a.baum@monsanto.com), Monsanto Company, Chesterfield, MO

2:00 **0923** Parental RNA interference of genes involved in embryonic development of the western corn rootworm, *Diabrotica virgifera virgifera*. **Ana Vélez** (anamaria.velez@gmail.com)¹, Elane Fishilevich², Kenneth Narva², and Blair Siegfried³, ¹Univ. of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE, ²Dow AgroSciences, Indianapolis, IN, ³Univ. of Florida, Gainesville, FL

2:15 **0924** Advances to development of non-transgenic RNAi control strategies for insects. **Eduardo de Andrade** (eduardo.andrade@embrapa.br)¹, Wayne B. Hunter², and Vitor de Andrade³, ¹Embrapa Labex, Fort Pierce, FL, ²USDA - ARS, Ft. Pierce, FL, ³Westwood High School, Ft. Pierce, FL

2:30 **0925** Emerging biopesticides to control insect pests in urban environments. **Saikat Kumar Ghosh** (saikat.ghosh@ars.usda.gov) and Dawn Gundersen-Rindal, USDA - ARS, Beltsville, MD

2:45 **0926** Control of pests of canola using RNA interference technologies. **Suresh Desai** (beesuresh@gmail.com)¹, Aditi Singh¹, Chris Anderson², James A. Baum³, Michael Crawford⁴, Mark Belmonte¹, and Steve Whyard¹, ¹Univ. of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada, ²Monsanto Canada, Winnipeg, MB, Canada, ³Monsanto Company, Chesterfield, MO, ⁴Monsanto Company, St. Louis, MO

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3:15 **0927** Topical RNAi in citrus tree crops to control hemipteran pests. **Wayne B. Hunter** (wayne.hunter@ars.usda.gov) and Eduardo de Andrade, USDA - ARS, Ft. Pierce, FL

3:30 **0928** Large scale RNA production for RNAi applications in broad acre agriculture. **Patrick McLaughlin** (patrick.mclaughlin@apsellc.com), Yulia Korshunova, John Kilmer, and Juan Arhancet, APSE, Inc., St. Louis, MO

3:45 **0929** Gene silencing of herbivorous insects by host plant chloroplast genome modification. **Sher Khan** (skhan@ice.mpg.de)¹, Jiang Zhang², Ralph Bock², and David Heckel¹, ¹Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, Jena, Germany, ²Max Planck Institute, Potsdam-Golm, Germany

4:00 **0930** Environmental risk management of RNAi pesticides: Sustainable process design through bioinformatics and community curation. **Alexie Papanicolaou** (a.papanicolaou@uws.edu.au)¹, Brad Coates², Kent S. Shelby³, Wayne B. Hunter⁴, Jay Evans⁵, and James Cook⁶, ¹Western Sydney Univ., Sydney, Australia, ²USDA - ARS, Ames, IA, ³USDA - ARS, Columbia, MO, ⁴USDA - ARS, Ft. Pierce, FL, ⁵USDA - ARS, Beltsville, MD, ⁶Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Richmond, Australia

4:15 **0931** Ecological risk assessment for an RNAi plant incorporated protectant: Framework, analysis, and approach. **Pamela Bachman¹, Joshua Fischer², Jennifer Fridley¹, Peter Jensen** (peter.d.jensen@monsanto.com)¹, Geoffrey Mueller¹, Jianguo Tan¹, Joshua Uffman¹ and Fatima Zapata¹, ¹Monsanto Company, St. Louis, MO, ²Monsanto Company, Creve Coeur, MO

4:30 **0932** Environmental safety assessment considerations for plants expressing novel insecticidal RNAi traits in Canada. **Andrea Hitchon** (andrea.hitchon@inspection.gc.ca), Cecile Girard and Sarah G. Davis, Canadian Food Inspection Agency, Ottawa, ON, Canada

4:45 **0933** SmartStax PRO: The first commercial transgenic crop expressing insecticidal dsRNA for the control of corn rootworm. **Sean Evans** (spevan@monsanto.com)¹, Joshua Bynum¹, Matthew Carroll¹, Thomas Clark², Ronald Flannagan², Graham P. Head¹, William Moar¹, Paula A. Price¹, Gerrit Segers², Alan Willse¹, and Heidi Windler², ¹Monsanto Company, St. Louis, MO, ²Monsanto Company, Chesterfield, MO

5:00 **0934** The potential of RNAi-based pest control in the African sweet potato weevil, *Cylas puncticollis* (Coleoptera, Brentidae). **Katterinne Prentice** (katterinne.prentice@ugent.be)¹, Olivier Christiaens¹, Ine Pertry², Ana Bailey³, Chuck Niblett³, Godelieve Gheysen¹, Marc Ghislain⁴, and Guy Smagghe¹, ¹Ghent Univ., Ghent, Belgium, ²Vlaams Institute for Biotechnology, Ghent, Belgium, ³Venganza, Inc., Florida, FL, ⁴International Potato Center, Nairobi, Kenya

Symposium: The Khapra Beetle: A Potential Invasive Species

Room W315 B (Convention Center)

**Moderators and Organizers:** Frank Arthur¹ and Joel Perez-Mendoza²,
¹USDA - ARS, Manhattan, KS, ²USDA - APHIS, Laredo, TX

1:30 **0935** Fluctuation of interceptions of *Trogoderma granarium* in foods coming to the USA from abroad: A 30-year data analysis. **Joel Perez-Mendoza** (joel.perez-mendoza@aphis.usda.gov), USDA - APHIS, Laredo, TX
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1:45 **0936** Recognition and identification training: The foundation of an effective *Trogoderma granarium* exclusion program. **Charles Brodel** (charles.brodel@aphis.usda.gov), USDA - APHIS, Miami, FL

2:00 **0937** Measures to prevent the introduction of khapra beetle to México. **Francisco Corral** (fjwong@guayacan.uson.mx), Univ. of Sonora, Sonora, Mexico

2:15 **0938** Survey of *Trogoderma granarium* in Spain and Greece. **Jordi Riudavets** (jordi.riudavets@irta.cat)¹ and Christos Athanassiou², ¹RTA, Barcelona, Spain, ²Univ. of Thessaly, Nea Ionia, Greece

2:30 **0939** Current status and proposed research for khapra beetle in Argentina. **Micaela Buteler** (butelermica@gmail.com), CONICET, Mendoza, Argentina

2:45 **0940** Molecular identification of *Trogoderma granarium* and phylogenetic analysis of US *Trogoderma*. **Rachel Olsen** (olsonrl@r.umn.edu)¹, Norman Barr², Roxanne Farris², and Anthony I. Cognato³, ¹Univ. of Minnesota, Rochester, MN, ²USDA - APHIS, Edinburg, TX, ³Michigan State Univ., East Lansing, MI

3:00 **BREAK**

3:15 **0941** How fumigation efficacy relates to diapause, dose, and temperature. **Scott W. Myers** (scott.w.myers@aphis.usda.gov), USDA - APHIS, Buzzards Bay, MA

3:30 **0942** Evaluation of novel insecticides for control of khapra beetle, *Trogoderma granarium* Everts (Coleoptera: Dermestidae). **Mukti Ghimire** (mukti.n.ghimire@aphis.usda.gov)¹, Frank Arthur², Scott W. Myers¹, and Thomas Phillips³, ¹USDA - APHIS, Buzzards Bay, MA, ²USDA - ARS, Manhattan, KS, ³Kansas State Univ., Manhattan, KS

3:45 **0943** Using *Trogoderma variabile* as a surrogate species for *T. granarium* to establish susceptibility to insecticides. **Frank Arthur** (frank.arthur@ars.usda.gov), USDA - ARS, Manhattan, KS

4:00 **0944** Controlling *Trogoderma granarium* with extreme temperatures. **Diana Wilches** (diana_wico2@hotmail.com)¹, Robert Laird², Kevin Floate¹, and Paul Fields³, ¹Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Lethbridge, AB, Canada, ²Univ. of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, AB, Canada, ³Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Winnipeg, MB, Canada

2:00 **0947** Coleopteran exotic insects into the Republic of Korea: Comparing border interception and incursion from 1996 to 2014. **Lee Wonhoon** (wonhoon80@korea.kr), Animal and Plant Quarantine Agency, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea

2:15 **0948** Digestion mechanisms of wood degrading arthropods operating in the marine intertidal and subtidal zones. **Simon Cragg** (simon.cragg@port.ac.uk), Univ. of Portsmouth, Portsmouth, United Kingdom

2:30 **0949** Beetles and drywood termites: A hazard to buildings in southern Europe. **Lina Nunes** (linanunes@Inec.pt), National Laboratory for Civil Engineering, Lisbon, Portugal

2:45 **0950** Deathwatch beetle, *Euvriletta peltata* (Xyletinus peltatus), structural infestation in Griffin, Georgia, USA. **Daniel R. Suiter** (dsuiter@uga.edu), Univ. of Georgia, Griffin, GA

3:00 **BREAK**

3:15 **0951** Termite-associated nematode fauna in relation to their host/carrier termite habitat. **Natsumi Kanzaki** (nkanzaki@ffpri.affrc.go.jp), Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute, Tsukuba, Japan

3:30 **0952** Molecular identification of invasive drywood wood boring species using frass and fecal pellets by loop-mediated isothermal amplification and nested PCR assays. **Tatsuya Ide** (idet@affrc.go.jp), Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute, Tsukuba, Japan

3:45 **0953** Evaluation of non-contact AE sensor for termite detection. **Wakako Ohmura** (murasan@ffpri.affrc.go.jp), Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute, Tsukuba, Japan

4:00 **0954** Nondestructive evaluation of larval development and feeding and pupal ecdysis of the bamboo powderpost beetle, *Dinoderus minutus*, using X-ray CT and acoustic emission monitoring. **Hiroki Watanabe** (watanabe@h3news1.kais.kyoto-u.ac.jp), Kyoto Univ., Kyoto, Japan

4:15 **0955** The fusion of incipient colonies in the drywood termite *Incisitermes minor*. **S. Khoirul Himmi** (himmi@rish.kyoto-u.ac.jp), Kyoto Univ., Uji, Japan

4:30 **0956** Drywood insect pests: An Asian perspective. **Tsuyoshi Yoshimura** (tsuyoshi@rish.kyoto-u.ac.jp), Kyoto Univ., Uji, Japan

**Symposium: A Global Perspective on Insect Pests of Wood Products**

Room W230 A (Convention Center)

**Moderators and Organizers:** Vernard Lewis¹ and Brian Forschler², ¹Univ. of California, Richmond, CA, ²Univ. of Georgia, Athens, GA

1:30 **0945** Wood borers in structural timber – European regulations for their control and can TTIP (European Commission) comply? **Rudy Plarre** (ruediger.plarre@bam.de), Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing, Berlin, Germany

1:45 **0946** Innovative wood treatments with hybrid inorganic-organic polymers and a proposal for drywood termites standard testing protocol. **Lara Maistrello** (lara.maistrello@unimore.it), University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Modena, Italy

**Symposium: How Human Activities Shape the Global Distribution of Insects**

Room W414 D (Convention Center)

**Moderators and Organizers:** Chin-Cheng Yang¹, Chow-Yang Lee², and Andrew Suarez³, ¹Kyoto Univ., Uji, Japan, ²Univ. of Science, Penang, Malaysia, ³Univ. of Illinois, Champaign, IL

1:30 **0957** The reemergence of bed bugs as a global menace from a population genetic perspective. **Warren Booth** (warren-booth@utulsa.edu)¹, Coby Schal², and Edward Vargo³, ¹The Univ. of Tulsa, Tulsa, OK, ²North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC, ³Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX
1:45 **0958** Global invasion of *Aedes aegypti* mosquitoes, an important vector of human diseases. **Andrea Gloria-Soria** (andrea.gloria-soria@yale.edu) and Jeffrey R. Powell, Yale Univ., New Haven, CT

2:00 **0959** Invasion of the BLTs: Patterns and mechanisms of the geographic expansion of Lyme disease in the midwestern U.S. **Brian F. Allan** (ballan@illinois.edu)¹, Natalie Pawlikowski¹, Allison Gardner¹, Sarah Hamer², Graham J. Hickling³, James Miller¹, Anna Schotthoefer⁴, and Jean Tsao⁵. ¹Univ. of Illinois, Champaign, IL, ²Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX, ³Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, ⁴Marshfield Clinic Research Foundation, Marshfield, WI, ⁵Michigan State Univ., East Lansing, MI

2:15 **0960** Phylogeography of the fungus-growing termite *Macrotermes gilvus* and insight into open-vegetation dispersal corridors in Pleistocene southeast Asia. **Veera Singham** (veerasingham@usm.my), Ahmad Sofiman Othman, and Chow-Yang Lee, Univ. of Science, Penang, Malaysia

2:30 **0961** Reconstructing the global invasion routes of the cabbage white butterfly using citizen science assisted genomics. **DeWayne Shoemaker** (dewayne.shoemaker@ars.usda.gov) and Sean Ryan, USDA - ARS, Gainesville, FL

2:45 **0962** Phylogeography of the invasive longhorn crazy ant, *Paratrechina longicornis*. **Shu-Ping Tseng** (d03632001@ntu.edu.tw)¹, James Wetterer², Sylvain Hugel³, Chow-Yang Lee⁴, Andrew Suarez⁵, DeWayne Shoemaker⁶, En-Cheng Yang¹, and Chin-Cheng Yang⁷. ¹National Taiwan Univ., Taipei, Taiwan, ²Florida Atlantic Univ., Jupiter, FL, ³Univ. of Strasbourg, Renés Descartes, France, ⁴Univ. of Science, Penang, Malaysia, ⁵Univ. of Illinois, Champaign, IL, ⁶USDA - ARS, Gainesville, FL, ⁷Kyoto Univ., Uji, Japan

3:00 **BREAK**

3:15 **0963** Factors associated with colonization success of tropical invasive ants at mid-high altitude. **Chin-Cheng Yang** (ccyangistheman@ntu.edu.tw)¹, Shu-Ping Tseng², Yi-Ming Weng², and Han-Chih Ho². ¹Kyoto Univ., Uji, Japan, ²National Taiwan Univ., Taipei, Taiwan

3:30 **0964** Distribution of exotic ants is associated with land-use along a meridional provincial highway in western Taiwan. **Chung-Chi Lin** (cclin@cc.ncue.edu.tw), National Changhua Univ. of Education, Changhua, Taiwan

3:45 **0965** Insight into human-mediated jump dispersal of insects: A synthesis. **Andrew Suarez** (avsuarez@life.illinois.edu), Univ. of Illinois, Champaign, IL

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**0967** Impact assessment of *Laricobius nigrinus* (Coleoptera: Derodontidae), a predator of hemlock woolly adelgid. **Ariel Heminger** (arielrh@vt.edu)¹, Albert E. Mayfield III², Joseph Elkinton³, Gregory J. Wiggins⁴, Jerome F. Grant⁴, Jeff Lombardo⁵, Thomas McAvoy¹, Andrew Tait⁶, Bryan Mudder², and Scott Salom¹. ¹Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State Univ., Blacksburg, VA, ²USDA - Forest Service, Asheville, NC, ³Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, ⁴Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, ⁵Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, ⁶North Carolina State Univ., Asheville, NC

**0968** Establishment, dispersal, and impact of *Laricobius osakensis* Montgomery and Shiyake (Coleoptera: Derodontidae), as biological control agent of the hemlock woolly adelgid, *Adelges tsugae* Annand. **Ashley Toland** (ashleyat@vt.edu) and Scott Salom, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State Univ., Blacksburg, VA

**0969** Phenology and synchrony of *Scymnus coniferarum* (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) and its host hemlock woolly adelgid (Hemiptera: Adelgidae) in Tacoma, Washington. **Molly Darr** (mdarr@vt.edu)¹, Scott Salom¹, Thomas McAvoy¹, Richard C. McDonald², and Rachel Brooks³. ¹Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State Univ., Blacksburg, VA, ²Symbiont Biological Pest Management, Sugar Grove, NC, ³Thurston County Washington, Olympia, WA

**0970** Evaluating a potential area-wide IPM strategy for managing hemlock woolly adelgid in the eastern United States. **Kenton Sumpter** (skenton7@vt.edu)¹, Scott Salom¹, Carlyle C. Brewster¹, Troy D. Anderson¹, Albert E. Mayfield III², and Thomas McAvoy¹. ¹Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State Univ., Blacksburg, VA, ²USDA - Forest Service, Asheville, NC

**0971** Impact of host defenses induced by hemlock woolly adelgid (*Adelges tsugae*) feeding on a native lepidopteran. **Mary Mallinger** (mallinger.mary@gmail.com)¹, Robert Schaeffer², and Evan L. Preisser¹. ¹Univ. of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI, ²Tufts Univ., Medford, MA

**0972** Seasonal phenology of the pine bark adelgid, *Pineus strobi* (Hemiptera: Adelgidae), in southwestern Virginia. **Holly Wantuch** (wholly3@vt.edu), Scott Salom, and Thomas P. Kuhar, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State Univ., Blacksburg, VA

**0973** Scale insect and pathogen colonization patterns on ailing white pine. **Thomas D. Whitney** (thomas.whitney@uga.edu)¹, Kamal Gandhi¹, Brittany Barnes¹, Michelle Cram², Arya Aghdasi¹, and Jiangming Yao¹,³, ¹Univ. of Georgia, Athens, GA, ²USDA - Forest Service, Athens, GA, ³Guangxi Univ., Nanning, China

**0974** Herbivore-induced delays in conifer phenology are exacerbated by climate change. **Claire Wilson** (wilsonc@uri.edu)¹, Robert Schaeffer², Colin M. Orians², and Evan L. Preisser¹. ¹Univ. of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI, ²Tufts Univ., Medford, MA

**0975** Development of mycangia in ambrosia beetles in relation to symbionts and ontogeny. **You Li** (yourreason@hotmail.com)¹, Jiri Hulcr¹, Siqin Ge², and Yongying Ruan². ¹Univ. of Florida, Gainesville, FL, ²Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

## Graduate Student Oral Competition: Agricultural and Forest Entomology: Forest Pests

### Room W232 C (Convention Center)

**Moderators:** Paul Borth¹ and Michael Fisher², ¹Paul W. Borth Consulting, Zionsville, IN, ²North Carolina State Univ., Cary, NC

1:30 **0966** Patterns of host preference of the invasive *Glycaspis brimblecombei* Moore (Hemiptera: Psyllidae). **Samantha Bush** (samantha.bush@fabi.up.ac.za), Bernard Slippers, and Brett Hurley, Univ. of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa
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4:15 **0976** Enhanced detection of *Pityophthorus juglandis*, the primary vector of thousand cankers disease. *Bridget Blood* (bblood@purdue.edu)¹, Denita Hadziabdic², William Klingeman², and Matthew Ginzel¹. ¹Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN, ²Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN

4:30 **0977** Thousand cankers disease: Scolytine beetles and phoretic fungal pathogens associated with symptomatic eastern black walnut (*Juglans nigra*). *Tyler Stewart* (stewar23@purdue.edu)¹, Margaret McDermott-Kubeczko², Jennifer Juzwik³, and Matthew Ginzel¹. ¹Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN, ²Univ. of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN, ³USDA - Forest Service, St. Paul, MN

4:45 **0978** A survey of the parasitic Hymenoptera of larch casebearer in Minnesota. **Allastacia Gebauer** (gebau005@umn.edu) and Brian Aukema, Univ. of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN

5:00 **0979** The unique role of Cerambycids associated with spreading sap-stain fungi in a native Australian sclerophyll forest. **Stephen Seaton** (s.seaton@murdoch.edu.au), Giles Hardy, and Bernard Dell, Murdoch Univ., Melville, Australia

## Graduate Student Oral Competition: Agricultural and Forest Entomology: Hemipteran Pests

### Room W232 B (Convention Center)

**Moderators:** Jon M. Babcock¹ and Louis Nottingham², ¹Dow AgroSciences, Indianapolis, IN, ²Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State Univ., Blacksburg, VA

1:30 **0980** Reduced caterpillar damage benefits the plant bug *Lygus hesperus* on *Bt* cotton. **Michael Eisenring** (michael.eisenring@agroscope.admin.ch)¹, Steven Naranjo², Joe Hull², Steffen Hagenbucher¹, Angelique Abbott², Michael Meissle¹, and Jörg Romeis¹. ¹Agroscope, Zürich, Switzerland, ²USDA - ARS, Maricopa, AZ

1:45 **0981** Comparing boll injury and EILs for species of a boll-feeding sucking bug complex (Hemiptera: Miridae and Pentatomidae) on South Texas cotton. **James Glover** (james.glover@tamu.edu)¹,², Michael Brewer¹, and Gregory Sword². ¹Texas A&M AgriLife Research, Corpus Christi, TX, ²Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX

2:00 **0982** Spatial relationships of plant bugs in large scale cotton operations: Do edge and ecotone matter? **Isaac Esquivel** (iesqu002@tamu.edu)¹, Michael Brewer², and Robert Coulson¹. ¹Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX, ²Texas A&M AgriLife Research, Corpus Christi, TX

2:15 **0983** The ecology and economics of an emergent pest, the brown stink bug (*Euschistus servus*), in an established cotton IPM program. **Lydia Brown** (lbrown@cals.arizona.edu)¹, Peter Ellsworth¹, Steven Naranjo², Michael Toews³, and George Frisvold⁴. ¹Univ. of Arizona, Maricopa, AZ, ²USDA - ARS, Maricopa, AZ, ³Univ. of Georgia, Tifton, GA, ⁴Univ. of Arizona, Tucson, AZ

2:30 **0984** Evaluation of *Oebalus pugnax* impact on varying stages of rice development. **Aaron Cato** (ajcato@uark.edu)¹, Gus Lorenz², and Jarrod T. Hardke³, ¹Univ. of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR, ²Univ. of Arkansas, Lonoke, AR, ³Univ. of Arkansas, Stuttgart, AR

2:45 **0985** Efficacy of chemigation for managing stink bugs. **Xing Wei** (xingwei@uga.edu), Michael Toews, Phillip M. Roberts, and Wes Porter, Univ. of Georgia, Tifton, GA

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3:15 **0986** Feeding behavior of the stink bug *Bagrada hilaris* is changed by the electrical signals applied during EPG recordings. **Edmar Tuelher** (edmar.tuelher@ufv.br)¹, Tiago Lucini², Felix Cervantes³, and Elaine Backus³. ¹Federal Univ. of Viçosa, Viçosa, Brazil, ²Federal Univ. of Paraná, Curitiba, Brazil, ³USDA - ARS, Parlier, CA

3:30 **0987** Cold tolerance and overwintering behavior of kudzu bugs (*Megacopta cribraria*) at its northern limit. **Jessica Grant** (grantji@umd.edu) and William O. Lamp, Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD

3:45 **0988** Enhanced monitoring and management strategies for *Megacopta cribraria* in soybeans. **Anthony Greene** (adg2@clemson.edu)¹, Jeremy Greene¹, Francis Reay-Jones², and Francesca Stubbins¹. ¹Clemson Univ., Blackville, SC, ²Clemson Univ., Florence, SC

4:00 **0989** Edge effects of *Halyomorpha halys* (Stål), brown marmorated stink bug, in southeastern row crops. **Whitney Hadden** (wthadden@uga.edu)¹, James F. Walgenbach², and Michael Toews¹. ¹Univ. of Georgia, Tifton, GA, ²North Carolina State Univ., Mills River, NC

4:15 **0990** Influence of elevation on dispersal behavior of brown marmorated stink bug (*Halyomorpha halys*) seeking overwintering sites. **John Cullum** (john29@vt.edu)¹, Christopher Bergh¹, Michael J. Raupp², Paula M. Shrewsbury², P. Dilip Venugopal³, Holly Martinson², and Tracy C. Leskey⁴. ¹Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State Univ., Winchester, VA, ²Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD, ³U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, DC, ⁴USDA - ARS, Kearneysville, WV

4:30 **0991** Optimizing attract-and-kill technology for harlequin bug, *Murgantia histrionica* (Hahn). **Anthony S. DiMeglio** (tonydimeglio@gmail.com)¹, Thomas P. Kuhar¹, and Donald Weber². ¹Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State Univ., Blacksburg, VA, ²USDA - ARS, Beltsville, MD

4:45 **0992** Anatomical damage in cotton squares by nymphal *Lygus lineolaris* in relation to EPG-recorded feeding behavior. **Eeva Sharma** (eevasharma@mail.fresnostate.edu)¹, Felix Cervantes², Elaine Backus², and John Bushoven¹. ¹California State Univ., Fresno, CA, ²USDA - ARS, Parlier, CA
Graduate Student Oral Competition: Biodiversity, Biogeography, and Conservation of Arthropods: Diversity

Room W223 B (Convention Center)

**Moderators:** Ainsley Seago¹ and Raul F. Medina², ¹Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA, ²Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX

1:30 **0993** Assessment of bee diversity using citizen science protocols. **Lisa Mason** (lisa.mason@colostate.edu) and Arathi Seshadri, Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO

1:45 **0994** Revitalizing urban vacant land for pollinator communities. **MaLisa Spring** (malisa.spring@gmail.com) and Mary Gardiner, The Ohio State Univ., Wooster, OH

2:00 **0995** Urban landscape heterogeneity influences green space value for cavity nesting bees and wasps. **Katherine Todd** (todd.489@osu.edu) and Mary Gardiner, The Ohio State Univ., Wooster, OH

2:15 **0996** Fire diversity promotes plant-pollinator community diversity. **Lauren Ponisio** (lponisio@berkeley.edu), Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA

2:30 **0997** Ground-dwelling insect responses to prescribed rangeland fire. **Britt Smith** (britt.smith@ttu.edu), Brad Dabbert, and Robin M. Verble-Pearson, Texas Tech Univ., Lubbock, TX

2:45 **0998** Assessment of forest arthropod diversity through metabarcoding. **Sarah Meierotto** (s.meierotto@uky.edu) and Michael J. Sharkey, Univ. of Kentucky, Lexington, KY

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3:15 **0999** Reorganization of taxonomic, functional, and phylogenetic ant biodiversity after conversion to rubber plantation. **Cong Liu** (cong.liu0514@gmail.com)¹, Benoit Guénard², Benjamin Blanchard³, Yan-Qiong Peng⁴, and Evan Economo¹, ¹Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, Onna, Japan, ²Univ. of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China, ³The Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, IL, ⁴Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, China

3:30 **1000** New species of armored scale insects (Hemiptera: Diaspididae) described from New Caledonia. **Fredericka Hamilton** (fbh0006@auburn.edu), Mayrolin Garcia Morales, Nicholas Christodoulides, and Nate Hardy, Auburn Univ., Auburn, AL

3:45 **1001** Speciation patterns of beetles in the highlands of Ecuador. **Sofia Muñoz-Tobar** (smunoz@clemson.edu), Clemson Univ., Clemson, SC

4:00 **1002** Phylogeography of *Synuchus dubius* (Coleoptera: Carabidae) in Arizona's Madrean Sky Island Archipelago. **Alan Yanahan** (yanahan@email.arizona.edu) and Wendy Moore, Univ. of Arizona, Tucson, AZ

4:15 **1003** Defense mechanisms of *Pachyrhynchus* weevils. **Lu-Yi Wang** (lu1200120012011@gmail.com)¹, Chung-Ping Lin¹, and Wen-San Huang², ¹National Taiwan Normal Univ., Taipei, Taiwan, ²National Museum of Natural Science, Taichung, Taiwan

4:30 **1004** Investigating the effects of plant diversity on insect diversity and soil health in a corn production system. **Claire LaCanne** (celacanne@gmail.com)¹ and Jonathan Lundgren², ¹South Dakota State Univ., Brookings, SD, ²Ecdysis Foundation, Estelline, SD

4:45 **1005** Arthropod biodiversity estimates for three native subalpine plant species on Hawaii's Maunakea Volcano. **Heather Stever** (hstever@hawaii.edu), Jesse A. Eiben, and Marleena Sheffield, Univ. of Hawai'i, Hilo, HI

