The Entomology Group has no meeting in December. Details on the January meeting will be announced. |
posted Jan 16, 2012 3:39 PM by Anne McCormack
Monthly meetings are held
September through May and normally occur on the 3rd Monday of the month.
Monday, January 23,
7:00 p.m. Ted MacRae will give a
presentation titled, “Nine days, ten states, and 4,300 miles.” While
Ted’s primary group of insect study is the metallic wood-boring beetles (Buprestidae),
he and Chris Brown have become passionate about tiger beetles (Cicindelidae)
over the past several years. Their studies began and Missouri, documenting and
photographing these fast and elusive beetles. Ted has now taken this interest
further afield and traveled to surrounding states to search for other tiger
beetles common and rare. Butterfly House (Faust Park), 15193 Olive Blvd.,
Chesterfield. Please note: this meeting is being held on the 4th Monday of the
month rather than the 3rd.
Monday,
February 20, 7:00 p.m. Our guest this month will be Rich Thoma. The
title of his talk is “Camouflage.” Rich
will share with us many examples of how insects use camouflage as a defense from
would be predators. Butterfly House (Faust Park), 15193 Olive Blvd.,
Chesterfield.
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posted Dec 7, 2011 5:28 PM by Anne McCormack
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No meeting in December, but we usually meet on the third Monday of the month, 7:00 – 9:00 PM at the Butterfly House, Faust Park, 15193 Olive Blvd., Chesterfield. Please join us! |
posted Mar 27, 2011 12:13 PM by Anne McCormack
Our next meeting is Monday, March 21, 7:00 – 9:00 p.m.Phil Koenig will present a program about the Swamp Metalmark Butterfly. The meeting will be held at the Butterfly House, Faust Park, 15193 Olive Blvd., Chesterfield. Please join us! |
posted Jan 16, 2011 2:38 PM by Anne McCormack
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Monday, February 21, 7:00 – 9:00 p.m. Mark Grueber, urban forester, will present a program on the Emerald Ash Borer and Asian long-horn beetles. At at the Butterfly House, Faust Park, 15193 Olive Blvd., Chesterfield. Please join us! |
posted Dec 30, 2010 1:39 PM by Anne McCormack
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Next meeting Monday, January 17, 7:00 – 9:00 p.m.James Trager will present “Fire and Natural Area Arthropods - A Review.” The meeting will be held at the Butterfly House, Faust Park, 15193 Olive Blvd., Chesterfield. Please join us! |
posted Nov 14, 2010 8:40 AM by Anne McCormack
Our next meeting will be held on Thursday, November 18 At Busch Conservation Area in St. Charles Co., from 7:00 till 9:00 PM. Rich Thoma will present a program "The Evolution of Insect Flight." Please join us! |
posted Sep 26, 2010 2:05 PM by Anne McCormack
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Annual Show and Tell meeting will be held on Sunday, Sept. 26 7:00 PM at the home of Phil and Sarah Koenig. For directions, contact pkoenig AT mail.win.org. |
posted Aug 10, 2010 5:35 PM by Anne McCormack
Nova (PBS--Channel 9) features sociobiologist E O Wilson in "Lord of the Ants" at 8:00 PM Tues, Aug. 10. Repeated 1:00 AM Aug. 12. |
posted Jun 22, 2010 1:52 PM by Anne McCormack
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Flickr is a free website where people share their photos--4 billion at last count. You upload a photo--if you can add an attachment on an email, you can upload!--add a title, description, and "tags" (keywords) if you wish. You can mark your photo "public," that is, visible to anyone, or "private," visible only to those whom you give access. Flickr members can also join "groups" where users pool their images of certain topics, post comments on photos, and discuss issues. WGNSS now has its very own Flickr group: "Nature Study with WGNSS." Get a free Flickr membership--if you don't already have one--join our group, and start posting comments or uploading nature photos and video right away! T. C. MacRae's blog, Beetles in the Bush is a lively account of adventures with beetles and other delights of nature. Check it out by clicking |
posted Apr 5, 2010 6:18 PM by Anne McCormack
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Sunday, April 18 at 7:00 PM, the Entomology group will discuss "Charles Darwin, the entomologist." The discussion will be lead by Rich Thoma, at his home.
Thursday, May 13 at 5:30 PM, WGNSS will host David Wagner, author of Caterpillars of Eastern North America. The event will be held at Orlando Gardens Banquet Center in Maryland Heights. Please send in your registration by April 26, using the form in the most recent issue of Nature Notes. Don't have the form? Email annemccormack AT sbcglobal.net and I'll send you one. |
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