We meet on the third or fourth Saturday of every month, from September to November and from January to April. Most meetings are available virtually but for hybrid meetings, the in-person location may be at the University of Toronto campus, the ROM or the Toronto Zoo. When possible, meetings are recorded and posted on this website.

The Ramsay Wright building at the University of Toronto is normally locked on the weekend. For meetings in that building, someone will be at the door letting people in until the start of the meeting, but please arrive between 1 p.m. and 1:15 p.m. at the latest. Underground parking is available approximately one 1 block west on Harbord under Graduate House, accessible by the Lane East Spadina North Harbord and Glenn Morris St.).

Meetings 2024-25

Saturday, Sept. 21, 2024. 1:15 pm - 2:30 pm. Hybrid: by Zoom and also in person at Room 432, Ramsay Wright Laboratories, University of Toronto, 25 Harbord Street East.
MEMBERS' MEETING

See video of the meeting, speaker by speaker: Alan Macnaughton; Lynne Freeman; Barb Hacking, Pierre Robillard and Kasra Prakash; Donna Rice, Albert Tomchyshyn and Antonia Guidotti; and Karen Yukich, Bob Yukich, Steve Taylor and Don Davis.

Saturday, Oct. 26, 2024. 1:15 pm - 2:30 pm. Hybrid: by Zoom and also in person at Room 432, Ramsay Wright Laboratories, University of Toronto, 25 Harbord Street East.
USING CHEMICAL ECOLOGY TO UNDERSTAND INSECT BEHAVIOUR
Hélène LeBlanc, Ontario Tech University

See video of the meeting. Insects largely navigate their environment through odour detection, relying on scent cues to signal the presence of food or looming threats—each prompting a unique behavioural response. But what if we could harness these olfactory cues to predict insect behaviour, or even better, use them to reduce harmful pests and even train bees to detect explosives? In this presentation, I will explore the techniques used to identify key chemical compounds and examine specific odours that drive insect behaviour. By deepening our understanding of these interactions, we can uncover natural, innovative strategies for pest control, as well as open new avenues for applications in forensic entomology.

Saturday, November 23, 2024. 1 pm - 2:30 pm. Tenth Annual Quimby F. Hess Lecture. Royal Ontario Museum Theatre.
EXPLORING THE DIVERSITY OF INSECTS: SO MANY SPECIES, SO LITTLE TIME!
Stephen Marshall, University of Guelph

See video of the meeting.

New discoveries are always on the horizon for those interested in insects and their names, with potential discoveries ranging from the routine pleasure of finding a species "new to you" through to the thrill of recognizing a species, genus, or even a family new to science. Such discoveries are interesting in their own right, but they also reflect the state of biodiversity knowledge by illustrating what we do and don't know about temperate and tropical insect diversity. Examples drawn from specialized revisions of insect genera and broader "popular" reviews of familiar insect orders suggest that the seemingly boundless diversity of the megadiverse insect orders will remain a source of inspiration and exciting discovery for generations to come.

Prof. Marshall is the author of two editions of a book on the natural history and diversity of insects, a visual guide to insects, and 3 recent books on beetles, flies and Hymenoptera (ants, bees and wasps). The Hymenoptera book is the most recent and most relevant volume. See this page for a full list.

Quimby F. Hess was a TEA president and a member of the TEA for over 40 years. This lecture is sponsored in his memory by his children Jane and Robert Hess. The public are invited.

Saturday, January 25, 2025. 1:15 pm - 2:30 pm. By Zoom.
WHAT CAN MONITORING TELL US ABOUT BUTTERFLY RESPONSES TO CLIMATE CHANGE?
Michelle DiLeo, Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources / Trent University

See video of the meeting.

We are losing biodiversity at an alarming rate. Monitoring species in the wild can help conservation managers identify species and populations at risk and provide an understanding of how species are responding to ongoing threats. Here I draw on examples from our work on the Glanville Fritillary (a Eurasian species) to demonstrate the value of long-term monitoring for understanding adaptive capacity of butterflies in the face of climate change. I then introduce a new citizen-science butterfly monitoring program in Ontario, that will provide critical insight into the impacts of climate change across many species. 

