{"id":1698,"date":"2020-03-01T03:40:32","date_gmt":"2020-03-01T03:40:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aphidtrek.org\/?p=1698"},"modified":"2020-03-01T03:40:32","modified_gmt":"2020-03-01T03:40:32","slug":"a-great-conclusion-to-2019-collecting-getting-ready-for-2020s-new-manuscript","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aphidtrek.org\/?p=1698","title":{"rendered":"A Great Conclusion to 2019 Collecting, Getting Ready for 2020\u2019s New Manuscript"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I had a very productive collecting year in 2019, adding almost 900 slides to the collection and pushing forward several long-term research goals.\u00a0 The highlight of the year, arguably, was our final long trip of 2019, driving to Clayton, New Mexico and back in late September\/early October via Idaho, Wyoming, and Colorado. There were some cold camping nights, beautiful places, and amazing sunsets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A great hike in the Snowy Range of Wyoming.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

There were many good aphid finds on this trip, but the best were several samples collected on Holodiscus<\/em> (Rosaceae). I have been studying the aphids that live on this genus of plants since the early 1990s, including publishing one new species and a couple host plant alternations back in 2000.\u00a0 I have much new information since then, and plan to write a major manuscript during 2020 reporting on my findings.\u00a0 Among other finds during this trip was a pair of collections that conclusively show that one of the fern-feeding species I study, Macrosiphum walkeri<\/em>,\u00a0 uses Holodiscus<\/em> as primary host in the Southwest (I previously showed it was anholocyclic in the warmer parts of the Northwest). In one site near Taos, New Mexico I was able to collect many alate viviparae, alate males, and oviparae on Holodiscus.<\/em> Nearby, I gathered some of the same species on a small woodland fern on a steep streambank, showing that migration between fern and Holodiscus <\/em>was underway that week! In other sites I was able to get the apterous males and oviparae of the mysterious species of Illinoia<\/em> that uses Holodiscus<\/em>, and in Colorado near Denver I gathered good samples of the undescribed Acyrthosiphon<\/em>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Macrosiphum walkeri on Holodiscus leaves.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Clayton was not the best aphid collecting area due to the time of year and the type of habitats, but at least I was able to collect some unusual Pseudoepameibaphis<\/em> on Artemisia filifolia<\/em>, find the largest dragonfly I\u2019ve ever seen, plus my first wild tarantula. The return trip was slow for aphid collecting but offered some excellent camping and views.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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My first wild tarantula, seen crossing a road north of Clayton, NM.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Now, as 2020 begins, I am preparing for a lovely opportunity I\u2019ve been granted \u2013 a 2-week residency at Playa on Summer Lake<\/a> during which I\u2019ll be drafting the manuscript on the aphids of Holodiscus<\/em>. It should be a great time to work in seclusion and meet some interesting artists and possibly other scientists from across the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sunset at camp site in Utah.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I had a very productive collecting year in 2019, adding almost 900 slides to the collection and pushing forward several long-term research goals.\u00a0 The highlight of the year, arguably, was our final long trip of 2019, driving to Clayton, New Mexico and back in late September\/early October via Idaho, Wyoming, and Colorado. There were some […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aphidtrek.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aphidtrek.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aphidtrek.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aphidtrek.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aphidtrek.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1698"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/aphidtrek.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1703,"href":"https:\/\/aphidtrek.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1698\/revisions\/1703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aphidtrek.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aphidtrek.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aphidtrek.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}