Ent Club Meetings

We meet on the second Tuesday of each month at 7:30 pm in room 101 of Harvard University's Museum of Comparative Zoology, 26 Oxford Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 02138. Meetings are free and open to the public. Each meeting features a speaker. Occasionally a meeting entails other club business as well.

Please join us for dinner prior to the meeting. See the meeting announcement on this site's home page for location and further information.

Meetings are announced by email. Please contact us to be added to the distribution list for these announcements.

Sadly, due to price increases, the club cannot afford a Harvard parking permit any longer. (Harvard was asking $100 per meeting, and that was beyond our means.) Beginning in October 2006 we suggest using metered parking on Oxford Street or on Mass. Ave. Meters are in effect only through 6:00pm.

Suggestions for speakers and topics are welcome; send them to entclub@entclub.org.

Speakers are encouraged to submit material related to their talks to this web site: papers, slides, images, and data sets.

2008-2009

#1112 Tuesday, October 14th, 2008
Gary Alpert, Harvard University
The Navajo Ant Project

2007-2008

#1104 Tuesday, October 9th, 2007
Rod Eastwood, Harvard University
Unusual ant associations in the Australian Lycaenidae
#1105 Tuesday, November 13th, 2007
The impact of disturbances on ant species richness
Amy Mertle, Boston University
#1106 Tuesday, December 11th, 2007
Interactions between invasive species: woolly adelgid, elongate scale, and the fate of New England's hemlock forests
Evan Preisser, University of Rhode Island
#1107 Tuesday, January 8th, 2008
Grouping behavior in whirligig beetles (Gyrinidae)
William L. Romey
#1108 Tuesday, February 12th, 2008
Soft-bodied insects and the robots that emulate them
Barry Trimmer, Tufts University
#1109 Tuesday, March 11th, 2008
Why Bees Die: Forensic Insights into Honeybee Losses
Jay Evans, USDA
#1110 Tuesday, April 8th, 2008
You eat what you are: Toward a global nutritional ecology
Mike Kaspari, University of Oklahoma
#1111 Tuesday, May xxth, 2008
Studying inbreeding in a natural population of the ant Formica exsecta
Emma Vitikainen

2006-2007

#1097 Tuesday, October 10th, 2006
Caddisflies of the St. Lawrence River: Fall and Rise of the Great Swarms
D. Bruce Conn, Berry College
#1098 Tuesday, November 14th, 2006
Ecology and evolution of endemic Galapagos birds and their ectoparasites: A model for studying parasite diversification
Dr. Noah K. Whiteman, Harvard University
#1099 Tuesday, December 12th, 2006
Natal Habitat Use by Dragonflies Along an Urbanization Gradient in Rhode Island
Maria Aliberti, University of Rhode Island
#1100 Tuesday, February 13th, 2007
The intertwined populaton biology of symbiotic ants and plants in the Amazon
Megan Frederickson, Harvard University
#1101 Tuesday, March 13th, 2007
Astonishing Army Ants: The Most Important Predators in Neotropical Forests (DVD showing)
Carl Rettenmeyer, University of Connecticut
#1102 Tuesday, April 10th, 2007
Managing 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, 2007
The Behavior of Leaf-Eating Caterpillars
Bernd Heinrich

2005-2006

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

2004-2005

#1082, 12 October 2004
Electronic Field Guides: Tools for Conservation
Robert Stevenson and Fred SaintOurs, U. Mass. Boston
#1083, 9 November 2004
Evolutionary 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 2004
Phelypera 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 2005
Cognitive 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 2005
Infection 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 2003
The 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 2004
Ant Taxonomy in the 21st Century
Stefan 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 2004
Does 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 2003
The Contribution of Biological Assessment (especially of insects) to Biodiversity Conservation
Leeanne E. Alonso, Ph.D.
Director, Rapid Assessment Program, Conservation International
#1072, 11 March 2003
Insects from 50 million years ago in western North America: strange . . .yet . . .oddly familiar . . .
Bruce Archibald, Harvard University
#1071, 11 February 2003
The 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 2002
ON 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 2002
Ant-termite Interactions in Madagascar
Dr. Gary Alpert, Harvard University

2001-2002

#1067, 14 May 2002
From simple to complex and back again: The evolution of cricket songs
Dr. Daniel Otte, Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia
#1066, 9 April 2002
Insects, Taxonomy, and the All Species Initiative
E. 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 2002
Has Pleistocene Climate Change Driven the Differentiation of the Flightless Longhorn Cactus Beetle Moneilema appressum (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae)?
Christopher Smith, Harvard University
#1063, 15 January 2002
Conserving 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 2001
Biogeography 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 2001
Phylogeny and Convergent Evolution in Crickets and other Ensifera
Manda Clair Jost, Harvard University

2000-2001

#1059, 8 May 2001
Burying Beetle Natural History, Conservation, and Evolution (Coleoptera: Silphidae: Nicrophorus)
Derek Sikes, University of Connecticut
#1058, 10 April 2001
Vector-Borne Disease in a Changing New England Landscape
Prof. Andrew Spielman, Harvard University School of Public Health
#1057, 13 March 2001
The Australian Butterfly Fauna: Its Characteristics, Origin, Evolution and Larval Food Plant Associations
Michael Braby, visiting scholar at the Pierce Laboratory
#1056, 13 February 2001
A Plethora of Insect Eggs (plus assorted other entomological images)
Dan Perlman
#1055, 9 January 2001
The 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 2000
Life 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 2000
Polygyny 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 1998
Vignettes of Australia
Jay 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 1995
Stories From Afield: Rambles of a Tropical Entomologist
Mark Moffett, Harvard University
#1012, 11 April 1995
What's New at the Insect Zoo
Nathan Erwin, Smithsonian Institution
#1011, 14 March 1995
Invertebrate 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 1995
A 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 1994
The 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

1874-1991

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