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D3286: Environmental effects on alfalfa leafcutting bee reproductive success in field domiciles across the nesting season

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

D3132: The use of endangered midwestern prairie and savanna ecosystems by bumble bees of conservation concern

D3293: Role of sensory response thresholds in bumble bee foraging specialization

D3023: Evaluating microbial interactions that determine microbiome composition using a gnotobiotic cockroach model (Periplaneta americana)

D3012: Abundance of American dog ticks, Dermacentor variabilis (Say), on Manitoba cattle pastures in relation to favorable environmental characteristics and tick-cattle interactions

D3203: Tick management properties of common yarrow (Achillea millefolium L.) essential oil against Ixodes scapularisand Dermacentor variabils ticks (Acari: Ixodidae)

D3219: Surveilling potential and emerging tick-borne threats along the US-Mexico border

D3218: Sterile insect release for control of apple maggot

D3253: Evaluation of botanical oils for novel repellent device of the Asian citrus psyllid, Diaphorina citri Kuwayama (Hemiptera: Psyllidae)

D3429: Mesocosm studies of three commercial mycoinsecticide strains against the citrus pest, Diaphorina citri

D3439: Effect of processed kaolin sprays on Diaphorina citri population and Huanglongbing incidence in large citrus areas

D3441: Murraya paniculata as a trap crop border to reduce Diaphorina citri population and HLB incidence in commercial citrus orchards

D3244: Exploring pest mitigation research and management associated with the North American wood packaging supply chain: What and where are the weak links?

D3226: Comparison of three PCR-based methods for detection of SNP associated with pesticide-resistance

D3329: Human landing collections can be replaced by an effective mosquito trap

D3061: Phytohormones and their effects on aster leafhopper behavioral responses

D3123: Effects of phytoplasma infection on aster leafhopper settling behaviour, oviposition, and development

D3338: Datamining, prediction and validation of putative antimicrobial peptides from the common bed bug, Cimex lectularius

D3391: Insect herbivory has significant effects on cannabinoid and terpene levels in industrial hemp (Cannabis sativa)

Epidemiology of beet curly top virus and purple top phytoplasma in the Northern Columbia Basin of Washington State

D3133: A little help from my friend: Virus infection reduces susceptibility of beet leafhoppers to neonicotinoid insecticides

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

Investigating the impact of a human decomposition facility on local blow fly (Diptera: Calliphoridae) diversity

D3108: A literature review on the effects of heavy metals on the development of blow flies (Diptera: Calliphoridae)

A thorn in the side of cricket farming - do dermestid hastisetae affect cricket fitness traits?

D3363: Physiological effects of gram-negative bacterial infection on black soldier fly reared on potato substrate

D3009: Repellent efficacy of 21 essential oils from the EPA’s Minimum Risk Pesticides list on yellow fever mosquitoes and deer ticks using three different contact-repellency assays

D3203: Tick management properties of common yarrow (Achillea millefolium L.) essential oil against Ixodes scapularisand Dermacentor variabils ticks (Acari: Ixodidae)

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

D3331: Analyzing the effects of Borrelia recurrentis infection on the body louse immune system

Breaking new ground for biological control in mulberry: Typhlodromus (Anthoseius) transvaalensis to counter Polyphagotarsonemus latus and Pseudodendrothrips darci

D3060: Evaluating brown marmorated stink bug, Halyomorpha halys (Stål) (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae), feeding preferences among hazelnut varieties and attraction to select hazelnut volatiles

D3259: Inputs and cotton profitability

D3339: Differences in life-history strategies may explain the rapid displacement of native black widows by invasive brown widows in urban southern California

Elevated CO2 has variable effects on plant-insect interactions

D3212: Imaging challenges in surveying the egg development of caterpillar larvae (Trichoplusia ni) and parasitoids (Trichogramma brassicae) in vivo: Preliminary original results obtained with micro-CT scanning technology

D3402: New entomology projects at St. John's Research and Development Centre

D3184: Adaptive role of cannabinoids in hemp-herbivore interactions

D3278: Transcriptional response of cannabis aphid to different hemp cultivars

Interference of cocklebur weevil with Dectes development in sunflowers may have a positive impact on soybeans

D3227: CRISPR/CAS9 editing of a female-specific odorant receptor in codling moth, Cydia pomonella (L.)

