Casey Hall (@thehungrybug) 's Twitter Profile
Casey Hall

@thehungrybug

Postdoc researcher at the Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment. Starving caterpillars for science | insects | plant defence | silicon | eCO2

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calendar_today19-08-2019 04:46:12

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Professor Scott Johnson (@scottjohnsonlab) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Rebecca Vandegeer gives a 5 min speed talk at #JointAusBio19 explaining how interactions between silicon and osmotic stress affect herbivores. Herbivores suffer from both; thicker leaves and physical defences?

<a href="/rvandegeer/">Rebecca Vandegeer</a> gives a 5 min speed talk at #JointAusBio19 explaining how interactions between silicon and osmotic stress affect herbivores. Herbivores suffer from both; thicker leaves and physical defences?
Professor Scott Johnson (@scottjohnsonlab) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Excellent talk by Casey Hall at #JointAusBio19 on alkaloid defences as affected by plant silicon. Really cool interplay and interaction between resistance mechanisms

Excellent talk by <a href="/thehungrybug/">Casey Hall</a> at #JointAusBio19 on alkaloid defences as affected by plant silicon. Really cool interplay and interaction between resistance mechanisms
Alexander Verbeek 🌍 (@alex_verbeek) 's Twitter Profile Photo

🐛 This week I want to show you how beautifully diverse caterpillars have evolved. Which one is your favorite? 🦋 #caterpillarweek #caterpillar #nature #pollinators #wildlife #cute

The Busta Lab (@plantsrchemists) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Happy #PhytochemicalFriday from #PAGXXVIII #PAG2020! Today: Aconitine: deadly poison from Aconitum spp. (aka Monkshood / Wolf's-bane) that features in modern mysteries and literature from Ancient Rome (Ovid). The alkaloid binds sodium ion channels & interferes with neuron firing.

Happy #PhytochemicalFriday from #PAGXXVIII #PAG2020! Today: Aconitine: deadly poison from Aconitum spp. (aka Monkshood / Wolf's-bane) that features in modern mysteries and literature from Ancient Rome (Ovid). The alkaloid binds sodium ion channels &amp; interferes with neuron firing.
The Busta Lab (@plantsrchemists) 's Twitter Profile Photo

If you enjoy the flavor of hops this #PhytochemicalFriday, you're tasting isohumulones, products of a hop chemical (humulone) as it degrades during brewing. They provide hops a characteristic bitter flavor. Their parent, humulone, seems to act as an antiviral and antimicrobial.

If you enjoy the flavor of hops this #PhytochemicalFriday, you're tasting isohumulones, products of a hop chemical (humulone) as it degrades during brewing. They provide hops a characteristic bitter flavor. Their parent, humulone, seems to act as an antiviral and antimicrobial.
Tom Phillips (@flashboy) 's Twitter Profile Photo

I like how the genome of the Wuhan coronavirus trails off in a scream, like it's been stabbed or pushed off a cliff ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nuccore/MN9089…

I like how the genome of the Wuhan coronavirus trails off in a scream, like it's been stabbed or pushed off a cliff ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nuccore/MN9089…
Julia Cooke (@cookejulia) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Have you got a few minutes to channel your inner possum and see if you can tell the difference between Australian mistletoe leaves and those of their hosts? Play the game here: conflict-ecology-games.github.io/MistletoeGame/… . #mimicry #ecology #citizenscience #plantblindness ⚛️🧪 🌎🌳S112 Module Team 🪐🧬🧫🌋 matthew bulbert

Have you got a few minutes to channel your inner possum and see if you can tell the difference between Australian mistletoe leaves and those of their hosts? Play the game here:  
conflict-ecology-games.github.io/MistletoeGame/…
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#mimicry 
#ecology 
#citizenscience 
#plantblindness
<a href="/S112_OU/">⚛️🧪 🌎🌳S112 Module Team 🪐🧬🧫🌋</a>
<a href="/MBulbert/">matthew bulbert</a>
Ecological Entomology (@ecol_ent) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Microbes in Helicoverpa armigera oral secretions contribute to increased senescence around plant wounds doi.org/10.1111/een.12…

Microbes in Helicoverpa armigera oral secretions contribute to increased senescence around plant wounds doi.org/10.1111/een.12…
Jamie Waterman (@jmwaterm) 's Twitter Profile Photo

New #siliceousplants paper out in Plants MDPI led by Casey Hall with Professor Scott Johnson. We found that silicon acts as a direct defence against chewing herbivores by altering the morphology of physical defence structures, not leaf mechanical traits. mdpi.com/2223-7747/9/5/…

Adrian Smith (@dradriansmith) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Here's the step-by-step checklist for this leafhopper nymph's blastoff: ✅squirt a little honeydew ✅tuck the front legs ✅hold a statue pose all the way into outer space unused sequence (captured at 4,300fps) from this: youtu.be/8PW-0r4Fj4Y