Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science articles from September 2005

Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science archives from September 2005

Distribution, infestation, and habits of sericea lespedeza (Lespedeza cuneata) in Cowley County, Kansas.
September 22, 2005... Sericea lespedeza [Lespedeza cuneata (Dumont) G. Don] is a non-native invasive plant that threatens the health of prairie and rangeland. A survey of rangeland in Cowley County, Kansas, was conducted to determine the spatial distribution, level...

Apparent metabolizable energy of seeds in greater prairie-chickens.
September 22, 2005... The apparent metabolizable energy (AME) of ten different seeds, and three commercial feeds was determined for greater prairie-chickens (Tympanuchus cupido pinnatus) under simulated winter conditions. Seeds rated extremely poor potential energy...

Brown recluse spiders: a review of biology, life history and pest management.
September 22, 2005... Members of the spider genus Loxosceles (Araneae: Sicariidae) are found throughout the world. Their venom can cause severe open necrotic lesions in humans that can take several months to heal. Bite victims may also develop systemic reactions...

Probable plesiosaur gastroliths from the basal Kiowa Shale (Early Cretaceous) of Kiowa County, Kansas.
September 22, 2005... Rounded and polished igneous or metamorphic pebbles that occur in sedimentary deposits generally are considered to be true gastroliths only when associated with the remains of vertebrate animals. In the Kansas Cretaceous, with the exception of...

Winter diet of long-eared owls (Asio otus) at an urban roost in Wichita, Kansas.
September 22, 2005... In February 2004, we collected 104 long-eared owl (Asio otus) pellets from beneath a large pine tree in northern Wichita, Kansas that served as a winter roost for approximately four individuals. A detailed analysis of this collection provided...

Surface expression of buried geologic features in Kansas or a practical example of the metaphor: the princess and the pea.
September 22, 2005... Now they knew that she was a real princess [geologist] because she had felt [mapped] the pea [structure] right through the twenty mattresses [two thousand feet of sediment] and the twenty... beds [limestones]. Nobody but a real princess...

Influence of preharvest calcium application on storage quality of 'Jonathan' apples in Kansas.
September 22, 2005... 'Jonathan' apple (Malus x domestica Borkh.) trees at three commercial orchards were sprayed one to eight times with calcium chloride (Ca[Cl.sub.2]) solution containing 3.2 g/L, starting when apple sizes were between 0.9 and 1.6 cm average...

Henry A. Ward, catalogue of casts of fossils (1866) and the artistic influence of Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins on Ward.
September 22, 2005... Casts of Waterhouse Hawkins' Crystal Palace fossil restorations were offered for sale by Henry Ward in his 1866 catalogue. Herein Ward's casts of Hawkins' restorations are discussed and comparisons made between these and additional casts of...

Earliest record of the genus Tylosaurus (Squamata; Mosasauridae) from the Fort Hays Limestone (Lower Coniacian) of western Kansas.
September 22, 2005... Fossil vertebrates are extremely rare in the Fort Hays Limestone member of the Niobrara Chalk in comparison to the rich variety of well-preserved fish, turtles, mosasaurs, pteranodons, and toothed birds collected from the overlying Smoky Hill...

Comparison of planting stock for establishing black walnut in central Kansas.
September 22, 2005... Reliability and cost of different types of planting stock under various climatic and site conditions are important. We tested three types of planting stock for survival and growth: bare-root seedlings, nuts, and container stock of black walnut....

Status of the orb-weaver spider genus Acanthepeira (Araneae: Araneidae) in Kansas.
September 22, 2005... INTRODUCTION Members of the orb-weaving spider genus Acanthepeira Marx may be immediately recognized by the star-bellied shape of their abdomens (Fig.1). The common star-bellied orbweaver, Acanthepeira stellata (Walckenaer), is the most...