Dr. Michelle DiLeo is a research scientist at the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources and an adjunct professor at Trent University where she leads a spatial ecology, evolution, and conservation research group. Her work integrates landscape ecology, monitoring, and genomics to understand species-at-risk responses to habitat modification and climate change.

Saturday, February 22, 2025. 1:15 pm - 2:30 pm. By Zoom.
CROWDSOURCING FOR DIGITIZING MUSEUM COLLECTIONS OF INSECTS
Brad Hubley (Royal Ontario Museum) and Michelle Locke (Canadian National Collection of Insects, Ottawa)

See video of the meeting. References from her talk (of which all but the last are open access): (1) Hällfors, Maria H., et al., (2) Van Bergen, Erik, et al., (3) Salgado, Ana L., Michelle F. DiLeo, and Marjo Saastamoinen., and (4) Crossley, Michael S., et al.

This presentation will demonstrate how volunteers can participate in certain aspects of scientific research through online portals.  This may include ecological monitoring and research in the field, e.g., recording first egg dates of nesting birds, monitoring aquatic macroinvertebrate populations, digitizing ledgers, or specimen labels. 

The ROM’s and CNC’s projects focus on digitizing specimen label data for import into our collection management systems.  Our data can then be published to Canadensys and harvested by the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) for use by individuals across the globe.

Our digitizing platform is Notes from Nature, one of many organizations found on the Zooniverse. Anyone with an internet connection can register as a volunteer and become involved with our projects.

Brad Hubley has worked in the entomology collection of the Royal Ontario Museum since 1985. His primary responsibilities have centred on the management of the approximately 10 million insect specimens in the collection. Brad has participated in biodiversity surveys in a variety of countries including Canada, Costa Rica, Guyana, Indonesia, Sarawak, Vietnam, Palau, and the US. He is a co-author of the ROM Field Guide to the Butterflies of Ontario and Spiders of Toronto, A Guide to their Remarkable World. He will be retiring this April from the ROM.   

Michelle Locke has worked for Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada since 2016. Michelle manages the CNC’s specimen database and curates specimens in the collection, making sure they remain in good condition. Among her many duties, she oversees the digitization of specimens and makes the data accessible to scientists. She has even described a few species new to science!  She is a co-author of the Field Guide to the Flower Flies of Northeastern North America (she spoke to TEA about the guide in Feb 2020) and is the former secretary of the Entomological Society of Ontario.

Saturday, March 22, 2025. 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm. By Zoom.
STUDENT SYMPOSIUM

Undergraduate and graduate students at Ontario universities make presentations about their work (abstracts). See videos: Sulphur butterflies' hybridization in Toronto (Amanda Sabatino); dragonfly nymphs and road salt (Hannah Bodmer); overcoming challenges in insect research (Emma Dickson); new Hymenoptera taxa (Nora Romero); do observers on iNaturalist over-sample the most showy species (Spencer Kielar); hoverfly migration (Tessa Kathleen Fortnum); and mayfly populations in St. Catharines (Wynne Reichheld).

Saturday, April 26, 2025. 1:00 pm. In-person only.
TEA BUG REARING DAY

This event will be in the atrium of the Toronto Zoo Administration Building (361A Old Finch Ave in Scarborough). Members will share their experiences with rearing insects and other arthropods. There will be lots of show and tell.

Meetings of past years

2023-2024

Saturday, September 23, 2023.
MEMBERS' MEETING
See video of the meeting.

Saturday, October 21, 2023. .
DIPTERA IN THE CITY: HOW THE URBAN ENVIRONMENT SHAPES FLY EVOLUTION
Rosalind Murray, University of Toronto Mississauga
See video of the meeting.

Saturday, November 25, 2023. By Zoom.
THEY MOSTLY COME AT NIGHT: INTRODUCED CANDY-SPIDER PREDATION ON SLEEPING INSECTS, AND OTHER SPIDER-HUNTING STORIES
Catherine Scott, McGill University
See video of the meeting.

