SECOND ANNUAL LSU ENTOMOLOGY DEPARTMENT
GRADUATE STUDENT SYMPOSIUM
Friday October 7, 2011
Life Sciences Building Annex 465
(Plant Pathology Conference Room)
8:30 – 9:06 SYSTEMATICS, EVOLUTION AND BIODIVERSITY
8:30 Diversity of saproxylic Coleoptera in Great Smokey Mountains National Park. Ferro, M. L. & C. E. Carlton.
8:42 Small-scale spatial heterogeneity and β-diversity: examining differences in community structure Within a backwater swamp infested by Salvinia minima Baker. Parys, K. A. & S. J. Johnson.
8:54 The rafting behavior of the red imported fire ant. Adams, B., L. Hooper-Bui, R. Strecker & D. O’Brien.
9:06 - 9:54 MEDICAL URBAN VETERINARY ENTOMOLOGY AND
INTEGRATIVE PHYSIOLOGY & MOLECULAR INSECT SYSTEMS
9:06 Reduction in the number of Formosan subterranean termite colonies contributing to alate swarms in the French Quarter, New Orleans. Simms, D. M., & C. Husseneder.
9:18 Survival rate, food consumption and tunneling of the Formosan subterranean termite feeding on Bt and no-Bt maize. Wang, Cai., G. Henderson & F. Huang.
9:30 Effects of caste on the constitutive and induced expression of genes associated with immunity and detoxification in Formosan subterranean termites. Simms, D. M., & C. Husseneder.
9:42 The complete mitochondrial genome of four Liromyza species (Diptera: Agromyzidae). Fei, Y., Y-Z, Du, J-M, Cao & F. Huang.
9:54 – 10:12 BREAK
10:12 – 11:48 PLANT-INSECT ECOSYSTEMS
10:12 Aspects of the chemical ecology of the rice stink bug, Oebalus pugnax (Heteroptera: Pentatomidae) and implications for the development of novel management strategies. Hamm, J. & M. J. Stout.
10:24 The toxicity of thiamethoxam as a seed treatment chemical against rice water weevil in rice. Lanka, S. K. & M. J. Stout.
10:36 Characterizing variation in resistance among commonly grown rice cultivars in Louisiana against sugarcane borer, Diatraea saccharalis. Sidhu, J. K. & M. J. Stout.
10:48 Effects of the BP oil spill on the ant community on coastal dunes in Louisiana. Chen, X., B. Adams & L. Hooper-Bui.
11:00 Assessing stink bug-induced injury on soybean seed. Moore-Parker, J. L., J. H. Temple & B. R. Leonard.
11:12 Evaluating methoxyfenozide efficacy against regional soybean looper populations. Brown, S. A., J. Davis, B. R. Leonard, M. O. Way, K. Tindall, C. Allen & A. Richter.
11:24 Effect of Ipomoea host plants on stylet penetration behavior of Myzus persicae (Sulzer). Wosula, E. F., J. A. Davis, C. Clark.
11:36 Occurrence and larval movement of sugarcane borer, Diatrea saccharalis (F.) in mixed plantings of corn expressing pyramided Cry proteins. Wangila, D.S., B. R. Leonard, M. N. Ghimire, K. Emfinger, L. Zhang, Y. Bai, F. Yang, G. P. Head, F. Huang
DISPLAY SESSION - PLANT-INSECT ECOSYSTEMS AND MEDICAL URBAN VETERINARY ENTOMOLOGY
DSP 1 Larval survival and plant injury of Cry 1 Ab-susceptible, -resistant, and –heterozygous genotypes of the sugarcane borer on transgenic corn containing single or pyramided Bt genes. Wangila, D.S., B. R. Leonard, M. N. Ghimire, Y. Bai, L. Zhang, F. Huang
DSP 2 Effect of the alarm pheromone of rice stink bugs, Oebalus pugnax, on the in vitro germination and development of the entomopathogenic fungi Beauveria bassiana and Metarhizium anisopliae. Hamm, J., M. L. Milks, J. R. Fuxa, M. K. Leptich, A. R. Richter and M. J. Stout.
DSP 3 Relative humidity preference and survival of starved Formosan subterranean termites (Isoptera: Rhinotermitidae) st various temperature and relative humidity conditions. Gautam, B. K. & G. Henderson.
12:15 – 1:30 LUNCHEON AND AWARDS CEREMONY, LSB A 465
Sponsors: Bengal Products, Inc.
DuPont Crop Protection
Pioneer Hi-Bred International
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I recently got this photo in my email with a humors "Oh buggy one.... what is this in my garden?" and thought you'd all enjoy the photo. It appears to be a "Hummingbird Moth" in the family Sphingidae and they apparently love Stevie's Lilac Tree! (Photo taken in Northern Virginia)
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Bug Jokes from the ESA Meeting
Wednesday, January 13, 2010 bug jokes, entomological society of america, ESA, funny, insects
Dr. Zhaorigetu Chen Sings at the ESA's Annual Meeting
entomological society of america, entomology, LSU, singing
LSU's own Dr. Zhaorigetu Chen Sings at the ESA's Annual Meeting in Indianapolis.
