Tressia_Chikodza

Congratulations to our incredible graduates from yesterday!! ru.ac.za/centreforbiolo…

New paper! doi.org/10.1016/j.aqua…

We had a wonderful WildCoLab Social last week 💕 taking our international group of PhDs and MSc interns curling!! A first time experience for most and lots of fun #AcademicTwitter

Thanks to a wonderful year CBC family!! We had our Research Day and Year End Function on Friday and was so great to see what everyone has been doing over the last year! ru.ac.za/.../latestnews…

First International Conference! What an amazing opportunity I got to present my Masters in Antwerp, Belgium! A huge thank you to my supervisors, my mentor and to the rest of the team thank you 🙏🏾👏🏽❤️#InternationalSymposiumOnAquaticPlants

Love my fabulous colleagues! So awesome to be working with my former PhD lab again 🥰🥰 #positiveacademia

The CBC was well represented with around 40 delegates attending the #ESSA23 Thanks for hosting the conference @StellenboschUni

Hi! We are WildCo Lab Leiden 🌿🦁🌎🎓 co-lead by @StrangeInvasive & @michielveldhuis at @UniLeiden We research solutions for human wildlife coexistence 🗝️ Topics : invasive plants, big data methods, borders of protected areas, human wildlife conflict #biodiversity #ecology

@WildCoLabLeiden Thank you so much. I will be presenting tomorrow 😊

@Tressia_Chiko Enjoy!!! And good luck with your presentation if you haven't given it yet!

First day of attending the #ESSA (Entomological Society of Southern Africa) conference in Stellenbosch. It’s been great talks so far and networking!

Water hyacinth cover on Hartbeespoort Dam is now below 4%. Neochetina weevils and Megamelus scutellaris (hoppers) biocontrol agents are still active on the remaining plants on the dam. Hopper numbers are currently low due to the depleted food resources and cold winter.

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2 funded PhD positions for students from Africa to work on ecological connectivity in rangelands in southern Africa! Come do your PhD in spectacular landscapes and on topics that are relevant to Africa's wildlife and people! 🐄🦓🐘🦒🦗🦋More details 👇👀 drive.google.com/file/d/1XY7_Tt…

Hartbeespoort dam update Water hyacinth surface cover on the dam in December 2021 was just under 30% or 546 hectares. This year, the cover is sitting at 7.8% or 141 hectares, a decrease of approximately 22%.

The CBC hosted our first Research Day on Friday the 25th of November, it was a great success! The CBC had 75 team members here in person and around 12 attend virtually. With 42 staff and students presentations, we all got to know a bit more about what we all do!

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Researchers at the #CBC have been working towards identifying a suitable #BiologicalControl agent to keep #Irispseudacorus populations under control. We have identified a potential candidate, Aphthona nonstriata, a flea beetle associated with the plant in it's native range.

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