·~~ NEWSLETTER ~ . Department of Entomology Vol. 5, No.1 U~iversity of Minnesota Apr 11 21, 1988 ------Written Exams Scheduled IN THIS ISSUE: Exam Dates By popular demand, the Director of CSRS Review Graduate Stud ies has set up the fo 11 ow­ Voucher Spec imens ing schedule for upcoming exams: Visiting Scientist Facu1 ty Notes Surrmer 188 June 23, 1988 Greetings Fall 188 Oct. 6, 1988 Alumni Notes Head of Winter 189-1 Jan. 12, 1989 New & Mi ss i ng Books Clastoptera -II Feb. 16, 1989 Student News lineatocoll is Spring 189 Apr. 6, 1989 Advisory Committees femal e Jobs (K.G.A. Hamilton) Readings will be avai1ib1e in the li­ brary 4 weeks before the exam, and Next newsletter deadline: May 23 grades will be returned within 2 weeks -- . a fter the exam. Voucher Specimens -- Doni t forget -- the current ques- Some Questions Answered tion will be offered May 12. Please sign up with Roger Moon, DGS, in advance Who needs to keep vouchers? Preserving if you plan to take the question. representatTve specimens isn't just for ------~------taxonomists anymore. Nearly everyone ------should plan on keeping several examples Notes from the De~artment Head: of each species and life stage they deal CSRS Reviewlfipor with in their research. Even if you're sure of what species you're working Well, the review has been completed with, questions (such as phenotype) may and we have all survived. My comp1 i­ arise in the future that canlt be an­ ments to all members of the department swered unless you save some material. for the efforts in preparat ion. I be­ l ieve the rev iewers' comments were re­ What should 1 do with ~ vouchers? Check ward for these efforts. with Ra 1ph HolzenthciT or Ph i 1 C1 ausen on The team was very complementary in the best way to preserve your insects, regard to our preparation -- both our and to get the special green voucher rev iew docunent and our agenda and pre­ labels. (You should have collection date sentations. Although we can be proud of and location information on a separate these efforts, as Yog i Berra sa id, .. It label.) The voucher label will include a ainlt over til itls over." Our real reference to the pub 1icat ion or thesis opportun i ty to benefi t from the rev iew the voucher is from. If your work is wi 11 come with our fo 11 ow-up. As soon physiological, you may need to consider as we receive a copy of the team report, different storage methods for such we will outline a process for addressing things as cell or microbial cultures or the recorrmendat ions. We wi 11 also re­ material for electrophoresis. quest that the administration do the same. In fact, we have already begun to How do I refer to vouchers in ~ pub1i­ address some of the issues, for example, @iOnS? State"how many spec lmens of standardized teaching evaluations by what sex and stage have been deposited, students. who identified them (you might want to The rev iew team proposed some re­ get hel p from a pa id spec ia1 ist) and commendat ions that will s igni ficant 1y when, and where they are kept (i.e. U.M. strengthen our program. I .wi 11 keep you Entomology Museum). ~any journals are 'posted as progress occurs. now requiring this in ormation for an -- R. Jones puolications. D~ wait -- start savlnQ your vouchers today! ------Map 17. Collection localities for AphTophoTa (A.) quadTinotata Say. Shaded: region Visiting Scientist Welcomed of summer temperatures (above 5.5°C) of more than 1400 degree-days per ~ar. Dr. K. G. Andrew Hamilton is visi­ ting us fram the Biosystematics Research Centre, Agriculture Canada, Ottawa. He is spending a week working on sorting and identifying leafhoppers in our col­ lection and gathering distribution data and other information for his upcoming book, Leafhop~ers of Canada. liThe Cana­ dian distribu ionmaps," he says, "can look very disjunct without information from the northern U.S." (see at right).· Inc 1 us i on of the northern U. S. a 1 so makes the work more useful to a broader audience. He is hoping that U.S. re­ searchers will reciprocate and include Canada in their distribution maps. Last week he was at Washington State Univer­ sity in Pullman doing similar work with their collection. Over 15,000 species of leafhoppers have been tdent i fied worldwide, and identifications are increasing exponen­ tially, making the Cicadellidae possibly the lOth largest family. About 900 species are known to be present in Cana­ da, and Dr. Hamilton will be including about 600 of -these in his book. He has been .working for Agricul ture Canada for 15 years, and has published Leafhoppers Lepyronia co1eoptrata of ornamental and fruit trees of Canada and The spittlebUgs of Canada as-well as many papers on Homo pier a from many parts of the world (from which the ill ustra­ ------~------Sustainable Agriculture SymposiUB tions accompanying this article are Saturday, April 30 taken). Dudng his time here, he also presented a seminar on "Mesozoic Homop­ tera frQm Brazil: A test of cladistics" A symposium on sustainable agriculture, on Wednesday, April 20. organized by David Andow from the De­ Dr. Hamilton's work here is sup­ partment of Entomology, will be held on ported by the Department IS C. E. Mickel Saturday, April 30th, in Borlilug Hall. Visiting Systematist Fund. Over forty papers ranging from theoreti­ cal to applied subjects will be present­ ed by members of the following depart­ ments: Entomology, Agriculture and Applied Economics, Agronomy. Soils,· Economics, Forestry, Horticulture, Plant Pathology, and Ecology. Papers have Oncopsis aureostria al so been received from the Morris Ex­ perimental Station and the Minnesota ------Food Association. Charles Davis from Entomology Newsletter is a monthly the Minnesota State Senate will present publication of the U of MN Dept. of open i ng remarks. The sympos i urn wi 11 Entomology and Frenatae (Entomology begin at 8:00 am on April 30 and will Student Association). run until late afternoon. There is no Editor: Nancy Read. Invaluable Staff: registration fee and everyone is wel­ Chris DiFonzo, Sue Ross, and anyone else come. Contact Dav id Andow for further who volunteers. Editorial Advisor: Bill details or watch bulletin boards for Mi 11 er. more information. ~------Facul ty Notes WELCOME! Ralph Ho1zenthal will be taking his Letha "Lee" Fields is the new sec­ students Margot Monson and Mac Strand to retary in the Entomology Department the North AJT1erican Bentho10g;cal Society office. A native Minnesotan from t~inne­ meet ings May 16-21 in Tuscaloosa, Al a­ apolis, Lee was a medical receptionist bama. Caddisflies along the route for eight years before coming to the should take warning -- Ralph and his Entomology office. After hours, she crew will be driving down and collecting enjoys volleyball, reading, and walking on the way. - she is participating in Walk Prnerica this month. Lee is married and has two Ted Radc 1 i ffe and ~ Ragsda 1e dre teenage sons. travel ing to Morocco for a few weeks to ------work with their student, Abdelhaq Han­ afi, on his Ph.D. research on vlr'US transmission. While there they will also visit entomology departments in the cities of Rabat, Agadir, and Meknez. Oncopsis arizona Hua i C~log reports: "I returned from my "SlXfh mission to Thailand on March Department Seminars 16. Again, the project is going well, (3:15, 490 Hodson) and I enjoyed three weeks of sunny Larval Mosguitoes as Vulnerable prsy: weather. I was warm when I heard it was Chaoborus predation:- Judy Helgen, t. 32-37, but I felt hot when I figured out Olaf College, Northfield, Minn., April that that meant 90-96. 26. "The trip would have been too rou­ tine to report here but for something Acguiring Knowledge for Expert Systems. about our entomology alumni. David ~ Sharon Garber, 3M Company, St. Paul, May spent July 1986 and July-August 1987 in 10. Thailand as a consultant on sampling methods for my project. Cindy Volden Sampling Colorado Potato Beetles. Penny ~ was with him on the second trip. Ives. U.M. Dept. Ent., May 17. Relirote that they toured northern Thai­ land and stayed in the jungle. That was Seminars Outside the Department exotic. At any rate, he interacted with many Thai scientists on the project, Protein Electrophoresis and Evolution: worked over data they gathered in the Is the ~arty Over? Dr. Robert Zink, 0 past 3-~ years, and produced two joint Wuseum Zoology, Louisiana state Uni­ papers on presence-absence sequential versity, May 11, 4:00 p.m., Bell Museum samp1 ing models for the cotton bollworm Auditorium (East Bank). and the sugarcane shoot borer. A third is on its way. That surely is not bad Tropica1Tem~erature During the Pleisto­ for three months of work. I must admi t cene: Can t e Marine and Terrestrial however I do not know how many hours he RecordSb'eReconciled? Dr. Daniel B. spent on his keyboard after returning to Livingston, Dept. of Zoology, Duke Uni­ Kentucky. He is the only one among six versity, May 18, 4:00 p.m., Zoology 313 consultants on the project having such a (Ea st Ban k) • high productivity. Congratulations, Dave! . Pest Control and Basic Ecology ~ the "Incidentally, the nematodes I f9'6'(jis and 70's. Paolo Palladino. Ph.D. brought back last October for identifi­ candidate, Program in the History of cation (for which I was so happy that I Science and Technology, U.M .• May 31, beat Murphy's Law) turned out to be 12: 15-1:15, 555 Diehl Hall (East Bank). contaminated. The specimens wer,e no longer entomogenous species but were Systematics and Distribution of Minne­ displaced by saprophagous ones. Murphy's sota Crayfish.Dr. Judy Helgen;-St. Olaf Law triumphed after all. We will try COTTege, Northfield, Minn., June 3, 3:00 again." p.m., Bell Museum Conference Room. ------­~ Allilln i Notes Student News Val Cervenka has a new job -- here! Mac Strand spent from Jan. 9 to Mar.:18' ffirt i ng May 2 she wi 11 be a Jun ior collecting in Costa Rica. He went thete Sc ienti st working for Roger Moon on his with Drs. Robin Vannote, Bernard biological control of filth fl ies pro~ Sweeney, Lewi s Ka plan, and other sc i en­ ject. The research mostly involves tists from the Stroud Water Research surveying for parasitoids (the subject Center who are working on establishing a of Val's M.S. thesis here). We look tropical stream biology station in the forward to hav ing her back. proposed Guanacasta National Park. For ------12 days they did intensive sampl ing in Missing Books! streams in the park. For Mac, this work was one of the highlights of his trip. The following books were missing After the Stroud group left, Mac from the reserve shelf in the EFW 1 i­ stayed on in the Park, working on stream brary at the end of winter quarter. ecology and Trichoptera niche parti­ Please return them invnediately if you tioning in tropical dry forest streams. know the ir whereabouts - many of these Supported by a Dayton Natural Hi story are hard to replace! Fund grant, he sampled groups related to those in his thesis work, making obser­ Concepts of Pest Management. R.L. Rabb vations on substrate and flow as well as & F. Guthrie, eds. 632.55 C744 C.2 collecting for later identification. Breeding Plants Resistant to Insects. Near the end of his visit, Mac G. Fowden, ed. 632.4 B745. traveled to San Jose to work with some The Bee Book. Daphne More. 638.2 of Ralph Holzenthal's cooperators at the M8126. National Museum of Costa Rica. This Ecological Effects of Pesticides. F. . turned out to be another high point in Perring & K. Mellanby, eds. 632.55 Ec73. his trip. The entomologist from the museum took Mac to "Reserva Tapanti ,II a New Books in the Library hydroelectric power station in the rain forest that provides food and lodging t~ Ashby. ~ glossary of insect rearing visiting researchers. Since this w~s terms. SF 518.A84y 1~87. . true rain forest (it never stopped rain­ ing during the visit) Mac was able to Barbosa, P. and J. Schultz, eds. Insect work directly on species he will be outbreaks. QL 496.15.157 1987. using in his thesis. He also had a chance to work at the National Museum Davies, V.T. Australian spiders, before his return to Minnesota. Araneae. QL 458.4.D38y 1986. Rich Hansen passed his final oral for Eisenbeis. Atlas.2!l the biology of soil the ph.D. on April 18. He also presented arthropods. Quarto QL 110.E3413. 1987. a seminar on his current postdoctoral work, inherited steril ity in gypsy moth Job 1 i ng, B. Anat om i cal d raw i n9 s 0 f management, conducted at the APHIS re­ biting flies. Quarto QL 538.J63y search lab at Otis AFB in Massachusetts. 1987. Aziz La~naoui passed his final oral for Manson, D.C.M. A list of New Zealand tfieM •. on April 15. For the next mites and theirlhost prant~ S8 940. year, he will be working on his Ph.D. M36y 1987 • -- pro j e c t, II Mu 1 tip 1 e pes t, wa t e r, and nitrogen interactions with potato ~oth, V. D. Sp i2er ge.rerfa of North Amer- yield,lI which he has already begun. He ~ Quarto Q 458 •• 68 1985. . will also be working on a project moni­ toring Colorado potato beetle popula­ Sinha, R.N. and F.L. Watters. Insect tion resistance to pyrethroid insect i­ pests of flour mills, grain elevators, cides. The project also evaluates the and feed mills and their control. S8 benefit of using insecticides with al­ '608. ~4 1985-.- ternative modes of action (such a~ Bacillus thuringiensis var. San Diego;) Ware, G.W. Fundamentals of pesticides. as a means of slowing or reversingde~ S8 951.W37y 1986. velopment of pyrethroid resistance. ------~ Subi (Bh. Subramanyam) is doing post- ~ doctoral work in the Department of Ento­ ** Reminder ** mology at Kansas state (Manhattan, Kan­ from the Director of Graduate Studies sas) with Dr. Valerie Wright (U.M. Ento­ mology alumna, 1979). Subi is working --Students should have selected an Ad­ on many of the lab's ongoing projects, visory Committee by the end of their 3rd including studying insects infesting quarter in residence. grain elevators, using food-baited or --If you don't have an advisory commit­ pheromone traps to look at insects out­ tee but you have an exam committee, use side of storage areas, and cost-benefit your exam committee as your advisory analysis of management practices. He c.ommittee. will also be studying flying behavior of . -~If you don't have either an ddvisory the lesser grain borer using aggregation committee or an exam committee, you pheromone traps to look at infestation should start selecting one. look for 2 sources, migration, and diel periodicity professors in Entomology who have dif- of flight. His other duties involve ferent strengths than your adv isor and keeping the lab running while Dr. Wright who might be interested in your work. is out of the country, and cooperative Professors on your committee agree to be work with the Gra in Sc ience lab and the availible to you and help with selecting U.S. Grain Marketing Research lab. coursework and designing research, and Subi's final oral exam for the will probably serve on your oral exam Ph.D. is scheduled for Thursday, April and thesis reading committee. Report 28, 9 a.m. your choices to the OGS. --All students should meet with members Narc Epstein passed his final oral exam of---rheir commi ttee, ask quest ions and Torthe Ph.D. on March 16. He is cur­ keep them informed of progress, and call rently spending 2 months in Venezuela meetings of the entire group to discuss collecting Microlepidoptera for the coursework and research. Don't let the Smithsonian. final draft of YO~t thesis be th~;rsr ~h;ng {9ur comm1 tee seeS! "tOr more 1n orma lon, check pp. 7-8 of the Manual o for 2 but Maggots Remain Optimistic for Graduate Students. by Mac Strand The 1988 Congo Floor Maggots are off to a slow start. Following late inning defeats to a loose-knit assem­ blage of "scientists" (whose best player looks just 1 i ke George Ham; lton) and to a group of heavy hitters known as the Apartment Dips, the Maggots are looking to continued strong pitching and hitting to pull them out of this potentially playoff elimination slump. The optimis­ tic Maggots hope that the Moon ball will continue to baffle opposing batters through the dogweeks of April. They also hope to soon uncover the illusive d e fen s iv e g em s t hat a 11 know to 1 ur k within them like their African relatives in the floorboards of trade route shacks.

