Adam Haberski & Caitlin Silva recently published a downloadable entomological dictionary that can be added to your word processor. The article about the tool was published in American Entomologist and can be read at the following URL: https://doi.org/10.1093/ae/tmag006
The dictionary file is available on GitHub at the following URL: https://github.com/ahaberski/SpellingBee
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Nineteenth annual meeting: February 13th, 2026 in Anchorage, AK
When: Friday February 13th, 2026, 11 am – 4 pm
Where: Room 211 at Rasmuson Hall (3416 Seawolf Dr) on the University of Anchorage campus.
A zoom link will be provided for those wishing to attend remotely.
Social gathering to follow (TBD).
If you have anything you would like to present please email a title, abstract, and the length of the talk to Joey Slowik, AKES Secretary jaslowik (at) alaska.edu. (Presentation time blocks are typically 20 or 30 minutes long.)
A taxonomic review of Boreus (Mecoptera, Boreidae) with descriptions of two new Alaskan species
The article by Taylor L. Kane, Derek S. Sikes, and Nathan Schiff was published in ZooKeys and is available at the following URL: https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1267.170946
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!
Checklist to the apoid wasps (Hymenoptera, Apoidea excluding Anthophila) of Canada, Alaska, and Greenland
The article by Matthias Buck and Andrew Bennett, available at the URL below, was published in the Journal of Hymenoptera Research.
Eighteenth annual meeting: February 21, 2025
The 2025 annual meeting of the Alaska Entomological Society will be on Friday, February 21, 2025. This will be a hybrid meeting, held virtually and in-person in Fairbanks at the Alaska Dept. of Natural Resources (3700 Airport Way). See the agenda for more information.
Discovery of snakeworm gnats in Alaska: a new species of Sciara Meigen (Diptera: Sciaridae) based on morphological, molecular, and citizen science data
The article, available at the URI below, was published in the journal Integrative Systematics: Stuttgart Contributions to Natural History.
Seventeenth annual meeting, February 23, 2024
The 2024 annual meeting of the Alaska Entomological Society will be on Friday, February 23, 2024. This will be a hybrid meeting, held virtually and in Anchorage. Details will be made available as the date approaches.
2022 meeting minutes
Minutes from the 2022 annual meeting are now available at http://www.akentsoc.org/doc/AKES_meeting_20220210_minutes.pdf.