Tomorrow we will be discussing this short guide, there's still time to read it! cell.com/current-biolog…

Hopefully you've seen the SEB @sebiology.bsky.social Christmas Lecture to get you in the zone youtu.be/FfZtEIL7ZcQ #ChatEcology

It's Julia Cooke here, looking forward to a chat about parasitic plants tonight. I've a quiz to help with classification skills & a citizen science game to play. Did you know there are mistletoes that grow on mistletoes? Parasites on parasites! See here: anbg.gov.au/mistletoe/imag…

Join me tonight at 8:30 BST. Some of my research is on mistletoes - that's me below with a very large Australian mistletoe - but there are lots of other parasitic plants. This Current Biology QuickGuide is super: cell.com/current-biolog…

Fantastic head-in-the-clouds.bsky.social 5 minute warning for chat tonight on parasitic plants led by Julia Cooke #ChatEcology

We hope you enjoyed the short read on parasitic plants and developed a little more knowledge. So lets find out. Remember to use the hashtag #ChatEcology

You shared a great picture @BeaulieuBio of mistletoe in France. Visiting friends in Spain, I discovered there is a mistletoe that occurs in olive trees - news to me! It is Viscum cruciatum, in the same genus as the mistletoe that occurs in the UK.

Last one for 2022-23, how can/will you use this new knowledge in your classroom? #ChatEcology

We are currently doing some research about mistletoes in Australia, which are purported to mimic their hosts, but this hasn’t been comprehensively tested. Can you help us by playing this game? conflict-ecology-games.github.io/MistletoeGame/ #ChatEcology

Thank you so much to everyone who has contributed the discussions since September, and thank you to Julia Cooke for leading this evening. If you have been inspired to read more ecology stuff, please do join BESLearning (free) or join British Ecological Society (£30.50 with the code)

Thanks folks, over & out from me, Julia Cooke. I'll leave you with this picture of mistletoe leaves with pupating caterpillars. Some butterflies (Delias and Ogyris sp) lay eggs on mistletoe leaves for their offspring to feed on. Why might mistletoes leaves might make good food?