Bugs, Barns, and Breakthroughs: Leveraging the past to Advance Livestock and Poultry Pest Control

Organizer(s)

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  Valeria Lee (she/her/hers)

  Ph.D. Student
  Entomology
  Pennsylvania State University
  State College, Pennsylvania
• PA

  Paige Alexander

  Pennsylvania State University
  State College, Pennsylvania

This section will cover methodologies used in veterinary entomology for livestock and poultry that have been used in the past and how they can inform our future.

Presentations:

• 2:00 PM - 2:04 PM Pacific

  Introductory remarks
• 2:04 PM - 2:18 PM Pacific

  Radical imagination in veterinary entomology: From imagination to reality and back again
  

  Presenting Author: Rebecca Trout Fryxell (she/her/hers) – University of Tennessee
• 2:18 PM - 2:32 PM Pacific

  Economic injury levels: A magic number or snake oil?
  

  Presenting Author: Cassandra Olds – Kansas State University

  Co-Author: Victoria Pickens (she/her/hers) – Kansas State University

  Co-Author: David Martell – Kansas State University
• 2:32 PM - 2:46 PM Pacific

  Gaining an understanding of animal production systems to leverage pest management practices
  

  Presenting Author: Justin Talley – Oklahoma State University
• 2:46 PM - 3:00 PM Pacific

  Poultry pest management: Options then, now, and for the future
  

  Presenting Author: Nancy C. Hinkle – University of Georgia

  Co-Author: Raymond Fitzpatrick – University of Georgia

  Co-Author: Amy C. Murillo – University of California-Riverside
• 3:00 PM - 3:14 PM Pacific

  Bed bugs: Re-emerging threat to chickens and workers in the poultry industry
  

  Presenting Author: Coby Schal – North Carolina State University

  Co-Author: Rocio Crespo – North Carolina State University

  Co-Author: Jenny Nicholds – University of Georgia

  Co-Author: Wes Watson – North Carolina State University

  Co-Author: Ronald Baynes – North Carolina State University

  Co-Author: Olivia Petritz – North Carolina State University

  Co-Author: María González Morales – North Carolina State University
• 3:14 PM - 3:28 PM Pacific

  No problem too small: The history and challenges of controlling Culicoides biting midges
  

  Presenting Author: Bethany McGregor – United States Department of Agriculture

  Co-Author: Chip Markwardt (they/them/theirs) – Kansas State University
• 3:28 PM - 3:42 PM Pacific

  Alternatives to conventional insecticides for control of biting and nuisance flies on pasture cattle
  

  Presenting Author: Gary Brewer – University of Nebraska-Lincoln

  Co-Author: David Boxler – University of Nebraska-Lincoln

  Co-Author: Georgina Bingham – University of Nebraska-Lincoln

  Co-Author: Natalie M. Johnston (she/her/hers) – University of Nebraska

  Co-Author: Matthew Hetherington – Kansas State University

  Co-Author: Jerry Zhu – USDA-ARS

  Co-Author: Haichuan (John) Wang – USDA-ARS
• 3:42 PM - 3:56 PM Pacific

  Development of female-lethal strains of New World screwworm, Cochliomyia hominivorax
  

  Presenting Author: Alex Arp – USDA-ARS

  Co-Author: Sarah Hudadoff – North Carolina State University

  Co-Author: Maxwell J. Scott (he/him/his) – North Carolina State University
• 3:56 PM - 4:06 PM Pacific

  Break
• 4:06 PM - 4:56 PM Pacific

  Poster session
• 4:06 PM - 4:56 PM Pacific

  Black soldier fly and stable fly larvae in shared media – a complex interaction
  

  Presenting Author: Natalie M. Johnston (she/her/hers) – University of Nebraska

  Co-Author: Matthew Hetherington – Kansas State University

  Co-Author: Georgina Bingham – University of Nebraska-Lincoln

  Co-Author: Gary Brewer – University of Nebraska-Lincoln

  Co-Author: David Boxler – University of Nebraska-Lincoln

  Co-Author: William Morrison – USDA-ARS
• 4:06 PM - 4:56 PM Pacific

  Development of host and aggregation odors as monitoring tools for the common bed bug, Cimex lectularius
  

  Presenting Author: Charles Kwadha – North Carolina State University

  Co-Author: Ahmed M. Saveer – United States Department of Agriculture

  Co-Author: Ayako Wada-Katsumata (she/her/hers) – North Carolina State University

  Co-Author: Coby Schal – North Carolina State University
• 4:06 PM - 4:56 PM Pacific

  From pesticides to precision: The evolution of poultry pest control
  

  Presenting Author: Raymond Fitzpatrick – University of Georgia

  Co-Author: Sydnie Frost – Purdue University

  Co-Author: Sarah Stacy – Lincoln Memorial University

  Co-Author: Amy C. Murillo – University of California-Riverside

  Co-Author: Nancy C. Hinkle – University of Georgia
• 4:06 PM - 4:56 PM Pacific

  Learning from the past, while working in the present, to train the next generation of future veterinary entomologists
  

  Presenting Author: Katy Smith (she/her/hers) – University of Tennessee

  Co-Author: Jared Saufley – Oklahoma State University

  Co-Author: Andric Fajardo – University of Kentucky

  Co-Author: Caycen Ratliff – Mississippi State University

  Co-Author: Jason Chavez Renteria – New Mexico State University

  Co-Author: Preston Stroup – Mississippi State University

  Co-Author: Samuel Piper – Purdue University

  Co-Author: Sydnie Frost – Purdue University

  Co-Author: Sarah Stacy – Lincoln Memorial University

  Co-Author: Cassandra Olds – Kansas State University

  Co-Author: Sonja Swiger – Texas A&M University

  Co-Author: Nancy C. Hinkle – University of Georgia
• 4:06 PM - 4:56 PM Pacific

  Oh bother! Using fly worry behaviors to predict animals' feeding efficiency
  

  Presenting Author: Victoria Pickens (she/her/hers) – Kansas State University
• 4:06 PM - 4:56 PM Pacific

  Sexing sheep blowfly, Lucilia cuprina, using transient expression of fluorescent proteins
  

  Presenting Author: Sarah Hudadoff – North Carolina State University
• 4:06 PM - 4:56 PM Pacific

  Sweet relief: The potential of attractive toxic sugar baits for Culicoides control
  

  Presenting Author: Chip Markwardt (they/them/theirs) – Kansas State University
• 4:06 PM - 4:56 PM Pacific

  Validation of a binomial sequential sampling plan for the horn fly (Diptera: Muscidae) in pasture cattle
  

  Presenting Author: Nina Vazquez – Oklahoma State University

  Co-Author: Ashley Di Agostino – Oklahoma State University

  Co-Author: Mellissa Crosswhite – Oklahoma State University

  Co-Author: Kristopher Giles – Oklahoma State University

  Co-Author: Jonathan Cammack – Oklahoma State University

  Co-Author: Justin Talley – Oklahoma State University
• 4:56 PM - 5:00 PM Pacific

  Closing remarks