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Item Biosurveillance with the smokey winged beetle bandit wasp: understanding buprestid populations and volunteer outcomes in Minnesota(2019-08) Hallinen, MarieBuprestid beetles can be difficult to sample due to their cryptic nature: larvae are usually wood-boring and feed under bark or within stems, and adults exhibit maturation feeding within tree canopies. There is no long-range sex pheromone identified for this family that could be exploited for sampling. In addition, currently available traps are only intermittently successful at detecting species of interest, including the invasive emerald ash borer, Agrilus planipennis Fairmaire, when at low densities. One method used to sample emerald ash borer and other buprestids is biosurveillance with a native ground-nesting hunting wasp, Cerceris fumipennis Say (Hymenoptera: Crabronidae). Cerceris fumipennis hunts for a wide range of buprestids, does not sting humans, and tends to nest at easily accessible human-disturbed sites such as baseball diamonds, making it easy for non-specialists to monitor nests and collect beetles in their communities. This work utilizes C. fumipennis-collected beetles along with existing museum records to create a checklist of buprestid species in Minnesota, investigates site-level variables that may influence the number and diversity of beetles collected by C. fumipennis, and elucidates individual outcomes for citizen science volunteers who monitor nesting aggregations of C. fumipennis.Item Checklist of Minnesota Buprestidae Appendix: Distributional Maps(2020-04-08) Hallinen, Marie J; Wittman, Jacob T; Steffens, Wayne P; Schultz, Jennifer L; Aukema, Brian H; MarieHallinen@gmail.com; Hallinen, Marie J; University of Minnesota Forest Entomology LabWe utilized a biosurveillance sampling method, namely the use of the native ground-nesting hunting wasp Cerceris fumipennis, along with University of Minnesota Insect Collection (UMSP) records, to create a checklist for Buprestidae in Minnesota, USA. We examined 5,127 specimens with Minnesota localities, documenting 107 species. Of these, 37 new state records are noted, including 11 collected from C. fumipennis nesting sites between 2013 and 2018. Maps displaying the number of beetles for a given species caught in each county and the time passed since last collection (within 20 years) are provided here as an appendix.Item The Jewel Beetles of Minnesota(2021-03) Hallinen, Marie J; Steffens, Wayne P; Schultz, Jennifer L; Wittman, Jacob T; Aukema, Brian HA photo guide to the jewel beetles (Coleoptera: Buprestidae) of Minnesota, including beetle distribution by county, host information, and notes on biology. This guide is based on specimens housed in the University of Minnesota Insect Collection (UMSP), including buprestids collected from Cerceris fumipennis nest monitoring from 2014 to 2018.