Tuesday, 1 August 2006: 1:30 PM-6:00 PM
Executive (Omni Shoreham Hotel)
Contributed Papers Session 2
1:30 PMRole of Macrotermes and its symbionts Termitomyces in nutrient transformation in the forest ecosystem
Gomathi Velu, A. Ramalakshmi, V. Karthika
1:45 PMTermites vs. Entomopathogenic Nematodes: The Pathobiology of a Social Host/Parasite Association
Noah Wilson-Rich, Rebeca B. Rosengaus, Robin J. Stuart
2:00 PMAnalysis of the Breeding Systems of Two Populations of the Subterranean Termite, Reticulitermes flavipes, in the Southern United States
Bernardo Niño, Ed Vargo
2:15 PMReplacement reproductives in orphaned colonies of Reticulitermes flavipes (Isoptera: Rhinotermitidae)
Susan C. Jones, Jerri D. Dombrowski
2:30 PMTermite distribution in South America and its life histories: the data from Atlantic Forest survey and from MZUSP collection
Eliana M. Cancello
2:45 PMEnteric valves of species belonging to the termite genus Macrotermes, with a note on their significance in termite phylogeny
M.S. Akhtar
3:00 PMThe consequences of polyandry for division of labour in the army ant Eciton burchelli
F. Bernhard Kraus, Rodolfo Jaffé, Robin F. A. Moritz
3:15 PMInvasive Pollinators – modeling risks associated with the proposed introduction of Bombus terrestris (the large earth bumblebee) into Australia
Guy M. Williams
3:30 PMBreak
4:00 PMDifferential responses of honey bee (Apis mellifera) patrilines to changes in stimuli for the generalist tasks of nursing and foraging
Nadine C. Chapman, Benjamin P. Oldroyd, William O. H Hughes
4:15 PMThe theory of division of labor in social insects
Samuel N. Beshers
4:30 PMBehavioural test on the attractivity of species specific and non specific male cephalic labial glands secretion on Bombus terrestris virgin queens (Hymenoptera, Apoidea, Apidae)
Viktoria Sinkevich, Muchael Terzo, Pierre Rasmont
4:45 PMGenetically based chemical cues in ants
Jelle S. Van Zweden, Oliver Aehle, Maurice Roux, Patrizia d'Ettorre
5:00 PMRoyal Jelly components as a deterrent for the varroa mite
Falko P. Drijfhout, Nick Calderone
5:15 PMScent trails and response to novelty in cockroaches
Raphael Jeanson, Jean-Louis Deneubourg
5:30 PMForaging ecology and recruitment behavior in the neotropical ant Gnamptogenys moelleri (Formicidae: Ponerinae)
Rodrigo Cogni, Paulo S. Oliveira
5:45 PMExperimental test of fitness: Impacts of Megalomyrmex symmetochus ants on their fungus-growing ant host
Rachelle M. M. Adams, Sara Dewitz
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