RESEARCH IN SPRUCE FORESTS OF SWEDEN
John Byers
1. Dusk over Lake Fryken
2. Lake Fryken by day
3. Sunset in a Värmland clearcut
4. Countryside and Torsby
5. 79 Saab filled with supplies
6. John Byers at field site
Bark beetles:
7. Host-tree finding models
8. Attack spacing of bark beetles
9. Bark beetle survival
10. Bark beetle pipetraps with funnels in clearcut
11. Slow-rotating pair of traps and John Byers
12. Puddle trap with bark beetles
13. Nonrandom arrival of beetles
14. bark beetle predator: Thanasimus formicarius
15. Ips typographus boring near hunting Thanasimus formicarius
Red wood ants, Formicus aquilonia:
16. Ants attacking mating Scarabs
17. Red wood ant
18. Red wood ant
19. Nest temperatures of Formica
20. How deep are ants in nest?
Various insects (non-research):
21. Large skipper butterfly
22. Spider wasp on leaves
23. Syrphid fly on dandelion flower
24. Butterfly and Syrphid fly on dandelion
25. "Barklöpare": Rhagium mordax
26. Large spruce weevil: Hylobius abietis
27. Camouflaged flesh fly
28. Geotrupes stercorarius scarab
29. Anchomenus sexpunctatus carabid
30. More Anchomenus sexpunctatus carabid
31. Robber fly (Diptera: Asilidae)
32. Tiger beetle (Coleoptera: Cicindelidae)
33. Horse fly (Diptera: Tabanidae)
MORE insects !
Animations:
34. Bee in Lupins 330K
35. flying in forest 189K
36. Lasius ant/aphids 274K
37. Lasius ant/aphids 172K
38. Spittle bug 125K