5:00 **1006** Relative density variability over the past 15 years of *Nysius wekiuicola*, an endemic seed bug of conservation concern on the summit of the Maunakea volcano, Hawaii. **Jessica Kirkpatrick** (jakirkpa@hawaii.edu) and Jesse A. Eiben, Univ. of Hawai'i, Hilo, HI

5:15 **1007** Species diversity and phenology of predators of sucking pest complex in mulberry ecosystems of Eastern India. **Lalitha Natarajan** (lalitha.nm@gmail.com)¹,², Manne Santhakumar³, Nirmal Kumar Sundaramurthy¹, and Kanika Trivedy¹, ¹Central Sericultural Research & Training Institute, Berhampore, India, ²Visva-Bharati Univ., Santiniketan, India, ³Shivaji Univ., Kohlapur, India

Graduate Student Oral Competition: Insect-Plant Interactions in a Changing Climate

Room W240 B (Convention Center)

**Moderators:** Jessica Kansman¹ and Joshua Benoit², ¹Univ. of Missouri, Columbia, MO, ²Univ. of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH

1:30 **1008** Effects of two climate change factors, elevated temperature and water stress, on the rice brown planthopper, *Nilaparvata lugens* (Stål). **Ye Tan** (tanye0722@126.com) and Zeng-Rong Zhu, Zhejiang Univ., Hangzhou, China

1:45 **1009** The performance of a plant-herbivore-parasitoid food-web under climate change scenarios. **Sandra Flores-Mejia** (sandra.flores-mejia.1@ulaval.ca), Valérie Fournier, and Conrad Cloutier, Univ. Laval, Québec City, QC, Canada

2:00 **1010** Influence of bioclimatic variables on the distribution of coffee berry borer, *Hypothenemus hampei* (Ferrari) (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) in coffee in Puerto Rico. Jose Garcia, **Jose Carlos V. Rodrigues** (joseCarlos@mac.com), Yobana Mariño, and Paul Bayman, Univ. of Puerto Rico, San Juan, PR

2:15 **1011** Do biotic components of healthy soils increase plant resistance to herbivores? **Elizabeth Rowen** (epr5119@psu.edu) and John Tooker, Pennsylvania State Univ., University Park, PA

2:30 **1012** Enhancement of web-builder spider populations in eggplant fields by surrounding flowering plants. **Elsaid Elnabawy** (said19832007@yahoo.com)¹,², Katsuo Tsuda¹, and Yositaka Sakamaki¹, ¹Kagoshima Univ., Korimoto, Japan, ²Kafrelsheikh Univ., Kafr el-Sheikh, Egypt

2:45 **1013** Disruption of ecosystem function through spread of an invasive ant (*Wasmannia europunctata*) in a tropical biodiversity hotspot. **Maureen Cateine** (maureen.cateine@ird.fr) and Hervé Jourdan, Institute of Research for Development, Nouméa, New Caledonia
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3:00 BREAK

3:15 **1014** Urban forest fragments: Potential refugia to mitigate the effects of urban warming. **Lawrence Long** (lclong2@ncsu.edu) and Steven Frank, North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC

3:30 **1015** How do impervious surface and surrounding vegetation affect pest colonization rates of urban trees? **Kristi Backe** (kbacke@ncsu.edu) and Steven Frank, North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC

3:45 **1016** Aquatic insect larvae are major players in mediating lakes' carbon-sequestering capacities in the warming world. **Viktor Baranov** (baranov@igb-berlin.de)¹, Stefan Krause², and Joerg Lewandowski¹, ¹Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries, Berlin, Germany, ²Univ. of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom

4:00 **1017** Gene expression analysis and validation for potential marker genes of mycorrhizal rice plants in response to feeding with fall armyworm, *Spodoptera frugiperda*. **Lina Bernaola** (Ibernaola@agcenter.lsu.edu)¹ and Michael Stout², ¹Louisiana State Univ., Baton Rouge, LA, ²Louisiana State Univ. AgCenter, Baton Rouge, LA

4:15 **1018** Influence of fatty acid desaturation on photosynthesis and aphid resistance in tomato. **Janithri Wickramanayake** (janithriwick@gmail.com), Junhuan Xu, and Fiona L. Goggin, Univ. of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR

4:30 **1019** The influence of drought stress on bird cherry-oat aphid (*Rhopalosiphum padi* (L.)) host-plant utilization, emigration, and feeding behavior: Implications for pathogen transmission in wheat. **Jessica Kansman** (jtkp8b@missouri.edu) and Debbie Finke, Univ. of Missouri, Columbia, MO

4:45 **1020** Maize defense responses to phloem sap-sucking corn leaf aphid. **Suresh Varsani** (ssvarsani@gmail.com), Saumik Basu, and Joe Louis, Univ. of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE

5:00 **1021** Methylation as a driving factor of biotypification and increased virulence in aphids. **Kelly Breeds** (breedskelly@gmail.com) and A. M. Botha, Stellenbosch Univ., Stellenbosch, South Africa

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

Room W240 C (Convention Center)

**Moderators:** Von Kaster¹ and Rayda Krell², ¹Syngenta Seeds, Slater, IA, ²Rayda K. Krell, LLC, Entomological and Agricultural Communications, Ridgefield, CT

1:30 **1022** Impact of farmscaping on stink bug density over corn. **Arun Babu** (ababu2@ncsu.edu)¹, Dominic Reisig², Wesley Everman¹, Ronnie Heiniger², and James F. Walgenbach³, ¹North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC, ²North Carolina State Univ., Plymouth, NC, ³North Carolina State Univ., Mills River, NC

1:45

**1023** Farming practices can affect the kudzu bug, an invasive soybean pest in the US. **Alejandro Del Pozo** (aidelpoz@ncsu.edu)¹, Dominic Reisig², Jack Bacheler¹, and Chris Reberg-Horton¹, ¹North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC, ²North Carolina State Univ., Plymouth, NC

2:00

**1024** Field evaluation of potential trap crops for managing kudzu bug, *Megacopta cribraria* in soybean production. **Blessing Ademokoya** (bfa0003@auburn.edu), Rammohan Rao Balusu, and Henry Fadamiro, Auburn Univ., Auburn, AL

2:15

**1025** Spatial distribution of *Megacopta cribraria* egg masses and parasitism by *Paratelenomus saccharalis* in soybean. **Ian Knight** (ianak@uga.edu) and Michael Toews, Univ. of Georgia, Tifton, GA

2:30

**1026** Cover crop residues and their effects on pest beetle populations in vegetables. **Peter Coffey** (peterlcoffey@gmail.com) and Cerruti Hooks, Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD

2:45

**1027** Identification of unique volatile compounds associated with repelling whiteflies (Hemiptera: Aleyrodidae) in desert watermelon (*Citrullus colocynthis*). **Bobbie Blake** (bblake238@gmail.com)¹, Alvin M. Simmons¹, Gloria McCutcheon², Michael Walla³, Mihail Kantor², and Amnon Levi¹, ¹USDA - ARS, Charleston, SC, ²Claflin Univ., Orangeburg, SC, ³Univ. of South Carolina, Columbia, SC

3:00

BREAK

3:15

**1028** Native perennial plants to attract natural enemies. **Dan Gibson** (gibso124@msu.edu) and Douglas A. Landis, Michigan State Univ., East Lansing, MI

3:30

**1029** Local and landscape-scale diversity interact to shape herbivore communities in *Brassica oleracea* crops. **Lauren Snyder** (lds97@cornell.edu) and Alison Power, Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY

3:45

**1030** Effects of red clover living mulch on arthropod communities and cucurbit yield. **Hanna Kahl** (hkahl@umd.edu) and Cerruti Hooks, Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD

4:00

**1031** The effect of introducing wildflower strips in apple orchards on pollination and pest regulation services. **Megan McKerchar** (m.mckerchar@worc.ac.uk)¹, Michelle Fountain², Simon Potts³, and Duncan Westbury¹, ¹Univ. of Worcester, Worcester, United Kingdom, ²East Malling Research, Kent, United Kingdom, ³Reading Univ., Reading, United Kingdom

4:15

**1032** Do prairie plantings alter the community structure and function of insect communities in agroecosystems? **Eric Middleton** (middl145@umn.edu)¹ and Christopher R. Philips², ¹Univ. of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, ²Univ. of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN

4:30

**1033** The influence of planting date on the occurrence of insect pest in Mississippi soybean. **Nicholas R. Bateman** (nbateman@entomology.msstate.edu)¹, Angus Catchot¹, Jeff Gore², Don Cook², Fred Musser¹, and Trent Irby¹, ¹Mississippi State Univ., Mississippi State, MS, ²Mississippi State Univ., Stoneville, MS
4:45 **1034** Management of corn earworm and fall armyworm in grain sorghum. **Chris Dobbins** (cdobbins@drec.msstate.edu)¹, Jeff Gore¹, Angus Catchot², Don Cook¹, Fred Musser², and Joel Moor¹, ¹Mississippi State Univ., Stoneville, MS, ²Mississippi State Univ., Mississippi State, MS

5:00 **1035** Improving crop pest management using qualitative data networks. **Nancy Bostick** (nbostick@uga.edu)¹, Jason M. Schmidt¹, C. T. Bargeron¹, Tim Brenneman¹, Albert Culbreath¹, G. David Buntin², Joseph LaForest¹, and Michael Toews¹, ¹Univ. of Georgia, Tifton, GA, ²Univ. of Georgia, Griffin, GA

Graduate Student Oral Competition: Morphology, Systematics, and Phylogeny: Flies, Lepidopterans, and Others

Room W240 D (Convention Center)

**Moderators:** John Leavengood¹ and Paul Goldstein², ¹USDA - APHIS, Pharr, TX, ²USDA - ARS, Washington, DC

1:30 **1036** Bryophyte-feeders in the midst of carnivores: Long-term association between rhagionid flies (Diptera: Rhagionidae) and liverworts. **Yume Imada** (imayume.ac@gmail.com) and Makoto Kato, Kyoto Univ., Kyoto, Japan

1:45 **1037** Ecological and phylogenetic diversification of multidimensional niches in predatory *Lasiopogon* robber flies (Diptera: Asilidae). **Tristan McKnight** (trismckn@umich.edu) and Lacey Knowles, Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

2:00 **1038** The *Rudolfina* problem – a Neotropical explosion of a monobasic Palaearctic genus (Diptera: Sphaeroceridae: Limosininae). **Steven Paiero** (steve.paiero@gmail.com) and Stephen Marshall, Univ. of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada

2:15 **1039** A world review of the generic and species concepts of the subtribe Criorhinina (Diptera: Syrphidae). **Kevin Moran** (kevinmoran88@comcast.net)¹ and Jeffrey Skevington², ¹Carleton Univ., Ottawa, ON, Canada, ²Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Ottawa, ON, Canada

2:30 **1040** Exploring the relationship between diet breadth and the extraordinary morphological diversity of *Acronicta* larvae through the lens of a molecular phylogeny (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae: Acronictinae). **Brigette Zacharczenko** (brigette.zacharczenko@uconn.edu) and David L. Wagner, Univ. of Connecticut, Storrs, CT

2:45 **1041** To speak or be silent: Body size affects defensive sound production in caterpillars. **Melanie Scallion** (melanie.scallion@cmail.carleton.ca), Amanda Dookie, Veronica Bura, and Jayne Yack, Carleton Univ., Ottawa, ON, Canada

3:00 BREAK

3:15 **1042** Preliminary next-gen phylogeny of *Philodoria* (Lepidoptera: Gracillariidae), the endangered leaf miners of Hawaii. **Christopher Johns** (johns.chris.a@ufl.edu), Univ. of Florida, Gainesville, FL

3:30 **1043** Proposed phylogeny of Noctuini (Noctuoidea: Noctuidae: Noctuinae) using four molecular markers. **Melissa S. Sisson** (melissa.sisson@und.edu), Matthew J. Flom, Janna L. Mabey, and Rebecca B. Simmons, Univ. of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND

3:45 **1044** Phylogeny, evolution of lichenivory, and chemical sequestration in the lichen moth genus *Hypoprepia* (Hübner) (Lepidoptera: Erebidae: Arctiinae: Lithosiini). **Timothy Anderson** (ander472@purdue.edu) and Jennifer Zaspel, Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN

4:00 **1045** Thinking out of (species) bounds: Phylogenetic incongruities in the butterfly genus *Speyeria* show widespread interspecific introgression. **Erin Campbell** (eocampbe@ualberta.ca) and Felix Sperling, Univ. of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada

4:15 **1046** Anchored phylogenomics recovers a robust phylogeny of Erebinae (Lepidoptera: Noctuoidea: Erebidae). Jesse Breinholt, Akito Y. Kawahara, and Nicholas Homziak (nhomziak@ufl.edu), Univ. of Florida, Gainesville, FL

4:30 **1047** Phylogenomic analysis, using anchored enrichment, reveals the evolutionary history of sensory structures in emerald moths (Lepidoptera: Geometridae: Geometrinae). **David Plotkin** (dplotkin@ufl.edu) and Akito Kawahara, Univ. of Florida, Gainesville, FL

Contributed Papers: Agricultural and Forest Entomology: Forest Insects, Pollinators, Systematics, and Remote Sensing

Chapin Theater (Convention Center)

**Moderators:** John Adamczyk¹ and Alana Pindar², ¹USDA - ARS, Poplarville, MS, ²Univ. of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada

1:30 **1048** Interactions between two invasive insect species co-occurring on non-native pine trees. **Mesfin Wondafrash Gossa** (mesfin.gossa@fabi.up.ac.za)¹², Bernard Slippers¹, Jeff Garnas¹, and Brett Hurley¹, ¹Univ. of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa, ²Haramaya Univ., Dire Dawa, Ethiopia

1:45 **1049** Evaluation of trunk injections for the control of invasive ambrosia beetles in California avocados. **Frank J. Byrne** (frank.byrne@ucr.edu), Akif Eskalen, and Joseph G. Morse, Univ. of California, Riverside, CA

2:00 **1050** Detecting and quantifying the patterns and occurrence of the sixspined engraver beetle (*Ips calligraphus*) that colonize Mediterranean pines in low elevations of the Sonoran Desert in Tucson. **Peter Warren** (plwarren@cals.arizona.edu), Univ. of Arizona, Tucson, AZ

2:15 **1051** Oviposition height preferences and diurnal flight patterns of *Monochamus titillator* and *M. carolinensis* in the Ozark National Forest. **Jake Bodart** (jwbodart@email.uark.edu), Larry D. Galligan, and Fred M. Stephen, Univ. of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR

2:30 **1052** SPLAT Verb: A semiochemical-based strategy for managing *Dendroctonus ponderosae*, the mountain pine beetle, at the individual pine and small stand level. Christopher J. Fettig¹, Robert A. Progar², Lia Spiegel², Steve Munson³, Anna Hermosillo⁴, Kavita Sharma⁴, William Urrutia⁴, Rodrigo Oliveira da Silva⁴,
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Carmem Bernardi⁴, **Jonathan Rico** (jonathan.r@iscatech.com)⁴, Jesse Saroli⁴, Kim Spencer⁴, and Agenor Mafra-Neto⁴, ¹USDA - Forest Service, Davis, CA, ²USDA - Forest Service, La Grande, OR, ³USDA - Forest Service, Ogden, UT, ⁴ISCA Technologies, Inc., Riverside, CA

2:45 **1053** Termites (Isoptera: Friend or foe? **Cecilia Dahlsjö** (c.dahlsjo@gmail.com)¹, Thomas Bourguignon², Jan Sobotnik¹, Jana Jaklova¹, Petr Stiblik¹, Matej Zidek¹, and Juan Wicman³, ¹Czech Univ. of Life Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic, ²The Univ. of Sydney, Camperdown, Australia, ³National Univ. of Ucayali, Pucallpa, Peru

3:00 **BREAK**

3:15 **1054** The influence and implications of row crop agriculture on the exposure of honey bees (*Apis mellifera*) to pesticides. **Scott Stewart** (sdstewart@utk.edu)¹, Mohamed Alburaki¹, Gus Lorenz², Don Johnson³, Jon Zawislak⁴, and John Adamczyk⁵, ¹Univ. of Tennessee, Jackson, TN, ²Univ. of Arkansas, Lonoke, AR, ³Univ. of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR, ⁴Univ. of Arkansas, Little Rock, AR, ⁵USDA - ARS, Poplarville, MS

3:30 **1055** Prioritizing spatial investment in pollinator conservation practices in farmland to support crop pollination and honey bee health. **Yajun Zhang** (angieyzhang@gmail.com), Jason Gibbs, Meghan Milbrath, Douglas A. Landis, and Rufus Isaacs, Michigan State Univ., East Lansing, MI

3:45 **1056** Foraging activity and colony development of *Bombus impatiens* on three potential surrogate plants for use in semi-field pesticide toxicity studies with bumble bees. **Angela Gradish** (agradish@uoguelph.ca)¹, Cynthia Scott-Dupree¹, and Chris Cutler², ¹Univ. of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada, ²Dalhousie Univ., Truro, NS, Canada

4:00 **1057** Native pollinators in Ontario agriculture. **Alana Pindar** (apindar@uoguelph.ca)¹ and Nigel E. Raine², ¹Univ. of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada, ²Royal Holloway, Univ. of London, Egham, United Kingdom

4:15 **1058** Molecular methods for the identification of *Autographa gamma* (Linnaeus). **Luke Tembrock** (tembrock@colostate.edu)¹, Todd Gilligan², Norman Barr³, and Roxanne Farris³, ¹Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO, ²USDA - APHIS, Fort Collins, CO, ³USDA - APHIS, Edinburg, TX

4:30 **1059** Resolving host-parasitoid food webs in anoubreak species using high-throughput metabarcoding approach. **Stefaniya Kamenova** (stefaniya.kamenova@gmail.com)¹, Veronique Martel², Robert Johns³, Eldon Eveleigh³, and M. Alex Smith¹, ¹Univ. of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada, ²Natural Resources Canada, Québec City, QC, Canada, ³Natural Resources Canada, Fredericton, NB, Canada

4:45 **1060** Molecular-based initiatives to support the identification of *Helicoverpa armigera* (Hübner) in the New World. **Todd Gilligan** (todd.m.gilligan@aphis.usda.gov)¹, Luke Tembrock², Norman Barr³, and Roxanne Farris³, ¹USDA - APHIS, Fort Collins, CO, ²Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO, ³USDA - APHIS, Edinburg, TX

5:00 **1061** A taxonomic study of subfamilies Scardiinae and Nemapogoninae (Lepidoptera: Tineidae) from Japan. **Yohei Osada** (borbocinnara53@hotmail.com)¹, Makoto Sakai², Shin-ichi Yoshimatsu³, Guo-Hua Huang⁴, and Toshiya Hirowatari¹, ¹Kyushu Univ., Fukuoka, Japan, ²Kyosei-Kagaku, Ibaraki, Japan, ³National Institute for Agro-Environmental Sciences, Tsukuba, Japan, ⁴Hunan Agricultural Univ., Changsha, China

5:15 **1062** Enhanced early detection tools using remote sensing and GIS data fusion techniques. **Ryan Hanavan** (rhanavan@fs.fed.us)¹, Bruce Cook², Lawrence Corp³, Rich Hallett¹, and Jen Pontius⁴, ¹USDA - Forest Service, Durham, NH, ²National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Greenbelt, MD, ³Sigma Space Corporation, Greenbelt, MD, ⁴Univ. of Vermont, Burlington, VT

Contributed Papers: Agricultural and Forest Entomology: Integrated Pest Management, Host-Plant Interactions, and Transgenic Crops

Room W225 B (Convention Center)

**Moderators:** Jeremy Greene¹ and Jürgen Gross², ¹Clemson Univ., Blackville, SC, ²Julius Kühn Institute, Dossenheim, Germany

1:30 **1063** Location of *Helicoverpa zea* larval instars on determinate and indeterminate soybean. **Dominic Reisig** (dominic_reisig@ncsu.edu)¹, Don Cook², Jeremy Greene³, Michael Caprio⁴, Fred Musser⁴, and Francis Reay-Jones⁵, ¹North Carolina State Univ., Plymouth, NC, ²Mississippi State Univ., Stoneville, MS, ³Clemson Univ., Blackville, SC, ⁴Mississippi State Univ., Mississippi State, MS, ⁵Clemson Univ., Florence, SC

1:45 **1064** Effect of planting date on populations of thrips in cotton in South Carolina. **Jeremy Greene** (greene4@clemson.edu)¹ and Francis Reay-Jones², ¹Clemson Univ., Blackville, SC, ²Clemson Univ., Florence, SC

2:00 **1065** Several varieties of the coconut leaf beetles *Brontispa longissima* Gestro (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) at North Celebes and East Java, Indonesia. **Sri Karindah** (skarindah@yahoo.com)¹, Novalisa Lumentut², Ika Indriawati¹, Retno Puspitarini¹, and Lilik Sulistyowati¹, ¹Univ. of Brawijaya, Malang, Indonesia, ²Indonesia Palmae Research Institute, Manado, Indonesia

2:15 **1066** Adaptation of the brown planthopper, *Nilaparvata lugens* (Stål), to resistant rice varieties. **Jedeliza B. Ferrater** (jferrater@irrialumni.org)¹, Peter W. de Jong², Marcel Dicke², and Finbarr G. Horgan³, ¹East-West Seed Company, San Rafael, Philippines, ²Wageningen Univ. and Research Centre, Wageningen, Netherlands, ³International Rice Research Institute, Metro Manila, Philippines

2:30 **1067** Species diversity and abundance of cereal stem borer natural enemies and associated host plants in Botswana. **Reyard Mutamiswa** (reyard.mutamiswa@studentmail.biust.ac.bw) and Casper Nyamukondiwa, Botswana International Univ. of Science and Technology, Palapye, Botswana

2:45 **1068** Innovative control strategies for phytoplasma disease vectors by attractive and repellent allelochemicals. **Jürgen Gross** (juergen.gross@jki.bund.de)¹, Jannicke Gallinger¹, Margit Rid¹, and Cornelia Dippel², ¹Julius Kühn Institute, Dossenheim, Germany, ²IS Insect Services GmbH, Berlin, Germany
3:00 BREAK

3:15 **1069** Apple orchard protection from codling moth (Cydia pomonella) using an attract-and-kill trap.
**Benjamin Jaffe** (jaffebd@gmail.com) and
Peter J. Landolt, USDA - ARS, Wapato, WA

3:30 **1070** Plants outside the field matter: Interactions between *Bagrada hilaris* and non-crop hosts.
**Ian M. Grettenberger** (iangrett@gmail.com)¹, Jhalendra Rijal², Larry Godfrey¹, and Shimat V. Joseph³,
¹Univ. of California, Davis, CA, ²Univ. of California Cooperative Extension, Modesto, CA, ³Univ. of California Cooperative Extension, Salinas, CA

3:45 **1071** Host plant resistance to sunflower insect pests in North America. **Jarrad Prasifka** (jarrad.prasifka@ars.usda.gov), USDA - ARS, Fargo, ND

4:00 **1072** Improve control of navel orangeworm (Amyelois transitella) in pistachios and almonds by increasing application efficency, insecticide choice, and spray timing.
**Joel Siegel** (joel.siegel@ars.usda.gov)¹, Mark Demkovich², and Matt Strmiska³.
¹USDA - ARS, Parlier, CA, ²Univ. of Illinois, Champaign, IL, ³Qualified Applicator Specialists, Fresno, CA

4:15 **1073** Dieback of cocoa (*Theobroma cacao* L.) plant tissues caused by the brown cocoa mirid, *Sahlbergella singularis* Haglund (Hemiptera: Miridae), and associated pathogenic fungi. *Joseph Anikwe* (jachuks@yahoo.com)¹ and Henry Otuonye², ¹Univ. of Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria, ²Cocoa Research Institute of Nigeria, Ibadan, Nigeria

4:30 **1074** Efficacy of transgenic corn hybrids producing *Bacillus thuringiensis* proteins against natural infestations of *Eoreuma loftini* (Lepidoptera: Crambidae) in Louisiana.
**Julien M. Beuzelin** (jbeuzelin@agcenter.lsu.edu)¹, Blake E. Wilson², Matt T. VanWeelden³, and Allan T. Showler⁴.
¹Louisiana State Univ. AgCenter, Alexandria, LA, ²Louisiana State Univ. AgCenter, Baton Rouge, LA, ³Univ. of Florida, Belle Glade, FL, ⁴USDA - ARS, Kerrville, TX

4:45 **1075** Tolerance response of cotton bollworm (*Helicoverpa armigera*) to Cry expressing Bt cotton.
**Muhammad Asam Riaz** (asam.riaz@uos.edu.pk)¹, Saba Tehseen¹, Mohsin Raza¹, Muhammad Usman¹, Muhammad Zeeshan Majeed¹, Muhammad Afzal¹, and Sohail Ahmed².
¹Univ. of Sargodha, Sargodha, Pakistan, ²Univ. of Agriculture, Faisalabad, Pakistan

5:00 **1076** Effect of some local plant extracts against whitefly on Bt cotton. **Muhammad Asrar** (asraragri@gmail.com)¹, Khuram Zia² and Kashif Ali¹.
¹Government College Univ., Faisalabad, Pakistan, ²Univ. of Agriculture, Faisalabad, Pakistan

5:15 **1077** Integrative taxonomy of SE-Asian and Oceanic tephritid fruit flies. **Mark Schutze** (m.schutze@qut.edu.au)¹,², Matthew Krosch¹,², Jane Royer²,³, Nicholas Woods²,⁴, Rod Turner²,⁴, Melanie Bottrill²,⁴, Bill Woods²,⁵, Ian Lacey²,⁵, Jacinta McMahon¹,², Francesca Strutt¹,², and Stephen Cameron².
¹Queensland Univ. of Technology, Brisbane, Australia, ²Plant Biosecurity Cooperative Research Centre, Bruce, Australia, ³Queensland Dept. of Agriculture and Fisheries, Brisbane, Australia, ⁴Plant Health Australia, Deakin, Australia, ⁵Dept. of Agriculture and Food, South Perth, Australia

Contributed Papers: Genetics and Evolutionary
Entomology: Populations and Spatial Diversity

Room W330 B (Convention Center)

**Moderators:** Ariel Toloza¹ and Olav Rueppell², ¹CONICET, Villa Martelli, Argentina, ²Univ. of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC

1:30 **1078** Diversity of sociality in the desert ant (genus *Cataglyphis*). **Tali Reiner Brodetzki** (talireiner@gmail.com)¹, Serge Aron², and Abraham Hefetz¹, ¹Tel Aviv Univ., Tel Aviv, Israel, ²Free Univ. of Brussels, Brussels, Belgium

1:45 **1079** Identification of the geographic origin of invasive Asian gypsy moth (*Lymantria dispar asiatica* and *L. d. japonica*) using ddRAD sequencing.
**Yunke Wu** (yw578@cornell.edu)¹,², John Molongoski¹, David Lance¹, Steven Bogdanowicz², and Richard Harrison².
¹USDA - APHIS, Buzzards Bay, MA, ²Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY

2:00 **1080** Population genetic structure and environmental heterogeneities of honey bee (*Apis mellifera* L.) populations in South Africa. **Amin Eimanifar** (amineimanifar@ufl.edu), Tao Zhang, and James D. Ellis, Univ. of Florida, Gainesville, FL

2:15 **1081** New insights into the extraordinary diversity of *Serratia symbiotica*: A tritrophic point of view.
**Inès Pons Guillouard** (ines.pons@uclouvain.be), François Renoz, Valentin Pierson, Abdelmounaim Errachid, Christine Noël, and Thierry Hance, Catholic Univ. of Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium

