Nick Lisuzzo provided a pdf version of his presentation from the Reforestation Science & Technical Committee Meeting, November 25, 2014 (Fairbanks, Soldotna, and Anchorage webinar locations).
Forest insects: considerations for successful tree regeneration in South-central and Interior Alaska. Nick Lisuzzo, USDA Forest Service.
Published in the journal Zootaxa, this article reports 27 species of Heteroptera new to Alaska, removes four species previously reported for the state, and provides data for previously published records.
Citation:
Scudder, G.G.E. and Sikes, D.S. 2014. Alaskan Heteroptera (Hemiptera): new records, associated data, and deletions. Zootaxa. 3852:373–381. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3852.3.6
The June 2014 Newsletter of the Alaska Entomological Society is now available at the URI below.
http://www.akentsoc.org/doc/AKES_newsletter_2014_I.pdf
In this issue:
Denali National Park and Preserve will be hosting a multi-day bioblitz focused on arthropods from July 26-29, 2014. On Saturday (July 26th), scientists will lead citizen science survey activities in the front-country (i.e., in areas accessible by trails near the park entrance), including demonstrations of collecting techniques, and viewing and discussion of specimens at the park visitor center. The following three days (July 27-29) will be based at the MSLC Field Camp near Teklanika Campground at mile 29 on the park road (with accommodations in tent cabins). This will provide opportunities for a limited number of scientists, students, and other registered participants to collect arthropods in less accessible areas of the park.
Please contact Jessica Rykken at jrykken@oeb.harvard.edu if you are interested in participating in the bioblitz as a scientist, student, or other interested entomologist!
The text below was taken verbatim from the Forest Service’s Region 10 (Alaska Region) website at http://www.fs.usda.gov/main/r10/forest-grasslandhealth/. The report is available at http://www.fs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_DOCUMENTS/stelprd3797075.pdf.
The 2013 Forest Health Conditions Report is available! This report reviews our current knowledge of forest health in Alaska. Its purpose is to help resource professionals, land managers, and other decision makers identify and monitor existing and potential forest health risks and hazards. The report is based on data collected in annual aerial detection surveys, ground surveys, permanent plot monitoring efforts, follow-ups to public requests, and input, and early detection work. Emphasis is given to damaging agents observed in 2013. Readers need to be mindful that this is not a complete survey of the 127 million forested acres in Alaska. The report is organized around the status of four categories of damaging agents: insect pests, diseases, noninfectious disorders, and invasive plants.
Ken Philip, 29.Aug.2006.
Kenelm W. Philip, 82, Fairbanks Alaska, passed away in his home on March 13, 2014.
Ken moved to Fairbanks in 1965 and established the Alaska Lepidoptera Survey. Over the years, Ken managed over 600 volunteer collectors and amassed roughly 80,000 specimens, the second largest arctic/boreal collection of butterflies in the world (second only to the Canadian National Collection).
Ken was an avid photographer, reader, and loved classical music. He was always helpful and happy to invite visitors into his home to see the butterfly collection.
He will be sorely missed by all who knew him.