Grad 10-min Competition: SysEB, Ecology

Moderator(s)

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  Melissa Reed

  Postdoc
  Entomology and Plant Pathology
  Oklahoma State University
  Stillwater, Oklahoma
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  Karly Regan (she/her/hers)

  Field Development Manager
  Certis Biologicals
  Sunderland, Massachusetts

Presentations:

• 10:30 AM – 10:42 AM MST

  Evaluation of the role of dung beetles and adaptive multi-paddock grazing in reducing horn fly populations in Oklahoma
  

  Presenting Author: Rodrigo Martins Soares – Oklahoma State University

  Co-Author: Wyatt Wyatt Hoback (he/him/his) – Oklahoma State University

  Co-Author: Justin Talley – Oklahoma State University

  Co-Author: Michael Cavallaro – City of Bullhead
• 10:42 AM – 10:54 AM MST

  Factors related to bumblebee parasitism in urban and wild Wyoming
  

  Presenting Author: Amy Marie Storey – University of Wyoming

  Co-Author: Lusha M. Tronstad, Ph.D. – University of Wyoming

  Co-Author: Linda van Diepen – University of Wyoming
• 10:54 AM – 11:06 AM MST

  Host location strategy shapes the host range a biological control agent of the avian vampire fly
  

  Presenting Author: Alyssa T. Gooding – University of Minnesota

  Co-Author: Maria Perez – Charles Darwin Foundation

  Co-Author: Paolo Piedrahita – Escuela Superior Politecnica del Litoral

  Co-Author: Charlotte Causton – Charles Darwin Foundation

  Co-Author: George E. Heimpel – University of Minnesota
• 11:06 AM – 11:18 AM MST

  Resource use of cavity-nesting bees in Colombia’s tropical savannas
  

  Presenting Author: Dario Guevara Plata (he/him/his) – Universidad Militar Nueva Granada

  Co-Author: Lucía Lucia Aguilar Benavides – Universidad Militar Nueva Granada

  Co-Author: Víctor Hugo González (he/him/his) – University of Kansas
• 11:18 AM – 11:30 AM MST

  Surveillance and detection of Haemaphysalis longicornis (Acari: Ixodidae) in protected areas from Georgia, USA
  

  Presenting Author: Eleanor M. Fausett – University of California
• 11:30 AM – 11:42 AM MST

  Using radio telemetry to study bumble bee (Bombus spp.) nesting habitat
  

  Presenting Author: Sophia M. Gulutzo (she/her/hers) – Colorado State University

  Co-Author: John Mola – Colorado State University
• 11:42 AM – 11:54 AM MST

  Vegetation structure and time since fire predict the presence of the regal fritillary butterfly (Speyeria idalia) in Missouri
  

  Presenting Author: Tiffany Perron (she/her/hers) – University of Central Missouri

  Co-Author: Daniel Marschalek – University of Central Missouri