We have a new president elect!

Dear Colleagues,

99 ballots were received in the recent ISH election for President-Elect.

All three candidates received very strong support. As one of you mentioned, with three candidates of this caliber, we couldn't lose.

But John Heraty had a substantial margin, and he is the next President-Elect of ISH. Congratulations, John! John will take over from President MIke Sharkey at the end of 2012.

Our thanks to all of you that voted, and best wishes to you all,

Jim Woolley

Proctos newsletter now available

Thanks to Michael Elliott at the Australia Museum we now have several issues of Proctos, the proctotrupoid newsletter, scanned as PDFs and available for your perusal. Based on the volume/issue numbers we have I suspect we're missing a few. As far as I can tell, Proctos isn't available on the Web anywhere. Do you know where we can find any missing issues? (see also the ISH publications page)

• volume 1, issue 1 (PDF)
• volume 1, issue 2 (PDF)
• volume 2, issue 1 (missing?)
• volume 2, issue 2 (PDF)
• volume 3, issue 1 (PDF)
• others?

Update: We got a copy of volume 2, issue 1, so now the question is - are there any issues after volume 3, issue 1?

Hamuli volume 2, issue 1 published

The next iteration of the ISH newsletter, Hamuli, was published today - a beefy 35 pages worth of articles, photos, and miscellanea. If you were a member last year you should have gotten the link as an email from the secretary (me!). This issue will be available to members only until August, 2011, and future issues will open for members in good standing to publish free of charge. Membership has its privileges! Why not join or renew today? There are multiple ways to join or renew membership in the International Society of Hymenopterists:

• electronically via Paypal
• old skool way, by check (with the membership form PDF)

Hamuli accepting submissions until January 15

We're accepting submissions for Hamuli (volume 2, issue 1) until January 15, 2011. The goal is to publish this issue by the end of January. Please send anything you might want to include—poems, jokes, photos, news, announcements, specimens for exchange, methods, opinions, whatever—as .rtf, .doc, or .docx or, for images, as .jpg or .tif. You can email your submission to andy_deans@ncsu.edu.

Previous issues of Hamuli can be found on our ISH publications page.

New Membership Form Now Online

Our yearly membership drive is about to begin! Membership has been down the past few years but we are hoping to dramatically change this trend with new initiatives by the society.

First we are expanding our session at the Entomological Society of America Meeting to incorporate a series of talks that would be interesting to anyone with a fascination for Hymenoptera or fun and adventurous fieldwork. This year you'll find us Sunday, December 12, 2010 from 1:00 PM-5:00 PM in the Ascot (Town and Country Hotel and Convention Center) in San Diego. Our yearly business meeting will follow the talks. Session details (speakers, times, etc.) are listed on this blog.

Secondly we are moving in 2011 to an open access publication model. More information about the new look of the Journal of Hymenoptera Research will be discussed at the ESA business meeting (details above) and on this Website.

Thirdly the ISH newsletter Hamuli is in rapid production. Deadline for the next issue is 31 December 2010. We'd love to have your stories from the field, news items, interesting or funny photos, opinion pieces, jokes, poems, etc. Whatever you think is newsworthy. If you missed it the last issue of Hamuli is available for download here.

You can renew (or join!) online using PayPal or by sending us a check or credit card information in the mail. Please see the membership page for forms, details and contact information.

ISH at the ESA 2010 Annual Meeting

It's that time of year again. December 12, the day of our next ISH symposium and business meeting, is rapidly approaching, and we are looking forward to what will definitely be a fun program. Here's the list of talks, which mainly focus on fieldwork:

• 1:00 PM – Welcoming Remarks
• 1:05 PM – Ant diversity in the pine forest – a comparison of east Texas and Belize. Jerry L. Cook, Sam Houston State University
• 1:25 PM – Eucharitids and fire ants - Systematics and Biological Control - when the rubber meets the road in Dominica. John Heraty, University of California-Riverside
• 1:45 PM – Bees, sea breeze, and MPs: Establishing bee species inventories at U.S. Naval Base Guantánamo Bay in Cuba. Seán Brady, Smithsonian Institution; Sam Droege, USGS
• 2:05 PM – Parasites and inquilines of Trypoxyon manni (Crabronidae) in Trinidad, West Indies. Allan W. Hook, St. Edward's University
• 2:25 PM – Litter-mania in Honduras: Project LLAMA 2010 Field Season. John Longino, The Evergreen State College; Robert S. Anderson, Canadian Museum of Nature
• 2:45 PM – Field notes from Down Under: Accumulating Aculeates in Australia. Craig M. Brabant, University of Wisconsin; Laura Breitkreuz, Museum für Naturkunde; Stefanie Krause, Museum für Naturkunde
• 3:05 PM – ISH Business Meeting 

Following the business portion of the symposium we'll gather for drinks and casual socializing. Do you have any items for the agenda? Will you be attending the ESA annual meeting this year? See you then!

Hamuli - the new ISH newsletter

The inaugural issue of Hamuli (PDF, 3.8MB), the new Society newsletter, is now available! And the amount of content provided by ISH members was truly astounding. Thanks to everyone for helping make this happen! Feedback is greatly appreciated, so that future issues will be even better. (I know the layout isn't perfect, but what else should be fixed?) I used Adobe InDesign (CS3) to put it together, so if anyone knows any tricks or wants to have the original .indd file let me know!

The deadline for volume 2, issue 1 is December 31, 2010, so get your writer's caps on!

UPDATE: A. Dal Molin pointed out that I introduced a typo into her article about Pe. Moure. He passed away this year (2010), not in 2009. My apologies to all. This typo is fixed in the newest PDF version, available at the link above.