Presentations and corresponding audio from the 7th annual meeting are now available via the links below.

How to know the Odonata of Alaska (plus where they live and other fun facts) John Hudson, Alaska Odonata Survey (audio)

Building a DNA barcode library of Alaska’s non-marine arthropods Derek S. Sikes, Casey Bickford, UAF, UAM (audio)

Proposed research: A taxonomic revision of the rove beetle genus Phlaeopterus (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Omaliinae) Logan Mullen, Derek S. Sikes, UAF, UAM (audio)

Insect pollination networks of central Alaskan native plants in the presence of invasive white sweetclover Laura Schneller, Matthew L. Carlson, UAA (audio)

Beetles and spiders as indicators of forest recovery on Prince of Wales Island, Alaska Jill Stockbridge, UAF, UAM (audio)

Factors influencing northern spruce engraver colonization of white spruce slash in interior Alaska James Kruse, Chris Fettig, Roger Burnside, Nick Lisuzzo, Mark Schultz, and Steve Nickel, USDAFS FHP, PSW, ADNR DOF (audio)

2014 Lepidoptera review: New lepidoptera records from SE Alaska, and major defoliation events statewide Kenelm Philip, James Kruse, AK Lep Survey, USDAFS, UAF, UAM (audio)

Notes on two Fulgoroidea (Hemiptera) species associated with black spruce Matt Bowser, USFWS (audio)

Molecular phylogeny of the burying beetles (Coleoptera: Silphidae: Nicrophorinae) Derek S. Sikes, UAF, UAM and Chandra Venables, Univ. Calgary, AB, Canada (audio)

The agenda for the 2014 annual meeting is now available.

http://www.akentsoc.org/doc/AKES%20meeting%20agenda_24-25JAN2014.pdf

The Anchorage Daily News posted this article on Derek Sikes and his upcoming talk entitled Charismatic microfauna at Campbell Creek Science Center on January 22.

http://www.adn.com/2014/01/11/3267875/for-the-love-of-bugs.html

The seventh annual meeting of the Alaska Entomological Society will be held in Anchorage at the ARLIS (Alaska Resources Library and Information Services) conference room on Saturday, January 25.  There will also be an evening get-together on January 24 at a member’s house.  Contact Jim Kruse or Matt Bowser for details.

Expect a call for presentations soon and an agenda later.

ARLIS’ address:

ARLIS
Library Building, Suite 111
3211 Providence Dr
Anchorage, AK 99508
http://www.arlis.org/

Map:

View Alaska Resources Library & Information Services (ARLIS) in a larger map.

See the second part of the article (URI below), which describes a forensic entomology experiment at North Pole High School where the maggot mass reached 120°F while the ambient temperature was 48°F.

http://www.alaskadispatch.com/article/20131108/alaskas-visiting-bats-and-hot-maggots-autumn

The article at the URI below appeared in Juneau’s Capital City Weekly on October 30, 2013.

http://www.capitalcityweekly.com/stories/103013/out_1180105729.shtml