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Section Symposium

Plant-Insect Ecosystems

What the Innovative Ecology? A Lens on the past Shines Light on Tools for Stored Product Entomology

Sunday, November 9, 2025
10:30 AM - 12:30 PM Pacific
Location: Oregon Convention Center, D135, OCC

Oral Presentation

In honor of this year’s theme, we will be heralding the researchers who have inspired us to reach beyond the horizon in our current research, recognizing the decades of hard work that have led to new innovations to combat stored product insect pests with safer, more effective processes and treatments.

Presentations:

  • 10:30 AM - 10:35 AM Pacific
    Introductory remarks

    Presenting Author: Alison Gerken – USDA-ARS

  • 10:35 AM - 10:50 AM Pacific
    The last of the naturalists: To be a stored products entomologist

    Presenting Author: Hannah Quellhorst – Kansas State University

  • 10:50 AM - 11:05 AM Pacific
    Baited by curiosity: An entomological journey of inspiration and innovation

    Presenting Author: Sabita Ranabhat – Kansas State University

  • 11:05 AM - 11:20 AM Pacific
    Overlooked and underappreciated for 50 years! A renewed emphasis on stored product insect ecology in Nebraska

    Presenting Author: Georgina Bingham – University of Nebraska-Lincoln

    Co-Author: Cetin Mutlu – University of Nebraska-Lincoln

    Co-Author: Desiree Rousseau – University of Nebraska-Lincoln

    Co-Author: Aphid Sylvester – University of Kansas

    Co-Author: William Morrison III – USDA-ARS

    Co-Author: Sabita Ranabhat – Kansas State University

    Co-Author: Kun Yan Zhu – Kansas State University

    Co-Author: Thomas Phillips – Kansas State University

    Co-Author: Daniel Brabec – USDA-ARS

    Co-Author: Jennifer Abshire – USDA-ARS

  • 11:20 AM - 11:30 AM Pacific
    Break
  • 11:30 AM - 11:45 AM Pacific
    Applied behavioral ecology in stored product pest management: Building on a foundation created by pioneering entomologists

    Presenting Author: James Campbell – USDA-ARS

  • 11:45 AM - 12:00 PM Pacific
    Odor preference, feeding, survival, and reproduction of the invasive larger grain borer Prostephanus truncatus (Horn) on acorns of bur oak

    Presenting Author: Qinglei Ming – USDA-ARS

    Co-Author: Matthew Hetherington – Kansas State University

    Co-Author: Bruna Mattioni – Kansas State University

    Co-Author: Melanie Kessler-Mathieu – USDA/ARS

    Co-Author: Michael Tilley – USDA-ARS

    Co-Author: William Morrison III – USDA-ARS

    Co-Author: James Campbell – USDA-ARS

    Co-Author: Kun Yan Zhu – Kansas State University

    Co-Author: Erin Scully – USDA-ARS

  • 12:00 PM - 12:15 PM Pacific
    Commercial chemical ecology visionaries: Mating disruption from the beginning to today

    Presenting Author: Jessica Lindenmayer, BCE – Trece Inc.

    Co-Author: Bill Lingren – Trece Inc

  • 12:15 PM - 12:30 PM Pacific
    Flagrantly fragrant: The rich history of apparency research informs the study of natural enemy kairomones in stored products

    Presenting Author: Matthew Hetherington – Kansas State University

    Co-Author: Maria Sakka – University of Thessaly

    Co-Author: Jennifer Abshire – USDA-ARS

    Co-Author: Jacqueline Maille – Kansas State University

    Co-Author: Ian Stoll – University of Missouri

    Co-Author: Christos Athanassiou (he/him/his) – University of Thessaly

    Co-Author: Erin Scully – USDA-ARS

    Co-Author: Alison Gerken – USDA-ARS

    Co-Author: William Morrison III – USDA-ARS