D3024: Investigation of the use of synthetic elicitors on potato crops for management of the Colorado potato beetle and green peach aphids

D3354: Temperature changes contribute to variations in levels of transcripts with relevance to small non-coding RNAs in the Colorado potato beetle

D3088: Field relevant exposure of bumble bee (Bombus impatiens) microcolonies to assess impacts of local and landscape sources of pesticides

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

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

D3044: Direct and indirect effects of entomopathogenic fungi on generalist predators of whiteflies

D3185: Chemical control strategies to manage corn earworm, Helicoverpa zea, in hemp

D3369: Conservation biological control in Vip3A X Cry1Ab Bt protected sweet corn and its non-Bt isogenic hybrid using native perennial plants or pasture borders in Franklin County, Kentucky

2nd Place: Trends in Helicoverpa zea populations across a late-season trapping network in North Carolina, USA

Combined taxonomic, morphometric, and molecular characters contrubute to the identification of Paracentrobia (Hymenoptera: Trichogrammatidae), an egg parasitoid that develops in different leafhopper pests

Evaluation of a push-pull system for diamondback moth (Lepidoptera: Plutellidae) management in cabbage

D3097: Origin of invasive species Melanoplus differentialis in the South Korea

D3065: Does the number of resin ducts predict survival of tamarack (Larix laricina) from outbreaks of eastern larch beetle (Dendroctonus simplex)?

D3244: Exploring pest mitigation research and management associated with the North American wood packaging supply chain: What and where are the weak links?

D3251: Comparison of European corn borer emergence between pheromone trapping and degree-day modeling in North Dakota

D3369: Conservation biological control in Vip3A X Cry1Ab Bt protected sweet corn and its non-Bt isogenic hybrid using native perennial plants or pasture borders in Franklin County, Kentucky

D3134: Can drought shield hay grasses from fall armyworm pest?

D3268: Targeted sequencing to screen for resistance to Cry proteins from Bacillus thuringiensis in the fall armyworm, Spodoptera frugiperda (J. E. Smith)

D3318: Development of a loop-mediated isothermal amplification assay for the fall armyworm, Spodoptera frugiperda (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae), using species-specific sequences

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

D3074: Automated scouting, data visualization, and a growing degree day model enhances filbertworm (Lepidoptera : Tortricidae) monitoring in Oregon hazelnuts

D3416: Climate change-mediated variation in diet for an outbreaking forest defoliator: Impacts on insect disease and implications for pest management

D3207: The rising threat of Formosan subterranean termites: Range expansion and increasing activities in Alabama

Prevalence of major urban pests in low-income housing

D3332: Antimicrobial peptide expression in the cockroach gut during enterobacterial infection is specific and influenced by type III secretion

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

D3024: Investigation of the use of synthetic elicitors on potato crops for management of the Colorado potato beetle and green peach aphids

D3374: Impact of cyclaniliprole and flonicamid on green peach aphid and its natural enemies Aphidius colemani and Hippodamia convergens

D3075: Characterizing the active space of pheromone traps for Spruce Budworm and Lymantria dispar

D3464: PACH-ed with species: Parsing a cryptic species complex (Hemiptera: Psylloidea: Pachypsylla)

D3464: PACH-ed with species: Parsing a cryptic species complex (Hemiptera: Psylloidea: Pachypsylla)

Investigating the impact of a human decomposition facility on local blow fly (Diptera: Calliphoridae) diversity

D3062: Species diversity and proportional nesting guilds of bees in native wildflower plantings established in orchard ecosystem

