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Activities at the Entomological Societies' MeetingThe 2000 Joint Annual Meeting of the Entomological Society, Société d’entomologie du Québec and Entomological Society of America took place in Montreal 2-6 December 2000. The meeting was attended by nearly 3000 people, and this large meeting, which included the Entomological Society of America for the first time since 1982, comprised about 15 simultaneous sessions, with a full range of symposia, contributed papers, posters and other events. In all the meeting had more than 1000 papers and more than 800 posters. Items in the program (emphasizing those of particular interest to the Biological Survey) included:
Governing Board and Annual General Meetings also took place, and various honours were awarded by the Societies. Because the meeting was so large, and its core structure organized by the ESA, there was no banquet, and no complimentary coffee during the sessions, and some other events normal at the ESC meeting were abbreviated or took a different form. However, the SEQ and ESC organized a very well attended evening President’s reception at the Château Ramezay Museum for members of those societies. The meeting also featured an extensive display area, with numerous booths showing scientific books, equipment, and other items. A Canadian pavilion included displays from organizations such as the Entomological Society of Canada, including the Biological Survey, the Société d’entomologie du Québec, the Association des entomologistes amateurs du Québec, the Insectarium de Montréal, the Biodome de Montréal, and the Cooperation Entomofaune du Québec. The Biological Survey showed a general poster at the ESC booth, displayed selected publications, and made available leaflets about the Survey, as well as its for-sale and free-of- charge publications. The program was so diverse that a summary of individual titles of interest would be extremely long. However, presentations by Canadian entomologists on systematics and related themes included the following titles: Ascid mites (Acari: Mesostigmata) of soil and adjacent habitats in lowland tropical rainforest of La Selva, Costa Rica: An example of underestimated acarine biodiversity. E. Lindquist Patterns of diversity in the Ceratozetoidea (Acari: Oribatida): A global assessment. V. Behan-PelletierMites on a rampage: Exploration of arboreal suspended soils in ancient rainforests. N. Winchester What’s on the Horizon?: Coleopteran systematics in the 21st Century. R. Anderson Water balance in insects dormant for the winter. H. Danks Modeling gypsy moth diapause: The key to a geographically robust phenology? D. Gray Grasshopper seasonality in the Northern Great Plains. D. Johnson The stability of gypsy moth seasonality in coastal British Columbia: A study of persistence. J. Régnière Phylogeny of the Papilio machaon species group: Are P. joanae and P. brevicauda hybrid species? A. Mitchell and F. Sperling Biological assessment of the link between mitochondrial DNA sequences, Dioryctria morphology and larval host. F. Sperling, G. Roux, N. Rappaport, J. Stein and G. Grant Phylogenetic relationships of the genus Thricops Rondani and the status of Alloeostylus Schnabl (Diptera: Muscidae). J. Savage A taxonomic revision of North American members of Gyretes Brullé (Coleoptera: Gyrinidae), North of Mexico. J. Babin and Y. Alarie Cladistics of the Tryphoninae (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae) with comments on tribal relationships, classification and adaptive radiation. A. Bennett The higher Diptera community of sedge meadows (Carex: Cyperaceae) in southern Quebec. F. Beaulieu The use of molecules and morphology in delineating bumble bee species. T. Whidden Diversity of Agromyzidae (Diptera) in Canadian tallgrass prairies. V. Crecco Generic relationships of the subfamily Dolichopodinae (Diptera: Dolichopodidae). S. Brooks Supercooling capacity and survival of low temperatures by a pyrethroid-resistant strain of Typhlodromus pyri Scheuten (Acari: Phytoseiidae). D. Moreau and J. Hardman Realized host range assessment of European Peristenus species. H. White and U. Kuhlmann Psithyrus invasions of bumblebee field