2:30 **1082** Population genetic analysis in human head lice: Comparison between microsatellite and insecticide resistance markers.
**Ariel Toloza** (atoloza@conicet.gov.ar)¹, David Reed², Maria Picollo³, and Marina Ascunce², ¹CONICET, Villa Martelli, Argentina, ²Univ. of Florida, Gainesville, FL, ³Center of Insecticides and Pest Research, Villa Martelli, Argentina

2:45 **1083** Phenotypic variation and aposematic signaling in an arctiid moth (*Utetheisa ornatrix*). **Richard Gawne** (richard.gawne@duke.edu) and Fred Nijhout, Duke Univ., Durham, NC

3:00 BREAK

3:15 **1084** Mitochondrial phylogenomics and high-altitude adaptation in the New World buckeye butterflies (Genus *Junonia*). **Jeffrey Marcus** (marcus@cc.umanitoba.ca), Univ. of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada

3:30 **1085** Presentation withdrawn

3:45 **1086** Presentation withdrawn

4:00 **1087** Strong community structuring of defensive heritable symbionts is shaped by context-dependent transmission rates.
**Jacob Russell** (jar337@drexel.edu)¹, Andrew H. Smith¹, Kerry M. Oliver², and Danielle Rock¹, ¹Drexel Univ., Philadelphia, PA, ²Univ. of Georgia, Athens, GA

4:15 **1088** Characterization of *Protophormia, Lucilia*, and *Chrysomya* species based on taxonomic and multigene approaches.
**Muhammad Qureshi** (qureshienv@yahoo.com), Government College Univ., Lahore, Pakistan
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4:30 **1089** Genetic and morphological changes underlying speciation in leaf-cutter ants. **Mauricio Bacci** (mbacci@rc.unesp.br)¹, Cynara Rodovalho², Milene Ferro³, Sérgio Kakazu³, Cintia Bezerra³, and Christian Rabeling⁴, ¹São Paulo State Univ., São Paulo, Brazil, ²Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, ³São Paulo State Univ., Rio Claro, Brazil, ⁴Univ. of Rochester, Rochester, NY

4:45 **1090** Anthropocene reversals of anophelism and malaria. **Graham White** (grahambwhite@hotmail.com), USDA - ARS, Gainesville, FL

5:00 **1091** Ant-fungal inter-genomic epistasis and the fitness of ants and their domesticated fungus. **Katrin Kellner** (antkatrina@gmail.com)¹,², Ulrich G. Mueller¹, and Timothy A. Linksvayer³, ¹The Univ. of Texas, Austin, TX, ²The Univ. of Texas, Tyler, TX, ³Univ. of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA

3:30 **1099** Studying specificity of aphid species in commercial strawberry fields in Atlantic Canada and identifying potential aphid vectors of viruses associated with strawberry decline. **Debra Moreau** (debra moreau@agr.gc.ca)¹, Peggy Dixon², and Robert Foottit³, ¹Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Kentville, NS, Canada, ²Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, St. John's, NF, Canada, ³Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Ottawa, ON, Canada

3:45 **1100** A molecular mechanism for jasmonic acid synthesis involved in whitefly-begomovirus-plant interactions. **Ping Li** (liping6434@126.com), Yue Hong, Juan-Juan Zhao, and Shu-Sheng Liu, Zhejiang Univ., Hangzhou, China

4:00 **1101** Pest monitoring and population models in greenhouses: A next step in biological control. Rob Moerkens¹, Vincent Sluydts (sluydts@gmail.com)², Els Berckmoes³, Sanne Van Gool¹, Amber Tilley³, and Herwig Leirs², ¹Research Center Hoogstraten, Hoogstraten, Belgium, ²Univ. of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium, ³Research Station for Vegetable Production, Sint-Katelijne-Waver, Belgium

4:15 **1102** Plant pearl bodies mediate trophic interactions in an okra crop system. **Akanksha Singh** (ga46jim@mytum.de)¹, Veronika Mayer², Sharon Zytynska¹, and Wolfgang Weisser¹, ¹Technical Univ., Freising, Germany, ²Univ. of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

4:30 **1103** Recommendations for management of the swede midge, *Contarinia nasturtii*, in organic crucifer production. **Braden Evans** (bevans02@uoguelph.ca) and Rebecca Hallett, Univ. of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada

4:45 **1104** Composition and abundance of insect pests of African indigenous vegetables in western Kenya. **Linnet Gohole** (lgohole@gmail.com)¹, Silvia Omasaja¹, and John Stephen Yaninek², ¹Univ. of Eldoret, Eldoret, Kenya, ²Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN

5:00 **1105** Monitoring aphids and potato virus Y in seed and commercial potato fields in Oregon. **Sudep Bag** (sudeep.bag@oregonstate.edu)¹, Silvia Rondon¹, Kenneth E. Frost¹, Darrin Walenta², and Brian Charlton³, ¹Oregon State Univ., Hermiston, OR, ²Oregon State Univ., La Grande, OR, ³Oregon State Univ. Extension Service, Klamath Falls, OR

## Contributed Papers: Integrated Pest Management and Sustainable Agriculture: Fruits and Vegetables

### Room W231B (Convention Center)

**Moderators:** Linnet Gohole¹ and Elena Rhodes², ¹Univ. of Eldoret, Eldoret, Kenya, ²Univ. of Florida, Gainesville, FL

1:30 **1092** Ecological trends of fruit flies (Family: Tephritidae) on table grapes along multiple gradients of the Lower Orange River, Northern Cape. **Tanya Smit** (tanyasmit175@gmail.com), Schalk van der Merwe Louw, and Vaughn Swart, Univ. of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa

1:45 **1093** Broad mite (*Polyphagotarsonemus latus*) spread, biology, and management tactics for blackberry. **Jessica LeFors** (lefors@uark.edu) and Don Johnson, Univ. of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR

2:00 **1094** The agapanthus gall midge — determining biology and control of a newly described pest. **Hayley Jones** (hayleyjones@rhs.org.uk)¹, Jude Bennison², Andrew Salisbury¹, Anna M. Platoni¹, and Gerard R. G. Clover¹, ¹Royal Horticultural Society, Surrey, United Kingdom, ²ADAS UK, Ltd., Cambridge, United Kingdom

2:15 **1095** Economic injury level and economic threshold in IPM for strawberries. **Sergei Popov** (sergei_ya_popov@mail.ru), Russian Timiryazev State Agrarian Univ., Moscow, Russia

2:30 **1096** The interactive influence of *Drosophila suzukii* and *D. melanogaster* on sour rot outbreaks in grapevine. Antoine Rombaut¹, Robin Guilhot¹, Anne Xuéreb¹, Patricia Gibert², and **Simon Fellous** (simon.fellous@supagro.inra.fr)¹, ¹INRA, Montferrier-sur-Lez, France, ²Claude Bernard University Lyon 1, Villeurbanne, France

2:45 **1097** Surveys for spotted wing drosophila, *Drosophila suzukii*, in strawberries and other small fruits in Alachua Co., Florida. **Elena Rhodes** (erhodes@ufl.edu) and Oscar Liburd, Univ. of Florida, Gainesville, FL

### 3:00 BREAK

3:15 **1098** Foraging ecology of the invasive spotted wing drosophila in raspberry plantings. **Kevin Rice** (ricekevinb@gmail.com) and Tracy C. Leskey, USDA - ARS, Kearneysville, WV

## Contributed Papers: Integrated Pest Management and Sustainable Agriculture: IPM Programs

### Room W225 A (Convention Center)

**Moderators:** Cerruti Hooks¹ and Dakshina Seal², ¹Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD, ²Univ. of Florida, Homestead, FL

1:30 **1106** Integrated pest management of the western tarnished plant bug (*Lygus hesperus*) in California strawberries. **Surendra Dara** (skdara@ucanr.edu), Univ. of California Cooperative Extension, San Luis Obispo, CA

1:45 **1107** Using strip tillage and living mulches to build an ecologically based pest management program. **Cerruti Hooks** (crrhooks@umd.edu), Alan Leslie, and Guihua Chen, Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD
2:00 **1108** Overcoming barriers to IPM adoption in flue-cured tobacco. **Jeremy Slone** (jdslone@ncsu.edu) and Hannah Burrack, North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC

2:15 **1109** Partnerships in extension: An argument for public and private cooperation. **Marc Fisher** (mlfisher@dow.com)¹, Rayda Krell², and Kevin Steffey¹, ¹Dow AgroSciences, Indianapolis, IN, ²Rayda K. Krell, LLC, Entomological and Agricultural Communications, Ridgefield, CT

2:30 **1110** The global marketplace is driving and documenting sustainable improvements in health and environmental outcomes through IPM and other best practices: Entomologists have opportunities to participate! **Thomas Green** (ipmworks@ipminstitute.org), Matthew Doyle Olson, Ariel Larson, Emily Ciesielski, Chloe Nelson, Erika Nickels, Peter Werts, Thomas Bernard, Patrick Shannon-Hughes, Daniel Skolnik, Justin Leatherwood, Natalie Kaner, Kelly Adams, and Matt Neff, IPM Institute of North America, Madison, WI

2:45 **1111** Alternative pest management strategies for specialty crops. **Amanda Buchanan** (alynn@msu.edu)¹, Jason M. Schmidt², Matthew Grieshop¹, and Zsofia Szendrei¹, ¹Michigan State Univ., East Lansing, MI, ²Univ. of Georgia, Tifton, GA

3:00 BREAK

3:15 **1112** An integrated approach for management of pepper weevil, *Anthonomus eugenii* Cano (Coleoptera: Curculionidae). **Dakshina Seal** (dseal3@ufl.edu), Mohammad Razzak, and Catherine Sabines, Univ. of Florida, Homestead, FL

3:30 **1113** Integrated pest management and sustainable agriculture — a moving feast of challenges for northern Australian grain/pulse industries. **Elizabeth Williams** (liz.williams@daf.qld.gov.au)¹, Hugh Brier¹, and Melina Miles², ¹Queensland Dept. of Agriculture and Fisheries, Kingaroy, Australia, ²Queensland Dept. of Agriculture and Fisheries, Toowoomba, Australia

3:45 **1114** *Tuta absoluta* in Belgian greenhouses: Evolution towards a season-long IPM control strategy. Els Berckmoes¹, Hans Casteels², Raf De Vis¹, **Rob Moerkens** (rob.moerkens@proefcentrum.be)³, Amber Tilley¹, Luc Tirry⁴, Veerle Van Damme⁴,⁵, and Lieve Wittemans¹, ¹Proefstation voor de Groenteteelt, Sint-Katelijne-Waver, Belgium, ²Institue for Agricultural and Fisheries Research, Merelbeke, Belgium, ³Research Center Hoogstraten, Hoogstraten, Belgium, ⁴Ghent Univ., Ghent, Belgium, ⁵Institute for Agricultural and Fisheries Research, Merelbeke, Belgium

4:00 **1115** The long and challenging road for adopting some pest management concepts in sub-Saharan countries. **Pierre Silvie** (pierre.silvie@cirad.fr), IRD/CIRAD, Montpellier, France

4:15 **1116** Alfalfa pest management in the irrigated desert of the southwest: Challenges and opportunities. **Ayman Mostafa** (ayman@cals.arizona.edu), Univ. of Arizona, Phoenix, AZ

4:30 **1117** The pest status of carob moth, *Ectomelois ceratoniae* Zeller, on citrus in South Africa: Developing an integrated pest management program. **Sean Thackeray** (sean.thacks@gmail.com)¹, Wayne Kirkman¹,², Sean Moore¹,², and Martin Hill¹, ¹Rhodes Univ., Grahamstown, South Africa, ²Citrus Research International, Port Elizabeth, South Africa

4:45 **1118** Integrated pest management of *Oryctes monoceros*, *Rhynchophorus phoenicis*, and *Latoia viridissima* in Okomu oil palm plantation, Nigeria. **Charles Aisagbonhi** (iziegb@gmail.com)¹, Billy Ghansah², Victor Adaigbe¹, Thomas Aneni¹, Minister Irorere², and Glory Ohwevwo², ¹Nigerian Institute for Oil Palm Research, Benin City, Nigeria, ²Okomu Oil Palm Company, Benin City, Nigeria
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Plenary Presentation Featuring
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Chapin Theater (Convention Center)

**Moderators and Organizers:** Walter S. Leal¹, Alvin M. Simmons², and Catherine Loudon³, ¹Univ. of California, Davis, CA, ²USDA - ARS, Charleston, SC, ³Univ. of California, Irvine, CA

8:00 **1119** Introduction of the Plenary Speaker. **Catherine Loudon** (cloudon@uci.edu), Univ. of California, Irvine, CA

8:05 **1120** Rift Valley Fever in East Africa: Three frontiers, one purpose. **Baldwyn Torto** (btorto@icipe.org), International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology, Nairobi, Kenya

Plenary Presentation Featuring
Dr. Carolina Barillas-Mury

Valencia Room (Convention Center)

**Moderators and Organizers:** Walter S. Leal¹, Alvin M. Simmons², and Anthony James³, ¹Univ. of California, Davis, CA, ²USDA - ARS, Charleston, SC, ³Univ. of California, Irvine, CA

8:00 **1121** Introduction of the Plenary Speaker. **Anthony James** (aajames@uci.edu), Univ. of California, Irvine, CA

8:05 **1122** Mosquito immunity and the invisible parasite: Implications for global malaria transmission. **Carolina Barillas-Mury** (cbarillas@niaid.nih.gov), National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD

Undergraduate Student Poster Competition:
Medical and Veterinary Entomology

West Hall C (Convention Center)

D3266 Dissemination of *Ehrlichia chaffeensis* using an artificial membrane feeding system. **Paige Allen** (paige.allen@eagles.usm.edu)¹, Tais Saito², Rebekah Bullard¹, Jaclyn Williams¹, and Shahid Karim¹, ¹Univ. of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, MS, ²The Univ. of Texas, Galveston, TX

D3267 Zoonotic diseases in dengue negative samples from Nuevo Leon State, Mexico. **Martha Lopez** (martha_a_a@hotmail.com), Iram Rodriguez, Adriana Flores, Zinnia Molina-Garza, and Gutsavo Ponce-Garcia, Autonomus Univ. of Nuevo León, San Nicolas de los Garza, Mexico

D3268 Presentation withdrawn

D3269 Epigenetic effects in the African malaria mosquito *Anopheles coluzzii*. **Kerry Maguschak** (mkerry14@vt.edu), Atashi Sharma and Igor Sharakhov, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State Univ., Blacksburg, VA

D3270 Zika virus infection and dissemination within South Texas mosquito vectors. **Brenda Hernandez Barron** (brenda.hernandezbarron01@utrgv.edu), John Thomas, and Christopher Vitek, The Univ. of Texas, Edinburg, TX

D3271 Report of chikungunya virus in wild populations of *Aedes aegypti* L. from San Marcos, Guerrero, Mexico. **Iram Rodriguez** (iramrodriguez@gmail.com)¹, Martha Lopez¹, Adriana Flores¹, Felipe Dzul², and Gutsavo Ponce-Garcia¹, ¹Autonomus Univ. of Nuevo León, San Nicolas de los Garza, Mexico, ²Secretary of Health of Guerrero, Acapulco, Mexico

D3272 Effect of wound depth on decomposition rate and species composition of carrion-feeding Diptera. **Holly Munro** (hlmunr8021@ung.edu), Melissa Parks, and Evan Lampert, Univ. of North Georgia, Oakwood, GA

D3273 Flesh-eating beetle (*Dermestes maculatus*) life history traits depend on meat type and rotting duration. **Stephanie Olson** (solson_01@arcadia.edu), Karen Scott, and Tobias Landberg, Arcadia Univ., Glenside, PA

D3274 Effects of decomposition of carrion on surrounding arthropod populations and soil nutrient content. **Samantha Sawyer** (s1sawyer@student.bridgew.edu) and Christopher Bloch, Bridgewater State Univ., Bridgewater, MA

D3275 Expression and dsRNA knockdown of aquaporins AaAQP3a and AaAQP3b in the Malpighian tubules of the larval disease vector, *Aedes aegypti*. **Lidiya Misyura** (lidiyam@my.yorku.ca) and Andrew Donini, York Univ., Toronto, ON, Canada

D3276 Diapause regulation in the flesh fly (*Sarcophaga bullata*) by histone acetylase transferases and histone deacetylases. **Robin Bautista Jimenez** (bautista-jimenez.1@osu.edu), Julie Reynolds, and David L. Denlinger, The Ohio State Univ., Columbus, OH

D3277 SkitoSnack: The development of an artificial blood meal replacement for mosquito culture. **Hae-Na Chung** (ichung@nmsu.edu), Stacy D. Rodriguez, Kristina Gonzales, and Immo Hansen, New Mexico State Univ., Las Cruces, NM

Undergraduate Student Poster Competition:
Morphology, Systematics, and Phylogeny

West Hall C (Convention Center)

D3278 Preliminary analysis on the dispersal route of *Tabanus bromius* L., 1758 (Diptera: Tabanidae) in Turkey. **Sumeyra Sanal Demirci** (sumeyrasanal@gmail.com)¹, Ali Kilic¹, and Serap Mutun², ¹Anadolu Univ., Eskisehir, Turkey, ²Abant Izzet Baysal Univ., Bolu, Turkey

D3279 Investigating cryptic species of *Chlorochroa uhleri* Stål (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae), a green stink bug. **Ryan Torres** (rtorres28@ucmerced.edu)¹, Bradley Higbee², and Andrea Joyce¹, ¹Univ. of California, Merced, CA, ²Wonderful Orchards, Shafter, CA

D3280 Biogeographical and phylogenetic relationships among the South American Acanthosomatidae: A first approach. **Mariom Carvajal** (mariom.carvajal@gmail.com), Eduardo Faundez, and David Rider, North Dakota State Univ., Fargo, ND
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**D3281** Recent origin and expansion of the Neotropical ant *Neoponera villosa* (Formicidae: Ponerinae). *Marilyn Mendoza* (tzutujam@gmail.com)¹, Chantal Poteaux², Andrea Jiménez¹, and Alejandro Zaldivar-Riverón¹, ¹National Autonomous Univ. of México, México, Mexico, ²Univ. of Paris 13, Villetaneuse, France

**D3282** Comparison of a molecular and morphological phylogeny in the quill mite family Syringophilidae. *Suzanne Pinar* (spinar@mail.sfsu.edu) and Greg Spicer, San Francisco State Univ., San Francisco, CA

**D3283** Phylogeography of *Ligia* isopods in South Africa. *Taylor Greenan* (taylorgreenan@gmail.com) and Carlos Santamaria, Univ. of South Florida, Sarasota, FL

**D3284** *Tylos* isopods in the Indo-Pacific: Are there any cryptic species? *Bryn Austin* (brynaustin@mail.usf.edu) and Carlos Santamaria, Univ. of South Florida, Sarasota, FL

**D3285** Cryptic biodiversity of *Ligia* isopods in Vanuatu, a remote archipelago in the Pacific. *Sharla Rafferty* (srafferty@mail.usf.edu) and Carlos Santamaria, Univ. of South Florida, Sarasota, FL

**D3286** Syrphidae composition and seasonal abundance at mid-elevation site in Utah. *Tyson Terry* (tysonjterry@gmail.com) and C. Riley Nelson, Brigham Young Univ., Provo, UT

## Graduate Student Poster Competition: Acarology and Stored Products

### West Hall C (Convention Center)

**D3287** Mechanisms of resistance to mite growth regulators in the twospotted spider mite, *Tetranychus urticae*. *Adekunle Adesanya* (adekunle.adesanya@wsu.edu)¹, Fang (Rose) Zhu¹, Douglas Walsh², and Laura C. Lavine¹, ¹Washington State Univ., Pullman, WA, ²Washington State Univ., Prosser, WA

**D3288** Temperature-dependent development of *Amblyseius eharai* (Acari: Phytoseiidae). *Young-gyun Park* (insect1141@snu.ac.kr) and Joon-Ho Lee, Seoul National Univ., Seoul, South Korea

**D3289** In silico genome directed investigation of the *Dermatophagoides pteronyssinus* proteomic response to desiccation. *Rose Waldron* (waldronroses@gmail.com)¹, ², ³, Natasha Gordon², Sean Doyle¹, and David Fitzpatrick¹, ¹Maynooth Univ., Kildare, Ireland, ²Airmid Healthgroup, Ltd., Dublin, Ireland, ³The Irish Research Council, Dublin, Ireland

**D3290** Assessment of wheat curl mite virulence to wheat genotypes and distribution of mite-vectored viruses in the north central United States. *Luayy Khalaf* (luaay_kalani@yahoo.com)¹, Wen-Po Chuang², Lina Aguirre-Rojas¹, Alicia Timm³, and C. Michael Smith¹, ¹Kansas State Univ., Manhattan, KS, ²National Taiwan Univ., Taipei, Taiwan, ³Univ. of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH

**D3291** Development and validation of sequential sampling plans for the ham mite, *Tyrophagus putrescentiae* (Shrank) (Acari: Acaridae), on dry-cured ham. *Barbara Amoah* (bamoah@ksu.edu)¹, Subramanyam Bhadriraju¹, David Hagstrum¹, M. Wes Schilling², and Thomas Phillips¹, ¹Kansas State Univ., Manhattan, KS, ²Mississippi State Univ., Mississippi State, MS

**D3292** Survival of stored-product psocids (Psocoptera: Liposcelididae) at 43% relative humidity. *Abena Ocran* (abena.ocran@okstate.edu), George Opit, Kandara Shakya, and Sandipa G. Gautam, Oklahoma State Univ., Stillwater, OK

**D3293** Presentation withdrawn

**D3294** Efficacy of the deltamethrin-incorporated ZeroFly® storage bag against stored-product insects. *Sulochana Paudyal* (sulochana.paudyal@okstate.edu)¹, George Opit¹, Enoch A. Osekre², Naomi Manu³, James Danso³, and Kandara Shakya¹, ¹Oklahoma State Univ., Stillwater, OK, ²Kwame Nkrumah Univ. of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana, ³Northern Arizona Univ., Kumasi, Ghana

## Graduate Student Poster Competition: Arthropod Vectors of Animal and Plant Disease

### West Hall C (Convention Center)

**D3295** Environmental and socioeconomic factors associated with human cases of West Nile virus. *Eunis Hernandez* (ehernandez83@ucmerced.edu), Karen Cedano, and Andrea Joyce, Univ. of California, Merced, CA

**D3296** How does hybridisation influence life-history parameters and dispersal in *Culex pipiens* mosquitoes? *Simon Carpenter*¹, *Christopher Sanders*¹, *Mary Cameron*², *Anthony Wilson*¹, and *Christopher Gamble* (chris.gamble@pirbright.ac.uk)¹, ², ¹The Pirbright Institute, Woking, United Kingdom, ²London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

**D3297** Species composition and insecticide susceptibility of malaria vectors in two regions in Mauritania. *Mohamed Aly Ould Lemrabbott* (mohamedalylemrabbott@yahoo.fr)¹, Aichetou Mint Mohamed Lemine¹, ², Mohamed Salem Ould Ahmedou Salem³, Khadijetou Mint Lekweiry³, Khyarhoum Ould Brahim¹, Mohamed Ouldbabdallahi¹, Leonardo Basco⁴, Hervé Boegreau⁵, Ousmane Faye², Frédéric Simard⁶, Ali Ould Mohamed Salem Boukhary³, and Driss Belghyti⁷, ¹Genomes Unit of Research and Media, Nouakchott, Mauritania, ²Univ. Cheikh Anta Diop, Dakar, Senegal, ³Univ. of Science and Medical Technology, Nouakchott, Mauritania, ⁴Reserch Institute for Development, Marseille, France, ⁵Institute of Army Biomedical Research, Paris, France, ⁶Research Institute for Development, Montpellier, France, ⁷Univ. Ibn Tofail, Kénitra, Morocco

**D3298** Potential vectors of heartworm (*Dirofilaria immitis*) in Arkansas and development of models to predict seasonal transmission for high risk states in the U.S. *Sofija Todorovic* (sofija.todorovi@smail.astate.edu) and Tanja McKay, Arkansas State Univ., Jonesboro, AR

**D3299** Presentation withdrawn

**D3300** What is 'fitness'? Defining fitness and appropriate proxies for mosquitoes that transmit human malaria. *Johanna Ohm* (Jro182@psu.edu)¹, Lauren Cator², William Nelson³, Andrew Read¹, and Matthew B. Thomas¹, ¹Pennsylvania State Univ., University Park, PA, ²Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom, ³Queen's Univ., Kingston, ON, Canada
**D3301** The Hydra Effect: Controlling mosquito populations as a labor of Hercules, overcompensatory response to additional mortality as an effect of behavioral change.
Kristina McIntire (kmmcint@ilstu.edu) and Steven Juliano, Illinois State Univ., Normal, IL

**D3302** Ecology and coexistence of *Anopheles* larvae in aquatic habitats in Mazandaran Province, northern Iran.
Seyed Hassan Nikookar (nikookar_84@yahoo.com), Ahmadali Enayati, Mahmoud Fazeli-Dinan, and Seyyed Payman Ziapour, Mazandaran Univ. of Medical Sciences, Sari, Iran

**D3303** Visualisation and quantification of bluetongue virus in *Culicoides* biting midges. **Alice Muntzer** (alice.muntzer@pirbright.ac.uk)¹, Andrew Shaw², Gillian Pullinger¹, Peter Mertens¹, Pippa Hawes¹, Massimo Palmarini², and Anthony Wilson¹. ¹The Pirbright Institute, Woking, United Kingdom, ²Univ. of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom

**D3304** Approaches to controlling *Culicoides* biting midges in the United Kingdom using vector-proof housing and immunological approaches targeting salivary proteins.
**Laura Tugwell** (laura.tugwell@pirbright.ac.uk)¹,², Alison Blackwell³, Maria Montoya¹, Karin Darpel¹,², and Simon Carpenter¹. ¹The Pirbright Institute, Woking, United Kingdom, ²Univ. of Surrey, Guildford, United Kingdom, ³APS Biocontrol, Ltd., Dundee, United Kingdom

**D3305** Black fly species (Diptera: Simuliidae) occurring in Mississippi. **Tina Nations** (tina.nations@msdh.ms.gov) and Jerome Goddard, Mississippi State Univ., Mississippi State, MS

**D3311** Characterization of hemolymph protease-1 and its function in the phenoloxidase cascade in tobacco hornworm, *Manduca sexta*. **Yan He** (yanhe@okstate.edu), Haobo Jiang, Fan Yang, and Yang Wang, Oklahoma State Univ., Stillwater, OK

**D3312** Functions of stress responsive peptides and their activation in *Anopheles gambiae*. **Krishna Bhattarai** (krishna.bhattarai@okstate.edu), Xiaolong Cao, and Haobo Jiang, Oklahoma State Univ., Stillwater, OK

**D3313** Host plant effects on buckeye (*Junonia coenia*) survival and immunity during infection with the *Junonia coenia* densovirus. **Carmen Mo** (carmen@nevada.unr.edu)¹, M. Deane Bowers², Peri Mason², Mike Teglas¹, Jennifer Hsueh¹, Craig Dodson¹, and Angela Smilanich¹. ¹Univ. of Nevada, Reno, NV, ²Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO

**D3314** Pathogen and parasitoid loads in wild populations of Baltimore checkerspots (*Euphydryas phaeton*) vary depending on host plant availability. **Nadya Muchoney** (nmuchoney@nevada.unr.edu)¹, Angela Smilanich¹, Peri Mason², Mike Teglas¹, Jennifer Hsueh¹, Samantha Feeney¹, and M. Deane Bowers². ¹Univ. of Nevada, Reno, NV, ²Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO

**D3315** Input neuronal pathways for photoperiodism in the bean bug, *Riptortus pedestris*. **Jili Xi** (xijier1001@gmail.com) and Sakiko Shiga, Osaka City Univ., Osaka, Japan

