Dr. 珍妮特·R. Mihuc
Year Started at Paul Smith’s: 2000
部门: 自然科学
计划: 生物学
传记
I am a biologist who specializes in entomology, the study of insects. For the past three years, I have been building a checklist of the moth species present on Paul Smith’s College lands. I have documented over 300 species of moths in the forests and wetlands of Paul Smith’s College! Forested lands harbor a large number of moth species whose caterpillars feed on the leaves of living trees but it doesn’t stop there. The caterpillars of some species of moths feed only on fallen leaves, some species feed on lichens or on non-woody plants. This huge diversity of caterpillars represents an important food supply for other animals in the food web. Most species of moths in the Adirondacks have large geographic distributions and occur across the northeast but some moths specialize on boreal plant species that may not exist south of the Adirondacks. Establishing a current checklist of species will be important as a baseline. If the geographic ranges of host plants change in the future, the composition of the moth community may also change. If seasonal temperatures change, insects may mature slightly faster or more slowly, so I also gather data on flight periods, the dates in which adult moths of a particular species are encountered.
One of the largest-sized moths we have locally is the Columbia silk moth, Hyalophora哥伦比亚, which feeds only on the tamarack/larch tree. This boreal tree reaches the southern end of its geographic range here in the Adirondacks. I was able to document the presence of the columbia moth in four counties in the Adirondacks. Its presence in New York had not been documented in over 50 years. Like most giant silk moths, adults do not feed and only live for about a week. It is challenging to locate adult silk moths during the short time period when they are on the wing but citizen scientists can help in this effort. I am the Director of 项目Silkmoth, a citizen science project to document sightings of giant silk moths in northern New York State. If you want to know more about these large, beautiful moths, or submit a sighting, visit my 项目Silkmoth website.
Interests and 活动
- moth taxonomist for Adirondack All-Taxa Biodiversity Inventory bioblitzes (annual or biennial)
- lead blacklighting events during National Moth Week
- contribute insect sightings to online databases: Butterflies and Moths of North America, iNaturalist
- book reviewer for Science Books & Films, a publication of the American Association for the 进步 of Science
- hobbies include hiking, cross-country skiing, meditative drumming and African dancing
学术背景
1995 D.A. Idaho State University, 生物学
1991 M.S. Idaho State University, 生物学
1988 B.S. Oklahoma State University, Zoology
Selected Publications and Presentations
2018米胡，J.R. Boreal pine looper (Nepytia pellucidaria): A rare moth to look for this fall? 新闻letter of the Vermont Entomological Society 100: 9.
2018米胡，J.R. & T. L. 麦凯布. Nepytia pellucidaria (Packard) (Lepidoptera: Geometridae) in New York State. 新闻 of the Lepidopterist’s Society 60(2): 66-67.
2016. Mihuc J.R. 最近的纪录 Hyalophora哥伦比亚 (S.I. Smith, 1865) (Saturniidae) in New York State. 新闻 of the Lepidopterist’s Society 58(4): 178-81.
2015 Giant Silkmoth Presence in Northern New York State: Five Years of Data from 项目Silkmoth. Northeastern Natural 历史 conference
2012 项目Silkmoth: giant silkmoths in northern New York. SUNY-ESF Huntington lecture series
2008年伍德考克，T., C. 埃文斯,C. Laxson R. 塔克J. 艾伦,我. Mihuc E. 艾伦,T. Mihuc. Land use designation and vegetation community structure in the Adirondack Uplands (New York, USA). Applied Vegetation Science 11: 509-520.
2006米胡，J. R. T. B. Mihuc T. 丘鹬,E.A. Romanowicz T. 杰克逊,L. 迈尔斯,K. 春天,C. Tran J. Bulova. E. 埃文斯和D. 韦尔奇. Composition of stream benthic macroinvertebrate assemblages in managed and Preserve Adirondack (New York, U.S.A.) headwater catchments. Verhandlungen der Internationalen Vereingung fur Theoretische und Angewandte Limnologie 29(4): 1921-1924.
[1999]米胡，J.R. & D. Streubel. Investigating decomposition and the soil community using soil microcosms. American 生物学 Teacher 61:612-615.
米胡，J.R., C.H. Trost & T.B. Mihuc. Shorebird predation on benthic macroinvertebrates in an irrigation reservoir. Great Basin Naturalist 57:245-252.
课程
BIO 205 Animal 生物学, Bio 204 Plant 生物学, BIO 361 Entomology, BIO 457 Aquatic Invertebrates
Relevant Work Experience
1999-2000 Plattsburgh State University – Adjunct Instructor
1997-1998 Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville – Adjunct Instructor
1994-1996 Louisiana State University – Instructor
1993 (Fall) University of Oklahoma – 访问ing Instructor
