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[Seminar Blog] Mental Health Crisis and Support for Graduate Students

5/13/2022

 
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written by: Mintong Nan and Lindsay Barranco
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​Let’s face it. Graduate school can be a wonderful experience, but there are stressors aplenty - from financial worry to time management, coping with expectations of yourself and others, all in a field of scientific research - where the nature of the work involves a high degree of uncertainty and uncharted territory1, 2. These cumulative pressures can all lead to a great deal of stress for the graduate student, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic. Thankfully, skilled and caring professionals like Ms. Simone Warrick-Bell are there if needed. Ms. Warrick-Bell has been a graduate student academic counselor for the University of Maryland (UMD) Graduate School since early 2020, and prior to 2020 she was a care manager with the UMD counseling center. She holds a Master’s in Counseling Psychology and is a licensed Clinical Professional Counselor. Her works include individual consultation sessions and leading graduate student circle sessions, which were created solely to support UMD graduate students. The entomology department was happy to welcome Ms. Warrick-Bell to our Friday seminar series and to hear more about the services she provides through the Graduate School.


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[Seminar Blog] Natural Wonders through the Hand of an Artist

5/13/2022

 
written by: Ebony Argaez and Minh Le
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The natural world is teeming with gorgeous and awe-inspiring biological structures, patterns, and colors that cannot be described via mere words alone. During the digital age, accurate and realistic imagery of these specimens can be obtained through the lens of a camera. However, the camera can only capture what is, not what could have been. Exquisite imagery requires the gentle and imaginative hand of an artist like Taina R. Litwak a scientific illustrator with the US Department of Agriculture’s Systematic Entomology Lab and the Smithsonian Institution’s Museum of Natural History who joins this week’s entomology colloquium at the University of Maryland to talk about entomological art in the digital age. ​

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[Seminar Blog] Aphonopelma: Understudied & Important to the American Southwest

5/4/2022

 
written by: Eric Hartel

​Combining different schools of thought or discipline can lead to more meaningful discovery and understanding. The work of Dr. Chris Hamilton addresses this by studying Aphonopelma, a group of tarantulas that are found in the incredible and unique biome of sky islands in the southwestern United States and Mexico. This group of tarantulas are important as a marker for understanding the region, and hold a place of cultural significance in the San Carlos Apache creation story. What is a sky island you ask? They are made of mountain ranges that are surrounded by desert valleys. These mountains create interesting temperature and humidity gradients that play host to various stratified environments. These environments are similar to ocean islands because the deserts take the role of the impassable ocean, isolating organisms to specific islands if they can not cross the desert. The tarantulas in this area have no way to cross the large deserts and are partitioned into their niches across this area. The speciation and diversity of these tarantulas can shed light on the geologic history, evolution, and current state of this understudied diversity hot spot.

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[Seminar blog] The end of spray and pray? Alternative ways to control spotted wing drosophila

4/25/2022

 
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written by: Maria Cramer and Huiyu Sheng ​

Spotted wing drosophila
(SWD) is a pest that causes backyard berry growers and commercial farmers alike a lot of grief. Native to Eastern Asia, this fruit fly (closely related to the famous Drosophila melanogaster) first appeared in the mainland U.S. in 2008. Like other fruit flies, SWD lays eggs in fruit, but unlike others, it has a sharp ovipositor that allows it to cut through fruit skin and lay eggs inside (Figure 1). Because of this, SWD larvae aren’t restricted to rotting or damaged fruit– they can infest otherwise perfect produce. Their favorite fruits include raspberries, blackberries, grapes, and cherries.

Besides the ick-factor, the wounds from cutting into fruit can introduce microorganisms that cause the fruit to rot. To make things worse, because they’re inside fruit, the larvae are protected from insecticide sprays (Figure 2). This means farmers have to instead target the adult flies, which requires frequent insecticide applications. Spraying insecticides over and over has many downsides; it’s expensive for farmers, it could hurt other insects, and it could even put pressure on SWD to develop resistance to the chemicals themselves, making them less effective.

​Dr. Torsten Schöneberg would love to see an end to this “spray and pray” approach for managing SWD. Currently a researcher at Agroscope in Switzerland, Dr. Schöneberg recently completed a postdoc in the Hamby Lab at the University of Maryland. He returned to the Entomology Department’s weekly seminar series to give an update on the research he did during this time.