Saturday, January 27, 2024. By Zoom.
INSECT MIND CONTROL: HOW A PARASITIC WASP HIJACKS THE BRAIN OF ITS CATERPILLAR HOST
Shelley Adamo, Dalhousie University

Saturday, March 2, 2024. By Zoom.
MOTTLED DUSKYWING RECOVERY: REINTRODUCTION TO PINERY PROVINCIAL PARK
Jessica Linton, Natural Resource Solutions, Inc., Waterloo

Saturday, March 23, 2024. By Zoom.
STUDENT SYMPOSIUM
- videoNicole Borsato. York University. "Identifying the Symbiomes of Destructive Insects Using Metabarcoding"- video: Michael Light. University of Toronto, Sandy Smith lab, & Jeremy Allison, Canadian Forestry Service. "Ecology of Red Oak (Quercus rubra) Tree Wound Communities in Canada"
- video: Katherine Lunn. York University, Elizabeth Clare lab. "Novel tools to characterise the ecological interactions of native pollinators in Ontario"
- video: Wynne Reichheld. Brock University. "Mayfly swarm observations at DeCew Falls"
- video: Amanda Sabatino. York University, Eryn McFarlane lab. "Urbanization and Hybridization in Colias butterflies in Toronto"
- video: Albert Tomchyshyn. University of Toronto, Mississauga. "A chironomid-based reconstruction of Holocene climate in southern Yukon"

Saturday, April 20.
TEA BUG-REARING DAY

2022-2023

Saturday, September 17, 2022. By Zoom.
MEMBERS' MEETING
See video of the meeting.

Saturday, October 22, 2022. By Zoom.
THE ROLE OF THE BLACK SOLDIER FLY IN A CIRCULAR ECONOMY
Patricia Okpara, University of Windsor
See video of the meeting.

Saturday, November 19, 2022. By Zoom.
UNDERSTANDING THE INFLUENCE OF CLIMATE CHANGE AND NON-NATIVE SPECIES ON BUTTERFLIES
Heather Kharouba, University of Ottawa
See video of the meeting.

Saturday, January 28, 2023. By Zoom.
CANADIAN LEAFHOPPERS: NATURAL HISTORY AND DIVERSITY
Joel Kits, Research Scientist for Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
See video of the meeting.

Saturday, February 25, 2023. 1:15 pm - 3:00 pm. By Zoom.
ARE PRINTED ENTOMOLOGY BOOKS AIMED AT A GENERAL AUDIENCE STILL RELEVANT?
Patrice Bouchard, Research Scientist for Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
See video of the meeting.

Saturday, March 25, 2023. By Zoom.
STUDENT SYMPOSIUM
Read the abstracts. Speakers:
- video: Stephanie Allen, Imperfect Detection of an Endangered Riverine Dragonfly, Rapids Clubtail (Phanogomphus quadricolor): Implications for Monitoring.
- video: Ruisen Zhang, A taxonomic review of Canadian Oestridae (Bot Flies)
- video: Lydia Wong, It’s getting hot and dry: what does this mean for subalpine cavity-nesting bees?
- video: Pooja Nathan, Understanding latitudinal variation in mutualistic interactions: a case study using the castor bean plant, Ricinus communis, in the Indian subcontinent
- video: Wei Han Lau, Do broader heads make for a stronger bite? A biomechanical analysis of a putatively ecologically dimorphic trait in the northeastern pine sawyer beetle (Cerambycidae: Monochamus notatus)
- video: Cailyn McKay, Heat stress experienced during metamorphosis: impacts on pheromone-mediated mating in the true armyworm (Mythimna unipuncta)
- video: Janean Sharkey, Bee communities in tallgrass prairie and oak savanna in Southern Ontario
- video: Heloisa Fernandes Flores, Evolution of kleptoparasitism in jackal flies (Diptera, Milichiidae)
- video: Alice Assmar, Past, present, and future of freshwater insects: evolution and diversification of Osmyloidea (Insecta: Neuroptera)
- video: Campbell McKay, Could the use of different species of milkweed as larval hostplants influence the fall migration of Monarchs?

