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Wisconsin Entomological Society Ne wsletter Volume 35, Nuinher 1 ..: 4 ~ Eébniarsy 2002 season by going to the We captured our first IendedNational upEntomologicalthe insect LABNOTESFROM2002 JapaneseRockPoolMosquitointersegmental membranes. Society meetings in San Diego (Oclerotatusjaponicus). It is in December. I spent a good Article and Photos by Phil Pellittert a handsome black and white share of my time going to marked species. We now have many of the thirty plus papers 55 species recorded in the on bed bugs. If you want a them as indoor mosquitoes, I am state. The heavy rains of August gave measurement of how things have well aware that the general public us a taste of what normal changed-there were only two papers has a different image of them. mosquitoes are like in the state. at meetings in 2006. There are major For 2007 over 40% of the , insecticide resistance issues, and the samples I processed were digital e chance of finding them in a hotel images. I did get a chance to get my e a room in the US now stands at about 1%. One of the presenters even á found them in his room at the convention, and a truck brought a bed bug sniffing dog to the hotel the day after the meetings were over. Although most entomologist look at Japanese Rock Pool Mosquito (Octerotatusjaponicus) Lab Notes from 2007 I saw a high number of Green Page 1 Stink Bug nymphs from the northern Insect Books & Websites common Buckeye two-thirds of the state. The nymphs Mystery Insect (Junonta coenta) are black with orange and yellow Page 2 first ever photo of the Buckeye markings and are often clustered in (Junonta coenta), on October 23. I groups. They feed on fruits and can Winners of 2007 Photo Salon do very little collecting with a net cause spotting and distortion of Page 3 & 4 anymore but that is one insect I had Please see, LAB NOTES, page 12 Report of the Outgoing never captured in my life. As a youth ..,LongTerm I would have traded my bike for one. I did bring the net into the backyard, Answer to October 2007 but decided a photo would be better Mystery Insect so I chased the butterfly around Page 5 some blooming mums. I got three Beached Surprise! pictures and enjoyed watching the e Page 6 butterfly dart away. I had three samples of the Giant Lepidoptera Season Summary Leopard Moth (Hypercompe Page 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 scribonia), including two larvae . WES Officers submitted. The larvae are quite stunning-a large black "wooly bear' Page 12 w i t h r e d s p i r a c 1e s a n d Green Stink Bug Nymph (Acrosternum hitare) The Wisconsin Entomological Society Neu>sletter is published three times a year, at irregular intervals. It is provided to encourage and facilitate the exchange of information by the membership, and to keep the members informed of the activities of the organization. Members are strongly encouraged to contribute items for inclusion in the newsletter. Please send all news items, notes, new or interesting insect records, season summaries, and research requests to the editor: Janice Stiefel, 2125 Grove Road, Bailey's Harbor, WI 54202. (920) 839-9796, e-mail: [email protected] NOTE: Please report any address changes to Les Ferge, 7119 Hubbard Ave., Middleton, WI 53562. e-mail: [email protected] Wisconsin Entomological Society Newsletter - February 2008 Page 2 INSEGBOOKSANDVEBSITES by Andrew Khitsun photo albums by J. Scheer Night Visions: The Secret Starting,Designs asof usual,Moths, withandanP.eye-candy,Beckmann I shouldLiving mentionJewels 2 (the original book Living Jewels by the same author can still be easily found too) - all offering huge-sized photos of the most beautiful representatives of insect fauna. M.Chinery's book Amazing Insects: Images of Fascinating Crea'tures, although not as spec- tacular, serves up images and short descriptions of other insect groups and interesting details of insect anatomy. Speaking of which, Six-Legged Sex: The Erotic Lives of Bugs by J. Wangberg gives some insights into reproductive tools and tricks employed by different groups of insects, using easy-to-understand and some- times-humorous language. Another book, Discovering Moths: Nighttime Jewels in Your Own Backyard by J. Himmelman, is good as a general reading for all who like hanging around their houses and gardens after dark looking for night dwellers of the said properties. Of more serious volumes, A Treatise on the Western Hemi- sphere Caraboidea (Volume I) by T.Erwin continues in the footsteps of some previously mentioned outstanding works from the Pensoft Series Faunistica. For those more interested in-Rove Beetles, Catalog of Staphylinidae in 7 volumes by L. Herman is a complete reference to that family worldwide (very expensive and hard to find - I couldn't figure if entire series was