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NEW LETTER of the MICHIGAN ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY Vol'ume 25 Number March 5 1980 MARK F. O'&£t1tN NEW LETTER of the MICHIGAN ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY Vol'ume 25 Number March 5 1980 MICHIGAN ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY 26TH ANNUAL MEETING The Michigan Entomological Society will hold A most enjoyable day of information exchange its 26th annual meeting at the W. K. Kellogg followed by field collecting and Saturday field Biological Station of Michigan State Univers­ trips is being organized for your interest and ity on Friday and Saturday May 23-24, 1980. pleasure. Plan NOW to join us at the Biological The W. K. Kellogg Biological Station is locat­ Station. A ~ for papers form is included ed on the eastern shore of Gull Lake, 12 miles with this issue of the Newsletter. If inter­ northwest of Battle Creek and 15 miles north­ east of Kalamazoo, in a very picturesque area of southwestern Michigan. The Biological Sta­ tion boasts the following units: Kellogg Bird Sanctuary, Kellogg farm, Kellogg forest, and the Kellogg Gull Lake Laboratories and Confer­ ence Center. The Kellogg complex offers exceptional opportunities for field research and classwork. Winter Green lake, located entirely within this area, contains 40 acres supported by 10 smaller impoundments. A total of approximately 2,000 acres of farm land, forests, lakes, ponds, and streams is available for insect study and col­ lecting. Sherriff's Marsh nearby is a 200 acre­ tract of land containing a bog lake, small stream and tamarack swamp with adjoining high­ land that is also available for collecting. The country surrounding the station includes a variety of glacial terrain, drainage condi­ tions, slopes and soils. The many lakes, ponds, streams and various types of bogs and swamps make this area ideal for terrestrial and aquatic arthropod studies. Allegan State Forest, which strikingly resembles certain areas in the Upper Peninsula, lies 35 miles to the northwest. The Barry County State Game Area and Yankee Springs ested in glvlng a paper, please fill it out Recreational areas, which provide additional and return it to: Gary Simmons, Department of habitat for field study, lie 12 miles to the Entomology, Michigan State University, East north. Lake Michigan, with its famous dunes Lansing, MI 48824 (Ph: 517 353-3890). Fur­ and unique ecological habitat, is approximately ther information on the meeting will follow in 40 miles to the west. the next Newsletter. The NEWSLETTER of the Michigan Entomological Society is published as four numbers yearly, at irregular intervals. Please send all notes, news, new insect records, research requests, season summaries, important dates for the Entomologists' Calendar, other items for the NEWS­ LETTER, membership inquiries, dues, etc. to the Executive Secretary, Michigan Entomological Society, Dept. of Entomology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824. The Executive Secret ary's Page OFFICERS OF MES FOR SALE: 15 years of collecting. Near com­ President. .. Can Young plete collection of butterflies and moths in President-Elect ........ Gary Simmons series. Will sell with or without drawers, Past Pres ident. AI Bratt but will not break up collection; must be sold Executive Secretary Mo Nielsen as a whole. By bids only. Minimum bid of Membe r-at- La rge Dave Evans $7,609 or $6,500 without drawers and cabinets. Member-at-Large . Don Mosher Collection includes 1,352 butterflies, 3,327 Member-at-Large . Ron Pri est moths and 46 silk moths. Contact: Virgil Journa I Ed i tor . .. Dave Go s ling Warczynski, 1804 Fitzhugh St., Bay City, Mich., Newsletter Ed itor ........ Lou Wi Ison 48706, or call (517) 892-6375. (long pun) Associate Newsletter Editor.. Ge orge Heaton FOR SALE OR EXCHANGE: Living cocoons of NOTICES Hyalophora cecropia, Antheraea polyphemus, Actias luna, Callosamia promethea and Automeris io and a few living pupae of Citheronia regalis (Noti ces wi ll be run fop a yeap op 4 nvflilieps and Eacles imperialis. Also have some papered of the News lettep unless notified to dPop material (mostly from Ohio) including Catocala t hem. Membe ps de siPing longep runs should and Papilio. Please send for lists. John W. notify newslettep editop, L. F. Wilson, Dept. Peacock, 185 Benzler Lust Rd., Marion, OH 43302. of Fopestpy, ~ch igan State Univepsity, 48824) WANTED: Living cocoons of Saturniidae from For Sale, Butterfly and Moth collection. southern and western U.S. (esp. Hyalophora Approx. 