2025 AKES Newsletter posted

Volume seventeen of the Newsletter of the Alaska Entomological Society has been posted to the website. The complete issue can be opened as a single pdf or you can peruse the individual articles in either pdf or html format. 

Featured articles:

Marine Intertidal Pseudoscorpions in Juneau, Alaska
Bob Armstrong & John Hudson

“No Vacancy”: Masking spruce trees from spruce beetles with semiochemicals on the Kenai Peninsula
Jackson P. Audley, Christopher J. Fettig, Jason E. Moan, Jessie Moan, Steve Swenson, Elizabeth E. Graham, & Agenor Mafra-Neto

Seed-feeding and fruit deformity of crabapple caused by the apple seed chalcid in Southcentral Alaska
Alexandria Wenninger

Community science collaboration enhances understanding of fireweed flower gall midge distribution in Alaska
Alexandria Wenninger

Review of the seventeenth annual meeting
Dana Brennan

Review of the eighteenth annual meeting
Jozef Slowik

AKES Science Fair Award – 2025

Congratulations to Izzy Spellman, Oliver Brewer, Lief O’Regan, Piper Straub, & Severin Parks on their receipt of an AKES Science Fair Award! Their project titled “True Colors of Insect Outbreaks in the Boreal Forest – Can We Detect Forest Insect Outbreaks in 25 Years of GLOBE Green Down Leaf Color Data Collected by interior Alaska Students?” looked for patterns in 25 years of leaf color data on insect-damaged leaves collected by students in interior Alaska. They found that insect damage is associated with certain leaf colors, and that warm winters tend to precede worse birch leafminer outbreak years. Thank you to Ramsey Sullivan, Derek Sikes, Taylor Kane, and Jessica Rykken for attending the Alaska Science and Engineering Fair (Anchorage) and the Interior Science Fair (Fairbanks) on behalf of AKES!

A student science fair poster
Alaska Science & Engineering Fair – Izzy Spellman, Oliver Brewer, Lief O’Regan, Piper Straub, & Severin Parks, “True Colors of Insect Outbreaks in the Boreal Forest – Can We Detect Forest Insect Outbreaks in 25 Years of GLOBE Green Down Leaf Color Data Collected by interior Alaska Students?”

2021 AKES Newsletter posted

Complete issue (21 Mb)

Assessment of the pinned specimen digitization progress of the University of Alaska Museum Insect Collection
Ashley L. Smith, Derek S. Sikes, Taylor L. Kane, Adam Haberski, Jayce B. Williamson, Renee K. Nowicki and Michael J. Apperson
http://www.akentsoc.org/doc/AKES_newsletter_2021_n1_a01.pdf

Bugs in winter
John Hudson and Bob Armstrong
http://www.akentsoc.org/doc/AKES_newsletter_2021_n1_a02.pdf

Notes on a collection of spiders from agricultural by-catch from the Matanuska-Susitna area of Alaska
Jozef Slowik
http://www.akentsoc.org/doc/AKES_newsletter_2021_n1_a03.pdf

Pollination, pilfering, and predation in an orchid pollinator network in the Juneau area of Southeast Alaska
Marlin Bowles and Robert Armstrong
http://www.akentsoc.org/doc/AKES_newsletter_2021_n1_a04.pdf

Review of the fourteenth annual meeting
Alexandria Wenninger and Dana Brennan
http://www.akentsoc.org/doc/AKES_newsletter_2021_n1_a05.pdf