The Entomological Society of New Zealand

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The 63rd New Zealand Entomological Society Conference

Accepted Oral Abstracts

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Drowned in lakes and trapped in amber: diverse terrestrial arthropod faunas from Miocene New Zealand
Uwe Kaulfuss
Exaggerated trait evolution in brentid weevils
Christina Painting
Not drowning, just waving? What do insects tell us about Zealandia, the Oligocene and dispersal in New Zealand biogeography?
Adrian Paterson
Laelaptoseius: a poorly-known endemic mite illuminates its superfamily
Matthew Shaw
A tussle with Tachinidae and other parasitic flies
Franz-Rudolf (Rudi) Schnitzler
Islands in the snow: Ecology, systematics and biogeography of the New Zealand beetle genus Protodendrophagus (Coleoptera: Silvanidae: Brontini)
John Marris
Beetle inquilines of New Zealand
Rich Leschen
Brown meets Broun: Inspecting the type specimens of broad-nosed weevils at the Natural History Museum, London
Samuel Brown
An acrostic abstract about Acroceridae
Cor Vink
How well do we know our talitrid taxonomy? A Northland case study
Olivier Ball
Discovery of Micropterigidae (jaw-moths) in Western Australia
George Gibbs
Pyraloid moths of New Zealand: an end to the suffering?
Robert Hoare
Alpine Assumptions - or how to measure a myth
Warren Chinn
What happens when you find a weta in your bathroom!
Marie McDonald
Invertebrate indicators of restoration success in the Punakaiki ecological restoration project
Mike Bowie
Captive rearing of the Nationally Endangered Canterbury Knobbled Weevil (Hadramphus tuberculatus)
Andrew Pugh
Life’s a beach then you cry: spiders on marine strandlines (and the pros and cons of intensive sampling)
Simon Hodge
Stories about deceit, deception and swindle
Mariella Herberstein
Sexual selection in New Zealand sheet-web spiders, Cambridgea spp.
Leilani Walker
Endogenous and exogenous factors affecting host chemical footprint exploitation by a hymenopterous egg parasitoid
Maria Cristina Foti
Aboveground endophyte affects root volatile emission and host plant selection of a belowground insect
Michael Rostás
Social bees in New Zealand: foraging interactions and implications for communities
Jay Iwasaki
Do New Zealand damselflies exhibit a fast/slow life history dichotomy?
Tanya Dann
The abundance of Latrodectus katipo is affected by vegetation type
Victoria Smith
White LED lighting increases the ecological impact of light pollution on flying nocturnal invertebrates irrespective of colour temperature
Stephen Pawson
If you plant the plants, do the invertebrates follow? An assessment of the establishment of indigenous invertebrates in urban forest restoration sites in Christchurch
Denise Ford
The impact of introduced flowering species on alpine plant-pollinator networks in southern New Zealand
Christa Miller
Twenty years of restoration on Motuora; has it delivered for invertebrates?
Stephen Wallace
Picking on the weakest or feasting on the fittest? Contradicting the long-standing belief that Hylastes ater prefers stressed seedlings
Stephanie Sopow
Abundance and ecological impact of Australian redback spiders (Latrodectus hasseltii) in the Cromwell Chafer Beetle Nature Reserve
Stacey Bryan
Assessing the dispersal ability of the bark beetle Hylurgus ligniperda and the wood borer Arhopalus ferus, two key quarantine insect pest of Pinus radiata
Nicolas Meurisse
Stepping beyond the evidence base, or the uncomfortable process of prioritising invasive species for policy and management
Melodie McGeoch
Auckland City of Incursions: Where the show never stops
Alan Flynn
Giant Willow Aphid - a new aphid on willows in New Zealand
Disna Gunawardana
Response to the detection of Queensland fruit fly in Whangarei January 2014
Alan Flynn
Processionary moths: particular life-history traits determine significant forestry and public health issues
Nicolas Meurisse
Combining lures for multiple unwanted Lepidoptera to improve the efficiency of pest detection and surveillance
Eckehard Brockerhoff
Lucid key to Theridiidae spiders of biosecurity importance to New Zealand
Cor Vink

Accepted Poster Abstracts

Antennal morphology and mate location in the Springbok Mantis, Miomantis caffra
Cassandra Mark
Courtship in Caves: Mating and fighting behaviours of the Waitomo cave weta
Joanna Mackisack
All's fair in love and war? Lifetime mating success in New Zealand giraffe weevils (Lasiorhynchus barbicornis)
Rebecca Le Grice
Gypsy moth: less welcome than the in-laws
Belinda Gresham
Quantification of the pest penetration depth of two wood boring pests in Pinus radiata over time at various temperatures: A guide for new phytosanitary treatments
Cecilia Romo
A comparative survey of the aquatic invertebrate fauna of Hauturu - Little Barrier Island
Lyn Wade
The structure of global invasive species assemblages and their relationship to regional habitat variables: Converting scientifically relevant data into decision relevant information
Mariona Roige
Matching invasive species to invaded environments using climate, habitat and phylogeny
Marona Rovira Capdevila
Public enquiries as a result of the recent Queensland Fruit Fly response in Whangarei
Olwyn Green
Biological control effect of the Green Lacewing, Chrysoperla nipponensis (Neuroptera: Chrysopidae) against Pseudococcus comstocki, the major scale insect pest of pear orchards in South Korea
Gu-Hyun Jung
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