Category Archives: Pollinators

2021 AKES Newsletter posted

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Complete issue (21 Mb)

Assessment of the pinned specimen digitization progress of the University of Alaska Museum Insect Collection
Ashley L. Smith, Derek S. Sikes, Taylor L. Kane, Adam Haberski, Jayce B. Williamson, Renee K. Nowicki and Michael J. Apperson
http://www.akentsoc.org/doc/AKES_newsletter_2021_n1_a01.pdf

Bugs in winter
John Hudson and Bob Armstrong
http://www.akentsoc.org/doc/AKES_newsletter_2021_n1_a02.pdf

Notes on a collection of spiders from agricultural by-catch from the Matanuska-Susitna area of Alaska
Jozef Slowik
http://www.akentsoc.org/doc/AKES_newsletter_2021_n1_a03.pdf

Pollination, pilfering, and predation in an orchid pollinator network in the Juneau area of Southeast Alaska
Marlin Bowles and Robert Armstrong
http://www.akentsoc.org/doc/AKES_newsletter_2021_n1_a04.pdf

Review of the fourteenth annual meeting
Alexandria Wenninger and Dana Brennan
http://www.akentsoc.org/doc/AKES_newsletter_2021_n1_a05.pdf

Presentations from the 12th annual meeting

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Presentations and audio from the 12th annual meeting are now available via the links below.

Forest Health Conditions Report 2018
Stephen Burr, USDA Forest Service

Large worms at large: Nightcrawlers change Alaskan forests
Matt Bowser, USFWS

Climate change in Alaska: Impacts on the entomofauna 
Derek S. Sikes, UAF, UAM

Southcentral Alaska spruce beetle outbreak: Observations from the field
Jason Moan, Alaska DNR

The effects of climate change on invasive species and their impacts on forests and rangelands
Chris Fettig, USDA Forest Service

Gates of the Arctic pollinators
Jessica Rykken, NPS

Presentations from the 10th annual meeting

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Presentations and audio from the 10th annual meeting are now available via the links below.

Willow rose cecids via Lifescanner
Matt Bowser, USFWS Kenai National Wildlife Refuge (audio, lyrics & chords)

Alaska Cooperative Agricultural Pest Survey – 2016 field season
Jacque Schade, Alaska Department of Natural Resources (audio)

Lepidoptera highlights of 2016 at UAM
Kathryn Daly, Derek Sikes, Jayce Williamson, & Renee Nowicki, UAM, UAF (audio)

Phylogeny and revision of the rove beetle genus Phlaeopterus
Logan Mullen, UAF, UAM

2016 Forest health conditions and key insect species in Alaska
Stephen Burr and FHP Staff, FHP, USFS (audio)

2016 Forest insect impacts in Southcentral Alaska
Jason Moan, Alaska Division of Forestry (audio)

Entomology in Alaska’s national parks: centennial year BioBlitzes
Derek Sikes, UAM, UAF (audio)

Repeated Reticulate Evolution in North American Papilio machaon Group Swallowtail Butterflies

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Generalized range map of current distributions of the Papilio machaon species complex in North America.

Generalized range map of current distributions of the Papilio machaon species complex in North America.

The article appeared in the journal PLOS ONE on October 30.

URI:
http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0141882

Citation:
Dupuis JR, Sperling FAH (2015) Repeated Reticulate Evolution in North American Papilio machaon Group Swallowtail Butterflies. PLoS ONE 10(10): e0141882. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0141882