Landscape Ecology of Insects
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 …
Bees are among the most frequently studied animals, and yet there remains a vast amount of knowledge to be gained about these important pollinators. In this exclusive interview, Kiley Friedrich from the Gratton Lab and Agroecology Master’s program at UW–Madison discusses her research on wild bees and their interactions with native plant communities. …
Over the past decade, honey bees in the United States have experienced unprecedented declines. Scientists believe that these bee losses are caused by a variety of factors including pesticide exposure, loss of floral resources in the landscape due to intensification of agriculture, and infestation of hives by parasitic mites. For the past ten years, bee …
The Gratton lab is back in the field working on projects already this year! Post-doc Hannah’s project on Apple pollination is underway, and crews have been out at orchards across southern Wisconsin counting flowers, bees, and enjoying the beautiful sites! Check out the photos and videos below! [youtube]https://youtu.be/KK8-YEpkceA[/youtube]
Jeremy Hemberger, Savannah Bartel, and Anna Cates (Jackson lab) presented their research at WI Ecology‘s 19th Annual Spring Symposium. This symposium was organized by the graduate students of WI Ecology and consisted of graduate student speakers and poster presentations. The keynote speaker was Dr. Catherine Graham, Professor of Spatial Ecology and Ornithology Research at Stony …