Large gulls congregate in a field off of Ciechanski Road in search of food.
The article documented Larus gulls feeding on the moth Crambus perlella in a hay field.
The unknown caterpillar sent off in a LifeScanner vial was subsequently identified as Crambus perlella from its DNA.
The article appeared in the journal ZooKeys on August 17.
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.
This article, pertaining to multiple Alaskan species, was published on June 27 in The Coleopterists Bulletin.
The article appeared May 31, 2017 in the journal Estuaries and Coasts.
Partially digested carcass of a springtail caught by a hairy butterwort at Headquarters Lake, Soldotna, May 22, 2017. Note the glistening glands discernable in this image (credit: Matt Bowser/USFWS).
This article (URI below) appeared today in the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge’s Refuge Notebook series.
The May 2017 issue of the Newsletter of the Alaska Entomological Society has now been posted.
The early version of this article in the journal Genome appeared in October 2016, but the final version was posted more recently. Almost half (48.5%) of the known 8,277 Alaskan, non-marine-arthropod species now have associated DNA barcodes, enabling species identifications by DNA barcoding.
citation:
Sikes, D. S., M. L. Bowser, J. M. Morton, C. Bickford, S. Meierotto and K. Hildebrandt. 2017. Building a DNA barcode library of Alaska’s non-marine arthropods. Genome 60:248-259. http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/gen-2015-0203
This article, appearing February 21 in the journal Zootaxa, pertains to several species of Alaskan agromyzids.
Citation:
Lonsdale, O. 2017. The Liriomyza (Diptera: Schizophora: Agromyzidae) of Canada & Alaska Zootaxa 4234:1-156. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4234.1.1