1:30 pm

Introductory Remarks

1:45 pm

Andean Altitudinal Depressions Promote Color Polymorphism in the Spinybacked Spider. Fabian Salgado, Universidad del Rosario, Bogota, Colombia

2:00 pm

Sex and Deception: Exploring The Role of Sensory Exploitation in the Courtship Display of the Pantropical Jumping Spider (Plexippus paykulli). Ellen Humbel, Rebecca T. Kimball and Lisa Taylor, Univ, of Florida, Gainesville, FL

2:15 pm

Blood-Related Prey-Odor Primes Females to Attend to Red in Both Foraging and Mate Choice Contexts in a Mosquito-Specialist Jumping Spider. Lisa Taylor1, Fiona Cross1 and Robert Jackson2, 1Univ. of Florida, Gainesville, FL, 2Univ. of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Caledonia

2:30 pm

From Fulgorids to Football Helmets: Color and Vision in Insects for Science Outreach. Nathan Lord, Louisiana State Univ., Baton Rouge, LA

2:45 pm

Cleaning up With Insect Outreach. Kendra Abbott, Univ. of Alabama Museums, Tuscaloosa, AL

3:00 pm

Vibrant Coloration and Insect Galls. Carol Mapes, Kutztown Univ. of Pennsylvania, Kutztown, PA

3:15 pm

Break

3:30 pm

Exhibit: Bugs in Technicolor

3:45 pm

Color Change and Thermoregulation in the Blue-Fronted Dancer Damselfly (Odonata: Zygoptera). Amanda Whispell and Michael L. May, Rutgers, The State Univ. of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ

4:00 pm

Wing Color Evolution in a Highly Neotropical Polymorphic Damselfly. Melissa Sanchez Herrera, Universidad del Rosario, Bogota, Colombia

4:15 pm

Continuous Variation of Scale Ultrastructure in Two Heliconius Mimics. Juan Enciso, Univ. of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom

4:30 pm

Evolution on the Wing: The Elaborate Coloration of the Polythore Damselflies (Odonata: Zygoptera). Christopher Beatty1, Esther Appeal2, Paula Dieck2, Alexander Kovalev2, Melissa Sanchez Herrera3 and Stanislav Gorb4, 1Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY, 2Kiel Univ., Kiel, Germany, 3Rutgers, The State Univ. of New Jersey, Newark, NJ, 4Christian-Albrechts-Universitat, Kiel, Germany

4:45 pm

Jewels of Iridescence: Mechanisms of Structural Color and Implications for Taxonomy. Able Chow, Louisiana State Univ., Baton Rouge, LA

5:00 pm

Discussion

5:15 pm

Concluding Remarks