Some manuscripts take a long time to gestate, some go fast. A Short Communication is even faster to write when it comes on the tail of a bigger synthesis. After Chaboo et al. (2015), my colleagues were all on alert to look for more subsocial cassys (subsocial= adult caring for one brood). Within a few…
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Let’s Disco!
It began in autumn 2009. Wills Flowers, recently retired from Florida A & M University (FAMU) emailed me from Ecuador, where he was doing researcher and teaching on USAID funds. At the Pichilingue Field Station, Quevedo, Wills noticed nasty ants interfering with a beautiful blue-black adult cassidine. The plant was chopped down but the beetle was…
NSF grant news!
After a few tries, we finally landed a grant from the US NSF-EAGER program to study aspects of our arms-race model of defenses in leaf beetles! While most arms-race evolutionary models have focused on plant-insect herbivore interactions, Co-PIs Dr. Ken Keefover-Ring, U. Wisconsin-Madison, WI and Dr. Paula “Alex” Trillo, Gettysburg College, PA, will use this 2-yr award…
Heading to Costa Rica!
Plans are coming together for international fieldwork and teaching in Costa Rica this June. A grant from the University of Kansas (KU) and University of Costa Rica (UCR) is supporting one year of research on the arthropod community structure of Zingiberales plants in Costa Rica. My co-PIs are Drs. Paul Hanson and Mauricio Fernandez, UCR-Biology.…