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Demo 2013

Accepted Oral Abstracts

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The age of biota in old islands: updating the dating for New Caledonia biodiversity?
Philippe Grandcolas
Towards a robust taxonomy of the Irenimus broad-nosed weevils (Coleoptera: Curculionidae)---Morphology, sequences and biogeography
Samuel Brown
The Fauna of New Zealand series: 30 years, 70 contributions, and 10,000 pages
Trevor Crosby
Tokoriro taxonomy: progress with an online resource for recognition of cave weta and other orthopera
Steve Trewick
Invertebrate biodiversity; comparison and identification of Tokoriro (cave weta) taxa at three locations in the North Island, New Zealand
Josephine Fitness
Speciation and species delimitation in ground weta (Hemiandrus)
Briar Taylor Smith
New perspectives on an Australasian mite (Acari: Mesostigmata; Laelapidae)
Matthew Shaw
Genital evolution and sexual conflict in the lichen tuft moths.
Rebecca Bennik
Range shifts and adaptation to local conditions in a pair of parapatric weta
Mary Morgan-Richards
Invertebrate extinction risk listing
Rod Hitchmough
Department of Conservation's intent:  Where will wētā be?
Eric Edwards
Getting to grips with grasshoppers: syncopated speciation in central South Island Sigaus
Steve Trewick
Clasper function and morphology across a hybrid zone of stick insects.
Shelley S. Myers
Weta affairs: An investigation into the possibility of hybridisation on Banks Peninsula
Rachel van Heugten
Species identification and tools to study hybridisation of tree weta
Natasha McKean
Metabolic rate variation among New Zealand Orthoptera
Mariana Bulgarella
Dancing on the Head of a Pin: Unraveling Nature One Mite at a Time
David Walter
Effects of a neonicotinoid insecticide on native and invasive ants
Rafael Barbieri
Sampling and replication in soil invertebrate research
Maria Minor
Alkaloid chemistry, not phylogeny, predicts insect herbivores associated with Senecio plant species in New Zealand
Stephen Hartley
Host plant selection and local adaptation in a polyphagous herbivore, Eucolaspis Sharp (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae)
Prasad Doddala
The Life History of the Lepidopteran Seed Predator Cryptaspasma querula and its Relationship with Potential Host Plants
Robert Silberbauer
An enemy of an enemy is a friend of mine: the tri-trophic interactions between a predator-parasite-host assemblage in New Zealand.
Kirsty Yule
We know what you ate last summer: Determining trophic position of endemic New Zealand dung beetles using N and C stable isotopes
Jamie Stavert
Nutrient intake and character displacement in sympatric tree weta
Priscilla Wehi
Convergent local adaptation in size and growth rate but not metabolic rate in a pair of parapatric Orthoptera species.
Niki Minards
The parasitoid wasp Nasonia vitripennis: An emerging model system for genetics, molecular biology, and biocontrol research.
Dave Wheeler
Aggressive floral mimicry in the orchid mantis (Hymenopus coronatus)
Greg Holwell
Diet, Maturity and Male-Male Competition in Male Tree Weta
Natasha McKean, Rose Gregerson, Emily Koot
The effect of food availability on the costs and benefits of sexual cannibalism in the Springbok mantis, Miomantis caffra
Leilani Walker
Ministry for Primary Industries’ Emerging Risks System
Heidy Kikillus
Developing an ecological risk based approach to manage phytosanitary pests risks on export logs from New Zealand
Stephen Pawson
Halyomorpha halys (brown marmorated stink bug) a new threat from the USA
Catherine Duthie
The Great White Butterfly Incursion Response: Progress on eradication of a new threat to many endemic and commercial Brassicas.
Chris Green
Peri-urban mosquitoes (Diptera: culicidae)  in the Concepción and adjacent coastal area of central Chile: some similarities and contrast with  New Zealand.
Mary McIntyre
Strategy and serendipity: reflections on the search, release and establishment of a biocontrol agent for clover root weevil
Pip Gerard
Preference-performance testing in the aphid parasitoid Diaeretiella rapae
Rashmi Kant
Pulling the wings off wasps: determining the likely Eurasian origin of New Zealand populations of Vespula vulgaris
Evan Brenton-Rule
PCR gut analysis reveals that a common introduced spider (Tenuiphantes tenuis) is a potentially significant predator of Argentine stem weevil (Listronotus bonariensis)
Cor Vink
A metagenomic survey of the invasive yellow crazy ant Anoplolepis gracilipes suggests candidates for population regulation
Monica Gruber
In readiness for Fruit fly 
David Voice
Experimentally reducing the competitive ability of a dominant invader increases resource acquisition by resident species.
Fabian L. Westermann
The diet of two tree weta species:  the natural and captive folivory preferences of Hemideina crassidens and Hemideina thoracica.
Robyn Dewhurst
How to find a new moth family
George Gibbs

Accepted Poster Abstracts

The role of pathogens in the decline of the invasive yellow crazy ant (Anoplolepis gracilipes) in Arnhem Land, Australia
Meghan Cooling
The prevalence of three endosymbiotic bacteria in the invasive yellow crazy ant (Anoplolepis gracilipes)
Alexandra SEBASTIEN
Does buzz pollination have an effect on fruit and seed set of egg plant, Solanum melongena?
Shanika Jayasinghe
The ecological interactions between the New Zealand Giraffe weevil (Coeloptera: Brentidae) and associated mites
Fonti Kar
The Fauna of New Zealand, 30 years of publication
Trevor Crosby
Velvet worm diversity in New Zealand
Emily Koot
Exotic Coleoptera and Lepidoptera are biosecurity threats to New Zealand pasture species
Sarah Clark
Using thermal development models to predict the phenology of key quarantine pests: applying an ecologically-based risk assessment approach to wood exports
Cecilia Romo
Bronze bug gone walkabout – update from New Zealand
Stephanie Sopow
Creating a national phytosanitary pest trapping network to monitor export wood species  
Jessica Kerr
The efficacy of squid-baited pitfall traps in collecting weta species in Aorangi Forest, Wairarapa, New Zealand- a preliminary study.
Olivia Vergara
Parthenogenetic vs. Sexual Reproduction in the New Zeland stick insect Clitarchus hookeri
Lorraine Peoples
Good reason to be nasty to your sister: Aggression towards pathogen infected nest-mates in the honey bee, Apis mellifera
Phil Lester
Armed Arachnids: Investigating male weaponry in a polymorphic native harvestman (Opiliones: Monoscutidae).
Daniel Townsend
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