Had such a great time at #Botany2024!! Loved seeing all of the stellar talks and posters from @PBCresearch students and meeting new friends from around the world (including the best Air Bnb host ever, Giuseppe the Samoyed). See y’all next year!
Super proud of my team from @grillolab on their presentations today! Ended the day at Speciation Cellars 🤩 Going to miss these people! @flydrocarbon#botany2024
my new goal is to find the described pseudoscorpions of the Illinois region. this makes me wna set up berlese funnels albeit the lights in this 1946 study would burn up their inverts and occasionally the entire trap LOL. bruh rip
To celebrate #PollinatorWeek, we’re going on a safari around the Garden to find pollinators visiting our variety of plants. Watch to see what we found, then scout for pollinators in your own backyard or forest preserve!
Today I presented our work recently published in @annbot about the biography of a clade in #Annonaceae in the #botany2024
Below the complete article 👇🏽
https://t.co/GO2CqgmdkO
Bloom alert: One of the Garden’s rare ghost orchids has bloomed and is on display this week in the Tropical Greenhouse! The ghost orchid (Dendrophylax lindenii) is difficult to grow, and the Garden is one of the few institutions in the world to have the plant.
And #Botany2024 folks! If you want to learn some flower development on Monday morning, please come to my talk in Gallery Overlook F at 10:15 am! #mimuluspropaganda
NJB is now all set up at #Botany2024 and @bisayanbotanist started off our competition to win a t-shirt with her drawing of Larinus planus! Come see us at booth #6, talk about publishing and pick up swag!
No this isn't some special butterfly charm. Many insects like these old duffer butterflies will chase any moving patch of contrast in the hope it's a female (or to chase it out of their territory). Even if it's a bright white polystyrene ball on a stick! 🦋