10-min: P-IE, Weed Biocontrol

Moderator(s)

• NW

  Natalie West

  Research Ecologist
  ARS
  USDA-ARS
  Sidney, Montana
• AP

  Adryenna Perez

  Senior Laboratory Technician
  Vector Borne Diseases
  University of Texas
  Mission, Texas

Presentations:

• 1:00 PM – 1:12 PM MST

  Impact and morphology of Megastigmus transvaalensis on the Brazilian peppertree in the Rio Grande Valley
  

  Presenting Author: Adryenna Danielle Perez – University of Texas

  Co-Author: Christopher J. Vitek – University of Texas

  Co-Author: Daniel Flores – USDA-APHIS
• 1:12 PM – 1:24 PM MST

  Herbivore priority effects and impacts on the Brazilian peppertree biological control agent Pseudophilothrips ichini (Thysanoptera: Phlaeothripidae)
  

  Presenting Author: Dale Allen Halbritter (he/him/his) – USDA-ARS

  Co-Author: Jorge Leidi – USDA-ARS

  Co-Author: Carly Cogan – USDA-ARS

  Co-Author: Miriam Gaeta-Robles – USDA-ARS

  Co-Author: Kamarri Davis – USDA-ARS
• 1:24 PM – 1:36 PM MST

  Mass releases of Megamelus scutellaris in south Florida for biocontrol of waterhyacinth
  

  Presenting Author: Sebastian W. Palmieri (he/him/his) – University of Florida

  Co-Author: Megan Reid – University of Maryland

  Co-Author: Lyn Gettys – University of Florida

  Co-Author: Melissa Smith – USDA-ARS
• 1:36 PM – 1:48 PM MST

  Progress towards the biological control of invasive knotweed species in Massachusetts
  

  Presenting Author: Jeremy Catalin Andersen – University of Massachusetts
• 1:48 PM – 2:00 PM MST

  Variation in the impact of biological control on leafy spurge is associated with agent abundance
  

  Presenting Author: Natalie M. West – USDA-ARS

  Co-Author: John F. Gaskin – USDA-ARS

  Co-Author: Tatyana A. Rand – USDA-ARS

  Co-Author: Joseph Milan – BLM