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…
Month: June 2015
Field Research in Costa Rica
After two weeks in beautiful, we are heading home today. Studying and research abroad is an intense experience, more so when traveling with with 14 undergraduate students from the University of Kansas and Washburn University. Our field course focused on Zingiberales plants and their arthropod communities and we visited sites near San Jose, on the coast at…