Landscape Ecology of Insects
Check out the nice article that the GLBRC Communications folks put together regarding a recent Gratton Lab paper about ecosystem service tradeoffs that come with working perennial energy crops into agricultural landscapes.
This week, lab member Hannah Gaines Day presented a talk about pollinators for the 109th Midwest Food Processors Association’s Annual Convention in Milwaukee. To view her presentation slides, please see below. For more information on pollinator conservation, please visit our Pollinator Resource Page.
Gratton lab member Rachel Mallinger has created an online WI Wild Bee Guide for native bee species commonly found in the spring and early summer. The guide allows users to identify bee species using picture matching or a dichotomous key. The guide’s purpose is two-fold: allow people to identify bees themselves and act as a citizen-science tool …
Last week, the Entomological Society of America held their annual meetings in the Texas capital of Austin. Record attendance (over 3,200 people!) marked this as a great opportunity for members of the Gratton lab to share their research, and share they did! Several of us presented works there, including Hannah, who placed second in the …
Jade Kochanski, an undergraduate in the Gratton lab, was recently awarded two prestigious scholarships from the UW College of Agriculture and Life Sciences: the Howard P. Gutgessell Agricultural Scholarship, and the Norman F. Olson Family Scholarship. These are awarded in recognition of outstanding academic performance and contributions to the missions of the department. Jade has …