Annual Meeting
Each year ASA members meet and host Acarology focused symposia in conjunction with the Entomological Society of America’s annual meeting. Calls for contributed papers are typically in February and students are also invited to participate in competitions for monetary awards. Please join your fellow Acarologists this year at our annual meeting and consider contributing a paper in future symposia!
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS!
Soon we will seek speakers for the symposia of the Acarological Society of America (ASA), to be held at the 2023 ESA meeting in National Harbor, MD (Nov. 5th to Nov. 8th). If you are interested in presenting, please submit your name, affiliation and title.
1) Current Advances in Acarology: organized by Amy Murillo (amy.murillo@ucr.edu) and Alexandra Revynthi (arevynthi@ufl.edu). This symposium provides a forum for a diverse group of researchers whose work forwards our applied, ecological, and systematic knowledge of the Acari to present groundbreaking research to others in the field. It is open to any member including students interested in our student presentation competition.
If you would like to present, please email one of the organizers. Non-members are also invited to participate, but membership is encouraged. For students competing for the award money, membership is required (see below).
Student Presentation Competition
The student abstract award winners this year are:
- 1st Place – Paola Villamarin – Evaluation of four release methods for Amblyseius swirskii on bell pepper commercial production
- 2nd Place – Marcello De Giosa – Extraction of Saliva from Eriophyid Mites by Immersion in Different Oils
- 3rd Place – Maria Canon – Evaluation of Biorational Pesticides Against Acarine Pests of Hemp (Cannabis sativa), a Greenhouse Approach and Production of Mite-Free Cuttings.
Outstanding student presentation awards were awarded this year:
- 1st place – Julia St Amant – University of Florida – Get those fleas off my bees: Assessing the isoxazoline class as possible treatments for Varroa destructor control and safety towards honey bees (Apis mellifera)
- 2nd place – Mariana Monteiro De Souza Barros – University of Florida – Screening commercially-available predatory mites for biological control of Megalurothrips usitatus
For information about upcoming meetings visit https://www.entsoc.org/events/annual-meeting
David Nielsen
Governing Board Member
2023-2025
Annual Meeting Pictures
