Dependency of Crops on Pollinators and Pollination Deficits: An Approach to Measurement Considering the Influence of Various Reproductive Traits mdpi.com/2421438 #mdpiagriculture via @AgricultureMdpi

New global meta-analysis of the effects of animal #pollination on food crop quality 🌾

📝 The #SafeguardResearch is co-authored by project partners Elena Gazzea and Prof. Lorenzo Marini from @UniPadova and published in @NatureComms

🔗 nature.com/articles/s4146…

Responsible use of pesticides includes striving to avoid negative effects on bees and other pollinators. But a new study finds many common methods for minimizing pesticides' impact on bees—even some product-label guidelines—have minimal scientific backing. entomologytoday.org/2023/07/18/do-…

Arthropod Photo of the Week: July 19, 2023
Tobacco hornworm with parasitic wasp pupae
Manduca sexta / Cotesia congregate
Lepidoptera: Sphingidae / Hymenoptera: Braconidae
By Jay Hirsh, Virginia, USA (bio.as.virginia.edu/people/jh6u

Kudos to @Biobest_Group @_PlantProducts for being so receptive to our research and installing queen excluders on all bumble bee colonies sold within the USA. A win-win for 🐝 conservation and pollination! @PovedaLab
news.cornell.edu/stories/2023/0…

.@pecenka26 and @Kaplan_Lab describe the use of integrated pollinator management in crop management, which can provide a more pollinator-suitable environment
nature.com/articles/s4159…

In the 1950s, Virginia Ferris was told by a professor to give up a fellowship at @Cornell so that a man could accept it … but she didn’t listen. She later became the first woman appointed to @PurdueAg faculty. Hear more on #ThisIsPurdue!
stories.purdue.edu/podcast/purdue…

***New paper alert 📢

Happy to share @pecenka26's 2nd PhD chapter, out in @SciReports, on how IPM affects pollinators in Midwestern US agroecosystems. This part focuses on the health of managed bees & diversity of 41 wild sp. acting as crop pollinators.

rdcu.be/dgjjU

The bug in a teacup – Monitoring arthropod-plant associations with environmental DNA from dried plant material ow.ly/pl9W50JynSl #eDNA #arthropods #ecosystem #BiologyLetters #SEBconference

effect sizes are way better than p-values for synthesizing research findings -- but why?

In this outtake, I try to make the case 👍

#Rstats #meta-analysis #Statistics

See full Youtube video on what makes meta-analysis special here: youtu.be/3XkC_jetn-U

We have a new Research Postdoc position open! The incumbent will work on a new USDA grant about pollinator ecology, silflowers, and improving crop and honey production! If you are interested, pls DM me!!!

Come work with a great team! Clinical Assistant Professor of Entomology, Insect Diagnostician - Purdue University careers.entsoc.org/jobs/18546645/…

New collaborative work just published with Betty Benrey & colleagues - squash domestication eliminated cucurbitacins from roots, making crops less attractive to striped cucumber beetle larvae

doi.org/10.1007/s00425…

Beekeeping can be economically rewarding, but a large percent of colonies are lost to pests. Brock @Harpur, assistant professor of @PurdueInsects, is using the @FoundationFAR New Innovator in Food & Agriculture Research Award to help solve this problem. ag.purdue.edu/news/2023/04/a…

Been a great few days discussing pests/pollinators with watermelon growers to establish IPPM field trials and then training volunteers for a new statewide bumble bee survey! 🐝🍉

Be trained as a volunteer to survey, assess habitat and photograph bumble bees as part of a state-wide citizen science project. No experience required – only a love for pollinators!

There are 5 opportunities to attend across #Indiana. Register at: bit.ly/3TYp4rR

Tenure track position of Assistant Professor of Pollinator Ecology and Conservation at Iowa State!

isu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/IowaStateJobs/…

Met with a @diversecornbelt grower today who compared the implementation of on-farm diversification practices to Rodney Dangerfield’s famous Triple Lindy dive in Back to School. This officially made my year.

🎉 Just published: Smart orchard design improves crop pollination

Increase #pollination service🐝 and nut set of #macadamia by the spatial arrangement of orchards and #naturalHabitat. We discuss new ways of #ecologicaIntensification.
👉besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/13…

New research: honeybees and bumblebees respond differently to weather conditions..a thread link.springer.com/article/10.100… 1/12