Program 2023

Sunday 12th November

8.30-2.30pm UWA

Australian Entomological Society Board meeting

1.30-4pm UWA

Austral Entomology Editors Board meeting

16.30-18.30 AEC

Registration, Welcome Reception: AES President's address (Melinda Moir), UWA representative address (Steve Hopper) , WA Museum CEO address (Alec Coles)

Monday 13th November

Time

AEC Main Room

Hilton stream

8.00-8.30

Registration desk open

8.30-9.00

Official opening of conference, Welcome to Country (8.35am), Presidents address

9.00-9.45

Plenary - Sonya Broughton CPBO

9.45-10.00

Pat Marks presentation

10.00-10.30

Morning tea

General session: Invasive species
Laura Fagan chairing

General session: Viruses and Vectors
Piotr Trebicki chairing

10.30-10.45

Steinbauer: Holding the biosecurity front line

Xu: A streamlined sampling approach to quantify the invertebrates associated with the Yellow Canopy Syndrome of sugarcane

10.45-11.00

Lassaline: Untangling the web: Dynamics of the Australian terrestrial invertebrate trade

Aftab: Identification of flying aphid species in Victorian grain crops

11.00-11.15

Schutze: A review of the introduced scale insects of Australia

Trebicki: The native Australian spittlebug, Bathyllus albicinctus, a potential vector of exotic Xylella fastidiosa

11.15-11.30

Cousins: Polyphagous shot hole borer – eradicating an invasive exotic beetle from Western Australia

Selleck: Investigating cercopoid (froghopper and spittlebug) diversity in eastern Australian orchards and vineyards

11.30-11.45

Szito: Morphological identification of the Polyphagous Shot Hole Borer, Euwallacea fornicatus (Coleoptera: Curculionidae)

Nancarrow: Transmission efficiency of Australian cereal viruses by four aphid species

11.45-12.00

Gloag: The aftermath of a founding bottleneck: invasive Asian honey bees in Australia

Peck: Adapting to big city life: Using mosquito biodiversity to monitor parasite and virus abundance in urban and peri-urban areas.

12.00-12.45

LUNCH

AES Education committee meeting

General session: Invasive species
Mark Schutze chairing

General session: Physiology, Behaviour & Evolution
Wei Xu chairing

12.45-13.00

Theo Evans: modelled worldwide potential distribution of two of the world's most widespread termite invaders

Paris: How often are male mosquitoes attracted to humans?

13.00-13.15

Martoni: Complementarity of morphological and molecular identifications of ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) for biosecurity.

Hart: To hair or not to hair, that is the question: the effectiveness of urticating hairs as a defence in the face of larval mortality

13.15-13.30

Tobin: An integrative approach to uncovering the distribution of the pest nitidulid Carpophilus truncatus in Australia

Xu: Functional characterization of moth sensory neuron membrane proteins (SNMPs)

13.45-14.00

Steinbauer: Partners in crime: Facilitation of foraging and predation by European wasps through access to a new source of honeydew

McGenniskin: Phylogenetic and environmental determinants of oothecal structure in Australian mantises (Mantodea)

14.00-14.15

Fagan: Safeguarding borders to protect biodiversity

Lewis: Lifetime and reproductive consequences of short-term anthelmintic exposure to female dung beetles

14.15-14.20

Fenner (rapid fire): On the trail of the green snail

Anderson (rapid fire): The density and evenness of dung beetle assemblages increase ecosystem multifunctionality

14.20-14.50

Afternoon tea

14.50-15.00

Photo shoot of AES conference participants: Pia Scanlon

General session: Ecology & biology
Kirsti Abbott chairing

General session: Physiology, Behaviour & Evolution cont.
Leigh Simmons chairing

15.00-15.15

Brassard: The impacts of fire on ant communities varies among vertical strata: results from a long-term fire experiment in an Australian tropical savanna.

