The Mayfly Newsletter Volume 24 Issue 1 Article 1 7-6-2021 The Mayfly Newsletter Donna Giberson [email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://dc.swosu.edu/mayfly Part of the Biology Commons, Entomology Commons, Systems Biology Commons, and the Zoology Commons Recommended Citation Giberson, Donna (2021) "The Mayfly Newsletter," The Mayfly Newsletter: Vol. 24 : Iss. 1 , Article 1. Available at: https://dc.swosu.edu/mayfly/vol24/iss1/1 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Newsletters at SWOSU Digital Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in The Mayfly Newsletter by an authorized editor of SWOSU Digital Commons. An ADA compliant document is available upon request. For more information, please contact [email protected]. The Mayfly Newsletter Vol. 24(1) June 2021 The Mayfly Newsletter is the official newsletter of the Permanent Committee of the International Conferences on Ephemeroptera In this issue Feature Photo Photographing living mayflies: Greg Courtney: Drunella grandis (Eaton)..................................1 Feature Photo Meeting Announcement: 2022 XVIth International Confern- Greg Courtney, Department of Entomology, Iowa State University, continues his th ence on Ephemeroptera and XXI quest to photograph living aquatic insects both near his home and worldwide. In this International Symposium on issue, he shares this view of Drunella grandis (Ephemerellidae) from Oregon. Plecoptera: 24-31 July 2022.......2 Conference Proposals (for upcoming meetings)..................4 Requests for Specimens..........4 Feature Article: Mayflies (mainly Hexagenia sp., Ephemeroptera: Ephemeridae): an important food source for adult walleye (Sander vitreus) in Northwestern Ontario lakes, by Ayden Ricker- Held and David Beresford...........5 Notices: Research from our readers - New publications....................7 Zootaxa Ephemeroptera Edi- tors' Annual Summary and Acknowledgements (2020) from Luke M. Jacobus et al........8 2020 Ephemeroptera Bibliog- raphy.....................................9 How to donate to the International Permanent Committee on Ephemeroptera Conferences...........................17 Print copies of many issues still available................................18 Submissions to the Mayfly G.Courtney Newsletter .............................18 Drunella grandis (Eaton), South Santiam River, Oregon, 17 April 2021 The Mayfly Newsletter is published (on-line) at https://dc.swosu.edu/mayfly/ (see link on Ephemeroptera Galactica: http://www.ephemeroptera-galactica.com/) contact: Donna J. Giberson, Editor email [email protected] Masthead image: Hexagenia sp. Andy Usher (Indiana University, Purdue University, Indianapolis) The Mayfly Newsletter 2 2022 XVIth INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON EPHEMEROPTERA AND XXIth INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON PLECOPTERA 24-31 July 2022 Organizers: R. Edward Dewalt, University of Illinois, 1816 S Oak St., Champaign, Illinois 61820, [email protected], 1-217-649-7414, Boris C. Kondratieff, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado 80523, [email protected] Location: The venue is at the Mountain Campus, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA. The site is a high elevation enclave west of Fort Collins, Colorado (40.56987, -105.59183). Private and dormitory housing, a cafeteria, and conference facilities are provided. There are no restrictions in regard to collecting invertebrates in the nearby streams, ponds, and wetlands. Fishing is permitted. Registrants will receive a free copy of “An Illustrated Guide to the Mountain Streams Insects of Colorado, 2nd Edition” to help with the identification of aquatic taxa. The meeting website will be available in late August 2021. The Preliminary Schedule of Activities: ● Arrival Sunday 24th ● Monday and Tuesday 25th-26th, welcome, plenary sessions, paper and poster sessions ● Wednesday 27th, group field trip, evening campfire and music ● Thursday 28th, paper and poster sessions, silent auction, mayfly and stonefly business meetings ● Friday 29th. paper and poster sessions and awards banquet, evening entertainment ● Saturday 30th, checkout or attend after conference trip (optional, additional cost) ● Sunday 31st, all guests must checkout Accompanying Guests Activities: Activities planned M, Tu, Th, Fr at local attractions (Rocky Mountain National Park, Shambhala Mountain Center (Buddhist retreat), Fort Collins shopping and breweries, hiking, museums, dude ranching. Scholarships: The International Society of Plecopterologists and the Permanent Committee of the International Conferences on Ephemeroptera will provide access to student travel scholarships. Scholarship applications will be available in late summer 2021 (See the Ephemeroptera Galactica