GRADUATE ASSISTANTSHIP AVAILABLE IN ENTOMOLOGY AND PLANT PATHOLOGY AT
AUBURN UNIVERSITY
Development and field testing of a SMART trap for improved management
of Xylosandrus ambrosia beetles in horticulture production nurseries
PROJECT DESCRIPTION: This proposed standard research and extension
project takes a transdisciplinary and multistate approach to develop a
SMART trap as the cornerstone of a more environmentally-sound IPM
program for ambrosia beetles in commercial nurseries. Xylosandrus
ambrosia beetles are aggressive pests of woody plants and most attacks
on woody plants in production are fatal. Current monitoring tactics
aren’t specific enough to provide producers with timely, accurate
information to make management decisions. Therefore, insecticides are
over applied with negligible impact on damage and losses. This project
will investigate olfactory and visual cues used by ambrosia beetles to
locate hosts. These cues will be incorporated into a prototype trap,
which will be field tested and compared to conventional trap performance
in nurseries. Once beetles are trapped, sensors will identify the
species present based on wingbeat frequencies and determine the species
and abundance of fungal symbionts. The extension component is an
evolving program of education, research dissemination, and
demonstrations where growers can interact directly with the researchers
and participate in the project. Annually, programs will be presented
that include biological information and updates of on-going research.
In the final two years, on-site demonstrations and field days will
enable growers to participate in the project.
EFFECTIVE DATE: January 2011
QUALIFICATIONS: The successful candidate must have an M.S. in
Entomology or related field. Experience with ambrosia beetle behavior,
ecology, or taxonomy is preferred. Interested students must apply to
the Auburn University Graduate School and meet the minimum requirements
of the department. Demonstration of independent and creative scholarly
activity, publications, and presentations are preferred. In-state and
out-of-state travel will be required for this project so a valid
driver’s license is necessary. Proper visa requirements must be
met.
COMPENSATION: The successful candidate will receive an annual stipend
funded for three years (and possibly a fourth if necessary) through the
funded project based on availability of funding and satisfactory
performance. Currently, there is a tuition waiver for qualifying
students. This is subject to change during the project. If so, the
successful candidate, not the department, will be responsible for
tuition charges.
QUESTIONS: Interested persons should contact Dr. David W. Held via
telephone (334-844-3818) or e-mail (david.held(a)auburn.edu) AA/EEO
Announcement attached.
Greetings Forest Entomology Colleagues,
The 2011 North American Forest Insect Work Conference will be held May 9-12,
2011 in Portland, Oregon. Proposals for workshops should be submitted by
November 15, 2010. Please see submission directions in the attached call
for workshop proposals, presentations, and poster submissions. Also, please
see the NAIFWC website: http://kelab.tamu.edu/nafiwc2011/
I hope to see you in Portland next May!
Cheers,
Dan Herms
Professor and Associate Chairperson
Department of Entomology
Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center
The Ohio State University
1680 Madison Ave.
Wooster, OH 44691
Phone: 330-202-3506
Cell: 330-749-5453
Fax: 330-263-3686
email: herms.2(a)osu.edu
Dear Fellow Colleagues,
Back in 1997, with the support of the USFS, ISA, and Virginia Tech,
my group initiated a project to:
1. Identify previously published sampling procedures used for forest
pest management decision-making and assessments (not
research-specific procedures); and
2. Summarize and present the procedures in an organized and
easy-to-follow format.
This was initially accomplished with the publication of "Sampling
Methods for Forest and Shade Tree Insects of North America"
(FHTET-2001-01) and the creation of a companion website (an online
version of the pub). A total of 131 summaries were included here.
At this time I am pleased to announce the publication of "Sampling
Methods for Forest and Shade Tree Insects of North America", Volume 2
(FHTET-2010-03). This effort now includes an additional 121
summaries. Also, the original website has been updated and expanded
to include the summaries from both publications. It can be accessed
at http://www.sampforestpest.ento.vt.edu/. From the website,
individual summaries can be searched for by feeding guild, then by
insect common name, and then by author name. Each summary stands
alone and can be printed out separately.
This is a free publication! The U.S. Forest Service has generously
printed a relatively large number of paper copies of both Volumes.
If you are interested in receiving Vols. 1, 2 or both, please let me
know and I will send them to you. Copies are also available from the
USFS through Dick Reardon (rreardon(a)fs.fed.us) at Morgantown, WV.
We hope you find these summaries useful. Please pass this message on
to those who may benefit from this information but are not be members
of the FORENT listserve. Since I also added the e-mail list from the
SFIWC listing, some of you may receive this message more than once,
including myself.
Regards,
Scott Salom
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Scott M. Salom, Ph.D.
