Newsletter of the Biological Survey of Canada (Terrestrial Arthropods)

Volume 23 No. 1, Spring 2004


 

News and Notes


 

General information and editorial notes

News and Notes

Handbook series rejuvenated

Activities at the Entomological Societies' meeting

Summary of the Scientific Committee meeting

Arthropods of Canadian Grasslands - News

The Quiz Page

Project Update: Terrestrial Arthropods of Newfoundland and Labrador

New Project: Arthopods of Canadian Forests

Forest arthropod project inventory

Web Site Notes

Opinion Page: Bioinformatics and Misinformatics

Resources for the Study of Odonata in Canada

Arctic Corner

Arctic and Boreal Entomology: what's new about 2003 & 2004

Selected future conferences

Quips and Quotes

List of Requests for Material or Information

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Activities at the Entomological Societies’ meeting

The 2003 joint annual meeting of the Entomological Society of Canada and the Entomological Society of British Columbia took place in Kelowna 1-5 November 2003. The meeting was attended by about 300 people. One third of these were student members and there were 66 entrants for the student presentations competition. Items in the program or associated with it included:

A plenary session in accordance with the meeting theme on Insects and shifting environments.

Symposia on "Adaptations and constraints: a symposium in honour of Richard Ring", "Insects in a changing climate", "Introduced species: Friends and foes and those we do not know", and "Biodiversity".

Workshops on "Temperate fruit flies: ecology, behaviour, and management", "Resistance of two kinds: insecticides and host plants", and "Ecology and structure of aphid populations".

Submitted papers in several sessions.

A student presentation competition, in several sessions, (biodiversity and systematics, management, behaviour, population ecology and evolution), for prizes of the Entomological Society of Canada and the Entomological Society of British Columbia.

An extensive poster session.

The ESC Heritage Lecture given by Dr. Richard Ring, entitled "Insect adaptations: a personal perspective".

The ESC Gold Medal Address given by Dr. Hugh Danks, entitled "Knowledge and synthesis in entomology".

Associated meetings of the "Mountain Pine Beetle Symposium", "Canadian Forum for Biological Control", "Western Forum and Western Committees on Crop Pests and Plant Diseases" and the Scientific Committee for the Biological Survey of Canada (Terrestrial Arthropods).

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 mixer and a banquet.

Symposium on Adaptations and constraints
The symposium: "Adaptations and Constraints: A symposium in honour of Richard Ring", was organized to recognize Richard Ring’s retirement during 2004 from the Biology Department at the University of Victoria. Opening and closing remarks were made by symposium organizers N. Winchester and R. Bennett. The first formal presentation began with an introduction to Richard Ring and his achievements in teaching, research and other areas. Papers from the symposium are being submitted for publication as a set in the Canadian Entomologist.

Insect adaptations to cold and changing environments. H.V. Danks

Alien true bugs (Heteroptera) in Canada: composition and adaptations. G.G.E. Scudder, R.G. Foottit

Melanism in arctic and alpine Colias butterflies. J. Roland

Overwintering adaptations in arctic sawfly communities: cold tolerance and desiccation resistance. L. Humble, R.A. Ring

The sky is the limit: patterns in the distribution and abundance of invertebrates inhabiting suspended soils in ancient northern temperate coniferous rainforests. N.N. Winchester, R.A. Ring

Symposium on Biodiversity
The symposium "Biodiversity", introduced by organizer G.G.E. Scudder, exposed a variety of detailed information about insect and mite diversity in several important Canadian habitats.

Diversity of boreal forests of western Quebec: a beetle’s point of view. P. Paquin

Insect surveys and southern Ontario’s biodiversity hotspots. S. Marshall

Rarity and richness hotspots in British Columbia. G. Scudder

Why forest canopies of the Pacific Northwest are hotspots for oribatid mite diversity. V. Behan-Pelletier, M. St. John, N.N. Winchester.

