2015 AKES Newsletter posted

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The March 2015 Newsletter of the Alaska Entomological Society is now available at the URI below.

http://www.akentsoc.org/doc/AKES_newsletter_2015_I.pdf

Cover of AKES Newsletter 2015, issue IIn this issue:

  • First record of a cluster fly (Calliphoridae: Pollenia) in Alaska
  • What is a specimen? What should we count and report when managing an entomology collection?
  • Moths land on Murkowski’s desk—Senate Resolution 70
  • Two new Lepidoptera host plant relationships
  • The DNA barcoding UAMU Project: Testing the insect identification power of DNA barcoding technology
  • Review of the eighth annual meeting

Forest Health Conditions in Alaska- 2014

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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.

“The primary goal of this report is to summarize monitoring data collected annually by our Forest Health Protection team. The report helps to fulfill a congressional mandate (The Cooperative Forestry Assistance Act of 1978, as amended) that requires survey, monitoring, and annual reporting of the health of the forests. This report also provides information used in the annual Forest Insect and Disease Conditions in the United States report.”

 

Forest Health Conditions in Alaska-2014

Forest Health Conditions in Alaska-2014

http://www.fs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_DOCUMENTS/stelprd3830191.pdf

Presentations and poster from the 8th annual meeting

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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.

Refuge Notebook: Futuristic method to identify insects becomes reality

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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