------FLASH! This just in -­ Maggots win, 25 - IS! . (or thereabouts) "You call this a niche?" ------Job Post ings Closing Date (start Date) Institution Details of Interest ------1 Postdoctoral Montana State Small grain.aphids of (1) Research Associate Univ'. Montana, detection, (Ph. D.) Bozeman, MT ide and distrib. 1 Grad. Res. Assnt. Clemson University Research smokey­ (Sunmer) (M.S. or Ph.D.) Clemson, SC brown cockroach biol. and mgmt. ------~------May 31 Postdoctoral fellow Auburn Univ. Develop computer­ (1) Auburn, AL based peanut pest mgmt. system. Expertise in math. modeling. ------1 Grad. Res. Assnt. Louisiana State Research on pests and (SUllltler) (B.S. or M.S.) Un iv. pest management of Ba ton Roug e, LA Acremonium-infected and endophyte-free tall fescue. ------~------May 1 Research Assnt. Univ. of .Arkansas Develop IPM program (May 15) (B.S. or M.S.) Fayetteville, AR for pests of field crops esp. corn and gra in sorghum. ------May 1 Research Assnt. Univ. of Arkansas Collectplant/insect (June 1) (B. S. or M. S.) Fayetteville, AR samples and analyze. Maintain greenhouse, plants, and rear insects. 1 Crop Consultant Central Inc. of Backgrd. in agr.­ (1) Trainee Morris related field. Morris, MN ------1 Program Officer, Winrock Intl. Home office mgmt. and (1) Africa and Middle Inst. Agric. tech. support of East Region Develop. selected projects in (M.S. or Ph.D.) Morrilton, AR Africa. 1 Field Representative Agro Quality Manage several ( 1) Search contract growers for Minneapolis, MN large veg. company. May 1 Research Assnt. Oregon Sta te Un iv • Research in wheat (July 1) Pendleton, OR breeding and adaptive testing of small grain lines. ------.------.---.------~------~~~--~-~-~-~~~------.~ June 15 Extension Iowa State Un iv ~ Will be responsible (August 1) Entamol ogi st Ames, IA for statewide extension entomol. program. ------,,~' ..... - ENTOMOLOGY' NEWSLETTER !!!=. Department of Entomology Vo 1. 5, No. 2 University of Minnesota May 31, 1988 ------~------Biocontrol of Variegated Leafhopper IN THIS ISSUE: by Val Cervenka Articles: Leafhopper Biocontrol Allan Peterson remembered While at the University of Califor­ Linnaean Team Wins nia, Riverside (UCR), I worked to devel­ Centennial Planning op mass-rearing techniques of Anagrus New Books epo~ Giraul t, a mymarid parasite of Student News -- Farewells varlegated (VLH) and grape leafhoppers Frenatae Notes (GLH) • We hoped to estab 1 ish a new Maggot Update population of the parasite in the San ** MAP TO PICNIC! ** Joaquin Valley, CA, where VLH has become Jobs a serious pest. ------Introduced from northern Mexico, Next newsletter deadline: July 8 VLH (Erythroneura variabil is Beamer) has ------a widespread dlstrlbutl0n in the San ------Joaquin Valley, indicating it probably Linnaean Team Takes Denver occ urred there before its discovery in -by Dave Fabricacious, 1980. GLH (Erfjthroneura e 1egantul a Linnaean Press Int. (LPI) Osborn) is a c osely related native species, and the most common pest of The department Linnaean team grapes in central and northern CA. The stormed into Denver for the North Cen­ two pests cause similar feeding injury tral Branch meeting with upset on their to grape foliage, but even more damaging mind. The team consisted of only 3 is the fruit-spotting caused by excreted members and competed against squads of honeydew, which lowers marketability of 4. Qual ity preva il ed over quantity as table grapes. High populations of Judi Miko, Aziz Lagnaoui, and David adults also irritate pickers at harvest. Davis took the other teams by surprise. In areas where grapes have been Judi and Dave, seasoned competitors, planted near wild blackberries ,incl ud­ were relentless in their attack on ques­ ing the San Joaquin Valley, GLH is con­ tions 'as at one point the team lead trolled effectively by the native mymar­ Purdue by 90 points. Azi z was at first id, Anagrus tepos. This tiny egg para­ awed by the huge crowd, but by the sec­ site overwin ers in eggs of the econom­ ond round, after being settled down by ically unimportant blackberry leafhop­ Coach Davis, Aziz's practice paid off as per, present throughout the year on wild the crowd roared to his correct answers. blackberries. GLH overwinters in the The team will now compete as the adult stage, so Anagrus survival depends NCB representat ives.at the nat iona~ on the presence of lackberry leafhopper meeting in Louisville, KY in November. eggs. In spring, Anagrus moves into While we may pick up a fourth person for nearby vineyards to parasitize eggs laid the team, Coach Davis thinks that the by overwintering GLH. The parasite magic number is 3; "Our triangle of disperses easily and has a well-devel­ talent should present other 4.-memb~r, oped searching capacity, so GLH seldom teams with enough trouble. Besldes, lf requires control in areas where black­ we lose, we'll have a good excuse." berries flourish. In areas without On May 24th, the team will travel blackberries, French prune trees provide to Princeton, NJ to tour American Cyana­ another important source of Anagrus, mid's research facility. This perk is which also overwinters in the eggs of provided by Cyanamid as an unannounced prize. This is the second Linnaean cham­ pionship at the branch meeting with the last occuring in 1986. Minnesota joins the ranks of Purdue and Kentucky as repeat winners. , ' (continued next page) ------(,:

