Medical, Urban, and Veterinary Entomology

Are ants good organisms to teach elementary students about invasive species?

Development of a novel biorational strategy for effective and targeted delivery of Bacillus thuringiensis-based insecticides in Aedes mosquito larvae

Diagnosis and management of American foulbrood in honey bee colonies

Forensic entomology in the Pacific and Pacific Southwest region of the United States – past, present, and future initiatives

Impact of antibiotic treatment on mating behavior, microbial diversity, and gene expression in Lucilia cuprina

Investigating the impact of a human decomposition facility on local blow fly (Diptera: Calliphoridae) diversity

Oviposition preferences of Culex pipiens and Culex restuans and improving species-specific surveillance methodology

Prevalence of major urban pests in low-income housing

Simplification of insect communities developing in dung of cattle treated up to 25 weeks previously with an extended-release formulation of the parasiticide eprinomectin

The use of the cytochrome oxidase 1 (COI) gene in the identification of blowflies and flesh flies in Jamaica

D3006: Evaluation of non-nutritive sweeteners for potential use as phagostimulants in house fly baits

D3008: Relationships between water quality and mosquito presence and abundance: A systematic review and meta-analysis

D3009: Repellent efficacy of 21 essential oils from the EPA’s Minimum Risk Pesticides list on yellow fever mosquitoes and deer ticks using three different contact-repellency assays

D3010: The gut microbiota affect pair formation of dealates in the Formosan subterranean termite, Coptotermes formosanus

1st Place: D3011: Using ancient DNA to identify past ranges of Rhipicephalus sanguineus lineages in Arizona

D3012: Abundance of American dog ticks, Dermacentor variabilis (Say), on Manitoba cattle pastures in relation to favorable environmental characteristics and tick-cattle interactions

D3014: Capacity of the larger grain borer and the maize weevil to vector microbes after foraging at novel food patches

D3015: Characterization and evaluation of extracellular vesicles as anti-tick vaccine candidates

D3016: Effects of persistent infection with cell-fusing agent virus on the transmission potential of Zika virus in Aedes aegypti

D3018: Look elsewhere for larval Culicoides control: Bacillus thuringiensis subsp. israelensis works poorly in C. sonorensis

D3107: A closer look at vitellogenesis in the understudied vector, Culicoides sonorensis

D3108: A literature review on the effects of heavy metals on the development of blow flies (Diptera: Calliphoridae)

D3170: Ask an entomologist: Got questions about bugs? We have the answers!

D3171: Classification of repeated behavioural motifs of Aedes aegypti

D3172: How building information modeling can support structural pest management and research

D3174: Potential mechanisms explaining how trematode parasites manipulate the behavior of its ant hosts

D3192: Ant identification workshops for pest management professionals in the Pacific Northwest

D3194: Evaluation of Varroa destructor mite control options in Apis mellifera honey bee colonies established with queen cells

D3196: Probiotics composed of native gut bacteria reduce the deleterious effects of microbiota perturbation in honey bees

D3197: Characterization of OspA genetic diversity in the West Coast

D3199: Environment and density dependence effects on Rhipicephalus sanguineus population dynamics in residential environments

D3200: Histological confinement of transglutaminase-mediated nit sheath crosslinking is essential for proper oviposition and egg coating in the human head louse, Pediculus humanus capitis

D3201: Medicated corn bait to control fever ticks, Boophilus microplus, on urban deer

D3202: Putting the puzzle pieces together: Understanding risk for human exposure to blacklegged ticks (Ixodes scapularis)

D3203: Tick management properties of common yarrow (Achillea millefolium L.) essential oil against Ixodes scapularisand Dermacentor variabils ticks (Acari: Ixodidae)

D3204: Necrophobic behavior of Hawaii Coptotermes gestroi (Asian subterranean termite) and the identification of their soldier head compounds

D3205: The impact of salinity pollution on mosquito oviposition in urban environments

D3206: The insect community ecology of urban community gardens

D3207: The rising threat of Formosan subterranean termites: Range expansion and increasing activities in Alabama

D3327: Blow Flies (Diptera: Calliphoridae) of Joshua Tree National Park

D3328: First survey of insects of forensic importance in the Republic of The Gambia

D3329: Human landing collections can be replaced by an effective mosquito trap

D3330: Impact of mass trapping against Culex quinquefasciatus

D3331: Analyzing the effects of Borrelia recurrentis infection on the body louse immune system

D3332: Antimicrobial peptide expression in the cockroach gut during enterobacterial infection is specific and influenced by type III secretion

D3333: Assessing the susceptibility of Culex pipiens (Culicidae) mosquitoes to insect-specific virus infections

D3334: Buzzing for blood: A cartographic exploration of mosquito ecology

D3335: Cemeteries as sources of Aedes aegypti and other mosquito species in southeastern Puerto Rico

D3336: Characterization of Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus oviposition activity and their associated socio-environmental factors in the New Orleans area

D3337: Culicoides species (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) reared from larval habitats from the Piedmont region of Georgia

D3338: Datamining, prediction and validation of putative antimicrobial peptides from the common bed bug, Cimex lectularius

D3339: Differences in life-history strategies may explain the rapid displacement of native black widows by invasive brown widows in urban southern California

D3341: Does the source matter for SIT? No effects of x-ray vs gamma irradiation on sterilization or sterile male performance in the mosquito Aedes aegypti

D3342: Mosquito community structure and WNV occurrence in mosquitoes in Wood County, Ohio, during 2017-2019, and influence of habitat type on relative abundance

D3343: Host and landscape drivers of tick community diversity

D3344: Natural enemies and activity of stable flies on equine farms in New England

1st Place: D3003: Ticks of Kentucky: Pathogens and population breakdown

2nd Place: D3007: Mechanisms and contributing factors of insecticide resistance of West Nile virus vectors in Illinois

2nd Place: D3013: Blacklegged ticks, Ixodes scapularis (Say) (Ixodida: Ixodidae), abundance and distribution on pastures in Manitoba, Canada

1st Place: D3019: Spatiotemporal variation in black fly (Simulium sp.) species during and after a vesicular stomatitis virus outbreak in southern New Mexico

1st Place: D3112: Reassessing the presence of tick-borne pathogens transmitted by the seabird tick Ixodes uriae in Gulf of Maine seabird colonies

2nd Place: D3113: The effect of urban road salts on West Nile virus vector mosquito (Culex sp.) sex ratios