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 2020 (and 2021) Annual Meetings

Yes, we are going to have an annual meeting. Originally, it was scheduled to be at the Community Club at Ft. Indiantown Gap National Guard Training Center in Annville but with concerns over COVID19, particularly in the fall, we have finally decided to go the route of many scientific organizations and are converting to a Zoom event. This is a first for ESP, so we have our fingers crossed. The meeting date will be the same, 21 November 2020 but will be on a compressed schedule since we no longer have the burden of physically administering everything. It will run 830am-2pm and will have talks on pollinator conservation and research, pest management, aquatic ecology and insect biodiversity. 

We’ll start with 4 student presentations from 9-11, followed by professional presentations until noon. At that point there will be an hour break for lunch and the Awards Presentations  (12-1)

The ESP Young Entomologist’s award as well as the student awards. 

We’ll end with a very special presentation on leaf-miner ecology by author, blogger, ecologist Charley Eiseman. 

Zoom access will be granted to those that pay the discounted price of $5 per person. Please make your payments online by Credit Card or by your PAYPAL and the register via online via our online Registration (at Google Forms) or mail a check and registration form to: Mike Slater, 4411 New Holland RD, Mohnton, PA 19540.  See the  Annual Meeting page to register!

Here’s the line-up: 

• Danielle Jurina, Lebanon Valley College (Undergraduate Student Award) - Understanding the effects and trends of the spotted lanternfly on the Wood Thrush
• Skylar Naya, Temple University (Graduate Student Award) - Sex-Specific Foraging Patterns in the rare Eastern Regal Fritillary butterfly, Speyeria idalia idalia
• Gabriela Ponce, Penn State University (PhD Student Award Contestant) - Make or Take: The synthesis or sequestration of phytohormones by moth caterpillars 
• Shelby Kilpatrick, Penn State University (PhD Student Award Contestant) – The Bees of Pennsylvania: overview of the recently-updated checklist, new open-access resources, & state biodiversity 

• Mike Bilger, Aquatic Ecologist - Diet of the crayfish of the Susquehanna river 
• Mike Slater - Rescuing and relocating a nesting aggregation of Anthophora abrupta (Eastern Chimney Bees) from a major construction site in Hamburg, Pennsylvania, a progress report
• Dr. Ellen Yerger, Indiana University of Pennsylvania – Laricobius nigrinus (Coleoptera: Derodontidae) Trapping in Central PA Hemlock Forests
• Charley Eiseman, Author/Blogger/Entomologist - LIFE IN A LEAF: THE WONDERFUL WORLD OF LEAFMINERS 

As for 2021, we don’t know what the future will hold in terms of social gatherings BUT, should the US get a handle on COVID19 we will have an in-person meeting at The Community Club, Ft. Indiantown Gap National Guard Training Center, Annville PA.