Saturday, April 22, 2023. By Zoom.
THE ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION OF EYESPOTS IN CATERPILLARS
Thomas Hossie, Trent University
See video of the meeting.

2021-2022

Saturday, September 25, 2021
MEMBERS' MEETING
See video of the meeting.

Saturday, October 23, 2021
ANTS, SCIENCE AND CITIZEN SCIENCE - WE NEED YOU!
Ehab Abouheif, McGill University
See video of the meeting

Saturday, November 27, 2021
INVISIBLE BIODIVERSITY -- THE HIDDEN WORLD OF MITES BENEATH OUR FEET
Marla Schwarzfeld, Canadian National Collection of Insects, Arachnids and Nematodes
See video of the meeting.

Saturday, January 22, 2022
MISCARRIAGES OF JUSTICE SOLVED BY INSECTS
Gail Anderson, School of Criminology, Simon Fraser University

Saturday, February 26, 2022
ONTARIO MOTHS
Chris Schmidt, Research Scientist for Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
See video of the meeting.The talk starts at about the 5-minute mark and lasts for an hour. The first part of the talk is mostly about life history strategies of moths. Biogeography of moths in Ontario starts at 38 minutes, and moth mysteries start at 58 minutes. The question period starts at 1:04. Questions include: the value of iNaturalist to his research (1:10); habitats that need more surveying, such as wetlands (1:19); and using light sources to attract moths, including black light fluorescents and LepiLEDs (1:12 and 1:24 to 1:26 -- three questions).

Saturday, March 26, 2022
STUDENT SYMPOSIUM
Speakers: Kelly Murray-Stoker (caddisfly diversity in urban environments); Britney Picinic (mosquito excretion after blood meals); Thomas Hall (weevil and the control of garlic mustard); Zach Balzer (response of termites to carbon dioxide); Sisley Irwin (wilding of urban meadows and diversity); Jinghan Tan (internal biology of mosquitoes); Jocelyn Armistead (bumble bee collection methods); and Jesse Huisken (cooperation in carpenter bees). See agenda and abstracts.

Saturday, April 23, 2022
CLIMATE CHANGE AND INSECT CONSERVATION: DETECTING AND MITIGATING RISKS FROM EXTREME WEATHER
Jeremy Kerr, Department of Biology University of Ottawa
See video of the meeting.

Land use and climate change changes pose extraordinary risks for many species, including many insects, leading to debate over an impending “insect apocalypse”. There should be no debate, however, that extinction rates have risen to levels last seen at the end of the age of the dinosaurs. While the processes and mechanisms that govern how some threats contribute to extinction risk are clear, the "how" and "why" of climate-driven risks remain uncertain. As climate changes, the frequency and intensity of extreme weather events have risen, but could such events affect species' extinction risks? We have developed a new technique to measure those effects, called "thermal position index", drawing on fundamental theories in ecology and evolutionary biology. With rising prevalence of extreme weather, we have found evidence that species' extinction risks have risen, such as among bumblebee species in Europe and North America. By identifying mechanisms that contribute to extinction risk, we might be able to manage risks more effectively. This work has now been validated in analyses of population trends among vertebrates globally. In a warming world, understanding how to mitigate risks for species conservation, including especially insects that commonly have shorter life cycles, could help slow extinction rates.

Saturday, May 28, 2022
HOW TO RAISE MONARCH BUTTERFLIES
Carol Pasternak
See video of the meeting.

2020-2021

The regular meetings for September to November were cancelled due to COVID-19.

Saturday, January 23, 2021
PROJECT SWALLOWTAIL
Clement Kent, York University
See video of the meeting.

Saturday, February 27, 2021
A HODGEPODGE OF HYMENOPTERA: CHECKLISTS OF NORTHERN NORTH AMERICA, ICHNEUMONID NATURAL HISTORY AND A REVIEW OF THE AQUATIC WASPS OF THE WORLD
Andrew Bennett, Canadian National Collection of Insects, Arachnids and Nematodes, Agriculture Canada
See the speaker's slides (pdf).

