2007 North Central Branch C.V. Riley Award

ZB Mayo, University of Nebraska

2007 North Central Branch Award of Merit

Mike Culy, Dow AgroSciences

ESA-NCB Award of Excellence in Integrated Pest Management

Gerald Wilde, Kansas State University

ESA-NCB Recognition Award in Entomology

Ed Grafius, Michigan State University

ESA-NCB Recognition Award in Urban Entomology

Michael Dryden, Kansas State University

ESA-NCB Distinguished Achievement Award in Extension

William Hutchison, University of Minnesota

ESA-NCB Distinguished Achievement Award in Teaching

Greg Zolnerowich, Kansas State University

Congratulations to the following 2007 ESA-NCB student award winners:

J. H. Comstock Award:

Daniela Takiya
University of Illinois

NCB Graduate Student Scholarship:

Nicholas Aliano
University of Nebraska

M.S. Paper - Sections A - Cf

Karen J. Hawkin - First Place
Sampling Populations of Tribolium spp. in Flour Mills

University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada

Sean D. Whipple- Second Place
Food Preference of the Grasshopper Species Arphia xanthoptera (Burmeister) and Dichromorpha viridis (Scudder) (Orthoptera: Acrididae)
University of Nebraska-Kearney

M.S. Paper - Sections Da - Fb

Chris Friesen - First Place
Community and Environmental Variables and the Relationship to Pollinator Visitation in the Endangered Western Prairie Fringed Orchid (Platanthera praeclara)
University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada

Leonardo C. Magalhaes - Second Place
Impact of Neonicotinoid Insecticides on Soybean Aphid Under Field and Laboratory Conditions
University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Ph. D. Paper - Sections A - B

Andre Luiz B. Crespo - First Place
Inheritance of Resistance to Cry1Ab Toxin from Bacillus thuringiensis in a Field Derived Strain of Ostrinia nubilalis
University of Nebraska, Lincoln

Prasad S. Burange – Second Place
Mitochondrial DNA Sequences From North American Species of Lygus
North Dakota State University

Ph. D. Paper - Section Ca - Fb

Punya Nachappa - First Place
Can Genetic Selection Improve Specific Foraging Traits of the Predatory Mite, Phytoseiulus persimilis?

Kansas State University

L. K. W. Wijayaratne - Second Place
Control of Stored-Product Insect Pests Using Smoke Generated From Burning Rice (Paddy) Husks
University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada

M.S. Poster – Section Cd

Jennifer R. Johnson - First Place
Are they Biting? Fishing Tiger Beetle Larvae Allows Conservation of Rare Species and Their Habitat
University of Nebraska at Kearney

Rachel M. Anschutz - Second Place
The Impacts of Light and Light Types on Nocturnal Carrion Beetles (Silphidae) with an Emphasis on The American Burying Beetle, Nicrophorus americanus
University of Nebraska at Kearney

M.S. Poster – Section A, Ca, Cb, Eb, F

Lessando M. Gontijo - First Place
Effects of Different Cucumber Plant Architectures on the Prey-Finding Time and Foraging Behavior of the Predatory Mite Phytoseiulus persimilis
Kansas State University

Matthew M. Steller – Second Place
Between Caste Gene Expression in the Termite Reticulitermes flavipes
Kansas State University

Ph. D. Poster

Jaswinder Mangat - First Place
Effect of Mating on Pheromone Biosynthesis in Female Tenebrio molitor (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae)
University of Winnipeg, Winnipeg, MB, Canada

Evan C. Lampert - First Place
Parasitoids in the Classroom: Eye Color Genetics in Habrobracon hebetor

North Dakota State University