------______t) (from previous page) Frenatae Minutes the prune leafhopper. Immigration of ,, Anagrus into vineyards in early spring by Chris DiFonzo when leafhoppers begin to lay eggs is desirable, since parasitism of the first Wednesday May 11 was the date ~f brood contributes greatly to reduced the most recent Frenatae meeting. The leafhopper populations in succeeding only item of interest di scussed by ~he broods. It has been shown that Anagrus intrepid group was the course eva1uat10n compl etes three generations to each form obtained from the soils department. leafhopper generation in the San Joaquin This from which was used in several Va 11 ey. classes 1a;t quarter, is quite long and Despite this, Anaerus does not many quest ions are redundant. Severa 1 control populations of LA in the San students have vol unteered to edit and Joaquin Valley as might be expected. rewrite parts of thi s form for approval Reasons for this are not clear, but and use by the end of spring quarter. differences in egg deposition between They should be done soon - see Karl, the two leafhopper species may contrib­ Deb, or Dave Davis for details. ute to the ineffectiveness of Anagrus against VLH. GLH lays its eggs Just Centennial Celebration Planned beneath the surface of the leaf, between by Chris DiFonzo the veins. In contrast, VLH deposits its eggs along the leaf veins, mo~e An October 1988 celebration is deeply within the leaf tissue. It 1S being planned to mark the 100th anniver­ possible that VLH eggs are more diffi­ saryof the hiring of the first entomol­ cult for Anagrus to find and are there­ ogist at the University of Minnesota. fore less parasitized than those closer Currently a committee has been formed to to the leaf surface. suggest ideas for this celebration. Two VLH is quickly replacing GLH in parts have been suggested. The pub1 ic several areas of CA. Adult leafhoppers part would include an entomology depart­ have been found in automobiles near ment open house, possibly with displays, vineyard~, and could be carried long films, old photos, lab demonstrations, distances. VLH is likely to reach the and media coverage. The second part remaining regions where GLH is now es­ would be more technical and geared tab1 ished, inc1 ud ing wine-producing towards the Un iversity community. It areas of northern CA. would include either a major lecture by In an effort to find and introduce a "big-name" entomologist or a series of a species or population of Anagrus ef­ lectures on a particular topic presented fective against VLH in the San Joaquin over a number of weeks, perhaps ava i 1- Valley, collections were made in Ari­ able for credit. Most of the graduate zona, where the leafhopper was first students have read the committee's sug­ reported. Additional collections were gestions and have made their comments. made in southwestern U. S. and northern Faculty and staff were a1 so updated on Mexico. Grapevines with leaves contain­ the plans at a recent voting staff meet­ ing parasitized leafhopper eggs were ing. If you would like to voice your packed in ice chests and returned to the opinion about the celebration, please UCR quarantine facility. Parasites were contact one of the committee members allowed to emerge and were used to ini­ listed here: Mark Ascerno, Chris Di­ tiate cultures. Fonzo, Ann Fallon, Herb Ku1man, Roger During 1987, I reared several dif­ Moon. ferent colonies of Anagrus. Between May and October, nearly 22,000 Anagrus ------adults were mailed to the San Joaquin Entomology Newsletter is a monthly Valley for release. Preliminary data publication of the U of MN Dept. of suggest that Anagrus from Coachella, CA Entomology and Frenatae (Entomology parasitizes more VLH than those from the Student Association). other areas collected. This parasite Editor: Nancy Read. Invaluable Staff: does well under lab conditions, and has Chris DiFonzo, Debbie McCullough, and great potential f?r ~se in biocontr~l anyone e1 se who vol unteers. Editorial augmentation/co10nlZat10n programs 1n ~. Advisor: Bill Miller. the San Joaquin Valley. I.(/~~/!I//)rl,. . ,,1 ", ------__ nmm ___ m_ ~~. iii""

«: .r ------. on top of statistics even in the early Who is Dr. Allan Peterson? days when it seemed only agronomists by Dr. Alec Hod son and Nancy Read were using it. You could do a long calculation (all by hand then, remember) [After reading Dr. Petersonls article, and show him and he could spot a mistake "Who were the Granovskys?" in the March yould never have found, but when you Newsletter, some students were asking recalculated yould see he was right." "Who is Allan Peterson?" This article It was for his role as an advisor should give those who have never had a and teacher that All an Peterson is most chance to meet Dr. Peterson an idea of warmly remembered by those who worked what theylve missed. -- Ed.] with him. Basil recalls, "He always led by example -- you worked with him, not for him. You could work hard and get through one plot and find out held al­ ready finished two. As an advisor he would talk with you and make suggestions in such a gentle way yould think they were your own ideas." Dave adds, "He was teaching you all the time, although you didnlt realize it at the time. He would give you jobs where yould learn something as well as get the work done. He was always teasing, playing practical jokes -- sometimes with a point." He shared in the teaching of the course on insects in relation to plant disease and gave the undergraduate course in economic entomology. He was an excellent teacher, and found many ways to make his classes memorable. "Held make you laugh," Basil says. "Yould have . a good time and not notice how much you were learning. Sometimes he would come Professor Emeritus Dr. Allan Peter­ to class all dressed up to make a spe­ son is a native of South Dakota who cial point." Original poems were often received both his B.S. and M.S. degrees a part of his class, such as the one from South Dakota State University. He given below: received his Ph.D. here at Minnesota, with Dr. A. A. Granovsky as his advisor, Ode to an Aphid and stayed with the Department as a by Prof. Allan G. Peterson Research Assoc iate and 1ater as Profes- sore Oh, thou tiny, little pest . Much of his research involved the Alighting on my plant to rest, study of 1eafhopper damage to potatoes How can my mind be at ease and the control of insects infesting When I think you carry some disease? legume and blue grass seed crops and I see you hold your stylets steady, wild rice. One of his research projects Alas, you begin to probe already! was a cooperative program to coord inate And then before I count to ten small farmers and beekeepers on a town­ You can transmit some pathogen! sh i p bas i s to es"tiib 11 sh forage seed lid like to squash yo~ little one, production, a new crop at th~ time, But your dirty workls already done! accord i ng . to Dave Noet ze 1, who wor ked for Dr. Peterson in the 1950 1 s. "Allan (continued next page) would take on the tough problems no one else would, and then solve them," says Basil Furgala, who also worked for Dr. Peterson around that time. "He was great with his cl ientele too -- a perfect exampl e of research, teaching and ser­ vice. II "He was one of the first quantita­ tive researchers in the department," Dave sa id, and Basil expanded, "He was J (1' (from previous page) In 1979 Dr. Peterson retired early Dr. Peterson's excellence in teaching to spend more time with his wife, who was recognized in 1978 when he received died of cancer not long after. A col­ the Outstanding Faculty Member Award lection of his poems was published by from the University Agricultural Educa­ the Department at the time of his re­ tion Club. tirement.

