Engaging with Insects Bug Camp 2017
Cody Cardenas, an EEOB Undergraduate student, is helping teach children at the Engaging with Insects Bug Camp 2017 with the Triplehorn Insect Collection and 4H, this week.
News
Update from the Goodell lab
1-The Bee Team is up to their elbows (or should I say, tarsi) in flowers this week, like this bumble bee in a Penstemon flower (attached photo). Watch for us out surveying bees on roadsides anywhere from Dayton to Mansfield to Logan, and in local Metro Parks.
Update from the Lanno Lab
Heather Fair, a PhD student in Roman Lanno's lab was awarded a Knauss Fellowship.
Congratulations, Heather!
Summer Acarology Program
The summer Acarology Program continues at the Museum of Biological Diversity and hosts folks from Chile, Brazil, Cololmbia, Costa Rica, Canada, Britain, India, and China. The Introductory Acarology course recently finished with 20 people.
Ohio Bumble Bee Survey Team looking for sampling sites
The Ohio Bumble Bee Survey Team, led by Randy Mitchell of University of Akron and Karen Goodell, EEOB Associate Professor, is looking to sample bumble bees in E/SE/NW Ohio throughout the month of June.
Publications by EEOB faculty May 1 - May 31
Evaluating local adaptation of a complex phenotype: reciprocal tests of pigmy rattlesnake venoms on treefrog prey
Smiley-Walters, S.A., Farrell, T.M. & Gibbs, H.L. Oecologia (2017).
Landsbergen in OSU's STEAM Factory
Kim Landsbergen, EEOB Visiting Research Scholar, is now a member of the Steam Factory at OSU.