Grad 10-min Competition: P-IE, IPM - Horticulture

Moderator(s)

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  David Olson

  Technical Advisor
  The Davey Tree Expert Company
  Albany, New York
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  Sally Nelson (she/her/hers)

  Extension Educator & Program Manager
  Pesticide Safety and Environmental Education
  University of Minnesota Extension
  St. Paul, Minnesota

Presentations:

• 10:30 AM – 10:42 AM MST

  Alternative reduced risk insecticides for the management of the stone fruit borer complex in tart cherry production
  

  Presenting Author: Ignatius Putra Andika – Michigan State University

  Co-Author: Keith Koonter – Michigan State University

  Co-Author: David Mota-Sanchez, Ph.D. – Michigan State University

  Co-Author: John C. Wise – Michigan State University
• 10:54 AM – 11:06 AM MST

  Finding balance: squash bug thresholds, pesticide frequency, and toxicity to beneficial insects in cucurbit cropping systems
  

  Presenting Author: Breh Ruger (she/her/hers) – The Ohio State University

  Co-Author: Ashley B. Leach – The Ohio State University

  Co-Author: Ian Kaplan – Purdue University
• 11:06 AM – 11:18 AM MST

  Gut reactions: Bees and their love-hate relationship with cucurbit pollen
  

  Presenting Author: Courtney May Walls (she/her/hers) – Virginia Tech

  Co-Author: T'ai Roulston (he/him/his) – University of Virginia

  Co-Author: Margaret J. Couvillon – Virginia Tech

  Co-Author: Thomas P. Kuhar – Virginia Tech

  Co-Author: James Wilson – Virginia Tech

  Co-Author: Chin-Cheng Scotty Yang – Virginia Tech
• 11:18 AM – 11:30 AM MST

  Overwintering of flower thrips in blueberry crops
  

  Presenting Author: Rosan Adhikari – University of Georgia

  Co-Author: Ashfaq Sial – University of Georgia
• 11:30 AM – 11:42 AM MST

  Plants attacked above-ground by leaf-mining flies change below-ground microbiota to enhance plant defense
  

  Presenting Author: Yang Gao – Zhejiang University
• 11:42 AM – 11:54 AM MST

  Quantifying the distribution of oak lecanium scale, Parthenolecanium corni Bouché and P. quercifex Fitch, infestations on landscape willow oak (Quercus phellos L.) trees and resultant consequences for tree condition
  

  Presenting Author: Benjamin Knowlton (he/him/his) – University of Kentucky

  Co-Author: Caleb J. Wilson – University of Kentucky
• 11:54 AM – 12:06 PM MST

  Reevaluating filbertworm, Cydia latiferreana Walsingham (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae), phenology for improved degree day modeling
  

  Presenting Author: Natalie Renee Lareau – Oregon State University

  Co-Author: Abigail Dhone – Oregon State University

  Co-Author: Nik Wiman – Oregon State University

  Co-Author: Erica Rudolph – FMC Corporation
• 12:06 PM – 12:18 PM MST

  Selecting insectary plants for improving beneficial insects and pest management in southern vegetable production
  

  Presenting Author: Pragya Kiju – Clemson University

  Co-Author: Tom Bilbo – Clemson University