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[Seminar Blog] Mitey talk: Dr. Zachary Lamas' exit seminar on honey bee's disease transmission

4/19/2022

 
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Zac Lamas
written by: Krisztina Christmon and Veronica Yurchak

​Giving an exit seminar is the tell-tale sign that a graduate student is reaching the end of their PhD career. You made it, and it is never an easy road to get there. Following his seminar this week, the audience was left in awe of the many accomplishments that defined Dr. Lamas’ PhD journey: a journey which can be summed up as a story of overcoming all odds through creative stubbornness. 

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[Seminar Blog] Exploring the Role of Sunflower Pollen in Mediating Disease in the Common Eastern Bumblebee

4/14/2022

 
written by: Brendan Randall

Insect pollinators such as bees are essential to preserving biodiversity. When they visit flowers to collect pollen and nectar, they also disperse pollen grains onto other flowers, allowing plants to reproduce. This interaction, a beneficial relationship between two species, is called a mutualism. However, bees' interactions with other organisms are not always so beneficial, and face pressure from pathogens, organisms that can cause disease in other organisms. Unfortunately, these pathogens play a role in the current decline of many bee species globally (Goulson et al., 2015). A self-described “field ecologist at heart” and professor in the Department of Biology at UMass Amherst, Dr. Lynn Adler is fascinated by the interactions between bees, flowers, and pathogens. Her research is helping uncover and better understand environmental factors that could reduce disease in bee populations.
“Beautiful flowers
Such important food for bees
But spread disease too”

- Dr. Lynn Adler

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[Seminar Blog] All for one and one for all, Dietary specialization in neotropical army ants

3/28/2022

 
Figure 1. Myrmecologist Dr. Aidan Manubay searching for colonies of army ants in Central America
Figure 1. Myrmecologist Dr. Aidan Manubay searching for colonies of army ants in Central America
written by Maggie Hartman and Alireza Shokoohi

During graduate school, a typical evening for Dr. Aidan Manubay (Fig. 1) included stalking colonies of hungry insects with disproportionately large mandibles in the tropical forests of Costa Rica and Panama. If this sounds like your ideal day, then you may want to consider studying the diverse and ever-fascinating army ant. Dr. Manubay, Professorial Lecturer in the Department of Biological Sciences at The George Washington University (jmanubay@gwu.edu), has been fervently asking questions about his favorite group of organisms, army ants, since his years as an undergraduate right here at the University of Maryland. ​​

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The role of indigenous knowledge and land management practices in conservation

3/4/2022

 
written by: Kathleen Ciola Evans & Eva Perry 

UMD Department of Entomology
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​The United Kingdom hosted the 26th UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26) in Glasgow, Scotland from October 31st through November 13th. Although some were hopeful that the world could come together on an agreement to mitigate climate change, many voices were left unheard during the symposium, including those of Indigenous groups. Their inclusion is particularly important because of the vulnerability of Indigenous lands to climate change and the potential model of sustainable land management that Indigenous groups could provide. Additionally, a significant amount of global biodiversity is concentrated in territories Indigenous Peoples managel. Ancestral and indigenous communities contribute next to zero toward carbon emissions, yet they are the most vulnerable communities to climate change2. Despite this, Indigenous perspectives on sustainable land and water management were mostly sidelined at the conference.
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Figure 1: Farrell et al., 20213. Map overlay representing aggregate reduction of Indigenous Peoples’ land tenure in the US.

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[Seminar Blog] Tiny wasps to the rescue: investigating biological control of the brown marmorated stink bug and emerald ash borer

2/18/2022

 
written by: Max Ferlauto and Madeline Potter
Most tiny insects go unnoticed, yet tiny insects can greatly impact humans and our ecosystems. Dr. Nicole Quinn has spent the past five years researching how to utilize particularly tiny insects, known as parasitic wasps, to help manage invasive insect pests (non-native species that cause harm). The invasive pests Dr. Quinn focused on were the brown marmorated stink bug (Halyomorpha halys) during her PhD research at Virginia Tech University, and the emerald ash borer (Agrilus planipennis) during her postdoctoral research with USDA-ARS Beneficial Insects Introduction Research Unit and University of Massachusetts. Her research helps reveal and enhance methods to effectively control invasive insects.