A Frightened Cabbage Looper MY wife had prepared a lovely company dinner With a cabbage salad for a beginner. When my daughter arrived a minute late She found a cabbage looper on her plate! She soreamed in horror as if it would harm, And the cabbage looper reared up in alarm! In terms of the Daily, but in words mope mellow, It frightened the frass out of the poor old fellow! -- Allan Peterson ------Student News Seminars Steve Katovich began working May 23, June 1: Florida scrub jay dynasties: 1988 for the Wisconsin Department of variance in 1 ifetime reproductive suc­ Natural Resources (DNR). He will be cess in a wild bird population. - John located in Eau Claire and will official­ Fitzpatrick, Bell Museum Audit.orium, ly serve as West Central District Forest 4:00 pm. Entomologist. His principal duty in­ volves survey and detection of forest June 3: Development of a centralized pests in his district. He will also vegetation database for Minnesota. - arrange workshops and tra i n i ng sess ions John Almendinger, 108 Zoology Bldg., for DNR and other agency personnel and 12: 15 pm •. prov ide i nformat i on to i nd ustr y and ------private landowners. Steve's Ph.D. re­ search centered on cone and seed insects .... ------~o

"Subi" ~ Subramanyam) - passed his final oral exam for the Ph.D. on April 28. We wish him well in his new job in Kansas (see April newsletter).

"Of course, long before you mature, most of you will be eaten." '"\ " New Books in the Library Congratulations!!------Jones, D. and R. Elli ot. Pests. Steve Katovich married Jeannie Stanm, a diseases, and ail.ents of Australian PhD candidate in weed science, on April plants. S8 605.A8 J66. 1986. 30th, 1988. Best of luck to them both! Kapoor, V. C. Perspectives in in­ ------sect systematics. QL 468.K37X. 1985. Maggot------Notes Singh. Breeding for resistance to by Ann o. Pl ura diseases and insect pests. S8 750.S56. 1986. The entomology department's Congo , Floor Maggot softball team earned a Waage, J. and D. Greathead. eds. berth in the league playoffs May 3rd Insect Parasitoids. QL 757.157y. with a setae-tingling victory over the 1985. "Fear-weirdos" (we'don't understand either) •. ' The Maggots swarmed over the Pesticide foriRulations and applica­ playing field, sucking the win to win tion systems. Yolo 6. S8 950.93. P4545. ' out of the opposing athletes'hearts and 1987. ' instill ing additional weird fears into their brains.' Unfortunately. the well­ Theses: m'usculated team of legless larvae could , not continue in their winning ways the Hanafi, Abde 1haq. Spread and con­ following week, when they were' soundly trol of potato leafro11 virus in potato trounced by, an unnamed team wearing in Minnesota. M.S. thesis, 1987. Valu-Liquor T-shirts. The other team is rumored to have' used pheromones and Ma, Runlin. Host seeking behavior 1arv i c ides to confuse and hence defeat of Eriborus terebrans (H.Yllenoptera: the Mi ghty Maggots ~ Happi 1y. the Mag­ Ichneumon1dae), a parasitoid of European gots will return n'ext year to infest the corn borer (Lepidoptera: Pyralldae), softball diamond and amaze opponents and the influence of semiochemicals on with their talents. ' behavior. M.S. thesis. 1987. ------~-~----~-~------

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AAA"'A" ------A A lAo A ...... Burgers" Brats, Beer. & Baseball! PARK The social committee has t planned a departmental party for N 1[1~1~1~1~1~1~1~1~1~1~~~, , , , June 3rd at I Fa 1co'n Heights City fields & pasture Park. Festivities begin at 3:00 pm ~~{ Golf Course )~~ with food. drink (hamburgers. :', ,~~ brats. pop. beer. chips. etc.). and dinnerware provided by the Larpenteur committee. After' the picnic. a ~~"""",~~ trip toa Twins game is planned. ',',',',',',~ . "0c: Tickets will be no more than $8.00. as See Ralph Holzenthal for ticket .;'ii info • 0 ---.-~--~~-----~------~---- •Ent. JOB POSTINGS \ Closing Date (Start Date) Position Institution Details of Interest

June 13 Environmental Dept. of Ag. Evaluate, develop,& ( 1) specialist (Ag.) Augusta, Maine review certification program for pesticide applicators, dealers ------Aug. 1 Assistant Prof., IPM Ent. Dept., NY state Research on biology & (Jan.l, 1989) (Ph.D.) College of Ag. and management of veg. Life Sciences . pests & extension.

1 Research Assistant Ent. Dept., Univ. Antibiosis towards (Sept. ) of Kentuc ky • insects in plants. Lexington, KY Expression of genes. June 19 Postdoc., Associate Louisiana State Biology and control (July 1) (M.S., Ph.D.) Univ. Ag. Center of urban pests, in­ Baton Rouge, LA secticide screening. (1) Grad. Assistantship Ent. Dept. LA Field & lab work on ( 1) (M.S., Ph.D.) State University riceland mosquitoes Baton Rouge, LA July 1 Research Assist. Louisiana State Insecticide action & (July 15) (M.S.) Univ. Ag. Center resistance Baton Rouge, LA ------(1) Postdoc., Molecular! ARS Livestock Insect Isolate neuropeptide ( 1) cellular biology Lab, Beltsville~ MD receptors from insect tissues: ( 1) Postdoc., molecular ARS Arthropod Borne Genetic basis of vec­ (1) biol. or genetics Animal Disease Lab. toring of Culicoides Laramie, Wyoming variipennis

