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Newsletter of the Michigan Entomological Society Volume 58, Numbers 3 & 4 December 2013 Inside this Issue: 2014 MES Annual Meeting, 13-15 June 2014, Graveyard Discoveries ...26 Saginaw Valley State University Odonate Diversity at Pierce Cedar Creek Institute 27-29 David Stanton, President-Elect Department of Biology, Saginaw Valley Stinging Poetry ... 29 State University, University Center, MI Note of Appreciation ... 30 48710. Email: [email protected] A. H. Beyer Remembered ... 31 The 2014 MES annual meeting will be held on the campus of Saginaw Valley State University during 13-15 June 2014. The official meeting will be held on Saturday, 14 MES Annual Meeting June. Both on-campus and off-campus housing will be available for Friday and Satur- day nights. Up to 5 meals will be provided on campus as well, from Friday dinner to Abstracts ... 32-41 Sunday breakfast. More details will be available in the spring MES Newsletter and on the MES webpage. MES Meeting Minutes 40 & 42 Submit your record(s) for our next Martinoptera ... 43 Submit Your First State newsletter. If you’re not sure of the iden- Arthropod Reports tity of your specimens, then bring them MES Historical Notes ...44 along to our next Breaking Diapause meeting, Saturday, 15 March 2014. The MES Newsletter is Ron Priest The more information you have re- published as four numbers Department of Entomology, Michi- garding your recovery the better. Include gan State University, East Lansing, as many of the following points as you per year MI 48824. Email: [email protected] can: species name, common name (if ISSN 1554-2092 available), family, collector, collec- ITS TIME AGAIN TO SET THE tion date, collection location, method RECORD STRAIGHT! Have you of recovery, identifier, habitat, current recovered an arthropod species not specimen(s) location, and a photograph. before recorded from your state or Of course, you will be credited for all Breaking Diapause province? Perhaps you’ve recovered one your information! 15 March 2014 a few years ago which has not yet been Send your information to Ron Priest, reported in print. That information is using the above contact information. If MSU Campus important to document. Publishing new you have questions, do contact me by state records significantly adds to our Email, phone: (517) 353-3891, or U.S. mail. I look forward to hearing from The next MES Breaking Diapause understanding of a species’ range as well as their expansion. you, learning what’s new, and seeing gathering will take place on 15 your records in print. March 2014 on the Michigan State University campus in East Lansing in Dwayne Badgero Collection Open House Saturday, 5 April 2014, 9 AM to 10 PM, 3611 St. Mary’s St., Room 244 Natural Science Building (288 Farm Lane). We will meet from Auburn Hills, MI 48326. Email: [email protected] 9 am to late afternoon. Come out for a casual meeting of fellow Lepidopterists. Bring specimens to show or to identify. I’m hoping to make this an all-day adventure with day and night field trips to the nearby Bald Mountain Recreation Area. Save the date. Please RSVP if you plan to attend. https://www.facebook.com/events/355637047906186/ December 2013 NEWSLETTER of the MICHIGAN ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY V58 (3&4) M E S MES Homepage: http://www.MichEntSoc.org 25 2013-2014 Officers of MES The Living Amongst the Dead President ................................. Martin Andree E. Ted Herig [email protected] 603 Franklin St. St. Johns, MI 48879 President-Elect .......................... David Stanton Email: [email protected] [email protected] Immediate Past ..................... David Houghton On one of my daily walks on this a cold 17 of Octo- President [email protected] ber day in 2012, as I always do, I was walking through the Mount Rest Cemetery, which is near my home in St. Secretary .............................. Adrienne O’Brien Johns, Michigan, when I began to notice dark blobs hang- [email protected] ing every now and then from some of the grave stones that Treasurer ................................Tina Ciaramitaro I passed by, especially the rougher ones. So being inquisi- [email protected] tive, I took a closer look, and on inspection found that these so-called blobs were in fact pupae of some sort. My Member-at-Large (13-16) .............. Julie Craves hands-on inspection showed that the pupae were of a but- [email protected] terfly species that was that year’s most common species in Member-at-Large (12-15)........... David Cuthrell the St. Johns area – the Buckeye (Junonia coenia) (Lepi- doptera: Nymphalidae). I started seeing adult Buckeyes [email protected] around the last of April and through the summer months in Member-at-Large (11-14)............ Sarah Smith 2012 it was more common than the Cabbage White (Pieris [email protected] rapae). I then started to look at every grave stone along Journal Editor .......................... Therese Poland the roadway through the cemetery and noticed that many [email protected] had pupae attached, especially where there was an opening in the tree canopy and sun reached the ground. The next Associate Journal ............... Anthony Cognato day I returned and brought along my camera to document . Editor [email protected] this enigma. Many of the pupae were either empty, where Associate Journal ...................... Ronald Priest the adult had already emerged, or were dead, likely from Editor [email protected] parasitic wasps, but several were still alive with adults soon to emerge. I collected several pupae to rear at home, Newsletter Editor ..................... Robert Haack and photographed many others. I collected only a small [email protected] fraction of all the pupae that were there. The funny thing Webmaster .............................. Mark O’Brien that struck me about this event was that most of the live [email protected] pupae would likely die that fall before they could emerge and like the grave stones they will serve as cold monu- Current Annual Dues Schedule ments of a time well past. As a side note, before finishing this article on 20 October 2012, I noticed a few Buckeyes Student (through Graduate School) .......... $12.00 flying around my home and at the cemetery in St. Johns. Active .......................................................... $25.00 The irony is these will also be dead within a few days! Sustaining ................................................... $35.00 Life ...........................................................$500.00 Institutional ................................................ $45.00 ISSN 1554-2092 December 2013 NEWSLETTER of the MICHIGAN ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY V58 (3&4) 26 MES Homepage: http://www.MichEntSoc.org M E S Biodiversity of Odonates at Pierce Cedar Property Map Creek Institute, Barry County, Michigan About the Trails at Pierce Cedar Creek Institute Brewster Lake Trail Lupine Trail Tall Grass Prairie Trail Beech Maple Ridge Trail Old Farm Trail Black Walnut Trail Cedar Creek Trail [1.8 miles] [.4 miles] [.4 miles] [1.8 miles] [1.3 miles] [.2 miles] [.9 miles] This trail crosses and The primary features of this This is a shortcut to the The path passes through a This is one of our easiest It provides wonderful views The trail runs through a passes by a number of trail are retention ponds, middle of the Beech Maple second growth forest, trails to hike. It provides of the Visitor Center and sand prairie with a great beautiful habitats, panoramic views, a small Ridge Trail. View the beauty mature oak and beech- open and forested views. short grass prairie through view of Cedar Creek and including a fen, a mature section of open forest, of our constructed maple forests, a section of The prairie loop provides a a black cherry grove. loops back to the Beech oak forest with unusually and a skunk cabbage- wildflower prairie on the swamp forest, and a fen. closer view of the prairie. Maple Ridge Trail. This Elaine M. Sheikh and Matthew M. Douglas large trees, and a pasture dominated wetland. Hikers can return to the primitive trail is somewhat west side of the trail. frequented by deer and Visitor Center by taking more strenuous than other turkey. A trail extension the boardwalk to the trails. Blue and white trail provides a scenic view of Lupine Trail. markers, along with white Grand Rapids Community College, Biological Brewster Lake. markings on the trees, will help guide visitors through the trail. • The trails are open daily from A pet waste station is located Sciences Department, 143 Bostwick Avenue NE, dawn to dusk. at the head of the Tall Grass • There is no fee to use Prairie Trail. the trails • Motorized vehicles, bicycles, Grand Rapids, MI 49503 • Trails markers are indicated snowmobiles, watercraft and by color listed on the map. horses are prohibited. For example, The Brewster • Fishing, hunting, camping, Lake Trail has red markers. trapping and plant collecting brewster are prohibited. lake Email: [email protected] • Pierce Cedar Creek Institute trail grounds and buildings are • Restroom facilities are alcohol and smoke-free. available in the Visitor Center • Dogs must remain leashed at after-hours. Please enter all times. from the west side. Hours s d i may vary by season. p • Please clean up after pets. a R d brewster n a Listed below are some of the trees and shrubs lake r ntroduction G d I that are found at Pierce Cedar Creek Institute: n a s Black Ash Red Cedar Red Oak batts g n cottage i Green Ash White Cedar White Oak t According to the Michigan Odonata Survey, 164 species of s White Ash Grey Dogwood Tulip Poplar a h Basswood Red Osier Dogwood Poison Sumac / h t Beech American Elm Tamarack r Odonata that represent 49 genera occur in Michigan (O’Brien o Yellow Birch Red Maple Black Walnut n 7 3 Black Cherry Black Oak American Hornbeam - m o 2010 ).
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