Tag: entomology
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Posted on September 27, 2021
Study shows how aspen forests maintain the diversity needed to adapt to changing environments
Watching paint dry has nothing on watching a forest grow. That achingly long wait has always made it challenging to study how forests adapt to […]
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Posted on August 30, 2021
WiBee mobile app seeks to assess, bolster Wisconsin’s wild bees
On a warm summer day in Wisconsin, bees across the state are hard at work collecting pollen and nectar for their livelihoods. Hopping from flower […]
- Posted on August 9, 2021
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Posted on July 12, 2021
Midwest bumble bees declined with more farmed land, less diverse crops since 1870
As farmers cultivated more land and began to grow fewer types of crops over the last 150 years, most native bumble bee species became rarer […]
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Posted on June 14, 2021
Six-legged livestock could solve food shortages – sustainably
In the Midwest, we’re used to seeing big fields dotted with cattle and steel barns bustling with broiler chickens. Beef, poultry, and pork are common […]
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Posted on June 4, 2021
Designing agricultural landscapes to provide more than crops
Agriculture is the defining feature of many rural North American landscapes. Over time, a focus on productivity and large-scale cultivation of commodity crops has resulted […]
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Posted on June 1, 2021
Claudio Gratton, Guilherme Rosa receive Kellett Mid-Career Awards
Two CALS professors are among eleven UW–Madison faculty recently honored with Kellett Mid-Career Awards. The award was created to provide support and encouragement to faculty […]
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Posted on April 9, 2021
2021-22 CALS Wisconsin Distinguished Graduate Fellowship Awards recipients announced
The College of Agricultural and Life Sciences (CALS) has selected the 2021-22 graduate fellowship recipients. The College would like to thank the donors for making […]
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Posted on February 11, 2021
New faculty profile: James Crall studies how environmental changes impact bees and other pollinators
James Crall joined the UW–Madison faculty in January 2021 as an assistant professor in the Department of Entomology. What is your hometown? Where did you […]
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Posted on January 25, 2021
As milkweed goes, so goes the monarch
It’s a sweltering August day in 2019. The sun gilds the flowering prairies of southern Wisconsin. Entomology graduate student Skye Harnsberger and her research team park their pickup […]