Between Dec 19, 2024 and Jan 2, 2025, datasets can be submitted to DRUM but will not be processed until after the break. Staff will not be available to answer email during this period, and will not be able to provide DOIs until after Jan 2. If you are in need of a DOI during this period, consider Dryad or OpenICPSR. Submission responses to the UDC may also be delayed during this time.
 

Biosurveillance with the smokey winged beetle bandit wasp: understanding buprestid populations and volunteer outcomes in Minnesota

Loading...
Thumbnail Image

Persistent link to this item

Statistics
View Statistics

Journal Title

Journal ISSN

Volume Title

Title

Biosurveillance with the smokey winged beetle bandit wasp: understanding buprestid populations and volunteer outcomes in Minnesota

Published Date

2019-08

Publisher

Type

Thesis or Dissertation

Abstract

Buprestid 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.

Description

University of Minnesota M.S. thesis. August 2019. Major: Entomology. Advisor: Brian Aukema. 1 computer file (PDF); viii, 233 pages.

Related to

Replaces

License

Series/Report Number

Funding information

Isbn identifier

Doi identifier

Previously Published Citation

Other identifiers

Suggested citation

Hallinen, Marie. (2019). Biosurveillance with the smokey winged beetle bandit wasp: understanding buprestid populations and volunteer outcomes in Minnesota. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/208928.

Content distributed via the University Digital Conservancy may be subject to additional license and use restrictions applied by the depositor. By using these files, users agree to the Terms of Use. Materials in the UDC may contain content that is disturbing and/or harmful. For more information, please see our statement on harmful content in digital repositories.