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Newsletter of the Michigan Entomological Society Newsletter of the Michigan Entomological Society Volume 61, Numbers 3 & 4 December 2016 63rd Annual MES Meeting: bogs, swamps, marshes, streams, lakes, Inside this Issue: old fields, primary and secondary forests, August 25-27, 2017 and established reconstructed prairies. Breaking Diapause 2017 ... 22 Matt Douglas, President-Elect The meeting itself, as well as housing and 2016 MES Elections ... 22 Dept. of Biological Sciences, Grand meals will be available on site. Rapids Community College, Grand Our invited Keynote Speaker will MES Historical Notes ... 23 Rapids, MI 49503 be Dr. Matthew Aardema [a graduate of both Grand Rapids Community College Email: [email protected] Poetry ... 23 (GRCC) and MSU]. Matt is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at the American Annual Meeting Abstracts ... 24-34 Greetings everyone! We will be Museum of Natural History in New York. holding our 63rd MES Annual Meeting Pollination Summit ... 34 The tentative title of Matt’s talk is “Un- at Pierce Cedar Creek Institute (PCCI), raveling Evolutionary Processes in Neo- located just south of Hastings, Michigan, tropical Milkweed Butterflies.” Registra- MES Constitution ... 35-37 th from Friday August 25 through Sunday tion forms will be mailed later in 2017 as th Future Constitutional Changes 37 morning, August 27 , 2017. PCCI is well as placed on the MES website. an amazing nature reserve and August The PCCI property is diverse but Gardening for Monarchs ... 38 at PCCI is a fantastic time to collect its biodiversity is still largely unknown. arthropods of all persuasions and just MES Minutes ... 39 Feel free to bring your gear and collect enjoy Nature at its golden end-of-summer arthropods on the property (including finest. The 740-acre Institute, located just Most Highly Cited Articles ... 40 wetlands) along the 9 miles of groomed 25 miles from Grand Rapids, provides trails. Many more details on the habitats New Sphinx Moth Records ... 41 visitors with a unique exposure to a rare found at PCCI are found at: <http://www. blend of diverse habitats including fens, cedarcreekinstitute.org/>. Annual Meeting Locations ... 42 Still Seeking Newsletter Editor 42 HWA Update for Michigan ... 43 Bloody Business ... 44 The MES Newsletter is published as PCCI Conference Center PCCI Conference room four numbers per year Survey Results on MES ISSN 1554-2092 Going Digital Breaking Diapause Sat, 25 March 2017 at MSU Kristi Bugajski Department of Biology, Valparaiso See details on page 22 University, 1610 Campus Drive East, PCCI Cafeteria Valparaiso, IN 46383 Still Seeking a Email: [email protected] • Newsletter: 72% voted for a digital New Newsletter Editor copy emailed and on the website. The 2016 survey about moving MES • The Great Lakes Entomologist See details on page 42 publications and voting to a digital plat- (TGLE): 80% voted to move to a (This may be the last issue) form has concluded. We had 63 people digital format. 49% voted for open respond. Here is a quick summary. access and 31% wanted an embargo • Voting: 65% voted for a confidential period for non-members. online platform. continued on p. 39 December 2016 NEWSLETTER of the MICHIGAN ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY V61 (3&4) M E S MES Homepage: http://michentsoc.org 21 2016-2017 Officers of MES President .................................Robert Haack [email protected] President-Elect................Matthew Douglas [email protected] Immediate Past.......................... Angie Pytel President [email protected] Secretary .......................... Adrienne O’Brien ........................................... [email protected] Treasurer .................................... Angie Pytel ..............................................apytel@hillsdale.edu Member-at-Large (16-18) ..... John Douglass ........................................ [email protected] Member-at-Large (16-18) ... Martin Andree ........................................... [email protected] Map of the northeastern portion of the MSU campus showing location of the Natural Science Building (288 Farm Lane) and nearby parking Member-at-Large (15-18)....Bernice DeMarco lots (P) that will be open on weekends.. The Entomology Department is on the west side of Nat Sci.. .............................................. [email protected] Member-at-Large (14-17) .. Mark VanderWerp Breaking Diapause ......................................... [email protected] Saturday, 25 March 2017 at MSU Lead Journal Scientific Editor ...................... Breaking Diapause is the annual MES spring entomology meet- Kristi Bugajski [email protected] ing. It is an informal gathering for members and those interested in becoming members. The meeting will be held from 9:30 AM till Lead Journal Production Editor .................. mid-afternoon in Room 244 of the Natural Science Building (288 Alicia Bray ....................... [email protected] Farm Lane) at Michigan State University in East Lansing. In addi- Associate Journal ........ Anthony Cognato tion to socializing with a variety of professional and amateur ento- mologists there will be plenty to do. The insect museum at Nat Sci Editor [email protected] will be open so bring along your unidentified insects. Folks will be Associate Journal .....................Julie Craves available to show you around the collection if you’re unfamiliar and assist you with any unknowns you have. Bring along entomological Editor ................................... [email protected] duplicates you’d like to trade, sell, or just give away. If you have an Associate Journal ...........David Houghton entomological display, do bring it along. As usual we’ll also have a Editor [email protected] variety of finger foods. President-Elect Matt Douglas plans to give a short talk on monarch migration in South America. We will also try Associate Journal ................. Ronald Priest to have a short governing board meeting during Breaking Diapause. Editor .................................. [email protected] Associate Journal ............ William Ruesink 2016 MES Elections: In 2016, we elected Matt Douglas Editor ............................... [email protected] as the new MES President-Elect, and Martin Andree and John Associate Journal ............... William Scharf Douglass as the two new MES Members-at-Large. We thank the other candidates (Pat Hudson and Ashley Wick) for running for Editor ......................... [email protected] these positions. For 2017, we currently have several members Associate Journal ............Daniel Swanson willing to run for Member-at-Large, but only one running for Editor [email protected] President-Elect. Please consider running. We realize that many people are reluctant to run for President because they need to Newsletter Editor ..................Robert Haack organize the annual meeting in the year following their election. .....................................................rhaack@fs.fed.us To ease those concerns, please realize that MES member David Houghton at Hillsdale College, is very happy to host our annual Webmaster .............................Mark O’Brien meeting at the Hillsdale College, G.H. Gordon Biological Station .................................... [email protected] in Luther, MI. December 2016 NEWSLETTER of the MICHIGAN ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY V61 (3&4) 22 MES Homepage: http://michentsoc.org M E S MES Historical Notes borer, the lepidopterous Types at MSU, Entomology 609 South American entomological centers, Insect Behavior: Agrilus mating behavior, summary of the Robert A. Haack, Newsletter Editor MES spring collecting trip, entomology as A Field Experiment a profession, UP tent caterpillars, potato 1991 – 25 years ago. In early 1991, insects, Chaoborus flies of MI, and water We took some dead ants Eugene Kenaga was President; Fred Stehr mites. Several MES members went on a from the edge of a busy colony, was President-Elect; Dick Snider was spring collecting trip in May at Tahquame- dropped them in acetone overnight immediate Past-President; Mo Nielsen then removed the bodies non Falls and nearby areas. The winning was Executive Secretary; Mark Scriber, MES logo was announced in 1966, which and let the mixture evaporate Leah Bauer, and Cathy Bristow were the till we had a sticky extract. went to Hollace “Bud” Gordinier. This is Back at the colony, concoction in hand, three Members-at-Large; Mark O’Brien the same “butterfly silhouette” logo that we picked out a random worker, was Journal Editor; and Bob Haack and we use today on our journal and newslet- dabbed some “mortal goo” on her George Heaton were the Newsletter th ter. A constitutional change was approved then placed her back on the hill. Editors. The 37 MES Annual Meet- in 1966 that allowed MES to obtain Some workers soon came over, ing was held 31 May 1991 at the Oleson non-profit status in the eyes of the IRS, picked her up and carried her Center on the campus of Northwestern which we still use today. MES started its out to the dead pile and dropped her there, Michigan College in Traverse City. The despite wiggling legs and waggling antennae. journal The Michigan Entomologist (now featured speaker was George Craig from The Great Lakes Entomologist) in 1966. I could almost hear her wailing. the Department of Biology at Notre Dame We put her back on the hill a few more times Several members provided an entomology but each time she was quickly body-surfed University, who spoke on the arrival of workshop for 4-H Leaders
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