**D3316** The molecular cross-talk in a unique parasitic manipulation strategy. **Maayan Kaiser** (kaiserm@post.bgu.ac.il)¹, Ryan Arvidson², Michael E. Adams², and Frederic Libersat¹. ¹Ben-Gurion Univ. of the Negev, Beersheva, Israel, ²Univ. of California, Riverside, CA

## Graduate Student Poster Competition: Insect Immunology

### West Hall C (Convention Center)

**D3306** Characterization of virulence factors in the fatal honey bee disease American foulbrood. **Julia Ebeling** (julia.ebeling@hu-berlin.de)¹, Daniel Krska², Ravikiran Ravulapalli², Lena Poppinga¹, Anne Fünfhaus¹, A. Rod Merrill², and Elke Genersch¹. ¹Institute for Bee Research, Hohen Neuendorf, Germany, ²Univ. of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada

**D3307** Functional characterization of *Manduca sexta* peptidoglycan recognition protein-5. **Mansi Gulati** (mansi.gulati@okstate.edu), Yang Wang, and Haobo Jiang, Oklahoma State Univ., Stillwater, OK

**D3308** The *Xenorhabdus nematophila* serine protease inhibitor ecotin is necessary for virulence in lepidopteran larvae. **Ángel Casanova-Torres** (amcasanova@wisc.edu) and Heidi Goodrich-Blair, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI

**D3309** The immune gene expression and pyrethroid resistance in house flies, *Musca domestica*. **Zhou Chen** (zzc0012@auburn.edu) and Nannan Liu, Auburn Univ., Auburn, AL

**D3310** Evolution of immune priming favored by the low cost of the secondary immune response in the mealworm beetle, *Tenebrio molitor*. **Julien Dhinaut** (julien.dhinaut@u-bourgogne.fr), Manon Chogne, and Yannick Moret, Univ. of Bourgogne, Dijon, France

## Graduate Student Poster Competition: Integrated Pest Management and Sustainable Agriculture: Management Tactics

### West Hall C (Convention Center)

**D3317** Landscape effects on flea beetles and their natural enemies in the Canadian Prairies. **Thais Silva Guimaraes** (silvagtf@myumanitoba.ca)¹, Tharshinidevy Nagalingam¹, Jennifer Otani², Héctor A. Cárcamo³, Tyler Wist⁴, John Gavloski⁵, and Alejandro Costamagna¹. ¹Univ. of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada, ²Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Beaverlodge, AB, Canada, ³Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Lethbridge, AB, Canada, ⁴Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Saskatoon, SK, Canada, ⁵Manitoba Agriculture, Food and Rural Initiatives, Carman, MB, Canada

**D3318** Plant species diversity facilitates behavioral interactions that lead to enhanced herbivore suppression. **Kathryn Ingerslew** (ksiggc@mail.missouri.edu) and Debbie Finke, Univ. of Missouri, Columbia, MO

**D3319** Melittia cucurbitae (squash vine borer) attraction to zucchini as a trap crop. **Mike McFarland** (mcfarland.447@osu.edu) and Celeste Welty, The Ohio State Univ., Columbus, OH

**D3320** Attractiveness of seven insectary plants to natural enemies of insect pests in a vegetable cropping system. **Binita Shrestha** (bswc2@mail.missouri.edu)¹, Debbie Finke¹, and Jaime Pinero². ¹Univ. of Missouri, Columbia, MO, ²Lincoln Univ., Jefferson City, MO
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**D3321** Incidence of red maple tree insect pests in cover crop and non-cover crop production plots. **Sujan Dawadi** (dawadisujan01@gmail.com)¹, Karla Addesso², Jason B. Oliver², and Manoj Pandey¹, ¹Tennessee State Univ., Nashville, TN, ²Tennessee State Univ., McMinnville, TN

**D3322** Plant growth promoting rhizobacteria treatment reduce oviposition by European corn borer on maize. **Joseph Disi** (jod0003@auburn.edu)¹, Simon Zebelo², Joseph Kloepper¹, and Henry Fadamiro¹, ¹Auburn Univ., Auburn, AL, ²Univ. of Maryland, Princess Anne, MD

**D3323** The effect of plant hormone treatment of seeds on whole-plant tolerance to insects. **Mengqi Zhang** (zhangmengqi614@gmail.com)¹, Phyllis Weintraub², Joshua Klein³, and Shimon Rachmilevitch¹, ¹Ben-Gurion Univ. of the Negev, Sede Boker, Israel, ²Agricultural Research Organisation, Gilat, Israel, ³Agricultural Research Organisation, Bet-Dagan, Israel

**D3324** Presentation withdrawn

**D3325** Volatiles of *Murraya koenigii* involved on the process of the host selection behavior of the psyllid *Diaphorina citri* Kuwayama (Hemiptera: Liviidae). **Vitor Beloti** (vitorbeloti@usp.br), Franciele dos Santos, Gustavo Alves, José Maurício Bento, and Pedro Yamamoto, Univ. of São Paulo, Piracicaba, Brazil

**D3326** Oil and soap for armored and soft scales: Pathway to success or slippery slope toward failure? **Carlos Quesada** (cquesand@purdue.edu) and Clifford Sadof, Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN

## Graduate Student Poster Competition: Integrated Pest Management and Sustainable Agriculture: Pest Physiology

### West Hall C (Convention Center)

**D3327** Expression of *Rorippa indica* defensin in *Brassica juncea* enhances tolerance against *Lipaphis erysimi*. **Poulami Sarkar** (poulamisarkarbt@gmail.com) and Samir Sikdar, Bose Institute, Kolkata, India

**D3328** Effect of temperature on growth and development of sugarcane aphid on sorghum. **Philip Hinson** (philison2@gmail.com) and Bonnie Pendleton, West Texas A&M Univ., Canyon, TX

**D3329** How orchard soil, nutrition, natural enemies, management, and grower perceptions relate to woolly apple aphid (*Eriosoma lanigerum*) problems. **Robert Orpet** (robert.orpet@wsu.edu)¹, Elizabeth H. Beers¹, John Reganold², Jessica Goldberger², Vincent Jones¹, and David Crowder², ¹Washington State Univ., Wenatchee, WA, ²Washington State Univ., Pullman, WA

**D3330** Detecting corn rootworm (*Diabrotica spp.*) resistance development to Bt-RW traits: Root injury vs. beetle emergence. **Edwin Benkert** (benke017@umn.edu), Trisha Leaf, and Ken Ostlie, Univ. of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN

**D3331** Dominance of Cry1-resistant fall armyworm in different planting patterns of non-Bt and Bt corn. **Ying Niu** (yniu@agcenter.lsu.edu), Binod Acharya, and Fangneng Huang, Louisiana State Univ., Baton Rouge, LA

**D3332** Lack of fitness costs associated with *Bacillus thuringiensis* Cry2Ab2 resistance in the fall armyworm, *Spodoptera frugiperda* (J.E. Smith). **Binod Acharya** (bacharya@agcenter.lsu.edu)¹, Graham P. Head², Paula A. Price², and Fangneng Huang¹, ¹Louisiana State Univ., Baton Rouge, LA, ²Monsanto Company, St. Louis, MO

**D3333** Transcriptome assembly and differential analysis of resistant and susceptible western corn rootworm, *Diabrotica virgifera virgifera* LeConte, responses to eCry3.1Ab transgenic corn. **Zixiao Zhao** (zxzhao5@gmail.com)¹, Lisa Meihls², Kent S. Shelby², Christine Elsik¹, Thomas A. Coudron², and Bruce Hibbard², ¹Univ. of Missouri, Columbia, MO, ²USDA - ARS, Columbia, MO

**D3334** Efficacy of insecticides for control of brown marmorated stink bug (*Halyomorpha halys* Stål) nymphs in Ontario. **Kaelyn Hunter** (khunter@mail.uoguelph.ca)¹, Angela Gradish¹, Hannah Fraser², Tara Gariepy³, and Cynthia Scott-Dupree¹, ¹Univ. of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada, ²Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs, Vineland, ON, Canada, ³Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, London, ON, Canada

**D3335** Differential susceptibility of *Riptortus pedestris* (Hemiptera: Alydidae) and its two egg parasitoids to flonicamid. **Naresh Dangi** (frennaresh1@gmail.com) and Un Taek Lim, Andong National Univ., Andong, South Korea

**D3336** Determinants of host use in tachinid parasitoids of stink bugs. **Matthew Duncan** (duncan.89@wright.edu) and John O. Stireman III, Wright State Univ., Dayton, OH

**D3337** Diamide resistance conferred by target-site mutations in the ryanodine receptor of *Plutella xylostella*. **Ewan Richardson** (ewan.richardson@rothamsted.ac.uk)¹, Bartek Troczka¹, T.G. Emyr Davies¹, Martin Williamson¹, Christopher George², Alan Williams², Melanie Scharwey³, and Ralf Nauen³, ¹Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, United Kingdom, ²Cardiff Univ., Cardiff, United Kingdom, ³Bayer CropScience, Monheim, Germany

## Graduate Student Poster Competition: Medical and Veterinary Entomology

### West Hall C (Convention Center)

**D3338** A survey of the relative abundance of mosquitoes in their preferred breeding microhabitats of refuse dumps in Owerri, Imo state, Nigeria. **Chidinma Ikpeama** (chidinmaikpeama2015@gmail.com), Imo State Univ., Owerri, Nigeria

**D3339** How different detritus types and access to detritus affect performance and nutrient stoichiometry of *Aedes albopictus* and *Culex quinquefasciatus*. **James Deerman** (james.deerman@eagles.usm.edu) and Donald Yee, Univ. of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, MS

**D3340** Molecular detection for zoonotic bacteria from ticks (Acari: Ixodidae) in Georgia, USA. **Sarah Duong** (sd03094@georgiasouthern.edu) and Quentin Q. Fang, Georgia Southern Univ., Statesboro, GA
**D3341** Relationship between ixodid tick fauna and its host animals in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan, evaluated by reverse line blot assay. **Tomomi Sato** (entomol@meiji.ac.jp)¹, Haruhiko Isawa², Ryosuke Fujita²,³, Kentaro Itokawa²,³, Toshihiko Hayashi², Takeo Yamauchi⁴, Mamoru Watanabe², Kyo Itoyama¹, and Kyoko Sawabe², ¹Meiji Univ., Kanagawa, Japan, ²National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo, Japan, ³Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development, Tokyo, Japan, ⁴Univ. of Hyogo, Hyogo, Japan

**D3342** Rickettsia parkeri modulates tick superoxide dismutases to survive within the tick vector. **Gary Crispell** (gary.crispell@eagles.usm.edu), Khemraj Budachetri, and Shahid Karim, Univ. of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, MS

**D3343** Investigation of pathogen prevalence and ecological determinants of questing density among lone star ticks in east-central Alabama. **Xiaodi Wang** (xzw0039@tigermail.auburn.edu) and Derrick Mathias, Auburn Univ., Auburn, AL

**D3344** Procurement and persistence of GFP-expressing *Escherichia coli* and *Salmonella typhimurium* in male and female house flies exposed to cattle manure. **Jessica Thomson** (jessiel@ksu.edu)¹, Ludek Zurek¹, and Dana Nayduch², ¹Kansas State Univ., Manhattan, KS, ²USDA - ARS, Manhattan, KS

**D3345** Investigation of correlation between German cockroach (*Blattella germanica*) and medically important pathogens in urban area. **Xueyang Fan** (xf24@njit.edu), New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ

## Graduate Student Poster Competition: Morphology, Systematics, and Phylogeny: Flies, Hemiptera, and Lepidoptera

### West Hall C (Convention Center)

**D3346** Molecular systematics and new species of nearctic *Androprosopa* Mik (Diptera: Thaumaleidae). **Robert J. Pivar** (rpivar@vols.utk.edu)¹, John Moulton¹, and Bradley Sinclair², ¹Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, ²Canadian Food Inspection Agency, Ottawa, ON, Canada

**D3347** Systematic and taxonomic revision of Scandinavian Empidoidea (Insecta: Diptera), with emphasis on the Swedish diversity of Empididae and Hybotidae. **Emma Wahlberg** (emma.wahlberg@nrm.se)¹,², ¹Swedish Museum of Natural History, Stockholm, Sweden, ²Univ. of Stockholm, Stockholm, Sweden

**D3348** Flies that don't fly: The impact of the wingless mutation wg¹ on the thorax morphology of *Drosophila melanogaster*. **Benjamin Fabian** (benjamin.fabian@uni-jena.de) and Katharina Schneeberg, Friedrich Schiller Univ., Jena, Germany

**D3349** Molecular phylogenetics of North American *Rhagoletis* (Diptera: Tephritidae): Monophyly and species group relationships of nearctic taxa. **Daniel Hulbert** (hulbertd@msu.edu) and James Smith, Michigan State Univ., East Lansing, MI

**D3350** Comparative genome analysis of sap-feeding insects of the order Hemiptera. **Rebecca Corkill** (rebecca.corkill@jic.ac.uk)¹, Sam Mugford², Neil Morrison³, and Saskia A. Hogenhout², ¹The John Innes Centre, Norfolk, United Kingdom, ²The John Innes Centre, Norwich, United Kingdom, ³Oxitec, Ltd., Abingdon, United Kingdom

**D3351** The genus *Poecilotoma* Dallas, 1851 (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) in Western Australia. **Eduardo Faundez** (ed.faundez@gmail.com) and David Rider, North Dakota State Univ., Fargo, ND

**D3352** Population structure of glasshouse whitefly, *Trialeurodes vaporariorum* (West.), and molecular identification of their symbionts in the UK. **Ali Kareem** (a.a.kareem@newcastle.ac.uk), Gordon Port, and Kirsten Wolff, Newcastle Univ., Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom

**D3353** Exploring COI variation in Ecuadorian *Hermeuptychia* butterflies: The first step in an integrative approach to resolving species limits in this widely distributed and cryptic genus. **Denise Tan** (denisetsh@ufl.edu) and Keith R. Willmott, Univ. of Florida, Gainesville, FL

**D3354** A preliminary phylogeny of *Eudocima* based on morphological data (Lepidoptera: Erebidae: Calpinae). **Crystal Klem** (cklem@purdue.edu)¹, Alberto Zilli², and Jennifer Zaspel¹, ¹Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN, ²The Natural History Museum, London, United Kingdom

## Graduate Student Poster Competition: Morphology, Systematics, and Phylogeny: Springtails, Beetles, and Hymenoptera

### West Hall C (Convention Center)

**D3355** Taxonomic review of the family Onychiurae (Poduromorpha: Collembola) from the Korean Peninsula. **Inae Lee** (annarium@gmail.com) and Kyung-Hwa Park, Chonbuk National Univ., Jeonju, South Korea

**D3356** Taxonomic revision of the genus *Macrohyliota* (Coleoptera: Silvanidae). **Takahiro Yoshida** (yoshida_toritoma@yahoo.co.jp) and Toshiya Hirowatari, Kyushu Univ., Fukuoka, Japan

**D3357** A preliminary phylogeny of *Edrotes* LeConte (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae). **Christopher Wirth** (christopherwirth@gmail.com), Northern Arizona Univ., Flagstaff, AZ

**D3358** Reconstructing the patterns of diversification in the Neotropical montane bess beetles (Passalalida: Proculini). **Cristian Beza-Beza** (cfbeza@memphis.edu) and Duane D. McKenna, Univ. of Memphis, Memphis, TN

**D3359** Presentation withdrawn

**D3360** Sibling species of *Chrysis ignita* complex: Molecular, morphological, and trophic differentiation of North European species and description of new species (Hymenoptera: Chrysididae). **Svetlana Orlovskyte** (s.orlovskyte@gmail.com)¹, Eduardas Budrys¹,², and Anna Budriene¹, ¹Nature Research Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania, ²Vilnius Univ., Vilnius, Lithuania

**D3361** A revision of the genus *Pristiceros* Gravenhorst from Japan (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae). **Namiki Kikuchi** (namikikikuchi@gmail.com)¹ and Kazuhiko Konishi², ¹Hokkaido Univ., Sapporo, Japan, ²Ehime Univ., Matsuyama, Japan
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**D3362** Taxonomic study of Japanese Teleasini (Hymenoptera: Platygastridae). **Yoto Komeda** (kome123k123@gmail.com)¹, Toshiharu Mita¹, and Kenzo Yamagishi², ¹Kyushu Univ., Fukuoka, Japan, ²Meijo Univ., Nagoya, Japan

## Graduate Student Poster Competition: Physiology and Biochemistry: Moths and Mosquitoes

### West Hall C (Convention Center)

**D3363** *Bombyx mori* superoxide dismutase 1 and 2 play a role as metamorphosis initiator. *Yosui Nojima* (yosui.nojima@gmail.com)¹, Katsuhiko Ito¹, Hidemasa Bono², Takeshi Yokoyama¹, and Hiroko Tabunoki¹, ¹Tokyo Univ. of Agriculture and Technology, Fuchū, Japan, ²Database Center for Life Science, Mishima, Japan

**D3364** *BmorPlip*, a novel candidate gene involved in juvenile hormone biosynthesis in *Bombyx mori*. *Yuri Homma* (yuri.1116.gf@icloud.com)¹, Tetsuro Shinoda², Hiroaki Noda², Kazuei Mita², Yuki Nakamura², Toshiki Namiki², and Toru Togawa¹, ¹Nihon Univ., Tokyo, Japan, ²National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences, Tsukuba, Japan

**D3365** Synthesis of complex-type N-glycans on recombinant proteins produced by silkworm-baculovirus expression system. *Daisuke Morokuma* (d.morokuma@agr.kyushu-u.ac.jp), Hiroaki Mon, JaeMan Lee, and Takahiro Kusakabe, Kyushu Univ., Fukuoka, Japan

**D3366** Ingestion of protein, but not gut distention, triggers vitellogenesis in *Aedes aegypti*. *Ruby Harrison* (reh21923@uga.edu), Michael Strand, and Mark R. Brown, Univ. of Georgia, Athens, GA

**D3367** Cholesterol localization and ecdysteroidogenesis in the mosquito *Aedes aegypti*. *David A. McKinney* (dmckinn7@uga.edu), Michael Strand, and Mark R. Brown, Univ. of Georgia, Athens, GA

**D3368** Yeast digestion in *Aedes aegypti* larvae. *Raquel Souza* (raqsouzarj@gmail.com)¹, Hector Diaz-Albiter¹, Vivian Dillon², Rod Dillon³, and Fernando Genta¹, ¹Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, ²Univ. of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom, ³Lancaster Univ., Lancaster, United Kingdom

**D3369** Identification of proteins interacting physically with the *Aedes aegypti* slimfast (CAT3) amino acid transporter. *Lavesh Bhatia* (lvb1790@nmsu.edu), Hitoshi Tsujimoto, and Immo Hansen, New Mexico State Univ., Las Cruces, NM

**D3370** The role of specific ammonia transporters in ammonia excretion in the blood feeding female mosquito, *Aedes aegypti*. *Andrea Durant* (adurant@yorku.ca) and Andrew Donini, York Univ., Toronto, ON, Canada

## Graduate Student Poster Competition: Physiology and Biochemistry: Physiology

### West Hall C (Convention Center)

**D3371** Insect saliva as the first line of defense against plant defenses. **Loren Rivera Vega** (ljr181@psu.edu) and Gary Felton, Pennsylvania State Univ., University Park, PA

**D3372** Blue light injures insect cells and kills insect organisms. **Shun Onodera** (sprv8tc9@yahoo.co.jp)¹, Kazuki Shibuya¹², Kei Suzuki¹, Hisashi Aso¹, and Masatoshi Hori¹, ¹Tohoku Univ., Sendai, Japan, ²Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Tokyo, Japan

**D3373** Mechanisms of drought-induced rapid cold-hardening in larvae of the goldenrod gall fly, *Eurosta solidaginis*. **J. D. Gantz** (gantzjd@miamioh.edu), Shu-Xia Yi, and Richard E. Lee, Miami Univ., Oxford, OH

**D3374** Characterization of physiological role of potassium ion channels in the arthropod salivary gland. **Zhilin Li** (zhilin.li@agcenter.lsu.edu) and Daniel R. Swale, Louisiana State Univ., Baton Rouge, LA

**D3375** Transposon mutagenesis of gut symbiont *Burkholderia* identified lipoprotein mutant resistant to host salivary gland of bean bug, *Riptortus pedestris*. *Ho Am Jang* (jha0209@naver.com), Eun Sil Seo, Jun Beom Lee, and Bok-Luel Lee, Pusan National Univ., Busan, South Korea

**D3376** The role of PEPCK in insect diapause, development, and stress response. *Drew Spacht* (spacht.2@osu.edu)¹, Nicholas M. Teets², and David L. Denlinger¹, ¹The Ohio State Univ., Columbus, OH, ²Univ. of Kentucky, Lexington, KY

**D3377** The *Toxoneuron nigriceps* polynavirus ANK1 protein induces apoptosis in insect S2 cells and *Heliothis virescens* hemocytes by interacting with Alix protein. **Rosanna Salvia** (r.salvia@unibas.it)¹, Gerarda Grossi¹, Simona Laurino¹, Pietro Pucci², Angela Amoresano², Heiko Vogel³, S. Bradleigh Vinson⁴, Carmen Scieuzo¹, Marisa Nardiello¹, Andrea Scala¹, Marta Petrone¹, Sabino A. Bufo¹, and Patrizia Falabella¹, ¹Univ. of Basilicata, Potenza, Italy, ²CEINGE-Biotecnologie Avanzate, Napoli, Italy, ³Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, Jena, Germany, ⁴Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX

**D3378** Regulation of ecdysteroidogenesis and development in *Heliothis virescens* (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) by the target of rapamycin TOR. *Carmen Scieuzo* (carmen.scieuzo@gmail.com)¹, Marisa Nardiello¹, Rosanna Salvia¹, Simona Laurino¹, Gerarda Grossi¹, Marta Petrone¹, Andrea Scala¹, Marco Pezzi², S. Bradleigh Vinson³, Heiko Vogel⁴, Sabino A. Bufo¹, and Patrizia Falabella¹, ¹Univ. of Basilicata, Potenza, Italy, ²Univ. of Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy, ³Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX, ⁴Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, Jena, Germany

## Poster Session 2: Acarology

### West Hall C (Convention Center)

**D3379** *Ferritin* gene exon/intron structure of the American dog tick, *Dermacentor variabilis*. **Quentin Q. Fang** (qfang@GeorgiaSouthern.edu) and Dana Sylvestre, Georgia Southern Univ., Statesboro, GA

**D3380** Physiological and molecular mechanisms underpinning winter-related stress in the American dog tick, *Dermacentor variabilis*. **Andrew Rosendale** (rosendaw@ucmail.uc.edu) and Joshua Benoit, Univ. of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH
**D3381** Glutathione S-transferase is associated with acequinocyl and bifenazate resistance of twospotted mite, *Tetranychus usticae* (Acari: Tetranychidae). Gil-Hah Kim, Hyun-Na Koo, Hyun Kyung Kim, Wooseong Cho, and **Wonjin Kang** (kwonjin1134@naver.com), Chungbuk National Univ., Cheongju, South Korea

**D3382** Precise molecular diagnostics for miticide resistance in *Tetranychus urticae* on hops. **Mariany Morales** (mariany.morales@wsu.edu)¹, Adekunle Adesanya¹, Bianca Mendoza¹, Christina Nguyen¹, Laura C. Lavine¹, Douglas Walsh², and Fang (Rose) Zhu¹. ¹Washington State Univ., Pullman, WA, ²Washington State Univ., Prosser, WA

**D3383** Effects of two commercial neem-based insecticides on *Amblyomma americanum*: Repellency, mortality, and reproduction. **Allan Showler** (allan.showler@ars.usda.gov), USDA - ARS, Kerrville, TX

**D3384** Adaptations of the mouthparts in Dermanyssina (Acari: Mesostigmata) from predatorism to parasitism. **Antonella Di Palma** (antonella.dipalma@unifg.it), Univ. of Foggia, Foggia, Italy

## Poster Session 2: Bioinformatics and Comparative Genomics of Arthropods

### West Hall C (Convention Center)

**D3385** The i5k Workspace@NAL: New content, new tools, and new insights. **Monica F. Poelchau** (monica-poelchau@ars.usda.gov)¹, Mei-Ju Chen², Yu-Yu Lin², Gary Moore³, Vijaya Tsavatapallii³, and Christopher Childers³. ¹USDA - ARS, Fort Collins, CO, ²National Taiwan Univ., Taipei, Taiwan, ³USDA - ARS, Beltsville, MD

**D3386** *Euroglyphus maynei* genome with comparison to the scabies mite. Dean Rider, Marjorie Morgan, and **Larry G. Arlian** (larry.arlian@wright.edu), Wright State Univ., Dayton, OH

**D3387** Ion Torrent PGM and Illumina HiSeq analysis of the metagenome of *Dermacentor variabilis* (Ixodidae). **Gregory A. Dasch** (GDasch@cdc.gov), T. Brian Shirey, Maria L. Zambrano, Mili Sheth, Zachary C. Holmes, and Amanda J. Williams-Newkirk, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA

**D3388** Integrated modeling of protein-coding genes in the *Manduca sexta* genome using RNA-seq data from the biochemical model insect. **Xiaolong Cao** (xiaolong.cao@okstate.edu) and Haobo Jiang, Oklahoma State Univ., Stillwater, OK

**D3389** miRNAs in multiple developmental stages in western corn rootworm (*Diabrotica virgifera virgifera*) revealed by deep sequencing. **Haichuan Wang** (hwang4@unl.edu)¹, Kan Liu¹, Chi Zhang¹, Arnubio Valencia J², Newton Carneiro³, and Blair Siegfried⁴. ¹Univ. of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE, ²Univ. of Caldas, Manizales, Colombia, ³Embrapa Maze and Sorgham, Sete Lagoas, Brazil, ⁴Univ. of Florida, Gainesville, FL

**D3390** Comparative whole transcriptome analysis of *Locusta migratoria* revealed differences in long-non-coding RNAs between segregation and gregarious phase locusts. **Young Ho Koh** (kohyh@hallym.ac.kr)¹,², Phuong Nguyen¹,², Kwan-Seok Lee³, Jin Kyo Jung⁴, and

A-Young Kim¹, ¹Hallym Univ., Anyang, South Korea, ²Hallym Univ., Chuncheon, South Korea, ³National Academy of Agricultural Science, Suwon, South Korea, ⁴National Institute of Crop Science, Suwon, South Korea

**D3391** *De novo* transcriptome assembly of the screwworm fly, *Cochliomyia hominivorax* (Diptera: Calliphoridae): Perspectives for the identification of chemosensory genes and potential microRNAs targets. **Daniel Paulo** (daniel.f.paulo@gmail.com)¹, Ana Junqueira², and Ana Azeredo-Espin¹, ¹Univ. of Campinas, Campinas, Brazil, ²Nanyang Technological Univ., Singapore, Singapore

**D3392** Gene regulatory networks applied to transcriptome data to detect differences in adaptation to herbivory of two *Spodoptera frugiperda* strains focusing on peptidases. **Natalia Murad** (nataliafmurad@gmail.com)¹, Karina Silva-Brandão², and Marcelo Brandão³, ¹Univ. of Campinas, Campinas, Brazil, ²Univ. of São Paulo, Piracicaba, Brazil, ³Univ. of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada

**D3393** Transcriptomic analysis of odor processing genes in *Leptinotarsa decemlineata*. **Bianca Mendoza** (chimi.mendoza@wsu.edu)¹, Adekunle Adesanya¹, Haichuan Wang², **Mariany Morales**¹, Laura C. Lavine¹, Douglas Walsh³, and Fang (Rose) Zhu¹. ¹Washington State Univ., Pullman, WA, ²Univ. of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE, ³Washington State Univ., Prosser, WA

**D3394** O-GlcNAcPRED: A sensitive predictor to capture protein O-GlcNAcylation sites. **Cangzhi Jia** (cangzhijia@dlmu.edu.cn)¹ and Tian Liu², ¹Dalian Maritime Univ., Dalian, China, ²Dalian Univ. of Technology, Dalian, China

