Alaska’s premier butterfly specialist, Ken Philip, created the world largest private collection of arctic Lepidoptera. Anyone can now take a virtual tour of the hundreds of drawers in his collection
The collection can be viewed at the URI below.
2019 AKES Newsletter posted
The 2019 issue of the Newsletter of the Alaska Entomological Society has been posted at the URI below.
Two new articles pertaining to earthworms in Alaska
Reynolds, J. W., B. Godin, and D. Horwood. 2019. The first report of Arctiostrotus fontinalis (Oligochaeta: Megascolecidae) in Canada. Megadrilogica 24:17–21. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/330225925_The_First_Report_of_Arctiostrotus_fontinalis_Oligochaeta_Megadscolecidae_in_Canada
Reynolds, J. W. 2019. A summary of the status of earthworms (Annelida: Oligochaeta) in checklists of the United States and Canada. Megadrilogica 24:51–65. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/331438696_A_summary_of_the_status_of_earthworms_Annelida_Oligochaeta_in_Checklists_of_the_United_States_of_America_and_Canada_Megadrilogica_245_51-65_paper_in_English_abstracts_in_English_French_Spanish_German_
Presentations from the 12th annual meeting
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
Assessment and application of DNA metabarcoding for characterizing arctic shorebird chick diets
In this master’s thesis the author documents the arthropods consumed by Alaskan shorebirds.
First records of Baetis vernus Curtis (Ephemeroptera: Baetidae) in North America, with morphological notes
The species group covered in this article pertains to the Alaskan fauna. The article appeared in December in the Journal of the Entomological Society of British Columbia.
https://journal.entsocbc.ca/index.php/journal/article/view/999
Corrections for the Hemiptera: Heteroptera of Canada and Alaska
The article appeared in December in the Journal of the Entomological Society of British Columbia.
https://journal.entsocbc.ca/index.php/journal/article/view/1000
Agenda for the upcoming annual meeting
The agenda for the February 9 annual meeting is now available.
http://www.akentsoc.org/doc/AKES_meeting_agenda_09FEB2019.pdf
The Biota of Canada – A Biodiversity Assessment. Part 1: The Terrestrial Arthropods
This special issue appeared on January 24 in ZooKeys.
The species of the genus Platycheirus Lepeletier & Serville, 1828 (Diptera, Syrphidae) from Taiwan, with a discussion on intersex specimens
The on-line version of this article, which does pertain to Alaskan members of the genus, appeared in online version of Journal of Asia-Pacific Entomology in December 2018.