Landscape Ecology of Insects
Our recent projects in the lab have increasingly included native bees and describing how their diversity and assemblages vary as a function of the management of farmland and the landscape around farms. These studies depend in large part on the ability to identify native bees to species. For anyone who has tried this identification of …
Yesterday the annual Biology 152 poster session took place in Union South, and three of the more than three hundred and sixty posters in Varsity Hall came from the Gratton Lab. Heidi, Rachel, and I have been mentoring undergraduates through independent research as part of this course. It is a lot of fun and very …
Recently, Claudio was interviewed by the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences about our research related to native bees. Listen to the clip here: claudio_gratton_native_bees. Audio and photo courtesy of Sevie Kenyon. Posted by Hannah Gaines
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTmtoyeo8J4] Courtesy of Nicole Miller, CALS A CALS grad student’s research on whether native bees can take over the job of pollinating Wisconsin’s commercial crops is the topic of this new YouTube video slideshow. CALS science writer Nicole Miller produced the slideshow, in which Hannah Gaines, a Ph.D. student in the entomology department, talks …