https://www.kake.com/story/44746804/brown-recluse-spider-hitches-a-ride-from-kansas-to-alaska
https://wset.com/news/offbeat/brown-recluse-spider-hitches-ride-across-country-in-family-painting
Category Archives: Med/Vet Entomology
Moose and Their Flying Antagonists
The article appeared in the September 2019 issue of Alaska Fish & Wildlife News.
http://www.adfg.alaska.gov/index.cfm?adfg=wildlifenews.view_article&articles_id=922
Infestation with the nasopulmonary mite Halarachne halichoeri in threatened southern sea otters (Enhydra lutris nereis)
Scanning electron microscopy of adult Halarachne halichoeri from Pesapane et al. (2018).
This article appeared in International Journal for Parasitology: Parasites and Wildlife on September 29 and pertains to Alaskan populations of Halarachne halichoeri, sea otters, seals, and even humans.
Alaska Fish & Wildlife News: Ticks the Focus of New Research in Alaska
See the article at the URI below. The public is encouraged to collect ticks. Instructions for collection and submission of samples are provided.
http://www.adfg.alaska.gov/index.cfm?adfg=wildlifenews.view_article&articles_id=874
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.
Refuge Notebook: The bad biter par excellence
Biting snipe flies on the face of a sedated mountain goat, Kenai Mountains, July 13, 2017. At the same time the flies were attacking the attendant biologists in comparable numbers. Photo credit: Dom Watts/USFWS.
The article provides information on Symphoromyia biting snipe flies.