(1) Postdoc., Biochem! ARS Biocontrol of Develop assays to ( 1) Entomology Insects Lab. monitor predation on Beltsville, MD Heliothus zea ------.------.------( 1) Postdoc., Biochem! same as above Characterize sub­ (1) Entomology stances to arrest molting of lepidops. (1) Postdoc., genetics! ARS Southern Field Use of tobacco bud­ ( 1) Physiol! Ent. Crops Lab, worm backcross for Stoneville, Miss. field suppression ------(1) Postdoc., research Same as above Develop mass rearing, (1) entomologist storage, transport, release of cotton in­ sects for biocontrol ------( 1) Postdoc., research ARS Honey Bee Lab Collect data before, (1) entomologist Weslaco, Texas during, after African bees move through. ------/~ ... - ENTOMOLOGY NEWSLETTER !!!=: Department of Entomology Vo 1. 5, No. 3 University of Minnesota October 27, 1988 Department Celebrates Centennial IN THIS ISSUE: Articles: Department Centennial Some things don't change -- when Neem Research Continues otto Lugger came here in 1888 as ento­ Greetings & Farewells mologist with the Experiment Station, he Alumni News spent his time in the field, talking to New Books farmers, devising ways to minimize pest Computer News damage, writing reports, and collecting Royal Consultation insects. Much of what we do today in Frenatae News entomology is the same, but some things Jobs ared ifferent -- we have some new prob- 1ems to face and some new tool s to face Next newsletter deadline: Nov. 28 them with. The focus of our centennial ce1 ebrat ion is a seminar series on "New Return to Niger Frontiers in Entomology:- (or, Things aren't always as they Neem.) Nov. 1 -- "Insects as biocontro1 agents ofweeds." Dr. Peter Harris, Anyone who thinks international Abriculture Canada, Regina, Sask. work is equivalent to vacation should No v. 8 -- " Th e c r i sis i n b i 0 1og i cal talk to Dave Ragsdale. Dave (who on his diversity." Dr. Dave Nickle, U.S. Na­ 1ast international adventure found him­ tional Museum of Natural History, self working with Africanized bees with Washington, D.C. the wrong size veil) worked with Ted Nov. 15 -- "Insecticide resistance man- Radcliffe for 2 weeks this summer on the agement." Dr. Richard Rousch, Dept. Agency for International Developnent - of Entomology, Cornell University. sponsored neem control of grasshopper Nov. 22 -- "Genetics as an insect man­ project in Niger. In order to catch agement tool." . Dr. Jack Seawright, hoppers for their field trials, Ted and ARS,USDA, Gainesville, FL. Dave had to go out before dawn when the Don't miss the special open house hoppers were too cool and wet to move after· the Nov. 8 seminar, when you can fast (at 100 0 F and 30 mph winds, they tour the facilities (if you haven't been can be hard to catch!). Ted and Dave here recently, stop by -- things have caught enough, however, to test the changed!) ,enjoy refreshments, and watch effects of neem extract on 8 hopper an insect movie (what ' s your favorite?). species on millet (the major local ------crop), sorghum, and cowpeas. Neem appeared to be an effective antifeedant, but many questions still remain about its best use in the context of Niger. To mainta in control on mil­ let, for example, it is apparently ne­ cessary to spray every 5 days. It may be impossible to produce that much neem. ----~------Swarms of desert locusts could destroy a *** Honey Sale *** crop even if each individual only takes one bite and rejects the plant. Thursday and Friday, October 27 & 28 Use of neem may be more effective 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. on counter-season crops -- vegetables St. Paul Student Center, Terrace Cafe and other high value crops planted in and flooded areas after the flood waters Hodson Hall, near Library r e c e ed • Sin c e n e em i s not cur r en t 1Y registered for food crops in the U. S., . Honey Bears (3/4 1b) -- $1.00 AID funding can not be used for that Beeswax Candles (3 styles) --2 for $3.00 research, but German researchers in the area are looking at food crop appl ica­ Help Support Frenatae! tions. , ______M ______The proj ect Ted and Dave are wor­ (continued next page) (from prev ious page) king on involves not only the efficacy Barb Stiller, a native of Minnesota ' of neem extract but also the integration (rare around here!), has a BA in Biology '~ of the new technology to facilitate from the College of St. Benedict. She is self-sufficiency. The project's social starting an MS with Tim Kurtti, working scientist, Sonia Patten, is dealing with on microsporidian parasites of Heliothis questions such as: If the technology zea. works, will it be used? Who owns the neem trees? Who wi 11 grind the seed to Roger Blahnik has been working his way make the extract? The project is cur­ up the St. Paul Campus hill for several rently looking at two different farming years. He worked in the Mi nn. Board of systems in four villages near the Mali­ Animal He.alth Lab, and has been taking Burkina border, and may expand into classes ln Botany as well as Genetics neighboring countries. and Cell Biology. Now he's made it to On a more local front, Ted used the top (Entomology, of course), and is neem this summer on the recalcitrant starting an MS with Ralph Holzenthal on Colorado potato beetle and got 100% a revision and biogeography of the cad­ control. (Maybe we can fund a new de­ disfly genus Chimarrhodella. For his partment greenhouse by using it to grow assistantship he is working with Phil neem! ) Clausen in the museum, doing such things (For a more complete description of the as identifying unknown noctuids. AID project and the use of neem, see the Aug. 1987 Entomology Newsletter.) Therese Amos is a PhD student from the neurosc ience program doing a 1 ab rota­ tion with Karen Mesce. She received a BS in biochemistry from the U. of Minne­ sota, and is currently in her second year of graduate study. Postdoctoral Researchers: Greetings Dr. Hiroaki Noda is currently doing New Students: postdoctoral work with Tim Kurtti. Dr. Noda is from Tsukuba, Japan, where he Que Lan ("Lan") is a PhD student working does research at the Agricultural Re­ onthe molecular biology of mosquitoes search Center on rice pests. He came to in Ann Fallon's lab. Lan is originally Minnesota to study in vitro culturing of from mainland China, but came to Minne­ symbionts in planthopper cells. sota via Canada. She recently finished her master's degree in environmental Dr. David Prokrym is Dave Andow's new pollution at Brock University in Ontar­ postdoc. He received his PhD in ento­ io. Her thesis wason the genotox ic ity mology from ~ichigan State University, of industrial sediments and their ef­ where h~ stud led control of the aspara­ fects on invertebrate communities. gus aph ld by natural enemies. Hi s other degrees include a BS in forest biology Frank Shotkoski is another new PhD stu­ from SUNY College of Forestry at Syra­ crentln Ann Fallon's lab. Frank re­ cuse and an MS in Russian from George­ ceived his BS in agronomy and IPM from town. His research here will deal main­ the Un ivers ity of Nebraska. He has an ly wit~ Trichogramma biology. Among MS degree in entomology from Nebraska, other lnterests, Dave enjoys scanning where he worked on the effect of insec­ electron microscopy -- in fact, he owns tic ide exposure on the development of one and has it set up at home. resistance in aphids : Here at Minnesota ------. . he plans to examine molecular aspects of ------~------gene amplification in mosquitoes. Entomology Newsletter is published twice per academic quarter and occasionally Abdulrahman Al-Dawood ("Abdul") comes to during the summer by the U of MN Dept. us from Saudi Arabia, where he recently of Entomology and Frenatae (Entomology finished his Agriculture BS in the De­ Student Association). partment of Plant Protection at King Ed i tor: Nancy Read. Inv a 1 uab 1e Staff: Saud University. Abdul is starting an MS Chris Difonzo, Val Cervenka, and anyone with Ted Radcliffe, working on potato else who volunteers. Editorial AdvisBr: leafhopper in alfalfa. Bill Miller. ------'j -~------, Farewell s A1lDni News Marc Epstein cOOlp1 eted hi s Ph .0. and, Dr. Florence Dunkel, former research after spending some time collecting in associate with this department, has Venezuela, has settled down at the accepted the position of Associate Pro­ Smithsonian doing postdoctoral research fessor and Head of the Laboratory (for­ on 1 imacodids (Lepidoptera). His new merly Department) of Entomology at Mon­ address is: Dept. of Entomology, Nation­ tana State University at Bozeman, MT. al Museum of Natural History, Smithsoni­ Besides the Entomology facul ty, the USDA an Institution, Washington, D.C., 20560. Biocontrol of Weeds lab and Grasshopper Control lab are also located there, Heidi Riens left Minnesota in June after making it an interesting center of re­ spending a year taking courses in ento­ search. Florence will be starting on mology that are not easily availible in November 15. un i v e r s it i es i n h er nat i ve Germ any. Together with her brother and sister she Dr. Whitney Cranshaw was featured as "An traveled throughout the western and Insect Einstein" in an article in the southwestern U. S. for three weeks before September issue of Organ ic Garden ing • return ing home. She reports they had a The title comes from a student's impres­ wonderful time camping and especially sion of his three-piece suit and red enjoyed the Grand Canyon. high-top sneakers -- as well as his Heidi has been 1 iving with friends knowledge and ability to communicate while house- and job hunting in , technical material in simple, and often where she p1 ans to continue her educa­ humorous, terms. The article describes tion at the university. She would like two of Whitney's more colorful research to begin work on a thesis, but advisers projects -- "Sl ug Fest '87: The Battle are hard to come by in the German sys­ of the Breweries" (Kingsbury Malt Bever­ tem. Had she anticipated the great age won -- apparently yeast fermentation experience she would have here at Minne­ attracts sl ugsmore than alcohol con­ sota, she says she would have arranged tent) and "Spikes 0' Death" (lawn aera­ to stay another year. tor sandal s), which on skill ed feet can kill as many chafer grubs as diazinon. Dave Davis has accepted a postdoc posi­ On the more serious side, Whitney's t ion at Auburn Un ivers ity in Al abama. work has so "impres~ed ~ardeners and He wi 11 be the knowl edge eng ineer for a Extension specialists that they nomina­ team developi,ng an I PM expert system for ted him for the state's annual distin­ peanuts. (Things are going to seem pret­ guished service award last year, an ty quiet around here ••• ) uncommon honor after only five years' work." He's still having problems with Student News his plans to control grasshoppers by getting people to eat them, though (see Karl Kjer has finished his MS with Dave Entomology Newsletter, Dec. 1985) . . Ragsdale and is beginning PhD study with Ann Fallon. Rumor has it that his cubi~ -Congratulations to Sandy and Rich cle ;s newly decorated to celebrate his Hansen on the birth of their new daugh­ "New Attitude" on 1 ife. ter, Alice Linnea Hansen on May 14, 1988 ------8 lbs 8 ozs (and probably a lot more The Search Continues ••• than that by now)! Applications for the position of Assistant Professor for research and Extracurricular Activites of Note extension on vegetable and forage in­ -Congratulations to Rob Wawrzyinski sects are still being accepted until who married Carol ine Pol is in Cheyenne, October 31. At that time the search committee will begin to screen the ap­ Wyoming, on October 1. pl icants and choose the cand idates for interv iews. Members of the search COOl­ -Congratulations to Steve Duff, who mittee are: Dave Noetzel, chair, Ted married Beckie Ehlers on October 1. Radcliffe ~Roger MOon ~ Dave Ragsdal e'~ Ken Ostl ie, and Sujaya Udayagiri. ------'. ------~--- New Books in the library Arn, Heinrich et ale 1986. list of sex phercxnones of lepidoptera and relate~ Ca 1d er, A. 1986. Oil seed rape and attractants. SB 933.5.A76x. bees. MNUX87 B2809. Berner, L. and M. Pescador. 1988. May­ Friedrick, E. 1987. Breeding butter­ fl ies of Florida: revised edition. QL flies and moths. QL 562.F75x. 505.2.U6 B47. Lampe, Rudol f E.' 1985. Malayan Sat~r­ Clemson, A. 1985. Honey and pollen n i idae from the Cameron and Gent lng flora. SF 535.2.A8 C54x. highlands. QL 561.S2 L36x. Cock, M.J.W., ed. 1986. Bemisia tabaci Woolley, Tyler A. 1987. Acarology: - a literature survey on the cotton mites and huaan welfare. QL 458.W66. white fly with an annotated bibliog­ raphy. Quarto QL 527.A5 B46x. Ruttner, F. 1987. Biogeography and taxonony of honeybees. MNUX 86 B775-1. Eaton. 1988. lepidopteran anatany. QL 562.E28. Harding, P. 1985. Woodlice in Britain and Ireland: distribution and habitat. Martin. 1987. Invertebrate microbial MNUX 86-10621-1. interactions: ingested fungal enzymes in arthropod biology. QL 495.M36. Edd 1estone, F. K. 1984. Insect marking methods for dispersal and other ecologi­ Popushoi, I.S., ed. 1987. Biological and cal studies. MNUX 86-B7830. chemical methods of plant protection. SB 933.3 B55813. Koller, Clifford Noah. (thesis) 1987. Chemical defenses against herbivory on Royer, Ron. 1988. Butt~rflies of North balsam fir (Abies balsamea(l) Mill.): Dakota: an atlas and guide. QL 551.N63 natural variation in foliage nitrogen R69. and condensed tannin and its effect on survival, growth, and development of Shepard. 1987. Helpful insects, spi­ spruce budworm (Chosistoneura fumiferana ders, and diseases - friends of the (Clemens») in the field. farmer. SB 608.R5 S54x. Patnaik, Nrusinha. 1981. Studies on Tams, W.H.T. 1985. Scxne British moths the insect parasites of the gall midge, reviewed. QL 555.G7 T36x. Orseol ia oryzae (Woodmason) and the ye 11 ow borer, Trtporyza i ncertus (Walker) with specia reference to thelr CClllputer News bioecology. Quarto MNUX84 B4680. Watch for new faces (displays?) in Ashburner, M. et al., eds. 1986. The the canputer roan. Darren Georgeff has genetics and biology of Drosophila, Vol. taken on the job of canputer TA, and is 3e. QH 470.07 G46. busy gett i ng the fall workshops up and running. The first workshop, "Introduc­ Kosztarab, M. and F. Kozar. 1988. tion to the Macintosh," was held Oct. Scale insects of Central Europe. QL 24. Upcoming workshops will cover pro~ 526.4.C36 K67. grams such as Word Perfect, Microsoft Word, dBase, Systat, SAS, Cricket Graph, van Vreden, G. and A. Ahmadzabidi. and Notebook. Be sure to 1et Darren 1986. Pests of rice and their natural know if you are interested in attending. enemies in peninsular Malaysia. SB A new Mac intosh with a hard drive 608.R5 V74x. has arrived (no more waiting in line for the Mac!). Plans for networking Macs in Weidhaas, D. et ale 1986. Insect elec­ the department are also being discussed. trocuting 1ight trap research. Quarto If you have any suggestions or requests SB 959.G53~ for software or hardware, contact Darren or any member of the computer committee. de Jong, Gerdina, ed. 1988. Population genetics and evolution. QH 455.P67. --~------Frenatae News Royal COhsultation . Frenatae had its first meeting on a tidbit from our roving reporter, Friday, September ~O. Four new students Val Cervenka attended! The following important busi­ ness items were discussed: It seems this year's outbreak of 1) Cubic1es- a number of students have boxe1der bugs has caused some consterna-. f,ecently had things stolen from their tion amOng the local Rich and Famous. . cubicles. It might be possible to add Recently Dial~U received a call from doors if students are interested and, of Paisley Park, home and recording stUdio course, if money can be found. of the Twin Cities' own rock star, 2) 'Fundraising- the social events of Prince. Dial-U. supervisor Jeff Hahn the past season have left Frenatae's fielded the call and was invited to the treasury hurting. Selling honey in the princely dwelling to investigate the past has. been a good fundraiser, so we prob,l em. are going to try ,it this year. Basil " Jeff was given a tour by the staff Furga1a and crew have generously agreed (which inc1 uded the imperial bath and to donate and process the honey. bedroom), and ascertained there was Frenatae will help with the bottling and indeed an assemb1 age of the bothersome sell the stuff at the st. Paul student black-and-reds (not to mention an in­ center. festatibn of pesky paper wasps). His 3) Written, pre1 im.- several students opinion was that control; although tem­ have raised questions about the availa­ porary. should be attempted on the royal bi1 ity of the readings for the written exterior, to min imize bugs observed in .. pre 1 im exams. After hours, the read i ng s side 'frdm fall until spring. Jeff was . are 1oc ked away in the 1 ibrar ian 's. of­ requested to compose a missive verifying fice and unava i1 ab1 e to students; many the loyli1 staff's efforts at control, people havepa id to copy all the papers and explaining the impossibility of because they cannot read them during the complete exclusion of the tiny live­ day. A proposed .solution to this prob- stock. , It appears that Prince is a mite 1.em would be to make 2 copies of the intolerant, of invaders of the regal papers, one for the reserve shelf in the manor. Unfortunately., His Royal Purple­ library and a secbndmaster set for the ness is on'tour'and could not be reached inner office. for comment. 4) E1ections- New officers for 1988-89 are: Chris DiFonzo, president; Aziz Lagnaoui, vice president/treasurer; ______~J ______, . Ywe-Fang Hwang, secretary; Sujaya Uday­ agiri, voting staff rep.; and Frank A Boxelder Bug Haiku Shotkoski, COGS rep .• Many thanks to all the out-going officers. Thepia~o string stops ------~------but ,boxa1der bugs General fellowships availible: keep danc i ng. Dead 1 ine Nov. 1: DAAD Graduate study in . (from ,Boxe1der ~ Variations: ~ Luce Scholars for students or junior Medita,tion on an Idea in Lan~Uage and faculty to study in Asia. Music 6y BIT1110Trri"";1985. ilkweed Wilke Fund for research in behavior and Editions, Minneapolis, MN.) . evolution. ------~------Dayton Natural History Fund for field research. Deadline Nov. 15: National Science Foun­ dation Graduate and Minority Graduate Fellowships. Postdoctoral Fellowships at the Inter­ ./ . ~~ national Crops Research .Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), India '" klllJw how you feel, George-I dOll't like . (due Nov. 30, 1~88, and other dates in , beillg called a ladybug either ... , 1989). , JOB POSTINGS Closing Date (Start Date) Position Institution Details of Interest