Dashevsky: Venomics of spider wasps (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae)

15.15-15.30

Townsend: Response of carrion-associated flies (Diptera) to mass mortality events in an Australian alpine ecosystem

Lymbery: Warfare in ants and video games

15.30-15.45

Rahman: Developing an age-stage and two-sex life table of the lesser-known Australian fruit fly Northern Territory fruit fly Bactrocera aquilonis (May) from different hosts

Smart: Unravelling the three axes of termite antipredator traits: a comparative analysis of the morphological, chemical, and behavioural defences of Australian mound building termites.

15.45-16.00

Tierney: Nesting biology of alpine Exoneura bees: an important high altitude pollinator

Rabia Ali: Self and conspecific host discrimination in the egg parasitoid Trichogramma pretiosum

16.00-16.15

Thomas: Using morphometrics to study the ecology and life history of an iconic New Zealand Stag beetle

Heddle: Dung derived from different pasture types influence progeny size

16.15-16.30

Mavende: The effectiveness of automated suction traps in monitoring beneficial parasitoid wasps

Bayless: Contextualising multiple origins of parasitism in acalyptrate fly phylogenomics

16.30-17.30

Poster session

19.00-22.00

Student Event Night 2023

Tuesday 14th November

Time

AEC Main Room

Hilton stream

8.20-8.30

Welcome and Housekeeping

8.30-9.15

Plenary - Bill Humphreys

General session: Anthropogenic impacts & conservation
Lachlan Jones Chairing

General session: Endosymbionts and microbes
Elsie Kinnaird chairing

9.15-9.30

Tsyrlin: Molecular methods for the other 95% of animal diversity

Bilgi: Evaluation of entomopathogenic fungi against Mediterranean fruit fly.

9.30-9.45

Tweed: Identifying and filling the gaps in the conservation of island endemic insects: a case study from Norfolk Island

Soleimannejad: Novel endosymbionts effects on interaction between grain crop aphids and parasitoids

9.45-10.00

Yagui: Restoring declining species through translocations: A test case using flightless grasshoppers in an urban setting

Tan: Efficacy of microbes from honeybees and the small hive beetle pest to develop traps that affect beetle attraction and oviposition choice

10.00-10.15

Petersen: Ecology and conservation of significant butterflies Ogyris subterrestris petrina and Jalmenus aridus

Williamson: The role and acquisition of gut bacteria in an Australian native bee

10.15-10.45

Morning tea

General session: Anthropogenic impacts & conservation cont.
Richard Glatz chairing

General session: Endosymbionts and microbes cont.
Vineeta Bilgi chairing

10.45-11.00

Gibb: Rainforest litter invertebrates decimated by high severity burns during Australia’s gigafires

Ansermin: Rickettsiella, an endosymbiont of aphids, affects microhabitat selection in the green peach aphid, Myzus persicae

11.00-11.15

Jones: Body size of North American solitary bees resilient to warming temperatures in Rocky Mountain wildflower meadows

Dorai: Understanding microbial communities within aphids and their interactions with insecticides

11.15-11.30

Glatz: Enigma moth parasitoid, Ovaustra aurantia (Hymenoptera: Braconidae): third partner in a specific tri-trophic interaction at high risk of co-extinction

Qazi: Endosymbionts..manipulators of reproduction in parasitoid wasps?

11.30-11.45

Bell: Building streetscape habitat to enrich biodiversity

Ross: Deleterious endosymbionts for aphid (Hemiptera: Aphididae) control

11.45-12.00

Arriaga Jiménez: IUCN SSC - Dung Beetle Specialist Group

Whittle: Parental control of offspring microbiota in Aedes aegypti mosquitoes

12.00-12.15

Gill: Importance of considering the holobiont in aphid populations for research

12.15-13.00

LUNCH

AES Conservation committee meeting

Symposium: Pollination
James Cook chairing

General session: Taxonomy and Systematics
Nate Lo chairing

13.00-13.15

Menzies: eDNA and invertebrate pollinator community comparison: an EPICC survey method comparison study and community analysis

de Souza Castanheira: Taxonomy and systematics of the ‘backobourkiine’ spiders, a putative new subfamily of orb-weavers (Araneae, Araneidae)

13-15-13.30

Tierney: The tyranny of distance: bee pollination services in the Australasian realm

Prado: Taxonomy and systematics of the artoriine wolf spiders (Araneae: Lycosidae): is Artoria monophyletic?