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[Seminar BLOg] Diversifying STEM voices

2/14/2022

 
written by: Angela Saenz and Taís Ribeiro
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​Our identity and background shape how we work. This is not different in science. In their seminar for the University of Maryland Entomology department, Dr. Lauren Esposito gave a presentation entitled "Why Entomology Needs Queer Voices", sharing their story and how it has inspired them to work towards increasing diversity and inclusion in STEM.

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[Seminar Blog] Meet the bee relatives:  What can phylogenies teach us about bee evolution and ecology?

2/4/2022

 
written by: Taís Ribeiro and Darsy Smith
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​​Have you ever thought about how scientists know how organisms are related? Similar to how humans can use family trees to know who are their relatives, scientists can study the relationship between groups of organisms by constructing phylogenetic trees. These phylogenetic trees are two-dimensional diagrams that can represent the evolution and diversification of a group of organisms (Figure 1). Phylogenetic trees can show what organisms are in the base (or the root) of a tree, and more closely related groups in closer branches. Phylogenetic relationships help us understand the diversity of species and address ecological and evolutionary questions. Traditionally phylogenies were constructed using morphological data – what organisms look like—but advances in molecular phylogenetics, first with a few genetic markers and now with phylogenomic studies that use hundreds of genes, have transformed our understanding of these biological questions. 

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[Seminar Blog] USDA Protects US Agriculture Using Sterilized and Genetically Engineered (GE) Insects

2/3/2022

 
Written by: Krisztina Christmon and Veronica Yurchak

​From its first use in the 1950’s through present day, scientists have been trying to manage insect pests using the sterile insect technique (SIT). Today, USDA ‘s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) - Plant Protection and Quarantine unit uses SIT as part of their Fruit Fly Exclusion and Detection Program, the goal of which is to protect US Agriculture from potentially invasive and damaging exotic fruit fly species. Dr. Corey Bazelet is responsible for coordinating this fruit fly program and presented her work as part of the University of Maryland’s Safeguarding American Agriculture seminar series.

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[Seminar Blog] Slovenia and Its Honeybee Practices: Small Country, Big Beekeeping Successes

2/2/2022

 
Written by: Patrick McNamara and Jonna Sanders

​Dr. Peter Kozmus is a zoologist, author, diplomat, and worldwide advocate for political action to protect honeybees, insects, and insect diversity. He is a leading figure at the world honeybee association, Apimondia, as well as among Europe’s Entomologists focused upon honeybee genetics. Since 2011, Dr. Kozmus has been the Director of the Republic of Slovenia’s Carniolan Bee Breeding program at the Slovenian Beekeeping Association, Čebelarska zveza Slovenije. This program strives to protect Apis mellifera carnica, the Carniolan bee, which is the indigenous honeybee subspecies in Slovenia. A graduate of the Biotechnical Fakulteta at Slovenia’s University of Ljubljana, his Doctoral research explored the morphological and molecular markers of bumblebees.  In 2014, he joined the Slovenian Beekeeping Association, which is a honeybee industry advocacy center, a research institute, and a powerful political ecological voice in Slovenia. In 2017, Dr. Kozmus was elected to the position of Vice President of Apimondia. 

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[Seminar Blog] I declare a plant-insect war: The arms-race and profiteering of species interactions.

12/16/2021

 
We may think of herbivores, or animals that feed on plants, as large lumbering creatures grazing on grass, but most of them are, in fact, insects (Forister et al., 2015). Herbivorous insects interact with the predators that seek to eat them and the plants they rely on for food. But from a plant’s perspective, the insect herbivores are the predators. Plants rely on various tools to reduce the onslaught of attack from these foliage feeders. For example, they can utilize sticky appendages called trichomes, and deploy stinky or toxic chemicals. These interactions that originate from the plant and have impacts on herbivores are known as ‘bottom-up effects’ (Figure 1). Due to the abundance of insect herbivores in nature, they are also important food sources for insect predators and parasitoids. These interactions, which involve herbivore predators, are an example of ‘top-down effects’ (Figure 1).

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[Seminar Blog] Case Study Pedagogy as a Method for Improving Learning Outcomes and Fostering Inclusivity

11/17/2021

 
Ally Hunter
written by: Lasair ni Chochlain
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​Case studies are one teaching tool that can be utilized to engage students, improve learning outcomes and inclusion in the classroom. Dr. Ally Hunter presented her work exploring the effectiveness of case study pedagogy at a Department of Entomology seminar earlier this semester. Dr. Hunter began this work in her doctoral dissertation, completed at University of Massachusetts – Amherst. Now a postdoctoral fellow at UMass Amherst, she utilizes case studies in her undergraduate science classrooms to promote inclusive pedagogy. The advantage in using case studies in scientific teaching is that the stories, with rich narratives, convey scientific content and concepts while also contributing to the maintenance of situational interest which facilitates undergraduate learning. Here, we dive deeper into the methodology of Dr. Hunter’s educational research, to illustrate how her findings can be applied in entomology classrooms and beyond.