1/6/89 Assistant Prof. Kansas State Univ. 60% stored product insect ( ?) Manhattan, KS research, 40% teaching 116/89 Assistant Prof. Utah State Univ. Research, extension, & some ( ?) Logan ,Utah teaching, pest management 1115/89 Assistant/Associate Virginia Poly. Inst. Insect neurophysiology and (7/1/89) Professor Blacksburg, VA morpho research & teaching 11/15/88 Asst.,Assoc. or Full Univ. of California Honey bee population genetics (111/89) Professor Davis, CA & mgmt. of Africanized bees 11115/88 Assistant Prof. Univ. of Wyoming 50% res./50% teach., insect (1/89) Laramie, WY systematics & evol. biol. 11/15/88 Assistant/Associate U. of Hawaii at Manoa Urban IPM, esp. termites (immed. ) Professor Honolulu, HI 80% research, 20% teaching 11/1188 Director, st. Croix Science Mus. of Minn. Dev. programs; emphasis (i/89) Field Res. Center St. Paul, MN on aquatic invertebrates ------? Biocontrol- Population Univ. de Costa Rica Teaching, research on IPM ( ?) Ecologist San Jose, Costa Rica (in Spanish) (open) Co-Investigator Kentucky State Univ. Research in stored product ( ?) (M.S. or Ph.D.) Frankfort, KY pest management ~------~------~------(? ) Scientist! Resource Tech. Assoc. Res. & devel. of household (?) Sr. Scientist Des Pl aines, ·IL insecticide prod. --~------.------(? ) Pest Control PESCO -PestCont. Sere Seniors or alumni with some (?) Employees Indianapolis, IN classes in entomology ------12115/88 Research Texas Ag. Expt.Stn. Assist in pesticide testing ( ?) Assistant Weslaco, TX on vegetable crops ( ?) USDA Research U.S. Livestock Ins. Research to eradicate ( ?) Entomo log i st Res. Lab., Tick Unit tropical bont tick; test (GS 11/12) Petit Bourg, Guadalupe acaricides, pheromones

( ?) USDA Research ARS Pl ant Sc i. Lab Biocontrol of cereal pests, ( ?) Entomol og ist st i 11 water, OK esp. pathogens of aphids

( ?) Postdoctoral South. For. Exp. Stn. Pop. ecology of southern pine ( ?) Res. Sci. (2 pos.) Pineville, LA beetle; host resist., models

