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Organizations and institutions focused on community building have a built-in group of ambassadors who embrace their message and vision. Social media managers have a unique opportunity to lean into this loyalty by creating a social presence informed by this digital engagement. In Organic Social Media, Jenny Li Fowler outlines the important steps that social media managers need to take to enhance an organization's broader growth objectives. Fowler breaks down the important questions to help readers determine the best platforms to invest in, how they can streamline the approval process and other essential strategic steps to create an organic following on social platforms. Organic Social Media explains how to elevate the key growth objectives of a brand by creating or recreating its online presence. Early chapters walk readers through the planning phase, the process of strategic goal setting, platform selection, resource management and content discovery. Later chapters focus on executing these established plans and offer a strategic way to build a content calendar and track the success of social. With this book, social media managers will future-proof the online presence of any organization.

This booklet is based on the author's 1952 MSc thesis. It consists of keys to genera and species (exclusive of the Alleculinae), with the Lagriinae included in the key to genera only. Brief descriptions of each species known to occur or or potentially occur in Ohio are included with the species distribution in the state. Of the 81 species belonging to 44 genera discussed in this paper, 11 have never been collected in Ohio, but are included here either because they are recorded from one or more of the five adjacent states, or are cosmopolitan and likely to eventually be found here. In addition, we record herein three new Ohio state record species: Platydema cyanescens Laporte & Brullé, Gnatocerus guatemalensis (Champion), and Eleates depressus (Randall).

Dragonflies and damselflies—the Odonata—are large and eminently watchable insects that have enthralled naturalists for many generations. This book offers an introduction to 170 species that have been found in Ohio, including a guide to their identification, details about their fascinating behavior and complex life histories, and an overview of their context as part of our natural world. Striking photographs of living insects illustrate the male and female of each species, as well as the different color forms of many variable odonates. Maps of recent records based on extensive field surveys show where each species may be found in Ohio and how their distributions have changed over time. Designed with the non-specialist in mind, this book will be a valuable resource for anyone wishing to learn more about Ohio’s fascinating insect diversity.

Every seventeen or thirteen years, millions of cicadas rise from the soil in the eastern United States to fill the air with their noisy song. But 2024 is a unique cicada year: periodical cicada Broods XIII and XIX will emerge simultaneously. The last time these two broods emerged together, Thomas Jefferson was president of the United States. A Tale of Two Broods: The 2024 Emergence of Periodical Cicada Broods XIII and XIX discusses the natural history, evolution, behavior, and distribution of periodical cicadas and surveys the history of these two broods extending back to 1803. It is a perfect starting point from which to experience these fascinating insects in 2024.

More than 4,000 streams and rivers run throughout the state of Ohio and support a rich diversity of aquatic life. The vast majority of these running waters are inhabited by the immature stages of black flies (Simuliidae), although historically the fauna has received little attention. To redress the insufficient knowledge of black flies in Ohio, we conducted a 14-year survey of these insects in the state’s streams and rivers, primarily from March through June of 2006 to 2019. Among the collections from 539 sites, we found 33 species—about 13% of all species known from North America and an increase of 15 in the number of species previously known from the state. The distributions of all 33 species are mapped onto Ohio’s six Level III ecoregions. All collection information is given for each species, providing a baseline of the biodiversity of black flies in Ohio’s streams and rivers. The geographic distributions are supplemented with information on the seasonality of each species and the various parasites infecting the larvae in the state. About 60% of the state’s species are found across most ecoregions, and include abundant species such as Simulium tribulatum and S. venustum. The other 40% are known from only one or two ecoregions. Four species (Prosimulium fuscum, P. magnum, S. excisum, and S. parnassum) are known from only one or two sites. The adult females of about 81% of the blood-feeding species in Ohio feed on mammals and 19% feed on birds; one species does not have mouthparts capable of acquiring blood. Ten of the species are known to bite humans.