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Time is running out!
Register NOW for the Minor Order Blitz at Acadia National Park, August 7-10 (More information may be found below.) Advance registration deadline is July 10th! Download a registration form (pdf) by clicking here.
Click HERE to read about and check out the videos made on LAST year's Hemiptera (true bug) blitz! |
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The Maine Entomological Society was established by a group of insect and arachnid enthusiasts in 1997, and now has a total membership of approximately 140 individuals and groups. The Maine Entomologist, our quarterly newsletter, usually consists of 8-10 pages of Society news and entomological information. The annual meeting is held each fall, and we usually have a mid-winter workshop . Additional get-togethers and collecting trips are scheduled monthly when possible during the late spring, summer, and early fall. All these are announced in advance both here and in the newsletter.
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![]() is caught in mid-flight as it comes to a rose in Chuck Peters' garden in New Gloucester May, 2007 (Chuck Peters photo) |
which feeds on water lilies. (length: 10-12 mm) (Chuck Peters photo) |
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![]() gather around during a collecting trip in the 2000 season in coastal Maine. Photo by Laura Lubelczyk. (Click on the image for an enlargement!) |
(Photo by Charlene Donahue) |
The workshop has almost become the watershed winter event for some people - making us ALL wish for a rapid approach of spring. Thanks again, Don!
Saturday, 23 May, 2009 - Wells National Estuarine Research Reserve at Laudholm Farm (York County).
Numerous M.E.S. members took advantage of a very special opportunity to visit a salt marsh environment and experience the unique insect fauna of this habitat. We also had a chance to see nesting areas of several species of fossorial wasps. Fields and wooded areas are also present at the reserve, and allowed for a variety of collecting possibilities.
Thanks to the Woos (Domenica, Brandon and Sonny) for organizing a marvelous day in the field!
Saturday, 20 June, 2009 - Rangeley Area (Franklin County). Unfortunately, unforeseen circumstances beyond our control have intervened, and this field day must be CANCELLED.
Saturday, 18 July, 2009 - Smithfield (Kennebec County). [Previously planned for Augusta.] Our third M.E.S. field day of the season. The Maine Forest Service will be hosting a field day on Saturday, July 18 in Smithfield. We will meet at 10 a.m. at the gravel pit just south of town on Route 8/137 (just ask Dave and Dana how good the collecting is in a gravel pit). In addition to collecting, those who come will be able to participate in a hands-on demonstration of biosurveillance with Cerceris fumipennis, the wasp that hunts emerald ash borer.
If you are coming from I95, take exit 127 west. Follow Rte 137 until it intersects with Rte 8. Then follow 8/137 north for about 3 miles until you see a gravel pit on each side of the road. If you reach the village, you've gone just a few yards too far. See you there.
7-10 August, 2009 - Seventh Annual A.N.P./M.E.S. BioBlitz, Schoodic Point, Acadia National Park (Hancock County). The focus this year (as noted in the Winter Workshop notice above) will be on minor orders - many of which are represented by but a handful of Maine species. Collembola and Orthoptera are the most diverse, but Thysanura, Diplura, Strepsiptera, Dermaptera, and others may be found by close observation and diligent searching. Many Orthoptera will be out as mature adults at this time of year, enhancing the potential for major collecting success. See the May issue of The Maine Entomologist for more specific information.
12 September, 2009 - Annual Meeting, Clinton (Kennebec County). Bob and Nettie Nelson will be hosting the Annual Meeting at Rock Ridge on the Battle Ridge Road in Clinton.
16 September, 2009 - Bug Maine-ia at the Maine State Museum, 230 State Street, Augusta, from 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. No admission or program charge for school groups!
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Charlene Donahue |
Maine Forest Service
Insect and Disease Laboratory |
Location address:
50 Hospital Street Augusta, Maine |
Mailing address:
168 State House Station Augusta, ME 04333-0168 |
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E-mail address: Charlene.Donahue@maine.gov Telephone: 207-287-3244 |
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Karen Hopkins |
21 Division Street
Apt. 2 |
Bangor, ME 04401 |
e-mail:
mothy_77@yahoo.com |
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(Mr.) Dana Michaud | 3 Halde Street | Waterville, ME 04901 |
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Bob Nelson |
Dept. of Geology
Colby College 5804 Mayflower Hill |
Waterville, ME 04901-8858 |
e-mail:
BeetleBob2003@yahoo.com |
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Executive Committee |
Brandon Woo | . | . |
e-mail:
dvacca6@roadrunner.com |
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Executive Committee |
David Bourque | 323 Augusta Road | Winslow, ME 04901 |
e-mail:
djbourq@adelphia.net |
Maine
Entomological Society Constitution
Maine Entomological
Society
Bylaws
Maine Ticks (from the Maine Medical Center Research Institute)
Maine Forest Service Insect Collection Home Page
Maine Insect and Disease Fact Sheets
Maine Dragonfly and Damselfly
Survey
Odonata of Maine (from the U. S. D. A.)
Mayflies of Maine
Stoneflies of Maine
Butterflies of Maine
Maine Butterfly Survey Web Site
Maine Butterfly Checklist - 2005 [html]
Maine Butterfly Checklist - 2005 [in Microsoft Word]
Moths of Maine
Caterpillars of Eastern Forests
Mosquitoes of Maine
Table of mosquito species in Maine
The Maine Carabid
Project (A cooperative project sponsored by the Maine Forest Service.)
Maine Carabid photo pages
Tiger Beetles of Maine
Insect Home Page at the Tree of Life web site, University of Arizona
Arachnid Home Page at the Tree of Life web site, University of Arizona
Collecting
and Preserving Insects and Mites
Adobe Acrobat
Reader, FREE software for reading PDF files. (Needed to download and print the USDA guide, above, though not needed to browse it on-line.)
Research Guide to Entomology at the Fogler Library, University of Maine
Maine Nature News
Delta Institute of Natural History, Bowdoin, Maine
Humboldt Field Research Institute, Steuben, Maine
Publications on
Insects from the Maine Agricultural and Forest Experiment
Station
Acadian Entomological Society
American Entomological Society Home
Page
Entomological Society of Canada Home
Page
Canadian National Collection of
Insects, Arachnids and Nematodes
Vermont Entomological
Society
Entomology Sources on the World-Wide Web
Young
Entomologists Society
Other Entomological Societies - via the Association for Tropical Lepidoptera