MUVE: Urban - Stored Product Pests, Wood Destroying Insects, and General

Moderator(s)

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  Karen Vail

  Professor and Extension Urban Entomologist
  Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology
  University of Tennessee
  Knoxville, Tennessee
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  Edward Vargo

  Professor and Endowed Chair in Urban & Structural Entomology
  Department of Entomology
  Texas A&M University
  College Station, Texas

Presentations:

• 1:30 PM – 1:42 PM PT

  A comparison of tunnel geometry between the Formosan subterranean termite and Asian subterranean termite
  

  Presenting Author: Nan-Yao Su – University of Florida

  Co-Author: Sang-Bin Lee – University of Florida
• 1:42 PM – 1:54 PM PT

  A non-ALBOW infesting seasoned wood
  

  Presenting Author: Karen M. Vail – University of Tennessee

  Co-Author: Adam Taylor – University of Tennessee

  Co-Author: Paul O'Neal – Tennessee State University

  Co-Author: Karla M. Addesso – Tennessee State University

  Co-Author: Jason B. Oliver – Tennessee State University

  Co-Author: William Klingeman – University of Tennessee

  Co-Author: Ernest Bernard – University of Tennessee

  Co-Author: Christopher M. Ranger – USDA-ARS
• 1:54 PM – 2:06 PM PT

  Combination insecticide treatments with methoprene and pyrethrin for control of Khapra beetle larvae on different commodities: A 12-month study
  

  Presenting Author: Deanna S. Scheff – USDA-ARS

  Co-Author: Michael J. Domingue – Kansas State University

  Co-Author: Scott W. Myers – USDA-APHIS

  Co-Author: Franklin H. Arthur – USDA-ARS
• 2:06 PM – 2:18 PM PT

  Complex little animals: Insect behavior learnings from real-world consumer environments
  

  Presenting Author: Daniel Perry (he/him/his) – Procter & Gamble

  Co-Author: Erik Hasenoehrl – Procter & Gamble

  Co-Author: Anthony Clerc – Procter & Gamble
• 2:18 PM – 2:30 PM PT

  Break
• 2:30 PM – 2:42 PM PT

  Delusional infestation update
  

  Presenting Author: Gale E. Ridge – The Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station
• 2:42 PM – 2:54 PM PT

  Evaluating the LepiLED light trap and iNaturalist identification for detection of invasive pests in urban high-risk sites
  

  Presenting Author: Gregory Pohl (he/him/his) – Natural Resources Canada

  Co-Author: David Holden – Canadian Food Inspection Agency
• 2:54 PM – 3:06 PM PT

  How diet and number of conspecifics can be used to break a diapause-like state in Trogoderma variabile Ballion (Coleoptera: Dermestidae)
  

  Presenting Author: Alison R. Gerken – USDA-ARS
• 3:18 PM – 3:30 PM PT

  Pesticide product performance data requirements for products claiming efficacy against certain invertebrate pests
  

  Presenting Author: Rebecca Lasko – U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
• 3:30 PM – 3:42 PM PT

  Break
• 3:42 PM – 3:54 PM PT

  The use of an attractant may improve localized insecticide treatments targeting the western drywood termite, Incisitermes minor
  

  Presenting Author: Nicholas Poulos – University of California

  Co-Author: Chow-Yang Lee, BCE – University of California

  Co-Author: Michael K. Rust – University of California

  Co-Author: Dong-Hwan Choe – University of California
• 3:54 PM – 4:06 PM PT

  Tunnel optimization following food discovery in the Formosan subterranean termite
  

  Presenting Author: Sang-Bin Lee – University of Florida

  Co-Author: Zion Michael – Florida International University

  Co-Author: Thomas P. Chouvenc – University of Florida

  Co-Author: Nan-Yao Su – University of Florida
• 4:06 PM – 4:18 PM PT

  Using art to help students understand the relationship between engineering design and urban entomology
  

  Presenting Author: Benjamin D. Chambers – Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University