Landscape Ecology of Insects
Update as of March 8th, 2021: All positions have been filled and we are no longer accepting applications for the 2021 field season. Though all positions have been filled for the 2021 field season, please feel free to read about our projects below. Many of these will continue for several more years, so check back …
Amanda joined the Gratton lab (co-advised by Tony Ives) in September and will be working on a project trying to understand what causes the impressive population cycles of midges in Lake Myvatn, Iceland. Here is more about Amanda who recently completed her Masters from Loyola University Chicago. Welcome Amanda! Where are you originally from? Crown Point, IN What …
There has been a lot of buzz in the lab about two papers examining the relationships between habitat diversity (at local and landscape scales) and arthropod diversity. The first paper (Bennett and Gratton 2013) examines the relationships between floral diversity and the diversity of beneficial arthropods which includes insect pollinators and predators. Ashley and Claudio …
If you noticed higher prices or fewer raspberries at your local farmer’s market this fall, you’re not alone. Wisconsin raspberries faced a new pest, Spotted Wing Drosophila (Drosophila suzukii) this year and the big question is: where is it now and will it return? Native to Southeast Asia, Spotted Wing Drosophila (SWD) is a fruit …