In June 27-July 2, 2014 Vasyl Tkach and then PhD student Stephen Greiman went to Dumas, Arkansas to collect with a great team of colleagues from several universities in Arkansas, Oklahoma and Mississippi. We mostly collected fish parasites, although collected a couple of reptiles for which we had permits. This was a great short trip and a fantastic group of experts to do field work with.

From left to right: Stan Trauth, Renn Tumlison, Steven Greiman, Vasyl Tkach, McAllister, Henry Robison, Thomas Fayton.	Preparing hoop net trap for deployment
Vasyl is setting the trap	Nice shallow lake
Stan Trauth on the boat	Swallow nestlings
Stephen and Thomas Feyton seining	A nice snake
Arkansas swamp	TJ is wirking hard
Lots of water lilies	Another swamp
It is so green that Stephen's T-shirt lamost blends in	Beautiful blue dragonfly
A green one	Vanessa atalanta is the same species I used to see in Europe
Stephen releases a turtle	This lizards climbed fast up the tree
Checking out the catch	Pretty butterfly
An example of parental care in spiders	He has a tick problem!
Preparing for collecting	Ready to go to the field
Blue catfish	Chris McAllister organized the trip and collecting
White River	A group of voracious caterpillars
Canada goose on Lake of the Ozarks	And the rest of his family