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General information and editorial notes
News and Notes: Activities at the Entomological Societies' meeting Head of Biological Survey to retire Summary of the Scientific Committee meeting Project Update: Pending publications Dubious awards: Sashes and such Canadian Perspectives: Life-cycle Types in the Arctic From the canoe to the microscope: arctic mayflies and stoneflies List of Requests for Material or Information
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Activities at the Entomological Societies' meeting The 2006 joint annual meeting of the Entomological Society of Canada and the Société d’entomologie du Québec took place in Montreal, Quebec, 18-22 November 2006. The meeting was attended by about 350 people. Many of these were student members and there were many entries for the student presentations competition. Items in the program included:
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. The ESC meeting was followed by the meeting of the Scientific Committee for the Biological Survey of Canada (Terrestrial Arthropods). Symposium on Ecological impacts of non-native insects and fungi on terrestrial ecosystems This international symposium featured a series of review and case study papers that examined the invasion of Canada and the northern USA by non-native terrestrial invertebrates (insects and earthworms) and fungi. The primary focus was on the impacts on non-native biota on ecological processes and biological diversity.
Papers on systematics and related themes Many presentations were made in contributed sessions. 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.) Deciphering the past: reconstructing the phylogeny of the Clusiidae (Diptera) using multiple (and sometimes conflicting) data sets. The impact of rotational seasonal grazing on the invertebrates of mixed-grass prairie, using ground beetles (Carabidae) and spiders (Araneae) as bioindicators. The diversity of indirect effects between soil fungi and insects. The diversification of the cardiophorine clade of click beetles (Coleoptera: Elateridae). Phylogeography of Nicrophorus nepalensis Hope 1831 (Coleoptera: Siliphidae). Conservation and genetics of the Peace River grassland butterflies. Systematics and phylogeny of the subgenus Sarcophaga (Neobellieria) Blanchard (Diptera: Sarcophagidae). Anopheles (Diptera: Culicidae) systematics in Ontario: cytogenetic methods and results. The effects of habitat size and surrounding land-use on selected families of bog-dwelling Schizophora (Diptera: Cyclorrhapha) in the southeastern Quebec and northern Vermont region. Aquatic insects in boreal streams of the Cape Breton Highlands, Nova Scotia: relationships with physical habitat and forest history. Influence of peat mining and restoration on diversity of Brachycera (Diptera) in ombrotophic peatlands in southeastern Quebec, Canada. Monitoring and modeling terrestrial arthropod biodiversity on the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge, Alaska. Carabid response to natural disturbance-based silviculture across three boreal forest ecosystems in western Québec. Food limitation of ground beetle (Coleoptera: Caraidae) communities in relation to activity, density, and insect mass. Landscape level association between trees and ground dwelling beetles. Species diversity and seasonal abundance of arthropods in turfgrass ecosystems. A comparison of ground beetle assemblages (Coleoptera: Carabidae) in fields grown under sustainable and conventional farming practices. Ground beetle (Coleoptera: Carabidae) abundance and diversity in canola: wheat intercrops. Vegetation structure and invertebrate diversity in agriculture: a look at ground beetles (Family Carabidae) in hayfields. Pollination in the genus Eulonchus (Diptera: Acroceridae): Flower visiting behaviour, pollen loads, and mate detection. Assessing bee-o-diversity in mixed-grass prairie habitats. Substrate selection by larvae in highly variable hosts restricts the importance of oviposition site in saprophagous wood-boring beetles (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae). Stratégies de dispersion d’une fourmi en forêt boréale. Mortality factors influencing a newly established invasive species – Profenusa thomsoni in Alaska. The effects of latitude on spider species diversity north of 60. Monitoring spider diversity in SW Quebec forests: field techniques, taxonomy and three years of data. Sexual size dimorphism in spiders: patterns and processes. Systematics and biogeography of the Cicurina brevis group (Araneae: Dictynidae). A phylogeny of the large wolf spiders from North America; are we making progress? Persistence and stability, at four spatial scales, for populations of an aphid on its native host plant. Notes on the life cycle of a fast growing arctic mayfly, Baetis bundyae, with an update of the mayflies of Nunavut. Reproduction, feeding, and changing distribution of brachycentrid and hydropsychid caddisflies (Trichoptera) in the Upper St. Lawrence River. Challenges to invertebrate conservation in BC. Ecological land classification as a surrogate for arthropod biodiversity. “The beetles have arrived”: Recent case studies on invasive alien insects in our forests. Effect of harvesting on rove beetle species diversity in Acadian red spruce stands. Host-use patterns of adults and larvae of saproxylic wood-feeding Coleoptera in black spruce and apsen. Recovery of carabid communities to variable retention harvesting. Diversity in a dairy pasture: do Carabidae and Staphylinidae communities respond to different management practices? Spider colonization of apple orchards. Blackfly phylogeny through DNA sequencing? A critical study. The evolution of some heteropteran true land bugs. Aleocharine rove beetles of Canada and Alaska – rapid progress in our knowledge (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae). Islands in the sky: The beast, the impediment, and whirlpools in the pattern of arboreal community ecology. Ecological processes shaping the foraging behaviours and associated performance of herbivorous insects within tree crowns. Habitat distribution of predatory mites in Australian forests: arboreal specialists, suspended soil generalists, or rainforest floor avoiders? Canopy research on arthropods in temperate maple-dominated forests: From descriptions to mechanisms in 10 years. Diversity patterns at multiple spatial scales of canopy spiders found on sugar maple and American beech in hardwood forests. Monitoring changes in canopy arthropod populations through time in the western Amazon Basin, Yasuni area, Ecuador. Revision of the Mexican and Central American genus Trachypholoeomimus (Coleoptera: Curculionidae, Entiminae). Systematics of Goniaspis and implications for higher classification of Chloropidae (Diptera). A taxonomic revision of the new world fauna of Mesembrina Meigen (Diptera: Muscidae) with description of the first Neotropical species. Phylogenetic analysis of North American Cybaeus spp. (Aranea: Cybaeidae) utilizing morphological and molecular characteristics. Étude moléculaire de la diversité génétique chez le simulies. Identification moléculaire des mermithides (nematodes) parasites de mouches noires (Diptera: Simuliidae). First focused survey of harvestmen (Arachnida: Opiliones) in Québec beech-maple forests. Seven introduced ground beetles (Coleoptera: Carabidae) in Québec: their distribution and potential range expansion since 1975. Beetles, bovines and biodiversity: an inventory of Coleoptera in an eastern Canadian dairy pasture. Diversity and abundance of saproxylic Diptera emerging from coarse woody debris in Abitibi-Témiscamingue, Québec. The effect of remnant boreal forest habitats on saproxylic beetle assemblages in landscapes subjected to harvesting. Effects of alternative silvicultural practices on litter mite assemblages in Quebec’s mixed-wood boreal forest. Effects of stand type on Oribatid mite assemblages in southern Quebec. Ants’ colonisation of woody debris after wildfires. Does gypsy moth invasion affect the natural mortality of native caterpillars? Phytophagous mites of Canada. The Adirondack All-Taxa Biodiversity Inventory: full of possibilities. Biodiversity of parasitic wasps (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae) in the highest mountains of a tropical island and its Nearctic relatives: are they related? Taxonomic tools for paleoentomology in boreal forests. Insects associated with nests of the American Kestrels, Northern Saw-whet and Boreal owls. Molecular identification of West Nile virus vectors and possibility of cross contamination among sorted mosquito samples. An inventory of predacious mites in Quebec commercial apple orchards where IPM programs are implemented.
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