Professor of Forest Entomology
216 Price Hall
Dept. of Entomology phone: 540-231-2794
Virginia Tech fax: 540-231-9131
Blacksburg, VA 24061-0319
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Professional Homepage:
http://web.ento.vt.edu/ento/personalPage.jsp?uuid=814879
Dept. Homepage: http://web.ento.vt.edu/ento
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Dear members of the IUFRO DIVISION 7 (FOREST HEALTH) community
Many (we wish more) of you are with us at the IUFRO World Conference in
Seoul. From our perspective, this is a historic event in bringing together
more scientists working in the field of TREE HEALTH than ever before at a
IUFRO World Congress. The programme is jam packed with technical sessions
dealing with Air Pollution, Climate Change, Insect Pests and Diseases. I
hope that we can do the same OR BETTER at our next World Congress in FOUR
YEARS time.
For those of you who are attending the conference - please try to attend our
business meeting at 18h30 on Friday evening in room E6. Open to everyone
who works in the field of tree health. Sometimes people become confused as
to whether they are part of the IUFRO community. This is easy - if you
attend IUFRO Working Party meetings - you are one of the club. And if you
are at the World Congress and work in the field of Tree Health (Divsion 7),
we would love to have you attend the business meeting and have your views on
building better networks.
Some of you will know that I will step down as Co-ordinator of Division 7 as
of the end of this meeting. Thus, at the Business Meeting, I will be
handing over to Sandy Liebhold and he will introduce the new leaders
(Co-ordinators) of the three Research Groups (7.1-Air Pollution and Climate
Change, 7.2- Pathology and 7.3 - Entomology). These are Andrzej
Bytnerowicz, Jolanda Roux and Ecki Brokerhoff.. in that order. They become
the Deputy Co-ordinators of the Division and also members of the Enlarged
IUFRO Board. I will also have the opportunity to THANK Naoto Kamata,
Jean-Claude Gregoire and Kevin Percy for acting as Division Deputies. Also
to thank Elena Paoletti, Gaston La Flamme and Sandy Liebhold for being a
fantastic source of support during the last five years and for doing a
superb job to build the Division to one of the strongest and most dynamic in
IUFRO.
Particularly for those of you that are not able to attend the meeting, I
have compiled a short report capturing highlights of the past five years and
giving some perspectives as to what lies ahead. I am attaching the report
to this note (it is also at
<http://www.iufro.org/download/file/5821/2798/iufro7__BUSINESS_MEETING_2010.
doc/>
http://www.iufro.org/download/file/5821/2798/iufro7__BUSINESS_MEETING_2010.d
oc/
With very best wishes
Mike Wingfield
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Michael J. Wingfield (Ph.D., FRSAF, ASSAf)
Mondi Professor of Forest Protection
Director, Forestry and Agricultural Biotechnology Institute (FABI);
Tree Protection Co-operative Programme (TPCP) &
DST/NRF Centre of Excellence in Tree Health Biotechnology (CTHB)
University of Pretoria, PRETORIA 0002, South Africa
Phone (office): +27 12 420 3938
Fax (office): +27 12 420 3960
E-mail: <mailto:mike.wingfield@fabi.up.ac.za> mike.wingfield(a)fabi.up.ac.za
WEBSITE: http://www.fabinet.up.ac.za/people/mjwingfield
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Hello Forest Entomology friends,
Many of us are already gathered here at the IUFRO World Congress in
Seoul and others are preparing for upcoming meetings in Eberswalde and
Freiburg in September. But this seems like an appropriate moment to
announce that the 2010 George Varley Award for Excellence in Forest
Insect Research will be given to Dr. Michael McManus of the USA at the
upcoming working party meeting in Eberswalde. We are recognizing
McManus for his many accomplishments over his career, including his
research on forest insect biology but also his work in facilitating
international cooperation, including his work as an IUFRO leader.
Previous recipients of this award were Werner Baltensweiler (2007) and
William Mattson (2009). If you will not have the opportunity to
congratulate Mike at the Eberswalde meeting, you might want to drop
him a note at mmcmanus0121(a)comcast.net .
-Sandy
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Andrew Liebhold http://sandyliebhold.com
Northern Research Station 304-285-1512
USDA Forest Service 304-285-1505 FAX
180 Canfield St. 724-317-8668 mobile
Morgantown, WV 26505 USA
To all concerned:
Having recently retired after 33 years as a professor of forest
protection, I wonder how to put a lifetime of relevant library (forest
entomology, forest pathology, as well as general entomology and
mycology) to good use. Institutions still under development might be
particularly interested in building an appropriate collection of
literature for use by researchers, students or the general public. I
am willing to let this collection go under favorable conditions.
Anyone interested please get in touch.
