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In This Issue Bright New Stars Studying “Dark Taxa” for GBOL III VOLUME 11 - ISSUE 2, DECEMBER 2020 Hamuli NEWSLETTER OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF HYMENOPTERISTS IN THIS ISSUE Bright new stars studying “dark taxa” for GBOL III Unlucky sawflies crashing in the snow Tracking Vespa mandarinia in the United States And more! Table of Contents From the editor Carly Tribull..........................................................1 A quick message from the now Past President of ISH Barbara Sharanowski...........................................3 A message from the new President of ISH Lars Krogmann..................................................4 Just launched! GBOL III: Dark Taxa, a large research initiative focusing on German and Central European parasitoid wasps (and lower From the Editor Diptera) Jessica Awad, Amelie Höcherl, Jeremy Hübner, Samin Jafari, Marina Moser, Mehdi Parsa, Jon- Dear hymenopterists, athan Vogel, Stefan Schmidt, Lars Krogmann, Ralph S. Peters..................................................5 Hornet Dreams Happy holidays and I hope you enjoy this gift of Chris Looney......................................................9 a delightfully packed Hamuli. Also, since the next issue won’t be out until well into the next year, Homemade Aspirators: They suck! happy New Year! I think it goes without saying Michael L. Ferro...............................................11 that we will all be glad to see 2020 finished and are hoping for a better 2021. Member Photo Studio Various contributers.........................................14 It was fabulous to see many of you at our vir- tual ISH symposium in November and I was Don’t forget your sunglasses! Collecting particularly amazed by the submissions in our “crashed” sawflies from snow beds in Lapland multi-time-zone student research symposium. Andrew Liston, Marko Prous, Marko Mutanen...16 The fact that so many of you have produced amazing research despite the circumstances is A trip to Western Australia Oct-Nov 2019 inspiring. Laurence Packer..............................................18 I wish all of you excellent publications, delightful Establisment of the Mayo Field Ecology Lab field experiences, and personal growth as both Ann B. Mayo....................................................20 researchers and people! Update on “A Hymenopterist stranded” Keep it up, hymenopterists! James M. Carpenter........................................22 P.S., it’s always a good reminder to check that Cover photo by Jessa Thurman: Drilling through your membership has not expired, and if it 4 centimeters of wood is no challenge for this has, to renew! You can do so by going to www. Braconid wasp (Virgulibracon endoxylaphagus). The prize which each female seeks is the Wood hymenopterists.org/membership. Moth caterpillar (Endoxyla cinerea) which lays Stay safe, hidden within this Eucalyptus tree. If the caterpil- Carly Tribull, [email protected] lar avoids being parasitized, it will grow into the heaviest species of moth in the world. 2 A Quick Message From the now Past President of ISH, Barbara Sharanowski It has been a great pleasure serving you over the and diverse society across the globe, and we are last two years as President. Lars Krogmann has financially in a stable position with a strong, qual- taken over as President and I am now serving ity journal. as Past President. We extend a grateful thank One of my major goals as President, was to fos- you to Andrew Polaszek for his excellent service ter increased involvement of researchers and stu- through the Presidential roles over the last 6 dents across the world (not just North America), years. José Fernandez-Triana was also elected particularly those from underrepresented groups as President-Elect - congratulations José, we are to create a strong and highly diverse, active, and excited for your leadership and enthusiasm on participatory society. And I feel we have achieved the Executive. substantial progress in these areas and will con- This has been a difficult year for many with a tinue to do so as our society grows and evolves. worldwide pandemic that has taken countless I am thrilled that our members are advocating for lives, and my heart goes out to everyone who diversity, equity, and inclusion, through various has had to deal with illness, loss, heartbreak, and initiatives: such as the code of conduct, contribut- stress. ing to the ENTOPOC initiative, development of a Regional Representatives Director Position, and On a more positive note, our society has been the possibility of developing a women’s forum. I resilient, as evidenced by the great participation hope that we continue to create and grow these across 3 time zones in our new virtual sympo- initiatives to keep our fabulous scientific commu- sia (we had record