🐜🌱🛋️#PhDAlert! MSc in #Biology or #EnvironmentalSciences? Experience with #ChemoEcologicalMethods, #PlantInsectInteractions or #ArtificalLightAtNight? We offer a #PhD position in our Forest Entomology group: apply.refline.ch/273855/1816/... #ScienceJobs

New #OpenAccess research in #RESEcolEnt

Temperature elevation broadens the dietary niche of an insect herbivore
doi.org/10.1111/een.70132

#Chrysomela #Coleoptera #PlantInsectInteractions
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PREPRINT ALERT!
No preference for performance: Host plant preference, offspring performance and host plant distribution in the butterfly Aricia artaxerxes
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
#Ecology #Evolution #HostPlantPreference #Butterflies #BehaviouralEcology #PlantInsectInteractions #Lepidoptera

My open-source models to help guide the release of a new biocontrol insect for invasive yellow starthistle are officially published! academic.oup.com/jee/article-... @entsocamerica.bsky.social

#model #insect #plantinsectinteractions #climate #invasivespecies #yellowstarhistle #weed #ipm #weevil

🗺️🍽️The effect of resource concentration on consumer population densities depends on spatial scale and diet breadth

vist.ly/5h67t

#CommunityEcology #DietBreadth #Herbivory #PlantInsectInteractions #ResourceConcentration

Photos: #Phytomyza agromyzina mines in #Cornus canadensis (credit: Maria Duynisveld)

#GBIF #PlantInsectInteractions
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Ever noticed tiny cone-shaped “hats” on Witch Hazel leaves? They’re galls made by the Witch Hazel Cone Gall Aphid, where a female shelters and raises dozens of young. Nature’s tiny architects!

#InsectWorld #WitchHazel #GallAphid #PlantInsectInteractions #Biodiversitybc

An 8-year-old’s backyard discovery about ants changed Earth science: Nature’s connections can show up in the most unassuming places.

#AntBehavior #WaspGalls #PlantInsectInteractions #Myrmecochory #ScientificDiscovery#EarthDotCom #EarthSnap #Earth

Herbicides are disrupting plant-insect interactions: Morning glory plants resist glyphosate and insects, reshaping plant-insect interactions and agriculture strategies.

#HerbicideImpact #PlantInsectInteractions #EnvironmentalScience #BiodiversityLoss #SustainableFarming #EarthDotCom #Earth

Spotted this swallowtail caterpillar munching on wild carrot by the Limmat River in #Zürich. A quiet reminder that urban #biodiversity is not to be underestimated!🌿🐛

#UrbanEcology #PlantInsectInteractions #TrophicInteractions

Marvelous 2025 paper by Walthaus et al.:

Biomechanical components of the plant–insect herbivore arms race: a model test in leaf-cutter ants

tinyurl.com/bdffsma9

#WIS

#PlantandEnvironmentalSciences

#Plants

#Herbivory

#PlantInsectInteractions

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