(? ) Postdocs Un i v. 0 f 111. Res. on new biodegradable ( ?) (several) Urbana, IL (porphyric) insecticides ------. " ( ?) Ph.D. Assistantship Michigan State Univ. Bi ometeoro logy; long - rang e ( ?) (J.D. Carlson). East . Lan~ i~g, .MI...... t~a.n!iPo.rt of.~n.~e.c.~~ .. _...... ------'------( ?) M.S. or Ph.D. Penn. State Univ. Evolutionary devel. biology ( ?) Assistantships University Park, PA or ecological genetics 1211188 Ph.D. Assistantship Univ. of Missouri Feeding behav ior of potato (1/1/89) Co 1umbia, MO 1eafhopper & mech. of damage ..-.- ENTOMOLOGY NEWSLETTER Department of Entomology Vol. 5, No.4 University of Minnesota Jan. 18, 1989 ------~------Report from Louisville: IN THIS ISSUE: We came. we saw. we almost conquered Louisville Report War & Peace & Ichneumonids The date is Saturday Dec. 3. Visiting Scientists After long weeks of training, the UM Faculty News Linnaean team is ready. This afternoon Greetings & Farewells they take their places in the van to New Books start their journey. Roll call: Judi Seminars Miko, Aziz Lagnoui, Frank Shotkoski, Frenatae Notes Debbie McCullough, and boosters Val Jobs Cervenka and Sanjeev Chaddha. At Chica­ go they stop for a final Greek f1 ing Next newsletter deadline: Mar. 1 (Opaa!) and tour Lake Shore Drive. Overnight in Merrillville, then their War and Remembrance: final destination looms in view: Louis­ the Heinrich Connection ville. What will befall them there? --by John Luhman Team captain Dave Davis (sold to Alabama but on loan for this champion­ During my last seven-month stay in ship series) greets them with admoni­ as adjunct curator with the In­ tions to study, and sets an example of a stitute of Zoology, Pol ish Academy of mind focused on the game. 'Monday night: Sciences (IZ-PAS), Warsaw, I became the first team falls to the power of familiar with the problem of the Gerd Minnesota. Wednesday night: Oklahoma is Heinrich types of Ichneumoninae. down. Only Texas A&M stands between us The story begins nearly 50 years and the National Championship. The game ago. Gerd Heinrich, an entomologist is close. Hands are quick on the buz­ educated in Germany, was studying newly zers. McCullough catches one on the collected ichneumonids from southwest rebound only to have it called out by Asia, Indonesia, and tropical Africa the judges. Texas A&M inches ahead. (Is especially old German East and Southwesi it true their team is secretly coached Africa. He specialized from the begin­ by Jackie Sherrill?) At the final bell, ning in the subfamily Ichneumoninae and Minnesota is down by a mere 20 points. the mostly larger, more colorful Stenop­ Texas fans whip towels around like homer neusticae (with the elongate propodeal hankies, and the Minnesotans head out to spiracle). drown their sorrows. The next day they The Ichneumoninae are excl usively head for home on a marathon drive with 1arva l-pupa 1 and prepupa 1 paras i tes. Frank at the wheel, stopping only for They attack Lepidoptera larvae just necessities (such as pie at the Norsky before cocoon i ng or burrowi ng for pupa­ Nook in Osseo, Wisc.). tion, or they attack new pupae or chrys­ If you see a member of the 1988 al ids. Adult females commonly resembl e Linnaean team in the hall, congratulate sphecoid or pompilid wasps, while males them on a struggle well fought. Think commonly have vespid coloration. Al­ you might have the Right Stuff to make though many groups of ichneumon ines the teani? . ra 1 k to' Yo-urLi nnaean re:; exhibit little or no sexual dimorphism cruiter today -- the North Central i~ is pronounced in many of the most Branch meetings are coming up fast! common species. (continued on third page) Heinrich learned early to appreci­ ~=: -.--~ ~- ate the subtleties of ichneumonine tax­ ------onomy. From the late 1920's until the mid-1970's he described nearly a hundred val id genera, as well as hundreds of s pe c i e s from vir t ua 11 y eve r y fa una 1 4 region where Ichneumoninae occur. When World War II broke out, Hein­ rich, with his personal collection of (continued next page) Bern.sch pinK. Heinrich: Ichneumoninae von Celebes. (from previous page) My goal is to catalog all type mostly tropical Asian and African speci­ material of Heinrich in the Warsaw col­ mens, was in the Prussian territories lection (referred to in the literature that were given to after the war. as Collection I), whether primary or Before fleeing at war's end from what is secondary, relabel the published now northern Poland, he buried the col­ II Typus" specimens with II Holotype" la­ lection, cabinets and all -- no small bels, and reunite types with remaining series in the collection. Before leav­ f~at~ as the tw6 cabinets ~~re each m6re than five feet high and about four feet ing Warsaw, I wrote down the data on all such type material I found, so the rest wide, and held nearly one hundred gla~s­ topped drawers. There they 1ay .uned is library work. I see this work as a for 20 years. legacy from WWII, involving the history Meanwhile, Heinrich moved to the of two countries, a German refugee, and U.S. and became a U.S. citizen. He a famous collection of ichneumonids. At continued to work on the Ichneumoninae, 1east most of the postwar pub 1 icat ions and built up a personal collection of are in English, rather than German. The Nearctic and Palearctic specimens. In Ichneumoninae are hard enough to fathom · 1965, Heinrich wrote to the Polish gov­ using English keys! ernment and proposed to tell them where his tropical collection was buried, under the condition that he might finish his studies of the specimens, mostly compl eted in rough before the war. The Poles agreed, and in a few years hun­ dreds of new genera and species were published. In exchange for tropical Recent Publications specimens he kept (usually paratypes), he gave to IZ-PAS paratypes from his Monson, M.P., R. W. Holzenthal, and G. Nearctic revisions. After Heinrich's Ahlstrand. 1988. The larva and pupa of death in 1984 his more recent personal eoch 1iopsyche vazquezae (Trichoptera: collection was sold to the Munich State He1 icopsychidae) • Journal of the North Museum. American Benthological Society. 7(2): Now begins the real problem with 152-159. his collection at the Institute of Zool­ Miller, W.E. 1988. Two new species of ogy in Poland. Nearly all of his origi­ Rhyacionia pine moths from Mexico (T?r­ nal descriptions of ichneumonines had tricidae: Olethreutinae). J. Lepld. been written before WWII began. Most of Soc. 42: 236-239. Alternative abstract: the descriptions were published after Adults six of each sex 1965 without his further rev iewing the Emerging from Mexican Pinus branchlets specimens in Poland. This is evident by Proved to be species two the pre-1965 "Typus" labels on most Of Rhyacionia to science new. specimens from the tropical material From Pinus hartwegii and Pinus oocarpa rather than his post-1965 "Holotype" they came, -- label for published names. In IZ-PAS, Rhyacionia cibriani and a nonrhyming there are two drawers of over 500 name, "Typus"-labelled specimens, and another Bringing Mexican Rhyacionia to nine, couple hundred scattered among a hundred The global total to thirty-five, all or so other drawers. My task is to munching pine. determine which are validly published The new are named apart from reV1Slon, names. There will be major problems For, to Mexican forestry, they're a with paratypes as none of the specimens troublesome condition. in series with II Typus" specimens has a par a t y pel abe 1 . It a ppea r s from the Entomology Newsletter is published at postwar descriptions I have read that least once per academic quarter and Heinrich published descriptions of only occasionally during the summer by the U the types, ignoring the rest of the of MN Dept. of Entomology and Frena tae series. However, some paratypes are (Entomology Student Association). mentioned in new descriptions, but all Editor: Nancy Read. Invaluable Staff: so far observed were in his personal Chris Difonzo, Val Cervenka, Sanjeev collection--then in the U.S. (now in Munich). Thus he may have had some Chaddha, and anyone else who volunteers. tropical specimens with him when he fled Editorial Advisor: Bill Miller. northern Po 1and. (Louisville, continued from front page) New Books for the New Year other happenings at Louisville Abrahamson, W.G. (ed). 1989. Plantl included the following papers and dis­ Animal interactions. QH 541.P58. plays: .. Egg pl acement and its infl uence on ACIAR. 1986. Pesticides and humid trop­ western corn rootworm survival, root ical grain storage systems. SB injury and yield." S. Chaddha, K. R. 937.P47x. Ostlie, and J. R. FiS'CFler (USDA Brook­ i ng s) . Adey, Margaret et al. 1986. Pest con­ .. RibosCllle biosynthesis in the mosquito trol safe for bees. SF 538.P65 A34x . fat body during the reproductive cycle." A. M. Fall on • Baccetti, Baccio M. 1987. Evolutionary ~sampling implications of larval disper­ biology of orthopteroid insects. QL sal and survival in the European corn 506.E96. borer." K. R. Ostlie and S. E. Ross. "Evaluating affects of ash flower gall Barnes, R. et a 1. 1988. The inverte­ on tree vitality using root starch and brates: a new synthesis. QL 362. B26. sh igometer techn i ques:" R-: po: Wawrizyn:: ski and M. E. Ascerno. Burn, A.J. et ale 1987. Integrated pest ~spersal and survival of first instar management. SB 950.I58x. European corn borer larvae on corn plants." E. Lamb, UM Dept. of Cloudsley-Thompson, J.L. 1988. Evolu­ Horticulture-rentered-in competition for tion and adaptation of terrestrial ar­ the President's Prize). thropods. QL 434.35.C55. Mark Ascerno, Val Cervenka, Jeff Hahn, Richard Jones, Herb Kuhlman, Roger Evans, H.E. and K.M. O'Neill. 1988. The Price, Ted Radcliffe, Dave Ragsdale, and natural history and behavior of North Nancy Read also attended. American beewolves. QL 568.P5 E86. Minnesota alumni were everywhere. Those currently at Kansas State included Gilbert, L. ed. 1988. Immunological Bh. Subramanyam, Jianbo Li, and Runlin techniques in insect biology. QL Ma, who presented a paper. Walt Val 0- 495.146. vage (NDSU) and Bob Bartelt (USDA, Peor­ ia, IL) both gave papers, as did Whitney Gupta, S.K. 1985. Plant mites of India Cranshaw (Colo. State, Ft. Collins) and handbook. SB 940.G86. Gerrit Cuperus (Oklahoma State, Still­ water). Rich Hansen had a display on Harris. Entomology of indigenous and his recent work with the USDA in Massa­ natural ized systems in agriculture. SB chusetts. 931.E57. Former faculty member Frank Zalom, currently with the IPM Implementation Hollingworth, R. 1987. Sites of action Group at UC-Davis, spoke at a symposium of neurotoxic pesticides. SB 951.5.S58. on sampling and IPM decision making. Former research assoc iate Florence Dun­ Ho 1man, J. eta 1. 1987. Population kel (head, Montana State, Bozeman) came structure~ genetics and taxonomy of to represent her department. aphids and Thysanoptera. QL 527.A64 P67x. New Documents in the Library Jeanne, R.L. ed. 1988. Interindividual behavioral variability in social in­ Biocontrol of the alfalfa weevil - a sects. QL 496.1422. status report. Ag and Forestry Expt. Station, West Virginia University. Nov. Langton, P.H. 1984. Key to pupal exuviae 1988. Bulletin 100. of British Chironomidae. Quarto QL 537.C456 L36x. Conducting a rangeland grasshopper con­ trol program: a chronology. R.E. Pfadt Morgan, F.D. 1984. Psylloidea of South and D.M. Hardy~ -Ag. Expt. Station, Australia. QL 523.P8 M67x. Univ. of Wyoming. 1987. National Pest Cont. Assoc. 1986. Wood destroying insects manual. Quarto, TA 423.6 .W66. Faculty Notes Bill Mill er completed a three-year term as editor of the Journal of the Lepidop­ Huai Chiang made his seventh mission to terists' Society on Dec. 31;on January Thailand for his FAO/UNDP project from 1, he began a similar term as editor of November 18 until December 3. For his the Memoirs of the Lepidopterists' Soci­ four-year effort, he was given the Di s­ ~. The MemolrS encompass monographs tinguished Service Award by t.he Ministry and book-length contributions to lepi­ of Agriculture and CooperatlVes of the dopterology. Royal Thai Government: He ret~rn~d home via Rome to have a flnal debneflng and Roger Moon visited the Dept. of Ent. at submitted his final draft of a report to the U~ of Manitoba at Winnipeg in the Tha i government. In Jul yl August he December, where he led a hands-on compu­ made a trip to the People's Republ ic of ter modelling wor~shop, and gave a semi­ China and participated in the U.S./China nar on dispersal of the mosquito Aedes Conference on higher education teaching vexans. methodology held in Taiyuan, Shanxi Province. He discussed examples of Visitors evaluation of teaching and research in the U.S. This was a follow-up of the Grant Terelemezyan just arrived from the 1985 conference in which he dlscussed Armenian Research Institute of Plant the Land Grant system in the U.S. Protection. His main interest is insect control on vegetable crops. Grant will Dave Noetzel spent a month last fall in be working with Ted Radcl iffe for about "SUOan as a consultant in sunflower pest control for Pfizer/DeKalb Genetics. He 8 months on insecticide resistance in the ubiquitous Colorado potato beetle, drrived just after the floods, and re­ which is also a pest in southern Russia. ports that there was still water up to the walls of his hotel. Isaac Roitman will be arriving Jan. 28 Sunflower is a growing cash crop in from the University of Brazilia, Brazil, Sud an, with a c rea g e inc rea sin g from where he works on protozoan-induced 5,000 to 300,000 acres in the past few plant diseases and is Dean of the Gradu­ years. The crop is rainfed, and timing ate School. Some plant-infecting proto­ of planting during spring rainfall is zoans are known to be vectored by in­ important for success. The tobacco sects, so he will be working with Tim budmoth, Heliothis armigera, is a major Kurtti on using insect cells to culture pest on sunflower there, caus i ng both and facilitate the isolation of protozo­ defoliation and head damage. It also ans. (Note seminar, Feb. 14) attacks sorghum in the region. Dave \vorked with managers of a 1arge farm (6 miles square) in southern Sudan (part of the Sahel region). These farms are leased from the government and are used mostly for grazing, but emphasis on cash crops is increasing. Dave helped with their pest problem and also suggested improvements for overall management. Earl ier in the year Dave partici­ pated in the Niger -- Neem project (re­ ported in the previous Newsletter). His work focused on feasibility of local extraction and use of neem on high­ value, short-season crops such as vege­ tables and beans. Despite the proven efficacy of neem, there still seems to be very little adoption of this techno­ logy. Dave suggests that working with women (who do most of the related work) on the village level is probably the key. One limiting factor may be the time these women have avail ible to use the new technique. Night of the potato bugs Greetings and Farewells Plan Ahead Greetings: John Sagers is a new student working on Advanced I nsect Genet i cs, Ent. an MS with Tim Kurtti in insect pathol­ 8040, will be offered by Ann Fallon in ogy. John has a BS in Entomo10gyl IPM spring quarter. The goals of the course from Iowa State Univ. and is an assis­ are to give entomology students a back­ tant entomologist at Northrup King where ground in molecular biology and to dis­ he rears corn borers and corn rootworms cuss areas of molecular genetics parti­ and does screening for host plant resis­ cularly relevant to insects. Topics tance to a variety of insects. For hi s include restriction mapping, DNA sequen­ thes i s research John is 1earn i ng cell cing and hybridization, insect develop­ culture techniques and studying Nosema ment and gene express ion, heat shock, pyrausta, a microsporid ian pathogen of transposable elements and genetic con­ corn borers. trol, genetic approaches to taxonomy, and genetics of insect populations. The Farewells: emphasis will be on species other than Kri s Berg 1eft January 6 to attend the Drosophila. The only prerequisite is ll'illVers ity of Wi scons in. She wi 11 work Insect Physiology, Ent. 5030. on a masters degree in broadcast jour­ nalism, with a major interest in news Aquatic Insects will be offered by and documentaries. Good Luck! Ralph Holzenthal at the Itasca Field Station this summer, June 14 - July 1. Said Abou1faraj completed his MS and is back home in Morocco at the University of Rabat, where he will teach general Honey Sale a Sweet Success entomology and beekeeping and work on his PhD research. Although not directly Frenatae's honey and candle sale involved in extension , Said may be was a rousing success this fall - over working with commercial beekeepers as $600 was raised to fill the organiza­ part of his work. His research is on tion's treasury. Part of the money has the races of honey bees in Morocco. already been used to purchase a micro­ wave, presently located in room 441F. Computer News Thanks go out to all the graduate stu­ dents who volunteered time to the sale. The newest addition to computer Also, thanks to all the kind individuals hardware in the department is the in­ who supported Frenatae by purchasing stallation of a Loca1ta1k network con­ honey or donating money. Finally, an necting all Macintoshes with the 1aser­ extra special thanks to Basil· Furga1a writers and plotter, to be completed by and the Bee Lab for donating the honey early February. An additional 1aser­ and spending time helping novice (ie. writer is planned for the 4th f100r~ incompetent) honey-bear fillers. This network will make it possible to print on any 1aserwriter from any Mac. ------It will also allow Cricket Graph users lavish lounge livens Lonely Lunchhour reagy ~ccess to the HP color plotter. Everyone with Mac disks must upgrade Room 441F has been magically transformed their system files to 6.0.2 or the prin­ into 1unchroom/insect art gallery. ters will crash. While we admittedly have not yet re­ IBM PC's and clones can also at­ ceived any insect art, we do have a tach to the network and use the laser coffee maker, a microwave, and a small printers, but will need a special inter­ refrigerator (courtesy of Roger Moon, nal card and appropriate software. This Frenatae and Subi, respectively). And network may also be used for fi 1e shar­ while the term "lounge" is a bit exager­ ing and electronic mail. In the future ated, we do have a couch, a few chairs, it could be linked to other departments and 2 tables. All entomology persons and networks throughout the University. are i nv ited to use the room and its ------modern conveniences, and donations of Volleyball Score Box wall and floor coverings of course will Jan. 8-- Playing Mantids-2, Unknowns-O be accepted. -- Chris DiFonzo Next match: Jan. 22 ------Closing Date JOB POSTINGS (Start Date) Position Inst itut ion Description

