Student Competition Poster

Grazing influences the diversity and community composition of bees and other insects in livestock pastures

Phytochemical profile and the dietary effects of bee pollen and beebread on the western honey bee, Apis mellifera

Sex-based differences in mobility and taxis of Tribolium castaneum (Herbst) (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae) after exposure to benzoquinones

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

D3020: Agricultural entomophagy: Insect rearing for human consumption and feed

D3021: Assessing the virulence of Metarhizium spp. in sweetpotato for the control of Cylas formicarius elegantulus (Summers)

D3023: Evaluating microbial interactions that determine microbiome composition using a gnotobiotic cockroach model (Periplaneta americana)

D3024: Investigation of the use of synthetic elicitors on potato crops for management of the Colorado potato beetle and green peach aphids

D3026: Physiological role of 5-HT7A and 5-HT7B in salivary secretion and blood feeding behavior from the Asian tiger mosquito, Aedes albopictus

D3027: A glucose-conjugating enzyme is highly expressed in the silk glands of moths

D3028: Biological and geological processes governing insect fossilization

D3030: Geographical patterns of thermal tolerance and genome-wide methylation in a widespread bumble bee (Bombus vosnesenskii)

D3031: Mutation screening and expression profiling of ryanodine receptor in the soybean Looper, Chrysodeixis includens

D3032: Osmia cornifrons survival after oral exposure to insecticides, flupyradifurone and sulfoxaflor

D3033: The two-spotted lady beetle, Adalia bipunctata L. (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) and increased rearing temperatures: Effects on larval development, alkaloid production and microsporidiosis

D3036: A box and a scale: Japanese maple scale management on boxwoods

D3037: Beauveria bassiana effects on wireworm survival and behaviour

D3039: Comparison of the role of host cuticular cues in host recognition and acceptance between specialist and generalist parasitoids

D3041: Effects of cover crops and entomopathogenic nematodes on corn rootworm survival and feeding injury to corn

D3043: Evaluation of feeding and development of a biocontrol agent of Vincetoxicum spp. (Hypena opulenta), fed V. nigrum foliage infected by a leaf spot pathogen

D3044: Direct and indirect effects of entomopathogenic fungi on generalist predators of whiteflies

D3048: Exploring risk factors for insect borer attack in Georgia's urban landscapes

D3049: Following 13CO2 labeled recent photosynthate into boreal forest microarthropod community food webs

D3050: Forecasting the effects of climate change on cranberry insect pests through spatial and temporal analysis

D3053: The effect of habitat loss due to agricultural expansion on pollinator communities in British Columbia’s at-risk shrubsteppe ecosystem

D3055: Aquatic arthropod associations with Podostemaceae in Central and South America

D3056: Bee visitation to three clover species (Trifolium spp.) and common selfheal (Prunella vulgaris) at southern Rhode Island farms

D3057: Ecological-based pest management for tarnished-plant bug (Lygus lineolaris) and spotted-wing drosophila (Drosophila suzukii) in day-neutral strawberries (Fragaria x ananassa)

D3060: Evaluating brown marmorated stink bug, Halyomorpha halys (Stål) (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae), feeding preferences among hazelnut varieties and attraction to select hazelnut volatiles

D3061: Phytohormones and their effects on aster leafhopper behavioral responses

D3062: Species diversity and proportional nesting guilds of bees in native wildflower plantings established in orchard ecosystem

D3063: The effects of RoundUp on wild ground-nesting bees: A field study approach

D3065: Does the number of resin ducts predict survival of tamarack (Larix laricina) from outbreaks of eastern larch beetle (Dendroctonus simplex)?

D3068: Fall armyworm (Spodoptera frugiperda) oral secretions modulate defense responses in sorghum

D3070: Monitoring aphid populations and potato virus Y incidence in southern Colorado

D3072: Sensitivity of different fast-growing willow genotypes in Quebec to regional, temporal and spatial variables

D3073: Assessment of awns and hairy glumes in spring wheat lines as a form of resistance against the orange wheat blossom midge, Sitodiplosis mosellana (Géhin) (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae)

D3074: Automated scouting, data visualization, and a growing degree day model enhances filbertworm (Lepidoptera : Tortricidae) monitoring in Oregon hazelnuts

D3075: Characterizing the active space of pheromone traps for Spruce Budworm and Lymantria dispar

D3076: Control of Rhyzopertha dominca through stored grain protectants

D3077: Cover-cash crop rotations affect arthropod community dynamics: Lessons from a multi-year participatory research in the Lower Rio Grande Valley

D3078: Effects of simulating injury by tarnished plant bug, Lygus lineolaris, to terminal growth and pre-floral buds on cotton growth and yield in South Carolina