colonies. L. Pelletier and J. McNeil Differential dispersal and resource partitioning explain the coexistence of competing parasitoid species. B. Van Hezewijk and J. Roland. Insect succession on pig carrion in Manitoba. G. Gill, T. Galloway and G. Anderson The pollination ecology of cloudberry (Rubus chamaemorus). A. Brown and J. McNeil After the 1998 ice storm: Temporal and spatial responses by a scolytid and its associated predators. K. Ryall and S. Smith Does forest fragmentation affect the lepidopteran host assemblages of forest tent caterpillar parasitoids? C. Schmidt and J. Roland Biodiversity of Torymus (Hymenoptera: Torymidae) associated with galls of Diplolepis (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae) in western vs. eastern Canada. S. Rempel and J. Shorthouse Implications of spruce budworm management for the ecological diversity of moths and carabid beetles in the boreal forest. C. Wytrykush and N. Holliday Large-scale population genetic structure of an alpine butterfly: Effects of landscape, dispersal, and population history. N. Keyghobadi, J. Roland and C. Strobeck Flying beetle biodiversity and the effect of integrated pest management in mature northern Interior Douglas-fir, Dendroctonus pseudotsugae. S. Carson Comparison of arthropod abundance, diversity and trophic richness within intercropped agroforesty and monoculture agroecosystems. H. Middleton and S. Smith Diversity and forest maturation: Proposition of a new model. P. Paquin, N. Dupérré and P.-P. Harper Parasitic wasps (Scelionidae, Trichogrammatidae) attacking tabanid eggs in Manitoba, Canada. M. Iranpour, T. Galloway and L. Masner. Biogeography of Cardiophorus Eschscholtz (Coleoptera: Elateridae) of eastern North America with two new species and a new synonymy. H. Douglas Intraguild predation among spider mite predators present in apple orchards. C. Provost and D. Coderre The natural enemy response to high- and low-density infestations of Tomicus piniperda (L.) (Coleoptera: Scolytidae). N. Rudzik, K. Ryall and S. Smith Soil formation and mite colonization on vegetated mine tailings near Sudbury, Ontario, Canada. M. St. John, G. Bagatto, V. Behan-Pelletier, E. Lindquist, J. Shorthouse and I. Smith The effect of grazing on ant (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) biodiversity in the south Okanagan grasslands of British Columbia, Canada. J. Heron and G. Scudder The effect of grazing on Orthopteran and Gryllopteran biodiversity in the Southern Okanagan Valley of British Columbia. P. Liu Griesdale and G. Scudder Comparison of insect diversity on post-fire harvested and non-harvested forested landscapes in the Waterton Lakes area of southwestern Alberta. E. Kinsella Spiders of Alberta and Saskatchewan. D. Buckle and R. Holmberg Insects of the Galapagos Islands, Ecuador. S. Peck The comparative morphology of the sting apparatus of bees. L. Packer Combining digital images in a computer layering technique for viable 3-D images: Manually. H. Goulet Assessment of arthropod biodiversity and pest dynamics in various production input levels and cropping system strategies. O. Olfert, M. Braun and R. Weiss Intercropping and its impact on beneficial and pest insects on the Great Plains. R. Butts, H. Carcámo, K. Floate and M. Weiss Why Strepsiptera cannot possibly be close relatives of Diptera. J. Kukalova-Peck Phylogenetic resolution in Adephaga using larval chaetotaxy: Two examples from Dytiscidae. Y. Alarie A cladistic classification of the Empidoidea (Diptera: Eremoneura). J. Cumming and B. Sinclair Selected inventories and selected flies: Sphaerocerids and micropezids in temperate and tropical surveys. S. Marshall Molecular systematics of Simulium s. str. (Diptera: Simuliidae). M. Smith Examination of the peninsula effect upon insect species richness of the Bruce Peninsula (Ontario, Canada). C. Onodera Carabidae abundance and diversity in Annapolis Valley, Nova Scotia apple orchards. C. O’Flaherty, R. Smith, S. Rigby and C. Sheffield Insect diversity following stand conversion: A comparison among restoration techniques. R. Morgan, S. Smith and M. Bellocq Comparative pollination effectiveness among Apoidean visitors of wild blueberry (Vaccinium angustifolium