Harold A. Mathiak
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Harold A. Mathiak surveyed 251 rivers and creeks across Wisconsin for the presence of freshwater mussels during the summers of 1973 through 1977 and published the results of the 641-site survey in his 1979 book, now out of print. Voucher specimens (7000+) with the pertinent date, stream, county, and township/range/section data were donated to six institutions including the Milwaukee Public Museum.
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(1979)
Joan Jass and Barbara Klausmeier
Milwaukee Public Museum Contributions in Biology and Geology. N. 94: 1-158.
(August 28, 2000)
Leslie A. Ferge and George J. Balogh
Milwaukee Public Museum Contributions in Biology and Geology. N. 93: 1-55.
(March 20, 2000)
Joan P. Jass
Milwaukee Public Museum Contributions in Biology and Geology. N. 99: 1-28.
(March 17, 2004)
Noonan, G. R.
INSIGHT. A Milwaukee Public Museum Series in
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(September 22, 2003)
Susan Borkin
LORE
The great copper, Lycaena xanthoides dione, is one of several butterflies currently under study, with my goal being to uncover the details of their natural history and understand what is required for their survival.
(1996)
Susan Borkin
LORE
The collections of a museum are like fingerprints. They can be used to separate natural history museums from other kinds of museums, but well beyond that, each museum can be identified individually based on its collections. The numbers and kinds of specimens or artifacts, their rarity or historical importance and how well they have been cared for and documented differ at each museum.
(1996)
Joan Jass and Barbara Klausmeier. Illustrated by Dale A. Chelberg
Milwaukee Public Museum Contributions in Biology and Geology. N. 97: 1-51.
(October 12, 2002)
George T. Austin and Philip J. DeVries
Milwaukee Public Museum Contributions in Biology and Geology. N. 96: 1-8.
(October 29, 2001)
Susan Borkin
LORE
In 1883, the first catalogue of Wisconsin's butterflies was published by Philo Romayne Hoy, a country physician and one of the state's early naturalists. Sixty-eight butterfly and thirty-one skipper species were reported, nearly all collected within ten miles of Racine.
(1996)
Joan P. Jass
LORE
As the plane descended through the broken cloud cover of the late afternoon, I could see that we were entering a wide valley surrounded by green, forest-covered slopes, obscured in part by drifting wisps of clouds. To be, this was the first exciting vista of "The Tropics"--an exotic locality in which to be spending the next ten days of late February and early March collecting invertebrates for the museum.
(1996)
Joan P. Jass
LORE
If you have learned to fear spiders, or have never been impressed by their interesting behavior or beautiful colors, you might wonder, what good are spiders, anyway?
(1996)
Jody T. Barbeau and Martin J. Blasczyk
LORE
In popular culture, the tarantula has often been portrayed as being both repulsive and something to be feared. Typical misconceptions have given them a bad reputation, one that is not justified. These private animals are usually quite harmless when treated with respect, and often exhibit interesting behaviors.
(1996)
Joan Jass and Barbara Klausmeier
Milwaukee Public Museum Contributions in Biology and Geology. N. 95: 1-105.
(October 24, 2001)
Joan Jass and Barbara Klausmeier
Milwaukee Public Museum Contributions in Biology and Geology. N. 100: 1-77.
(April 27, 2004)
Joan Jass and Barbara Klausmeier
Insight
A summary of distribution data for 116 Recent terrestrial isopod species (51 genera, 18 families) reported from the West Indies is presented based on records in the literature. Publications with diagnostic illustrations are cited and type localities given. Island checklists are generated based on citations for the first records in the literature.
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(April 2006)
H. H. Hobbs III and Joan Jass
Milwaukee Public Museum
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Crayfishes and, to a much lesser degree,
shrimp, are important members of Wisconsin’s
aquatic communities. They are used as bait for
certain game fishes, are valuable components of
aquatic ecosystems in that they serve as major
processors of detritus and can greatly affect the
biomass of primary and secondary producers,
have value as game fish forage, and are consumed
by man on a small scale in various parts of the
state.
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(1988)
P.J. DeVries, Bérites C. Cabral, and Carla M. Penz
Milwaukee Public Museum Contributions in Biology and Geology. N. 102: 1-13.
(May 31, 2004)