Illinois Natural History Survey • Prairie Research Institute
New Collection manager, Dr. Tommy McElrath, just arrived, replacing Chris Grinter who is now insect collection manager at the California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco. Please contact Tommy for all collection-related business.
Diane Szafoni, a GIS coordinator at INHS, discovered that her great, great uncle by marriage, Andrew Bolter, donated his entire insect collection to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1900. This valuable collection included thousands of beetles, butterflies, and other insects.
Local Illinois collector, Dr. Pat Thomas donated over 6,000 insects to the INHS insect collection. Read the full story from The Times.
Graduate student Brendan Morris and Dr. Chris Dietrich recently described a new genus and species of Treehopper; Selenacentrus after the singer Selena Quintanilla (the Queen of Tejano music). The hopper flies in South Texas, naturally. Read the story from Science Daily.