Alaska’s premier butterfly specialist, Ken Philip, created the world largest private collection of arctic Lepidoptera. Anyone can now take a virtual tour of the hundreds of drawers in his collection
The collection can be viewed at the URI below.
Category Archives: Lepidoptera
2019 AKES Newsletter posted
The 2019 issue of the Newsletter of the Alaska Entomological Society has been posted at the URI below.
Presentations from the 12th annual meeting
Presentations and audio from the 12th annual meeting are now available via the links below.
Forest Health Conditions Report 2018
Stephen Burr, USDA Forest Service
Large worms at large: Nightcrawlers change Alaskan forests
Matt Bowser, USFWS
Climate change in Alaska: Impacts on the entomofauna
Derek S. Sikes, UAF, UAM
Southcentral Alaska spruce beetle outbreak: Observations from the field
Jason Moan, Alaska DNR
The effects of climate change on invasive species and their impacts on forests and rangelands
Chris Fettig, USDA Forest Service
Gates of the Arctic pollinators
Jessica Rykken, NPS
The Biota of Canada – A Biodiversity Assessment. Part 1: The Terrestrial Arthropods
This special issue appeared on January 24 in ZooKeys.
Notes on the Life History of the Delicate Silver Y, Autographa pseudogamma (Grote, 1875) (Lepidoptera: Noctuoidea: Noctuidae: Plusiinae)
Early instar larvae feeding on leaves of dandelion – Figure 1B from Fetzner and Fetzner (2018).
The article appeared on September 10 in Annals of Carnegie Museum.
Lepidoptera of North America 14. Geometroidea: Geometridae: Larentiinae: Eupitheciini (Part)
Eupithecia tricolorata Cassino, photo by Clifford D. Ferris.
This updated monograph was made available this month via the URI below.
Annotated checklist of the moths and butterflies (Lepidoptera) of Canada and Alaska
This book was released in January 2018. An open access ebook version is available.
Proceedings of the 17th annual Alaska Invasive Species Workshop
Presentations from the 17th annual Alaska Invasive Species Workshop have been posted at the URI below.
http://www.uaf.edu/ces/pests/cnipm/annual-invasive-species-c/17th-annual-meeting-proce/
Direct links to arthropod-related presentations:
Electrofishing and kick seining efforts for invasive signal crayfish (Pacifastacus leniusculus) on Kodiak Island, Alaska – Kelly Krueger, Sun’aq Tribe of Kodiak. Project video
Leafminers in Alaskan birch – Stephen Burr, USDA, Forest Service, Forest Health Protection
Asian gypsy moth detection and response in the Pacific Northwest, 2015 and 2016 – Clinton Campbell, USDA Animal Plant Health Inspection Service, and Timothy B. St. Germain, Plant Protection and Quarantine
Ticks parasitizing dogs, cats, humans and wild vertebrates in Alaska: invasion potential – Kimberlee Beckmen, Alaska Department of Fish and Game, Division of Wildlife Conservation.
A poem: Moths
One night as I was going out
A little moth I saw.
It was so very delicate
I only gawked in awe.
It was so very beautiful
It flew without a sound.
It fluttered around our porch light
And landed on the ground.
I watched it flit and float about
And stop at our front door.
And then it quietly flew away
And it was seen no more.
by Ethan Bowser, age 11
Presentations from the 10th annual meeting
Presentations and audio from the 10th annual meeting are now available via the links below.
Willow rose cecids via Lifescanner
Matt Bowser, USFWS Kenai National Wildlife Refuge (audio, lyrics & chords)
Alaska Cooperative Agricultural Pest Survey – 2016 field season
Jacque Schade, Alaska Department of Natural Resources (audio)
Lepidoptera highlights of 2016 at UAM
Kathryn Daly, Derek Sikes, Jayce Williamson, & Renee Nowicki, UAM, UAF (audio)
Phylogeny and revision of the rove beetle genus Phlaeopterus
Logan Mullen, UAF, UAM
2016 Forest health conditions and key insect species in Alaska
Stephen Burr and FHP Staff, FHP, USFS (audio)
2016 Forest insect impacts in Southcentral Alaska
Jason Moan, Alaska Division of Forestry (audio)
Entomology in Alaska’s national parks: centennial year BioBlitzes
Derek Sikes, UAM, UAF (audio)