New Lepidoptera-Parasitoid Associations in Weedy Corn Plantings: A Potential Alternate Host for \u3ci\u3eOstrinia Nubilalis\u3c/i\u3e (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae) Parasitoids

Larvae of the common sooty wing, Pholisora catullus, and pupae of the yellow-collared scape moth, Cisseps Fulvicollis, were collected in corn plantings containing different manipulated, indigenous weed communities to determine if these Lepidoptera had parasitoid species in common with the European corn borer, Ostrinia nubilalis. Pholisora catullus larvae were collected from lambsquarter, Chenopodium album, and redroot pigweed, Amaranthus retroflexus, whereas pupae of C. Julvicollis were obtained from corn. Four parasitoid species were reared from P. catulIus: Cotesia pholisorae, Oncophanes americanu (Hymenoptera: Braconidae), Gambrus ultimus, and Sinophorus albipalpus (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae). Of these, O. americanus and S. albipalpus represent new host records. Gambrus ultimus, however, was probably parasitizing a primary parasitoid of P. catullus. Itoplectis conquisitor and Vulgichneumon brevicinctor (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae) were reared from C. fulvicollis; V. brevicinctor had not previously been associated with this host. Both species reared from C. fulvicollis and Gambrus ultimus have been reported from O. nubilalis

Horace and Catullus: the Case of the Suppressed Precursor in 'Odes' 1.22 and 1.32

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Impersonating Priapus

This is a preprint (author's original) version of an article published in The American Journal of Philology in 2007. The final version of this article may be found at http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/ajp/ (login may be required). The version made available in OpenBU was supplied by the author.Whenever Catullus is sexually aggressive or brutally frank in his poetry, modern commentators will often call him "Priapic," an adjective that tends to obscure rather than elucidate the various ways in which Catullus uses the figure of Priapus in crafting his poetic persona. This article attempts to read poems 47, 56, and, in particular, 16, as Catullus' experiments in the Greek and Roman subgenre of Priapic poetry. Once we see that these poems are focalized through the generic perspective of Priapus, Catullus' impersonation of Priapus becomes less an assumption of hyperphallic masculinity and more a witty way in which to lampoon a world-view dominated by an obsessive focus on penetration. Impersonating Priapus meant, in fact, exposing the garden god and his hopeless rusticity to urbane critique

When Poetry and Humor Get Hitched

Through humor, poetry explores the imagination and the mind just as it does through other means of expression. Comic poetry finds the truth in the illogical and in the absurd; it finds what unsettles us through its use of surprise; it finds delight and play in the unknown and uncertain. By its very nature, comic poetry clings to the edges of what we know, so pinpointing its characteristics is tricky. But the shared characteristic of all comic poetry is the permission the poet grants herself to disobey boundaries. The poet chooses not to fit her works within the reader’s expectations, the reader’s sense of logic, or the reader’s definitions of things in the world. Some of the boundaries crossed come out of breaking out of poetic custom. Many poems break boundaries of thought and expression; a comic poet uses one or more of these techniques to bring her funny poems to profound places. The result is always the exploration of unexplored or underexplored territory

Boston University Concert Choir, Odi et Amo: Songs of Love and Hate, February 19, 2008

This is the concert program of the Boston University Concert Choir, Odi et Amo: Songs of Love and Hate performance on Tuesday, February 19, 2008 at 8:00 p.m., at Marsh Chapel, 735 Commonwealth Avenue. Works performed were "Italienische Madrigale," D'orrida selce alpina (SWV 6) and Quella damma son io (SWV 11) by Heinrich Schütz, Caro bell' idol mio (K. 562) by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Sie, sie ist dahin (K. 229) by W. A. Mozart, and V'amo di core (K. 348) by W. A. Mozart, Cold Lake by Mary Montgomery Koppel, and A capella choruses from "Catulli Carmina, Ludi scaeni" by Carl Orff. Digitization for Boston University Concert Programs was supported by the Boston University Center for the Humanities Library Endowed Fund

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Boston University Chamber Chorus, Saturday, November 18, 2000

This is the concert program of the Boston University Chamber Chorus performance on Saturday, November 18, 2000 at 8:00 p.m., at the Boston University Concert Hall, 855 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts. Works performed were Spanisches Liederspie, Op 74 (von Geibel) by Robert Schumann, and from Six Elizabethan Songs and I Hate and I Love by Dominick Argento. Digitization for Boston University Concert Programs was supported by the Boston University Humanities Library Endowed Fund

Natural History of the Common Sooty Wing Skipper, \u3ci\u3ePholisora Catullus\u3c/i\u3e (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae), in Central Illinois

The common sooty wing skipper, Pholisora catullus, has three broods each year in east-central Illinois. Adults are active for only a few hours at mid-day_ Wing color is a rough indicator of age in the field, changing from black to brown over 5 days. These skippers have adult lifespans of about 1 week in the field. Females mate early on their first morning of adult life, and some females mate more than once in their lifetime. Females can lay up to 32 eggs daily, and appear to be able to detect host plants visually over a distance of up to one meter. Densities of these insects are lower in and around urban areas even though larval host plants and suitable nectar sources for adults are present

Male Youths as Objects of Desire in Latin Literature: Some Antinomies in the Priapic Model of Roman Sexuality

Drawing on a range of sources such as Roman oratory, love elegy, Carmina Priapea and Petronius, the paper claims that the Priapic model of Roman Sexuality entails a particularly vulnerable form of male sexuality which can best be observed in descriptions of young men in the transitional period to manhood, such as, e.g., Achilles in Statius' Achilleis