Hans G. Schabel, PhD
Professor Emeritus
7976 County Trunk I
Custer, WI 54423
USA
hschabel(a)uwsp.edu
See the links below for a great position as a Program Manager for the
Threats Program at the Pacific Northwest Research Station, US Forest
Service
10-2677-0401-0304DP CT REV1
http://jobview.usajobs.gov/GetJob.aspx?JobID=89259956&JobTitle=Supervisory+…
10-2677-0401-0304G CT REV1
http://jobview.usajobs.gov/GetJob.aspx?JobID=89259447&JobTitle=Supervisory+…
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Kier Klepzig
Assistant Director for Research
Southern Research Station, USFS
200 WT Weaver Blvd.
Asheville, NC 28804
(828)257-4307
kklepzig(a)fs.fed.us
TTY 828 259-0503
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Dear Sir/Madam,
The Western North American Naturalist is currently offering their memoirs and monographs to anyone in the United States, free of charge (cost of shipping for international). We believe that you might be interested in the following:
GBN Memoirs #6. The bark and ambrosia beetles of North and Central America (Coleoptera: Scolytidae), a taxonomic monograph (1982)
This monograph describes biological activities, ecological role, biogeography, and classification of bark and ambrosia beetles. It contains drawings and some photographs for species identification; 1359 pages.
GBN Memoirs #10. A reclassification of the genera of Scolytidae (Coleoptera) (1986)
This text reclassifies tribes within the subfamilies Hylesininae and Scolytinae, with photos and drawings to aid identification; 126 pages.
GBN Memoirs #11. A catalog of Scolytidae and Platypodidae (Coleoptera), part 1: bibliography (1987) Companion to #13; 685 pages.
GBN Memoirs #13. A catalog of Scolytidae and Platypodidae (Coleoptera), part 2: taxonomic index (2 volumes) (1992) Companion to #11; 1552 pages.
To view the complete list of memoirs, go to http://wnan.byu.edu/publications.asp
If you are interested, please email Emmaleigh Litchfield at wnan(a)byu.edu<mailto:wnan@byu.edu> with the number of copies and a shipping address.
Sincerely,
Emmaleigh Litchfield, Editorial Assistant
Western North American Naturalist
Mark C. Belk, Editor
190 Monte L. Bean Museum
Brigham Young University Provo, UT 84602
Email: wnan(a)byu.edu<mailto:wnan@byu.edu>
Telephone: (801) 422-6688
Fax: (801) 422-0093
Dear Forest Pathology and Forest Entomology friends
The PICTURE ALBUM of forest pathologists and forest entomologists has been refined and expanded gradually since it was first launched last year. In the last few days two pictures of our friend Giovanni Nicolotti who most tragically passed away suddenly... thanks to Paolo Gonthier for sending pictures for us to remember him by. Many of you have visited the list, sent photographs or annotations. Many thanks!! Thanks also to James Mehl at FABI who does most all the work to build this historical record for us.
Just as a reminder - you can access the list at http://www.fabinet.up.ac.za/resources/fpepg/album.
Do send photographs that you would like to include and if you would like to add annotations to existing photos - do send them. We would be happy to add them to the collection. If you are attending a forest pathology or entomology meeting, field day or other function - take photographs and send them to me. If there are large numbers, it will be easiest to put these on a disc and send them to my physical address below. Or try using one of the file sharing services such as "YouSendIt".
best wishes
Mike
Michael J. Wingfield (Ph.D., FRSAF, ASSAf)
Mondi Professor of Forest Protection
Director, Forestry and Agricultural Biotechnology Institute (FABI);
Tree Protection Co-operative Programme (TPCP) &
DST/NRF Centre of Excellence in Tree Health Biotechnology (CTHB)
University of Pretoria, PRETORIA 0002, South Africa
Phone (office): +27 12 420 3938
Fax (office): +27 12 420 3960
E-mail: mike.wingfield(a)fabi.up.ac.za
WEBSITE: http://www.fabinet.up.ac.za/people/mjwingfield
( full meeting info is at http://biocontrolfornature.org )
Announcement of an Internation Meeting on
"Biological Control for the Protection of Native Ecosystems"
To be held October 3-7, 2010, in Northampton, MA, with sponsorship of the
University of MA, the University of CA, USDA Forest Service, USDA-ARS, US
Department of Fish and Wildlife and the US National Park Service. The
meeting's purpose is to explore the benefits of classical biological
control to native forests, and associated habitats including wetlands,
grasslands, deserts, and oceanic islands. The meeting is intended increase
mutual understanding between the disciplines of biological control and
conservation biology and examine how biological control contributes to
the restoration of species and communities damaged by invasive plants and
insects. The meeting website can be found at "biocontrolfornature.org"
and here we attached the scientific program. The venue for the meeting is
a classic small New England city, with most architecture dating from the
1890s, amply opportunities for tourism, dining and live music all within
walking distance. The meeting takes place just prior to peak color for
fall foliage. The meeting site is an historic hotel located in downtown
Northampton, less than a block from vibrant street life, shops and
restaurants. The meeting will include a one day field trip to view
locally important invasive species, some of which are current or
developing targets of biological control (hemlock woolly adelgid, Japanese
knotweed, swallowwort, garlic mustard), as well as to appreciate views of
the fall landscape and some cultural points. For more information
consult the website or email/call Roy Van Driesche at UMASS (413-545-1061,
vandries(a)nre.umass.edu)
