Insect Focus Group

Kerry Wood Nature Centre 6300 45 Avenue, Red Deer, AB, Canada

Your Host:  Don Wales Topic:  Nerve wing insects and the order Lepidoptera* - moths and butterflies *An order of insects that comprises the butterflies and moths. They have four large scale-covered wings that bear distinctive markings, and larvae that are caterpillars

Insect Focus Group

THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED Insect Focus Group   Your Host:  Don Wales  403-343-2937    don@hexapod.ca Topic:  The Beetles, Order Coleoptera, an order of insects that comprises the beetles (including weevils), forming the largest order of animals on the earth. Feel free to join in with areas of Entomology that you may be interested in. Either […]

Insect Focus Group

Kerry Wood Nature Centre

Your Host:  Don Wales Topic:  Trichoptera (caddisflies), Neuroptera (nerve-winged insects), Coleoptera (beetles) Trichoptera: (caddisflies) the adult winged insects, with two pairs of wings with long, silky hairs and long antennae, are nocturnal and provide food for night-flying birds, bats, small mammals, amphibians and arthropods. The larval stage lasts much longer, often for one or more years, […]

Insect Focus Group

Kerry Wood Nature Centre 6300 45 Avenue, Red Deer, AB, Canada

Your Host:  Don Wales Topic:  Coleoptera (Beetles)  Coleoptera  (Beetles) Beetles are a group of insects that form the order Coleoptera, in the superorder Endopterygota. Their front pair of wings is hardened into wing-cases, elytra, distinguishing them from most other insects.

Insect Focus Group

Kerry Wood Nature Centre

Your Host:  Don Wales Topic:  Lepidoptera and miscellaneous orders. Lepidoptera - moths, butterflies. This is one of the most well known and easily recognizable orders of insects. The order Lepidoptera means 'scaly wings'. They have four large scale-covered wings that bear distinctive markings, and larvae that are caterpillars.  

Insect Focus Group

Kerry Wood Nature Centre 6300 45 Avenue, Red Deer, AB, Canada

Your Host:  Don Wales Topic:  Diptera order Diptera – true flies. The Diptera include flies, mosquitos, gnats, midges, and no-see-ums. There are about 120,000 known species of true flies alive today. Dipterans typically have sucking mouth-parts, and may feed on plant juices or on decaying organic matter. A number of dipterans feed on blood, and some […]

Insect Focus Group

Kerry Wood Nature Centre 6300 45 Avenue, Red Deer, AB, Canada

Your Host:  Don Wales Topic:  Diptera order and a healthy review of the Coleoptera order Diptera – true flies. The Diptera include flies, mosquitos, gnats, midges, and no-see-ums. There are about 120,000 known species of true flies alive today. Dipterans typically have sucking mouth-parts, and may feed on plant juices or on decaying organic matter. A number of dipterans […]

Insect Focus Group

Kerry Wood Nature Centre 6300 45 Avenue, Red Deer, AB, Canada

Your Host:  Don Wales Topic: Hymenoptera (Bees and wasps)  Hymenoptera is a large order of insects, comprising the sawflies, wasps, bees, and ants. Over 150,000 living species of Hymenoptera have been described, in addition to over 2,000 extinct ones. They have four transparent wings and the females typically have a sting.

Insect Focus Group

Kerry Wood Nature Centre 6300 45 Avenue, Red Deer, AB, Canada

Your Host:  Don Wales Topic: Field Trip, weather permitting  

Insect Focus Group

Kerry Wood Nature Centre 6300 45 Avenue, Red Deer, AB, Canada

Insect Focus Group Meeting at the Kerry Wood Nature Centre June 19, 2019 10:00 a.m. to Noon Your Host:  Don Wales Topic: Gaetz Lake Sanctuary Field Trip, weather permitting