4,200 specimens, al I mounted with data, euryalis, Eupackardia calleta and Rothschildia excellent condition, arranged in unit trays spp.) a~d living pupae of Papilio spp. from the and cornell drawers, 1,300 catocala, 1,100 same areas. Also need cocoons of Samia cynthia. Hesperoidea; C. muticum, E. mitchell ii, Please send your lists to John W. Peacock, 185 H. ottoe, O. pow ersheik wei I represented. Benzler Lust Rd., Marion, OH 43302. Wi I I send complete inventory upon request. Wi I I consider highest bidder. Wayne A. Miller, 1476 North Hills Dr., Kalamazoo, BOOKS: Any insect book in print. Now in stock Michigan 49007. (616-349-1961) for immediate shipment: D'Abrera, BIRDWING BUT­ TERFLIES OF THE WORLD, $65.00; D'Abrera, BUTTER­ Wanted: Color slides of butterfl ies and FLIES OF THE AUSTRALIAN REGION, $29.95; pinhey, moths, esp. USA papi I io and large and MOTHS OF SOUTHERN AFRICA (1,182 color photos) , colorful forei gn species. Contact Ray W. $35.95; Edmunds et al., MAYFLIES OF NORTH AND Bracher, 17145 Cherokee Dr., South Bend, CENTRAL AMERICA, $28.50; Hungerford, CORIXIDAE Indiana 46635. OF THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE, an important new reprint, $25.00. Entomological Reprint Special­ Community and Jun ior Col lege Teaching ists, P. O. Box 77224, Dockweiler Station, Los Positions. The Career Staffing Center main­ Angeles, CA 90007. tains a cleari ng house for t wo year col leges and those indivi dua ls 'li 0 would like to be con sid­ FOR SALE: Butterflies, beetles and other ered for facu l ~ y and ad i n ist r a ~ ; v e pos itions. insects from Malaysia, Indonesia, Papua, New Write for detai Is . Ca reer 5 a L + ' ~ g Certer , Guinea, and Borneo. Interested persons send 62 1 Duke Stre e ~, p . C. bOX L9 ~ - ~ , - 'exa~u r i a , for catalogue and price list to Eric Khoo, Virg inia 223 14 . Viking International Pte. Ltd., 423, Orchard Towers, Orchard Rd., Singapore 9. WANTE D: Berner's :ayf l ' es o ~ = I ~ ri ~ a : Write t o Michael D. Hu bbard, _ a~ o r e + cr v ~f FOR SA LE: Sawfly Iite rature from the library Aquatic Entomology, Flori da A& " un i/ers· ty , of H. H. Ross. El even inch stack of papers by Tallahassee , Flori da 32307 . North American autho rs , containing most of the important papers on Nearctic.sawfl ies! $198; 3 FOR SALE: Insect pin s , lowest prices, inch stac k on Nearctic sawflies (duplicates prompt del ivery. Standard Eng l ish from eleven inch stack), $20; 40 papers by black, "Eiefant" brand, minutens, and Malaise, apparently a complete set, $40; 23 others. Sizes 000 through No.7. Write papers by Benson, $20; 18 papers by authors of for pri ce I ist. Send stamped addressed Europe and Asia, $4. Henry Townes, 5950 Warren envelope t o Clair Armin, 191 \'i. Palm Rd., Ann Arbor, MI 48105. Ave., Reedly, CA 93654, phone (209) 638-3729. (Continued on page 3) 2 NOTICES (cont. from page 2) STUDIES ON ENDANGERED FOR SALE: Mon. Rev. of ...the Order Strep­ PRAIRIE SKIPPERS (HESPERIIDAE) sipters, by Pierce (1909 ); Mon. of ... Mardell idae (Coleoptera) of N.A .... , by In conjunction with an extensive "base-line" Li Ijeblad ( 1945); Annot. List of Mich. flora and faunistic survey of the loess hill Trichoptera, by Leonard (1949); Ecol og i­ land formation in western Iowa, a prairie­ cal ... Study of Hesperiodidea of Texas, by skipper workshop and foray is being planned for Freeman (1951); Journal of Res. on June 28-29, 1980, and the following week. Field Lep., Vol. 13 (1974); The In sect Book, work will commence on June 30, after a two-day ~Howard (1910). Best offe r. Co ntact workshop during which both authorities and M. C. Nielsen, 3415 Overlea Dr., Lansing, novices will cooperate in designing an appro­ MI 48917. 517-321-2192. priate data gathering strategy. The workshop will be held at Lakeside laboratory on Lake WA NTE D: Cecropia cocoons--please send price West Okoboji in northwestern Iowa, with appro­ quotation--write to Warren Shelton, 16 Bay priate trips to nearby Caylor Prairie for on­ View Drive, Hi Iton, NY 14468 . site studies. It is hoped that this "group" approach will initiate a productive series of WANTED: Corbet, Longfield and Moore: Dragon­ both immediate and long-range studies and may flies; Evans: Studies on the Comparative be a model for concentrated work in other Eth,;logy of Digger Wasps of the Genus Bembix; regions. Kellogg: American Insects; Stone et.al: A Any interested members should contact Dr. catalogue of the Diptera of America North of John C. Downey, Biology Dept., University No. Mexico; Tietz: The Lepidoptera of Pennsyl­ Iowa, Cedar Falls, 50613. vania: A Manual; and Tillyard: The Biology UNIVERSITY CREDITS FOR of Dragonflies. Write stating condition and PRAIRIE BUTTERFLY STUDIES price to: John E. Holzbach, 229 Maywood Drive, Youngstown, Ohio 44512 During the second five-week summer session at Lakeside laboratory (July 14-August 16), a WANTED: Collection data of Noctuidae from field station in western Iowa, a 5 semester Ohio. To be used in a forthcoming faunal list (credit) course will be offered on Insect of Ohio's moths. Data for other families will Ecology and Behavior. Emphasis will be on be solicited later. All replies acknowledged. insects of the prairie, with particular atten­ The authors may wish to verify some records.
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