IDEAs — I D E A ologica Entom l Soci he etie f t s o g o f in Ca et n e ad M a l a a n u d n n O A n t t a n r i i o o J IDÉE I D — E É Table of Contents Conference Floor Plan......................................... inside front cover Schedule of Events ......................................................... 4 Program — Symposia, Contributed Papers, President’s Prize Sessions................ 6 Monday 20 October - Morning............................................ 6 Monday 20 October - Afternoon........................................... 7 Tuesday 21 October - Morning........................................... 10 Tuesday 21 October - Afternoon ......................................... 11 Wednesday 22 October - Morning ........................................ 14 Awards.................................................................. 16 Entomological Society of Canada Gold Medal............................... 16 Médaille d’or de la Société d’entomologie du Canada......................... 16 Norman Criddle Award Recipient 2008 .................................... 20 Gagnant du Prix Norman Criddle 2008 .................................... 21 General Information....................................................... 22 Oral Presentation Abstracts / Résumés des présentations orales.................... 24 Poster Abstracts / Résumés des affiches ....................................... 87 ESC–ESO Society Officers — 2008 .......................................... 112 Index to Authors......................................................... 113 JAM Organizing Committee, Acknowledgements..........................last page Photographs by Jay Cossey......................................inside back cover List of Sponsors..............................................outside back cover JAM2008 3 Schedule of Events For an explanation of the room names and ballroom abbreviations (A,B,C), and their locations, please check the Crowne Plaza floor plan, inside front cover. FUNCTION BR STRT END Friday 17th AAFC Biological Control Working Group meeting - CEF, KW Neatby 8:30 17:00 Saturday 18th Initial ESC Governing Board Meeting – Capitale Room 8:30 17:00 Biology and Biological Control of Established Invasive Plants in Canada — External 8:00 17:00 Symposium — Rob Bourchier – Brookfield Room #1 Sunday 19th Registration – Lower Level: Lower Lobby 9:00 19:00 Audio visual room (open for uploading) – Convention Level: Bytowne Room 9:00 13:00 ESO Incoming and outgoing board meeting – Penthouse Level: Panorama Room 8:00 12:00 Opening Session, ESC Awards, Gold Medal Address, Plenary Session 13:00 17:00 – Convention Level: Grand Salon Introduction — John Huber, Peggy Dixon, Rebecca Hallett, Paul Fields (introducing Gold 13:00 13:30 Medal Address) Bernie Roitberg — Gold Medal Recipient Address — Think Broad, Focus Sharp 13:30 14:00 Plenary Session Moderator: Jeff Skevington 14:00 17:00 Maydianne Andrade — Sexual selection drives plasticity in an extreme mating system 14:00 14:45 Coffee break – Convention Level: Foyer 14:45 15:15 John Heraty — Passion for Parasitoids: 30 years with eucharitids 15:15 16:00 Dan Janzen — How to DNA barcode the tropical wild world and endow it as well; the 16:00 16:45 Area de Concervación Guanacaste example from northwest Costa Rica Closing comments 16:45 17:00 Audio visual room (open for uploading) – Bytowne Room 17:00 19:00 Canadian Forum for Biological Control – Convention Level: Grand Salon 18:00 19:00 Student mixer – Penthouse: Panorama Room 19:00 20:00 General reception – Penthouse: Panorama & Pinnacle Rooms 20:00 22:30 Monday 20th Registration – Lower Level: Lower Lobby 7:00 19:00 Audio visual room (open for uploading) – Victoria Room 7:00 10:00 President's Prize Session (PP1) — Forestry and Systematics — Moderator: Jade A 8:00 12:00 Savage Insect Pests of Grapevine Symposium — Coordinators: C. Oliver and C. Vincent B 8:15 12:00 Graduate Student Symposium — Coordinators: Chris Borkent and Greg Smith C 9:00 12:00 Coffee break – Foyer Ballroom Lobby 10:00 10:30 Poster session C 10:30 19:00 Audio visual room (open for uploading) – Victoria Room 12:00 13:00 Editorial Board meeting – Bytowne Room 12:00 14:00 Exhibitors – Foyer Ballroom Lobby 8:30 18:00 Silent auction – Foyer Ballroom Lobby 8:30 18:00 JAM2008 4 FUNCTION BR STRT END President's Prize Session (PP2) — Ecology — Moderator: Kenna MacKenzie A 13:00 18:30 President's Prize Session (PP3) — Biodiversity — Moderator: Owen Lonsdale B 13:00 18:00 Celebrating 60 years of Research Collaboration Between CABI and Canada Symposium — C 13:00 17:00 Coordinator: Peter Mason Coffee break – Foyer Ballroom Lobby 15:00 15:30 Audio visual room (open for uploading) – Victoria Room 16:00 18:00 ESC Annual General Meeting A 17:00 18:00 ESC Final Governing Board meeting A 18:00 18:30 President's