## Poster Session 2: Biological Control and Insect Pathology

### West Hall C (Convention Center)

**D3395** Presentation withdrawn

**D3396** Challenges to mass-rearing predators of hemlock woolly adelgid. **James Parkman** (jparkman@utk.edu), Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN

**D3397** Developing locally adapted factories for the mass production of entomopathogenic nematodes as biocontrol agents against soil insect pests. Hongmei Li¹, Jinghua Chen², Franz Bollhalder³, Ri Un Sil⁴, Kyong Man Son⁴, Song Il Kang⁵, Joelle Kajuga⁶, Nancy Waweru⁶, Richou Han⁷, Yan Xun⁸, Xuehong Qui⁸, Keith A. Holmes⁹, **Michael Zellner** (michael.zellner@lfl.bayern.de)¹⁰, and Stefan Toepfer¹¹, ¹CABI, Beijing, China, ²Lvbenyuan Biotech Company Ltd, Guangzhou, China, ³Andermatt Biocontrol AG, Grossdietwil, Switzerland, ⁴Ministry of Agriculture, Pyongyang, North Korea, ⁵Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Pyongyang, North Korea, ⁶Rwanda Agriculture Board, Huye, Rwanda, ⁷Guangdong Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Guangzhou, China, ⁸Guangdong Institute of Applied Biological Resources, Guangzhou, China, ⁹CABI, Delémont, Switzerland, ¹⁰Bavarian State Research Centre for Agriculture, Freising, Germany, ¹¹Chinese Ministry of Agriculture, Beijing, China
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**D3398** Longevity of adults of the parasitoid *Cotesia flavipes* (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) from Brazilian biofactories.
**Alessandra Marieli Vacari** (amvacari@gmail.com)¹, Vanessa Fabiola Pereira Carvalho¹, Lauany Santos², Thamiris Sipriano¹, Rafael Ferreira Santos¹, and Sergio Antonio De Bortoli¹, ¹São Paulo State Univ., Jaboticabal, Brazil, ²Univ. of São Paulo, Ituverava, Brazil

**D3399** Quality control of *Cotesia flavipes* (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) from different Brazilian biofactories.
**Rafael Ferreira Santos** (rsdosantos.rs@gmail.com)¹, Caroline De Bortoli¹, Josy Santos², Alessandra Marieli Vacari¹, Thamiris Sipriano¹, and Sergio Antonio De Bortoli¹, ¹São Paulo State Univ., Jaboticabal, Brazil, ²Usina São Martinho, Pradópolis, Brazil

**D3400** Presentation withdrawn

**D3401** *Termitolemus marshalli* (Diptera: Calliphoridae), a potential biocontrol agent of mound building termites, *Odontotermes* spp. (Isoptera: Termitidae) in India.
**Sudhir Singh** (sudhirs@icfre.org), Forest Research Institute, Dehradun, India

**D3402** Notes on Northwestern Europe greenhouse pests and biological control. **Janpiet Kaas** (biopre@xs4all.nl), Bio Pre Biological Crop Protection, Aalsmeer, Netherlands

**D3403** Toxicity of commercial pesticides on the green lacewing, *Chrysoperla carnea* (Neuroptera: Chrysopidae).
**YoungSu Lee** (allexton74@gmail.com)¹, HyunJu Lee¹, JaeWoon Chung¹, HeeA Lee¹, and Byeong-Ryeol Choi², ¹Gyeonggi Agricultural Research and Extension Services, Hwasung, South Korea, ²National Institute of Agricultural Science and Technology, Suwon, South Korea

**D3404** Molecular identification and functional response of *Mononeda marginata* (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) to *Hansenia pulverulenta* nymphs (Hemiptera: Flatidae) found in coffee, *Coffea* spp., growing areas of Hidalgo, Mexico. **Joana Meyer** (joanameyerflores@gmail.com) and Samuel Ramirez, Autonomus Univ. of Chapingo, Chapingo, Mexico

**D3405** Flat bark beetle predators of the scolytine pest coffee berry borer in Hawaii coffee. **Peter Follett** (peter.follett@ars.usda.gov)¹, Andrea Kawabata², and Eva Brill¹, ¹USDA - ARS, Hilo, HI, ²Univ. of Hawaii¹, Kealakekua, HI

**D3406** Habitat modification for *Ostrinia nubilalis* IPM in New Jersey peppers. **George C. Condon** (george.condon@rutgers.edu) and George C. Hamilton, Rutgers, The State Univ. of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ

**D3407** Searching behavior of *Coccinella undecimpunctata* (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) and its parasitoid, *Tetrastichus coccinellae* (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae).
**Mona El-Mandarawy** (melmandarawy@gmail.com), Plant Protection Research Institute, Giza, Egypt

**D3408** Conservation biological control of the pear pest *Cacopsylla pyricola* (Homoptera: Psyllidae).
**Kaushalya G. Amarasekare** (kaushalya2641@yahoo.com)¹ and Peter Shearer², ¹Tennessee State Univ., Nashville, TN, ²Oregon State Univ., Hood River, OR

**D3409** Functional characterization of a chemosensory protein in a natural predator, *Chrysopa pallens*, indicates involvement of the protein in prey location. **Chenxi Liu** (liuchenxi@caas.cn), Juan Wang, and Hongyin Chen, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China

**D3410** Biological control based strategies to manage privet whitefly, *Aleurotrachelus trachoides*, in Florida.
**Antonio Francis** (antonio.francis@freshfromflorida.com)¹, Muhammad Ahmed², Vivek Kumar³, Lance Osborne³, and Cindy L. McKenzie⁴, ¹Florida Dept. of Agriculture and Consumer Services, Apopka, FL, ²Univ. of Florida, Homestead, FL, ³Univ. of Florida, Apopka, FL, ⁴USDA - ARS, Ft. Pierce, FL

**D3411** Identification of potential predators of the western corn rootworm in maize fields of west central Nebraska.
**Vinicius Suárez Victor** (vins_victor@hotmail.com)¹, Camila Oliveira-Hofman², Kayla A. Mollet¹, and Julie Peterson¹, ¹Univ. of Nebraska, North Platte, NE, ²Univ. of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE

**D3412** Demographic parameters of parasitoid wasp, *Eretmocerus delhiensis*, on greenhouse whitefly, *Trialeurodes vaporariorum*. **Jafar Ebrahimifar** (jafar.ebrahimi@ut.ac.ir), Arsalan Jamshidnia, and Hossien Allahyari, Univ. of Tehran, Tehran, Iran

**D3413** Thermal requirements of different biotypes of *Telenomus podisi* (Hymenoptera: Platygastridae) in *Oebalus insularis* (Heteroptera: Pentatomidae) eggs. **Bruno Zachrisson** (bazsalam@gmail.com), Pedro Osorio, Onesio Martinez, and Guadalupe Gutierrez, Agricultural Research Institution of Panama, Panama, Panama

**D3414** Biocontrol of the exotic invasive heteropteran, *Halyomorpha* halys in mid-Atlantic USA ornamental landscapes assessed by sentinel egg mass: Negligible impact by native parasitoids and predators.
Mary Cornelius¹, Christine Dieckhoff², Kim A. Hoelmer², Mark Payton³, Richard Olsen⁴, and Matthew Greenstone (matt.greenstone@ars.usda.gov)¹, ¹USDA - ARS, Beltsville, MD, ²USDA - ARS, Newark, DE, ³Oklahoma State Univ., Stillwater, OK, ⁴USDA - ARS, Washington, DC

**D3415** Saving wiliwili trees in Hawaii from the Erythrina gall wasp, *Quadrastichus erythrinae*, with a eurytomid parasitoid, *Eurytoma erythrinae*. **Juliana A. Yalemar** (juliana.a.yalemar@hawaii.gov), Renato C. Bautista, and Mohsen Ramadan, Hawaii Dept. of Agriculture, Honolulu, HI

**D3416** Efficacy of biological control of Asian citrus psyllid in South Texas during 2016. Daniel Flores¹, Rupert Santos¹, Mayra Rangel², Gilbert Salazar², Nicholas Soto², Abel Villarreal³, Ariel Miranda⁴, Jose Urbalejo⁵, Sergio Sanchez⁵, **Christopher Vitek** (christopher.vitek@utrgv.edu)², and Matt A. Ciomperlik¹, ¹USDA - APHIS, Edinburg, TX, ²The Univ. of Texas, Edinburg, TX, ³Texas Citrus Pest and Disease Management Corporation, Edinburg, TX, ⁴USDA - APHIS, Reynosa, Mexico, ⁵USDA - APHIS, Tijuana, Mexico

**D3417** Natural incidence of biological control agents on tarnished plant bugs adults and nymphs from wild host in the Delta. **Maribel Portilla** (maribel.portilla@ars.usda.gov), Randall Luttrell, and Katherine Parys, USDA - ARS, Stoneville, MS
**D3418** Variations in reproductive biology and diapause of two species of egg parasitoids (Hymenoptera: Encyrtidae): Implications for biocontrol of the emerald ash borer. Kristi Larson (klarson@udel.edu)¹,² and Jian Duan¹, ¹USDA - ARS, Newark, DE, ²Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA

**D3419** Parasitism efficacy of three strains of *Cotesia flavipes* from Brazilian biofactories. Thamiris Sipriano¹, Caroline De Bortoli (carubortoli@yahoo.com.br)¹, Lauany Santos², Rafael Ferreira Santos¹, Alessandra Marieli Vacari¹, and Sergio Antonio De Bortoli¹, ¹São Paulo State Univ., Jaboticabal, Brazil, ²Univ. of São Paulo, Ituverava, Brazil

**D3420** Flight activity of the parasitoid *Cotesia flavipes* (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) in different temperatures. Thamiris Sipriano¹, Lauany Santos², Rafael Ferreira Santos¹, Tais Lavagnini³, Alessandra Marieli Vacari¹, and Sergio Antonio De Bortoli (bortoli@fcav.unesp.br)¹, ¹São Paulo State Univ., Jaboticabal, Brazil, ²Univ. of São Paulo, Ituverava, Brazil, ³Usina São Francisco, Sertãozinho, Brazil

**D3421** Potential for integration of classical and conservation biological control of the olive fruit fly. **Livy Williams** (livy.williams@ars.usda.gov)¹, Pauline Deschot², Olivia Pointurier², Michelangelo La Spina³, and Arnaud Blanchet³, ¹USDA - ARS, Charleston, SC, ²Montpellier SupAgro, Montpellier, France, ³USDA - ARS, Montpellier, France

**D3422** Crop seeding manipulation affects densities of the alfalfa weevil, *Hypera postica*, and its introduced parasitoid, *Bathyplectes anurus*. **Kengo Nakahira** (nakahira@agr.kyushu-u.ac.jp), Shun-ichiro Iwase, and Masami Takagi, Kyushu Univ., Fukuoka, Japan

**D3423** Perspectives of *Liriomyza* biological control in Brazil. **Tiago Costa-Lima** (tiago.lima@embrapa.br)¹, Valmir Costa², Marcone César Chagas³, and José R. P. Parra⁴, ¹Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation, Petrolina, Brazil, ²Biological Institute, Campinas, Brazil, ³Agricultural Research Company of Rio Grande do Norte, Parnamirim, Brazil, ⁴Univ. of São Paulo, Piracicaba, Brazil

**D3424** Introduction, pre- and post-release monitoring of the parasitoid *Tamarixia radiata* Pakistan strain (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae) against *Diaphorina citri* (Hemiptera: Psyllidae) in Puerto Rico. **Lesly Colon** (lesly.colon6@gmail.com)¹, Ronald D. Weeks², Aixa Ramirez², and Daniel Sosa¹, ¹Dept. of Agriculture of Puerto Rico, San Juan, PR, ²USDA - APHIS, Raleigh, NC

**D3425** *Diaeretiella rapae* parasitism on cabbage aphid in field cages at Saltillo, Mexico. **Francisco Lopez-Monzon** (flopezmonzon@yahoo.com.mx), Reyna Torres-Acosta, Diego Camacho-Ponce, and Sergio Sanchez-Peña, Antonio Narro Agrarian Autonomous Univ., Saltillo, Mexico

**D3426** Influence of host quality and temperature on the biology of *Diaeretiella rapae* (Hymenoptera: Braconidae). Monique Souza¹ and **Marcus Sampaio** (mvsampaio@iciag.ufu.br)², ¹Louisiana State Univ., Baton Rouge, LA, ²Federal Univ. of Uberlândia, Uberlândia, Brazil

**D3427** Identification of *Helicoverpa armigera* nucleopolyhedrovirus in Brazil. **Victor Hugo Da Costa** (victorhugodc@yahoocom.br)¹, Marcus Soares², Francisco Andrés Rodriguez-Dimate³, José Zanuncio⁴, and Fernando Valicente⁵, ¹Federal Univ. of Lavras, Lavras, Brazil, ²Federal Univ. of Vales do Jequitinhonha e Mucuri, Diamantina, Brazil, ³Federal Univ. of Viçosa, Sete Lagoas, Brazil, ⁴Federal Univ. of Viçosa, Viçosa, Brazil, ⁵Embrapa, Sete Lagoas, Brazil

**D3428** Comparative whole genome analysis of nucleopolyhedroviruses infecting saturniid silkworms by next-generation sequencing. **Jun Kobayashi** (koba-jun@yamaguchi-u.ac.jp)¹, Kuni Sasaki², Zenta Kajiura³, and Keiko Kadono-Okuda⁴, ¹Yamaguchi Univ., Yamaguchi, Japan, ²Tottori Univ., Yamaguchi, Japan, ³Shinshu Univ., Ueda, Japan, ⁴National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences, Tsukuba, Japan

**D3429** *In vivo* production, speed of kill and insecticidal activity of selected isolates of the alphabaculovirus isolated from *Agrotis ipsilon*. **Robert W. Behle** (robert.behle@ars.usda.gov)¹ and Robert L. Harrison², ¹USDA - ARS, Peoria, IL, ²USDA - ARS, Beltsville, MD

**D3430** Combined impacts of viral pathogens and pesticides on bumble bee health. **Diana Cox-Foster** (diana.cox-foster@ars.usda.gov)¹, Courtnee Eddington², and Edwin Rajotte², ¹USDA - ARS, Logan, UT, ²Pennsylvania State Univ., University Park, PA

**D3431** Virulence fails to increase following artificial host shift of sigma virus to *Drosophila simulans*. **Luis F. Matos** (lmatos@ewu.edu)¹, Jérémie Brusini², and Marta Wayne³, ¹Eastern Washington Univ., Cheney, WA, ²Univ. of California, Santa Cruz, CA, ³Univ. of Florida, Gainesville, FL

**D3432** Development of an efficacious, practical, UV protectant formulation for entomopathogenic fungi. **Stefan T. Jaronski** (stefan.jaronski@ars.usda.gov)¹, Katherine Rodgers², and Steve Miller², ¹USDA - ARS, Sidney, MT, ²Ecopesticides International, Sante Fe, NM

**D3433** Effect of *Beauveria bassiana* on population parameters of *Bactrocera dorsalis*. **Zhiping Pan** (zhipingpan@126.com), Guangdong Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Guangzhou, China

**D3434** Quantification, molecular identification, and virulence of endemic *Beauveria bassiana* populations within kudzu soils. **Erika Niland** (eniland@wingate.edu)¹ and Wayne Gardner², ¹Wingate Univ., Wingate, NC, ²Univ. of Georgia, Griffin, GA

**D3435** The effect of *Beauveria bassiana* formulation on *Ips avulsus* and *Dendroctonus frontalis* bark beetles in a loblolly pine bolt assay. **Rabiu Olatinwo** (rolatinwo@fs.fed.us), Steven Walters, and Brian Strom, USDA - Forest Service, Pineville, LA

**D3436** *Metarhizium anisopliae* and *Beauveria bassiana* as pathogens of *Frankliniella invasor* (Thysanoptera: Thripidae), a pest of mango flowers. **Ricardo Toledo-Hernández** (rtoledo@ecosur.edu.mx), José Ortiz, and Daniel Sánchez-Guillén, College of the Southern Border, Tapachula, Mexico
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**D3437** Genetic and epizootiological characterization of naturally-occurring strains of *Beauveria* isolated from coffee berry borer on Hawaii Island. Louela Castrillo¹, *Stephen Wraight* (steve.wraight@ars.usda.gov)², Tracie Matsumoto³, and Lisa Keith³, ¹Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY, ²USDA - ARS, Ithaca, NY, ³USDA - ARS, Hilo, HI

**D3438** *Nomuraea rileyi* (Hypocreales: Clavicipitaceae) has potential for biological control of *Helicoverpa armigera* (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) in Brazil. *Marcus Soares* (*marcusasoares@yahoo.com.br*)¹, Victor Hugo Da Costa², José Zanuncio³, and Fernando Valicente⁴, ¹Federal Univ. of Vales do Jequitinhonha e Mucuri, Diamantina, Brazil, ²Federal Univ. of Lavras, Lavras, Brazil, ³Federal Univ. of Viçosa, Viçosa, Brazil, ⁴Embrapa, Sete Lagoas, Brazil

**D3439** Commercial formulation of acaropathogenic fungus, *Metarhizium anisopliae*, as a possible biocontrol tool for cattle fever ticks. *Jason Tidwell* (jason.tidwell@ars.usda.gov)¹, Don Thomas¹, and Adalberto A. Pérez de León², ¹USDA - ARS, Edinburg, TX, ²USDA - ARS, Kerrville, TX

**D3440** Production of oxalic acid in submerged culture of *Aspergillus niger* F22 strain. *Sang Il Lee* (Isill@wikim.re.kr, haewoong@wikim.re.kr)¹, Keon Jin Lee¹, Sanghyun Ha¹, Hyun Jung Gwak¹, Ae Ri Han¹, Ho Hyun Chun¹, Young Bae Chung¹, Hyeong Hwan Kim², Jin-Cheol Kim³, Teak Soo Shin⁴, and Hae Woong Park¹, ¹World Institute of Kimchi, Gwangju, South Korea, ²National Institute of Horticultural and Herbal Science, Wanju, South Korea, ³Chonnam National Univ., Gwangju, South Korea, ⁴Dongbu Advanced Research Institute, Nonsan, South Korea

**D3441** Analysis of amino acids with crystal proteins of *Bacillus thuringiensis* CAB565 and CAB566 strains. *You-Kyoung Lee* (dldbrud119@hanmail.net), Na-Young Jin, Jun-Hack Jeon, Yu-Seop Kim, Bo-Ram Lee, Hee Ji Kim, Young-Nam Youn, and Yong-Man Yu, Chungnam National Univ., Daejeon, South Korea

**D3442** *Bacillus thurignensis* serovar *aizawai* spray-dried formulations on the insecticidal effect of strain CAB566. *Tae-Wan Kim* (jxforever1@naver.com)¹, Tae-Hwan Kim¹, Young-Nam Youn², and Yong-Man Yu², ¹WooGene B & G Co., Ltd, Gyeonggi, South Korea, ²Chunnam National Univ., Daejeon, South Korea

**D3443** Phylogenetic analysis of insecticidal *Chromobacterium*. *Michael B. Blackburn* (mike.blackburn@ars.usda.gov), Daniel Kuhar, Michael Sparks, Robert R. Farrar, and Dawn E. Gundersen-Rindal, USDA - ARS, Beltsville, MD

**D3444** Insecticidal activity of new isolates of *Chromobacterium* spp. *Robert R. Farrar* (robert.farrar@ars.usda.gov) and Michael B. Blackburn, USDA - ARS, Beltsville, MD

**D3445** Host-level molecular responses to *Chromobacterium subtsugae* infection in a lepidopteran. *Michael Sparks* (michael.sparks@ars.usda.gov), Daniel Kuhar, Robert Farrar, Michael B. Blackburn, and Dawn E. Gundersen-Rindal, USDA - ARS, Beltsville, MD

**D3446** Leap™: A new dual-action, biorational pesticide for plant disease management and insect control. *Russell Eldridge* (russell.eldridge@valentbiosciences.com)¹, Craig Campbell², Gregory Clarke², Fred Marmor², Rick Hopkins², Max Villalobos³, and Bala Devisetty¹, ¹Valent BioSciences Corporation, Libertyville, IL, ²Valent U.S.A., Walnut Creek, CA, ³Sumitomo Chemical Latin America, São Paulo, Brazil

**D3447** Association between *Bacillus thuringiensis* and *Eugenia uniflora* essential oil on *Alphitobius diaperinus* (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae). *Everton Lozano* (evertonloz@gmail.com)¹, Carla Pegorini¹, Michele Potrich¹, Jackeline Lima¹, Rodrigo Maciel¹, Jucelaine Haas¹, and Glayne Vilas Boas², ¹Federal Technology Univ. of Paraná, Dois Vizinhos, Brazil, ²State Univ. of Londrina, Londrina, Brazil

**D3448** Enhancing biological control of the sugarcane borer in Brazil by using *Bacillus thuringiensis* and conserving naturally occurring predators. Odair Aparecido Fernandes¹, Andrea Varella², Lidiane Pavani¹, Marcelo Lontro Júnior¹, Luan dos Santos¹, *Éllen Carbognin* (carbognin@hotmail.com)¹, Rodrigo Rodrigues³, and Diogo Togni³, ¹São Paulo State Univ., Jaboticabal, Brazil, ²Montana State Univ., Bozeman, MT, ³Sumitomo Chemical of Brasil, São Paulo, Brazil

**D3449** Patch allocation manipulation by *Wolbachia* in a parasitic wasp. Hossein Kishani Farahani¹, Ahmad Ashouri¹, *Yasaman Moghaddasi* (ymoghaddassi@ut.ac.ir)¹, Lucy Alford², Jean-Sebastien Pierre², and Joan van Baaren², ¹Univ. of Tehran, Karaj, Iran, ²Univ. of Rennes, Rennes, France

**D3450** Assessment of the efficacy and synergism of entomopathogenic organisms associated with *Zonocerus variegatus*. *Funmilola Omoya* (fomoya@yahoo.com), Federal Univ. of Technology, Akure, Nigeria

**D3451** Survey of *Nosema* spp. in central Texas native bees and feral honey bees, *Apis mellifera*. Forrest Mitchell¹, *Cherilyn Porter* (cherilyn.porter@go.tarleton.edu)², and Jeff Brady¹, ¹Texas A&M Univ., Stephenville, TX, ²Tarleton State Univ., Stephenville, TX

**D3452** Compatibility of *Steinernema feltiae* (Rhabditida: Steinernematida) and *Heterorhabditis* sp. (Rhabditida: Heterorhabditidae) with ciantraniliprole insecticide for the coffee berry borer control. Bruna Guide¹, *Pedro Neves* (pedroneves@uel.br)¹, Matheus Campaner¹, Thiago Fernandes¹, and Viviane Alves², ¹State Univ. of Londrina, Londrina, Brazil, ²State Univ. of Northern Paraná, Cornélios Procópio, Brazil

**D3453** Preferred portal of entry of entomopathogenic nematodes (Steinernematidae, Heterorhabditidae) during the infection process. *Alexandra Roder* (alexandra2310@email.arizona.edu) and S. Patricia Stock, Univ. of Arizona, Tucson, AZ

**D3454** Biological control potential of Korean entomopathogenic nematode isolates against the cabbageworm, *Pieris rapae* (Lepidoptera: Pieridae). *Hae Woong Park* (haewoong@wikim.re.kr)¹, Hyeong Hwan Kim², Dong Hwan Kim², Myoung Rae Cho², Jin-Cheol Kim³, Teak Soo Shin⁴, Sang Il Lee¹, and Jung Beom Yoon², ¹World Institute of Kimchi, Gwangju, South Korea, ²National Institute of Horticultural and Herbal Science, Wanju, South Korea, ³Chonnam National Univ., Gwangju, South Korea, ⁴Dongbu Advanced Research Institute, Nonsan, South Korea
**D3455** Pathogenicity of *Steinernema brazilense* (Rhabditida: Steinernematidae) to Eucalyptus snout beetle, *Gonipterus platensis* (Coleoptera: Curculionidae).
*Silvia Wilcken* (srenata@fca.unesp.br)¹, Andressa Brida¹, Murici Candelaria¹, Luiz Leite², José Zanuncio³, and Carlos Wilcken¹, ¹São Paulo State Univ., Botucatu, Brazil, ²Biological Institute, Campinas, Brazil, ³Federal Univ. of Viçosa, Viçosa, Brazil

**D3456** Successful commercial use of entomopathogenic nematodes: Two case studies. **Shaun Berry** (shaun.berry@basf.com)¹, Mark Peacock¹, Gareth Martin², and Piet van Boven³, ¹BASF, Research Triangle Park, NC, ²BASF, Littlehampton, United Kingdom, ³BASF, Arnhem, Netherlands

**D3457** Mapping and identification of entomopathogenic fungi associated with *Thaumastocoris peregrinus* (Hemiptera: Thaumastocoridae) in *Eucalyptus* plantations. **Everton Soliman** (everton_pires@hotmail.com)¹, Ana Firmino², Natalia Souza³, Thaise Karla Dias⁴, Edival Angelo Zauza¹, and Carlos Wilcken³, ¹Suzano Pulp and Paper, Itapetininga, Brazil, ²São Paulo State Univ., Dracena, Brazil, ³São Paulo State Univ., Botucatu, Brazil, ⁴Federal Univ. of Mato Grosso, Sinop, Brazil

**D3458** Diapause in *Abrostola asclepiadis* (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) may make for an ineffective weed biological control agent. **Lindsey Milbrath** (lindsey.milbrath@ars.usda.gov) and Jeromy Biazzo, USDA - ARS, Ithaca, NY

**D3459** Assessment of the diversity of *Aphthona* flea beetles for biological control of leafy spurge on the prairies.
**Kevin Floate** (kevin.floate@agr.gc.ca)¹, Rob Bourchier¹, Paul Coghlin¹, Bev Dunlop², Dustin Ostrander³, and Laurent LeSage (deceased)⁴, ¹Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Lethbridge, AB, Canada, ²Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Brandon, MB, Canada, ³Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Swift Current, SK, Canada, ⁴Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Ottawa, ON, Canada

**D3460** Release of the planthopper *Megamelus scutellaris* for biological control of water hyacinth in northern California. **Patrick J. Moran** (patrick.moran@ars.usda.gov)¹ and Michael Pitcairn², ¹USDA - ARS, Albany, CA, ²California Dept. of Food and Agriculture, Sacramento, CA

**D3461** The role of Musotiminae stem borers as potential biological control agents of the climbing fern, *Lygodium microphyllum*, in Florida USA. **Matthew Purcell** (matthew.purcell@csiro.au)¹, Jeff Makinson¹, Ryan Zonneveld¹, Bradley Brown¹, Elizabeth Mattison², and Paul Pratt³, ¹CSIRO, Brisbane, Australia, ²USDA - ARS, Ft. Lauderdale, FL, ³USDA - ARS, Albany, CA

**D3462** Evaluating the flight activity of the Comstock mealybug, *Pseudococcus comstocki*, using sex pheromone. **Min Gyu Cho** (inception12@nate.com), Chungnam National Univ., Daejeon, South Korea

**D3463** Regulation of invasive tree-of-heaven, *Ailanthus altissima*, by its native pest, *Eligma narcissus*, from Asia to Europe. **Gene-Sheng Tung** (gall@tfri.gov.tw) and Te-Pin Chang, Taiwan Forestry Research Institute, Taipei, Taiwan

**D3464** Does timing of release matter in early establishment of a galling insect for yellow toadflax biocontrol?
**Rosemarie De Clerck-Floate** (rosemarie.declerck-floate@agr.gc.ca), Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Lethbridge, AB, Canada

**D3465** Diversity of *Encarsia* spp. (Hymenoptera: Aphelinidae) and their hosts on different plant species.
**Antonio Busoli** (acbusoli@fcav.unesp.br) and Roseli Pessoa, São Paulo State Univ., Jaboticabal, Brazil

