Presentations from the 8th annual meeting are available via the links below.

We’re getting there: a first look at (cheap!) next-generation barcoding of bulked arthropod samples
Matt Bowser, USFWS Kenai National Wildlife Refuge.

Evaluation of Lure and Trap Design to Survey for Longhorned Beetles in Southeast Alaska
Elizabeth Graham and AM Ray, USDA Forest Service.

Patterns of terrestrial insect diversity on the Seward Peninsula and notes on an Elenchus sp. (Strepsiptera: Elenchidae) host interaction
Molly McDermott, UAF, IAB.

Alaska Lepidoptera Club
Kathryn Daly, UAM.

A preliminary phylogeny of the rove beetle genus Phlaeopterus (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Omaliinae)
Logan Mullen, UAF, UAM.

Hymenoptera assemblages in aspen-dominated and black spruce-dominated post-fire successional trajectories in boreal black spruce forest of interior Alaska
Alexandria Wennigner, UAF, UAM.

Analysis Challenges in Citizen Science Data
Greg Breed UAF, IAB.

Nicrophorus vespilloides (Coleoptera: Silphidae): One species or two?
Derek Sikes, UAF, UAM.

Microarthropod abundance and community structure across a boreal forest riparian chronosequence in Interior Alaska
Robin Andrews and Roger Ruess, UAF, IAB.

I was asked to write this article for the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge’s weekly column in the Peninsula Clarion.

Peninsula Clarion version (HTML):

http://peninsulaclarion.com/outdoors/2015-01-29/refuge-notebook-futuristic-method-to-identify-insects-becomes-reality

Kenai National Wildlife Refuge version (pdf):

http://www.fws.gov/uploadedFiles/Region_7/NWRS/Zone_2/Kenai/Sections/What_We_Do/In_The_Community/Refuge_Notebooks/2015_Articles/Refuge_Notebook_v17_n5.pdf

The agenda for the 2015 annual meeting is available at the URI below.

http://www.akentsoc.org/doc/AKES_meeting_agenda_24JAN2015.pdf

The eighth annual meeting of the Alaska Entomological Society will take place in Fairbanks on January 23-24, 2015. The meeting on Saturday will be at the Alaska Department of Natural Resources large conference room, 3700 Airport Way, Fairbanks (DNR Building; Actually on Sportsman’s Way across from Fred Meyer West gas station).

Details for the evening social on the 23^rd will be announced soon.

http://www.adn.com/article/20141004/low-income-renters-anchorage-bitten-another-problem-bedbugs

The June 2014 Newsletter of the Alaska Entomological Society is now available at the URI below.

http://www.akentsoc.org/doc/AKES_newsletter_2014_I.pdf

In this issue:

• Counting butterflies, page 1
• Permanent plot network in southeast Alaska investigates shore pine damage agents, page 2
• Regional inventory of terrestrial arthropods: comparison of two malaise trap samples from Kanuti National Wildlife Refuge, Alaska, processed by the University of Alaska Museum Insect Collection, page 6
• Upcoming Events, page 17

http://www.adn.com/2014/05/21/3479081/mosquito-netting-vacuum-power.html?sp=/99/188/189/264/