| University of Kentucky Entomology |
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| Date | Presenter | Title |
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| Jan 16 | John Obrycki University of Kentucky Department of Entomology | Welcome, introductions, departmental update, and comments from the dean on the role/future of entomology |
| Jan 23 | John Obrycki University of Kentucky Department of Entomology | The Asian lady beetle in North America |
| Jan 30 | Michael Singer University of Texas at Austin | Butterfly diet evolution at three spatial scales: population, metapopulation, species |
| Feb 6 | Geoff Morse University of Massachusetts |
Ecological and evolutionary diversification in the bruchine seed beetles |
| Feb 13 | Susan Riechert | The genetics of size: From good genes to social selection |
| Feb 20 | Richard Goyer Louisiana State University | Defoliation by the baldcypress leafroller and its relationship to multiple stress agents in Louisiana swamplands |
| Feb 27 | Kiyoshi Hiruma University of Washington | Hormonal regulation of cuticular melanization in the tobacco hornworm, Manduca sexta |
| Mar 5 | Bryony Bonning | Basement membranes and recombinant baculovirus insecticides |
| Mar 12 | Robert J. O'Neil Department of Entomology Purdue University | Identifying the role of natural enemies in the dynamics of a new invasive species, the soybean aphid |
| Mar 19 | SPRING BREAK | |
| Mar 26 | Bob Mathews University of Georgia | Behavioral ecology of Mellitobia, an unusual parasitoid wasp |
| Apr 2 | Sonja Brannon University of Kentucky Department of Entomology (Exit seminar) | Factors Relevant to Potential Commercial Rearing of the Heteropteran Predator Geocoris uliginosus (Say): Cannibalism and Photoperiodic Induction of Reproductive Diapause |
| Apr 9 | Tonja Wilkins University of Kentucky Department of Entomology (Exit seminar) | Mechanisms of Indian Meal Moth Resistance to Bt Transgenic Corn |
| Apr 16 | Jamee Hubbard University of Kentucky Department of Entomology (Exit seminar) | Biology and Management of Calico Scale on Kentucky Horse Farms |
| Apr 23 | TBA | |
| Apr 30 | Karen Friley University of Kentucky Department of Entomology (Exit seminar) | Biological control of the European corn borer, Ostrinia nubilalis, by inundative releases of the parasitic wasp, Trichogramma ostriniae in bell peppers |
| May 7 | Ezra Schwartzberg University of Kentucky Department of Entomology (Exit seminar) | Wax Structures as a Cuticular Defense of Scymnus louisianae (Coleoptera:Coccinellidae) against Aphid-Tending Ants |
