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Join us for the next #melastomataceae virtual seminar March 6th 10 AM (NY time). Ben Lazarus, Ash Kerber and Karolina Gwardiak (Uni Vienna and UC Boulder) talking about Buzz-pollination sub-niche partitioning in co-flowering Rhexia species Register here: melastomeseminars.weebly.com/upcoming-semin…

Ash, Ben and I in Itatiaia National Park

Just started the last half of #melastomataceae fieldwork in Brazil. The campo rupestre might be my favorite ecosystem ever:)🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸

what my days will be consisting of for the next couple months:)🌸❤️ #melastomatacae #fieldwork #ecuador #buzzpollination

An interesting example of superpowers and plasticity of behavior was found in tiny insects. Matvey Nikelshparg has discovered that they can drill through plastic with their ovipositor and do it in a very different way than they drill into natural materials doi.org/10.3897/jhr.96…

Rounded off the first part of #Rhexia #buzzpollination fieldwork with a visit to Gainesville to have drinks and chat #Melastomataceae with @OreMalu :) @ashventuringg and Ben Lazarus will now start the buzzing experiments 😀

tiny but mighty🐝💓🌸 #buzz #pollination #melastomataceae #rhexia

When the bees don’t come, I make friends with the funnel web spiders🕷️💫 sometimes I am glad I’m not a tiny bug #florida

We're back in Florida to study Rhexia #buzz #pollination This year: scent, color, single visits, and artificial buzzing experiments 😀 #Melastomataceae @ashventuringg

Paper alert! Almost two years after #Botany 2021, where we conceived the idea, our study on the #altitudinal distribution of insect- and vertebrate-pollinated plants in the Americas is out @ASNAmNat @iochromaland @carriewessi @botanic_ash doi.org/10.1086/725017 #pollination

Oh how I’ve missed this place 🌿🌲🌸@the_kunsze #rhexia

My second Clearwing species for today.

Wandered the green hills of Derbyshire, UK & stumbled upon several individuals resembling this little one. Plenty of thistle flora to go around🐝🌿 I’m thinking Bombus lucorum…

We've updated our list of other anti-colonial, values-based, BIPOC-led research spaces (bottom of the page) civiclaboratory.nl/2017/12/29/fem…