3115/89 Assist./Assot. Calif. State Univ. Teach. & res.in syst. ecol., 8/89 Professor Northridge, CA env. biol. & compo simulat.

3115/89 Assist. Prof. U. of Hawaii at Manoa Management and eradicat. 511 189 Honolulu. HI of tephritid fruit flies

4/1189 Assist. Prof. Cornell Univ. 60% extension and 40% res. 9/1189 Ithaca, NY in IPM of vegetables

311 189 Assist./Assoc. Auburn Univ. Extension position in (7 ) Professor Alabama urban and economic ento~.

7 Res. Associate Pioneer Hi-bred Inter- Identify agronomically (Immed.) national, Johnston,IA imp. genes using RFLP

1 131189 Research Dow Ch em i cal s Discover and develop new (Immed. ) Entomologist Walnut Creek, CA approaches to insect control

1/23/89 Research Range Insect Control Microbial control of (7) Entomol ogi st Lab~, Bozeman, MT grasshoppers and crickets 1123189 Postdoc. Res. ARS, Southern Field IPM strat. in biocontrol (7 ) Entomo log i st crop insect management of Heliothis using Lab., Mississippi Microplitis croceipes

(7) Postdoc. Res. Montana State Univ. Detect., ident. & temp. dist. (7) Associate Bozeman, MT of small grain aphid ------i------2/1/89 Postdoc. Forest Auburn Univ. Interactions of insect 4/1/89 Entomology Alabama and tree seedlings

(7) Res. fellowship Am. Mus.of Nat. Hist. Research in arthropod (7 ) (Ph.D/Postdoc) New York, NY systematics 2124/89 Assist. Ext. U. of MN Ag.Exp.St. Develop, implmt. & coord. (7) Specialist Morris, MN extension programs in IPM

( 7) Assistantship Louisiana State Univ. Res. on biology and (7) (Ph.D.) Baton Rouge, LA control of fleas

(7) Assistantship Louisiana State Univ. Res. on bio.,ecol. & control ( 7) (MS or Ph.D.) Baton Rouge, LA of riceland & urban mosquito (7 ) Assistantship Univ. of Missouri Res. on bio.and control of (7) (MS) Columbia, MO fruit & vegetable insects

311 189 Gaham RA IS Univ. of Florida Research of own interest (8/89) (MS and Ph .0.) Ga ins v ill e, FL 211 189 Assistantship U. of Hawaii at Manoa Pesticide res. in leafminer 8/31/89 (Ph.D.) Honolulu, HI parasitoids using mutagenesis Open Assistantship Louisiana State Univ. Pop. dyne & IPM of insects (Immed. ) (Ph.D) Ba ton Rouge, LA on sugarcane & rotate crops 211/89 OARDC Fellow- Ohio State Univ. Research depending upon (7 ) ship Wooster. OH interest

(7) Plant Health MN Dept. of Ag. Statewide Apiary inspect­ (7 ) Specialist St. Paul, MN ion program