Dr. Evenden, Ronald Batallas, Asha Wijerathna, and Chaminda Weerddana traveled to sunny Orlando, FL, USA to attend the International Congress of Entomology (ICE) from September 25 – 30. Ronald gave a presentation during the Integrated Pest Management and Sustainable Agriculture: Behavioral Pest Management contributed papers session on “Food-based semiochemicals as a potential tool to assess cutworm moth (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) diversity in prairie agro-ecosystems”. Dr. Evenden presented her poster on “The sublethal effect of microsporidian infection on flight capacity of the forest tent caterpillar, Malacosoma disstria (Lepidoptera: Lasiocampidae)” during the Agriculture and Forest Entomology poster session. Chaminda’s poster on the “Effect of canola infection with clubroot disease on oviposition by the bertha armyworm” won first place in the student poster competition under the category “Insect Chemical Ecology”. Asha’s poster on the “Energy use by the mountain pine beetle (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae) for dispersal by flight” won second place in the student poster competition under the category “Agricultural and Forest Entomology”.
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