D3200: Histological confinement of transglutaminase-mediated nit sheath crosslinking is essential for proper oviposition and egg coating in the human head louse, Pediculus humanus capitis

D3378: More than 15 years of mass rearing and releasing Laricobius spp. in the battle against hemlock woolly adelgid

D3409: Effects of imidacloprid for hemlock woolly adelgid (Adelges tsugae) control on non-target pollinator communities in eastern hemlock (Tsuga canadensis) forests in southwest Nova Scotia, Canada

D3135: Development and validation of a novel real-time PCR assay for rapid detection of hemp russet mite

D3135: Development and validation of a novel real-time PCR assay for rapid detection of hemp russet mite

D3180: Tallies of hemp russet mite using digital images

D3184: Adaptive role of cannabinoids in hemp-herbivore interactions

D3179: Natural enemies of Nipaecoccus viridis (Newstead) in Florida citrus

Diagnosis and management of American foulbrood in honey bee colonies

D3062: Species diversity and proportional nesting guilds of bees in native wildflower plantings established in orchard ecosystem

D3087: Evaluating genotypic and phenotypic strain variation among honey bee gut bacterial isolates

D3109: Examining the role of the central complex and mushroom bodies in reversal colour learning in honey bees

D3111: Multimodal learning of compound stimuli in honey bees

D3194: Evaluation of Varroa destructor mite control options in Apis mellifera honey bee colonies established with queen cells

D3196: Probiotics composed of native gut bacteria reduce the deleterious effects of microbiota perturbation in honey bees

D3208: Behavioural responses to volatiles by Varroa destructor mites within a western honey bee (Apis mellifera) colony

D3234: Comparative analysis of Nosema infection level in individual bees vs. pooled honey bee samples

D3235: Impact of rearing honey bee queens (Apis mellifera) in pesticide-contaminated wax on brain gene expression

D3237: Urbanization effects on beekeeper practices Apis mellifera colonies

D3287: Evidence of exploitative competition between honey bees and native bees in two California landscapes

D3310: Adaptive Bee Breeders Alliance: Building comb between the field and the lab - from Castle to Castle

D3353: Sensitivity of solitary bee species: Evaluation of oral toxicity of the neonicotinoid insecticide thiamethoxam to two Osmia species

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

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

2nd Place: D3089: Honeybee pollinated plants on Guam

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

D3310: Adaptive Bee Breeders Alliance: Building comb between the field and the lab - from Castle to Castle

D3028: Biological and geological processes governing insect fossilization

D3006: Evaluation of non-nutritive sweeteners for potential use as phagostimulants in house fly baits

Feeding choice and performance of the generalist Spodoptera exigua and the specialist Pieris rapae are modified by glucosinolate profile variation in genetically modified lines of Arabidopsis thaliana

D3186: Evaluating different nitrogen rates on hemp growth and insect damage

D3187: Laboratory-based efficacy tests of select registered pesticides for use on hemp against noctuid pests

D3188: Parasitic fauna impacting larvae of the corn earworm on hemp in eastern Tennessee

D3189: Parasitism of corn earworm by two tachinid flies in cultivated hemp

D3190: Population dynamics of insect pests on hemp in Alabama

D3191: Role of parasitoids for corn earworm management on hemp

D3261: Kudzu bug (Megacopta cribraria) and associated egg parasitoids emergence rates in Alabama are predicted by weather indices

D3341: Does the source matter for SIT? No effects of x-ray vs gamma irradiation on sterilization or sterile male performance in the mosquito Aedes aegypti

D3037: Beauveria bassiana effects on wireworm survival and behaviour

D3402: New entomology projects at St. John's Research and Development Centre

D3428: Management of Madeira mealybug, Phenacoccus madeirensis (Green) (Hemiptera: Pseudococcidae), on ornamental coleus with new insecticides

D3212: Imaging challenges in surveying the egg development of caterpillar larvae (Trichoplusia ni) and parasitoids (Trichogramma brassicae) in vivo: Preliminary original results obtained with micro-CT scanning technology

