Holiday Inn Express Nashville Downtown 920 Broadway Nashville, Tennessee 37203 Telephone: 615-244-0150 Fax: 615-244-0445 Nashville, Tennessee April 16-19, 2012
AGENDA 2012 Annual Imported Fire Ant Conference Nashville, Tennessee Presentations Affiliations are only listed for the first author. Monday, April 16 12:00 5:00 PM Registration Corridor in front of Amphitheater 6:00 8:00 PM Reception Entertainment District Tuesday, April 17 6:30 AM 8:05 AM Breakfast (on your own) 7:00 AM 5:00 PM Registration Corridor in front of Amphitheater Welcome Session (Amphitheater) Steve Powell (Tennessee Dept. of Agriculture) Moderator 8:20 8:30 Welcome, announcements and housekeeping Jason Oliver Tennessee State University 8:30 8:40 Chandra Reddy Dean and Director of Research/Administrator of Extension College of Agriculture, Human and Natural Sciences, TSU 8:40 9:00 Julius Johnson Tennessee Commissioner of Agriculture
Special Session on Invasive Ants 9:00 9:30 Asian needle ant. Pat Zungoli (Clemson University) 9:30 9:50 Invasive crazy ants. David Oi (USDA-ARS Center for Medical, Agricultural, and Veterinary Entomology) 9:50 10:10 Other invasive ants. Karen Vail (University of Tennessee) 10:10 10:20 Wrap up and questions for guest speakers 10:20 10:50 Break and poster/exhibit viewing Entertainment District 10:50 11:05 Update on federal imported fire ant program. Anne-Marie Callcott (USDA-APHIS-PPQ), Charles Brown, Katherine Hough, and Ronald Weeks Other Exotic Invasive Ant Species 11:05 11:20 Impacts and management of Little Fire Ants in Hawaii. C. Vanderwoude (University of Hawaii Pacific Cooperative Studies Unit, Hawaii Ant Lab), M. Montgomery, N. Reimer, B. Sheehan 11:20 11:35 Attempts to manage the invasive European Red Ant, Myrmica rubra. Eleanor Groden (School of Biology and Ecology, University of Maine), Jennifer Lund and Kerry Bernard 11:35 11:50 Adding insult to injury in Texas grasslands: introduced crazy ant extirpates imported fire ant and further reduces native ant and arthropod diversity. Edward G. LeBrun (Section of Integrative Biology, University of Texas at Austin), John Abbott and Lawrence E. Gilbert
11:50 1:30 Lunch provided Entertainment District Ecology Frank Hale (University of Tennessee) Moderator 1:30 1:45 Propagule pressure and colony social organization are associated with the success of fire ant invasion. Chin-Cheng Yang (Master Program for Plant Medicine, National Taiwan University), M. S. Ascunce, L. Z. Luo, C. J. Shih, R. N. Huang and D. D. Shoemaker 1:45 2:00 Impact of red imported fire ant on Mexican rice borer in sugarcane and non-crop habitats. Matthew VanWeelden (Louisiana State University Agricultural Center), T.E. Reagan, J.M. Beuzelin and B.E. Wilson Behavior/Physiology 2:00 2:15 Ontogeny of the fire ant alarm pheromone. Robert Vander Meer (USDA/ARS, CMAVE) and Man-Yeon Choi 2:15 2:30 Introduction of a neurohormone in the fire ants. Man-Yeon Choi (USDA-ARS, CMAVE) and Robert K. Vander Meer 2:30 3:00 Break and poster/exhibit viewing Entertainment District 3:00 3:15 Large-scale analysis of fire ant pheromones: a progress report. Robert Renthal (University of Texas at San Antonio) 3:15 3:30 Sublethal dose insecticides affect fire-ant foraging and recruiting efficiency. Xing Ping Hu (Auburn University)
3:30 3:45 Family ties and fluroescent dyes: searching for nepotism in Solenopsis invicta. Collin C McMichael (Texas A&M University) and Micky D. Eubanks 3:45 4:00 Influence of genetic variation on colony-level foraging behavior of the red imported fire ant. Alison Bockoven (Texas A&M University) and Micky Eubanks 4:00 PM Adjourn 6:00 PM Dinner (on your own) Wednesday, April 18 6:30 AM 8:15 AM Breakfast (on your own) 7:00 AM 12:00 PM Registration Corridor in front of Amphitheater Fire Ant Management (Amphitheater) Alicia Bray (Tennessee State University) Moderator 8:30 8:45 Development of cold temperature techniques for certifying bulk soil for movement: large scale trials. Karen Vail (University of Tennessee Entomology & Plant Pathology), Jennifer Chandler, Jeremy Shoop, Anne-Marie Callcott, Kevin Hoyt and Richard Evans 8:45 9:00 The Lago Santa Fe Fire Ant Project - 10 Years and counting: Assessing continued efficacy of multiple-year applications of Extinguish Plus for fire ant management. Paul R. Nester (Texas AgriLife Extension Service) and Bastiaan Bart M. Drees
