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prices

Posted on December 16, 2014 by jirihulcr in Adam

Adam,

Can you please recommend vendors and models for these items, based on the lab needs:

– second, bigger and better -80 freezer

– additional thermal cycler

– Adobe Creative suite, multi-user or floating license

– up-to-date Geneious, multi-user or floating license

– large-ish fridge for fungal culture storage (we are expecting quite a few in the Spring)

Please go for quality rather than low price, but try to keep the total within about $30,000. It is for the IFAS Equipment grant (Jason and I applying together), due January 15, so our budget needs to be done early in January to be vetted by Tim White.

Thank you!

beetles in my office

Posted on December 15, 2014 by jirihulcr in Adam

Adam,

Could you please dissect the branches in my office (in blue tupperware box)? Please separate beetles that are already out on the paper (they will have fungi in the mycangium) and those that you pull out from the wood – these will include mature specimens, but also hopefully immature adults, pupae and larvae. We want all these developmental stages preserved in ethanol.

Please do it sooner rather than later – they are coming out now, and we need to process it before all the immatures develop. ‘Have you done this before? Please let me know if you have any questions!

specimens to Milos

Posted on November 30, 2014 by jirihulcr in Adam

Adam,

After your return, but by December 17, will you be able to help me with this:

1) Check out the species in the list below: do we have >5 of each in our collection? Please send a list and numbers.

2) Of those that we have enough, could you let me see the ones marked as “have Jiri confirm ID”

3) and then point-mount ONE, provide them with labels, and pack them up in a small box for me.

Ambrosiodmus devexulus
Ambrosiophilus mogia Hulcr and Cognato sp. n.
Ambrosiophilus restrictus (Schedl 1939)
Arixyleborus simplicaudus Hulcr and Cognato sp. n.
Beaverium perplexus (Schedl 1969b)
Cyclorhipidion bituberculatum (Eggers 1923)
Cyclorhipidion multipunctatum (Browne 1980)
Cyclorhipidion spurlinum Hulcr and Cognato sp. n.
Debus spinicornis (Schedl 1975b)
Euwallacea andreae Hulcr and Cognato sp. n.
Euwallacea funereus (Lea 1910)
Hypothenemus distinctus
Hypothenemus gossypii
Hypothenemus miles
Hypothenemus pubescens
Hypothenemus setosus
Microperus intermedius (Eggers 1923) – have Jiri confirm ID before mounting
Microperus parvus (Lea 1893) – have Jiri confirm ID before mounting
Microperus pometianus (Schedl 1939a) – have Jiri confirm ID before mounting
Planiculus immersus (Schedl 1972b)
Planiculus rodmanculus Hulcr and Cognato sp. n.
Theoborus ricini
Trischidias atomus
Trischidias minutissimus
Trischidias striatus
Truncaudum longior (Eggers 1923)
Wallacellus (Euwallacea) striatulus (Browne 1980)
Xyleborus (Ewallacea) declivispinatus (Schedl 1969b) restor. Comb.
Xyleborus bispinatus Eichhoff (1868) from New Guinea
Xylosandrus russulus (Schedl 1942c)

kettle

Posted on November 20, 2014 by jirihulcr in Adam

Adam, apparently this is now supposed to work, so i can start using it, to both ask for help with things, and also to keep a record of it.

Could you please buy a new kettle with much lower wattage for the student office? Please put it on 60460004-182-3300-CRRNT-Hulcr-FY14-15? The current one blew the circuit again. Please let me know if none of the cheap ones seems compatible with our neolithic circuits.

Thank you

Japanese betles

Posted on October 15, 2014 by jirihulcr in Adam

Adam,

Also a secondary priority, but when you get he chance:

1) In the “Adam” box in my office, there is a box with samples that need to be returned to Japan. It has instructions.

2) In the sample freezer door, there is a mini ziploc bag with a couple of vials. They need to be incorporated into the collection and database. Here are the data:

③-1 Xylosandrus discolor

③-2 Xylosandrus discolor

⑤-2 Xylosandrus crassiusculus

⑤-3 Xylosandrus crassiusculus

⑫ Diuncus corpulentus

Japan, Iriomote Is.

2014

Kajimura coll.

Glabratus

Posted on October 15, 2014 by jirihulcr in Adam

Adam,

This is NOT a priority, but when you have a minute, could you get together these two samples:

– vial 3323 (10 Xyleborus glabratus).

– vial 7459 (1 male of X. glabratus)

Make sure these are the only specimens in there (if not, separate them) and send them to Shaun Bennett in New Zealand. Here is his email:

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Hello Jiri

Thank you, and Paul, so much for your help.

Some specimens for our two laboratory reference collections will be greatly received.

