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The Insects. Peter Farb And The Editors Of Life. New York: Time Inc., 1962. 192 Pp. $4.00., Richard C. Fleming

The Great Lakes Entomologist

Excerpt: It is a pleasant surprise to find a book that can effectively communicate much information about insects to the lay public, amateur entomologist, and professional entomologist alike. In straight-forward language the author gives genuine insight into the morphology, physiology, behavior, evolution, and adaptation of insects. These areas are not treated as unrelated topics but are skillfully blended into a meaningful whole. The text is supported liberally with pertinent facts, clear drawings, and many photographs of remarkable quality. The lack of obvious mistakes indicates that editing has been carried out carefully.

Experimental Statistics In Entomology. F. M. Wadley. Washington, D. C.: Graduate School Press: U.S. Department Of Agriculture, 1967. Viii, 132 Pp. $6.50., Charles E. Cress

The Great Lakes Entomologist

Excerpt: This book "is intended to help entomological workers who have a real interest, but little training. in applying statistical methods to research problems." The author has proceeded under the false assumption that removal of all mathematical precision and the elimination of the rationale behind statistical techniques results n simplification and clarification. This presents an insoluble dilemma to the statistically uninformed reader.

Insect Colonization And Mass Production. Edited By Carroll N. Smith. New York And London: Academic Press, 1966. Xxii, 618pp. $27.00., Brian O.C Gardiner

The Great Lakes Entomologist

Excerpt: The mass production of insects appears to have started with the requirements of the rod-and-line fisherman for bait. For many years, using crude but effective methods, an individual could earn a living rearing millions of blowflies a week to meet this demand. The recent rise of the insecticide industry- and now, biological control--has meant an ever-increasing demand for many insect species. Not only does the testing of insecticides demand very large numbers of standard insects, but their release, either as parasites to control an economic pest, or as sterile males to 'use up' wild females, involves the laboratory production …

Why Not Eat Insects? Vincent M. Holt. Hanworth, Middlesex: Reprinted By E. W. Classey, 1967. 99 Pp. $2.10., Roland S. Wilkinson

The Great Lakes Entomologist

Excerpt: According to the British Museum Catalogue, this curious and interesting little work was first printed in 1885. F. S. Bodenheimer devotes several pages to it in his Insects as Human Food, and notes that the "booklet has now [1951] almost disappeared. In London it was apparently only available at the British Museum, where it was destroyed by bombing. The only copy to be found by the author was in the University Library at Oxford . . . "I have located no copies in the United States except the one at the USDA Library. Due to its extreme rarity, …

Some R.R. Dreisbach Collecting Localities In South-Eastern Texas And Northeastern Mexico, Irving J. Cantrall

The Great Lakes Entomologist

Excerpt: During July and August, 1954 the late Robert R. Dreisbach of Midland, Michigan, devoted several weeks to the collection of insects in Texas and Mexico. Dreisbach was an extremely active and indefatigable person. His collecting efforts were not limited to the accumulation of materials of immediate interest to him, and he assembled large numbers of many species of insects. He maintained a general collection and, from time to time, sent portions of it to various specialists for determination. Numerous new species have been described from this material. In identifying the Orthoptera, I noted several discrepancies in the date-locality data …

Geron Calvus (Diptera: Bombyliidae), A Parasite Of Solenobia Walshella (Lepidoptera: Psychidae) In Michigan, Julian P. Donahue

The Great Lakes Entomologist

Excerpt: Very little is known of the biology of bee-flies in the genus Geron; the few available records show that the larvae are parasitic on Lepidoptera larvae. Mik (1896) noted that Geron gibbosus Meigen had been reared from larvae of the pyralid Nephopteryx sublineatella Strg. and the psychid Fumaria crassiorella (Bruand) in Europe, while Maxwell-Lefroy and Howlett (1909) recorded the tortricid Laspeyresia jaculutrix Meyrick as a host of Geron argentifrons Bru. in India. The present paper appears to be the first report on the biology of any North American Geron.

