| 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 |