8:00-9:00 - Arrival of the participants

9:00 - Welcome (Wouter Dekoninck, President) 

9:10 - Session "Ecology, Evolution and Systematics of Insects"
Session chair Prof. Dr. Hans Van Dyck (Behavioural Ecology and Conservation Group, Université Catholique de Louvain)  

• 9:10 - Plenary lecture: Adaptation and behavioural plasticity in insects: the interplay of genes and environment
  Prof. Dr. Hans Van Dyck
• 9:25 - Contrasting covariation of above- and belowground invertebrate species across plant genotypes
  Martijn Vandegehuchte, Eduardo de la Peña & Dries Bonte (TEREC, Ugent)
• 9:40 - To fly or not to fly, that is the selection: Pogonus chalceus (Coleoptera) as a test case for adaptive genetic divergence in the absence of a geographic barrier
  Steven Van Belleghem & Frederik Hendrickx (UGent & RBINS)
• 9:55 - Ecological speciation is relatively rare in 'Higher' Nematinae sawflies
  Jean-Luc Boevé & Tommi Nyman (RBINS)
• 10:10 - Population genetic differences along a latitudinal cline between original and recently colonized habitat in a butterfly 
  Sofie Vandewoestijne & Hans Van Dyck (UCL)

10h25-10:50 Coffee break

• 10:50 - Acclimation strongly affects cold tolerance of Drosophila melanogaster
  H. Colinet & A. Hoffmann (UCL)
• 11:05 - Host-plant specialisation in solitary bees (Hymenoptera, Apoidea): Does physiology interface with ecology?

  Maryse Vanderplanck, Georges Lognay and Denis Michez

11:20 - Session "Applied Entomology"
Session chair Prof. Dr. Patrick De Clercq (Laboratory of Agrozoology (www.agrozoology.ugent.be) Department of Crop Protection Faculty of Bioscience Engineering, Ghent University)

• 11:20 - Plenary lecture: New challenges for the biological control of agricultural insect pests
  Prof. Dr. Patrick De Clercq
• 11:35 - Biocontrol using the « Pest-in-first » method. Preliminary studies regarding the deliberate introduction of a forest pest
  Anaï Jannin, Ludovic Rigaux & Jean-Claude Grégoire (ULB)
• 11:50 - Tracking predation in coccinellids with GC-MS 
  Louis Hautier, Jean-Christophe de Biseau, Gilles San Martin & Jean-Claude Grégoire (CRA-W Gembloux, ULB)
• 12:05 - Assessment of the acaricidal activity of several plant extracts on the phytophagous mite Tetranychus urticae, in Tunisian citrus orchards
  Sabrine Attia, Kaouthar Lebdi Grissa, Ghrabi- Gammar Zeineb, Anne Catherine  Mailleux, Georges Lognay & Thierry Hance(UCL)

12:20-13:45 Lunch & Poster Session

13: 45 Session "Social Insects"
Session chair Prof. Dr. Serge Aron (Evolutionary Biology & Ecology Université Libre de Bruxelles) 

• 13:45 - Plenary lecture:  Extraordinary reproductive strategies in desert ants
  Prof. Dr. Serge Aron
• 14:00 - Use of olfactory and visual cues by the ant Myrmica ruginodis to travel 
  Marie-Claire Cammaerts, Zoheir Rachidi, Stéphanie Beke & Yassin Essaadi (ULB) 
• 14:15 - Genetical and ecological aspects of the invasion of the tropical fire ant Solenopsis geminata in the Galápagos archipelago
  Nina Wauters et al. (ULB & RBINS)
• 14:30 - Effects of experimental rainfall exclusion on a diverse ant assemblage from Ecuadorian mountain rainforests
  Thibaut Delsinne, Tania Arias Penna & Maurice Leponce (IRSNB)
  

• 15:15 - Functional morphology of the mandibular gland of queens, workers and males of the ant Monomorium pharaonis (L.).
  Sofie Boonen (KUL)
• 15:30 - Social parasitism in the common wasp
  Annette Van Oystaeyen, Kristof Benaets, Tom Wenseleers and Johan Billen (KUL)

15:45-16:10 Coffee break

• 16:10 - Testing for cheater behaviour in an ant-aphid mutualism
  Amélie Vantaux (KUL)
   

• 16:25 - Impact of beach nourishment on Arthropoda populations at the Belgian coast using emergence traps
  Patrick Grootaert et al. (RBINS)
• 16:40 - Distribution and ecology of mayflies (Ephemeroptera), stoneflies (Plecoptera) and caddisflies (Trichoptera) in Flanders
  Koen Lock & Peter L.M. Goethals (UGent)
• 16:55 - Importance of secondary old-growth sites for old-growth related biodiversity : a case study on Saproxylic beetles in the forest reserve of Kolmont
  Kris Vandekerkhove, Frank Köhler, Luc Crevecoeur, Luc De Keersmaeker & Peter Van de Kerckhove (INBO)
• 17:10 - An updated catalogue of Belgian Syrphidae
  Frank Van de Meutter (KUL)
• 17:25 - The biological diversity of ladybirds (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) and grasshoppers (Orthoptera) surveyed on coal tips in the Walloon Region
  Jean-François Godeau, Derume M. and Bauffe C. (CARAH, Centre pour l'Agronomie et l'Agro-Industrie de la Province de Hainaut de Ath)
• 17:40 - Working Groups