Farm fields! Take a closer look & you'll find that they're more than the crops that grow on them. A new review out by @glbioenergy & WEI researchers explores how we can design these landscapes to support crops AND biodiversity: energy.wisc.edu/news/designing…

Interested in organic fruit production, IPM, pollinators, and sustainable agriculture? The UW-Madison Wisconsin Fruit group is looking for a highly qualified, motivated individual wishing to pursue a MS degree in sustainable organic fruit crop production. fruit.wisc.edu/2021/07/30/m-s…

Despite changing the assemblage of arthropod decomposers, #ants have little effect on litter #decomposition in restored prairie #SoilEcology #OpenAccess #NSFFunded Anna Cates Will Williams Gratton Lab Claudio Gratton jackson dossett @tania_n_kim Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center (GLBRC) U.S. National Science Foundation doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.3…

🚨POSTDOC JOB ALERT!🚨 Interested in landscapes🌄, agriculture🚜, pollinators🐝 and spatial modeling🧑‍💻? The Williams Lab is hiring a postdoc in pesticide risk assessment and bee biology to be based at UC Davis Entomology and Nematology Apply today! recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF04353

My first (ever, but also first-author) paper is finally out! 🦋 We surveyed at monarch butterflies on grasslands to better understand their habitat needs on a landscape scale. link.springer.com/article/10.100…

🚨New Paper Alert!📜 The Importance of Forests in Bumble Bee Biology and Conservation 🌳🐝 Available for free in BioScience with myself, @jH_wisc, Jade Kochanski, @leifr7, and Ian Pearse We think this overview will be very useful for many - give it a read! academic.oup.com/bioscience/art…

MSU is hiring a Distinguished Professor of ecology and evolution to be based Kellogg Biological Station LTAR I'd love to see outstanding entomologists in the mix. Please share widely careers.msu.edu/en-us/job/5090… Marc Johnson Gratton Lab Steve Frank Margarita Lopez-Uribe

The third piece of Genevieve Pugesek most excellent dissertation is in print! Movement during nest searching reflects nest habitat quality. Yowza! doi.org/10.1111/een.13…. Rich Hatfield John M. Mola Ian Pearse Bethanne Bruninga-Socolar Sheila Colla, Ph.D Tufts Pollinator Initiative Dr. Rachael E. Bonoan Nick Dorian

Prof Emily Poppenborg Martin had the opportunity meet and give a presentation at the Gratton Lab in late April! Our group is excited to continue following their research on the landscape ecology of insects.

New paper published in Landscape Ecology IALE-NA led by Erin B Lowe, with Anthony Ives and allisan sanders @grattonlab. We wrote an #RStats package! link.springer.com/article/10.100… 1/9

Excited to share another new paper from the Gratton Lab, published today in Landscape Ecology (my second in the journal in 3 weeks 😆)! This one is led by @hugs_4_bugs. We show that lady beetles 🐞 are lighter & leaner in simplified ag landscapes. doi.org/10.1007/s10980… 1/9

Wild Bees in Wisconsin! Get to know them better, & share your observations with the WiBee App. Hear the melliferous story from Claudio Gratton Claudio Gratton Gratton Lab 7/20 Wed. Nite At The Lab (on hiatus as of 2023.11.22). 7pm CT Room 1111 BioTrek Outreach 425 Henry Mall Zoom go.wisc.edu/240r59 Open 2 All

Please RT! The Mola Lab seeks graduate students to join us at Colorado State University in Forest and Rangeland Stewardship or CSU_Ecology! Funded positions on bee conservation, insect overwintering, fire ecology, and urban ecology! Interested students fill out this form: forms.gle/KaTcQEihzyd1B8…

The Gratton lab is hiring up to two graduate students (MSc or PhD) to work on funded projects related to land management and insect conservation! See our website for details and share widely gratton.entomology.wisc.edu/prospective-gr…

A special Sunday-at-3pm edition of Wed. Nite At The Lab (on hiatus as of 2023.11.22) coming up Feb 5: Ben Iuliano of Claudio Gratton Lab in UW–Madison CALS Dept of Entomology speaks on Predator Insects & Wasps. Come learn more about the Friends of the Lakeshore Nature Preserve supporting the work of UW-Madison Lakeshore Nature Preserve 🐝

Lab member Ben Iuliano will be sharing his PhD work about lady beetles and agricultural landscapes this Friday in the UW–Madison CALS entomology department seminar