13.30-13.45

Slattery: Disparate continental scale patterns in the floral host breadth of Australian colletid bees (Colletidae:Hymenoptera)

Piper: Population genomics of the Queensland Fruit fly (Bactrocera tryoni) species complex.

13.45-14.00

Milla: A hundred years of vegetation changes in Kosciuszko National Park reflected in the pollen record of insect specimens

Mills: Diversity of Australian archaeococcoid scale insects: implications for taxonomy and biological control

14.15-14.30

Cook: Exploring the diversity of Australia’s fig-pollinating wasps

Morgan: Taxonomy and systematics of Chasmoptera (Neuroptera: Nemopteridae: Nemopterinae): assessing the species status of Western Australia’s only spoon-wing lacewing genus.

14.30-14.45

Encinas-Viso: Genetics and ecology of the alpine allodapine bee Exoneura spp.

14.45-15.15

Afternoon tea

Symposium: Pollination cont.
Katja Hogendoorn chairing

General session: Taxonomy and Systematics cont.
Nik Tatarnic chairing

15.15-15.30

Gilpin: How are flowering plants and pollinators affected by fire and the indirect consequences for pollination services within orchards.

Paphatmethin: Molecular phylogeny of Australian micro-moths in the superfamily Gelechioidea (Lepidoptera)

15.30-15.45

Gloag: Male bees visit flowers too: understanding the life history and pollen transport of Tetragonula males

Rodriguez: Phylogenomics and taxonomy of the genus Leioproctus (Colletidae)

15.45-16.00

Hilton: Host plant pollination by Australian Heliozelidae (Lepidoptera: Adeloidea)

Zwick: High-throughput collection genomics: Generating DNA reference sequences at scale

16.00-16.15

Hogendoorn: The use of solitary bees in protected cropping

Lo: Evolution and systematics of Panesthia lata, an endangered cockroach from the Lord Howe Island Group, and related taxa

16.15-16.30

Taniguchi: To identify native insect species that help avocado flower pollination in Western Australia

Slater-Baker (rapid fire): Investigating the biodiversity and systematics of Australian ‘mummy wasps’ (Braconidae: Rogadinae)

Beaver (rapid fire): Systematics of the genus Clania, with a preliminary phylogeny of the Australian Bagworm Moths (Lepidoptera: Psychidae)

16.30-17.30

AES AGM

19.00-11.00

Dinner - Hilton

Wednesday 15th November

Time

AEC Main Room

Hilton stream

8.25-8.30

Welcome and Housekeeping

8.30-9.15

Plenary - Bush blitz speaker Cathy Byrne

Phil Carne prize finalist talks x 3:

9.15-9.35

Heddle - The interaction between Onthophagus binodis and cattle dung pH

9.35-9.55

Contos - Whole-of-community invertebrate rewilding: Leaf litter transplants rapidly increase beetle diversity during restoration;

9.55-1015

Patricia Henriquez-Piskulich - Dazzled by shine: gloss as an antipredator strategy in fast moving prey

10.15-10.45

Morning tea

Symposium: Bush blitz
Kate Grarock chairing

General session: Pest management and control
Donna Chambers chairing

10.45-11.00

Harding/Grarock: Over a decade of species discovery with Bush Blitz

Chambers: Cup half-full: Managing the world’s worst coffee pest, Coffee Berry Borer (Hypothenemus hampei (Ferrari); Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae) in Papua New Guinea

11.00-11.15

Braby: Systematics, diversification and evolutionary history of butterflies in the tribe Candalidini (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae)

Bawa: Review of potential use of pheromones for canegrub control in Australian sugarcane: past research and future opportunities

11.15-11.30

Evangelista: Phylogenomics of endemic Australian Ulopinae (Hemiptera: Cicadomorpha: Cicadellidae)

Rahman: Insect response to canola with modified sterol metabolism

11.30-11.45

Leijs: Fourteen years of Bush Blitz native bee surveys: new species and a DNA barcode reference library for Australian bee species.