already pub- lished). Another useful volume, The Sedge Moths of North America by J. Heppner, treats all the known species of family - he wingspan of this Diptera is about Glyphipterigidae in Nearctic. The Black Flies of North America ½ in. Adults are most common near by P.Adler and others is a comprehensive reference to a family water or where there is abundant Simulidae in the same region. And, deviating from insect topic vegetation. Larvae live in water or in once again (please forgive me), I must mention Wildflowers of moist soil, and generally feed on Wisconsin And the Upper Midwest by M.Black and E. Judziewicz decaying plant material. They do not - the guide attempts to cover (quite successfully, although there are bite. Please send answer to the editor. a few omissions) the entire flower flora of our state, giving very de- Winners will be announced in the next tailed descriptions and thumbnail photos for most species. The newsletter. book is not available through general bookstores, but could be ordered from UW-Stevens Point Herbarium website http:/(wisplants.uwsp.eduf. Among other useful websites, University of Kentucky MemberShip Entomology at http:((m.uky.edu/Ag(CritterFiles(casefilef helped Dttes me to identify my true bugs and a few other creatures. If you're a a fan of Diptera, these interesting sites deal with Robber Flies: Individual Membership http:((www.giffbeaton.com(Robber%20Flies.htm http://www.hr- $5.00 per year rna.com(RNA(Rfly%20pages(Eastern%20genera%20key.htm and http:((www.br-rna.com(RNA(Robber%20main%20page.htm . Family Membership Beautiful insect photos can be enjoyed at Beetles of Africa at $10.00 per year http:/(www.beetlesofafrica.comfindex-old.asp and Tom Murray's galleries at http:((www.pbase.com/tmurray74. Sustaining Membership For those interested in Lady Beetles, $15.00 per year http:((www.coccinellidae.cifpaginasWebPeru(InicioPeru.php and http:(/www.coccinellidae.cl(inicio.php are must-have favorites! § Patron Membership $25.00 per year 'The habits of insects are very mines of interesting knowledge, and it is Please make check payable to WES mpossible carefully to watch the proceedings of any insect, however insignificant' and send to Les Ferge without feeling that no writer of fiction ever invented a drama of such absorbing 7119 Hubbard Ave. nterest as is acted daily before our eyes, though to indifferent spectators." Middleton, WI 53562-3231 -J. G. Wood Wisconsin Entomological Society Newsletter - February 2008 Page 3 2002PIIOTOSALONVINNERS FIRST PLACE - ILONA LOSER ROBBER FLY (Laphrta divisor) May 26, 2007, Cross Plains, WI http://bugguide.net/node/view/112908/byimage THIRD PLACE - ILONA LOSER Gasteruptiid (Gasteruption) female August 21, 2007, Cross Plains, WI http://bugguide.net/node/view/138579/beimage Andrew Williams, Outgoing President bout 25 people attended our 2007 Fall Meeting, held from noon to 5:00 PM on Saturday, October 13, in our usual meeting place in Russell Lab on the UW- Madison campus. This being our annual meeting, we had a brief financial report, which I presented because our treasurer, Les Ferge, was unable to attend. With 126 4 p members, WES had $4,100.00 at the opening of 2007, and $3,976.00 on October 12. With this mild operating deficit, I challenged the people at'our meeting to dig into their pockets to find a little something to put into a donation box. This amounted to $84.00 by the close of SECOND PLACE - KYLE JOHNSON the afternoon. Thank you! We also elected officers: Phil Tiaga Alpine Butterfly (Erebta mancinus) Pellitteri will be our new president, Kyle Johnson our new June 8, 2007. Lumberjack Bog, . vice president, and Les Ferge will continue as our Lake County, MN treasurer. Please see, 2007 REPORT, Page 5 Wisconsin Entomological Society Newsletter - February 2008 Page 4 2007 REPORT, from Page 4 good mix of taxa among the winners. Wisconsin. There are many taxa out Alas, the picture of a young Les there waiting for you to find on the I took the liberty of dedicating Ferge did not make the final cut, but snow, on bark of trees, in streams, our meeting, with its intellectual we enjoyed seeing that, in leaf litter, etc. Indeed, most local stimulation and pleasure, to the We had ample time to mingle taxa live in Wisconsin all year, so memory of Alistair Ramsdale, who with one another before, after, and they must be out there somewhere if recently died an accidental death. in the breaks taken between pre- we can just find them. There's much Alistair earned an M.S. in Ento- sentations. Refreshments vanished to learn and to enjoy outdoors in mology here at UW-Madison not long over the course of the day; many winter. Dress appropriately and ago, in Dan Young's lab, was working thanks to those who were able to carry an axe, was Kyle's advice.
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