Saturday, March 27, 2021. 1 pm - 3:15 pm. By Zoom.
STUDENT SYMPOSIUM
Speakers: Alvaro De la Mora (Breeding program for Varroa mite resistance in Ontario honey bee populations);  Farwa Sajadi (To pee or not to pee: how do female Aedes aegypti mosquitoes regulate anti-diuresis?); Kate Lindsay  (A revision of the genus Scipopus: Solving the Scipopus problem); Jocelyn Armistead  ( Evaluating methods used in Canadian bumble bee status assessments);  Matt J. Muzzatti  (Farming fecund crickets: fruitful female fertility after feeding crickets royal jelly);   Sydney Gram (Mushroom-associated insects: diversity and host preferences); Sara Khan  (Why do caterpillars go "buzz"? Exploring the roles of vibratory communication in social Drepana arcuata larvae); and Shu Han (Julie) Gan (The effect of soil sand content on earthworm seed digestion and seed coat damage). See Agenda and Abstracts. See video of the whole meeting,

Saturday, April 24, 2021
NATURAL HISTORY 2.0
Morgan Jackson (McGill University)
See video of the meeting.

2019-2020

Saturday, September 22, 2019
MEMBERS' MEETING

Saturday, October 26, 2019
TORONTO'S TALE OF TWO BEETLES: AN ODYSSEY IN URBAN FOREST INVASION
Sandy Smith, University of Toronto

Saturday, November 23, 2019
TICKS AND TICK-BORNE DISEASES IN A CHANGING WORLD (Ninth Annual Quimby F. Hess Lecture)
Nicholas Ogden, Public Health Agency of Canada

Saturday, January 25, 2020
WHY DO BEES LIVE IN GROUPS?
Miriam Richards, Brock University

Saturday, February 29, 2020.
FABULOUS FLOWER FLIES
Michelle Locke and Jeff Skevington, Canadian National Collection of Insects, Arachnids and Nematodes. Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada -- Ottawa

The regular meetings for March and April were cancelled due to COVID-19.

Saturday, November 23, 2019. 1:30 pm - 2:45 pm. Ninth Annual Quimby F. Hess Lecture. Royal Ontario Museum Theatre.
TICKS AND TICK-BORNE DISEASES IN A CHANGING WORLD
Nicholas Ogden, Public Health Agency of Canada

This event is free but you must pre-register on the ROM website. Under "Buy Tickets," choose "Public (RSVP Only): Free” (unless you have a ROM membership). A reception for TEA members and the Hess family will follow the lecture. Enter through the President's Choice School Entrance (group entrance), which is at the back of the ROM along Queen's Park. Please note that registering for this lecture does not grant you entry into museum galleries.

Discover the world of ticks with entomologist Nicholas Ogden, as he discusses their importance as blood-sucking parasites. Explore how environmental changes may affect the global distributions of these enigmatic creatures and the diseases they spread, and what this means for public health in Canada.

Dr. Nick Ogden is a UK-trained veterinarian (University of Liverpool, 1983). After 10 years of mixed clinical practice, he then completed a doctorate in Lyme disease ecology at the Department of Zoology, University of Oxford in 1996. During the six years he spent as a lecturer at the Faculty of Veterinary Science, University of Liverpool, he continued his research of tick-borne diseases of public health importance in Europe and those of importance to livestock production in Africa. In 2002 Dr. Ogden moved to Canada, where he continues his research on Lyme disease at the Public Health Agency of Canada.

Quimby F. Hess was a TEA president and a member of the TEA for over 40 years. This lecture is sponsored in his memory by his children Jane and Robert Hess and their respective spouses Laura and John. The public are invited.