The potentially rare and endangered terrestrial arthropods in British Columbia: revisiting British Columbia’s biodiversity. N.N. Winchester, R.A. Ring, L. Humble

Papers on systematics and related themes
Many presentations were made in contributed sessions on biodiversity. The following titles include some of the papers of faunal interest that were presented in these and various other scientific sessions, including posters. (Interesting treatments on a range of other subjects were presented in the various sessions.)

Factors affecting the community ecology of predacious water beetles (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae) in ponds across Manitoba. M. Alperyn

Arthropods associated with downed woody material in Forillon National Park, Québec. H. Varady-Szabo, C.M. Buddle

Bee community composition change over a 35-year period. J. Grixti, L. Packer

Fly pollination and the dioecious breeding system in plants: A relationship of cause or consequence? C.J. Borkent, L.D. Harder

Effect of habitat loss and invasion by scotch broom (Cytisus scoparius) on rare butterflies of garry oak meadows. W. Hallstrom

The precipitous decline and uncertain future of Taylor’s checkerspot butterfly (Euphydryas editha taylori). J. Miskelly, D.S. Eastman

Effects of habitat fragmentation and loss of scolytid and its predators at various spatial scales. K. Ryall, L. Fahrig

Effectiveness of Nordlander pitfall traps for ants, with comparison to standard sampling methods. R. Higgins, B.S. Lindgren

Salmon-derived nitrogen and carbon in terrestrial invertebrates from coniferous forests of coastal British Columbia. M.D. Hocking, T.E. Reimchen, R.A. Ring

Adaptive radiation of gall-inducing insects within a single host plant species. J. Joy, B.J. Crespi

Genetic lineages and morphological characters: important partners for coneworm (Pyralidae: Dioryctria) identification. A. Roe, G. Grant, L. Stein, N. Gillette, F. Sperling

Revision of the Nearctic species of Brychius Thomson (Coleoptera: Haliplidae). T. Mousseau, R.E. Roughley

The parasitoid community structure of a bark-feeding lepidopteran, Enarmonia formosana (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae). W. Jenner, U. Kuhlmann, J.Cossentine, B. Roitberg

Differences in leafhopper (Homoptera: Cicadellidae) species composition, distribution, and feeding preferences between severe and mild drought years in Saskatchewan. T. Saretski, C. Gillott, J. Soroka

Diploid male production and the population size paradox in "common" orchid bees: implications for detecting pollinator declines. A. Zayed, D.W. Roubik, L. Packer

Life history strategy of the stem galler Aulacidea hieracii (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae) on hawkweed (Asteraceae). M. Sliva

Host specificity of Lygus parasitoids: understanding mirid-parasitoid associations in different habitats. T. Haye, U. Kuhlmann, P.G. Mason, H. Goulet

Hyperparasitism in Lygus spp. (Hemiptera: Miridae) by a parasitoid Peristenus near mellipes (Hymenoptera: Braconide) in alfalfa. M. Ashfaq, L. Braun, M. Erlandson

Genetic analysis of some coniferophagous "Choristoneura" populations using amplified fragment length polymorphisms (AFLPs) as molecular markers. P. Dale, F. Sperling

Spiders of the genus Cicurina (Dictynidae): application of molecular techniques to conservation and systematics. P. Paquin, M.C. Hedin

Molecular barcoding – mixed results for Pipunculidae (Diptera). J. Skevington

New Milichiidae (Diptera) taxa, same old phylogenetic problems? J. Swann

Parsimony analysis of endemicity, the best of a bad lot? J. Swann

New species, new records and importance of taxonomic research in the leaf-miner flies (Diptera: Agromyzidae). S. Boucher

Redescription of Haliplus dorsomaculatus with comments on distribution, habitat and a new synonymy. R. Kenner

Ride a pale horse: diversity and host associations of Pseudogaurax (Diptera: Chloropidae), predators of arachnids. T. Wheeler

Interactive, illustrated keys to the Ichneumonidae (Hymenoptera) parasitizing North American Choristoneura spp. (Lepidoptera: Tortrcidae): a practical example of the advantages of Lucid over standard keys. A. Bennett

