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Revision as of 00:43, 12 May 2010

May Session 2010

Course number: EEB 4252
Dates: May 10- May 28
Day/time: MTWThF, 1pm-4pm
Place: Storrs campus, Torrey Life Sciences Room 313
Credits: 3 (open to majors and non-majors)
Instructor: Roberta Engel
E-mail: roberta.engel@uconn.edu

Have fun collecting insects and earn credits at the same time!
This course is an introduction to insect collecting, identification, and ecology. We will learn about the local insect fauna through numerous field trips and practice specimen inventory methods in the lab. Lectures will cover all major orders of insects and focus on various aspects of their ecology, behavior, and evolution. Throughout the term, students will collect specimens for the University research and teaching collections, and for their personal reference collection.


FIELD NOTEBOOK

Field Notebook, each entry should include the following:
Date: day-month-year, example: 10 V 2010
Time of day: 24-hour clock, example: 1pm = 1300
Location: country/state/county/town
GPS lat/long decimal degrees (note source of lat/long, esp. if added later)
Elevation
Directions to locality so that another could return to the site
Weather (temp., precip., wind, cloud cover, etc.)
Site description, where found insect and habitat in the immediate area
Sketches: site, insect, maps
Observations, list what collected (name or describe and add name later), number of specimens, who was present


Online Resources for taking Field Notes
MVZ
http://mvz.berkeley.edu/Why_Collections.html
http://mvz.berkeley.edu/Locality_Documentation.html

Sheldon Greaves
http://www.sas.org/tcs/weeklyIssues/2004-04-16/features1/index.html

===QUIZZES===
Q1: Orders
Q2: Orders and Hemiptera (families)


BIOBLITZ

BIOBLITZ EVENTS LOOKING FOR ENTOMOLOGISTS
June 4-5
CT: Church Farm
We are interested in having a butterfly event, and also are looking for someone to do a moth ID using black light on Friday night. Exhibit material is also welcome. We will be having a Junior BioBlitz Center for hands on demos,exhibits, etc.Please let me know as soon as you can whether you can help out with any of these items for the public. If it would be easier to speak, please call me at 860 228-2849 ( 9-10 AM or late afternoon & evenings are best) Joan Hill

June 12-13
RI: Block Island
sponsor: RINHS
BioBlitz 2010 is going to be held Saturday, June 12 and Sunday, June 13 on the northern end of Block Island. ALL PARTICIPANTS in the June 12 – 13 BioBlitz event MUST BE PRE- REGISTERED and assigned to a team. The orientation, while not mandatory, is strongly recommended. Advance planning is especially important this year as Block Island isn’t just down the street: ferries, parking, and baggage handling add special logistical challenges. Special parking, ferry, and on-island transport provisions are being planned, but you need to know about them. BioBlitz is a program of RINHS. It is sponsored by Roger Williams Park Zoo, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service. This year’s local hosts include: Town of New Shoreham, Ocean View Foundation, Bluestone Foundation, Block Island Conservancy, Block Island Land Trust, The Nature Conservancy (Rhode Island Office), US Fish & Wildlife Service, Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management, Audubon Society of Rhode Island, and Interstate Navigation. http://www.rinhs.org/what-we-do/bioblitz/bioblitz2010/

June 13
CT: Hamden
Second Annual Bioblitz in the Sleeping Giant State Park in Hamden, CT, on Sunday afternoon, June 13. If any of you live in the area and would like to participate, we'd love to have you. Email me off list (brbeitch@cox.net ) for details.

June 14-15
CT: Stamford
sponsor: Scofield Magnet Middle School
The sixth and seventh grades at Scofield Magnet Middle School in Stamford, CT are conducting a bioblitz on June 15th. The bioblitz will take place on our campus and the adjoining Bartlett Arboretum. The arboretum is approximately 90 acres with woods, a stream, a pond and a red maple swamp. There are some open areas with high grass fields. It is a lovely area to hold a bioblitz. We, also, expect to search for night insects the evening before on June 14th. We are looking for entomologists and other experts or amateur naturalists who would be able to help. On the 15th we will be outside from 8:30 to 12:30. Lunch can be provided for any one who can help. If anyone is interested they could contact Jim Ellsworth for more details.

 Jim Ellsworth
jellsworth@ci.stamford.ct.us
 School 203-977-2750 (day)
 Home 203-938-9579 (evening)

===Entomological Societies===
CT Butterfly Association
http://ctbutterfly.org/

CT Entomological Society
http://www.insectsingers.com/ces/ces.html

Cambridge Entomological Club
http://www.entclub.org/

ME Entomological Society
http://www.colby.edu/MES/

AMNH listing of entomological societies
http://www.amnh.org/learn/biodiversity_counts/know_more/w_entomsoc.htm