**D3466** Effects of the psyllid *Arytinnis hakani* on the invasive weed French broom, *Genista monspessulana*, in relation to plant size. **Brian Hogg** (brian.hogg@ars.usda.gov)¹, Patrick J. Moran¹, and Lincoln Smith², ¹USDA - ARS, Albany, CA, ²USDA - ARS, Montferrier-sur-Lez, France

**D3467** Eriophyid mites in weed biological control programs: A review of their host plant specialization and behavior.
**Biljana Vidovic** (magud@agrif.bg.ac.rs)¹, Massimo Cristofaro², Enrico de Lillo³, Hariet Hinz⁴, Francesca Marini⁵, Radmila Petanović¹, Brian G. Rector⁶, Urs Schaffner⁴, Sauro Simoni⁷, Anna Skoracka⁸, and Lincoln Smith⁹, ¹Univ. of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia, ²ENEA, Rome, Italy, ³Univ. of Bari, Bari, Italy, ⁴CABI, Delémont, Switzerland, ⁵Biotechnology and Biological Control Agency, Rome, Italy, ⁶USDA - ARS, Reno, NV, ⁷CREA, Florence, Italy, ⁸Adam Mickiewicz Univ., Poznan, Poland, ⁹USDA - ARS, Montferrier-sur-Lez, France

**D3468** Fundamental host range of *Leptoypha hospita* (Hemiptera: Tingidae), a potential biological control agent of Chinese privet. **James Hanula** (jim.hanula@gmail.com)¹, Scott Horn¹, S. Kristine Braman², Cera Jones³, and Jianghua Sun⁴, ¹USDA - Forest Service, Athens, GA, ²Univ. of Georgia, Griffin, GA, ³Univ. of Georgia, Athens, GA, ⁴Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

**D3469** Engineering transgenic resistance to the four serotypes of dengue virus in *Aedes aegypti*. **Velmurugan Balaraman** (balaramanv@missouri.edu)¹, Jinyin Lin¹, Asher Kantor¹, Hannah Gerlt¹, and Alexander Franz², ¹Univ. of Missouri, Columbia, MO, ²Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO

**D3470** Midgut infection and dissemination of chikungunya virus in *Aedes aegypti*, a detailed analysis.
**Shengzhang Dong** (dongs@missouri.edu)¹, Asher Kantor¹, Jinyin Lin¹, Rollie Clem², Lorena Passarelli², and Alexander Franz², ¹Univ. of Missouri, Columbia, MO, ²Kansas State Univ., Manhattan, KS

## Poster Session 2: Ecology and Population Dynamics

### West Hall C (Convention Center)

**D3471** Comparing probing and feeding behavior of *Bemisia tabaci* (Hemiptera: Aleyrodidae) on tomato plants injected RNAi of *Bemisia tabaci*. Ji-Hyun Min, Jeong Hee Kim, Yong-Man Yu, and **Young-Nam Youn** (youngnam@cnu.ac.kr), Chungnam National Univ., Daejeon, South Korea

**D3472** A short-term exposure to predation affects body elemental content and geotaxis response in *Drosophila melanogaster*. **Indrikis Krams** (indrikis.krams@ut.ee), Tatjana Krama, Giedrius Trakimas, and Ronalds Krams, Daugavpils Univ., Daugavpils, Latvia
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**D3473** Age-related differences in behaviour in the desert locust, *Schistocerca gregaria*. *Rien De Keyser* (rdk7@leicester.ac.uk), Univ. of Leicester, Leicester, United Kingdom

**D3474** Seasonal variability in the lipids of fall armyworm. *Mirian Hay-Roe* (mmhr@ufl.edu)¹, Rodney N. Nagoshi², and Robert L. Meagher², ¹Univ. of Florida, Gainesville, FL, ²USDA - ARS, Gainesville, FL

**D3475** Assessing the flight capabilities of Asian longhorned beetle, *Anoplophora glabripennis* (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae), with computerized flight mills. *Vanessa Lopez* (lopezv@xavier.edu)¹, Mark S. Hoddle², Joseph Francese³, and Ann M. Ray¹, ¹Xavier Univ., Cincinnati, OH, ²Univ. of California, Riverside, CA, ³USDA - APHIS, Buzzards Bay, MA

**D3476** The effect of plant diversity and seasonality on spider community in the tropical dry forest of the Sierra de Huautla Biosfere Reserve, Mexico. *Miguel Menéndez-Acuña* (menendezmigue@gmail.com), Gabriel Flores-Franco, and Efraín Tovar-Sánchez, Autonomous State Univ. of Morelos, Cuernavaca, Mexico

**D3477** Modeling interactions between macroparasites (wasp and fly) and microparasites (*Escovopsis* sp.) within primitive fungus-growing ants (*Apterostigma* sp.) system. *Cely González* (celytg20@gmail.com) and Hermógenes Fernández-Marín, Institute of Research and Scientific Services of Alta Tecnología, Panama, Panama

**D3478** Fungal pathogens diversity on the fungus growing ants *Atta colombica*, *Acromyrmex echinatior*, *Trachymyrmex zeteki* and *Apterostigma* spp. (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of Panama. *Yuliana Christopher* (yulianachristopher83@gmail.com) and Hermógenes Fernández-Marín, Institute of Research and Scientific Services of Alta Tecnología, Panama, Panama

**D3479** Oviposition site selection by *Arhopala bazalus* (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae). *Yukari Mochioka* (sunrise_01745@jcom.home.ne.jp), Motoaki Kinoshita, Hidezumi Ohashi, and Makoto Tokuda, Saga Univ., Saga, Japan

**D3480** Tetrastichinae wasps (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae) associated with *Stenodiplosis* Reuter (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae) in eastern South Dakota. *Juan Manuel Perilla López* (perillalopez.2@wright.edu)¹,², Paul J. Johnson², Zoya Yefremova³, and Arvid Boe², ¹Wright State Univ., Dayton, OH, ²South Dakota State Univ., Brookings, SD, ³Tel Aviv Univ., Tel Aviv, Israel

**D3481** Ecology and evolution of *Asphondylia borrichiae*. *Anthony Rossi* (arossi@unf.edu)¹, and Keith Stokes², ¹Univ. of North Florida, Jacksonville, FL, ²USDA - ARS, Albany, CA

**D3482** Potential consequences of the exploitation of ant-acacia mutualisms by orb-weaver spiders. Anna Ledin and *John D. Styrsky* (styrsky.j@lynchburg.edu), Lynchburg College, Lynchburg, VA

**D3483** Ant foraging pattern influenced by the variation in the attractiveness of extrafloral nectaries. *Eduardo Calixto Soares* (calixtos.edu@gmail.com)¹, Denise Lange², and Kleber Del-Claro², ¹Univ. of São Paulo, Uberlândia, Brazil, ²Federal Univ. of Uberlândia, Uberlândia, Brazil

**D3484** Influence of four fall host plants on overwintering populations of *Lygus lineolaris*. *Katherine Parys* (katherine.parys@ars.usda.gov) and Gordon Snodgrass, USDA - ARS, Stoneville, MS

**D3485** Presentation withdrawn

**D3486** Pheromone trapping as a monitoring tool of brown stink bug, *Euschistus servus*, movement within cotton fields. *Vonny Barlow* (vmbarlow@ucanr.edu), Univ. of California, Blythe, CA

**D3487** Spatial and temporal variation population in commercial flower crops of *Frankliniella occidentalis*. *Jhon Avellaneda* (ecologia@unimilitar.edu.co), Daniel Rodriguez, Stephanie Numa, and Marco Diaz Tapias, Nueva Granada Military University, Cajica, Colombia

**D3488** Spatial variability in infestations of coffee berry borer, *Hypothenemus hampei* (Ferrari), in commercial coffee orchards of Hawaii Island. *Ishakh Pulakkatu-Thodi* (ishakpt@gmail.com)¹, Rosemary Gutierrez², and Mark Wright¹, ¹Univ. of Hawai'i, Honolulu, HI, ²Univ. of Hawai'i, Hilo, HI

**D3489** Multi-species spatio-temporal patterns of oviposition in fruits of *Schoepfia schreberi* J. F. Gmel. (Olacaceae). *Maurilio Lopez* (maulopez@uv.mx)¹, Efren Dominguez², and Francisco Diaz-Fleischer¹, ¹Univ. of Veracruzana, Xalapa, Mexico, ²Inbioteca Univ. of Veracruzana, Xalapa, Mexico

**D3490** Parthenogenesis of leafhopper, *Arboridia okamotonis*, caused by *Wolbachia*? Takuya Kurahashi, Shun Kumashiro, Satoshi Kamitani (kamitani@agr.kyushu-u.ac.jp) and Naomichi Ohara, Kyushu Univ., Fukuoka, Japan

**D3491** Parameter estimation for a temperature-dependent development model and an oviposition model of turnip aphid, *Lipaphis erysimi* Kaltenbach, on cabbage. *Soon Hwa Kwon* (shkwon@jejunu.ac.kr), Sung Oh Oh, and Dong-Soon Kim, Jeju National Univ., Jeju, South Korea

## Poster Session 2: Entomological Effects of Global Warming in Agriculture and Medical Entomology

### West Hall C (Convention Center)

**D3492** Effects of climate change on the efficiency of *Bacillus thuringiensis*. *Naiema Gorashi* (naiemaeltayeb@yahoo.com), National Centre for Research, Khartoum, Sudan

**D3493** Highly efficient site-specific mutagenesis in malaria mosquitoes. *Ming Li* (ming.li@ucr.edu) and Bradley White, Univ. of California, Riverside, CA

**D3494** Establishment and changes in the distribution of the leafminer fly, *Liriomyza huidobrensis* (Blanchard), in response to climate change forecast through spatial phenology modeling and GIS risk mapping. *Norma Mujica* (nmujica@cgiar.org), Jürgen Kroschel, and Pablo Carhuapoma, International Potato Center, Lima, Peru
## Poster Session 2: Insect-Plant Interactions in a Changing Climate

### West Hall C (Convention Center)

**D3495** Spatial synchrony analysis for the convergence of the distribution model of the pests and the crop. **Jung-Joon Park** (jungpark@gnu.ac.kr)¹, Dong-Soon Kim², and Kijong Cho³, ¹Gyeongsang National Univ., Jinju, South Korea, ²Jeju National Univ., Cheju, South Korea, ³Korea Univ., Seoul, South Korea

**D3496** A six-year study of bee (Apoidea) diversity and abundance in Georgia apple orchards during significantly different apple bloom periods. **Mark Schlueter** (mschluet@ggc.edu) and Nicholas Stewart, Georgia Gwinnett College, Lawrenceville, GA

**D3497** *Xylocopa varipuncta* and *X. virginica virginica* (Apidae) pierce nectarless *Hemerocallis* (Xanthorrhoeaceae) flowers from which *X. varipuncta* obtains cell fluid. **Edward Barrows** (barrowse@georgetown.edu), Georgetown Univ., Washington, DC

**D3498** Development of some molecular and biochemical markers associated with tolerance to insect attacks in sugar beet, *Beta vulgaris*. İbrahim El-Hawary¹, Aysam Fayed², Sobhy Hamed (sobhy_hamed@yahoo.com)¹, Ahmed Bassyouny³, and Nahed N. A. El-Mahalawy⁴, ¹Tanta Univ., Tanta, Egypt, ²Univ. of Sadat City, Sadat City, Egypt, ³Sugar Crops Research Institute, Sakha, Egypt, ⁴Agricultural Research Center, Sakha, Egypt

**D3499** A study on the host plant and the oviposition of *Ricania shantungensis* (Hemiptera: Ricaniidae) in Jeonbuk Province, Korea. **Su-Ji Jang** (jsjfeel88@korea.kr), Jeollabuk-do Agricultural Research and Extension Services, Iksan, South Korea

**D3500** Functional relationships between geometrid larval density, crown defoliation, NDVI, and accumulated tree damage in a subarctic birch forest. **Malin Ek** (malin.ek@uit.no)¹, Jane Jepsen², Ole-Petter Vindstad¹, and Rolf Ims¹, ¹Arctic Univ. of Norway, Tromsø, Norway, ²Norwegian Institute for Nature Research, Tromsø, Norway

**D3501** Effects of white cabbage and broccoli hybrids on the life history traits of the cabbage moth, *Mamestra brassicae* (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae). **Tatiana Popova** (popovatatyana2016@yandex.ru) and Zieu Hoang, Russian Timiryazev State Agrarian Univ., Moscow, Russia

**D3502** Cotton fleahopper, *Pseudatomoscelis seriatus*, omnivory. **Loriann Garcia** (lgarcia@austincollege.edu), Austin College, Sherman, TX

**D3503** Transcriptome responses in maize-western corn rootworm interaction: A two-way approach. **Saumik Basu** (saumbios@gmail.com) and Joe Louis, Univ. of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE

**D3504** Multivariate analysis to assess potential oviposition and larval preferences of Monarch butterflies, *Danaus plexippus*, on roadside milkweeds. **Royce Bitzer** (mariposa@iastate.edu)¹, Teresa Blader¹, Sue Blodgett¹, and Richard Hellmich², ¹Iowa State Univ., Ames, IA, ²USDA - ARS, Ames, IA

**D3505** Greenhouse whitefly, *Trialeurodes vaporariorum* (Hemiptera: Aleyrodidae), interaction and the water stress effect. **Jaime Verdugo** (jverdugo@utalca.cl)¹, Francisca González-Klenner², Marta Albornoz³, Germán Ávila-Sakar⁴, and Eugenio López L.², ¹Univ. of Talca, Talca, Chile, ²Pontifical Catholic Univ., Quillota, Chile, ³Regional Center of Innovative Hurticulture of Valparaíso, Quillota, Chile, ⁴Univ. of Winnipeg, Winnipeg, MB, Canada

**D3506** Host specialization of bryophagous insect: Analysis of key factors. **Petr Pyszko** (pyszko.petr@gmail.com), Katerina Kuravova, Sarka Grucmanova, Martin Sigut, Petr Kocarek, Vitezslav Plasek, and Pavel Drozd, Univ. of Ostrava, Ostrava, Czech Republic

## Symposium: Avocados, Blueberries, and Olives: Pests of Small Fruit in Florida

### Room W223 A (Convention Center)

**Moderators and Organizers:** Jennifer Gillett-Kaufman¹ and Sandra A. Allan², ¹Univ. of Florida, Gainesville, FL, ²USDA - ARS, Gainesville, FL

9:15 **1123** Presentation withdrawn

9:30 **1124** Overview of key pests and potential invasive species in Florida blueberries. **Oscar Liburd** (oeliburd@ufl.edu), Univ. of Florida, Gainesville, FL

9:45 **1125** Pests and fungal organisms identified on olives (*Olea europaea*) in Florida. **Morgan Byron** (maconn00@ufl.edu)¹, Jennifer Gillett-Kaufman¹, and Sandra A. Allan², ¹Univ. of Florida, Gainesville, FL, ²USDA - ARS, Gainesville, FL

10:00 **1126** Avocado pests in Florida: Not what you expected. **Octavio Menocal** (omenocal@ufl.edu)¹, Rita E. Duncan¹, Jonathan H. Crane¹, Randy Ploetz¹, Paul E. Kendra², and Daniel Carrillo¹, ¹Univ. of Florida, Homestead, FL, ²USDA - ARS, Miami, FL

### 10:15 BREAK

10:30 **1127** Caribbean fruit fly (Diptera: Tephritidae) and small fruit in Florida. **Nancy D. Epsky** (nancy.epsky@ars.usda.gov) and Paul E. Kendra, USDA - ARS, Miami, FL

10:45 **1128** Strawberry pests in Florida: Learning from the past and predicting future pest problems. **Justin Renkema** (justin.renkema@ufl.edu), Univ. of Florida, Wimauma, FL

11:00 **1129** Management of native and introduced pollinators of small fruit in Florida. **Charles Stuhl** (charles.stuhl@ars.usda.gov), USDA - ARS, Gainesville, FL

11:15 **1130** Scale pests of small fruit in Florida: Native, introduced, and potential pests of concern. **Ian Stocks** (ian.stocks@freshfromflorida.com), Florida Dept. of Agriculture and Consumer Services, Gainesville, FL

11:30 Citrus pests on olives in Florida: Should we be worried? Sandy Allan¹ and **Jennifer Gillett-Kaufman** (gillett@ufl.edu)², ¹USDA - ARS, Gainesville, FL, ²Univ. of Florida, Gainesville, FL

11:45 **1132** Drones and strawberry production: New directions for Florida small fruit pest scouting. **Christopher Crockett** (crockettcd@ufl.edu), Univ. of Florida, Gainesville, FL

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## Symposium: Innovative Responses to the Global Homogenization of Plantation Pests

### Room W331D (Convention Center)

**Moderators and Organizers:** Brett Hurley¹, Timothy Paine², and Simon Lawson³. ¹Univ. of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa, ²Univ. of California, Riverside, CA, ³Univ. of the Sunshine Coast, Sippy Downs, Australia

9:15 **1133** Integrated approaches for managing forestry pests: Risks and benefits. **Timothy Paine** (timothy.paine@ucr.edu), Univ. of California, Riverside, CA

9:45 **1134** New technologies for surveying forest insect pests. **Andrea Battisti** (andrea.battisti@unipd.it), Univ. of Padova, Legnaro, Italy

10:00 **1135** Impact of cryptic diversity and misidentifications in managing invasions. **Jeff Garnas** (jeff.garnas@up.ac.za), Michael Wingfield, and Bernard Slippers, Univ. of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa

10:15 **BREAK**

10:30 **1136** Biological control of eucalypt pests: Benefits of diverse collaboration. **Simon Lawson** (slawson@usc.edu.au)¹, Manon Griffiths², Helen Nahrung¹, and Madaline Healey¹, ¹Univ. of the Sunshine Coast, Sippy Downs, Australia, ²Dept. of Agriculture and Fisheries, Dutton Park, Australia

10:45 **1137** Use of chemical and visual cues for plantation pest surveillance and monitoring. **Gonzalo Martinez** (gmartinez@tb.inia.org.uy) and Demian Gomez, National Institute of Agricultural Research, Tacuarembó, Uruguay

11:00 **1138** Microbial agents as endophytes to protect plants. **Thu Pham** (phamquangthu@vafs.gov.vn), Dinh Vu, and Binh Le, Vietnamese Academy of Forest Sciences, Hanoi, Vietnam

9:45

Lisa Lumley³,⁴,⁶, Felix Sperling², Nikoleta Juretic⁷, Ken Dewar⁷, Roger Levesque⁴, and Michel Cusson³,⁴, ¹Univ. of Campinas, Campinas, Brazil, ²Univ. of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada, ³Natural Resources Canada, Québec City, QC, Canada, ⁴Univ. Laval, Québec City, QC, Canada, ⁵Natural Resources Canada, Sault Ste. Marie, ON, Canada, ⁶Royal Alberta Museum, Edmonton, AB, Canada, ⁷McGill Univ., Montréal, QC, Canada

**1141** A genotyping-by-sequencing (GBS) linkage map for *Choristoneura fumiferana* and assessment of its synteny with the *Bombyx* genome. **Sandrine Picq** (sandrine.picq@gmail.com)¹,², Jérôme Laroche¹, Lisa Lumley¹,²,³, Bryan Brunet⁴, Esther Pouliot², Brian Boyle¹, Felix Sperling⁴, Roger Levesque¹, and Michel Cusson¹,², ¹Univ. Laval, Québec City, QC, Canada, ²Natural Resources Canada, Québec City, QC, Canada, ³Royal Alberta Museum, Edmonton, AB, Canada, ⁴Univ. of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada

10:00

**1142** Population genetic structure of the spruce budworm (*Choristoneura fumiferana*) across North America: Are SNP markers valuable for the detection of migrants? **Lisa Lumley** (lisa.lumley@hotmail.com)¹,²,³, Esther Pouliot², Gwylim Blackburn⁴, Bryan Brunet⁴, Brian Boyle³, Felix Sperling⁴, and Michel Cusson²,³, ¹Royal Alberta Museum, Edmonton, AB, Canada, ²Natural Resources Canada, Québec City, QC, Canada, ³Univ. Laval, Québec City, QC, Canada, ⁴Univ. of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada

10:15

**BREAK**

10:30

**1143** Phylogeny and species delimitation of the spruce budworm group: A historical perspective. **Felix Sperling** (felix.sperling@ualberta.ca)¹, Julian Dupuis¹, Giovanny Fagua¹, Bryan Brunet¹, Gwylim Blackburn¹, Heather Leibel¹, Lisa Lumley²,³,⁴, Brian Boyle², Roger Levesque², and Michel Cusson²,⁴, ¹Univ. of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada, ²Univ. Laval, Québec City, QC, Canada, ³Royal Alberta Museum, Edmonton, AB, Canada, ⁴Natural Resources Canada, Québec City, QC, Canada

10:45

**1144** Divergence with gene flow among incipient *Choristoneura* species: A landscape genomic comparative analysis. **Gwylim Blackburn** (gwylim.blackburn@gmail.com)¹, Bryan Brunet¹, Lisa Lumley²,³,⁴, Kevin Muirhead¹, and Felix Sperling¹, ¹Univ. of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada, ²Univ. Laval, Québec City, QC, Canada, ³Royal Alberta Museum, Edmonton, AB, Canada, ⁴Natural Resources Canada, Québec City, QC, Canada

11:00

**1145** Using spatial genomics to distinguish drivers of outbreak synchrony in an irruptive forest insect pest. **Patrick James** (patrick.ma.james@gmail.com)¹, Colin Garroway¹, Bryan Brunet², Michel Cusson³,⁴, Robert Johns⁵, and Lisa Lumley³,⁴,⁶, ¹Univ. of Montréal, Montréal, QC, Canada, ²Univ. of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada, ³Univ. Laval, Québec City, QC, Canada, ⁴Natural Resources Canada, Québec City, QC, Canada, ⁵Natural Resources Canada, Fredericton, NB, Canada, ⁶Royal Alberta Museum, Edmonton, AB, Canada

## Symposium: Spruce Budworm Genomics: From Basic Science to Outbreak Management

### Room W340A (Convention Center)

**Moderator and Organizer:** Michel Cusson, Natural Resources Canada, Québec City, QC, Canada

9:15 **1139** Getting through the winter without protective clothing: Insights from the spruce budworm genome. **Daniel Doucet¹, Catherine Béliveau², Brian Boyle³, Jérôme Laroche³, Ken Dewar⁴, Nikoleta Juretic⁴, Jessica Wasserscheid⁴, Lisa Lumley⁵, Felix Sperling⁶, Roger Levesque³, and Michel Cusson** (michel.cusson@canada.ca)²,³, ¹Natural Resources Canada, Sault Ste. Marie, ON, Canada, ²Natural Resources Canada, Québec City, QC, Canada, ³Univ. Laval, Québec City, QC, Canada, ⁴McGill Univ., Montréal, QC, Canada, ⁵Royal Alberta Museum, Edmonton, AB, Canada, ⁶Univ. of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada

9:30 **1140** The spruce budworm transcriptome and its use in identifying the molecular and endocrine correlates of early instar diapause. **Marcelo Brandão** (brandao.marcelo@gmail.com)¹,², Catherine Béliveau³, Brian Boyle⁴, Daniel Doucet⁵, Fayuan Wen⁵,
Symposium: Biocontrol and Induced Plant Defences: A Tale of Three Trophic Levels

Room W230 C (Convention Center)

**Moderators and Organizers:** Geoff Gurr¹ and Olivia Reynolds²,
¹Charles Sturt Univ., Orange, Australia, ²New South Wales Dept. of
Primary Industries, Menangle, Australia

9:15 **1146** Plant defence induction and priming for conservation biological control of phytophagous insect pests by parasitoids. **John Pickett** (john.pickett@rothamsted.ac.uk), Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, United Kingdom

9:45 **1147** Mycorrhiza-induced plant defense and mediated tritrophic interactions. **Rensen Zeng** (rszeng@scau.edu.cn) and YuanYuan Song, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry Univ., Fuzhou, China

10:15 **BREAK**

10:30 **1148** Enhancing biological control of a root pest: Responses of entomopathogenic nematodes to chemical defenses of the western corn rootworm. **Angela Koehler** (angela.koehler@unine.ch)¹, Christelle Robert², Matthias Erb², and Ted Turlings¹, ¹Univ. of Neuchâtel, Neuchâtel, Switzerland, ²Univ. of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

10:45 **1149** Silicon-augmented resistance of plants: Bi- and tri-trophic effects. **Olivia Reynolds** (olivia.reynolds@dpi.nsw.gov.au)¹ and Geoffrey Gurr²,³, ¹New South Wales Dept. of Primary Industries, Menangle, Australia, ²Fujian Agriculture & Forestry Univ., Fuzhou, China, ³Charles Sturt Univ., Orange, Australia

11:00 **1150** Volatile-mediated tritrophic interactions and biological control. **Jian Liu** (liujianwh@gmail.com)¹, Olivia Reynolds², Pengjun Zhang³, Liwei Han¹, Jinhong Wu¹, Rensen Zeng¹, and Geoffrey Gurr¹,⁴, ¹Fujian Agriculture & Forestry Univ., Fuzhou, China, ²New South Wales Dept. of Primary Industries, Menangle, Australia, ³Jiliang Univ., Hangzhou, China, ⁴Charles Sturt Univ., Orange, Australia

11:15 **1151** Chemistry of the invasive weed *Echium plantagineum*: Effects on arthropods. **Saiful Z. Jamil** (sfzaimi@gmail.com)¹, Leslie A. Weston², Paul A. Weston², and Geoffrey Gurr¹, ¹Charles Sturt Univ., Orange, Australia, ²Charles Sturt Univ., Wagga Wagga, Australia

11:30 **1152** Co-occurring herbivore guilds compromise aphid biocontrol: Evidence from natural and true field experiments. **Carmen K. Blubaugh** (carmen.blubaugh@wsu.edu) and William E. Snyder, Washington State Univ., Pullman, WA

Symposium: Parasitoid Assemblages in
Agroecosystems: Environmental Drivers
Affecting Biocontrol

Room W231 A (Convention Center)

**Moderators and Organizers:** Blas Lavandero¹ and Michael Traugott², ¹Univ. of Talca, Talca, Chile, ²Univ. of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria

9:15 **1153** Effect of management and landscape context on the interactions between predators and parasitoids in wheat fields. **Blas Lavandero** (blavandero@utalca.cl)¹, Sebastián Ortiz-Martinez¹, and Lucie Raymond², ¹Univ. of Talca, Talca, Chile, ²French National Centre for Science, Paris, France

9:30 **1154** Influence of landscape complexity on trophic interactions among primary and secondary parasitoids of the English grain aphid. **Sebastián Ortiz-Martínez** (sebastianortizmartinez@gmail.com) and Blas Lavandero, Univ. of Talca, Talca, Chile

9:45 **1155** Understanding effects of fertilization management on aphid-parasitoid-endosymbiont networks. **Oskar Rubbmark** (oskar.rubbmark@uibk.ac.at)¹, Zhengpei Ye¹, Ines Vollhardt², Daniela Sint¹, Romina Reinpold¹, Nadia Parth¹, and Michael Traugott¹, ¹Univ. of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria, ²Georg August Univ., Göttingen, Germany

10:00 **1156** Disentangling aphid food webs gives the key to biologically control *Aphis spiracola* in citrus. **Alejandro Tena** (atena@ivia.es), Francesc Gómez-Marco, and Alberto Urbaneja, Valenciano Institue of Agarian Research, Moncada, Spain

10:15 **BREAK**

10:30 **1157** Parasitoid interactions from crop and non-crop resources. **Manuel Plantegenest** (manuel.plantegenest@agrocampus-ouest.fr)¹ and Stephane Derocles², ¹Agrocampus-Ouest, Rennes, France, ²Univ. of Rennes, Rennes, France

