Undergrad P-IE: Behavior and Ecology

Moderator(s)

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  Angela Tucker

  Field Scientist II
  Pest Management
  Douglas Products
  Cordova, Tennessee
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  Claire Rutledge

  Associate Agricultural Experiment Station
  Entomology
  The Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station
  New Haven, Connecticut

Presentations:

• 8:00 AM – 8:12 AM PT

  Bee community composition and floral preferences in a Maryland old field ecosystem
  

  Presenting Author: Sophia R. Gilbart (she/they) – McDaniel College

  Co-Author: Hailey D. Grzemkowski (she/her/hers) – McDaniel College

  Co-Author: Matthew J. Hodgdon – McDaniel College

  Co-Author: Lavinia M. Sherrill – McDaniel College

  Co-Author: Holly Martinson – McDaniel College
• 8:12 AM – 8:24 AM PT

  Decontamination of honeydew insects for gut DNA amplification
  

  Presenting Author: Kinsley Adams – University of North Carolina

  Co-Author: Hunter C. Ivey – University of North Carolina

  Co-Author: Bailey Teale – University of North Carolina

  Co-Author: Lisa Kelly – University of North Carolina
• 8:24 AM – 8:36 AM PT

  Do surface semiochemicals mediate object recognition and ensuing behavioral decisions by ants?
  

  Presenting Author: Jenelle C. Breen – Simon Fraser University

  Co-Author: Asim Renyard – Simon Fraser University

  Co-Author: Regine Gries – Simon Fraser University

  Co-Author: Gerhard Gries – Simon Fraser University
• 8:48 AM – 9:00 AM PT

  Helicoverpa zea (Boddie) pupal success and adult eclosion across soil type and moisture
  

  Presenting Author: Igor Sulzbacher Schardong – North Carolina State University

  Co-Author: Dominic Reisig – North Carolina State University

  Co-Author: Taynara Possebom – North Carolina State University
• 9:00 AM – 9:12 AM PT

  Physiological and behavioral mechanisms of age-based host selection in Halyomorpha halys (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae)
  

  Presenting Author: Julia C. Wooby – Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

  Co-Author: George C. Hamilton – Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

  Co-Author: Chloe Hawkings – Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
• 9:12 AM – 9:24 AM PT

  Does Anthonomus rubi utilize potentilla spp. in the Fraser Valley, BC
  

  Presenting Author: Aysha b. McConkey – University of the Fraser Valley

  Co-Author: Jade Sherwood – Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada

  Co-Author: Warren Hung Leuk Wong – The University of British Columbia

  Co-Author: Michelle T. Franklin – Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada

  Co-Author: Tracy K. Hueppelsheuser – British Columbia Ministry of Agriculture and Food