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Looking forward to the Plant-Herbivore Gordon Conference in Feb!

Two caterpillars at the Cornell ponds: spiny Haploa sp. eating dogwood, which will overwinter as a larva. And an unknown moth eating undeveloped seeds of the rare-ish fringed gentian Meredith Holgerson

Fringed gentian (Gentianopsis crinita) having a good year in Ithaca

Field ecology class at the Cornell ponds Eco and Evo Biology

Why are New England aster and goldenrods so beautiful together? (asked Robin Wall Kimmerer)

Insectapalooza in Ithaca this Saturday cals.cornell.edu/entomology/res…

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1. Our new #EvoDevo and Wnt gene regulation paper is out in Science Magazine. We used #ATACseq and #CRISPR to study the evolution and role of cis-regulatory elements (CREs) of a patterning gene in different species of #butterflies. 🧵🧵🧵Check the cover🔥 science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

American witch-hazel, Hamamelis virginiana -- nearly done flowering in Central NY. It's said to be pollinated now, with pollen tubes germinating, but fertilization not occurring until spring. The pollinators are largely a subject of speculation... flies, moths, ... ?

A great visit from Rick Karban (my PhD advisor) last week... there is still a lot of great low-tech ecology to be done

Field Ecology - Bird Competition lab, with thanks to @Dr_Scott_Taylor

What a weasel, American's fabulous mink (Neogale vison) a semiaquatic Mustelid (one of 11 in N. America), predaceous; invasive in Europe

White pine aphid, Cinara strobi, laying sexually produced eggs, once a year in autumn. I assume the golden eggs have not hardened off? w/ thanks to Todd A. Ugine

My staghorn fern platycerium sp. had a good year, now indoors to wait out the winter

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