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Spring 2009
DEPARTMENT OF ENTOMOLOGY COLLOQUIUM SCHEDULE
1130 Plant Sciences Building, Friday at 12:00 pm
(unless otherwise noted)

 

Date Speaker Host Title

1/30

Spencer Behmer
Dept of Entomology Texas A&M Univ. College Station

Entomology Graduate Students

Insect-plant interactions: a nutritional perspective
                       

2/6

Oswald Schmitz
School of Forestry and Environmental Studies Yale Univ.

Dan Gruner

Multiple Predator Effects on Ecosystem Structure and Function

 

2/13

Marc Rhainds
Dept of Entomology
Purdue University

Bill Fagan

The precarious fate of virgin females: intraspecific variation of mating success and fecundity in three species of bagworms (Lepidoptera: Psychidae)

2/20

 

CANCELLED

 

2/27

Susan Meyer  Nematology Laboratory ARS, USDA,
Beltsville, MD

Cerruti Hooks

Natural Products and Amendments for Management of Plant-Parasitic Nematodes
                         

3/6

Laura Moore Department of Entomology, University of Maryland

Galen Dively

Floral-supplemented Buffer Strips: Source or Sink for Natural Enemies?
                             

3/13

Rachel Pearson Department of Entomology, University of Maryland

Dan Gruner

The nutritional ecology of a salt marsh inhabiting omnivorous katydid

3/20

 

SPRING BREAK

 

3/27

 

CANCELLED

 

4/3

Miles Lepping Department of Entomology, University of Maryland

Paula Shrewsbury

Ground-dwelling Beetles as Bioindicators in Transgenic Corn                   

4/10

Danny Lewis Department of Entomology, University of Maryland

Dan Gruner

Stressed out: Predator vulnerability to abiotic disturbance enhances herbivore outbreaks

4/17

Monica Pava-Ripoll Department of Entomology, University of Maryland

Ray St. Leger

The wonders of entomopathogenic fungi: from modes of diversification, through saprophytic competence to genetic enhancement

4/24

Susan Johnson Department of Entomology University of Maryland

Barbara Thorne

Soldier neotenics of Zootermopsis nevadensis and Archotermopsis sp. (Isoptera:  Termopsidae): Morphology, development, behavior, and evolution

5/1

Evan Grant Department of Entomology, University of Maryland

Margaret Palmer

How dendritic ecological networks structure the distribution and movement of stream salamanders.     

May 8

Susan Lombardi Department of Entomology, University of Maryland

Bill Lamp

Effects of Eastern mudminnow presence on macroinvertebrate communities of Delmarva temporary freshwater wetlands

May 15

Adrianna Szczepaniec,
Department of Entomology, University of Maryland

Mike Raupp

Mechanisms Underlying Outbreaks of Spider Mites Following Applications of a Systemic Neonicotinoid Insecticide, Imidacloprid

Note: This week's seminar will be held at 12:30 pm, 1113 Plant Sciences

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