D3080: Finding rice varietal resistance to rice water weevil and fall armyworm

D3081: Soluble nitrogen fertilizers for spotted-wing drosophila management on fruit waste

D3082: Stink bug damage assessment in Nebraska corn

D3085: Comparing bee plant-pollinator interactions across agroecosystem landscapes

D3086: Effects of host plants on the survival and development time of the St. Francis’ satyr butterfly

D3087: Evaluating genotypic and phenotypic strain variation among honey bee gut bacterial isolates

D3088: Field relevant exposure of bumble bee (Bombus impatiens) microcolonies to assess impacts of local and landscape sources of pesticides

D3090: Management affects pollination function in suburban green spaces

D3091: The role of soybeans and supplemental plantings in the nectar diet of honey bees

D3094: Host preference of searching parasitic thatch ant queens

D3095: Investigating freshwater insect biodiversity in urban stormwater ponds in the greater Toronto area

D3096: Non-aggressive interactions in the squash bee Eucera pruinosa (Apidae: Eucerini) and its brood parasite Triepeolus remigatus (Apidae: Epeolini)

D3098: Moisture modulates ephemeral resource patch quality for burying beetle reproduction

D3100: Trap type and placement influence urban forest pollinator diversity assessment

D3102: Genomic and morphological evolution of stress tolerant shore flies (Diptera: Ephydridae)

D3106: Snow scorpionflies of Alaska (Mecoptera: Boreidae): The evolution and taxonomy of Alaskan Boreus sp.

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)

D3109: Examining the role of the central complex and mushroom bodies in reversal colour learning in honey bees

D3110: Linking temperature limitations on flight to shifts in foraging activity of wild bumble bees

D3111: Multimodal learning of compound stimuli in honey bees

D3115: Do neonicitinoid pesticides impact collective behavior of honey bees?

D3117: Investigating olfactory sensitivity of Lepidoptera and Diptera to streptomyces derived volatiles

D3119: The effect of donepezil, an acetylcholinesterase inhibitor, on learning and memory in Camponotus floridanus

D3120: Toluene exposure causes changes in egg production and offspring development in Drosophilia melanogaster

D3122: Differences in feeding behavior between European and Africanized honey bee (Apis mellifera) larvae

D3123: Effects of phytoplasma infection on aster leafhopper settling behaviour, oviposition, and development

D3124: Effects of plant architecture on leaf tier community assembly and overall arthropod diversity

D3125: Electroantennographic responses of Eucosma giganteana to Silphium host plant volatiles and the volatile emissions from conspecifics

D3126: Habitat and resource use in Oregon silverspot butterfly: Analyzing 2021 field data to contribute to conservation planning for a threatened butterfly

D3128: Studies on dispersal behavior of the Oregon silverspot butterfly

D3130: The effect of floral height on the abundance and species richness of pollinators: An experimental approach

D3131: The effects of sleep deprivation on learning in Camponotus floridanus

D3132: The use of endangered midwestern prairie and savanna ecosystems by bumble bees of conservation concern

D3133: A little help from my friend: Virus infection reduces susceptibility of beet leafhoppers to neonicotinoid insecticides

D3134: Can drought shield hay grasses from fall armyworm pest?

D3135: Development and validation of a novel real-time PCR assay for rapid detection of hemp russet mite

D3136: Differences in feeding behavior between worker and drone honey bee (Apis millifera) larvae

D3138: Efficacy of insecticides applied through chemigation for western corn rootworm (Diabrotica virgifera virgifera LeConte) and other maize pests

D3140: Microbe-mediated stabilization of mosquito-pitcher plant interactions

D3141: Presence of Wolbachia in Trechnites insidiosus in the western United States

D3142: Survival of an ear-feeding caterpillar, western bean cutworm (Striacosta albicosta), in integrated vs. structured refuge of Vip3A-expressing Bt maize

D3143: A match made in Vietnam: associating undescribed females with known odonate males

D3144: An interdisciplinary approach to creating a field guide

D3145: Dens, dunes, and dung: Evaluating overlooked Coleoptera microhabitats in Vietnam

D3146: Determining gut microbiomes of hoverflies living in the Northern Plains

D3147: Molecular and ecological data suggest new species hypotheses for genus Ceroptres, inquilines of oak galls

D3148: Strepsiptera parasitism rates across taxa in American Museum of Natural History collections

D3149: The effect of plant biodiversity on the gut microbiomes of pollinator species

D3150: Trust the guts: Preliminary survey of forensically important beetles in Vietnam

D3154: Do environmental factors impact drosophilid genome size evolution?

