Trust me. I’m aware that it’s a Saturday. But I don’t care. Yesterday I wanted to write about my son’s special day. Today I want to share highlights of my week in ecology. It’s my blog – stop whining! 1) Accepted – An important paper got accepted this week. This paper is the first paperContinue reading “Friday findings – volume 6”
Tag Archives: entomology
Fly away
Despite still feeling quite weak today we decided to leave the house for the weekend. We spent all week mostly inside the house in various shades of gastroenteritis, and both kids and parents were getting restless being cooped up like that. Our home on wheels is a nice place to escape this feeling. Here weContinue reading “Fly away”
Friday findings – volume 4
This week was rough. All four family members have been sick, and one of them twice – with a four day healthy intermezzo. Yet, things have also been quite great in my life in ecology. Here’s a couple of highlights (no real lows this week): 1 – I had a shared first author paper acceptedContinue reading “Friday findings – volume 4”
Friday findings – Vol. 2
This was a week buzzing with (tansy) activity! Here’s some highlights. 1) On Monday I gave a talk about some of the work we’re doing in my team on artificial light at night. In particular, I presented a study that is almost ready to submit. The talk inspired an interesting discussion, with some new ideasContinue reading “Friday findings – Vol. 2”
My entomologist’s office
My office got a bit of a makeover. It was born out of necessity, but I may actually like it better this way. As I wrote a few days back, one of my team members has been working really hard over the past few weeks to establish a healthy culture of two aphid species. TheyContinue reading “My entomologist’s office”
The horror of ecological experiments
Lately, me and a PhD researcher in our team were having some struggles in our project. As is often the case when you’re working with live organisms (Ecology, Yay!), things can go wrong, due unexpected organismal misbehavior. And if things CAN go wrong, they DO go wrong. Murphy’s law is the only universal truth inContinue reading “The horror of ecological experiments”
Jackpot!
I figured it was autumn today. Time to clean up the garden some. I cleared some dead tomato plants, harvested some chilies, and emptied some of the pots with annual ornamentals. While doing so, I glanced over some of the perennial potted plants, thinking I should bring some inside to overwinter. I noticed that oneContinue reading “Jackpot!”
A silly clown
It’s quite funny how hysterical professional gardeners and greenhouse staff get when they see aphids. I get it, aphids are the devil – that is, when you’re a tomato grower or whatever. I cannot count count the number of times I have been warned about all the horrors that are aphids – as if IContinue reading “A silly clown”
The very odd-looking stag beetle…
I’ve been lucky enough to find a couple of lesser stag beetles (Dorcus parallelipipedus) in my garden lately. About two weeks ago I found a female, and two days ago my wife found a male, approximately two meters away from the place I found the female, on the same wall. I hope they managed toContinue reading “The very odd-looking stag beetle…”
A dark place
Since a couple of years, I have gotten quite interested in the effects of artificial light at night, especially on plant-mediated interactions. This interest was mostly sparked by many kitchen table conversations with my friend and former house mate Davide, who has studied effects of light at night on bird behaviour for many years. ItContinue reading “A dark place”
Robin Heinen 