Do you love extrafloral nectar? How about ant-plant relationships? Would you like to hear about how this killer undergrad is doing HPLC to see what’s in EF nectar on Australian #Solanum?? For the ants?? YES is the answer. Poster 54. Monday night! #Botany2023

Check out the awesome research happening in the @toby_hammer lab! news.uci.edu/2023/08/14/the…

Check out this new #MoreauLab paper led by Chloe Jelley where we review what is known about ant aggression, present a new scale for measuring aggression, & do a comparative phylogenetic analyses to see what traits are correlated w/ aggression link.springer.com/article/10.100… Insectes Sociaux

Yay Evelyn!!! Congratulations!!

If you've never seen a baby ant's heartbeat- now you have! 🐜

🚨Save the date! The Plant-Herbivore Interaction Gordon Research Conference and GRS will be held February 9-14, 2025. Co-Vice Chairs Betty Benrey and Micky Eubanks and I (Chair) are planning a cutting-edge program centered on co-evolution. Stayed tuned! grc.org/plant-herbivor…

We are absolutely thrilled to welcome EEB alumnus Annika Nelson for this week's departmental seminar on "Causes and consequences of biodiversity in mutualisms". 3pm, Fri March 1, 1114 Nat Sci 1 UC Irvine annikanelson.weebly.com

Summer field tech position with my group in Colorado. I've extended the deadline to Thursday & re-posting here for anyone still around on here Full ad & application: jobs.ncsu.edu/postings/198505

I am looking for an enthusiastic student who wants to perform research on sound communication in butterflies, or on odor learning in butterfly larvae, at the organismal and/or molecular levels (e.g., brain circuitry and single-cell gene expression levels). Fellowship available!

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So excited to share the line-up of invited speakers and discussion leaders for the 2025 Plant-Herbivore Interaction Gordon Research Conference (Feb. 9-14, 2025, Sheraton Fairplex Hotel & Conference Center, Pomona, CA): grc.org/plant-herbivor…. Stay tuned for more information.

CHECK THIS OUT! This plant is a milkweed. It is attacked by orange aphids that can handle the heart poisons in the milky sap. Some have died and are black in color. Do you see the large winged insect among them? It is a parasitoid wasp that is injecting an egg and venom into...1

Job Announcement: The Department of Biology TCU has an opening for a tenure-track professor in ecology or environmental biology. Please don't hesitate to reach out if you have any questions about the position. We'd love to have you apply! jobs.tcu.edu/jobs/assistant…

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“Non-core bacteria occur frequently in high abundance in wild bumble bee gut microbiomes. One species, Serratia, reduces bee lifespan & reproduction. The core microbiome, bee age, & pollen diet can protect against Serratia infection.” 🐝buff.ly/Qzxs6As Annika Nelson