President's Prize (PP4)
Agriculture, Physiology and Education
Moderator: Shi-you Li
13:00 — 18:00
R. Auld, |
Host preference in Blissus leucopterus hirtus (hairy chinch bug). |
13:00 |
A. B. Kwasniewska, |
Effects of host fruit volatiles on attraction of Rhagoletis mendax (Diptera: Tephritidae) flies to green sphere traps. |
13:15 |
L. K. W. Wijayaratne, |
Effects of methoprene on cold hardiness and heat tolerance of red flour beetle Tribolium castaneum. |
13:30 |
A. Brown, |
An integrated approach to management of the rosy apple aphid, Dysaphis plantaginea, in organic orchards of British Columbia. |
13:45 |
J. Pompon, |
Search for new means to control aphid potato pests: resistance mechanism of Solanum chomatophilum to Macrosiphum euphorbiae and Myzus persicae. |
14:00 |
J. A. Tansey, |
Cabbage seedpod weevil flight behaviour is influenced by climatic factors. |
14:15 |
A. Abdel Ghany, |
Susceptibility of Stegobium paniceum (Coleoptera: Anobiidae) of different life stages to high temperature. |
14:30 |
G. Newton, |
Introducing the Journal of Canadian Undergraduate Research / Revue Canadienne de Recherche de Premier Cycle : A journal for Canadian undergraduate entomological (and other) research. |
14:45 |
Coffee break |
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15:00 |
A. S. Weed, |
Biology and host specificity of Eumolpus asclepiadeus: a potential biological control agent of Vincetoxicum. |
15:30 |
Z. Jumean, |
Frequency distribution of larval codling moth, Cydia pomonella, aggregations in unmanaged apple orchards of the Pacific Northwest. |
15:45 |
N. K. Joshi, |
Efficiency of various lure types for monitoring codling moth adults, Cydia pomonella (L.) in Pennsylvania apple orchards. |
16:00 |
M. Franklin, |
Influence of local and long-distance dispersal in determining Bt resistance in cabbage looper populations: a molecular analysis. |
16:15 |
A. J. Brunke, |
The importance of generalist predators (Coleoptera: Carabidae, Staphylinidae) in the management of millipede populations in sweet potato and carrot fields. |
16:30 |
C. W. D’Orsay, |
The effects of grazing and management intensity on beetle (Carabidae, Curculionoidea and Staphylinidae) diversity on a managed dairy pasture in Nova Scotia, Canada. |
16:45 |
A. Gradish, |
Sub-lethal effects of reduced risk pesticides used in greenhouse vegetable production on bumble bees [Bombus impatiens (Cresson)]. |
17:00 |
R. D. Carleton |
Influence of hemlock looper egg density on parasitism by three species of Telenomus wasps. |
17:15 |
C. Taylor, |
Hearing in caterpillars of Monarch butterflies (Danaus plexippus). |
17:30 |
J. Hummel, |
Ground beetles (Coleoptera: Carabidae) respond to agroecosystem diversification. |
17:45 |