Ait.). S. Javorek, K. MacKenzie and S. Vander Kloet Arctic insects, global warming and the ITEX program. R. Ring Impacts of differing harvest intensities on carabid beetle diversity in the boreal forest. T. Work, J. Spence, J. Volney, K. Cryer and D. Shorthouse Dynamique des communautés de collemboles dans des coupes sylvicoles, en forêt boréale. M. Chagnon and S. Brais Staphylinid beetles as indicators of disturbance in northern forests. G. Pohl Boreal spiders as indicators of multi-scale forest structure, disturbance, and biodiversity. D. Shorthouse Patterns in mayfly emergence in Lake Erie. L. Corkum Food web patterns along a stream continuum: Insights from stable isotope analysis. R. Doucett Midgehikers on stoneflies: Using stable isotopes to sort out a parasitic relationship. D. Giberson What parasites can contribute to the study of food webs. D. Marcogliese Classification of aquatic Adephaga (Coleoptera): Old tools used in new ways lead to new answers. R. Roughley Mentum deformities and community composition of chironomid larvae (Diptera: Chironomidae) downstream of a New Brunswick metal mine. E. Swansburg Overview of Canadian grasslands. K. Floate The use of fire as a biodiversity and conservation management tool in tallgrass prairies. R. Roughley and D. Pollock Diversity of Meromyza (Diptera: Chloropidae) in Canadian native grasslands. T. Wheeler Endemism and dispersal of short-horned bugs (Homoptera: Auchenorrhyncha) in Pacific Northwest intermontane grasslands. A. Hamilton Parasitoids of bark beetles in eastern Canada: Recent insights. K. Ryall and S. Smith Diversity of Diplolepis (Cynipidae) and their galls on the wild roses of Canada. J. Shorthouse The influence of crown closure on defoliators of young trees. D. Quiring and D. Ostaff Multiple-scale linkages of boreal forest spiders and carabids to habitat structure modifications. D. Shorthouse, J. Spence and W. Volney Lepidoptera odysseys: How do ‘Leps’ deal with forest habitat structure? L. Morneau, W. Volney and J. Spence Population genetic aspects of pollinator decline. R. Owen and L. Packer Using communities of pollinators to assess environmental stress: Departures from log normality in diversity and abundance. P. Kevan Systematics of the strobi-complex of the weevil genus Pissodes: The larval perspective. D. Williams and D. Langor Morphometric modifications from free to parastic lifestyle in Aleochara bilineata (Gyll.) (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae) larvae. L. Royer, J. LeLannic, J.-P. Nenon and G. Boivin The systematics of Lasiopogon Loew (Diptera: Asilidae). R. Cannings Diversity of Agromyzidae (Diptera) in southern Yukon grasslands. S. Boucher Mining collections: Cerambycidae (Coleoptera) and the importance of regional insect collections. D. McCorquodale Preliminary surveys of terrestrial arthropods in mountain national parks in western Canada. R. Longair, W. Fitch and A. Duguay The joint annual meeting was preceded by the meeting of the Entomological Collections Network, held at McGill University and attended by about 90 people. This all-day session included papers on: Ephemeroptera, Plecoptera, and Trichoptera at the INHS, a database and summary of collections. E. DeWalt and C. Favret Re-curating, databasing and mapping the odonate collection at the University of Nebraska State Museum. M. Jameson Labels and unique identifiers. J. Pickering Biota of Canada Information Network (BCIN). I. Smith and L. Speers Retrospective data capture and documentation. L. Speers Virtual insect collections: Dipterists lead the way. C. Thompson Why curators must preserve everything for DNA - and how. D. Quicke An entomological survey of Navassa Island, with notes on species richness and endemism. W. Steiner and J. Swearingen The Biological Survey of Canada (Terrestrial Arthropods). H. Danks Arthropods of Canadian grasslands: a Biological Survey of Canada megaproject. T. Wheeler A taxonomist’s vision: knowing all earth’s species. T. Erwin Great Smokies ATBI and <www.discoverlife.org> update. J. Pickering At this meeting too, information about the Biological Survey of Canada (Terrestrial Arthropods) was made available. |
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