A virtual museum for real world entomologists. F. Sperling

Landscape characteristics affect patch colonization in a host-parasitoid community. B. Van Hezewijk

Climatic adaptations in some prairie aphid species: local overwintering versus annual immigration. P. MacKay, M. Smith

Life history and behavior of the blueberry aphid, Ericaphis fimbriata, in relation to the spread of Blueberry Scorch Virus. D. Raworth

Distribution and ecology of Pemphigus aphids in a trispecific swarm of hybridizing cottonwood (Populus). K. Floate

Molecular analyses of aphid populations. R. Foottit

Aquatic insect studies in the Canadian Central Barrens (NWT and NU). D. Giberson

A quest for mites: the search for oribatid soil mites from western Canadian grasslands. D. Kanashiro, M.J. Clapperton, V. Behan-Pelletier, G.H.O. Osler

Sampling for diversity – Is 4 weeks enough? S. Carson

Surprises in the boreal: experiments with dead wood and ground-dwelling spider assemblages. C. Buddle

Beetle diversity in man-maintained and wild ecosystems in the Whangamata area of New Zealand. J. McLean, D. Jones

Effects of forest fragmentation on carabid beetles in coastal western hemlock forests. I. Pearsall

Diversity and abundance of Staphylinidae in Acadian red spruce stands under different silvicultural regimes. J. Sweeney, J. Klimaszewski, G. Gesner, J. Price

Assessing success of rainforest restoration using arthropod assemblages. H. Proctor, J. Kanowski, C. Catterall, G. Wardell-Johnson, T. Reis, S. Piper

Hymenopteran parasitoids of the cabbage seedpod weevil (Ceutorhynchus obstrictus: Curculionidae) in Alberta. B. Ulmer, L. Dosdall, G. Gibson, J. Huber

Entomological research in Haida Gwaii: from studies of deer-insect interaction to a fauna inventory. S. Allombert, R. Cannings, J-L. Martin

An approach to site selection using GIS for management and monitoring of mason bees in Digby/Smith’s Cove, Nova Scotia. S. Carbyn, S. Javorek, K. MacKenzie

Molecular phylogenetic reconstructions of Far Eastern Asia species of the genus Sitobion and the genus Macrosiphum. H.J. Choe, S. Lee, H.J. Kim

Orchard releases of native parasitoids of the obliquebanded leafroller. J. Cossentine, K. Deglow, L. Jensen

Occurrence of Rhagoletis spp. (Diptera: Tephritidae) on the island of Newfoundland. P. Dixon, S. Berlocher

Use of molecular markers in host range and non-target risk assessment studies of Lygus parasitoids. T.D. Gariépy, M. Erlandson, U. Kuhlmann, C. Gillott

Black flies in salt: Simulium vittatum (Zett.) in beach streams affected by tidal incursions on Prince Edward Island. D. Giberson, L. Purcell

The effects of landscape fragmentation and prey density on the regulation of forest tent caterpillars (Malacosoma disstria) by generalist predators. M. Glasgow

Three spatial nesting patterns within managed hives of local solitary bees and wasps. P.E. Hallett

Biosystematics in forestry: Invasive species and native biodiversity. J.T. Huber, P.T. Dang

Effects of two insecticide application methods on soil Collembola and mite populations in commercial potato fields on Prince Edward Island. C. Noronha, M. Carter

Biodiversity of aquatic insects and macroinvertebrates from a boreal lake in Saskatchewan. D. Parker

Emergence phenologies of mayflies (Ephemeroptera) and caddisflies (Trichoptera) in a shallow bay at Candle Lake, SK. D. Parker, J. Webb

The effects of forest fragmentation on forest tent caterpillar (Malacosoma disstria) parasitoid communities. D. Roth

Arboreal arthropod community composition in lichens and branches of Abies amabilis in montane variable retention stands. S. Wilkerson, N. Winchester

Biodiversity of saproxylic beetles in old-growth and mature-managed forest in south-eastern Ontario. R. Zeran

 

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