University of Wisconsin–Madison

Lab News

Bees make the news

Get the news on Hannah’s work on pollination of cranberry flowers by native bees.

Of WORTs and wolves

The WORT Science Radio Collective produces a semi-regular science radio show, The Perpetual Notion Machine.  Kaitlin makes an occasional show for them, including this one from last night about gray wolves: The gray wolf population in Wisconsin has increased significantly in recent years. In 2004 the species was removed from the state’s endangered species list. …

Biocontrol in agricultural landscapes, simplified

Here, Mitch Teich, host of the Lake Effect on Milwaukee Public Radio, talks with Tim about how characteristics of the landscape affect natural pest control by beneficial insects.

Safer water through square dancing

Water quality? Square dancing? Seriously? You bet!  See this video presentation by Kaitlin where she describes a project she undertook during a fellowship from the Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery. 

36 hrs in NJ

Last week I had the good fortune to be invited to Rutgers University by my friend and colleague Cesar Rodriguez-Saona.  Cesar and I go back a long ways to our days in California when we were graduate students.  We met a Gordon Research Conference on plant-insect interactions in 1997 and have remained friends since.  Cesar …