Hot off the Press… The Forest Health Conditions in Alaska- 2016.
The annual forest health conditions report provided by Forest Service R10, Alaska Region is available online (see link to pdf below). The conditions report contains, but is not limited to, information pertaining to forest insects in the state.
https://www.fs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_DOCUMENTS/fseprd533099.pdf
This article, appearing 6.Feb.2017 in the journal Arctic Science, analyzes chironomid communities in some lakes in the Yukon.
This article appeared in the journal Zootaxa on 27.Jan.2017.
Citation:
Tantawi, T. I.; Whitworth, T. L. & Sinclair, B. J. Revision of the Nearctic Calliphora Robineau-Desvoidy (Diptera: Calliphoridae) Zootaxa, 2017, 4226, 301-347. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4226.3.1
The article appeared today in Biodiversity Data Journal.
Citation:
Bowser, M.L., J.M. Morton, J.D. Hanson, D.R. Magness, and M. Okuly. 2017. Arthropod and oligochaete assemblages from grasslands of the southern Kenai Peninsula, Alaska. Biodiversity Data Journal 5:e10792. doi:10.3897/BDJ.5.e10792
This article, appearing December 13, 2016 in the journal Arthropod Systematics & Phylogeny, pertains to the identity of Alaskan Nicrophorus vespilloides.
Citation:
Sikes, D.S., S.T. Trumbo, and S.B. Peck. 2016. Cryptic diversity in the New World burying beetle fauna: Nicrophorus hebes Kirby; new status as a resurrected name (Coleoptera: Silphidae: Nicrophorinae). Arthropod Systematics & Phylogeny 74:299-309.
The article, pertaining to two Alaskan specimens collected on the 1899 Harriman Alaska expedition, appeared in the Journal of Hymenoptera Research on 29.August.2016.
URI: http://jhr.pensoft.net/articles.php?id=9162
DOI: 10.3897/jhr.51.9162
The article (URI below) appeared in the journal Ecology of Freshwater Fish on August 25.
The article appeared in the Journal of Medical Entomology on August 14.
Durden, L. A., K. B. Beckmen, and R. F. Gerlach. 2016. New Records of Ticks (Acari: Ixodidae) From Dogs, Cats, Humans, and Some Wild Vertebrates in Alaska: Invasion Potential. Journal of Medical Entomology. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jme/tjw128
The April 2016 issue of the Newsletter of the Alaska Entomological Society is available via the link below.
The article appeared yesterday in The Journal of Research on the Lepidoptera.
http://lepidopteraresearchfoundation.org/journals/49/JRL_49_1_20.pdf