Behavior/Biology I

Moderator(s)

• KH

  Kristen Healy, PhD

  Louisiana State University
  Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States

Presentations:

• 8:30am – 8:40am

  Attraction of sand fly larvae Phlebotomus papatasi to larval feeding media and investigation of chemoattractants
  

  Presenter: Maia Tsikolia, Research chemist, research entomologist – USDA-ARS European Biological Control Laboratory
• 8:50am – 9:00am

  Bionomics and phenology of Culiseta particeps (Culicidae) mosquitoes in Lake County, California with considerations for changes in land-use and wildfire
  

  Presenter: Cassandra Urquhart, MS – Lake County Vector Control District
• 9:00am – 9:10am

  Automated differentiation of mixed populations of free-flying mosquitoes
  

  Presenter: Brian Johnson, MSc, PhD – QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute
• 9:10am – 9:20am

  The biology of mermithid nematodes and their prospective use in the biological control of mosquitoes
  

  Presenter: Manar Soliman, PhD (she/her/hers) – Hudson regional health commission
• 9:20am – 9:30am

  Attraction to host karimones by male Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus mosquitoes in an air flow olfactometer.
  

  Presenter: Shawn Ward, n/a – Metropolitain State University of Denver
• 9:30am – 9:40am

  Diel Activity Patterns of West Nile Virus Vectors in Fort Collins, Colorado
  

  Presenter: Broox Boze, n/a – Vector Disease Control International
• 9:40am – 9:50am

  Mobile Insectaries: Mosquitos “On the Go”
  

  Presenter: Victoria Hyrczyk, n/a – Clarke
• 9:50am – 10:00am

  A high-tech cinematic journey through the behavioral compendium of Sabethes mosquitoes
  

  Presenter: Robert Hancock, PhD – Metropolitan State University of Denver