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.
Refuge Notebook: The bad biter par excellence
Biting snipe flies on the face of a sedated mountain goat, Kenai Mountains, July 13, 2017. At the same time the flies were attacking the attendant biologists in comparable numbers. Photo credit: Dom Watts/USFWS.
The article provides information on Symphoromyia biting snipe flies.
An annotated catalog of the Leiodidae (Coleoptera) of the Nearctic region (continental North America north of Mexico)
This article, pertaining to multiple Alaskan species, was published on June 27 in The Coleopterists Bulletin.
Using stable isotopes to assess the contribution of terrestrial and riverine organic matter to diets of nearshore marine consumers in a glacially influenced estuary
The article appeared May 31, 2017 in the journal Estuaries and Coasts.