D3368: Biological control of western bean cutworm, releasing Trichogramma wasps in corn fields

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

Influence of fig fruit ripeness on navel orangeworm egg deposition and larval development

D3177: Corn rootworm extension in Iowa...by the numbers

D3407: Description of four Vespa mandarinia (Hymenoptera: Vespidae) nests collected in Washington State, USA

Oviposition preferences of Culex pipiens and Culex restuans and improving species-specific surveillance methodology

D3333: Assessing the susceptibility of Culex pipiens (Culicidae) mosquitoes to insect-specific virus infections

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

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

D3028: Biological and geological processes governing insect fossilization

D3305: Molecular and niche modeling approaches to identify potential amplifying hosts for an emerging tick-borne pathogen Rickettsia 364D, the causative agent of Pacific Coast Tick Fever

D3437: Utilizing remote sensing technologies to monitor and quantify spider mite (Tetranychus spp.) damage California almonds (Prunus dulcis)

D3157: Mechanical mode of invasion of the fungus Cordyceps militaris on larvae of the painted lady butterfly, Vanessa cardui

D3433: Lygus sampling comparisons for faba bean in western Canada

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

D3403: Spatial mapping by ordinary kriging using mathematical restricted variogram model parameters of Bemisia tabaci in tomato greenhouses

D3140: Microbe-mediated stabilization of mosquito-pitcher plant interactions

D3362: pBurs RNAi influences the immunity and growth-related gene expression in the red flour beetles, Tribolium castaneum

Are ants good organisms to teach elementary students about invasive species?

D3175: The effect of ant-produced compounds on microbes

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?

D3266: Sampling Oebalus spp. in rice fields: Within-field distribution with consideration of clumping pattern of the rice stink bugs

D3080: Finding rice varietal resistance to rice water weevil and fall armyworm

D3132: The use of endangered midwestern prairie and savanna ecosystems by bumble bees of conservation concern

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

D3265: Risk factors influencing seedcorn maggot occurrence in Quebec field crops

Breaking new ground for biological control in mulberry: Typhlodromus (Anthoseius) transvaalensis to counter Polyphagotarsonemus latus and Pseudodendrothrips darci

D3237: Urbanization effects on beekeeper practices Apis mellifera colonies

D3381: Susceptibility of the small hive beetle to new generations of insecticides and selected fungal pathogens

D3102: Genomic and morphological evolution of stress tolerant shore flies (Diptera: Ephydridae)

D3015: Characterization and evaluation of extracellular vesicles as anti-tick vaccine candidates

D3201: Medicated corn bait to control fever ticks, Boophilus microplus, on urban deer

Yeast-mediated RNAi of selected lethal genes for mosquito control

D3329: Human landing collections can be replaced by an effective mosquito trap

D3298: Changepoint analysis of lambda-cyhalothrin efficacy against soybean aphid (Aphis glycines Matsumura): Identifying practical resistance from field efficacy trials

D3424: Feeding preferences of spotted lanternfly on tree of heaven and maple in Switzerland County, Indiana

Can the floral volatile methyl benzoate protect blueberry from spotted-wing drosophila?

D3057: Ecological-based pest management for tarnished-plant bug (Lygus lineolaris) and spotted-wing drosophila (Drosophila suzukii) in day-neutral strawberries (Fragaria x ananassa)

D3081: Soluble nitrogen fertilizers for spotted-wing drosophila management on fruit waste

D3120: Toluene exposure causes changes in egg production and offspring development in Drosophilia melanogaster

D3395: Ovipositional deterrent/repellent capabilities of naturally existing methyl benzoate and its analogs to manage Drosophila suzukii

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

D3075: Characterizing the active space of pheromone traps for Spruce Budworm and Lymantria dispar

Overwintering sites and natural enemies of squash bugs in cucumber greenhouses in Quebec, Canada

D3430: Overwintering sites and spring emergence patterns of flea beetle (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) in organic vegetable farms in Quebec