Biological Control 9:00 9:15 Colony impacts and host specificity of the red imported fire ant virus SINV-3. Sanford D. Porter (USDA-ARS, CMAVE), Steven M. Valles and David H. Oi 9:15 9:30 The logic of continuing to assemble communities of phorid fly parasitoids for the biological control of imported fire ants. Edward G. LeBrun (Section of Integrative Biology, University of Texas at Austin), Robert M. Plowes and Lawrence E. Gilbert Other Topics 9:30 9:45 Impact of the imported fire ant - Does identification matter? S. Bradleigh Vinson (Texas A&M University) Extension 9:45 10:00 Reinventing Fire Ant extension. Kathy Flanders (Auburn University) and Bart Drees 10:00 10:30 Break and poster/exhibit viewing Entertainment District 10:30 11:30 State, Industry, and Government Reports 11:30 12:00 Business meeting 12:00 1:00 Lunch provided Entertainment District 1:00 3:00 extension Fire Ant Community of Practice Workshop (Part 1) 3:00 PM Adjourn 6:00 PM Dinner (on your own)
Thursday, April 19 (Entertainment District) 6:30 AM 7:45 AM Breakfast (on your own) 8:00 12:00 extension Fire Ant Community of Practice Workshop (Part 2) 3:00 PM Adjourn Poster Presentations 2:00 PM Monday Set-up in the Entertainment District Biological Control 1. Toxicity of alkaloids of red imported fire ant against the green peach aphid. Tahir Rashid (Alcorn State University), Paul McLeod and Jian Chen 2. Arkansas' phorid distribution after 10 years of releases. Kelly Loftin (University of Arkansas), John Hopkins, Doug Petty and Ricky Corder Ecology 3. The ant (Hymeoptera:Formicidae) fauna of the cedar glades and barrens of the Central Basin of Tennessee. JoVonn G. Hill Mississippi Entomological Museum) Fire Ant Management 4. Managing the red imported fire ant on a green roof in Friendswood, TX. Paul R. Nester (Texas AgriLife Extension Service), Anthony W. Camerino and Alejandro A. Calixto 5. Trolling for red imported fire ant (Solenopsis invicta) control efficacy data in the Lone Star State's record-setting hottest, driest year in U. S. history! Paul R. Nester (Texas AgriLife Extension Service), Bastiaan Bart M. Drees and Alejandro A. Calixto
Genetics 6. A novel use of microsatellite markers for distinguishing two imported fire ant species and their hybrid. David C. Cross (Mississippi State University), Rajesh B. Garlapati, Juliet D. Tang, Pummi Singh, Michael A. Caprio Other Exotic Invasive Ant Species 7. Specialized setae and spongiform lobes in Strumigenys and Pyramica ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Joe MacGown (Mississippi State University) and Richard L. Brown 8. Efficacy of hydramethylnon, indoxacarb, and methoprene baits against the little fire ant (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Arnold H. Hara (Univeristy of Hawaii CTAHR), Susan K. Cabral, and Kris L. Aoki Morphology 9. Sensilla of the apex of the maxillary and labial palpi of Solenopsis invicta, Solenopsis richteri, and Nylanderia pubens (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Gerald T. Baker (Mississippi State University) and Richard L. Brown
2012 Imported Fire Ant Conference Planning Committee Tennessee State University Jason Oliver (Committee Chair) Alicia Bray Nick Gawel Holly Hodges Nadeer Youssef University of Tennessee Frank Hale Tennessee Department of Agriculture Gray Haun Steve Powell We also wish to thank Kathy Flanders and Neal Lee for their wonderful assistance with announcements and the meeting website. Hotel Floor Plan See you next year in Virginia!
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