Mobility In A Wyoming Population Of Speyeria Atlantis As Determined By Tagging (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae), Arthur H. Moeck

The Great Lakes Entomologist

Excerpt: In my study of Speyeria distribution (Moeck, 1957; Grey & Moeck, 1962; Grey, Moeck & Evans, 1963) it was found desirable to determine the degree of mobility of the individuals in a population of Speyeria atlantis (Edwards). For this study I selected an isolated population of atlantis along a tributary of Horse Creek on the eastern slope of the South Laramie Range, some 17 or 18 miles northwest of Laramie. The specimens along this tributary were dark and well silvered, closely approaching the typical "appalachian" form in the Black Hills. This colony, furthermore, was the only population of atlantis …

Laboratory Rearing Of Phalangium Opilio (Arachnida: Opiliones), George E. Klee, James W. Butcher

The Great Lakes Entomologist

While a good deal of work has been reported on the natural history and ecology of the opiliones in Europe and England (Bristowe, 1949; Sankey, 1949; Todd, 1949; Phillipson, 1959; Savory, 1964; Juberthie, 1965), this important group has received little attention in North America. Bishop (1949) published a concise synopsis of reactions and general habits of the opiliones of New York and, in a Ph. D. dissertation, Edgar (1960) described the biology of the order in Michigan.

Current studies at Michigan State University on the effects of insecticides on non-target organisms have revealed an acute lack of biological information on …

The Synonmy Of Diargia And Hyponeura With The Genus Argia (Odonata: Coenargrionidae: Argiinae), Leonora K. Gloyd

The Great Lakes Entomologist

The generic distinctness of Diargia and Hyponeura has long been questioned but, because venational characters have largely formed the basis of classification of the higher taxa in the Odonata, authors have been reluctant to admit exceptions and to act contrariwise. The evidence given below leaves little or no doubt that venational differences are not adequate to separate the species of these genera from those of Argia. Diargia is represented by the dwarf bicellulata Calvert, and Hyponeura by two species, the giant type species funckii Selys and the slightly smaller lugens (Hagen).

First Records Of The White People Shoot Border, Eucosma Gloriola (Lepidoptera: Olethreutidae) In Michigan, John H. Newman

The Great Lakes Entomologist

Excerpt: During late June and early July, 1965, it was apparent that plantations of Scotch and Austrian pines in various Michigan counties were being damaged by lepidopterous larvae mining in the pith of newly developed lateral and terminal branches. Infested samples were examined by Dr. William Wallner, Department of Entomology, Michigan State University, and an attempt was made to rear the extracted larvae. Although as many as two larvae were present in some of the shoots, none survived and no adult moths were secured. A series of larvae was preserved for future study.

Insects. Ross E. Hutchins. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice- Hall, Inc., 1966. Xii, 324 Pp. $6.95., Julian P. Donahue

The Great Lakes Entomologist

Excerpt: Contemporary entomological writing usually falls into one of two categories: general "picture-books" designed. for youngsters, and learned monographs and specialized publications that are generally unavailable and incomprehensible to the layman. Insects fills this gap, and interprets modern findings for the advanced amateur, the adult lay public, and even offers insights into aspects of entomology that a professional entomologist, devoted as he is to a specialized field, will find to be new and interesting.

Newsletter Of The Association Of Minnesota Entomologists. Edi Ted By John H. Ma S T E R S . Vol. 1, No. 1. [~Ctober?1]9 66; No. 2 , Not Received; No. 3, Feb. 1967; No. 4, Aug. 1967. Free To Members Of The A.M.E., Who Pay $2.75 A Y E A R F O R Active And $1.75 For Corresponding Memberships, Which Are Open To All By Contacting John T. Sorensen, 5309 37th Avenue South, Minneapolis, Minn. 55417., Ronald S. Wilkinson

The Great Lakes Entomologist

Excerpt: Our brothers in Minnesota have long taken advantage of this good fortune, but only recently has a newsletter appeared to document their activities. It is a folded 24-page silk-screen mimeograph production with heavy stock covers. The inexpensive for math as the usual drawback of muddy type, but a definite improvement can be seen through the course of publication, due to the utilization of better materials. The newsletter accepts contributions "on any aspect of entomology in any part of the world," but "priority in publication will be given to papers of the North Central Region and to papers by members …

