January 9th, 2010
Hi All:
Having heard from a few of you (Executive Committee) and hearing no real problems with the week of January 25, I am scheduling the first ESP Executive Committee meeting for 2010 on Wednesday, January 27. The meeting will be held in Room 202 of the Agriculture Building at 2301 N. Cameron St. in Harrisburg (same building as last year). I will inform the front desk, so just stop there to pick up a visitor’s badge, as necessary.
I still need agenda items, so please continue to send them in. I will expect the standard committee reports and we will address old business – I will send out a preliminary draft of the agenda next week, so respond to that with any additions, subtractions, etc.
See you all there!
The Pres
Leo Donovall | Entomologist
Bureau of Plant Industry
Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture
2301 North Cameron Street | Harrisburg, PA 17110
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December 1st, 2009
Below is a link to Pennsylvania Vector Control Association’s Technical Bulletin 2009-001, “The Mosquitoes of Pennsylvania, Identification of Adult Females and Fourth Instar Larvae, Geographical Distribution, Biology and Public Health Importance“.
This publication was originally released in November, 2009. Primary authors for the book are Richard F. Darsie, Jr. (Grove City College) and Michael Hutchinson (PA Dept. of Environmental Protection, Division of Vector Management).
This book is currently available as a free download in Adobe PDF format. The complete book is about 32MB in size. Please click on the cover image photo to download the full book file.
Toxorhynchites rutilus septentrionalis on flower
http://www.pavectorcontrol.org/docs/TB2009-001/Mosquitoes%20of%20PA%20-%20Complete.pdf
Individual species account pages may be accessed by going to this directory and clicking on the species of interest.
http://www.pavectorcontrol.org/docs/TB2009-001/
Citation:
Darsie RF, Hutchinson ML. 2009. The Mosquitoes of Pennsylvania. Technical Bulletin #2009-001 of the Pennsylvania Vector Control Association. 201pp.
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November 20th, 2009
The York County 4-H Entomology Club is looking for people interested in speaking about or presenting entomolgy related programs to the members of this organization. Below is a message from the group’s advisor:
As a lead Advisor for the York Co. 4-H Entomology Club, I have been asked by the youth members to find speakers and programs for our monthly meetings. What the kids are asking for is Ento-related programs that will highlite our meeting each month (every 3rd Wed evening of each month).
These kids are hungry for more than just a 4-H Entomology Project. Lab or field work, curation, taxonomy, mounting/preservation, aquatics, collecting or any research field trips you’ve been on, whatever ? If you work in a job field that would interest Ento kids, this would be a good time to pitch for a potential field trip from the club (summer or winter) to your job location. The kids would be happy to assist you with aspects of the work, thus learn more about possible careers in Entomology related fields. If you feel the kids would enjoy hearing about it, please consider a visit to one of our meetings in 2010.
Last year, Faith Kuehn, Mike Turell and Mike Lamprinos took time to visit with the Club and the group enjoyed a nice variety of Entomology related topics. The folks who presented also enjoyed the experience to educate and enrich the minds of the kids and were quite impressed with the knowledge and enthusiasm. Spec’s:
45 min’s to 1-hr max.
low-tech for all ages (respectively).
show-n-tell, hands-on, slide show, etc.
Note: This is a Volunteer gig – fyi.
Jan, Feb, March, April and May are currently open for programs.
If you would like to discuss more details about scheduling a program, please contact me asap and I’ll work with you to keep these kids happy. Thanks much for your time !
Ryan Bridge | 717-266-6660 | rb_bugman (at) comcast.net
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November 5th, 2009
The next ESP executive committee meeting will be held in early 2010. Time, date, and location information will be posted on the main page as soon as they are decided. While the executive committee meetings are a work session for the committee, any ESP members are welcome to attend, as well.
Tags: 2010, executive, meeting
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November 5th, 2009
The 2009 annual meeting of the Entomological Society of PA was held at the Juniata College Raystown Field Station in Huntingdon County, PA on October 28-29, 2009. The meeting was a success. A summary of the meeting will be provided in the next edition of the newsletter.
Tags: 2009, annual, meeting
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