Courier is best – our FedEx account number is 2373 4453 7

How do you plant to send the specimens – dry or wet? Our importation requirements mean the specimens are best sent in a small amount of ethanol, or ethanol soaked cotton wool/tissue – makes coming through our own Ministry inspectors straight forward.

Courier address is:

Shaun J. Bennett
Plant Health & Environment Laboratory

Ministry for Primary Industries

231 Morrin Road, St Johns, Auckland 1072

New Zealand

Let me know if you need any more info. Appreciate if you could let me know when they are on their way.

Cheers

Shaun

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After that, please record the samples as loaned to Shaun Bennett.

Thank you!

insecticide list

Posted on September 19, 2014 by jirihulcr in Adam

Adam,
Please stop by when you have a second. I’d like to ask you what you think about the list of insecticides for wood borers that we talked about some time ago. You mentioned that you have a preliminary list – can we take a look at it together? If it looks like a viable miniproject, I would like to assign it to a student in ENY, but would like to know first what you have found out so far. I am meeting with an Entomology Dept. specialist to discuss this at the end of next week, and would like to see something before that. Thanks!
Cheers,
J

Academy website adjustment

Posted on August 27, 2014 by jirihulcr in websites

The Academy website needs to be conserved between now and sometime in 2015 when we are ready to announce it again. Can you please make the following changes?

Title page:

– Add praise plastered all over (I will supply).

– Change date to May 2016

Details

– Change the dates throughout to May 1 – May 5, 2016.

– Only two modules (reorganize the Details page accordingly):

Applied (May 1): identification of bark and ambrosia beetles, diagnostics of damage in the field, and management of pest species in the Southeastern US. For tree health practitioners and extension faculty/agents. 1 full day
Academic (May 2-5): advanced identification, global scope, 12 hours of hands-on microscope sessions, specialized topics, and field trips. For students, researchers, agency entomologists, and enthusiasts.

Presenters

– Confirmed presenters:

Jiri Hulcr University of Florida
Anthony Cognato Michigan State University
Sarah M. Smith Michigan State University
Tom Atkinson University of Texas, Austin
Jeffrey Eickwort Florida Forest Service
Marc Hughes University of Florida

– :

Schedule: TBD (perhaps just a pop-up saying TBD?)

Updates:

– delete existing updates

– Keep the: Sign Up thing…

but remove the “Interested in modules…”

The Registration page:

Get ready for to the SECOND Bark Beetle Academy! This is the biggest educational, scientific and social event focused on bark and ambrosia beetles. Register and join us to learn more about these important insects and to meet leading bark and ambrosia beetle scientists.

…work directly with specialists

…receive state-of-the art identification and management materials

…participate in hands-on identification practice

…learn how to collect beetles in the field during their peak season in Florida’s Spring

…receive Continuing Education Units from the Society of American Foresters and the International Society of Arboriculture.

…enjoy a high instructor/student ratio

Registration for the 2016 Academy is not yet open

If you don’t want to miss the registration for next Academy in 2016, we recommend that you sign up for updates. Our quota for the first Academy in 2014 filled up in less than two months!

