The Cambridge Entomological Club
Founded 1874
Next meeting: October. Watch this space.
Last meeting:
Tuesday, May 11th, 2004, at 7:30 PM
Speaker: John LaPolla, Rutgers University
The Ant Genus Acropyga and the
Evolution of Trophophoresy
Also: Election of officers
MCZ 101, 26 Oxford Street at Harvard University
Please join us for dinner at the Cambridge Common Restaurant,
1667 Massachusetts Avenue, at 5:45 PM prior to the meeting.
[Parking information]
John received his Ph.D. this spring from Rutgers University in the Entomology Department. His research interests cover ant systematics, revisionary taxonomy, insect conservation biology, systematic theory and practice, and evolution of trophobiosis. His fieldwork has taken him to southern Africa, Guyana, southwestern United States and Hawaii.
Features and news:
- The Vermont BioBlitz is 25-26 June 2004 (3/8/2004)
- Here's a report on the future of Psyche. The report is currently being reviewed; don't expect any action until after the summer.
- The club's community web site is up and running. It needs a bit of work before it's suitable for general use, but postings are welcome. (3/15/2004)
- Minutes of meetings 1072, 1073, and 1074 (March to May 2003) are now on-line. (11/25/2003)
- Tables of contents for the two most recent issues of Psyche (11/9/2003)
- More progress on scanning Janice R. Matthews's article "History of the Cambridge Entomological Club." -- another 7 or 8 pages scanned; now 40% done. (10/31/2003)
- From the mailbag: A local sighting of Noctua pronuba (6/19/2002)
- Member database (thanks to Piotr Naskrecki)
- Prenolepis imparis queen photographed by Gary Alpert (11/21/2001)
- Three lantern slides from the archives (10/26/2001)
- Officer nomination poems from 1995 and 1996 (10/26/2001)
- The seal of the Ent Club (5/31/2001)
Site deployed by our own Gary Alpert: the Massachusetts insect pest site
Please send additions and corrections to Jonathan Rees <webmaster@entclub.org>. I am actively trying to acquire material for this site, so if you have anything appropriate, please send it my way and I'll include it.
The preferred URL for this page is http://entclub.org/.
Last modified: Wed May 12 08:34:28 EDT 2004