2018-2019

Saturday, September 22, 2018
MEMBERS' MEETING

Saturday, October 27, 2018
BEES OF THE WORLD'S DRIEST DESERT
Laurence Packer, York University

Saturday, December 1, 2018
ARACHNOPHOBES TO ARACHNOPHILES: FRIENDLY SPIDERS IN YOUR HOUSE, GARDENS AND PARKS (Eighth Annual Quimby F. Hess Lecture)
Christopher Buddle, McGill University

Saturday, January 26, 2019
THE URBAN MOSAIC: IMPACTS AND OPPORTUNITIES FOR BEE CONSERVATION AND RESEARCH
Charlotte de Keyzer, University of Toronto

Saturday, February 23, 2019
TERMITES IN TORONTO: THE SOCIAL BIOLOGY OF AN INVASIVE, HOME-WRECKING INSECT
Graham Thompson, Western University

Saturday, March 23, 2019
STUDENT SYMPOSIUM

Saturday, April 13, 2019
TEA BUG-REARING DAY

2017-2018

Saturday, September 23, 2017
MEMBERS' MEETING

Saturday, October 28, 2017
TORONTO'S SYMPHONY ORTHOPTERA
Steve Paiero, University of Guelph

Saturday, November 25, 2017
INSECTS AT THE TORONTO ZOO

Saturday, December 2, 2017
MAKING INSECTS: A GUIDE TO RESTORING THE LITTLE THINGS THAT RUN THE WORLD (Seventh Annual Quimby F. Hess Lecture)
Douglas Tallamy

Saturday, January 27, 2018
PROTECTING AND RECOVERING BUTTERFLY SPECIES AT RISK IN ONTARIO
Jessica Linton

Saturday, February 24, 2018
EVOLUTION OF BLOOD-FEEDING BEHAVIOUR IN BLACK FLIES
Mateus Pepinelli

Saturday, March 24, 2018
STUDENT SYMPOSIUM

Sunday, April 21, 2018
TEA BUG-REARING DAY

2016-2017

Saturday, September 24, 2016
MEMBERS' MEETING

Saturday, October 22, 2016
THE FOSSILS OF AQUATIC INSECTS TELL US LOTS OF THINGS
Roberto Quinlan, York University

Saturday, November 19, 2016
HOW IT TAKES HONEY TO MAKE A HONEY BEE (Sixth Annual Quimby F. Hess Lecture)
May Berenbaum, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Saturday, January 21, 2017
MY ADVENTURES TRAPPING INSECTS: Stomoxys calcitrans (Diptera: Muscidae) in south central Ontario
David Beresford, Trent University

Saturday, February 25, 2017
BIENNIAL BUTTERFLIES: DO 2-YEAR LIFECYCLES AFFECT GENETIC DIFFERENCE
Gard Otis, University of Guelph

Saturday, March 25, 2017
STUDENT SYMPOSIUM

Sunday, April 23, 2017
TEA BUG-REARING DAY

2015-2016

Saturday, September 24, 2016
MEMBERS' MEETING

Saturday, October 24, 2015
LOOKING FOR INSECTS IN ALL THE COLD PLACES
Brent Sinclair, Department of Biology, Western University

Saturday, November 21, 2015
RAP BATTLES AND POP: DISCOVERING THE SECRET SOUNDS OF INSECTS (Fifth Annual Quimby F. Hess Lecture)
Jayne Yack

Saturday, January 23, 2016
A Review of Some Biological Control Programs Against Invasive Plants in Canada and Ontario
William D. McIlveen

Saturday, February 27, 2016
The bird that kicked the wasps' nest: Red-throated Caracaras, social wasps and research in tropical America
Sean McCann, Simon Fraser University

Saturday, March 19, 2016
STUDENT SYMPOSIUM

Saturday, April 16, 2016
TEA BUG-REARING DAY

2014-15

Saturday, September 27, 2014
MEMBERS' MEETING

Saturday, October 25, 2014
THE NEW ROM BUTTERFLY FIELD GUIDE: THE BACKGROUND STORY
Antonia Guidotti and Brad Hubley

Saturday, November 22, 2014
THE IMPORTANCE OF INSECT CONSERVATION (Fourth Annual Quimby F. Hess Lecture)
Georges Brossard