website for information on mayfly Scholarships). Plecopterologists and Mayfly Newsletter subscribers are encouraged to make donations to their Society (see p. 17 for instructions on how to donate to Ephemeroptera scholarships). Travel Arrangements: Flights into Denver International Airport (DEN) are convenient. We will be arranging for Broome Travel (a shuttle service, your cost) transport to Ft. Collins, where you will meet passenger vans for a 1-1.5 hr trip to the Mountain Campus (cost included in registration). Registration Costs: Registration covers food, housing, mixers, group field trip, and transportation to and from Fort Collins to the Mountain Campus. Cost varies by housing style: ● Dormitory housing (multiple occupancy, share bath, meals), $69/night + $10/week for linens ● Conference Center Cabins (6 cabins, each with six rooms and private baths, linens, food included) Single occupancy $136/night Double occupancy $116/night/person Triple occupancy $96/night/person ● Example registration Dormitory: 6 nights * $69/night + $10 linens + $60 incidentals = $484 Private single: 6 nights * $136/night/person + $60 incidentals = $876 Double occupancy: 6 nights * $116/night + $60 incidentals = $756 Triple occupancy: 6 nights * $96/night + $60 incidentals = $636 Accompanying guests. Additional costs for accompanying guest outings are unknown at this time, but please budget $250. All costs are estimates and are subject to slight increases by 2022. Volume 24(1) June 2021 The Mayfly Newsletter 3 CSU Mountain Campus, a research and education village in the Rocky Mountains. Semi-Private Housing Dormitory Style Housing South Fork of the Cache La Poudre River at Mountain Campus. Volume 24(1) June 2021 The Mayfly Newsletter 4 Conference Proposals The joint International Conference on Ephemeroptera and International Symposium on Plecoptera usually takes place every three years. The next joint meeting will take place in Colorado, USA, 24-31 July 2022. If you are considering the possibility of hosting the following conference in 2025, please note the following. Representatives from the International Conferences on Ephemeroptera and the International Society of Plecopterologists established a set of guidelines for submitting proposals to host the joint conferences. These guidelines are: Preliminary Proposals Preliminary proposals to host a conference may be submitted six years prior to the year of the proposed conference, but a final decision on the conference site will not be made by the joint committees until three years prior to the actual conference date. Final proposals 1. Proposals should be submitted at least one month prior to the conference during which the proposal will be officially presented. 2. A copy of the proposal should be sent to the chair of each committee - International Conferences on Ephemeroptera: Michel Sartori ([email protected]) - International Society of Plecopterologists: John Brittain ([email protected]) 3. Proposals should be submitted by e-mail. This facilitates distribution of the proposal to the members of the two committees. 4. Proposals should contain detailed information regarding plans to host the conference. Contact either chair for additional information. Request for Specimens Inês M.A. Ribeiro, PhD Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology To all mayfly enthusiasts! I am looking for nymphs in the stage either immediately preceding or close to the subimago stage, and for winged adults in the subimago or the imago stages. I prefer the species Ephemera danica, E. vulgata, or Cloeon dipterum, but any Ephemeroptera species will do. I would like to look at the central nervous system of these amazing animals. Please contact me, Inês MA Ribeiro, at [email protected] , if you have mayflies that you can share. Thank you! Steve Burian Southern Connecticut State University, New Haven, Connecticut [email protected] I am looking for reared specimens of: Rhithrogena undulata (Banks) (male and females with nymphal exuviae intact) from anywhere in North America, but specimens from the northern midwestern U.S. and/or central to eastern Canada are preferred. Paraleptophlebia ontario (McDunnough) (male and females with nymphal exuviae intact); Paraleptophlebia praepedita (Eaton) (males and females with nymphal exuviae intact); and a few clean intact specimens of mid to late instar nymphs of both species from anywhere in North America. For ongoing systematic studies of the genus Rhithrogena and Paraleptophlebia in northeastern North America. Anyone who has specimens of these species that would be willing to loan them for taxonomic analysis please contact Steven K. Burian ([email protected]). Volume 24(1) June 2021 The Mayfly Newsletter 5 Feature article: Mayflies (mainly Hexagenia sp., Ephemeroptera: Ephemeridae):