Post by kelsied on Nov 12, 2012 21:41:22 GMT -8
Hello members of the insectnet,
I am contacting you all with regard to an undergraduate research project that I am currently conducting in the Will Lab at UC, Berkeley. The project is mainly concerned with the mating behaviors of Carabid beetles, a topic on which I suspect many of you may be able to help me.
The Carabid family is incredibly large and vastly diverse, with mating behaviors that are most likely as varied as the
many species. My goal is to gain more information on these sparsely-documented behavior in the form of images in order to better understand the mechanics of the mating process (i.e. what parts of the anatomy are utilized and how they are used during copulation) and then to usefully characterize the behaviors for analyses.
If you have any images that could be of use to the project, I would greatly appreciate the opportunity to examine them. Use of the images will be for research purposes only unless we specifically ask for some other use. We will not publish or share images unless you release them to use under typical creative commons copyright. Credit for the source of the images will always be given. Images should show carabid beetles in copula and be clear and close enough to have a good idea of the points of contact between the male and female. They need not be super-high resolution, artistic quality images. We need some locality information (more is better) and photographer/collector. Additional information like time of day, habitat, weather, your observations of behavior would also be a big help.
Also, if you know of any colleagues or friends that could be of assistance, I would be very grateful for their contact information or for you to forward my message to them.
In the near future I will be developing a blog and web pages where I will summarize more details of the study and share, as appropriate, images, data and results.
Attached is an image that may give you some idea of what I am searching for.
Thank you so much for collaborating with me.
Respectfully,
Kelsie Dickerson
Email: k.dickerson@berkeley.edu
I am contacting you all with regard to an undergraduate research project that I am currently conducting in the Will Lab at UC, Berkeley. The project is mainly concerned with the mating behaviors of Carabid beetles, a topic on which I suspect many of you may be able to help me.
The Carabid family is incredibly large and vastly diverse, with mating behaviors that are most likely as varied as the
many species. My goal is to gain more information on these sparsely-documented behavior in the form of images in order to better understand the mechanics of the mating process (i.e. what parts of the anatomy are utilized and how they are used during copulation) and then to usefully characterize the behaviors for analyses.
If you have any images that could be of use to the project, I would greatly appreciate the opportunity to examine them. Use of the images will be for research purposes only unless we specifically ask for some other use. We will not publish or share images unless you release them to use under typical creative commons copyright. Credit for the source of the images will always be given. Images should show carabid beetles in copula and be clear and close enough to have a good idea of the points of contact between the male and female. They need not be super-high resolution, artistic quality images. We need some locality information (more is better) and photographer/collector. Additional information like time of day, habitat, weather, your observations of behavior would also be a big help.
Also, if you know of any colleagues or friends that could be of assistance, I would be very grateful for their contact information or for you to forward my message to them.
In the near future I will be developing a blog and web pages where I will summarize more details of the study and share, as appropriate, images, data and results.
Attached is an image that may give you some idea of what I am searching for.
Thank you so much for collaborating with me.
Respectfully,
Kelsie Dickerson
Email: k.dickerson@berkeley.edu
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