Saturday, January 24, 2015
BLOOD-SUCKING BEASTIES IN A CHANGING CLIMATE
Fiona Hunter

Saturday, February 28, 2015
THE ART OF BUMBLEBEE WATCHING
Sheila Colla

Saturday, March 28, 2015
STUDENT SYMPOSIUM

Saturday, April 25, 2015
TEA BUG-REARING DAY

2013-14

Saturday, September 28, 2013
MEMBERS' MEETING

Saturday, October 19, 2013
DRAGONS AND DAMSELS ON THE FLY: PREDATORS IN THE AIR AND WATER
Beverley Edwards

Saturday, November 16, 2013
MY INORDINATE FONDNESS FOR BEETLES (Third Annual Quimby F. Hess Lecture)
Arthur Evans

Saturday, January 18, 2014
BEDBUGS: POLITICS AND SCIENCE OF THEIR RESURGENCE
Sam Bryks

Saturday, February 22, 2014
MACROPHOTOGRAPHY OF INSECTS
Max Skwarna

Saturday, March 22, 2014
STUDENT SYMPOSIUM

Saturday, April 26, 2014
TEA BUG-REARING DAY

2012-13

Saturday, September 22, 2012
MEMBER'S MEETING

Saturday, October 20, 2012
THE PIPEVINE SWALLOWTAIL: LIFE CYCLE AND ECOLOGY
Xi Wang

Saturday, November 17, 2012
MONARCH CONSERVATION: THE CHALLENGES AHEAD (Second Annual Quimby F. Hess Lecture)
Orley ("Chip") Taylor

Saturday, January 26, 2013
EXPLORING ARCTIC ICHNEUMONID COMMUNITIES WITH THE NORTHERN BIODIVERSITY PROGRAM
Laura Timms

Saturday, February 23, 2013
LEAF-MINING INSECTS
William D. McIlveen

Saturday, March 23, 2013
STUDENT SYMPOSIUM

Saturday, April 27, 2013
SYMPOSIUM ON REARING INSECTS AND SPIDERS
Don Davis, Daniel Pirvulescu, Scott McIvor, Joel Egan, Glenn Richardson, Lydia Attard and Alan Macnaughton

2011-12

Saturday, September 24, 2011
MEMBERS' MEETING

Saturday, October 29, 2011
BEYOND Mantis religiosa: AN OVERVIEW OF THE PRAYING MANTIDS (INSECTA: MANTODEA)
Julio Rivera

Saturday, November 19, 2011
SENTINELS ON THE WING (First Annual Quimby F. Hess Lecture)
Peter Hall

Saturday, January 28, 2012
MONITORING BUTTERFLIES ALONG AN URBAN GRADIENT IN THE REGION OF WATERLOO
Jessica Linton

Saturday, February 25, 2012
FILM "COLLECTING TASKER" / PANEL ABOUT COLLECTING led by Chris Darling

Saturday, March 24, 2012
STUDENT SYMPOSIUM

Saturday, April 28, 2012
PEST ALERT: INVASIVE SPECIES AND ONTARIO AGRICULTURE
Hannah Fraser

2010-11

Saturday, September 25, 2010
MEMBERS' MEETING

Saturday, October 23, 2010
UNCOVERING SPRING MIGRATION PATTERNS OF THE MONARCH
Nathan Miller

Saturday, November 27, 2010
INSECT LIFE CYCLES AND HOW INSECTS COPE WITH WINTER
James Kamstra

Saturday, January 22, 2011
WHAT’S THAT BUG? THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE UGLY OF DOMESTIC ARTHROPODS
Antonia Guidotti

Saturday February 26, 2011
CANADIAN JOURNAL of ARTHROPOD IDENTIFICATION - A CATALYST FOR BIODIVERSITY SCIENCE
Dave Cheung

Saturday, March 26, 2011
STUDENT SYMPOSIUM

Saturday, April 16, 2011
POLLINATORS AND POLLINATION: CANADIAN, CONTINENTAL, AND GLOBAL PROBLEMS
Peter Kevan