10:45 **1158** Keeping pest populations lower for longer: Connecting farms and natural systems. **Vesna Gagic** (vesna.gagic@slu.se)¹ and Nancy Schellhorn², ¹CSIRO, Brisbane, Australia, ²CSIRO, Dutton Park, Australia

11:00 **1159** Ecological filters driving life-history traits in a guild of insect parasitoids. **Joan van Baaren** (joan.van-baaren@univ-rennes1.fr)¹, Yannick Outreman², Thiago Oliveira Andrade¹, Philippe Louâpre³, and Cyrille Violle⁴, ¹Univ. of Rennes, Rennes, France, ²Agrocampus-Ouest, Rennes, France, ³Univ. of Bourgogne, Dijon, France, ⁴National Center for Scientific Research, Montpellier, France

11:15 **1160** Physiological status of parasitoids affecting host selection. **Maria Velasco Hernández** (totli23@hotmail.com)¹, Nicolas Desneux², and Ricardo Ramirez-Romero³, ¹Univ. of Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico, ²INRA, Sophia Antipolis, France, ³Central Univ. of Biological Science and Agriculture, Guadalajara, Mexico

11:30 **1161** Parasitoid host range, establishment success, and biological control efficacy. **Joe Kaser** (kaser008@umn.edu) and George Heimpel, Univ. of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN
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11:45 **1162** An innovative isotopic method to track the exploitation of trophic resources by parasitoids in the field. **Bruno Jaloux** (bruno.jaloux@agrocampus-ouest.fr)¹ and Manuel Plantegenest², ¹Agrocampus-Ouest, Angers, France, ²Agrocampus-Ouest, Rennes, France

12:00 **1163** Assessing parasitoid assemblages in agro-ecosystems: What do molecular approaches offer? **Michael Traugott** (michael.traugott@uibk.ac.at)¹, Zhengpei Ye¹, and Ines Vollhardt², ¹Univ. of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria, ²Georg August Univ., Göttingen, Germany

# Symposium: Climate Change: Preventing the Spread of Invasive Species in Agriculture

## Room W230 A (Convention Center)

**Moderators and Organizers:** Alvin M. Simmons¹, Andrew Cuthbertson², and Jesusa C. Legaspi³, ¹USDA - ARS, Charleston, SC, ²Fera Science Ltd., York, United Kingdom, ³USDA - ARS, Tallahassee, FL

9:15 **1164** Modeling the effects of climate on the infestation patterns of a migratory crop pest insect. **Rodney N. Nagoshi** (rodney.nagoshi@ars.usda.gov)¹, John Westbrook², Robert L. Meagher¹, and Shelby J. Fleischer³, ¹USDA - ARS, Gainesville, FL, ²USDA - ARS, College Station, TX, ³Pennsylvania State Univ., University Park, PA

9:30 **1165** *Bemisia tabaci* – preventing a global pest from establishing in the UK. **Andrew G. S. Cuthbertson** (andrew.cuthbertson@fera.co.uk), Fera Science, Ltd., York, United Kingdom

9:45 **1166** Comparison of temperature effects on three *Bemisia tabaci* parasitoids. Zhan He¹, Fang Dang¹, Ze-Yun Fan¹, Andrew G. S. Cuthbertson², Shun-Xiang Ren¹, and **Bao-Li Qiu** (baileyqiu@scau.edu.cn)¹, ¹South China Agricultural Univ., Guangdong, China, ²Fera Science Ltd., York, United Kingdom

10:00 **1167** Agent-based model for simulation of Asian citrus psyllid spread across different landscapes. **Weiqi Luo** (weiqi.luo@ars.usda.gov) and Tim Gottwald, USDA - ARS, Ft. Pierce, FL

10:15 **BREAK**

10:30 **1168** Climate changes and biological pest control: From tri-trophic interactions to geographical distribution. **Moshe Coll** (moshe.coll@mail.huji.ac.il)¹, Tarryn Schuldiner-Harpaz¹, and Lesley Hughes², ¹The Hebrew Univ., Rehovot, Israel, ²Macquarie Univ., Sydney, Australia

10:45 **1169** Insect-proofing Fortress Ireland. **Archie Murchie** (archie.murchie@afbini.gov.uk)¹, Stephen Jess¹, and Rachel Wisdom², ¹Agri-Food and Biosciences Institute, Belfast, United Kingdom, ²Dept. of Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Kildare, Ireland

11:00 **1170** Effect of climate change on *Bemisia tabaci* in southeast USA. **Alvin M. Simmons** (alvin.simmons@ars.usda.gov), USDA - ARS, Charleston, SC

# Symposium: Entomological Issues Beyond Borders: Challenges and Opportunities for Sustainable Solutions

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

**Moderators and Organizers:** Suhas Vyavhare¹, M. O. Way², Raul Medina³, and Juliana Rangel³, ¹Texas A&M AgriLife Research, Beaumont, TX, ²Texas A&M Univ., Beaumont, TX, ³Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX

9:15 **1171** Agricultural intensification, crop protection technology, and the challenge of resistance management. **George Kennedy** (george_kennedy@ncsu.edu) and Anders Huseth, North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC

9:45 **1172** Prospects of egg-killing defensive traits for sustainable crop protection. **Antonino Cusumano** (cusumanoantonino@unipa.it)¹, Stefano Colazza², and Nina Fatouros³, ¹Wageningen Univ. and Research Centre, Wageningen, Netherlands, ²Univ. of Palermo, Palermo, Italy, ³Freie Univ., Berlin, Germany

10:00 **1173** The use of best management practices for optimizing sustainable corn rootworm management programs. **Shannon Morsello** (shannon.morsello@syngenta.com)¹ and Tony Burd², ¹Syngenta, Greensboro, NC, ²Syngenta Crop Protection, Research Triangle Park, NC

10:15 **BREAK**

10:30 **1174** From Mexico, Switzerland, and the USA, the effects of early induction on the performance of the seeds and fruit predators, changing the physiological state of the seeds and fruits. **Johnattan Hernández-Cumplido** (johnattan.hernandez@unine.ch)¹, Betty Berney², and Cesar Rodriguez³, ¹Rutgers, The State Univ. of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ, ²Univ. of Neuchâtel, Neuchâtel, Switzerland, ³Rutgers, The State Univ. of New Jersey, Chatsworth, NJ

10:45 **1175** *Nezara viridula* (L.) – an agricultural pest without borders. **Jesus F. Esquivel** (jesus.esquivel@ars.usda.gov)¹, J. E. McPherson², Jocelia Grazia³, Jeremy Greene⁴, Walker A. Jones⁵, Robert M. McPherson⁶, Dmitry Musolin⁷, Wolfgang Rabitsch⁸, Cristiano Schwertner⁹, and Michael Toews⁶, ¹USDA - ARS, College Station, TX, ²Southern Illinois Univ., Carbondale, IL, ³Federal Univ. of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil, ⁴Clemson Univ., Blackville, SC, ⁵USDA - ARS, Stoneville, MS, ⁶Univ. of Georgia, Tifton, GA, ⁷Saint Petersburg State Forest Technical Univ., St. Petersburg, Russia, ⁸Environmental Agency Austria, Vienna, Austria, ⁹Federal Univ. of São Paulo, Diadema, Brazil

11:00 **1176** Invasive species, globalization, and climate change: Challenges and solutions? **George Roderick** (roderick@berkeley.edu), Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA

11:30 **1177** Pest management challenges in managed honey bees (*Apis mellifera*) in the southern United States. Lauren Ward¹, Juliana Rangel¹ and **Meghan Milbrath** (mpi@msu.edu)², ¹Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, ²Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI
11:45 **1178** Development of an early detection system for exotic honey bee species and novel pests. **Mark Dykes** (mdykes@tamu.edu)¹, Mary Reed², and Bill Baxter², ¹Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX, ²Texas Apiary Inspection Service, College Station, TX

**Symposium: Microbial Modulation of Insect Immunity**

Room W331 B (Convention Center)

**Moderators and Organizers:** Elizabeth McGraw¹ and Kerry M. Oliver², ¹Monash Univ., Melbourne, Australia, ²Univ. of Georgia, Athens, GA

9:15 **1179** Insects' little helpers: Symbiont-produced secondary metabolites for pathogen defense. **Martin Kaltenpoth** (mkaltenpoth@ice.mpg.de), Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, Jena, Germany

9:45 **1180** Mechanism of symbiont-mediated defense against parasitic nematodes. **Steve J. Perlman** (stevep@uvic.ca) and Phineas Hamilton, Univ. of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada

10:15 **BREAK**

10:30 **1181** Symbiont-based protection against parasitoids in aphids. **Kerry M. Oliver** (kmoliver@uga.edu), Stephanie Weldon, and Adam J. Martinez, Univ. of Georgia, Athens, GA

10:45 **1182** The impact of the bee gut microbiota on plant secondary compound conversion, and its potential role in modulating susceptibility to parasites. **Hauke Koch** (hauke.koch@utexas.edu), The Univ. of Texas, Austin, TX

11:00 **1183** Transcriptomics of the *Spiroplasma* defense against parasitoids of *Drosophila*. **Mariana Mateos** (mmateos@tamu.edu)¹, Victor Higareda-Alvear², and Esperanza Martínez-Romero², ¹Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX, ²National Autonomous Univ. of México, Cuernavaca, Mexico

11:15 **1184** On *Wolbachia*, immunity and pathogen blocking. **Elizabeth McGraw** (beth.mcgraw@monash.edu), Monash Univ., Melbourne, Australia

11:30 **1185** The bacterium *Wolbachia* exploits host innate immunity to establish a symbiotic relationship with the dengue vector mosquito *Aedes aegypti*. **Xiaoling Pan** (xpan@msu.edu)¹, Andrew Pike¹, Deepak Joshi¹, Guowu Bian¹, Michael McFadden¹, Peng Lu¹, Fengrui Zhang¹, Xiao Liang¹, Zhiyong Xi¹, and Alexander Raikhel², ¹Michigan State Univ., East Lansing, MI, ²Univ. of California, Riverside, CA

**Symposium: Reproductive Interference and its Applications**

Room W224 G (Convention Center)

**Moderators and Organizers:** Noriyuki Suzuki¹ and Norikuni Kumano², ¹Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA, ²Obihiro Univ. of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine, Obihiro, Japan

9:15 **1186** Satyrization and satyrization-resistance in competitive displacements of invasive mosquito species. **Irka E. Bargielowski** (irka@ufl.edu), Univ. of Florida, Vero Beach, FL

9:30 **1187** Causes and consequences of reproductive interference between two closely related insect species. **Jennifer Hamel** (jhamel2@elon.edu)¹ and Christine W. Miller², ¹Elon Univ., Elon, NC, ²Univ. of Florida, Gainesville, FL

9:45 **1188** Conspecific sperm precedence does not work as a barrier against reproductive interference. **Noriyuki Suzuki** (fvgnoriyuki@gmail.com), Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA

10:00 **1189** Noisy neighbors can hamper the evolution of reproductive isolation by reinforcing selection. **Daniel Matute** (dmatute@email.unc.edu), Univ. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC

10:15 **BREAK**

10:30 **1190** Sperm marking using the trace element rubidium to improve the monitoring of the sterile sperm usage in the sterile insect technique. **Norikuni Kumano** (nrkumano@obihiro.ac.jp)¹,², Kiyohito Teruya², Kaori Tsurui³, and Tetsuya Toyosato²,⁴, ¹Obihiro Univ. of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine, Obihiro, Japan, ²Okinawa Prefectural Plant Protection Center, Naha, Japan, ³Univ. of the Ryukyus, Nishihara, Japan, ⁴Ryukyu-Sankei Co. Ltd., Naha, Japan

10:45 **1191** Suppression and eradication of invasive pest species using reproductive interference with congeneric sterilized species. **Atsushi Honma** (honma.tetrix@gmail.com), Univ. of the Ryukyus, Okinawa, Japan

11:00 **Discussion**

**Symposium: Unmanned Aerial Systems (Drones) for Precision Mosquito Control and Agricultural Use**

Room W315 B (Convention Center)

**Moderators and Organizers:** Ary Faraji¹, Randy Gaugler², and Greg Williams³, ¹Salt Lake City Mosquito Abatement District, Salt Lake City, UT, ²Rutgers, The State Univ. of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ, ³Hudson County Mosquito Control, Jersey City, NJ

9:15 **1192** Project PREMONITION: Autonomous systems for emerging infectious disease surveillance. **Ethan Jackson** (ejackson@microsoft.com)¹ and Douglas E. Norris², ¹Microsoft, Redmond, WA, ²Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD

9:45 **1193** Unmanned aerial systems for vector surveillance and control. **Greg Williams** (gwilliams@hudsonregionalhealth.org)¹, Randy Gaugler², Ary Faraji³, and Scott Crans², ¹Hudson County Mosquito Control, Jersey City, NJ, ²Rutgers, The State Univ. of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ, ³Salt Lake City Mosquito Abatement District, Salt Lake City, UT

10:00 **1194** Optimizing surveillance protocols in cropping systems using unmanned aircraft systems. **Brian McCormack** (bmccornack@gmail.com) and Travis Balthazor, Kansas State Univ., Manhattan, KS

10:15 **BREAK**
10:30 **1195** Remote scouting of insects in agricultural systems. Ian MacRae (imacrae@umn.edu)¹, Robert Koch², Tim Baker¹, and Zach Marston³, ¹Univ. of Minnesota, Crookston, MN, ²Minnesota Dept. of Agriculture, St. Paul, MN, ³Univ. of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN

10:45 **1196** Remote piloted aircraft: Operational surveillance and application technology. Bill Reynolds (breynolds@leateam.com), Leading Edge Associates, Inc., Fletcher, NC

## Symposium: Genomic and Genetic Strategies Toward Integrated Pest Management

### Room W315 A (Convention Center)

**Moderators and Organizers:** Fang (Rose) Zhu and Laura C. Lavine, Washington State Univ., Pullman, WA

9:15 **1197** Enabling technologies for next generation pest management. Subba Reddy Palli (rpalli@uky.edu), Univ. of Kentucky, Lexington, KY

9:30 **1198** Genome maps to complement genome sequence. Susan Brown (sjbrown@k-state.edu), Kansas State Univ., Manhattan, KS

9:45 **1199** Potential of RNAi-based transgenic maize for locust management. Enbo Ma (maenbo2003@sxu.edu. cn), Daqi Li, and Jianzhen Zhang, Shanxi Univ., Taiyuan, China

10:00 **1200** Insects and their viruses originated small RNAs as potential insecticidal molecules. Raj Bhatnagar (raj@icgeb.res.in), Bindiya Sachdev, and Naresh Arora, International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, New Delhi, India

10:15 **BREAK**

10:30 **1201** Insecticide resistance: Impact, mechanisms, and research directions. Nannan Liu (liunann@auburn.edu), Auburn Univ., Auburn, AL

10:45 **1202** Use of RNAi to validate genes involved in insecticide tolerance as a proactive resistance monitoring strategy. John Clark (jclark@vasci.umass.edu), Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA

11:00 **1203** Interaction of Anopheles mosquito with a maternally inherited Wolbachia symbiont and its potential use in malaria control. Deepak Joshi (djoshi. email@yahoo.com), Zhiyong Xi, Xiaoling Pan, Michael McFadden, David Bevins, Xiao Liang, and Peng Lu, Michigan State Univ., East Lansing, MI

11:15 **1204** Termite translational genomics and development of pest management technology. Michael E. Scharf (mscharf@purdue.edu), Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN

11:30 **1205** Colony collapse in termites — disruption of social homeostasis using behavioral genomics toolsets. Xuguo Zhou (xuguozhou@uky.edu), Univ. of Kentucky, Lexington, KY

11:45 **1206** Different pathogenicities of Rice stripe virus from the insect vector and from viruliferous plants. Feng Cui (cuif@ioz.ac.cn), Wan Zhao, Pengcheng Yang, and Le Kang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

## Symposium: Genetic Architecture of Species Differences

### Room W414 B (Convention Center)

**Moderator and Organizer:** Jürgen Gadau, Arizona State Univ., Tempe, AZ

9:15 **1207** The genetics of male-female coevolution of communication behaviors. Kerry Shaw and Mingzi Xu (mx52@cornell.edu), Cornell University, Ithaca, NY

9:45 **1208** Transcriptional plasticity and host specific trade-offs in larval performance along the *Rhagoletis* speciation continuum. Gregory Ragland¹,², Kristin Almskaar³, Kim Vertacnik³,⁴, Harlan Gough³, Jeffrey Feder², Daniel Hahn⁵, and Dietmar Schwarz (dietmar.schwarz@wwu.edu)³, ¹Kansas State Univ., Manhattan, KS, ²Univ. of Notre Dame, South Bend, IN, ³Western Washington Univ., Bellingham, WA, ⁴Univ. of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, ⁵Univ. of Florida, Gainesville, FL

10:15 **BREAK**

10:30 **1209** Aggression and allele specific expression in hybrid honey bees. Joshua Gibson (gibson85@purdue. edu)¹, Greg Hunt¹, Miguel E. Areichavaleta-Velasco², and Jennifer M. Tsuruda³, ¹Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN, ²National Institute of Forestry, Agriculture and Livestock, Ajuchitlan, Mexico, ³Univ. of California, Davis, CA

10:45 **1210** The genetics of species differences in the *Drosophila virilis* group. Yasir Ahmed (yahmed2@ ur.rochester.edu), Univ. of Rochester, Rochester, NY

11:00 **1211** Genetic differences between social parasites and their hosts. Jürgen Gadau (jgadau@asu.edu)¹, Chris R. Smith², Sara Helms Cahan³, Seán Brady⁴, Erich Bornberg-Bauer⁵, Martin Helmkampf¹, Andrew Suarez⁶, and Alexander Mikheyev⁷, ¹Arizona State Univ., Tempe, AZ, ²Earlham College, Richmond, IN, ³Univ. of Vermont, Burlington, VT, ⁴Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History, Washington, DC, ⁵Univ. of Münster, Münster, Germany, ⁶Univ. of Illinois, Champaign, IL, ⁷Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, Onna, Japan

11:15 **1212** Recruitment and evolution of parasitoid wasp venoms. Ellen Martinson (e.martinson@rochester.edu), Univ. of Rochester, Rochester, NY

## Symposium: Cross-Continental Patterns of Chemical Communication Among Subcortical Insects

### Room W330 A (Convention Center)

**Moderators and Organizers:** Kamal Gandhi¹, Christiane Helbig², and Michael Müller², ¹Univ. of Georgia, Athens, GA, ²Technical Univ., Tharandt, Germany

9:15 **1213** Multi-trophic semiochemical interactions within the pine beetle guild in the southern U.S. Kamal Gandhi (kjgandhi@uga.edu)¹, Jenny Staeben¹, Daniel Miller², and John Nowak³, ¹Univ. of Georgia, Athens, GA, ²USDA - Forest Service, Athens, GA, ³USDA - Forest Service, Asheville, NC

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9:45 **1214** Why is there so much variation among semiochemical systems of aggressive bark beetles? **Brian T. Sullivan** (briansullivan@fs.fed.us)¹, Alicia Niño-Domínguez², Amanda Grady³, Richard Hofstetter⁴, and Deepa Pureswaran⁵, ¹USDA - Forest Service, Pineville, LA, ²College of the Souther Border, Tapachula, Mexico, ³USDA - Forest Service, Flagstaff, AZ, ⁴Northern Arizona Univ., Flagstaff, AZ, ⁵Natural Resources Canada, Québec City, QC, Canada

10:00 **1215** Use of allochthonous kairomones for nature-based management of bark beetles. **Michael Müller** (michael.mueller@tu-dresden.de)¹ and Michael Wehnert², ¹Technical Univ., Tharandt, Germany, ²East German Society of Forest Planning mbH, Kesselsdorf, Germany

10:15 **BREAK**

10:30 **1216** Attraction of bark and woodboring insects to loblolly pines as based on tree health. **Christiane Helbig** (chr.helbig@web.de)¹, David Coyle², Kier Klepzig³, John Nowak³, and Kamal Gandhi², ¹Technical Univ., Tharandt, Germany, ²Univ. of Georgia, Athens, GA, ³USDA - Forest Service, Asheville, NC

10:45 **1217** Modification of the action of semiochemicals by altered conditions due to climate change. **Stefan Schütz** (stefan.schuetz@forst.uni-goettingen.de), Georg August Univ., Göttingen, Germany

11:00 **Discussion**

## Symposium: Worldwide Use of Kairomones to Enhance Management of Tortricids in Fruit Crops: New Opportunities and New Problems

### Room W330 C (Convention Center)

**Moderators and Organizers:** Alan L. Knight¹ and Peter Witzgall², ¹USDA - ARS, Wapato, WA, ²Swedish Univ. of Agricultural Sciences, Alnarp, Sweden

9:15 **1218** Codling moth and pear ester: The kairomone paradigm for pest management. **Douglas Light** (doug.light@ars.usda.gov), USDA - ARS, Albany, CA

9:30 **1219** Does acetic acid finally give us the focus for following female tortricids? **Alan L. Knight** (alan.knight@ars.usda.gov), USDA - ARS, Wapato, WA

9:45 **1220** Potential of herbivore-induced volatiles as attractants for leaf-feeding tortricids. **Valentino Giacomuzzi** (valentino.giacomuzzi@natec.unibz.it) and Sergio Angeli, Freie Univ., Bolzano, Italy

10:00 **1221** Boosting bisexual moth catches of oriental fruit moth in sex pheromone-treated orchards. **Eduardo Fuentes-Contreras** (efuentes@utalca.cl)¹, Liliana Cichón², Esteban Basoalto³, Wilson Barros-Parada¹, and Alan L. Knight⁴, ¹Univ. of Talca, Talca, Chile, ²INTA, General Roca, Argentina, ³Austral Univ., Valdivia, Chile, ⁴USDA - ARS, Wapato, WA

10:15 **BREAK**

10:30 **1222** Plant and microbial volatiles as potential behaviour modifying chemicals for the grapevine moth, **Lobesia botrana**. **Marco Tasin** (marco.tasin@slu.se), Swedish Univ. of Agricultural Sciences, Alnarp, Sweden

10:45 **1223** Integrating kairomonal tools into a codling moth area-wide SIT program. **Gary Judd** (gary.judd@agr.gc.ca), Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Summerland, BC, Canada

11:00 **1224** Whole transcriptome analysis and functional characterization of chemosensory receptors in the codling moth, **Cydia pomonella**. **William B. Walker** (william.b.walker.iii@slu.se), Swedish Univ. of Agricultural Sciences, Alnarp, Sweden

11:15 **1225** Similarities of microbial and plant-based cues as tortricid attractants. **Peter Witzgall** (peter.witzgall@ice3.se), Swedish Univ. of Agricultural Sciences, Alnarp, Sweden

## Symposium: Wound Healing and Damage Signals in Insects

### Room W330 B (Convention Center)

**Moderators and Organizers:** Ulrich Theopold¹ and Will Wood², ¹Stockholm Univ., Stockholm, Sweden, ²Univ. of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom

9:15 **1226** Epigenetic regulation of wound closure in **Drosophila** larvae. **Michael Galko** (mjgalko@mdanderson.org) and Aimee Anderson, The Univ. of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX

9:30 **1227** Taranis protects regenerating tissue from fate changes induced by the wound response in **Drosophila**. **Rachel Smith-Bolton** (rsbolton@illinois.edu) and Keaton Schuster, Univ. of Illinois, Champaign, IL

9:45 **1228** Epidermal wound response and **Drosophila** genetics. **Michelle Juarez** (mjuarez@med.cuny.edu), City College of New York, New York, NY

10:00 **1229** Basement membrane secretion, assembly, and fibrotic misassembly in **Drosophila melanogaster**. **Jose Pastor-Pareja** (jose.pastor@biomed.tsinghua.edu.cn), Tsinghua Univ., Beijing, China

10:15 **BREAK**

10:30 **1230** Presentation withdrawn

10:45 **1231** Blood cell migration during inflammation, wounding, and infection. **Will Wood** (w.wood@bristol.ac.uk), Univ. of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom

11:00 **1232** Nucleotide metabolism and danger signals. **Michal Zurovec** (zurovec@entu.cas.cz), Czech Academy of Sciences, České Budějovice, Czech Republic

11:15 **1233** The *Drosophila* chitinase-like protein IDGF3 is involved in protection against nematodes and wound healing. **Ulrich Theopold** (uli.theopold@su.se)¹, Lucie Kucerová¹, Badrul Arefin¹, Michal Zurovec², ¹Stockholm Univ., Stockholm, Sweden, ²Czech Academy of Sciences, České Budějovice, Czech Republic
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Symposium: Insect-Plant Interactions in a
Changing Arctic

Room W224 F (Convention Center)

**Moderator and Organizer:** Ashley Asmus, The Univ. of Texas, Arlington, TX

9:15 **1234** Characterizing the responses and roles of mosquitoes in a rapidly changing Arctic.
**Lauren E. Culler** (leculler@gmail.com)¹, Toke Høye², Alex Stendahl¹, David Polashenski¹, Angie Spickard¹, Matthew Ayres¹, and Ross Virginia¹, ¹Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, ²Aarhus Univ., Rønde, Denmark

9:30 **1235** High spatial variation in terrestrial arthropod species diversity and composition near the Greenland ice cap. **Rikke Hansen** (rrh@bios.au.dk)¹, Oskar Hansen¹, Joseph Bowden¹, Signe Normand¹, Christian Bay¹, Jesper Sørensen¹, and Toke Høye², ¹Aarhus Univ., Aarhus, Denmark, ²Aarhus Univ., Rønde, Denmark

9:45 **1236** Plant reproduction and the role of pollinators near poleward range margins. **Christine Urbanowicz** (christine.m.urbanowicz.gr@dartmouth.edu)¹ and Rebecca E. Irwin², ¹Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, ²North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC

10:00 **1237** Arthropod food web collapse following an insect herbivore outbreak in Arctic tundra. **Ashley Asmus** (ashley.asmus@gmail.com)¹, Rikke Hansen², Oskar Hansen², Katrine Raundrup², Josephine Nymand³, and Peter Aastrup², ¹The Univ. of Texas, Arlington, TX, ²Aarhus Univ., Aarhus, Denmark, ³Greenland Institute of Natural Resources, Nuuk, Greenland

10:15 BREAK

10:30 **1238** High-Arctic butterflies become smaller with rising temperatures. **Joseph Bowden** (joey.bowden@gmail.com)¹, Anne Eskildsen¹, Rikke Hansen¹, Kent Olsen¹, Carolyn Kurle², and Toke Høye³, ¹Aarhus Univ., Aarhus, Denmark, ²Univ. of California, La Jolla, CA, ³Aarhus Univ., Rønde, Denmark

10:45 **1239** Mobile arthropods link ecologically disparate habitats in Arctic ecosystems. **Jamin Dreyer** (jamin.dreyer@gmail.com)¹, David Hoekman², Claudio Gratton³, Hilary Bultman³, Ejgil Gravesen⁴, and James D. Harwood¹, ¹Univ. of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, ²Southern Nararene Univ., Bethany, OK, ³Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, ⁴Greenland Institute of Natural Resources, Nuuk, Greenland

11:00 **1240** History and future of the Kenelm W. Philip Lepidoptera Collection. **Kathryn Daly** (kmdaly@alaska.edu) and Derek S. Sikes, Univ. of Alaska, Fairbanks, AK

11:15 **1241** Measuring invertebrate herbivory in tundra. **Isabel Barrio** (icbarrio@gmail.com), Univ. of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland

11:30 **1242** Distributed experiments as the ultimate challenge for ecology and ecologists. **Tomas Roslin** (tomas.roslin@helsinki.fi)¹,² and Bess Hardwick, ¹Univ. of Helsinki, Helsinkiki, Finland, ²Swedish Univ. of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden

Symposium: Insect-Plant Interactions in a
Changing Climate

Room W222 A (Convention Center)

