Landscape Ecology of Insects
Recently, members of the Gratton lab (Tania Kim, Savannah Bartel, and Natalie Hernandez) and Doug Landis lab at MSU (Bill Wills) visited the Chicago Field Museum of Natural History to view specimens from their ant collection. Ants play important roles in perennial grasslands. As natural predators, they eat …
Postdoc Hannah Gaines Day was recently interviewed by Rock Your Research, a website dedicated to helping graduate students find success. In the interview, Hannah discusses her experience as a dissertator finding her path to productivity (also detailed in this blog post). Listen to the interview here. Take home messages from the interview: Listen to the …
Gratton lab member Kaitlin was recently invited by American Scientist to write a brief response to the federal strategy to protect pollinators put forth by the interagency Pollinator Health Task Force in May of this year. In a post for their Macroscope column, she discusses what she sees as the pros and cons of the …
Science journalist Lydia Chain of New York University’s ScienceLine recently interviewed Gratton Lab member Kaitlin and UW-Madison Department of Entomology emeritus entomologist Phillip Pellitteri for an article exploring the invasion of Harmonia axyridis. H. axyridis is an exotic ladybird beetle that both provides important biological control services (such as suppressing soybean aphids in Wisconsin, which …
Post by Christina Locke and Claudio Gratton We are often asked about neonicotinoid pesticides, or “neonics”, and their effects on bees. Neonics are the most widely used insecticides globally, and are in the news a lot these days due to concerns about their effects on birds, fish and beneficial insects including pollinators. Some countries, states …