NCERA-148


North Central Committee NCERA-148
Migration and Dispersal of Agriculturally-Important Biota

 
 
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2006 Meeting and State Reports

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2006 Annual Meeting

Agenda for the 2006 annual meeting held in State College, PA, October 23-24, 2006

Minutes from the 2006 annual meeting held in State College, PA, October 23-24, 2006

2006 State Reports

Illinois - Joe Spencer, Illinois Natural History Survey, Champaign, IL
Movement of rotation-resistant western corn rootworm beetles from soybean fields to cornfields.
Intra-field movement and mating of male WCR between refuge and YieldGard® Rootworm transgenic corn.
Soybean Aphid Monitoring.

Iowa - Tom Sappington, USDA-ARS, Ames, IA
Effects of gender, age, mating status, and Nosema infection on laboratory flight behavior of European corn borer moths.

Maine - Andrei Alyokhin, University of Maine, Orno, ME
Diurnal patterns in host finding by potato aphids, Macrosiphum euphorbiae (Homoptera: Aphididae).

Michigan - Rufus Isaacs, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI
Quantifying local dispersal of Japanese beetle.

New York - Elson Shields, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
Impact of the remote piloted vehicle (RPV) system on selected research projects:
Wheat Fusarium Head Blight.
Long-range Movement of Corn Pollen.
Long-range Movement of Roundup-resistant Horseweed .
Migration of Potato Leafhopper.

Ohio - Casey W. Hoy, Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center
Spatially explicit simulation: percolation models and emerald ash borer.
Genetic correlation between diamondback moth behavioral responses to insecticides and physiological tolerance in larvae.
Entomopathogenic nematode spatial structure and dispersal in muck soils.
Apple of Peru Invasion Biology.

Pennsylvania - Scott Isard, Penn State University, State College, PA
Towards the integration of monitoring and modeling of migratory lepidoptera.
Escape of soybean rust spores from a soybean canopy.
Microclimate and rate of within field soybean rust spread.
Wet and dry deposition of soybean rust urediniospores.
Adhesion of Phakopsora pachyrhizi urediniospores to soybean.
Evaluation of spore trapping as an early warning system.
Winter scouting of kudzu for soybean rust.
Ensemble aerobiology modeling of soybean rust spread.

Texas - John Westbrook, USDA-ARS, College Station, TX
Early-season dispersal of cotton fleahoppers relative to atmospheric factors.
NSF-ITR: Advanced imaging and information technology for assessing the ecological and economic impact of brazilian free-tailed bats on agroecosystems.

 

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