Systematics, Evolution, and Biodiversity

Cascading adaptation to abiotic environmental variation across two trophic levels of parasites

Combined taxonomic, morphometric, and molecular characters contrubute to the identification of Paracentrobia (Hymenoptera: Trichogrammatidae), an egg parasitoid that develops in different leafhopper pests

Factors contributing to the reliability of data in Odonata citizen science

Geographic variation in desiccation resistance of Rhagoletis zephyria in the Pacific Northwest

Stingless bees in the state of Karnataka, India and their cultural importance

The charismatic Mantodea of South Africa

The undiscovered dung beetle fauna from Mabu forest, Mozambique – the largest medium-altitude rainforest in southern Africa

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)

D3097: Origin of invasive species Melanoplus differentialis in the South Korea

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.

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

D3182: Darwin's vampire problem

D3183: Investigating the underappreciated biodiversity of Solenopsis thief ants

D3300: 50 years of rice pest records in Japan revealed dynamical changes of pest composition

D3301: Devils tower: Year two of a comparative insect biodiversity survey

D3303: Effects of climate change-induced reductions of male dragonfly melanin ornamentation on mating success

D3304: Improved records of diversity and distribution of the Auchenorrhyncha of Rhode Island

D3305: Molecular and niche modeling approaches to identify potential amplifying hosts for an emerging tick-borne pathogen Rickettsia 364D, the causative agent of Pacific Coast Tick Fever

D3307: Patterns of forest pollinator diversity across the southeastern United States: A survey of the experimental forest network

D3308: Sunflowers managed for doves as pollinator habitat

D3309: The effects of urbanization on tardigrade diversity

D3310: Adaptive Bee Breeders Alliance: Building comb between the field and the lab - from Castle to Castle

D3311: Big-Bee: An initiative to promote understanding of bees through image and trait digitization

D3312: Developing a database of bees in Arkansas

D3313: Insects in Korean postage stamps

D3314: Insects in Sino-Korean poetry before the 15th century

D3315: Safety in field work: Best practices for preventing and responding to harassment in field settings

D3316: The insects of Capitol Reef: The creation of a field guide

D3317: Detecting the spread of invasive mosquitoes and disease potential in Nova Scotia

D3318: Development of a loop-mediated isothermal amplification assay for the fall armyworm, Spodoptera frugiperda (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae), using species-specific sequences

D3319: Development of LAMP-based molecular species diagnosis method for three major planthopper pests in rice

D3321: Epidemiology and management of aphid-transmitted cotton leafroll dwarf virus in Georgia, USA

D3322: Genetic and morphological variation of Vespa velutina nigrithorax which is an invasive species in a mountainous area

D3323: Endemic carrion fly species displaced by invasives in the Galapagos Island with implications for biological control risk assessment

D3324: Toxin diversity contributes to target specificity in defensive bacterial symbiosis

D3443: Assessing chemical attractants for click beetles in the southeastern Ohio tristate region

D3444: Correlation of stridulatory apparatus dimensions and carrier frequency in Texas Ensifera species

D3445: Do centipedes dream of many-legged sheep? Documenting sleep in the house centipede (Scutigera coleoptrata)

D3446: Flexible foragers: Candy-striped spiders prey on sleeping insects

D3447: Genomic regions underlying the species-specific mating songs of green lacewings

D3448: Intraspecific variation in reflectance of solar radiation in dimorphic Centris pallida (Hymenoptera: Apidae) male bees as a thermoregulatory adaptation to different microclimates

D3449: Mapping the parental isopod brain

D3450: Measuring odonates with flying colors: Building a database of odonate coloration in Vietnam

D3452: A high-quality, long-read genome assembly of the whitelined sphinx moth (Lepidoptera: Sphingidae: Hyles lineata)

D3453: Casting light on microbial symbioses of fireflies

D3455: Comparative genomics of endosymbionts across endemic Hawaiian leafhopper (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Nesophrosyne) species

D3457: Determining the population genetic structure and reconstructing invasion routes of wheat midge (Sitodiplosis mosellana) on the Canadian prairies

D3458: Development of digital identification key on the economically important weevil species in the Caribbean and Florida pathways

D3459: Evolution of mutualism from parasitism in a Wolbachia-Drosophila symbiosis

D3460: Hawaiian seed bugs and their microbes: A story of evolution and adaptation

D3461: Identifying the governing mechanisms of genetic control between an endogenous virus and its parasitoid host

D3463: Monitoring Odonata biodiversity in urban environments

D3464: PACH-ed with species: Parsing a cryptic species complex (Hemiptera: Psylloidea: Pachypsylla)

D3465: Phylogenomic relationships of Ephemeroptera

D3467: Rampant gene family expansions impact genome structure, function and insect-microbe-plant interactions in Bactericera cockerlli based on chromosome-level genome assembly

D3468: Relationship between genetic variability and microsporodia infection of the oriental beetle, Exomala orientalis, in South Korea

D3469: Review of the northern Pacific genus, Phaleromela Reitter, 1916 (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae)

D3470: The female of the orchid bee genus Euglossa Latreille (Hymenoptera: Apidae, Euglossini): Systematics and functional morphology

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

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