Random buggy news...
Thursday, September 10, 2009 art, book review, entomology, insects, links, math, pestival
* BibliOddesy has a neat collection of vintage illustrations from bee/apiculture literature with links to some other resources. (LINK)
* PESTIVAL was held from the 3rd-6th of September in the UK and featured all sorts of cool insect inspired art. Check out their website (LINK).
* A new book out called "The Math Book: From Pythagoras to the 57th Dimension, 250 Milestones in the History of Mathematics" by Clifford Pickover has a neat exerpt that talks about cicadas:
Cicada-Generated Prime Numbers
Cicadas are winged insects that evolved around 1.8 million years ago during the Pleistocene epoch, when glaciers advanced and retreated across North America. Cicadas of the genus Magicicada spend most of their lives below the ground, feeding on the juices of plant roots, and then emerge, mate, and die quickly. These creatures display a startling behavior: Their emergence is synchronized with periods of years that are usually the prime numbers 13 and 17. (A prime number is an integer such as 11, 13, and 17 that has only two integer divisors: 1 and itself.) During the spring of their 13th or 17th year, these periodical cicadas construct an exit tunnel. Sometimes more than 1.5 million individuals emerge in a single acre; this abundance of bodies may have survival value as they overwhelm predators such as birds that cannot possibly eat them all at once.
Some researchers have speculated that the evolution of prime-number life cycles occurred so that the creatures increased their chances of evading shorter-lived predators and parasites. For example, if these cicadas had 12-year life cycles, all predators with life cycles of 2, 3, 4, or 6 years might more easily find the insects. Mario Markus of the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Physiology in Dortmund, Germany, and his coworkers discovered that these kinds of prime-number cycles arise naturally from evolutionary mathematical models of interactions between predator and prey. In order to experiment, they first assigned random life-cycle durations to their computer-simulated populations. After some time, a sequence of mutations always locked the synthetic cicadas into a stable prime-number cycle.
Of course, this research is still in its infancy and many questions remain. What is special about 13 and 17? What predators or parasites have actually existed to drive the cicadas to these periods? Also, a mystery remain as to why, of the 1,500 cicada species worldwide, only a small number of the genus Magicicada are known to be periodical.
* PESTIVAL was held from the 3rd-6th of September in the UK and featured all sorts of cool insect inspired art. Check out their website (LINK).
* A new book out called "The Math Book: From Pythagoras to the 57th Dimension, 250 Milestones in the History of Mathematics" by Clifford Pickover has a neat exerpt that talks about cicadas:
Cicada-Generated Prime Numbers
Cicadas are winged insects that evolved around 1.8 million years ago during the Pleistocene epoch, when glaciers advanced and retreated across North America. Cicadas of the genus Magicicada spend most of their lives below the ground, feeding on the juices of plant roots, and then emerge, mate, and die quickly. These creatures display a startling behavior: Their emergence is synchronized with periods of years that are usually the prime numbers 13 and 17. (A prime number is an integer such as 11, 13, and 17 that has only two integer divisors: 1 and itself.) During the spring of their 13th or 17th year, these periodical cicadas construct an exit tunnel. Sometimes more than 1.5 million individuals emerge in a single acre; this abundance of bodies may have survival value as they overwhelm predators such as birds that cannot possibly eat them all at once.
Some researchers have speculated that the evolution of prime-number life cycles occurred so that the creatures increased their chances of evading shorter-lived predators and parasites. For example, if these cicadas had 12-year life cycles, all predators with life cycles of 2, 3, 4, or 6 years might more easily find the insects. Mario Markus of the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Physiology in Dortmund, Germany, and his coworkers discovered that these kinds of prime-number cycles arise naturally from evolutionary mathematical models of interactions between predator and prey. In order to experiment, they first assigned random life-cycle durations to their computer-simulated populations. After some time, a sequence of mutations always locked the synthetic cicadas into a stable prime-number cycle.
Of course, this research is still in its infancy and many questions remain. What is special about 13 and 17? What predators or parasites have actually existed to drive the cicadas to these periods? Also, a mystery remain as to why, of the 1,500 cicada species worldwide, only a small number of the genus Magicicada are known to be periodical.
Wednesday, September 9, 2009
bot,
entomology,
fly,
human,
removal
Very cool vlog about a human bot fly.
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Very cool vlog about a human bot fly.
"Stevie's Bug"
Tuesday, May 26, 2009 Humming Bird Moth VirginiaI recently got this photo in my email with a humors "Oh buggy one.... what is this in my garden?" and thought you'd all enjoy the photo. It appears to be a "Hummingbird Moth" in the family Sphingidae and they apparently love Stevie's Lilac Tree! (Photo taken in Northern Virginia)
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