Spring 2007 Seminar Schedule:

Date	Speaker	Title
Feb. 2	Dr. Jerry Howard Department of Biology UNO	"Aboveground harvest, belowground processing linking foraging tasks in leaf -cutting ants"
Feb. 9	Dr. Janice Bossart Dept. of Biological Sciences Southeastern Louisiana Univ.	"Butterfly Communities in Afrotropical Forest Fragments: Area and edge Effects
Feb. 16	Room not Available
Feb. 23	Mr. Julien Beuzelin Department of Entomology LSU	"Effects of Hurricane Rita Storm Surge on Arthropod Abundance in Louisiana Sugarcane"
March 2	Capt. Stanton Cope Medical Service Corps US Navy	"Yellow Fever - The Scourge Revealed"
March 9	Dr. Fangneng Huang Department of Entomology LSU	"Detection and Monitoring of Insect Resistance to transgenic Bt Crops"
March 16	Mr. Sunil Tewari Department of Entomology LSU	"The Impact and Interaction of Samea multiplicalis (Lepidoptera Pyralidae) and Crtobagous salviniae (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) on common salvinia in South Louisiana"
March 23	Mr. Josh Temple Department of Entomology LSU	"Evaluating Precision Agricultural Technologies in a Louisiana Cotton Insect Pest Management System"
March 30	Mr.Eric Ott Department of Entomology LSU	"Chemical Ecology, Fungal Interactions, and Forest Stand Correlations of the Asian Ambrosia Beetle"
April 6	Spring Break- No Classes
April 13	Miss Isik Unlu	"Evaluation of Surveillance Techniques"
April 18 11:30 am in Room A101	Dr. Peter Cranston Department of Entomology UC-Davis	"A decade of entomologizing in southern Africa -with insights into wood-mining Gondwanian midges"
April 20	Mrs. Ana Maria S. Cuadra Department of Entomology LSU	"Non-target effect of Karate on Mosquitoes in Rice Fields"
April 27	Mr. Andrew Mackay Department of Entomology LSU	"Evaluation of Potential Vectors of West Nile Virus in eat Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana"

 

Annual Crawfish Boil

The Entomology Club’s annual crawfish boil will be held on Saturday April 21^st at the 4-H Building on Ben Hur Rd.  The event will be held from 1- 5pm.  All entomology club members, students, faculty, and staff are invited to attend.  Your Entomology club dues cover the crawfish boil.  If you have not paid your club dues ($10) this year please see Jason Hamm or any of the other officers.  All guests will be required to pay $5 to attend the boil.  We encourage you to bring your favorite dessert, snack, etc. We hope to see all of you at the boil this year.  We will be placing a sign up sheet in the mail room and we ask everyone to sign up by April 18^th so we can make sure to have plenty of crawfish.

 Awards:
The L.D. Newsom Award in honor of Boyd Professor L.D. Newsom is annually presented to the outstanding M.S. and Ph.D. student in the Department of Entomology. The award is based on academic performance, research activity, and overall contributions to the department, University, and professional societies. The award provides $1000 cash.

Congratulations to Mr. Xiaoyi Wu who received the First Place Award for the Ph.D. Student Competition for Poster Presentation at the Annual Meeting of the Louisiana Agricultural Sciences Association. His poster compared the performance of seven commercial Bt corn hybrids against a Cry1Ab-resistant strain of sugarcane borer.

28 March 2007
Mr. Julien Beuzelin (Ph.D. student with Dr. Gene Reagan) received the First Place Award for the PhD Student Competition for Oral Presentations at the Annual Meeting of the Louisiana Agricultural Sciences Association.  His talk addressed the impact of the Hurricane Rita storm surge on abundances of sugarcane borer and its predators.