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

D3275: Overexpression of caffeoyl coenzyme-A O-methyltransferase provides enhanced sorghum resistance to sugarcane aphids

D3044: Direct and indirect effects of entomopathogenic fungi on generalist predators of whiteflies

D3377: Integrating entomopathogenic fungi and entomopathogenic nematodes for the management of the sweetpotato whitefly, Bemisia tabaci

D3377: Integrating entomopathogenic fungi and entomopathogenic nematodes for the management of the sweetpotato whitefly, Bemisia tabaci

D3440: Increasing whitefly populations in the Central Valley of California lead to introduction and establishment of whitefly-transmitted viruses in melon

Combining visual cues and pheromones for the monitoring and management of tarnished plant bug, Lygus lineolaris (Hemiptera: Miridae)

D3057: Ecological-based pest management for tarnished-plant bug (Lygus lineolaris) and spotted-wing drosophila (Drosophila suzukii) in day-neutral strawberries (Fragaria x ananassa)

D3078: Effects of simulating injury by tarnished plant bug, Lygus lineolaris, to terminal growth and pre-floral buds on cotton growth and yield in South Carolina

D3433: Lygus sampling comparisons for faba bean in western Canada

D3183: Investigating the underappreciated biodiversity of Solenopsis thief ants

Elevated CO2 has variable effects on plant-insect interactions

D3214: Melanization and Toll share regulatory serine proteases in eggs of Manduca sexta

D3405: Understanding the effects of flooding stress on tomato plant physiology and plant-herbivore interactions

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

D3259: Inputs and cotton profitability

D3175: The effect of ant-produced compounds on microbes

D3033: The two-spotted lady beetle, Adalia bipunctata L. (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) and increased rearing temperatures: Effects on larval development, alkaloid production and microsporidiosis

D3437: Utilizing remote sensing technologies to monitor and quantify spider mite (Tetranychus spp.) damage California almonds (Prunus dulcis)

D3460: Hawaiian seed bugs and their microbes: A story of evolution and adaptation

D3041: Effects of cover crops and entomopathogenic nematodes on corn rootworm survival and feeding injury to corn

D3142: Survival of an ear-feeding caterpillar, western bean cutworm (Striacosta albicosta), in integrated vs. structured refuge of Vip3A-expressing Bt maize

D3252: Conceptual model of adult western corn rootworm (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) movement ecology

D3346: An environmental risk assessment of IPD079Ea: A protein derived from Ophioglossum pendulum with activity against Diabrotica spp. in corn

D3368: Biological control of western bean cutworm, releasing Trichogramma wasps in corn fields

D3339: Differences in life-history strategies may explain the rapid displacement of native black widows by invasive brown widows in urban southern California

D3177: Corn rootworm extension in Iowa...by the numbers

D3094: Host preference of searching parasitic thatch ant queens

D3073: Assessment of awns and hairy glumes in spring wheat lines as a form of resistance against the orange wheat blossom midge, Sitodiplosis mosellana (Géhin) (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae)

D3457: Determining the population genetic structure and reconstructing invasion routes of wheat midge (Sitodiplosis mosellana) on the Canadian prairies

D3452: A high-quality, long-read genome assembly of the whitelined sphinx moth (Lepidoptera: Sphingidae: Hyles lineata)

D3016: Effects of persistent infection with cell-fusing agent virus on the transmission potential of Zika virus in Aedes aegypti

D3158: Metagenomic analysis of Aedes aegypti viromes

D3217: Regulatory effects of insulin and NPY-like signaling on mosquito attraction to humans

D3364: Selection of a superior strain of the yellow mealworm, Tenebrio molitor Linnaeus (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae)

D3009: Repellent efficacy of 21 essential oils from the EPA’s Minimum Risk Pesticides list on yellow fever mosquitoes and deer ticks using three different contact-repellency assays

D3372: Field observations and genetic surveillance to identify predators of emerging leaf beetle invader