Pastures as Potential Pollinator Habitat
Graduate student Skye Bruce studies the effects of grazing on butterfly communities. Check out this blog post Skye wrote for the Grassland 2.0 project!
Landscape Ecology of Insects
Graduate student Skye Bruce studies the effects of grazing on butterfly communities. Check out this blog post Skye wrote for the Grassland 2.0 project!
Hello everyone! My name is Mike Howe and I’m the newest member of the Gratton Lab. I got my BA in Biology at Gustavus Adolphus College and my Master’s in Entomology at University of Wisconsin–Madison with Kenneth Raffa. I will be continuing my work in forest entomology in combination with both Claudio and Ken. In …
Recently, lab technician Olivia Bernauer and post-doc Hannah Gaines Day put together a brochure about the wild bee pollinators found in Wisconsin apple orchards which was handed out to apple growers at the 2017 Field Day at one of our research partner farms, Green’s Pleasant Springs Orchard. This brochure summarizes information about the most important …
The Gratton lab has been busy these past couple of months presenting research at regional and national meetings. Here are examples of our 2017 research presentations ranging from bee behavioral responses in apple orchards to nitrogen effects on freshwater algal communities. While these topics may appear disparate and unrelated, they are all united by the …
Doctor Claudio Gratton received this year’s Vilas Associate Award from the Univeristy of Wisconsin-Madison. This is a highly competitive award that grants funding to university professors for specific projects. Claudio’s winning project proposal, titled “Do exotic plant-insect mutualisms affect native bumble bees? A case study in Iceland,” investigates the interactions of three organisms found in Iceland: Iceland’s …