The Web Of The Spider. Laura Barr Lougee. Bloomfield Hills, Michigan: Cranbrook Institute Of Science, 1964. 44 Pp. $3.50., Leslie C. Drew

The Great Lakes Entomologist

Excerpt: It is a relief to find such a straightforward and objective work as Lougee's The Web of the Spider. Her brief but lucid descriptions of spider anatomy, silk production and web construction will induce appreciation and observation of these much-maligned animals.

Wild Flowers Of The United States: Volume 1, The North-Eastern States (In Two Parts). Harold William Rickett. New York: Mcgraw-Hill Book Company, 1966. X, 559 Pp. $39.50., Julian P. Donahue

The Great Lakes Entomologist

Excerpt: Many entomologists are faced with the problem of identifying a plant that an insect has been gathering nectar from, feeding on, or pollinating. Unless he is armed with a working knowledge of botany, and can handle the cumbersome keys in our modern floras, h e must resort to a specialist or a picture book.

Some Relative Humidity Reactions Of The Wood-Louse, Cylisticus Convexus (Isopoda: Porcellionidae) In An Olfactometer, Louis F. Wilson

The Great Lakes Entomologist

Generally, wood-lice are confined to habitats where the saturation deficit is low and damp surfaces are available. Cylisticus convexus (De Geer) is one of many species that are found in a relatively wet habitat (Edney, 1954). Allee (1926) was the first to report on some moisture reactions of C. convexus. When he supplied them with dry filter paper, they aggregated strongly to reduce water loss. When he supplied them with very dry paper in a dry atmosphere, the isopods all moved about frantically until they died. Those placed on moist filter paper, however, moved about slowly and remained apart--reacting …

A New Record Of Scaphytopius Magdalensis: Another Plant Disease Vector In Michigan (Homoptera: Cicadellidae), Oscar Taboada, Thomas L. Burger

The Great Lakes Entomologist

Excerpt: Several specimens of Scaphytopius magdalensis (Provancher) were collected by Burger (1966), and brought to the attention of the senior author for verification. This leafhopper, a vector of Blueberry Stunt, is widely distributed in the eastern United States, and southern Ontario and Quebec. This, the first record of a leafhopper virus vector for blueberries in Michigan, increases the list of leafhopper vectors of plant diseases in the state , given in Taboada and Hoffman (1965). to 14.

Grasshoppers Feeding On Red Pine Trees In Michigan (Orthoptera: Acrididae), J. E. Mcpherson, Louis F. Wilson

The Great Lakes Entomologist

Very few North American grasshoppers are true feeders on conifers. The several species of the punctulatus species-group of the genus Melanoplus, as summarized and revised by Rehn (1946), have been reported as occurring on pine, juniper, and cedar, but few reports of actual feeding on conifers have appeared in the literature. Because of this paucity of information regarding the use of conifers as food for grasshoppers, we summarize here observations of several kinds of grasshoppers feeding on red pine (Pinus resinosa Aiton) in 1966 in Michigan.

Seven Species Of Michigan Butterflies Attracted To Fluorescent Light, Ronald Sterne Wilkinson

The Great Lakes Entomologist

Excerpt: Many lepidopterists agree that if mechanically disturbed, butterflies may be attracted to fluorescent light. Yet the entire problem of the attraction of day-flying Lepidoptera to light i s still in the data-collecting stage, and records indicate that mechanical disturbance may not always be a determining factor. Numerous papers on the problem have appeared in recent years, especially in the J.Lepid. Soc., which may be consulted for bibliographical details not attempted in this collection note.

