Gerhard Gries

Professor
Simon Fraser University
Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada

Presentation(s):

• Polarization-sensitive photoreceptors affect the visual choices of stable flies

  Sunday, November 13, 2022
  3:06 PM – 3:18 PM PT

• 1st Place: Do the locomotion: Bimodal alarm signals of Western carpenter ants alter locomotory responses of nestmates

  Monday, November 14, 2022
  9:48 AM – 10:00 AM PT

• 2nd Place: Characterizing the multi-modal host cue complex that attracts stable flies, Stomoxys calcitrans

  Monday, November 14, 2022
  8:00 AM – 8:12 AM PT

• 1st Place: Conductive and convective heat, but not infrared radiation, mediate stable fly, Stomoxys calcitrans, and horn fly, Haematobia irritans, alighting and probing responses on thermally different targets

  Monday, November 14, 2022
  8:12 AM – 8:24 AM PT

• Conspecific presence increases the attractiveness of visual targets to host-seeking stable flies, Stomoxys calcitrans

  Monday, November 14, 2022
  8:24 AM – 8:36 AM PT

• Different spider, similar signal - Identification of sex pheromone components produced by female triangulate cobweb spiders, Steatoda triangulosa

  Monday, November 14, 2022
  8:36 AM – 8:48 AM PT

• Discovery and seasonal abundance of a new pheromone component produced by western black widow spiders, Latrodectus hesperus

  Monday, November 14, 2022
  8:48 AM – 9:00 AM PT

• Investigating the relative importance of reflective intensity, colour, and polarization characteristics of visual cues for stable fly, Stomoxys calcitrans, attraction

  Monday, November 14, 2022
  9:12 AM – 9:24 AM PT

• 1st Place: Do surface semiochemicals mediate object recognition and ensuing behavioral decisions by ants?

  Monday, November 14, 2022
  8:24 AM – 8:36 AM PT

• Development and testing of a lethal food bait for its ability to cause nest demise of pest ants

  Monday, November 14, 2022
  8:00 AM – 8:12 AM PT

• Attraction of horn flies,Haematobia irritans, to cattle host semiochemicals

  Monday, November 14, 2022
  10:42 AM – 10:54 AM PT

• 1st Place: Blacklegged ticks, Ixodes scapularis, sense and avoid ant-frequented areas

  Monday, November 14, 2022
  11:06 AM – 11:18 AM PT

• Microbe-mediated attraction of stable flies to host cattle

  Monday, November 14, 2022
  11:18 AM – 11:30 AM PT

• Old widows lie about their age – sexual conflict and mate-choice manipulation in false black widow spiders

  Monday, November 14, 2022
  11:30 AM – 11:42 AM PT

• 1st Place: Sexually dimorphic flicker fusion and wing flash frequencies in stable flies and horn flies: A potential basis for augmenting light traps

  Monday, November 14, 2022
  11:18 AM – 11:30 AM PT

• Characterization of antimicrobial activity and antimicrobial peptide expression by bed bugs in response to gram-positive and gram-negative bacterial infections

  Wednesday, November 16, 2022
  9:00 AM – 9:12 AM PT

• Catch-all pheromone lure for Agriotes and Limonius pest click beetles in North America

  Wednesday, November 16, 2022
  2:12 PM – 2:24 PM PT

• Click beetle sex pheromones for wireworm management and ecological studies in Canada

  Wednesday, November 16, 2022
  2:36 PM – 2:48 PM PT

• Spectral sensitivity of North American pest click beetle species (Coleoptera: Elateridae) and their behavioural responses to different wavelengths of light

  Wednesday, November 16, 2022
  3:20 PM – 3:32 PM PT

• Progress and prospects in the management of Limonius pests in the Pacific Northwest

  Wednesday, November 16, 2022
  3:56 PM – 4:08 PM PT