ADDING IMAGES

Posted on August 27, 2014 by jirihulcr in Adam

Adam,
See the folder Forest_Entomology on the server: there is a new subfolder “ADD TO DBimages”. Can you please add these to the database?
Here is the list of files, so you don’t have to write it all down by hand. Just add species numbers to those and add it to the Images table. If you are interested, I can show you how i did it.
Ambrosiodmus_devexulus_s_1024px.jpg
Ambrosiodmus_devexulus_t_1024px.jpg
Ambrosiodmus_lecontei_s_1024px.jpg
Ambrosiodmus_lecontei_t_1024px.jpg
Ambrosiodmus_lewisi_s_1024px.jpg
Ambrosiodmus_lewisi_t_1024px.jpg
Ambrosiodmus_minor_s_1024px.jpg
Ambrosiodmus_minor_t_1024px.jpg
Ambrosiodmus_obliquus_s_1024px.jpg
Ambrosiodmus_obliquus_t_1024px.jpg
Ambrosiodmus_opimus_s_1024px.jpg
Ambrosiodmus_opimus_t_1024px.jpg
Ambrosiodmus_rubricollis_s_1024px.jpg
Ambrosiodmus_rubricollis_t_1024px.jpg
Ambrosiodmus_tachygraphus_s_1024px.jpg
Ambrosiodmus_tachygraphus_t_1024px.jpg
Ambrosiophilus_atratus_s_1024px.jpg
Ambrosiophilus_atratus_t_1024px.jpg
Anisandrus_dispar_s_1024px.jpg
Anisandrus_dispar_t_1024px.jpg
Anisandrus_maiche_s_1024px.jpg
Anisandrus_maiche_t_1024px.jpg
Anisandrus_obesus_s_1024px.jpg
Anisandrus_obesus_t_1024px.jpg
Anisandrus_sayi_s_1024px.jpg
Anisandrus_sayi_t_1024px.jpg
Cnestus_mutilatus_s_1024px.jpg
Cnestus_mutilatus_t_1024px.jpg
Coptoborus_pseudotenuis_s_1024px.jpg
Coptoborus_pseudotenuis_t_1024px.jpg
Cyclorhipidion_bodoanum_s_1024px.jpg
Cyclorhipidion_bodoanum_t_1024px.jpg
Cyclorhipidion_pelliculosum_s_1024px.jpg
Cyclorhipidion_pelliculosum_t_1024px.jpg
Dryocoetoides_reticulatus_s_1024px.jpg
Dryocoetoides_reticulatus_t_1024px.jpg
Dryoxylon_onoharensum_s_1024px.jpg
Dryoxylon_onoharensum_t_1024px.jpg
Euwallacea_fornicatus_s_1024px.jpg
Euwallacea_fornicatus_t_1024px.jpg
Euwallacea_interjectus_s_1024px.jpg
Euwallacea_interjectus_t_1024px.jpg
Euwallacea_validus_s_1024px.jpg
Euwallacea_validus_t_1024px.jpg
Theoborus_ricini_s_1024px.jpg
Theoborus_ricini_t_1024px.jpg
Wallacellus_similis_s_1024px.jpg
Wallacellus_similis_t_1024px.jpg
Xyleborinus_andrewesii_s_1024px.jpg
Xyleborinus_andrewesii_t_1024px.jpg
Xyleborinus_artestriatus_s_1024px.jpg
Xyleborinus_artestriatus_t_1024px.jpg
Xyleborinus_attenuatus_s_1024px.jpg
Xyleborinus_attenuatus_t_1024px.jpg
Xyleborinus_gracilis_s_1024px.jpg
Xyleborinus_gracilis_t_1024px.jpg
Xyleborinus_octicesdentatus_s_1024px.jpg
Xyleborinus_octicesdentatus_t_1024px.jpg
Xyleborinus_saxesenii_1024px.jpg
Xyleborinus_saxesenii_s_1024px.jpg
Xyleborinus_saxesenii_t_1024px.jpg
Xyleborus_affinis_d_1024px.jpg
Xyleborus_affinis_s_1024px.jpg
Xyleborus_affinis_t_1024px.jpg
Xyleborus_celsus_s_1024px.jpg
Xyleborus_celsus_t_1024px.jpg
Xyleborus_ferrugineus_s_1024px.jpg
Xyleborus_ferrugineus_t_1024px.jpg
Xyleborus_glabratus_s_1024px.jpg
Xyleborus_glabratus_t_1024px.jpg
Xyleborus_horridus_s_1024px.jpg
Xyleborus_horridus_t_1024px.jpg
Xyleborus_impressus_s_1024px.jpg
Xyleborus_impressus_t_1024px.jpg
Xyleborus_intrusus_1024px.jpg
Xyleborus_intrusus_t_1024px.jpg
Xyleborus_pfeili_s_1024px.jpg
Xyleborus_pfeili_t_1024px.jpg
Xyleborus_planicollis_s_1024px.jpg
Xyleborus_planicollis_t_1024px.jpg
Xyleborus_pubescens_s_1024px.jpg
Xyleborus_pubescens_t_1024px.jpg
Xyleborus_seriatus_1024px.jpg
Xyleborus_seriatus_t_1024px.jpg
Xyleborus_spinulosus_s_1024px.jpg
Xyleborus_spinulosus_t_1024px.jpg
Xyleborus_viduus_1024px.jpg
Xyleborus_viduus_s_1024px.jpg
Xyleborus_volvulus_s_1024px.jpg
Xyleborus_volvulus_t_1024px.jpg
Xyleborus_xylographus_1024px.jpg
Xyleborus_xylographus_s_1024px.jpg
Xylosandrus_amputatus_s_1024px.jpg
Xylosandrus_amputatus_t_1024px.jpg
Xylosandrus_compactus_s_1024px.jpg
Xylosandrus_compactus_t_1024px.jpg
Xylosandrus_crassiusculus_s_1024px.jpg
Xylosandrus_crassiusculus_t_1024px.jpg
Xylosandrus_curtulus_1024px.jpg
Xylosandrus_curtulus_t_1024px.jpg
Xylosandrus_germanus_s_1024px.jpg
Xylosandrus_germanus_t_1024px.jpg

vials from PNG

Posted on August 26, 2014 by jirihulcr in Adam

Adam,
Whenever you get to it, can you please fill up the PNG samples that just arrived with ethanol?
Afterwards, please record them in the database (as unknown spp.), and I will identify them.
Thank you!