2009-10

Saturday, September 26, 2009
MEMBERS' MEETING

Saturday, October 24, 2009
BEFRIENDING A NATIVE BEETLE-HUNTING WASP FOR
FUN & PROFIT
Philip Careless

Saturday, November 28, 2009
SPIDERS OF ONTARIO: A GUIDE TO THE COMMON
SPECIES
Tom Mason

Saturday, January 23, 2010
THE EVOLUTIONARY DRAMA IN YOUR BACKYARD – GOLDENROD AND GALLS
Art Weis

Saturday, February 27, 2010
COMPLEX SIGNALS: WHAT DO SPIDERS HAVE TO SAY
Andrew Mason

Saturday, March 27, 2010
STUDENT SYMPOSIUM

Saturday, April 24, 2010
IMPERILED BUTTERFLY CONSERVATION
Adrienne Brewster

2008-09

Saturday September 27, 2008
MEMBERS' MEETING

Saturday, October 25, 2008
MOTHS AT LARGE
Jim des Rivieres

Saturday, November 22, 2008
MUD AND MONARCHS
W.D. McIlveen and Don Davis

Saturday, January 24, 2009
POLLINATOR WATCH
Heather Andrachuk

Saturday February 28, 2009
DRAGONFLIES and DAMSELFLIES of ONTARIO
Colin Jones

Saturday March 28, 2009
STUDENT SYMPOSIUM

Saturday, April 25, 2009
INSECTS OF SE ONTARIO: A PARK NATURALIST’S PERSPECTIVE
David Bree

2007-08

Saturday, September 22, 2007
MEMBERS' MEETING

Saturday, October 25, 2007
JOURNEY INTO THE JUNGLES OF MONTEVERDE, COSTA RICA
Jessica Grealey

Saturday, November 24, 2007
FUNGUS DISEASES OF INSECTS
W.D. McIlveen

Saturday, January 26, 2008
PHOTOGRAPHING INSECTS: TECHNIQUES, TIPS AND SECRETS
Kerry Jarvis

Saturday, February 23, 2008
COLONY COLLAPSE DISORDER (CCD) IN HONEYBEES
Ernesto Guzman

Saturday, March 29, 2008
STUDENT SYMPOSIUM

Saturday April 26, 2008
THE DEMISE OF THE GREEN DRAKE MAYFLY: WHAT IT TELLS US ABOUT THE HEALTH OF S. ONTARIO TROUT STREAMS
Henry Frania

2006-07

Saturday, September 23, 2006
MEMBERS' MEETING

Saturday, October 21, 2006
EXTINCTION OF INSECTS
W.D. McIlveen

Saturday, November 25, 2006
VIGNETTES OF INSECTNATURAL HISTORY
Chris Darling

Saturday, January 27, 2007
A LIFELONG INTEREST IN INSECTS
Alan Hanks

Saturday February 24, 2007
THE QUEST FOR SPECIES IDENTIFICATION
Paul Hebert

Saturday, March 24, 2007
STUDENT SYMPOSIUM

Saturday, April 28, 2007
BRINGING INSECTS TO THE PUBLIC
Margaret Pickles

2005-06

Saturday, September 24, 2005 1 PM
MEMBERS' MEETING

Saturday, October 22, 2005 
INSECTS in URBAN ENVIRONMENTS ( we attended the annual meeting of the Entomological Society of Ontario in lieu of having our own meeting)

Saturday, November 26, 2005 
WINGS OF PARADISE BUTTERFLY CONSERVATORY: a behind the scenes look at exhibit curating and butterfly research
Adrienne Kistner-Brewster

Saturday, January 28, 2006 
IT'S GOOD TO BE QUEEN: SOCIAL BEE-HAVIOUR AND THE MYTH OF THE HAPPY SLAVE
Miriam Richards

Saturday, February 25, 2006
THE LONG REACH OF THE GENE: INSECT/ PLANT INTERACTIONS
Marc Johnson

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