Regmi: Performance of fall armyworm reared on various horticultural crops

11.45-12.00

Tatarnic: Sticky assassins – the evolution of resin use in Australian assassin bugs (Hemiptera: Reduviidae)

Sarkar: The predator community of tomato potato psyllid, Bactericera cockerelli in Western Australia and their field predation

12.00-12.15

Kearney (rapid fire): Yalata-Fowlers Bay Bush Blitz Orthoptera: Caelifera

Farrell: The Future of Banana IPDM - Microbial and Biological Pest Control

12.15-13.00

LUNCH

AES Collection committee meeting

Symposium: Bush blitz cont.
Cathy Byrne chairing

General session: Pest management and control
Svetlana Micic chairing

13.00-13.15

Ward: Fluffy bums and their aliens: The distribution and abundance of passionvine hopper, Scolypopa australis (Walker) (Hemiptera: Ricaniidae), parasitoids in Victoria

Micic: Finding French Anystis Mite (FAM), 30 years after its release in grain growing areas of Western Australia

13.15-13.30

Martoni: Biodiversity of the Norfolk Island psyllids (Hemiptera: Psylloidea)

Thia: Genomic investigations of demography and pesticide resistance evolution in an invasive mite pest

13.45-14.00

Constant: What about Platybrachys & c. planthoppers one century after Henry Hacker? (Hemiptera: Eurybrachidae)

Nguyen: Insecticide resistance in Australian serpentine leaf miner, Liriomyza huidobrensis (Blanchard, 1926) (Diptera: Agromyzidae)

14.00-14.15

Yeates: Diversification, cospeciation and host-use evolution in Australian Fergusonina (Diptera: Fergusoninidae) galling flies feeding on Myrtaceae

Schmidt: Global, asynchronous sweeps at multiple resistance genes in Aedes mosquitoes

14.15-14.30

Moir: Checking the pulse: assessing insect diversity, taxonomy and threat status in south-west Australia

Severtson: Determining the economic impact of native budworm (Helicoverpa punctigera) in cereal crops in Western Australia

14.30-15.00

Afternoon tea

Symposium: Entomological education
David Merrit and Helen Spafford chairing

General session: Collaborations, Engagement & Extension
Volker Framenau chairing

15.00-15.15

David Merritt (UQ) The past and the future of entomological education in Australia

Framenau: To describe or to document: making a case for the Fauna Portal using money spiders (Araneae: Linyphiidae)

15.15-15.30

Greg Holwell (NZ) Entomology teaching and learning in Aotearoa New Zealand: past, present and future

Kearney: Digitising a Key chapter in Australia’s entomological history: grasshopper collections of the ANIC

15.30-15.45

Kirsti Abbott (MAGNT) A Brief History of Entomological Education in Australian Museums

Bikaun: Harnessing citizen science for enhanced Varroa surveillance in Western Australia

15.45-16.00

Lyn Cook (UQ ) Challenges and benefits of AI for insect identification in tertiary level courses

van der Mescht: Beekeeper experience and training are associated with beneficial practices that prevent the spread of American foulbrood (Paenibacillus larvae)

16.00-16.15

Andy Howe (USC) Insect Investigators: a school-based citizen science project on arthropod diversity

Guthrie: MyPestGuide® - Making taxonomy sexy again by connecting scientists with an engaged community

16.15-16.30

PANEL DISCUSSION - Helen Spafford

Schutze: The AES Collection Committee arisen from the ashes of CHAEC

16.30-16.45

PANEL DISCUSSION - Helen Spafford

Ridsdill-Smith (rapid fire): An important and victorious science: the International Congresses of Entomology

16.45 - 17.30

Awards presentation & wrap up - Hand over to Cathy Byrne to speak about 2024 conference

17.45

Conference conclusion

Vacate the venue AEC by no later than 6.30pm on Wednesday 15^th November

Thursday 16th November

7.00-16.00

Optional Field trip - Stirling Ranges and Twin Creeks