Distribution, Abundance, And Some Habits Of Larvae Of Cicindela Hirticollis (Coleoptera: Cicindelidae) On A Lake Michigan Beach, Louis F. Wilson

The Great Lakes Entomologist

In August 1965, numerous burrows of tiger beetle larvae were found on a short expanse of beach along the shore of Lake Michigan in Emmet Co., Mich. Several adults associated with the larvae were captured and identified as Cicindela hirticollis Say. Blanchard (1921) collected C. hirticollis a few miles south of this area in 1917, and reported he had not found it in the interior of either Emmet or Cheboygan counties. In an extensive survey of Michigan Cicindelidae, Graves (1963) found C. hirticollis to be restricted to the sandy shores of three of the Great Lakes. Apparently this insect is …

An Annotated List Of The Collembola (Springtails) Of Michigan, Richard J. Snider

The Great Lakes Entomologist

Excerpt: When work began on the Michigan Collembolain 1959, the Entomology Museum at Michigan State University included only one specimen of the order in its catalog of insects. The University of Michigan had a few vials of specimens determined by Harlow B. Mills, and a modest number was in the Robert R. Dreisbach collection at Midland, Michigan.

At the beginning of my investigation very little was known about the order in Michigan, although monographs had been written on the collembolan faunae of the nearby s t a t e s of Minnesota (Guthrie, 1903), Iowa (Mills, 1934) and New York …

Trap-Nesting Wasps And Bees: Life Histories, Nests, And Associates. Karl V. Krombein. Washington, D.C.: The Smithsonian Institution, 1957. Smithsonian Publ. 4670. Vi, 570 Pp. $12.50., Howard E. Evans

The Great Lakes Entomologist

Excerpt: The technique of "trap-nesting" for wasps and bees by putting out strips of wood having a hole bored in one end is not exactly new, but only within the last 15 years has it been widely employed in this country. This new book by Karl V. Krombein, chairman of the Department of Entomology at the U.S. National Museum, reveals how enormously productive the technique can be. It is, of course, useful only for species that normally nest in hollow twigs. Species that bore in pith (such as many crabronine wasps) do not usually accept the traps , nor do …

Observations On The Interrelationships Among Ants, Aphids, And Aphid Predators, Beverly Rathcke, Charles L. Hamrum, Arthur W. Glass

The Great Lakes Entomologist

Excerpt: The literature concerning the interactions of these insect groups is as interesting as it is extensive. It has generally been accepted that the relationship between ants and aphids has been one of mutualism in which ants derive all or a large part of their nutrients from aphid honeydew and perform special functions in return, primarily that of protecting aphids from their enemies. Every aspect of these associations has been covered by the excellent reviews of Nixon (1951) and Way (1963). It now appears that the nature and effectiveness of the protective value afforded the attended aphids by ants cannot …

Odonata Collected With A Mist Net In Baraga County, Michigan, Including A New Record For The Upper Peninsula, Norman F. Sloan

The Great Lakes Entomologist

Excerpt: In the summer of 1966, a study of the interrelation of birds and forest insects was initiated at Michigan Technological University. Japanese mist nets were used, among other methods, to make population estimates of birds. When checking the nets for trapped birds , Odonata were often found in the pockets, We were thus able to compile a list of Odonata frequenting the shores of Little Lake, Baraga County, Michigan. The "lake," actually a small stagnant basin of water not exceeding a foot in depth in dry years, is located on the Baraga Plains, approximately five miles west of Michigan …

The Hymenopterous Parasites Agathis Pumila (Braconidae) And Epilampsis Laricinellae (Eulophidae) On The Larch Casebearer (Lepidoptera: Coleophoridae) In The Northern Lake States, Jack B. Cody, Fred B. Knight, Samuel A. Graham

The Great Lakes Entomologist

Excerpt: The larch casebearer Coleophora laricella (Hübner) is a defoliator of larch (Larix spp.). The insect was introduced into North America from Europe at some time prior to 1886, and since has spread steadily westward. It was causing heavy defoliation by the early 1920's near Ann Arbor in southern Michigan and was recorded in northeast Wisconsin in 1939, at Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario in 1942, and Port Arthur, Ontario in 1947.

