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1st Place: D3011: Using ancient DNA to identify past ranges of Rhipicephalus sanguineus lineages in Arizona

2nd Place: D3000: Get a whiff of this! The chemical language of volatile organic compounds

1st Place: D3003: Ticks of Kentucky: Pathogens and population breakdown

2nd Place: D3007: Mechanisms and contributing factors of insecticide resistance of West Nile virus vectors in Illinois

2nd Place: D3013: Blacklegged ticks, Ixodes scapularis (Say) (Ixodida: Ixodidae), abundance and distribution on pastures in Manitoba, Canada

1st Place: D3019: Spatiotemporal variation in black fly (Simulium sp.) species during and after a vesicular stomatitis virus outbreak in southern New Mexico

1st Place: D3022: Do pollen-borne microbes benefit juvenile growth and survival in the solitary bee, Megachile rotundata

2nd Place: D3025: Non-consumptive effects of an insect predator on the dynamics of its prey's disease

2nd Place: D3034: Unintended antibiotic target: The (honey bee) reproductive microbiome

1st Place: D3035: Verson’s gland gene expression analysis in the fall armyworm implicates its function in molting and antimicrobial response during metamorphosis

2nd Place: D3038: Classical biological control of spotted-wing drosophila: Will introduced natural enemies be able to survive cold Canadian winters?

1st Place: D3042: Enhancing biological control by ground beetles (Coleoptera: Carabidae) through agricultural drainage ditch management practices

2nd Place: D3046: Biodiversity after the burn: Understanding pollinator communities after stand replacing wildfires in BC's central interior

1st Place: D3051: Insect pests & natural enemies associated with outdoor cannabis production in Ontario, Canada

1st Place: D3059: Foraging preference of cigarette beetle and rice weevil when dispersing to novel food patches with and without microbes

2nd Place: D3064: The green screen: Utilizing the hemp virome to screen germplasm for resistance to emerging viruses and viroids in hemp

2nd Place: D3067: Enhancing sugar beet breeding efforts by identifying mechanisms and genes conferring curly top resistance

1st Place: D3071: Performance of Bemisia tabaci MEAM1 (Hemiptera: Aleyrodidae) on weed and cultivated species

1st Place: D3079: Evaluating the impact of at-plant termination of a cereal rye cover crop with different corn planting dates on arthropod activity

2nd Place: D3083: The effects of floral strips on crop yield, quality, and profitability for highbush blueberry (Vaccinium corymbosum) in Delta, British Columbia

1st Place: D3084: Bumble bee pathogens across an urban to rural gradient

2nd Place: D3089: Honeybee pollinated plants on Guam

1st Place: D3093: Correlates of native bee extinction risk in fragmented habitats

2nd Place: D3099: The effects of resource competition and virus transmission between honey bees and native bees

2nd Place: D3101: Comparative genomics of Anax (Odonata: Aeshnidae)

1st Place: D3103: Insect genotype drives differential gene expression in a protective bacterial symbiont

1st Place: D3112: Reassessing the presence of tick-borne pathogens transmitted by the seabird tick Ixodes uriae in Gulf of Maine seabird colonies

2nd Place: D3113: The effect of urban road salts on West Nile virus vector mosquito (Culex sp.) sex ratios

2nd Place: D3116: Experience-dependent development of the visual system in Camponotus floridanus ants

1st Place: D3118: Ommochrome pigments in wings and eyes of the monarch butterfly and its white morph (Danaus plexippus nivosus L., Nymphalidae)

2nd Place: D3127: Spider safari: Floral associations of old field Araneae

1st Place: D3129: The early flower gets the pollinator: Investigating the influences of seasonality and nutrient additions on floral resources and pollinators in a long-term ecological experiment

1st Place: D3137: Direct and indirect effects of drought and host plant species on the oleander aphid (Aphis nerii)

2nd Place: D3139: Impact of entomopathogenic nematodes and cover crops on western corn rootworm management and predatory arthropod communities

2nd Place: D3151: Understanding connections between diets of honeydew insects and fire ants in longleaf pine savannas of North Carolina

1st Place: D3152: What abiotic or biotic factors are affecting ants in longleaf pine savannas in North Carolina?

2nd Place: D3153: Assembly of highly heterochromatic cactophilic Drosophila genomes

1st Place: D3156: Is the gut-microbiome of Odonata more ecologically or evolutionarily derived: Here’s our gut feeling!

1st Place: D3165: Effects of landscape isolation on bumble bee population genetics

2nd Place: D3166: Lovebugs (Diptera: Bibionidae: Plecia nearctica) repel honey bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae; Apis mellifera) from feeding stations