Past Meetings to be completed

2006-2007

• #1097 Tuesday, October 10th, 2006Caddisflies of the St. Lawrence River: Fall and Rise of the Great SwarmsD. Bruce Conn, Berry College
• #1098 Tuesday, November 14th, 2006Ecology and evolution of endemic Galapagos birds and their ectoparasites: A model for studying parasite diversificationDr. Noah K. Whiteman, Harvard University
• #1099 Tuesday, December 12th, 2006Natal Habitat Use by Dragonflies Along an Urbanization Gradient in
  Rhode Island

  Maria Aliberti, University of Rhode Island

• #1100 Tuesday, February 13th, 2007The intertwined populaton biology of symbiotic
  ants and plants in the Amazon

  Megan Frederickson, Harvard University

• #1101 Tuesday, March 13th, 2007Astonishing Army Ants:
  The Most Important Predators in Neotropical Forests
  (DVD showing)

  Carl Rettenmeyer, University of Connecticut

• #1102 Tuesday, April 10th, 2007Managing vector-borne diseases so as to minimize effects on
  nontarget insects

  Dr. Howie Ginsberg, USGS Patuxent Wildlife Research Center
  and
  URI Dept. of Plant Science and Entomology

• #1103 Tuesday, May 8th, 2007The Behavior of Leaf-Eating CaterpillarsBernd Heinrich

2005-2006

• #1090 Tuesday, October 11th, 2005Boston Harbor Islands All Taxa Biotic InventoryJessica Rykken, Harvard University
• #1091 Tuesday, November 8th, 2005The Smaller MajorityPiotr Naskrecki, Conservation International
• #1092 Tuesday, December 13th, 2005Giant Lacewings of the EoceneBruce Archibald, Harvard University
• #1093 Tuesday, February 14th, 2006Patterns of Herbivory in a Seasonal Old World Tropical ForestDavid Lohman, Harvard University
• #1094 Tuesday, March 14th, 2006Recognition systems: kin and communication, mates and mobile homesPhilip T. B. Starks, Tufts Univerity
• #1095 Tuesday, April 11th, 2006Dino Martins, Harvard University
• #1096 Tuesday, May 9th, 2006Sebastián Vélez, Harvard University

2004-2005

• #1082, 12 October 2004Electronic Field Guides: Tools for ConservationRobert Stevenson and Fred SaintOurs, U. Mass. Boston
• #1083, 9 November 2004Evolutionary Ecology of the Crematogaster –
  Macaranga – Coccid Symbiosis
  and an Ant’s-Eye View to Southeast Asian Rain Forest
  History
  Swee Peck Quek , Harvard University
• #1084, 14 December 2004Phelypera distigma: Adventures studying sociality in the
  world’s oddest weevil

  Jim DaCosta

• #1085, 11 January 2005
  Landscape Ecology of Lyme Disease

  John Brownstein, Yale University

• #1086, 8 February 2005Cognitive dissonance at the species boundary: A
  reductionist’s view of hybridization and differentiation in
  butterflies

  Adam Porter, U. Mass. Amherst

• #1087, 8 March 2005
  Why are there so many insects in the Caribbean?

  Sebastián Vélez, Harvard University

• #1088, 12 April 2005Infection Control in Group-living Animals:
  Insects as Model Systems in Socioecoimmunology

  James Traniello,
  Boston University

• #1089, 10 May 2005
  Scramble competition and sexual
  selection in the crab spider, Misumena vatia

  Douglass Morse, Brown University

2003-2004

• #1075, 14 October 2003
  Dracula Ant Relations and Implications for Systematics

  Corrie Saux

• #1076, 11 November 2003The Evolutionary Effects of Specialization:
  Does specialization reduce effective population sizes in Crossidius
  species (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae)?

  Chris Elzinga

• #1077, 9 December 2003
  Little Known Fauna of West African Orthoptera

  Piotr Naskrecki

• #1078, 13 January 2004Ant Taxonomy in the 21st CenturyStefan P. Cover
• #1079, 9 March 2004
  Whale Lice: Looking at the phylogenetic and population-genetic
  relationships of right-whale cyamids to learn about the
  histories and behaviors of right whales

  Zofia Ada Kaliszewska

• #1080, 13 April 2004Does karyotype diversification drive speciation in the genus
  Agrodiaetus (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae)?

