Amanda Roe
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Amanda Roe
@docaroe
A bug geek who loves rolling prairies and dark chocolate. Research Scientist with the Canadian Forest Service. Tweets are my own and not those of my employer



🧵Nine years ago, central British Columbia was experiencing a major forest tent caterpillar outbreak. At the time my youngest son was four-years old. He spent a lot of his time outside among the caterpillars. One day @joyelmarie and I found him tossing caterpillars into a puddle.













“I am a fan of keeping masks on for now until we have very, very low rates (of Omicron).” @BogochIsaac this morning.




Winnipeg emerald ash borers are much more cold-tolerant than their counterparts in Southern Ontario - findings in @brentjsinclair's team's newest paper in @cois_cris. Read more in #WesternU News: news.westernu.ca/2022/02/emeral… @westernuBio