reception – Penthouse: Pinnacle Room 20:15 22:15 CABI Anniversary – Penthouse: Panorama Room 18:00 20:00 Tuesday 21st Registration – Lower Level: Lower Lobby 8:00 19:00 Audio visual room (open for uploading) – Victoria Room 7:30 9:30 Silent auction – Foyer Ballroom Lobby 8:00 18:00 Poster session C 8:00 19:00 Contributed papers — Ecology — Moderator: Peggy Dixon A 8:15 12:00 Canadian Insect Collections — Their Role in Support of National and International B 8:40 11:15 Biodiversity Research (Symposium) — Coordinator: Steve Marshall Contributed Papers — Agriculture — Moderator: Juliana Soroka C 8:15 12:00 Coffee break – Foyer Ballroom Lobby 10:00 10:30 ESO Annual General Meeting A 12:00 13:00 Contributed Papers — Forestry and Agriculture — Moderator: Kevin Floate A 13:00 17:00 Contributed Papers — Systematics and Conservation — Moderator: Matthias Buck B 13:00 17:00 President's Prize Session (PP4) — Agriculture, Physiology and Education — Moderator: C 13:00 18:00 Shi-you Li Coffee break – Foyer Ballroom Lobby 15:00 15:30 Audio visual room (open for uploading) – Victoria Room 16:00 18:00 Cash bar – Foyer Ballroom Lobby 18:00 19:00 Banquet (includes presentation of awards) – Ballrooms AB 19:00 22:00 Heritage Lecture — Stewart Peck AB 20:30 21:30 Wednesday 22nd Audio visual room (open for uploading) – Victoria Room 7:00 8:00 Registration – Lower Level: Lower Lobby 8:00 12:00 Biological Survey of Canada Symposium — Coordinator: Andrew Smith A 8:00 9:45 Invasive Species Symposium — Coordinators: Hume Douglas and Vasily Grebennikov B 8:15 12:00 Digital Entomology Symposium (Biodiversity Informatics) — Coordinator: David C 8:15 12:00 Shorthouse Coffee break – Foyer Ballroom Lobby 10:00 10:30 Biological Survey of Canada – Brookfield Room #1 13:00 18:00 Thursday 23rd Biological Survey of Canada – Brookfield Room #1 9:00 18:00 JAM2008 5 Program — Symposia, Contributed Papers, President’s Prize Sessions Authors, Titles of Presentations, Timing Listed by Time and Event Monday 20 October - Morning Session 1 President's Prize Session (PP1) — Forestry and Systematics — Moderator: Jade Savage 08:00 12:00 — Ballroom A C. J. Borkent, T. A. Wheeler Natural history and systematics of Leptomorphus (Diptera: 08:00 Mycetophilidae). J. Gibbs Lasioglossum (Apoidea, Halictidae): an ideal group for studying the 08:15 evolution of cleptoparasitism? M. Bergeron What’s in your Dung? A Revision of the New World Coproica. 08:30 J. F. Gibson, J. H. Skevington A phylogeny of the genera of Conopidae (Diptera) based on mtDNA 08:45 and nrDNA. D. Jack, J. McLean, G. Can nitrogen fertilizer increase the natural defense of mature 09:00 Weetman lodgepole pine trees against mountain pine beetle attack? B. Mader, E. Despland, E. Effect of parental dietary pressure on the feeding behavior of the F1 09:15 Bauce and F2 generations of spruce budworm larvae Choristoneura fumiferana (Clem.) (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae). M. D. Jackson, J. H. A Taeni, Tiny Problem: Preliminary revisionary work on the genus 09:30 Skevington, S. A. Marshall Taeniaptera (Diptera: Micropezidae). J. Klymko, S. A. Marshall A revision of the New World Curtonotidae (Diptera). 09:45 Coffee break 10:00 J. J. Mlynarek, T. A. Wheeler Testing the monophyly of the Tribe Elachipterini (Diptera: 10:30 Chloropidae). J. H. Kits, S. A. Marshall A revision of the Archiborborini (Diptera: Sphaeroceridae). 10:45 C. Butt Influence of balsam fir (Abies balsamea L. Mill.) budburst phenology 11:00 on hemlock looper Lambdina fiscellaria (Guen.). A. Thielman, F. Hunter Analysis of potential cryptic Anopheles (Diptera: Culicidae) species in 11:15 Canada using morphological and molecular data. J. Dombroskie Quantifying gestalt: Towards an interactive matrix-based key to 11:30 Canadian lepidopteran subfamilies. J. J. Wilson Novel genes or new taxa for molecular phylogenetic reconstruction in 11:45 Lepidoptera? Session 2 Insect Pests of Grapevine Symposium — Coordinators: C. Olivier and C. Vincent — Ballroom B 8:15 12:00 C. Vincent, J. Lasnier, N. J. Bostanian Canadian vineyards: keen interest, increasing protection 08:15 problems. H. Goulet, N. J. Bostanian, P., C. Ground beetle diversity in Canadian vineyards. 08:30 Vincent, J. Lasnier, P. Bouchard, C. Boudreault P. Bouchard, L. Lesage, H. Goulet, N. Weevils (Coleoptera: Curculionoidea) in Quebec vineyards. 08:45 J. Bostanian, C. Vincent, A. Zmudzinka, J. Lasnier JAM2008 6 F. Bensadia, C. Vincent, Y. Mauffette, Response of the grape berry moth (Endopiza viteana) to 09:00 J. Lasnier different grape cultivars. C. Olivier, T. Lowery, L. Stobbs, C. Phytoplasma diseases in Canadian grapevine. 09:15 Vincent, J. Saguez, B. Galka, L. Bittner, K. Whybourne René Sforza Invasive arthropods in European viticulture. 09:30 Coffee break 10:00 D. Thomas Lowery