participation for an annual nity strong and exciting. meeting). Our members have reached out with generous offers of support to help new members Thank-you so much for your continued member- join our society and participate and present their ship, participation, and support. We together can research in these symposia. We have many ex- positively grow our society for all those who love citing developments for creating a more inclusive Hymenoptera Member Artwork Gonatocerus fuscicornis by Krissy Dominguez, UC Riverside, USA ([email protected]) 3 A message from the new President of ISH, Lars Krogmann Dear ISH members, Our society has experienced a difficult year. ISH members throughout the globe were directly or indirectly affected by the coronavirus pandemic. Planned meetings and conferences were canceled or postponed. De- spite this crisis, our membership is larger, younger, and more diverse than ever. We all share enthusiasm and passion for an incredibly diverse group of insects and many of us also share concerns that this diversity is under im- mense threat. We have an important mission. Fortunately, our society is growing and becoming more visible. In the next two years, I want to build on this positive development and ensure that ISH remains a diverse and open research community. Our recent virtual symposia reminded us that the biggest strength of our society has always been its diverse membership. We will continue using virtual plat- forms for scientific exchange and further Mischocyttarus alfkenii (Vespidae). Trinidad, support student sponsorships to make sure no West indies. When disturbed on the nest, mem- one is excluded from our community. bers of this and some closely related species I want to thank Barb Sharanowski and congratu- adopt this distinctive posture, which presum- late her for a successful presidency. I am glad ably functions to make the colony appear larger that Barb will remain on the Executive Committee and/or more menacing. Photo by Chris Starr, as past-president. Great thanks are also [email protected] due to Andy Polaszek, who will leave the Execu- tive Committee after six successful years. I look forward to closely working together with our enthusiastic and highly professional ISH Member officers and I congratulate our new presi- announcement dent-elect José Fernández-Triana! Dr. Joseph Monks has recently joined the Natural I want to thank you all for your support towards History Museum, London as a curator of Hyme- our society and wish you all the best for the noptera. He will be taking over the groups previ- holiday season and a happy and healthy new ously curated by David Notton, with a particular year! focus on the Apoidea. For enquiries relating to Best wishes, the collections, please contact him at Lars [email protected]. 4 Just launched! GBOL III: Dark Taxa, a large research initiative focusing on German and Central European parasitoid wasps (and lower Diptera) Jessica Awad, Amelie Höcherl, Jeremy Hübner, Samin Jafari, Marina Moser, Mehdi Parsa, Jonathan Vogel, Stefan Schmidt, Lars Krogmann, Ralph S. Peters Germany ranks among the best-studied coun- most “Dark Taxa” – the parasitoid wasps. tries in terms of animal biodiversity and has a Parasitoid wasps are among the most understud- centuries-long tradition of natural history re- ied animal taxa and their true species number is search. However, when looking in detail at the recognized to be x-fold higher than the number species-level diversity, the knowledge is prev- of described species. And even the ones that are alently shockingly small. There are many “Dark described are often only known from the type ma- Taxa” that lack all or most of the basic features of terial, lacking any additional information on biolo- knowledge, i.e., reliable characterization of spe- gy, biogeographic range or intraspecific variation, cies, identification keys, regional check lists, mo- and remain taxonomically unrevised for decades lecular and morphological reference collections, or even centuries. ecological data, and availability of taxonomic ex- perts. The insect dark taxa alone sum up to pre- The fact that there are so many dark taxa in such sumably at least one quarter of the total German a diverse, abundant and important group like fauna and constitute more than 50% of all flying parasitoid wasps has far-reaching consequences insect specimens. on all of our biodiversity research. Biodiversity research has three main goals, i.e., (1) under- The most severe knowledge gaps are found standing biodiversity in ecology and evolutionary in the insect orders Diptera and Hymenoptera biology, (2) safeguarding and fostering biodiver- (about 20,000 described species in Germany). sity in conservation and biodiversity monitoring, Diptera are a fascinating group and some (cer- and (3) benefiting
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