  Nikolai Kandul

• #1081, 11 May 2004
  The Ant Genus Acropyga and the Evolution of Trophophoresy

  John LaPolla

2002-2003

• #1074, 13 May 2003
  The Songs of the Lacewings: Their Role in Species
  Origins

  Dr. Marta Wells, University of Connecticut and Yale University

  Also: Election of officers for 2003-2004

• #1073, 8 April 2003The Contribution of Biological Assessment (especially of
  insects) to Biodiversity Conservation

  Leeanne E. Alonso, Ph.D.

  Director, Rapid Assessment Program, Conservation International

• #1072, 11 March 2003Insects from 50 million years ago in western North America:
  strange . . .yet . . .oddly familiar . . .

  Bruce Archibald, Harvard University

• #1071, 11 February 2003The Role of Cuticular Pheromones in
  Mediating Ant-Butterfly Symbioses:
  A Comparison of Herbivorous Australian Theclinae and
  Carnivorous Thai Miletinae

  David Lohman, Harvard University

• #1070, 14 January 2003
  Can Insects Save Chimpanzees?

  A Biotic Rapid Assessment Survey in Guinea

  Piotr Naskrecki, Harvard University

• #1069, 10 November 2002ON VHS:
  The 987th Cambridge Entomological Club Meeting:
  A 90th Birthday Salute to Frank M. Carpenter,
  with guest lecture by Edward O. Wilson
• #1068, 8 October 2002Ant-termite Interactions in MadagascarDr. Gary Alpert,
  Harvard University

2001-2002

• #1067, 14 May 2002From simple to complex and back again: The evolution of cricket
  songs

  Dr. Daniel Otte,
  Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia

• #1066, 9 April 2002Insects, Taxonomy, and the All Species InitiativeE. O. Wilson, Harvard University
• #1065, 12 March 2002
  Tripping the Light Fantastic –
  different approaches to insect photography

  Joe Warfel and Piotr Naskrecki

• #1064, 12 February 2002Has Pleistocene Climate Change Driven the Differentiation of the
  Flightless Longhorn Cactus Beetle Moneilema appressum (Coleoptera:
  Cerambycidae)?

  Christopher Smith, Harvard University

• #1063, 15 January 2002Conserving Tropical Insect Communities at the Landscape Scale:
  The Promise of Vegetation Classifications and Remote Sensing
  Technology for Predicting the distribution of Insect
  Communities

  Dr. Sacha Spector,
  American Museum of Natural History, New York

• #1062, 11 December 2001
  The Mating Behavior of Dwarf Spiders
  (Family Linyphiidae)

  Dr. Robert Edwards, Ph.D.

• #1061, 13 November 2001Biogeography and Molecular Characters Used to Distinguish between
  Ancient and Recent Associations of Bark Beetles (Coleoptera:
  Curculionidae: Scolytinae) with Their Host Plants

  Andrea Sequeira, Harvard University

• #1060, 9 October 2001Phylogeny and Convergent Evolution in Crickets and other
  Ensifera

  Manda Clair Jost, Harvard University

2000-2001

• #1059, 8 May 2001Burying Beetle Natural History, Conservation, and
  Evolution (Coleoptera: Silphidae: Nicrophorus)

  Derek Sikes, University of Connecticut

• #1058, 10 April 2001Vector-Borne Disease in a Changing New England
  Landscape
  Prof. Andrew Spielman, Harvard University School of Public
  Health
• #1057, 13 March 2001The Australian Butterfly Fauna: Its
  Characteristics, Origin, Evolution and Larval Food Plant
  Associations

  Michael Braby, visiting scholar at the Pierce Laboratory

• #1056, 13 February 2001A Plethora of Insect Eggs
  (plus assorted other entomological images)
  Dan Perlman
• #1055, 9 January 2001The Evolution of Silence – Multiple Origins and Losses of
  Stridulation in Katydids

  Piotr Naskrecki, Ph.D., Museum of Comparative
  Zoology, Harvard University

• #1054, 12 December 2000
  Entomological Fun – Without a Ph.D.

