NCERA-148


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

 
 
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2004 Meeting and State Reports

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2004 Annual Meeting

Agenda for the 2004 annual meeting held in Tucson, AZ, October 17-19, 2004

Minutes from the 2004 annual meeting held in Tucson, AZ, October 17-19, 2004

NCR148 Renewal - what do we plan to do in the next four years?

NCR148 Highlights - what did we do between 1999 and 2003?

2004 State Reports

Arizona - David Byrne, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
Flight behavior and dispersal of whiteflies and their parasitoids.

Illinois - Joe Spencer, Illinois Natural History Survey, Champaign, IL
Behavior and ecology of western corn rootworm beetles moving between corn and rotated crops.
Intra-field movement of western corn rootworm beetles in cornfields.
Measuring intrafield movement in WCR ascending from Illinois cornfields.
Soybean aphid monitoring.

Iowa - Rick Hellmich and Tom Sappington, USDA-ARS, Ames, IA
Tracking insects with harmonic radar: a case study.
Characterization of western corn rootworm population structure, and potential for indirect estimates of dispersal using molecular markers.
Dispersal patterns of newly-emerged European corn borer from corn.

Maine - Andrei Alyokhin, University of Maine, Orno, ME
Effect of environmental perturbations on on-soil movement of potato aphid, Macrosiphum euphorbiae.
Long-range dispersal of imidacloprid-resistant Colorado potato beetles.

Michigan - Rufus Isaacs, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI
Mark-recapture of painted grape leaves.
Distribution and movement of Japanese beetles in Michigan blueberry farms.
Regional distribution of Japanese beetles (with Scott Isard).

Minnesota - Rob Vennette, USDA Forest Service, St. Paul, MN
Influence of host density on dispersal of a spacialist parasitoid.
Weather patterns influence seasonal abundance of green peach aphid and spread of potato leafrollvirus in the northern Great Plains.
Population dynamics of soybean aphid.
Weed hosts influence dynamics of corn rootworm larvae.

Nebraska - Gary Hein, University of Nebraska, Scottsbluff, NE
Spread of wheat curl mite and wheat streak mosaic virus is influenced by volunteer wheat control methods.

Pennsylvania - Scott Isard, Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA
Development and deployment of forecasting models for wheat fusarium head blight.
Detecting northeast flight patterns of migratory Lepidoptera.

Texas - John Westbrook, USDA-ARS, College Station, TX
Aerial predator-prey activity: bats and moths.
Radio tracking of stink bugs.

 

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