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February 20, 202005 May 2020, 19:30 Macnamara Field Naturalists’ Club Arnprior Curling Club, 15 Galvin Street, Arnprior, ON Not Just Bird Food, The Moths of Renfrew County This intimate journey into the hidden lives of moths and their caterpillars will look at some of the amazing species in your backyard. Some of these moths take medicine to fight parasites, bubble poison from ... Read More

New paper sorting out unplaced Archipini and describing a new genus

February 11, 2020Kyhl Austin and Jason Dombroskie wrote a short paper describing a new genus of Archipini and proposing several new combinations and synonymies in Archipini and Atteriini (Tortricidae). This paper tidies up a number of Archipini that were orphaned as unplaced Archipini and moves some of them to the tribe Atterini.

New paper on possible cryptic species in the North American treehopper genus Spissistilus

February 2, 2020Spissistilus festinus is a pest of various crops in the southern United States and is a vector of grapevine red blotch virus. This study demonstrates deep divergences in clades from the southwestern vs the southeastern US.

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