A Better Tomorrow: Understanding Human Impacts on Insect Biology

Organizer(s)

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  Chloe Hawkings (she/her/hers)

  Assistant Professor, Entomology Undergraduate Program Director
  Entomology
  Rutgers University
  New Brunswick, New Jersey
• GT

  Grayson Tung

  PhD Student
  Department of Entomology
  Rutgers University
  Milltown, New Jersey

Humans inadvertently affect insects through changing their environments and creating novel selective pressures. This symposium examines our impact on insect biology. To ensure a better tomorrow, research on the dynamics of insect biology in relation to human activity is essential to conserve healthy ecosystems, biodiversity, and food security.

Presentations:

• 9:30 AM – 9:35 AM MST

  Introductory remarks
  

  Presenting Author: Chloe Hawkings (she/her/hers) – Rutgers University
• 9:35 AM – 9:55 AM MST

  Aliens in the Anthropocene: Invasive plants as a driver of global insect decline
  

  Presenting Author: Adam Mitchell – Tarleton State University

  Co-Author: Andrea Litt – Montana State University

  Co-Author: Douglas Tallamy – University of Delaware
• 9:55 AM – 10:15 AM MST

  Insecticides, more than herbicides, land use, and climate, are associated with declines in butterfly species richness and abundance in the American Midwest
  

  Presenting Author: Jeffrey Pippen (he/him/his) – Georgetown University

  Co-Author: Leslie Ries – Georgetown University
• 10:15 AM – 10:35 AM MST

  Ecological and genetic impacts of climate change during winter: Inferences from Ae. albopictus diapause
  

  Presenting Author: Peter Armbruster – Georgetown University

  Co-Author: Mara Heilig – Georgetown University

  Co-Author: Samantha Sturiale (she/her/hers) – Georgetown University

  Co-Author: Adalgisa Caccone – Yale University

  Co-Author: Luciano Cosme – Yale University

  Co-Author: Alexandra Mushegian – Georgetown University

  Co-Author: Sarah Marzec – Georgetown University

  Co-Author: Jiangnan Shen – Yale University

  Co-Author: Hongyu Zhao – Yale University
• 10:35 AM – 10:55 AM MST

  All the world's an oven: How rapidly warming temperatures are impacting bumble bee communities and the pollination services they provide
  

  Presenting Author: Jeremy Hemberger – University of California
• 10:55 AM – 11:15 AM MST

  Break
• 11:15 AM – 11:35 AM MST

  The impact of urbanization on seasonal responses in mosquito abundance and disease transmission dynamics
  

  Presenting Author: Megan Meuti – The Ohio State University

  Co-Author: Lydia Fyie (she/her/hers) – The Ohio State University

  Co-Author: Mary Margaret Gardiner (she/her/hers) – The Ohio State University
• 11:35 AM – 11:55 AM MST

  Physiology evolves convergently but lags behind warming in cities
  

  Presenting Author: Ryan Martin (he/him/his) – Case Western University
• 11:55 AM – 12:15 PM MST

  Phenology, weather, and the intercontinental movement of non-native tree pests via international trade
  

  Presenting Author: Thomas Paul – The Ohio State University
• 12:15 PM – 12:20 PM MST

  Closing remarks
  

  Presenting Author: Chloe Hawkings (she/her/hers) – Rutgers University