**Moderator and Organizer:** Bonnie Pendleton, West Texas A&M Univ., Canyon, TX

9:15 **1243** Climate change and crop production. **B. A. Stewart** (bstewart@wtamu.edu), West Texas A&M Univ., Canyon, TX

9:45 **1244** Temperature-dependent feeding behavior of *Halyomorpha halys* and implications for crop damage. **Nik G. Wiman** (nik.wiman@oregonstate.edu), Oregon State Univ., Aurora, OR

10:00 **1245** Lipid, phytohormone, and the resistance of wheat to Hessian fly under heat stress. **Lieceng Zhu** (Izhu@uncfsu.edu), Fayetteville State Univ., Fayetteville, NC

10:15 BREAK

10:30 **1246** Interactions between drought stress and the use of neonicotinoids can lead to banks grass mite outbreaks in corn. Alice Ruckert and **Ricardo Ramirez** (ricardo.ramirez@usu.edu), Utah State Univ., Logan, UT

10:45 **1247** The effects of urbanization on insect herbivores and their street tree hosts. **Adam Dale** (agdale2@ncsu.edu) and Steven Frank, North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC

11:00 **1248** Hot in the city: Insect pests and the future of warmer urban trees. **Emily K. Meineke** (ekmeinek@ncsu.edu), Elsa Youngsteadt, Rob R. Dunn, and Steven Frank, North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC

Symposium: Biological Control under Climate
Change (IOBC)

Room W222 B (Convention Center)

**Moderators and Organizers:** Jianqing Ding and Xinmin Lu, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, China

9:15 **1249** Predicting the impacts of biological control agents under climate change. **Evan Siemann** (siemann@rice.edu)¹, James Henriksen¹, Xinmin Lu², and Jianqing Ding², ¹Rice Univ., Houston, TX, ²Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, China

9:45 **1250** Conservation biological control of arthropod pests under a changing climate. **Klaus Birkhofer** (klaus.birkhofer@biol.lu.se), Lund Univ., Lund, Sweden

10:15 BREAK

10:30 **1251** Potential benefits and risks of the ragweed beetle under climate change. **Heinz Müller-Schärer** (heinz.mueller@unifr.ch)¹, Yan Sun¹, Urs Schaffner², and S.T.E. Lommen¹, ¹Univ. of Fribourg, Fribourg, Switzerland, ²CABI, Delémont, Switzerland

10:45 **1252** Climate warming increases non-target effects of a biocontrol agent on a native species. **Xinmin Lu** (lxm3412@wbgcas.cn)¹, Jianqing Ding¹, Evan Siemann², Minyan He³, Hui Wei³, and Xu Shao³, ¹Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, China, ²Rice Univ., Houston, TX, ³Wuhan Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, China
11:00 **1253** Can forests take the heat? Managing pests and ecosystem services in a warming climate.
**Steven D. Frank** (steven_frank@ncsu.edu), North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC

11:15 **1254** Demographic and population changes in insects under climate warming: Implications for biological control.
**Chunsen Ma** (machunsen@caas.cn)¹ and **Gang Ma**², ¹Institute of Plant Protection, Beijing, China, ²Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China

11:30 **1255** Quantifying the risk of synchronization loss between natural enemies and their hosts under climate change.
**Guy Boivin** (boiving@agr.gc.ca)¹, **Jacques Brodeur**², and **Gaétan Bourgeois**³, ¹Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Québec, QC, Canada, ²Univ. of Montréal, Montréal, QC, Canada, ³Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, QC, Canada

11:45 **1256** Climate change and biological control: The challenges for island nations.
**Pip Gerard** (pip.gerard@agresearch.co.nz), AgResearch Ltd, Hamilton, New Zealand

12:00 **1257** Predicted European range of potential ragweed biocontrol agents.
**Yan Sun** (yan.sun@unifr.ch)¹, **Heinz Müller-Schärer**¹, **Brönnimann Olivier**², **George Roderick**³, and **Alexander Poltavsky**⁴, ¹Univ. of Fribourg, Fribourg, Switzerland, ²Univ. of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland, ³Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA, ⁴Southern Federal Univ., Russia

12:15 **1258** Thermal stress effects on herbivores and their predators: Implications for biological control.
**Arnaud Sentis** (arnaud.sentis@gmail.com)¹, **Jacques Brodeur**², **David S Boukal**³, and **Jean-Louis Hemptinne**⁴, ¹Univ. of Toulouse, Toulouse, France, ²Univ. of Montréal, Montréal, QC, Canada, ³Univ. of South Bohemia, České Budějovice, Czech Republic, ⁴Univ. of Toulouse, Castanet-Tolosan, France

## Symposium: Bt Crops and Best Management Practices: Influence on the Technology Durability

### West Hall F1 (WF1) (Convention Center)

**Moderators and Organizers:** Antonio C. Santos and Dwain M. Rule, Dow AgroSciences, Indianapolis, IN

9:15 **1259** Bt crops and best management practices: Influence on the technology durability.
**Antonio C. Santos** (acsantos1@dow.com), Dow AgroSciences, Indianapolis, IN

9:45 **1260** Corn rootworm management: Current status and best management practices implementation in North America.
**Dwain M. Rule** (ddrule@dow.com), Dow AgroSciences, Indianapolis, IN

### 10:15 BREAK

10:30 **1261** Bt soybean IPM in Brazil: Current and future implications for IRM on the main pests.
**Renato A. de Carvalho** (renato.a.carvalho@monsanto.com)¹, **Patrick Dourado**¹, **Samuel Martinelli**², and **Graham P. Head**², ¹Monsanto of Brasil Ltda., São Paulo, Brazil, ²Monsanto Company, St. Louis, MO

10:45 **1262** Resistance characterization of *Spodoptera frugiperda* (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) to the Vip3Aa20 protein from *Bacillus thuringiensis* and its impact on IRM strategy.
**Julio Fatoretto** (julio.fatoretto@syngenta.com)¹, ¹Oderlei Bernardi², ¹Daniel Bernardi², ¹Renato Horikoshi², ¹Daniela Okuma², ¹Leonardo Miraldo², ¹Tony Burd³, ¹Fernanda Medeiros¹, and ¹Celso Omoto², ¹Syngenta Crop Protection, São Paulo, Brazil, ²Univ. of São Paulo, Piracicaba, Brazil, ³Syngenta Crop Protection, Research Triangle Park, NC

11:00 **1263** Excellence through stewardship: Resistance management and the global industry commitment.
**Boris A. Castro** (bacastro@dow.com)¹, ¹Nicholas Storer¹, and ¹Ana Correa², ¹Dow AgroSciences, Indianapolis, IN, ²Dow AgroSciences, Ribeirão Preto, Brazil

11:15 **1264** Bt cotton: Current and future products and implications on IRM.
**Geraldo Papa** (gpapa@bio.feis.unesp.br), São Paulo State Univ., Ilha Solteira, Brazil

## Symposium: Challenges and Opportunities for Management of Western Corn Rootworm

### Room W414 A (Convention Center)

**Moderators and Organizers:** Aaron Gassmann¹, Lance Meinke², and Matthew Carroll³, ¹Iowa State Univ., Ames, IA, ²Univ. of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE, ³Monsanto Company, St. Louis, MO

9:15 **1265** A former extension entomologist's look in the rear-view mirror at the potholes of western corn rootworm mismanagement: Will the road ahead be smoother?
**Michael Gray** (megray@illinois.edu), Univ. of Illinois, Champaign, IL

9:45 **1266** Selection of resistance in western corn rootworm to Cry3Bb1, mCry3a, eCry3.1Ab, and Cry34/35Ab1 transgenic corn: Variations in traits in the laboratory and the field.
**Bruce Hibbard** (bruce.hibbard@ars.usda.gov)¹, ¹Dalton Ludwick², ¹Lisa Meihls¹, ¹Jennifer Dietloff³, and ¹Aaron Gassmann⁴, ¹USDA - ARS, Columbia, MO, ²Univ. of Missouri, Columbia, MO, ³Lock Haven Univ., Lock Haven, PA, ⁴Iowa State Univ., Ames, IA

10:00 **1267** Field-evolved resistance to Bt maize by western corn rootworm.
**Aaron J. Gassmann** (aaronjg@iastate.edu)¹, ¹Eric H. Clifton¹, ¹John Doudna¹, ¹Mike W. Dunbar², ¹Amanda Hoffmann¹, ¹David A. Ingber¹, ¹Siva R. K. Jakka¹, ¹Ryan S. Keweshan¹, ¹Kenneth E. Masloski¹, ¹Aubrey Paolino¹, ¹Jennifer L. Petzold-Maxwell¹, ¹Ram Shrestha¹, and ¹Coy St. Clair¹, ¹Iowa State Univ., Ames, IA, ²South Dakota State Univ., Brookings, SD

### 10:15 BREAK

10:30 **1268** Evolution and mechanisms of rootworm resistance to Cry3Bb1 maize.
**Nicholas Miller** (millern@uic.edu)¹, ¹Gérald Bermond¹, ¹Leslie Rault², ¹Haichuan Wang², ¹Blair Siegfried³, ¹Lance Meinke², ¹Simon Baxter⁴, ¹Aaron J. Gassmann⁵, and ¹Bruce Hibbard⁶, ¹Univ. of Illinois, Chicago, IL, ²Univ. of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE, ³Univ. of Florida, Gainesville, FL, ⁴Univ. of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia, ⁵Iowa State Univ., Ames, IA, ⁶USDA - ARS, Columbia, MO
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10:45 **1269** Evidence of pyrethroid resistance evolution in western corn rootworm populations from the western U.S. Corn Belt. **Lance Meinke** (Imeinke1@unl.edu)¹, Adriano Pereira¹, Dariane Souza¹, John Wang¹, Blair Siegfried², Nicholas Miller³, Sarah Zukoff⁴, and Julie Peterson⁵, ¹Univ. of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE, ²Univ. of Florida, Gainesville, FL, ³Univ. of Illinois, Chicago, IL, ⁴Kansas State Univ., Manhattan, KS, ⁵Univ. of Nebraska, North Platte, NE

11:00 **1270** Optimizing the use of entomopathogenic nematodes for a better control of corn rootworm larvae. **Stefan Toepfer** (stoepfer@gmx.net)¹, Ralf-Udo Ehlers², Michael Zellner³, and Ulrich Kuhlmann⁴, ¹Chinese Ministry of Agriculture, Beijing, China, ²e-nema, Schwentimental, Germany, ³Bavarian State Research Centre for Agriculture, Freising, Germany, ⁴CABI, Delémont, Switzerland

11:15 **1271** To resist or not to resist? An insect dilemma serving western corn rootworm integrated pest management on Bt maize. **Ivan Hiltpold** (i.hiltpold@uws.edu.au)¹ and Bruce Hibbard², ¹Univ. of Western Sydney, Penrith, Australia, ²USDA - ARS, Columbia, MO

11:30 **1272** Novel application methods of beneficial organisms against *Diabrotica virgifera virgifera*. **Geoffrey Jaffuel** (geoffrey.jaffuel@unine.ch)¹, Nicola Imperiali², Christoph Keel³, Kent S. Shelby⁴, Bruce Hibbard⁴, Raquel Campos-Herrera⁵, and Ted Turlings¹, ¹Univ. of Neuchâtel, Neuchâtel, Switzerland, ²Univ. of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland, ³Agroscope, Zürich, Switzerland, ⁴USDA - ARS, Columbia, MO, ⁵Center for Biological Resources and Food Mediterranean, Faro, Portugal

11:45 **1273** Opportunities for integration: Perspectives on industry integrating resistance management into IPM. **Clinton D. Pilcher** (clint.pilcher@pioneer.com), J. Lindsey Flexner, and Amit Sethi, DuPont Pioneer, Johnston, IA

12:00 **1274** RNAi strategies to address corn rootworm control challenges. **William Moar** (william.moar@monsanto.com), Paula A. Price, Chitvan Khajuria, Sean Evans, Alan Willse, Matthew Carroll, and Graham P. Head, Monsanto Company, St. Louis, MO

9:45 **1277** Monitoring the spread of *T. absoluta* using a multi-layered network based modeling framework. **Ahijin Adiga** (abhijin@vbi.vt.edu), Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State Univ., Blacksburg, VA

10:00 **1278** The role of human mobility and infrastructures in pest and disease modeling. **Madhav Marathe** (mmarathe@vbi.vt.edu), Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State Univ., Blacksburg, VA

10:15 **BREAK**

10:30 **1279** Status of current and proposed regulatory responses by USDA - APHIS to the threat of tomato leaf miner (*Tuta absoluta* Meyrick) invasion into the United States. **Joseph Vorgetts** (joseph.l.vorgetts@aphis.usda.gov)¹, Julieta Brambila², Devaiah A. Muruvanda¹, and Amy L. Roda³, ¹USDA - APHIS, Riverdale, MD, ²USDA - APHIS, Gainesville, FL, ³USDA - APHIS, Miami, FL

10:45 **1280** *Tuta absoluta* in Central Asia. **Harry Bottenberg** (hbottenberg@usaid.gov), USAID, Washington, DC

11:00 **1281** *Tuta absoluta* in India. **R. Asokan** (r_asokan@ihr.ernet.in)¹, V. Sridhar¹, S. Venugopalan¹, and Yenumula. Prasad², ¹Indian Institute of Horticultural Research, Bangalore, India, ²Agricultural Technology Application Research Institute, Hyderabad, India

11:15 **1282** *Tuta absoluta* in North Africa and the Near East. **Homam Bekheet Homam** (homambekheet@gmail.com)¹ and Shoki Al-Dobai², ¹Plant Protection Research Institute, Giza, Egypt, ²Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Cairo, Egypt

11:30 **1283** Invasion of the tomato leafminer, *Tuta absoluta*, in West Africa: Spatial dynamics, ecological niche, and potential for biological control. Thierry Brévault¹, **Serigne Sylla** (syllaserigne2@gmail.com)², and Karamoko Diarra², ¹BIOPASS, Dakar, Senegal, ²Univ. Cheikh Anta Diop, Dakar, Senegal

11:45 **1284** Management of *Tuta absoluta*. **Shakir Al-Zaidi** (shakir@russellipm.net), Russell IPM, Flintshire, United Kingdom

## Symposium: Global Spread and Management of the South American Tomato Leafminer, *Tuta absoluta*

### Room W224 H (Convention Center)

**Moderators and Organizers:** Amer Fayad¹ and Elvis Heinrichs², ¹Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State Univ., Blacksburg, VA, ²Univ. of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE

9:15 **1275** *Tuta absoluta* programs in the IPM Innovation Lab. **Stephanie Parker** (sparker1@vt.edu)¹, Elvis Heinrichs², and Rangaswamy R. Muniappan¹, ¹Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State Univ., Blacksburg, VA, ²Univ. of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE

9:30 **1276** Biology and spread of *Tuta absoluta*. Nicolas Desneux¹ and **Antonio Biondi** (antonio.biondi@unict.it)², ¹INRA, Sophia Antipolis, France, ²Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA

## Symposium: Chagas Disease: A Neglected Disease of Public Health Importance

### Room W230 B (Convention Center)

**Moderators and Organizers:** Mustapha Debboun¹ and Shripat Kamble², ¹Harris County Public Health & Environmental Services, Houston, TX, ²Univ. of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE

9:15 **Introductory Remarks**

9:30 **1285** The challenges of controlling Chagas disease vectors where thriving sylvatic triatomine populations abound. **Claudia Nieto** (cn048511@ohio.edu)¹ and Mario Grijalva², ¹Tropical Disease Institute, Athens, OH, ²Pontifical Catholic Univ., Quito, Ecuador

9:45 **1286** A history of Chagas vectors in the United States: A public health perspective. **Ellen Dotson** (ebd6@cdc.gov), Gena Lawrence, and Susan Montgomery, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA

10:00 **1287** Clinical manifestations of Chagas disease in the United States. **Melissa Garcia** (mnolan@bcm.edu), Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX
10:15 **BREAK**

10:30 **1288** Semi-sylvatic habitats: A key environment for Chagas disease amplification and bug reinfestation.
**Gonzalo Vazquez-Prokopec** (gmvazqu@ memory.edu), Emory Univ., Atlanta, GA

10:45 **1289** Chagas disease in Texas: Targeted outreach and education for awareness with healthcare providers.
**Paula Stigler Granados** (paula.e.stigler@uth.tmc.edu), The Univ. of Texas, San Antonio, TX

11:00 **1290** Ecohealth interventions provide promise for the interruption of Chagas transmission in Central America.
**Patricia Dorn** (dorn@ loy no.edu)¹, Dulce M. Bustamante², Lori Stevens³, and M. Carlota Monroy⁴, ¹Loyola Univ., New Orleans, LA, ²California Dept. of Public Health, Sacramento, CA, ³Univ. of Vermont, Burlington, VT, ⁴Univ. of San Carlos, Guatemala City, Guatemala

11:15 **1291** Spatial analysis of triatomine vectors of Chagas disease in Texas. Rachel Curtis-Robles¹, Sarah Hamer¹, Sage Lane¹, Michael Levy², and **Gabriel Hamer** (ghamer@tamu.edu)¹, ¹Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX, ²Univ. of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA

11:30 **1292** *Trypanosoma cruzi* infection prevalence and blood meal analysis in vectors of Chagas disease from rural peridomestic locations in Texas, 2013-2014, and from Houston, Texas, 2016. *Rodion Gorchakov* (rodion@bcm.edu)¹, Lillian Trosclair¹, Edward Wozniak², Melissa Garcia³, Teresa Feria³, Sarah Gunter⁴, Mustapha Debboun⁵, and Kristy Murray¹, ¹Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, ²Texas Dept. of State Health Services, Uvalde, TX, ³The Univ. of Texas, Edinburg, TX, ⁴The Univ. of Texas, Houston, TX, ⁵Harris County Public Health & Environmental Services, Houston, TX

**Symposium: Mechanistic Insights into Mosquito-Parasite Interactions**

Room W224 E (Convention Center)

**Moderators and Organizers:** Kristin Michel¹ and Michael Povelones², ¹Kansas State Univ., Manhattan, KS, ²Univ. of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA

9:15 **1293** The effects of type 2 diabetes on *Plasmodium* infection and transmission. **Nazzy Pakpour** (nazzy.pakpour@csueastbay.edu)¹ and Shirley Luckhart², ¹California State Univ., Hayward, CA, ²Univ. of California, Davis, CA

9:30 **1294** The role of *Plasmodium falciparum* Pfs47 mediating evasion of the mosquito immune system and adaptation to different vectors. **Alvaro Molina Cruz** (alvaro.molina-cruz@nih.gov)¹, Gaspar Canepa¹, Noelle Pavlovic¹, Jose Ramirez², and Carolina Barillas-Mury², ¹National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Rockville, MD, ²National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, WA

9:45 **1295** Mosquito resistance to malaria parasites. **Stephanie Blandin** (sblandin@unistra.fr), Christopher Batram, Katharina Ehrhardt, Alice-Anne Goetz, Albert Bayibeki, Randy Clayton, Anais Vittu, Noemie Jelly, and Marie Staub, Inserm Anopheles Group, Strasbourg, France

10:00 **1296** Specificity of complement-like pathway activation in *Anopheles gambiae*. **Michael Povelones** (mpove@vet.upenn.edu)¹, Katie Farrant², Valeria Reyes Ruiz¹, and George Christophides², ¹Univ. of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, ²Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

10:15 **BREAK**

10:30 **1297** The structure of *Anopheles gambiae* thioester-containing protein 1 and its role in the anti-*Plasmodium* immune response. **Richard Baxter** (richard.baxter@yale.edu), Yale Univ., New Haven, CT

10:45 **1298** Structural and functional analysis of *Anopheles gambiae* prophenoloxidases. **Haobo Jiang** (haobo.jiang@okstate.edu), Oklahoma State Univ., Stillwater, OK

11:00 **1299** Structural analysis of SRPN6 provides insight into its anti-Plasmodial function. **David Meekins** (dmeekins@ksu.edu), Melissa Gulley, and Kristin Michel, Kansas State Univ., Manhattan, KS

11:15 **1300** Mosquito hemocytes mediate late-phase immune responses that limit *Plasmodium* oocyst survival. **Ryan Smith** (smithr@iastate.edu), Iowa State Univ., Ames, IA

**Symposium: Opportunities and Challenges for Biological Control of Disease Vectors (IOBC)**

Room W230 D (Convention Center)

**Moderators and Organizers:** Matthew B. Thomas¹ and Michael R. Strand², ¹Pennsylvania State Univ., University Park, PA, ²Univ. of Georgia, Athens, GA

9:15 **1301** Perspectives on biocontrol of disease vectors. **Matthew B. Thomas** (mbt13@psu.edu), Pennsylvania State Univ., University Park, PA

9:30 **1302** Modelling to support the biological control of disease vectors. **Charles Godfray** (charles.godfray@zoo.ox.ac.uk), Oxford Univ., Oxford, United Kingdom

9:45 **1303** Parasites and pathogens beyond Bt. **James J. Becnel** (james.becnel@ars.usda.gov), USDA - ARS, Gainesville, FL

10:00 **1304** Possibilities for novel control using symbionts and endoparasites. **Serap Aksoy** (serap.aksoy@yale.edu), Yale Univ., New Haven, CT

10:15 **BREAK**

10:30 **1305** Exploiting the slow speed of kill of entomopathogenic fungi. **Marit Farenhorst** (marit@in2care.org), In2Care B.V., Wageningen, Netherlands

10:45 **1306** Mosquito natural enemies and biological control. **Michael R. Strand** (mrstrand@uga.edu), Univ. of Georgia, Athens, GA

11:00 **1307** How lethal, nonlethal, and complex effects of predators and competitors may impact biological control of vectors. **Steven Juliano** (sajulian@ilstu.edu), Illinois State Univ., Normal, IL

11:15 **1308** Biological control of disease vectors on the landscape. **Bernard D. Roitberg** (roitberg@sfu.ca), Simon Fraser Univ., Burnaby, BC, Canada
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11:30 **1309** The release of the yellow fever mosquito, *Aedes aegypti*, containing a naturally occurring strain of *Wolbachia pipientis* — a question of regulatory responsibility. **Paul DeBarro** (paul.debarro@csiro.au), CSIRO, Dutton Park, Australia

## Symposium: Repellents

### Room W224 D (Convention Center)

**Moderators and Organizers:** Nicole L. Achee¹ and Theeraphap Chareonviriyaphap², ¹Univ. of Notre Dame, South Bend, IN, ²Kasetsart Univ., Bangkok, Thailand

9:15 **1310** A critical path of development for repellents. **Kathryn Aultman** (kathryn.aultman@stelmaconsulting.com), Stelma Consulting LLC, Redmond, WA

9:30 **1311** Human and non-human approaches to testing repellent products for EPA registration. **Kevin Sweeney** (sweeney.kevin@epamail.epa.gov), U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, DC

9:45 **1312** Novel repellent chemical structures — driving the discovery of novel tools. **Maia Tsikolia** (maia.tsikolia@ars.usda.gov)¹, Ulrich R. Bernier², Natasha Agramonte¹, Kenneth J. Linthicum², Spyros E. Zagraphos³, Christina E. Drakou³, Patrick M. Guerin⁴, Thomas Krober⁴, and Jeffrey R. Bloomquist¹, ¹Univ. of Florida, Gainesville, FL, ²USDA - ARS, Gainesville, FL, ³National Hellenic Research Foundation, Athens, Greece, ⁴Univ. of Neuchâtel, Neuchâtel, Switzerland

10:00 **1313** An application of a smart-friendly, non-contact repellent assay system (NCRAS) for chemical screening. **Rungarun Tisgratog** (rungarun_tis@hotmail.com), Katsetsart Univ., Bangkok, Thailand

10:15 **BREAK**

10:30 **1314** Presentation withdrawn

10:45 **1315** Presentation withdrawn

11:00 **1316** Repellent and irritant effects of Kaffir lime (*Citrus hystrix*) leaf and peel essential oils against *Aedes aegypti* and *Anopheles minimus*. **Montathip Kongmee** (nokcool@hotmail.com), Katsetsart Univ., Nakhon Pathom, Thailand

11:15 **1317** Role of insecticide resistance in repellent bioefficacy. **Joseph Wagman** (joseph.m.wagman@gmail.com), Univ. of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN

11:30 **1318** Impact of repellents on vector life history traits. **John Grieco** (jgrieco@nd.edu), Univ. of Notre Dame, South Bend, IN

11:45 **1319** Mathematical modeling of repellents as a support tool for trial design, evaluation, and for public health rollout. **Alex Perkins** (taperkins@nd.edu), Univ. of Notre Dame, South Bend, IN

12:00 **1320** Outreach projects and malaria reduction collaborations that include repellents by SC Johnson, A Family Company. **Maude Meier** (mcmeier@scj.com), S. C. Johnson & Son, Racine, WI

12:15 **1321** Vector control intervention using biorepellent products and biomarkers to evaluate their effectiveness. **Theeraphap Chareonviriyaphap** (faasthc@ku.ac.th), Katsetsart Univ., Bangkok, Thailand

## Symposium: Recent Advances in the Study of the Neuropterida

### Room W331 C (Convention Center)

**Moderators and Organizers:** David E. Bowles¹, Atilano Contreras-Ramos², and John D. Oswald³, ¹U.S. National Park Service, Republic, MO, ²National Autonomous Univ. of México, Mexico City, Mexico, ³Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX

9:15 **1322** An updated molecular phylogeny of the Neuropterida. **Shaun Winterton** (swinterton@cdfa.ca.gov), California Dept. of Food and Agriculture, Sacramento, CA

9:45 **1323** Taxonomic status of New World chrysopids (Neuroptera: Chrysopidae). **Catherine A. Tauber** (cat6@cornell.edu), Cornell Univ., Davis, CA

10:00 **1324** Advances in the systematics, morphology, and biology of the green lacewing genus *Leucochrysa*. **Gilberto Albuquerque** (gsa@uenf.br), State Univ. of Northern Rio de Janeiro, Campos, Brazil

10:15 **BREAK**

10:30 **1325** Coniopterygidae associated to Mexican lime trees in Tecomán, Colima, Mexico. **Mariza A. Sarmiento-Cordero** (marizilla@hotmail.com)¹ and Atilano Contreras-Ramos², ¹National Reference Center for Biological Control, Tecomán, Mexico, ²National Autonomous Univ. of México, Mexico City, Mexico

10:45 **1326** Taxonomic review of the subtribe Periclystina (Myrmeleontidae: Dendroleontini). **Renato Machado** (rjpmachado@neo.tamu.edu), Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX

11:00 **1327** Prospects for a revision of the genus *Myrmeleon* Linnaeus 1767 (Neuroptera: Myrmeleontidae) of North and Central America. **Roberto Lopez-Garcia** (exoddous@hotmail.com), National Autonomous Univ. of México, Mexico City, Mexico

11:15 **1328** Progress in the systematics of Myrmeleontiformia (antlions and allies) with a focus on Ascalaphidae (owlflies). **Joshua Jones** (doc.jones.research@gmail.com), Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX

11:30 **1329** Diversity of Chrysopidae, Hemerobiidae, and Mantispidae of tropical dry forests of the Mexican Pacific. **Rodolfo Cancino-López** (tk_57@hotmail.com) and Atilano Contreras-Ramos, National Autonomous Univ. of México, Mexico City, Mexico

11:45 **1330** Progress on work towards a global monograph of the Neuropterida. **John D. Oswald** (joswald@ag.tamu.edu), Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX

## Symposium: Duplications, Deletions, and Other Mutations: Deciphering the Molecular Basis of Insecticide Resistance

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

**Moderators and Organizers:** Jeffrey G. Scott¹ and Ralf Nauen², ¹Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY, ²Bayer CropScience, Monheim, Germany

9:15 **1331** Metabolic and target site resistance to pyrethroids. **Shinji Kasai** (kasacin@nih.go.jp), National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo, Japan