Flower Records for Anthophilous Cerambycidae in a Southwestern Michigan Woodland (Coleoptera)

Flower records are listed for 33 species of anthophilous Cerambycidae based on a six-year study in an 80-ha woodland in southwestern Michigan. Included is the first published flower record for Gaurotes thoradca, taken from Cornus racemosa

Ecology of the Cerambycidae (Coleoptera) of the Huron Mountains in Northern Michigan

Eighty-nine species of Cerambycidae were collected during a five-year survey of the woodboring beetle fauna of the Huron Mountains in Marquette County, Michigan. Host plants were determined for 51 species. Observations were made of species abundance and phenology, and the blossoms visited by anthophilous cerambycids

Observations on the Biology of the Oak Twig Pruner, \u3ci\u3eElaphidionoides Parallelus,\u3c/i\u3e (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) in Michigan

(excerpt) The oak twig pruner, Elaphidionoides parallelus (Newman) (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) is rather common in southern Michigan where it attacks living oaks and other hardwoods. The damage it inflicts is rarely serious, but it may be considered a pest insect if only for the nuisance it creates for those who must clean up the often numerous small branches pruned from street, lawn, and park trees

Correct Identity of the Oak Twig Pruner (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae)

(excerpt) The oak twig pruner is a cerambycid of minor economic importance which is generally common through most of eastern North America. The adult beetles oviposit on living twigs of oak and other hardwoods, and the larvae bore within the twig, subsequently pruning it from the tree. Haldeman (1847) identified this borer as Elaphidion villosus (Fabricius), a species later placed in the genus Elaphidionoides by Linsley (1963). This identification has been accepted and followed by Baker (1972), Craighead (1923, 1950), Duffy (1960), Knull (1946). Linsley (1963), and many other authors

Cerambycid Host Plants in a Southwestern Michigan Woodland (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae)

Host plant associations are listed for 61 species of Cerambycidae based on a six-year study in an 80-ha woodland in southwestern Michigan

New State Records of Cerambycidae From Michigan (Coleoptera)

(excerpt) Previously published lists of Cerambycidae from Michigan (Gosling 1973, Gosling and Gosling 1977) recorded 225 species from the state. Reassignment of Trachysida brevifrons (Howden) as a subspecies of Trachysida aspera (LeConte) (Linsley and Chemsak 1976) reduced the total by one. Recent collecting in St. Joseph County in southwestern Michigan and Marquette County in the Upper Peninsula has added three species to those already known from Michigan

Notes on the Genetics of \u3ci\u3ePhymatodes Testaceus\u3c/i\u3e (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae)

Phenotype ratio for elytral coloration among reared offspring of Phymatodes testaceus suggests that this trait is controlled by a single gene with a dominant allele producing brown elytra and a reeessive allele for blue elytra. The brown-elytra phenotype previously has been reported as recessive in this species

Michigan Trees. Burton V. Barnes and Warren H. Wagner, Jr. The University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor. 384 pages, 120 figures. 1981. 10.95(cloth),10.95 (cloth), 5.95 (paper).

(excerpt) Nearly all entomologists studying terrestrial insects in the Lake States region find it necessary to recognize and attempt to understand the woody plant communities in which they live. My own great interest in trees was an obvious corollary of my work with forest insects and began with a copy of Michigan Trees by Charles Otis

Host Plant for \u3ci\u3eBrachyleptura Champlaini\u3c/i\u3e (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae)

(excerpt) Brachyleptura champlaini Casey was relegated to synonymy with Anoplodera vagans (Olivier) by Swaine and Hopping (1928), and was so regarded until Linsley and Chemsak (1976) restored the status of both Casey\u27s species and the genus Brachyleptura

Stochastic multi-scale finite element based reliability analysis for laminated composite structures

This paper proposes a novel multi-scale approach for the reliability analysis of composite structures that accounts for both microscopic and macroscopic uncertainties, such as constituent material properties and ply angle. The stochastic structural responses, which establish the relationship between structural responses and random variables, are achieved using a stochastic multi-scale finite element method, which integrates computational homogenisation with the stochastic finite element method. This is further combined with the first- and second-order reliability methods to create a unique reliability analysis framework. To assess this approach, the deterministic computational homogenisation method is combined with the Monte Carlo method as an alternative reliability method. Numerical examples are used to demonstrate the capability of the proposed method in measuring the safety of composite structures. The paper shows that it provides estimates very close to those from Monte Carlo method, but is significantly more efficient in terms of computational time. It is advocated that this new method can be a fundamental element in the development of stochastic multi-scale design methods for composite structures