Entomology Datebook
Last updated
March 10, 2010
Year 2010
Year 2011
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The Illinois Pest Control
Association will hold the 2010 Spring Conference on March 16-17, 2010, at
the Keller Convention Center at the Hilton Garden Inn, 1301 Avenue of Mid
America, Effingham, IL. Register online at
www.ipcaonline.org or call 800-678-6722 for more information.
The 8th Meeting on Soil Insect Pests
has been postponed for March 24-26, 2010, in Monterrey, Mexico. For more
information contact
rodriguez.luis@inifap.gob.mx.
The 76th Annual Meeting of the American Mosquito
Control Association will be held at the Lexington Center in Lexington,
Kentucky from March 28 - April 1, 2010. URL:
http://www.mosquito.org/meetings/index-new.aspx
An Auction featuring the Book Collection of
Professor Bengt-Olof Landin will take place March 25, 2010 in Sweden. More than 1,000
books are for sale, with the oldest dating back to 1719. Bids can be placed by
phone. For more information please contact Torgny Schunnesson at
info@schunnesson.com or call +46 (0)
40 12 97 64. The full catalog is
available here.
The International Plant Resistance to Insects
Workshop (IPRI) will be held in Charleston, South Carolina, March 28-31,
2010. The 2010 meeting is
co-sponsored by the South Carolina Entomological Society, Inc. Mike Jackson will
serve as the Local Arrangements chair for the meeting, and Mike Stout will serve
as the Program Chair. As in years past, the 2010 meeting will include several
symposia, a mixer and banquet, a student paper competition, and a “field trip”
to sites of agricultural interest near Charleston. General information,
registration and hotel information, a call for submitted papers, and a call for
student papers can be found at the following web sites:
http://entweb.clemson.edu/scesweb/ipri/;
http://www.k-state.edu/ipri/. For further information, contact Mike Stout (mstout@agctr.lsu.edu)
or Mike Jackson (Mike.Jackson@ars.usda.gov).
The XIIth ISSIS,
International Symposium on Scale Insect Studies will be held at Chania,
Crete, Greece, on April 6-9, 2010. For information contact: Sofia Gounari,sgounari@nagref.gr.
The Annual Meeting of the
Pacific Branch of the Entomological Society of America will be held April
11-14, 2010 in Boise, Idaho. URL:
http://www.ipm.wsu.edu/PBESA/
The
Annual Meeting of the Southwestern Branch of the Entomological Society of
America will be held in Cancun, Mexico, April 11-17. It will be a joint
meeting with the Mexican Entomological Society. URL:
http://swbesa.tamu.edu
The 2010 Imported Fire
Ant and Invasive Ant Conference will be held April 19-22, 2010 at the
Doubletree Hotel in Little Rock, Arkansas.
For additional information, call
Kelly Loftin at 479-575-3462 or email
kloftin@uaex.edu. URL:
http://www.extension.org/pages/Annual_Imported_Fire_Ant_Conference
The Joint IOBC - Nearctic and Neotropic Regional Sections Conference:
Biocontrol in the Americas - Past, Present and Future will be held May
11-13, 2010 at the Sheraton Fallsview Hotel and Conference Centre in Niagara
Falls, Ontario, Canada Contact: Les Shipp, Ph.D., 519-738-1235,
Les.Shipp@agr.gc.ca or Stefan Jaronski,
stefan.jaronski@ars.usda.gov, 406-433-9486. URL:
http://www.iobcnrs.com/event_5-11-10.htm
ICP4, The Fourth
International Congress on Phthiraptera will be held June 13-18, 2010,
Conference Hall of Mustafa Hotel, Urgup, Cappadocia, Turkey. Please see the ICP4
website (http://www.icp4.org/) for more
information on abstract submissions and registration. For additional information
contact: Kosta Y. Mumcuoglu,
kostam@cc.huji.ac.il (Chair of the ICP4 organizing committees), Vince Smith,
vince@vsmith.info (ICP4 International
organizing committee), or Robert Dalgleish,
bob.dalgleish@phthiraptera.org
(International Society of Phthirapterists).
The 10th International
Working Conference on Stored-Product Protection will be held in Lisbon,
Portugal, June 27 to July 2, 2010. URL:
http://www2.iict.pt/10thiwcspp
The 6th International
Conference on the Biology of Butterflies will be held at the University of
Alberta, Edmonton, Canada from June 29 through July 2, 2010. This meeting has
been held at irregular intervals since 1981 and recognizes the role that the
study of butterflies has played in our understanding of both evolutionary
biology and ecology. URL:
http://www.biology.ualberta.ca/biobutterfly2010
The 2010
International Workshop on Electrical Penetration Graph (EPG): Research Methods
in Piercing-sucking Arthropod Feeding
will be held July 26-30, 2010 on the
campus of California State
University-Fresno in Fresno, CA. This is an intensive (5 days, 10 hrs per day)
workshop to teach researchers everything needed to use EPG and other methods to
study feeding of piercing-sucking arthropods. Contact Elaine Backus at
Elaine.Backus@ARS.USDA.GOV or 559-596-2925.
The 9th European Congress of Entomology
will be held August 22-27, 2010 in Budapest, Hungary. URL:
http://www.nhmus.hu/ECE2010/
Biological Control in
Support of Nature will be held in Northampton Massachusetts, October 3-7
2010. This meeting will explore the benefits of classical biological control for
the control of invasive insects and weeds in natural forests, wetlands,
grasslands, deserts, and islands. The meeting will appeal to biological control
scientists, conservationists, invasion biologists, and land managers. For more
information visit: http://biocontrolfornature.ucr.edu/
Principles and Procedures
for Rearing Quality Insects, a five-day workshop, will be held October
10-15, 2010. All seats are full, but to get on to the waiting list, contact
Barbara Perrigin at 662-325-2086 or
bep2@msstate.edu.
The Potential Invasive
Pests Workshop will be held October 10-14 , 2010 in Miami (Coconut
Grove),Florida, USA. For information contact, Beth Miller Tiphton (bmt@ufl.edu).
For more information, consult the webpage:
www.conference.ifas.ufl.edu/TSTAR
PestWorld 2010 will
be held October 20-23, 2010 at the Hawai'i Convention Center with hotel rooms at
the Hilton Hawaiian Village Resort & Spa. URL:
http://npmapestworld.org/pdfs/EventsPDF/PW2010flyer.pdf
The 56th Annual Meeting
of the Northeastern Mosquito Control Association will hold its on December
6-8, 2010, at the Resort and Conference Center in Hyannis, MA (Cape Cod). URL:
http://www.nmca.org/annual.htm
The 2010 ESA Annual
Meeting will be held on December 12-15, 2010, at the Town and Country Hotel
and Convention Center in San Diego, California.
Contact:
ESA Annual Meeting,
10001 Derekwood Lane, Suite
100, Lanham, MD 20706, phone
301-731-4535, fax 301-731-4538
The 2011 ESA Annual
Meeting will be held
on November 13-16, 2011, at the Reno-Sparks Convention Center in Reno, Nevada.
Contact:
ESA Annual Meeting,
10001 Derekwood Lane, Suite
100, Lanham, MD 20706, phone
301-731-4535, fax 301-731-4538