  Mike Huben

• #1053, 14 November 2000Life History Evolution in the Lycaenidae: Cradle-robbing,
  Meat-eating, Ant-loving Butterflies

  Professor Naomi E. Pierce, Museum of Comparative Zoology,
  Harvard University

• #1052, 10 October 2001
  Allochronic Speciation andReproductive Character Displacement in
  Periodical Cicadas (Magicicada spp.)

  Dr. John Cooley, University of Connecticut, Storrs

1999-2000

• #1051, 9 May 2000
  Developing a long-term inventory of the
  insects of Haystack Mountain by the Cambridge Entomological Club

  Geoff Morse
  

• #1050, 11 April 2000Polygyny in Paradise: The Invasion of Argentine Ants in
  Hawaii

  Krista Ingram, Harvard University

• #1049, 14 March 2000
  The Endemic Cave Crickets Of Madagascar

  Manda Jost, Harvard University

• etc
  

1998-1999

See file

1997-1998

• No minutes for October-March on file. Secretary: Jennifer Mills
• #1034, 14 April 1998Vignettes of AustraliaJay Shetterly and Andre Mignault
• #1035, 12 May 1998
  Why, How, and Where Insects Eat What They Eat

  Geoff Morse

1996-1997

No minutes on file. Secretary: Gary Alpert

1995-1996

Minutes provided by Mike Huben — thank you!

• #1018, 12 March 1996
  Evolution and ecology of host affiliation in hummingbird flower
  mites

  Dr. Robert Colwell, University of Connecticut

• #1017, 13 February 1996
  Diversification at the insect-plant interface

  Dr. Brian Farrell, Harvard University

• #1016, 12 December 1995
  Industrial Melanism In Moths: Reassessing The Evidence

  Dr. Theodore Sargent, University of Massachussetts

• #1015, November 1995
  Evolution and community structure in damselflies

  Mark McPeek, Dartmouth University

• #1014, 10 October 1995
  Insect Macrophotography workshop

  Dave Wagner, Mark Moffett, Carl Rettenmeyer, and Mike Thomas

1994-1995

Minutes provided by Mike Huben — thank you!

• #1013, 9 May 1995Stories From Afield: Rambles of a Tropical EntomologistMark Moffett, Harvard University
• #1012, 11 April 1995
  What’s New at the Insect Zoo

  Nathan Erwin, Smithsonian Institution

• #1011, 14 March 1995Invertebrate Conservation and Faunal Change on a New
  England Island: The Moths of Martha’s Vineyard

  Paul Goldstein, University of Connecticut

• #1010, 14 February 1995
  Dialogues On The Phylogeny Of The Insect Orders

  Jim Carpenter and Ward Wheeler, American Museum of Natural History

• #1009, 10 January 1995A Tent Caterpillar Primer: Ecology,
  Evolution, and Social Biology of Malacosoma Species.

  Jim Costa, MCZ, Harvard University

• #1008, 13 December 1994
  Conflict and Cooperation among Burying Beetles

  Michelle Scott, University of New Hampshire

• #1007, November 1994The Natural History and
  Phylogeny of Fungus-Growing Ants and their Fungi

  Ted Schultz, Cornell University

• #1006, 11 October 1994
  Survival Tips For The Very Hungry Caterpillar:
  Natural History, Predation, and Evolution

  Dr. David Wagner, University of Connecticut

1993-1994

[Information transcribed from Psyche 101(1-2)]

#998: James Liebherr

#999: Rob DeSalle

#1000: Bert Holldobler

#1001: Phil DeVries

#1002: Rob Stevenson

#1003: Linda Rayor

#1004: Wendy Mechaber

#1005, 10 May 1994: Gabriela Chiavarria

1992-1993

[Information transcribed from Psyche 100(1-2)]

Gary Alpert

Carl Rettenmeyer

Ring Carde

Quentin Wheeler

Rich Pollack

Lou Roth

William L. Krinsky

James LLoyd

1991-1992

[Information transcribed from Psyche 99(4)]

Charles Remington

Thomas Eisner

Edward Wilson

Charles Henry

Floyd Werner

William Brown

Guy Bush

Stewart Peck