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FOREST INSECT RESEARCH IN PENNSYLVANIA Survey of Non-Target Insects in Wetlands Associated with Outbreaks of the Forest Tent Caterpillar, Allegheny National Forest. Funded in part by USDA Forest Service. Similar in design to the oak habitat study above, this study focuses on wetland habitats associated with pest outbreaks of Malacosoma disstria, the forest tent caterpillar. These two studies, together with a third large study recently completed on cherry/maple dominated systems, provide the most rigorous biotic study of nocturnal macrolepidoptera, carabid beetles, crane flies, and other selected lineages ever made on a National Forest. (Collaboration with Western Pennsylvania Conservancy and CMNH Botany).
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Identification of Carabidae from Invertebrate
Faunas of Grazed Pastures in the Northeastern U.S. and Their Associations
with Farm Management Practices. Funded through Pennsylvania State University. Carnegie Museum of Natural History carabid specialist Bob Davidson is helping investigators at Pennsylvania State University to study the influence of farm management practices on arthropod communities. |
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