Newsletter of the Biological Survey of Canada (Terrestrial Arthropods)

News and Notes

Activities at the Entomological Societies' Meeting

The 2001 Joint Annual Meeting of the Entomological Society of Canada and the Entomological Society of Ontario took place in Niagara Falls, 20-24 October 2001. The meeting was attended by more than 250 people. Many student members presented papers, with 39 entrants for the student paper competition. Items in the program or associated with it included:

• A plenary session on “2001: An Insect Odyssey”.

• Symposia on “Emerging Technologies in Pest Management” and “Tree Fruit Entomology”

• Workshops on “Entomology in Parks and Protected Spaces”, “Bringing Insects to the Public”, “Dealing with New Insect Introductions”, “Entomology of Vineyards in Canada”, and “Spatial Analysis in Applied Entomology”

• Submitted papers in 5 sessions

• An extensive poster session

• A student paper competition, in four sessions, for the President’s prize of the Entomological Society of Canada and the student paper prize of the Entomological Society of Ontario.

• The ESC Heritage Lecture, given by Dr. Freeman McEwen, entitled “Milestones in Canadian Entomology” (including mention of the Biological Survey of Canada)

• The ESC Gold Medal Address given by Dr. John Spence

Governing Board and Annual General Meetings also took place, the Gold Medal and other honours were awarded, and there were many opportunities for informal exchange of information, including an opening reception and a banquet.

Papers on systematics and related themes

The following titles include some of the papers of faunal interest that were presented in the various scientific sessions, including posters. (Interesting treatments on a range of other subjects also were presented in the various sessions.)

Entomology in parks: general values and needs. H.V. Danks

The state of entomological inventory, monitoring, and systematic research in Ontario’s protected areas system. W.J. Crins and D.A. Sutherland

Arthropod diversity studies in southern Ontario parks. S.A. Marshall

Perspectives on the role of entomological information in designing and sustaining Canada’s network of conservation lands. G.J. Umphrey

Entomology and Canada’s national parks. D. Rivard

Linking the functional roles of airborne insects with their peatland black spruce habitats: a justification for boreal forest ecosystem preservation. A.M. Deans, S.M. Smith and J.R. Malcolm

The effects of burn season (spring, summer, fall) on the spider fauna of a tallgrass prairie in southern Manitoba. D. Wade

Untangling the threads of boreal spider bioindication. D.P. Shorthouse, J.R. Spence and W.J.A. Volney

Influence of pea aphid sex pheromone on natural enemy populations in alfalfa fields. M.J. Uddin, N.J. Holliday, P.A. MacKay, W. Powell, J.A. Pickett and S. Graves

Zoogeography and gall specificity of Torymus (Hymenoptera: Torymidae) parasitoids inhabiting rose galls induced by Diplolepis (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae) in Canada. S. J. Rempel and J.D. Shorthouse

Abundance and species richness of Dytiscidae (Coleoptera) in prairie ponds of southern Manitoba. M. Alperyn and R. Roughley

Diptera diversity in a Quebec old growth forest. E. Fast

Biodiversity of canopy arthropods in eastern temperate forests. C. Vance, S. Smith and J. Malcolm

A new genus of parathalassiine flies from Baltic amber, with a cladistic analysis of the Microphorinae + Dolichopodidae lineage (Diptera: Empidoidea). S.E. Brooks and J.M. Cumming

Classification, reconstructed phylogeny, and biogeography of Nearctic Brychius Thomson (Coleoptera: Haliplidae). T. Mousseau and R. Roughley

Coevolution of Heliconius spp. and their Passiflora host-plants: a phylogenetic comparison. A. Ossowski and F.F. Hunter

Physical gene mapping on blackfly polytene chromosomes by fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH). M. Spironello and F. Hunter

A phylogenetic investigation of Nearctic Simulium s.s. (Diptera: Simuliidae) using cytochrome b, cytochrome oxidase II and elongation factor 1-alpha. M. Smith and D. Currie

Metabolic cold adaptation and its hemispheric asymmetry in insects. A. Addo-Bediako

Genetic relatedness and aggression within and among populations of the western thatch ant, Formica obscuripes Forel. R. Hepburn, B. S. Lindgren and D. Heath

Carnivorous plants: A dual role for arthropods? G.L. Murza and A.R. Davis

Recruitment of natural enemies to an introduced bark beetle. N. Rudzik and S.M. Smith

Parasitoid guild of Delia radicum (L.), in canola in Prairie Provinces. K.S. Hemachandra and N.J. Holliday

Parasitoid communities of concealed insect pests: a case study of the cherry bark tortrix. W. Jenner, U. Kuhlmann, J. Cossentine and B. Roitberg

Seasonal abundance and distribution of Mamestra brassicae L. (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) and its parasitoids in organic vegetable fields in Switzerland. N. Lauro, U. Kuhlmann, P. Mason and N. Holliday

Molecular taxonomy of two cryptic cricket species: Gryllus rubens and G. texensis. M. Seifried, P. Barnfield, D. Gray and M.H. Richards

Systematics of the Nearctic species of Cerodontha (Cerodontha) (Diptera: Agromyzidae). S. Boucher

Microsatellite analyses of relationship in eusocial sweat bees. R. Beattie, R. Paxton and M.H. Richards

Responses in arthropod diversity to sugar maple decomposition. S. Murray, S. Smith and T. Wheeler

Investigating apple aphid genotypes using microsatellites. R.G. Foottit, G. Lushai and T. Lowery

Carabid fauna of vineyards. H. Goulet, L. Lesage, N.J. Bostanian and C. Vincent

Insects of vineyards in British Columbia. T. Lowery

Entomology of New York vineyards. G.E. Loeb

Woodnesting aculeates for teaching and research. P. Hallett

Carabid beetles in aspen forest along an urban-rural gradient. D. Hartley and J.R. Spence

Larval morphology of Agabetes Crotch (Coleoptera: Adephaga: Dytiscideae): the hypothesis of sister-group relationship with subfamily Laccophilinae revisited. Y. Alarie

Holarctic distributions in Diptera: the role of the researcher. T.A. Wheeler

Long-term changes in grasshopper species compostion on fescue grassland at Stavely, Alberta, and dry mixed (short grass) grassland at Onefour, Alberta, in response to grazing and weather. D.L. Johnson