Re: [ECOLOG-L] Finding insect ID professional development?

The Norwegian research school in biosystematics offers such courses. For instance, they have a course on acari systematics happening soon. http://www.forbio.uio.no/events/ José On 29 December 2017 at 16:02, Audrey Maran wrote: > Dear Colleagues, > My PhD research

Re: [ECOLOG-L] Finding insect ID professional development?

I received many replies to my inquiry about arthropod ID professional development—thank you to everyone who offered information and advice. Below is a summary of the responses. Workshops: Acarology workshop at Ohio State: https://acarology.osu.edu/programs Ambrosia/bark beetle workshop at Univ

Re: [ECOLOG-L] Finding insect ID professional development?

Here's a few more: family/subfamly for hymenoptera: http://hymcourse.org/ genera of ants: https://www.calacademy.org/scientists/ant-course general info on beetles in UK: http://www.markgtelfer.co.uk/beetles/ genera id course for carabids: https://www.amentsoc.org/events/listings/0757/ (not sure if

Re: [ECOLOG-L] Finding insect ID professional development?

Here are a couple more workshops on terrestrial arthropod taxonomy: This one at Ohio State University is the best (and the last of its kind, I think) for acarology: https://acarology.osu.edu/programs And this program at the University of Florida provides a primer for ambrosia/bark beetle ID:

Re: [ECOLOG-L] Finding insect ID professional development?

Hi Audrey, I've not come across many, but I know of two that may or may not be useful. 1. The Florida Medical Entomology lab offers a 2 week intense course for mosquito identification (both adults and larvae). It's $500 and you have to stay near the site during the course (so factor in those

[ECOLOG-L] Finding insect ID professional development?

Dear Colleagues, My PhD research involves invertebrate identification. I'm almost entirely self-taught using keys and BugGuide.net and would like to improve my ID confidence, particularly in Araneae, Coleoptera and Diptera. I've had no luck searching for workshops--can anyone recommend a method