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[Seminar blog] When Diversity Drives Science

11/9/2021

 
Fig. 1. Dr. Jessica Ware. Source: American Museum of Natural HistoryFig. 1. Dr. Jessica Ware. Source: American Museum of Natural History
Written by: Maria Cramer, Ebony Argaez and Graham Stewart
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As research entomologists, it’s easy to focus on one tiny area of study. In fact, this is a normal way to do research. So when Dr. Jessica Ware, the speaker for the University of Maryland’s entomology colloquium, talks about her research interests which cover many areas including dragonfly evolution and global migration, termites, and cockroaches, she is often asked why she chooses to study so many different things. Her answer is simple; it’s ok to study more than one group at once. It’s ok to let curiosity about the incredible diversity of insects drive your interests.
             


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[Seminar Blog] Reaching maturity? Malaria parasites’ developmental journey through the mosquito

11/4/2021

 
Written by PhD students Arielle Arsenault-Benoit & Minh Le

​Malaria is a mosquito-borne illness that has plagued human civilization for millennia (Cox 2010), and continues to infect many people, with over 200 million documented cases in 2019 (World Health Organization, 2020). Preventative interventions and treatments are available for those that can access them, yet according to the WHO, there are 400,000 annual deaths worldwide, and nearly 70% of those are children under 5 years old. Among those interventions are insecticide treated bed nets, residual insecticide spraying, preventative drugs, and treatment with combined drug therapy. Effective prevention and treatment efforts, plus advances in diagnostic testing, have greatly reduced both case numbers and mortality rates, but the development of resistance, including insecticide resistance in the mosquito vector population and drug resistance in the pathogen population present new challenges. A greater understanding of the underlying biology of the pathogen may allow for improved and more targeted interventions in the future. 

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Consilience: When Entomology and Art Collide

10/20/2021

 
Figure 1. Photo of Dr. Tierney Brosius from www.gnsi.org.
Figure 1. Photo of Dr. Tierney Brosius from www.gnsi.org.
​written by: Huiyu Sheng, Kristin Jayd and Madeline Potter 

Dr. Tierney Brosius exemplifies how passions and hobbies can enrich one’s profession and identity as an entomologist. She has been able to combine her two passions of science and art during her graduate studies and at her current position as an associate biology professor at Augustana College in Rock Island, Illinois. Dr. Brosius believes art can be a way to communicate science, facilitate observational skills, and change people’s perspective on insects. She brings art into her research, classroom, and free time through scientific illustration, collaborative museum shows, classroom drawing activities, arthropod embroidery, entomology themed clothing/accessories (“entofashion”) and so much more.

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Agroecology and the reconstruction of a post-COVID 19 agriculture

10/20/2021

 
​written by Angela Saenz & Alireza Shokoohi ​

Dr. Miguel Altieri is a Chilean agronomist and entomologist that has dedicated his life and career to agroecology. He is currently an emeritus professor from the University of California, Berkeley, where he teaches sustainable management practices to enhance biological control on farms. He is also a part-time farmer in the slopes of the Colombian Andes and the co-director of CELIA (Centro Latinoamericano de Investigaciones Agroecológicas), an organization focused on teaching, extension, and outreach for small farmers and research for food production through biodiverse systems. 

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Means and Extremes: How Climate Change Shifts Drosophila Parasitism

5/18/2021

 
by Taís Ribeiro and Max Ferlauto
Climate change is having a drastic effect on species across the globe, our own included (Pachauri et al 2014). We have not only witnessed increases in mean temperatures but also extreme weather events like heat waves (Pachauri et al 2014). Although there are many studies looking at the impacts of climate change on particular species, research on the effects of climate change on species interactions is still limited. An important type of species relationship is a host-parasitoid interaction such as what occurs between an insect and its parasitoid wasp. Parasitoid wasps are tiny insects that lay their eggs in other insects. The eggs then hatch and consume the host while it is still alive. There are thousands of parasitoid wasp species. In fact, their order, Hymenoptera, may be the most diverse animal order in the world because of their high degree of specialization with their hosts (Forbes et al., 2018). In order to parasitize eggs, larvae, or pupae, parasitoids must align their life cycle with that of their hosts. But what happens when climate change increases temperatures and extreme climatic events? Does this misalign the host and parasitoid life cycles?

