Arthropod Pest Management in Large Scale Agroecosystems

Organizer(s)

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  Ashleigh Faris

  Instructional Assistant Professor
  Department of Entomology
  Texas A&M University
  College Station, Texas
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  Gary Hein

  University of Nebraska
  Lincoln, Nebraska
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  Michael Brewer

  Professor
  Department of Entomology
  Texas A&M AgriLife Research
  Corpus Christi, Texas

Regional row-crop pests are drivers of pest management in large-scale agroecosystems. Here we focus on insect pest regulation by pest interactions with its host plant and natural enemies as influenced by landscape-scale processes. Researchers will highlight how they have adapted and transformed management practices of row-crop pests in large systems.

View our on-demand presentations, then join us in-person for live presentations and discussion.

Presentations:

• 1:30 PM – 1:35 PM MT

  Introductory remarks
• 1:35 PM – 2:10 PM MT

  Natural enemy response to the invasive sugarcane aphid across the sorghum agroecosystem of North America: A four region comparison
  

  Presenting Author: Michael J. Brewer – Texas A&M AgriLife Research

  Co-author: Norman Elliott – USDA-ARS

  Co-Author: Isaac L. Esquivel – University of Florida

  Co-author: Alana Lynn Jacobson – Auburn University

  Co-author: Adrianna Szczepaniec – Colorado State University

  Co-author: Ashleigh M. Faris – Texas A&M University

  Co-author: Kristopher Giles – Oklahoma State University

  Co-author: Blake Elkins – Texas A&M

  Co-author: John Gordy – Syngenta Crop Protection LLC
• 2:10 PM – 2:30 PM MT

  Ecology of aphid parasitoids in winter wheat habitats of the Southern Plains: How latitude and crop diversity influence pest management
  

  Presenting Author: Kristopher Giles – Oklahoma State University

  Co-author: Norman Elliott – USDA-ARS

  Co-author: Tom Royer – Oklahoma State University

  Co-author: Haley Butler – Oklahoma State University

  Co-Author: Nina Rudin – Oklahoma State University, Entomology and Plant Pathology

  Co-author: Kristen A. Baum – Oklahoma State University
• 2:30 PM – 2:50 PM MT

  Soybean gall midge: Understanding a new and emerging pest of soybean
  

  Presenting Author: Justin Justin McMechan – University of Nebraska

  Co-Author: Erin W. Hodgson – Iowa State University

  Co-author: Bruce D. Potter – University of Minnesota Extension

  Co-Author: Adam J. Varenhorst – South Dakota State University, Brookings, SD

  Co-author: Thomas E. Hunt – University of Nebraska

  Co-author: Robert Wright – University of Nebraska-Lincoln
• 2:50 PM – 3:10 PM MT

  Break
• 3:10 PM – 3:30 PM MT

  Host use in cotton agroecosystems and the evolution of insecticide resistance in Frankliniella fusca
  

  Presenting Author: Alana Lynn Jacobson – Auburn University

  Co-author: Anders Huseth – North Carolina State University

  Co-author: Thomas Chappell – Texas A&M University

  Co-author: George Kennedy – North Carolina State University
• 3:30 PM – 3:50 PM MT

  Western corn rootworm resistance to Bt corn within the midwestern agricultural landscape
  

  Presenting Author: Aaron J. Gassmann – Iowa State University

  Co-Author: Ram Shrestha – Iowa State University

  Co-Author: Coy St. Clair – Genective
• 3:50 PM – 4:10 PM MT

  Spatial interactions and management implications of the mite-virus complex in winter wheat
  

  Presenting Author: Gary Hein – University of Nebraska

  Co-Author: Elliot A. Knoell – UNL

  Co-Author: Justin McMechan – University of Nebraska

  Co-Author: Lindsay Overmyer – University of Nebraska

  Co-author: Abby Stillwell – USDA-APHIS
• 4:10 PM – 4:15 PM MT

  Closing remarks