Many native parasites attack the case bearer but seem to effect little control. Parasites were imported from Europe beginning in 1928, but the first attempts to establish them …

New Distribution Records Of Michigan Mosquitoes, 1948-1963, Carl B. Obrecht

The Great Lakes Entomologist

Excerpt: The following records result from data accumulated from the years 1948-63. A total of more than 175 field samples, usually from different locations, have been taken from 27 counties in the upper and lower peninsulas of Michigan. The total of 2,199 specimens includes 241 larvae, 452 adult males, and 1506 adult females.

The Northern Widow Spider, Latrodectus Variolus (Araneae: Theridiiae), In Michigan, Louis F. Wilson

The Great Lakes Entomologist

Until recently the species of widow spider occurring in Michigan was considered a variant of the black widow, Latrodectus mactans (Fabricius). Levi (1959) summarized and revised the worldwide genus Latrodectus, placing the southern areas of Illinois, Indiana, and Iowa as the northern limit of mactans on the North American continent. Widow spiders located north of this became part of the widespread curacaviensis group. After further information was available, McCrone and Levi (1964) revised the curacaviensis group, establishing the species that extended north of mactans as the northern widow, L. variolus, originally described by Walckenaer (183v).

L. variolus is the most …

Cross-Resistance And Synergism Bioassays Suggest Multiple Mechanisms Of Pyrethroid Resistance In Western Corn Rootworm Populations, Adriano E. Pereira, Dariane Souza, Sarah N. Zukoff, Lance J. Meinke, Blair D. Siegfried

Department of Entomology: Faculty Publications

Recently, resistance to the pyrethroid bifenthrin was detected and confirmed in field populations of western corn rootworm, Diabrotica virgifera virgifera LeConte from southwestern areas of Nebraska and Kansas. As a first step to understand potential mechanisms of resistance, the objectives of this study were i) to assess adult mortality at diagnostic concentration- LC99 to the pyrethroids bifenthrin and tefluthrin as well as DDT, ii) estimate adult and larval susceptibility to the same compounds as well as the organophosphate methyl-parathion, and iii) perform synergism experiments with piperonyl butoxide (PBO) (P450 inhibitor) and S,S,S-tributyl-phosphorotrithioate (DEF) (esterase inhibitor) in field populations. Most of …

Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited. Vladimir Nabokov. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1966. 316 Pp. $6.75., Ronald S. Wilkinson

The Great Lakes Entomologist

Excerpt: Presumably, many of Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov's readers do not know that he is a distinguished entomologist; one can search through the majority of his numerous novels, short stories, translations and critical works without discovering the fact. On the other hand, there may be an entomologist somewhere who does not know that Nabokov of the Lycaenidae is also the author of Lolita, Pnin, and Nabokov's Dozen. To those in both categories, and to those who already know how successfully Nabokov has bridged the Two Cultures, we recommend Speak, Memory.

This enlarged and revised version of Nabokov's autobiography …

A Method Of Collecting Catocala Minuta (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) And Related Species, Joseph Muller

The Great Lakes Entomologist

Excerpt: During the last twelve years I have 'sugared' extensively in areas where large honey locusts (Gleditsia triacanthos L.) are abundant. Although the various forms of Catocala innubens Guenee and Stvenoloma lunilinea (Grote) have appeared in my bait traps, Catocah rninuta Edwards has been absent. [C. minuta is taken on Gleditsia in southern Michigan by using a mixture of molasses, brown sugar, beer and,rum-- Ed.] There is, however, amethodof collecting the pupae of C. minuta that I have employed with excellent results.

Réaumur's Insect Collecting Net Of 1736, Ronald S. Wilkinson

The Great Lakes Entomologist

Excerpt: In several recent papers (Wilkinson, 1966a, 1966b, 1966c, 1967), I have discussed the interesting origins of modern collecting nets. Actual illustrations of nets are very rarely found in entomological literature before the 1750s, and we are extremely lucky to have in Réaumur's classic Mémoires pour servir á l'histoire des insectes (Paris, 1734-42), a very early depiction of one of the ancestors of our present bag-net, with an explanation of its construction.

René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur (1683-1757) is probably best known for his thermometer, still used in some countries. A prominent member of the Académie des Sciences, …