D3155: Exploring species boundaries in a widespread army ant genus using DNA barcodes

D3157: Mechanical mode of invasion of the fungus Cordyceps militaris on larvae of the painted lady butterfly, Vanessa cardui

D3158: Metagenomic analysis of Aedes aegypti viromes

D3159: Microbiome composition of Megachilidae found in the northern Great Plains

D3160: Molecular phylogeny of the mayfly family Heptageniidae (Ephemeroptera)

D3161: Optimizing DNA extraction of large museum specimens for phylogenomic analysis

D3162: X-linkage of the pgm locus in Dysdera crocata

D3164: Comparing Nosema spp. levels in wild and managed honey bee (Apis mellifera) populations at the Welder wildlife refuge

D3167: Social interactions facilitate collective thermoregulatory fanning behavior in honey bees

D3168: The effects of melatonin on locomotion and circadian rhythm in Camponotus floridanus

D3169: The insect apocalypse: Representation bias in media

2nd Place: Trends in Helicoverpa zea populations across a late-season trapping network in North Carolina, USA

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: D3022: Do pollen-borne microbes benefit juvenile growth and survival in the solitary bee, Megachile rotundata

2nd Place: D3025: Non-consumptive effects of an insect predator on the dynamics of its prey's disease

2nd Place: D3034: Unintended antibiotic target: The (honey bee) reproductive microbiome

1st Place: D3035: Verson’s gland gene expression analysis in the fall armyworm implicates its function in molting and antimicrobial response during metamorphosis

2nd Place: D3038: Classical biological control of spotted-wing drosophila: Will introduced natural enemies be able to survive cold Canadian winters?

1st Place: D3042: Enhancing biological control by ground beetles (Coleoptera: Carabidae) through agricultural drainage ditch management practices

2nd Place: D3046: Biodiversity after the burn: Understanding pollinator communities after stand replacing wildfires in BC's central interior

1st Place: D3051: Insect pests & natural enemies associated with outdoor cannabis production in Ontario, Canada

1st Place: D3059: Foraging preference of cigarette beetle and rice weevil when dispersing to novel food patches with and without microbes

2nd Place: D3064: The green screen: Utilizing the hemp virome to screen germplasm for resistance to emerging viruses and viroids in hemp

2nd Place: D3067: Enhancing sugar beet breeding efforts by identifying mechanisms and genes conferring curly top resistance

1st Place: D3071: Performance of Bemisia tabaci MEAM1 (Hemiptera: Aleyrodidae) on weed and cultivated species

1st Place: D3079: Evaluating the impact of at-plant termination of a cereal rye cover crop with different corn planting dates on arthropod activity

2nd Place: D3083: The effects of floral strips on crop yield, quality, and profitability for highbush blueberry (Vaccinium corymbosum) in Delta, British Columbia

1st Place: D3084: Bumble bee pathogens across an urban to rural gradient

2nd Place: D3089: Honeybee pollinated plants on Guam

1st Place: D3093: Correlates of native bee extinction risk in fragmented habitats

2nd Place: D3099: The effects of resource competition and virus transmission between honey bees and native bees

2nd Place: D3101: Comparative genomics of Anax (Odonata: Aeshnidae)

1st Place: D3103: Insect genotype drives differential gene expression in a protective bacterial symbiont

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

2nd Place: D3116: Experience-dependent development of the visual system in Camponotus floridanus ants

1st Place: D3118: Ommochrome pigments in wings and eyes of the monarch butterfly and its white morph (Danaus plexippus nivosus L., Nymphalidae)

2nd Place: D3127: Spider safari: Floral associations of old field Araneae

1st Place: D3129: The early flower gets the pollinator: Investigating the influences of seasonality and nutrient additions on floral resources and pollinators in a long-term ecological experiment

1st Place: D3137: Direct and indirect effects of drought and host plant species on the oleander aphid (Aphis nerii)

2nd Place: D3139: Impact of entomopathogenic nematodes and cover crops on western corn rootworm management and predatory arthropod communities

2nd Place: D3151: Understanding connections between diets of honeydew insects and fire ants in longleaf pine savannas of North Carolina

1st Place: D3152: What abiotic or biotic factors are affecting ants in longleaf pine savannas in North Carolina?

2nd Place: D3153: Assembly of highly heterochromatic cactophilic Drosophila genomes

1st Place: D3156: Is the gut-microbiome of Odonata more ecologically or evolutionarily derived: Here’s our gut feeling!

1st Place: D3165: Effects of landscape isolation on bumble bee population genetics

2nd Place: D3166: Lovebugs (Diptera: Bibionidae: Plecia nearctica) repel honey bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae; Apis mellifera) from feeding stations