Brief Summary of Minutes of Annual Meeting

We recruited new state representatives for NCERA 220 for states which did not currently have active representation and discussed the need to increase representation of weed biological control in our group.  We established a Drop-box for members to include resources usable by others, mainly for teaching purposes – this includes PowerPoint presentations for classes or guest lectures and biological control images that can be used for educational purposes.  We also established the idea of biological control webinars aimed at students in the region.  These will begin in 2018.  We established the theme for a biological control symposium at the 2018 NCB ESA meeting: Biological Control in Fruit and Vegetables.  We chose the Chair for the next meeting (Matthew O’Neal).

Abram, P. K., K. A. Hoelmer, A. Acebes-Doria, H. Andrews, E. H. Beers, J. C. Bergh, R. Bessin, D. Biddinger, P. Botch, M. L. Buffington, M. L. Cornelius, E. Costi, E. S. Delfosse, C. Dieckhoff, R. Dobson, Z. Donais, M. Grieshop, G. Hamilton, T. Haye, C. Hedstrom, M. V. Herlihy, M. S. Hoddle, C. R. R. Hooks, P. Jentsch, N. K. Joshi, T. P. Kuhar, J. Lara, J. C. Lee, A. Legrand, T. C. Leskey, D. Lowenstein, L. Maistrello, C. R. Mathews, J. M. Milnes, W. R. Morrison, A. L. Nielsen, E. C. Ogburn, C. H. Pickett, K. Poley, J. Pote, J. Radl, P. M. Shrewsbury, E. Talamas, L. Tavella, J. F. Walgenbach, R. Waterworth, D. C. Weber, C. Welty, and N. G. Wiman. 2017. Indigenous arthropod natural enemies of the invasive brown marmorated stink bug in North America and Europe. Journal of Pest Science 90:1009-1020.

Bannerman, J. A., B. P. McCornack, D. W. Ragsdale, N. Koper, and A. C. Costamagna. 2018. Predators and alate immigration influence the season-long dynamics of soybean aphid (Hemiptera: Aphididae). Biological Control 117:87-98.

Bulgarella, M., M. A. Quiroga, R. A. Boulton, I. E. Ramirez, R. D. Moon, C. E. Causton, and G. E. Heimpel. 2017. Life Cycle and Host Specificity of the Parasitoid Conura annulifera (Hymenoptera: Chalcididae), a Potential Biological Control Agent of Philornis downsi (Diptera: Muscidae) in the Galapagos Islands. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 110:317-328.

Delvare, G., G. E. Heimpel, H. Baur, D. D. Chadee, R. Martinez, and S. A. Knutie. 2017. Description of Brachymeria philornisae sp n. (Hymenoptera: Chalcididae), a parasitoid of the bird parasite Philornis trinitensis (Diptera: Muscidae) in Tobago, with a review of the sibling species. Zootaxa 4242:34-60.

Desneux, N., M. K. Asplen, C. M. Brady, G. E. Heimpel, K. R. Hopper, C. Luo, L. Monticelli, K. M. Oliver, and J. A. White. 2018. Intraspecific variation in facultative symbiont infection among native and exotic pest populations: Potential implications for biological control. Biological Control 116:27-35.

Giles, K. L., B. P. McCornack, T. A. Royer, and N. C. Elliott. 2017. Incorporating biological control into IPM decision making. Current Opinion in Insect Science 20:84-89.

Hopper, K. R., K. L. Kuhn, K. Lanier, J. H. Rhoades, K. M. Oliver, J. A. White, M. K. Asplen, and G. E. Heimpel. 2018. The defensive aphid symbiont Hamiltonella defensa affects host quality differently for Aphelinus glycinis versus Aphelinus atriplicis. Biological Control 116:3-9.

Hopper, K. R., K. Lanier, J. H. Rhoades, K. A. Hoelmer, W. G. Meikle, G. E. Heimpel, R. J. O'Neil, D. G. Voegtlin, and J. B. Woolley. 2017. Host specificity of Aphelinus species collected from soybean aphid in Asia. Biological Control 115:55-73.

Jackson, K. A., J. S. McCord, and J. A. White. 2017. A window of opportunity: Subdominant predators can use suboptimal prey. Ecology and Evolution 7:5269-5275.

Lenhart, P. A. and J. A. White. 2017. A defensive endosymbiont fails to protect aphids against the parasitoid community present in the field. Ecological Entomology 42:680-684.

Ogburn, E. C., R. Bessin, C. Dieckhoff, R. Dobson, M. Grieshop, K. A. Hoelmer, C. Mathews, J. Moore, A. L. Nielsen, K. Poley, J. M. Pote, M. Rogers, C. Welty, and J. F. Walgenbach. 2016. Natural enemy impact on eggs of the invasive brown marmorated stink bug, Halyomorpha halys (Stal) (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae), in organic agroecosystems: A regional assessment. Biological Control 101:39-51.

Rincon, D. F., L. A. Canas, and C. W. Hoy. 2016. Intra-plant spatial interaction between Delphastus catalinae (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) and Bemisia tabaci biotype B (Hemiptera: Aleyrodidae) and its effect on predation rates. Biological Control 95:13-22.

Rincon, D. F., L. A. Canas, and C. W. Hoy. 2017. Modeling changes in predator functional response to prey across spatial scales. Theoretical Ecology 10:403-415.

Schmidt, J. M., E. A. Pochubay, J. Tourtois, and M. J. Grieshop. 2017. The inherent complexity of soil and foliar predators for greenhouse biological control. Biological Control 115:46-54.

Tourtois, J., J. G. Ali, and M. J. Grieshop. 2017. Susceptibility of wounded and intact black soldier fly Hermetia illucens (L.) (Diptera: Stratiomyidae) to entomopathogenic nematodes. Journal of Invertebrate Pathology 150:121-129.

Walton, N. J. and M. J. Grieshop. 2016. Video observations of the natural enemies of eggs of codling moth, Cydia pomonella, in apple orchards in Michigan, USA. Entomologia Experimentalis Et Applicata 159:375-377.

Weis, J. J., H. L. Gray, and G. E. Heimpel. 2016. High Hyperparasitism of Cotesia rubecula (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) in Minnesota and Massachusetts. Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society 89:385-389.

Weis, J. J., P. J. Ode, and G. E. Heimpel. 2017. Balancing selection maintains sex determining alleles in multiple-locus complementary sex determination. Evolution 71:1246-1257.

White, J. A., J. S. McCord, K. A. Jackson, A. C. Dehnel, and P. A. Lenhart. 2017. Differential aphid toxicity to ladybeetles is not a function of host plant or facultative bacterial symbionts. Functional Ecology 31:334-339.