The agenda is now available for the upcoming Februrary 2-3 meeting.
Slikok Creek watershed: biomonitoring by molecules
This was an informal talk at the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge. Slides are posted at the URI below.
Proceedings of the 17th annual Alaska Invasive Species Workshop
Presentations from the 17th annual Alaska Invasive Species Workshop have been posted at the URI below.
http://www.uaf.edu/ces/pests/cnipm/annual-invasive-species-c/17th-annual-meeting-proce/
Direct links to arthropod-related presentations:
Electrofishing and kick seining efforts for invasive signal crayfish (Pacifastacus leniusculus) on Kodiak Island, Alaska – Kelly Krueger, Sun’aq Tribe of Kodiak. Project video
Leafminers in Alaskan birch – Stephen Burr, USDA, Forest Service, Forest Health Protection
Asian gypsy moth detection and response in the Pacific Northwest, 2015 and 2016 – Clinton Campbell, USDA Animal Plant Health Inspection Service, and Timothy B. St. Germain, Plant Protection and Quarantine
Ticks parasitizing dogs, cats, humans and wild vertebrates in Alaska: invasion potential – Kimberlee Beckmen, Alaska Department of Fish and Game, Division of Wildlife Conservation.
An updated and annotated checklist of the thick-headed flies (Diptera: Conopidae) of British Columbia, the Yukon, and Alaska
The article appeared in December 2017.
https://journal.entsocbc.ca/index.php/journal/article/view/974
Eleventh annual meeting, February 3, 2018
The eleventh annual meeting will be held in Anchorage on Saturday, February 3rd, 2018 in the new Anchorage Cooperative Extension office, in the Chugachmiut Tribal Consortium Building (1840 Bragaw Street).
Please email Kathryn Daly (president@akentsoc.org) with a presentation title, author, job affiliation, and approximate length of the presentation (suggested length of either 15 or 25 min + 5 min for questions), and/or agenda items for the business meeting. This will be used to build the agenda. Our meeting minutes are posted from last year here.
We will also have a Friday night social event (2 February, 2018) but our meeting place is yet to be determined – please RSVP if you plan to attend the meeting so we can gain an estimate of attendance and determine whether we need to reserve a location.
Peninsula Clarion: Spruce bark beetles returning on north peninsula
Long-term nutrient addition alters arthropod community composition but does not increase total biomass or abundance
The article, based on work near Toolik Lake, Alaska, appeared today in the journal Oikos.
The Taxonomy of the North American Species of Parameletus Bengtsson, 1908 (Ephemeroptera: Siphlonuridae), with Keys to Nymphs and Male Imagos
The article appeared November 1st in the Canadian Journal of Arthropod Identification.
http://dx.doi.org/10.3752/cjai.2017.33
Refuge Notebook: Mystery solved!
Large gulls congregate in a field off of Ciechanski Road in search of food.
The article documented Larus gulls feeding on the moth Crambus perlella in a hay field.
The unknown caterpillar sent off in a LifeScanner vial was subsequently identified as Crambus perlella from its DNA.
An annotated and illustrated checklist of Microgastrinae wasps (Hymenoptera, Braconidae) from the Canadian Arctic Archipelago and Greenland
The article appeared in the journal ZooKeys on August 17.