Who is ready to share the collection of insects with the educational process and the museum?

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Dmitrii Musolin, 27.04.2010 10:29

Dear colleagues! A somewhat unusual request, perhaps.

Students probably always think that there is always a handout for classes at universities, it is eternal, or someone is constantly updating it. And this is not the case. Everything quickly collapses and often students have to show pictures instead of real insects. And there is no one to collect material for the educational process, especially in the north, where there are not so many insects as in the south.

And collectors over the years of work probably accumulate material that is not very necessary, repetitions, mass collections of banal mass types...

So there was such a request. At the Department of Zoology and Hunting Studies of the St. Petersburg State Forestry Academy (http://ftacademy.ru/academy/faculties/LHF/cafedra/zoologia/) to teach a course on Forest entomology in boxes with a spread out handout, you need insects. In any form (pricked flat, on mattresses, with or without labels), in any quantities (the more, the better). I attach a list of the most important ones below. But, in principle, almost any insects will be accepted with gratitude, especially those associated with the forest-pests, useful fauna, representatives of the main orders and families.

Separately - what you need for the exposition of the Cathedral Museum of Forest Entomology (http://ftacademy.ru/academy/museum/museum1/) (it will be delivered there with your labels, of course).

Unfortunately, the department is not able to buy insects. But, of course, we will reimburse the shipping costs, used pins, and return the boxes (we will discuss all this individually and how to organize it).

In general, if anyone is willing to help and support Russian entomological education in this way, the help will be gratefully accepted.

Thanks!

Here is the list:

Pine
scooper Panolis flammea Hawthorn leafhopper Archips crataegana
Ringed silkworm Malacosoma neustria
Redtail Dasyhira pudibunda
Golden tail Euproctis chrysorrhoea
Large glassworm Sesia apiformis
Corrosive woodwort Zeuzera pyrina
Odorous woodworm Cossus cossus
Winter scooper Agrotis segetum
Scooper gamma Phytometra gamma
Podbegovyun smolevschik Petrova resinella
Eriocrania Eriocrania (mining moths, imago)
Green moth Geometra papilionaria
Angular moth Ennomos spp.
Roseate leafhopper Cacoecia rosana
Fir moth Ectropis (Boarmia)
bistortata Marching oak silkworm Cnetbocampa processionea

Striped nutcracker Agriotes lineatus
July crunch Polyphylla fullo
Kravchik-golovach Lethrus
apterus Small oak barbel Cerambyx scopolii
Small aspen barbel Saperda populnea
Black pine barbel Mjnochamus galloprovin-cialis
Variegated oak barbel Plagionotus arcuatus large

ash-eater Hylesinus crenatus Small ash-eater Hylesinus fraxini Hook toothed
bark beetles Pityokteines curvidens and Pityokteines curvidens
Scolytus kircshii

Pine subsurface bug Aradus cinnamomeus

Large willow cicada Aphrophora salicis

Hairy poplar sawfly Cladius viminalis

Common bear Gryllotalpa gryllotalpa

Reticuloptera (different, any)
Erect wings (different, any)
Freckles (different, any)
Caddis flies (different, any)
Camels (different, any)
Muraviezhuki (various, any)
Ladybugs (different, any)
Zlatki (different, any)
Nutcrackers (different, any)
Glass cases (different, any)
Mayflies (different, any)

This post was edited by Musolin - 04/27/2010 14: 38