pannaking22 Posted September 21, 2014 Share Posted September 21, 2014 Hello all! I have been in the roach hobby for a few months now and figured I would join the forum for more good info. While roaches aren't my first choice (arachnids all the way! ), they definitely are an interesting group that I want to explore more. I am currently a graduate student in entomology at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and I study ticks and tick-borne disease. I'll try to put together a list of all my inverts, but hard to say if it'll happen since it's always changing and I've found it to be getting pretty lengthy lol. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inkie14 Posted September 21, 2014 Share Posted September 21, 2014 OMG Your list of pets is huuuuggggeee!!!! So jealous! Welcome to the forum!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
happy1892 Posted September 21, 2014 Share Posted September 21, 2014 Welcome. You have some amazing stuff on your blog! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pannaking22 Posted September 21, 2014 Author Share Posted September 21, 2014 Thank you! Glad you like my pet list and blog! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wcbpolish Posted September 22, 2014 Share Posted September 22, 2014 OMG Your list of pets is huuuuggggeee!!!! So jealous! Welcome to the forum!! I agree with this... perhaps too long to list... I have to scroll down more than I like to see the next post... I hate to complain, but perhaps you could change this to be under your post as a signature and make it columns to take up less room? Just a thought... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pannaking22 Posted September 23, 2014 Author Share Posted September 23, 2014 I agree with this... perhaps too long to list... I have to scroll down more than I like to see the next post... I hate to complain, but perhaps you could change this to be under your post as a signature and make it columns to take up less room? Just a thought... Not quite the welcome I was expecting, but you have a good point. I'll get things changed up so it's a bit more manageable. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pannaking22 Posted September 23, 2014 Author Share Posted September 23, 2014 Tried messing with it and things got very bunched up and unreadable. I'll mess with it more later on when I have some extra time or need a break from homework, grading and data analysis. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RomanBuck Posted September 23, 2014 Share Posted September 23, 2014 wcbpolish is right on the button with that, and he means no harm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wcbpolish Posted September 23, 2014 Share Posted September 23, 2014 Sorry! Welcome. I did not mean to be rude. It's always good to have real entomologists here to temper some of our unenlightened perspective on our bugs!n What is your area of research? I have a friend who's masters or PhD work (can't remember which) was on bark beetles. I was more interested in the hissing roaches that she shared with me! (that was my bug start) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pannaking22 Posted September 23, 2014 Author Share Posted September 23, 2014 Shoot, I hope I didn't sound rude and I'm sorry if I did! I had meant that jokingly, but I don't think it came out right. I'll get things either better organized or cut down the list a bit later in the week once I've finished TAing for the week For my thesis, I'm studying the spread of the black-legged tick (Ixodes scapularis) and Lyme disease (Borrelia burgdorferi) in the Chicago, IL metropolitan area. I have also spent time studying/learning to identify mosquitoes and West Nile Virus. I do a lot of taxonomic identification of Kenyan ticks, though I enjoy taxonomy as a whole. Just as side projects (and for fun!) I study and collect jewel beetles (Buprestidae), tiger beetles (Carabidae: subfamily Cicindelinae) and longhorn beetles (Cerambycidae). I've been trying to put together a nice collection of buprestids and cicindelids, so if anyone wants to sell/give/trade me some I'm always looking! Bark beetles are a good group to study, especially since they have been doing some major damage out west of the Rockies. Hissers are a great way to get into entomology! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wcbpolish Posted September 23, 2014 Share Posted September 23, 2014 Shoot, I hope I didn't sound rude and I'm sorry if I did! I had meant that jokingly, but I don't think it came out right. I'll get things either better organized or cut down the list a bit later in the week once I've finished TAing for the week For my thesis, I'm studying the spread of the black-legged tick (Ixodes scapularis) and Lyme disease (Borrelia burgdorferi) in the Chicago, IL metropolitan area. I have also spent time studying/learning to identify mosquitoes and West Nile Virus. I do a lot of taxonomic identification of Kenyan ticks, though I enjoy taxonomy as a whole. Just as side projects (and for fun!) I study and collect jewel beetles (Buprestidae), tiger beetles (Carabidae: subfamily Cicindelinae) and longhorn beetles (Cerambycidae). I've been trying to put together a nice collection of buprestids and cicindelids, so if anyone wants to sell/give/trade me some I'm always looking! Bark beetles are a good group to study, especially since they have been doing some major damage out west of the Rockies. Hissers are a great way to get into entomology! I think bark beetles are an issue in the midwest too... aren't the emerald ash borers a bark beetle? She got the hissers from a colony at Michigan State University Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pannaking22 Posted September 24, 2014 Author Share Posted September 24, 2014 There are members of the bark beetle family (Scolytidae) in the Midwest, but they don't pose nearly as much of a problem. Emerald ash borers (Agrilus planipennis) are buprestids. We have a big hisser colony at the University of Illinois too. We are trying to get a couple other colonies going as well, but those are still pretty young, so we're playing the waiting game for now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pannaking22 Posted September 29, 2014 Author Share Posted September 29, 2014 Couldn't quite get the list set up correctly in my signature (all the words kept smashing into each other, so it became a mess), so I just changed it up to the part people would find most important Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wcbpolish Posted September 30, 2014 Share Posted September 30, 2014 much more visually appealing. I'm sorry for complaining... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pannaking22 Posted October 6, 2014 Author Share Posted October 6, 2014 No problem! As I've learned from blogging, visually appealing is always very helpful and it keeps people from getting distracted/bored/etc. Heck, after a couple posts I started getting tired of scrolling down past all the extra non-roach related stuff and it's all mine! Much better set up now, especially if I have specific species questions or people want to trade things. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tongue Flicker Posted October 8, 2014 Share Posted October 8, 2014 hey panna welcome aboard! think i saw u in arachnoboards already hehe Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RomanBuck Posted October 8, 2014 Share Posted October 8, 2014 hey panna welcome aboard! think i saw u in arachnoboards already hehe AND HES BACK!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tongue Flicker Posted October 9, 2014 Share Posted October 9, 2014 AND HES BACK!!! we're here for panna not me haha!! but ready to get flooded by my new posts, travel pics and new pets LOL Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pannaking22 Posted October 10, 2014 Author Share Posted October 10, 2014 Thanks Tongue Flicker, good to see you over here too lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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