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Spotted wing drosophila-microbe interactions: Integrating ecological complexity into SWD management

4/22/2021

 
written by: Huiyu Sheng and Arielle Arsenault-Benoit
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​Maggie Lewis, a PhD student in the Hamby Lab, aims to advance sustainable management of spotted-wing drosophila (Drosophila suzukii, SWD). Spotted-wing drosophila is a pest of soft skinned fruits such as raspberries and blackberries that is specifically adapted to infest ripe fruit prior to harvest, unlike other fruit flies that often lay their eggs in overripe or rotting fruit. Spotted Wing Drosophila presents a considerable threat to the small fruits industry because the management options are limited and the consumer tolerance threshold to larvae in fruit is very low. Lewis’s dissertation work aims to inform and improve traditional Integrated Pest Management (IPM) approaches for SWD through a better understanding of the fly’s relationships with yeasts, synergism with fruit rot fungi, and optimization of traditional management practices.

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Working in Extension Entomology: A Little Bit of Everything

3/25/2021

 
Fig. 1 Dr. Villanueva presenting at an extension field event.   Fig. 1 Dr. Villanueva presenting at an extension field event.
Written by: Maria Cramer and Veronica Yurchak

​In academia it’s fairly common to become an expert in a tiny slice of science. Researchers often become incredibly familiar with the particular system or organism they study and may not have too many reasons to branch out. That is not the pattern that Dr. Raul Villanueva, from the University of Kentucky, followed, however. Dr. Villanueva, the field crops entomologist for Kentucky, attributes his diversity of study areas to working in agricultural extension. In order to help support and educate Kentucky farmers he ends up working on whatever insect problems they are facing. And what’s more, Kentucky is a state of diverse agricultural production, ranging from grain crops like wheat, corn, and soybeans, to hemp for CBD production, sweet sorghum for molasses, and many horticultural crops like fruits and vegetables. Over the course of the seminar talk that he presented to the University of Maryland Entomology Department, Dr. Villanueva took the audience on a journey through his extension research program.


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Fair-weather Friends: How mycorrhizal associations can be conditionally beneficial

3/9/2021

 
written by: Angela Saenz and Eva Perry

​On February 12th (2021), Dr. Zoe Getman-Pickering, who obtained her Ph.D. from Cornell University in 2020 and is currently a postdoctoral scientist working at George Washington University with John Lill, spoke in the Entomology Colloquium series about her research related to the tri-trophic interactions between plants, herbivorous insects, and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (referred to as mycorrhizal fungi, or mycorrhizae, hereafter). She described her work on the relationship between plants and mycorrhizal fungi, and the biotic and abiotic factors influencing this relationship.

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Rethinking teaching biology to be gender neutral through careful wording of course-specific material concerning gender identity, disability, and Race

2/24/2021

 
​Written by: Mike Nan
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Dr. Karen Hales is a Biology Professor at Davidson College who employs genetic tools with the fruit fly (Drosophila melanogaster) model to understand the molecular mechanisms of mitochondria function in cells. While past colloquium speakers have presented on the latest research in their lab, Dr. Hales addressed an even more pressing, teaching topic: Enhancing inclusivity in undergraduate science courses through careful wording of course-specific material concerning gender identity, disability, and race. 

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Seminar Blog: Got good clean dirt? A necessity for ground-dwelling bees

2/17/2021

 
Figure 1. Dr. Alexandra Harmon-Threatt enjoying a day of collecting in the field.
Figure 1. Dr. Alexandra Harmon-Threatt enjoying a day of collecting in the field.
written by: Maggie Hartman & Kathleen Ciola Evans
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At the intersection of hard work, novel thinking, and luck, you can find pollination ecologist Dr. Alexandra Harmon-Threatt (Fig. 1) waiting for opportunity to knock. Dr. Harmon-Threatt, Associate Professor of Entomology (aht@illinois.edu), and her lab members at the University of Illinois are enthusiastic about understanding and promoting general pollinator conservation by dissecting the factors that affect their diversity. Given the long field hours and complex interactions between variables, this is no easy task!

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