TENNESSEE ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY 48thAnnual Meeting (Virtual) September 30 – October 1, 2021 Please save the date! You are invited to attend the Forty-eighth Annual Meeting of the Tennessee Entomological Society to be held virtually on September 30- October 1, 2021 and hosted by Tennessee State University The meeting will convene on the morning of Thursday, September 30 and will continue on the morning of Friday, October All attendees should pre-register (free) at this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_gTrFjcK1T_mpSgQLsRjyhQ in order to receive a Zoom webinar link to virtually attend the 2021 meeting Regular and Sustaining/Corporate members are encouraged to pay their annual dues of $10 and $50 respectively and submit payment with a completed form (attached) to TES Treasurer Steve Powell The meeting begins at 10:00 a.m on Thursday, September 30, followed by the keynote address, “Periodical cicadas and North American trees: Before, during and after an emergence” to be presented by Dr Cynthia Perkovich of the Tennessee State University’s Otis L Floyd Nursery Research Center The Student Paper Competition for undergraduate, M.S and Ph.D students will be held following a lunch break and will begin at 1:00 p.m The meeting will resume on Friday at 9:00 a.m with a presentation of the Entomology Week Proclamation followed by the Annual Business Meeting where the winners of the Student Paper Competition will be announced Following the business meeting, non-student papers will be presented Exact times of talks will be posted to the TES website (https://ag.tennessee.edu/EPP/Pages/TES/Annual-Meeting.aspx) prior to the meeting Deadline for submission of paper titles and abstracts is September 23, 2021 Submit your titles and abstracts via https://forms.gle/7zuNqJDFjerFPVtb6 For more information, contact the TES Program Chair, Steve Murphree at steve.murphree@belmont.edu or the TES President, Kaushalya Amarasekare, at kamarase@tnstate.edu Steve Murphree, Program Chair, TES Department of Biology, Belmont University 1900 Belmont Blvd Nashville, TN 37212-3757 Telephone: (615) 460-6221 (Office)