The Ries Lab of Butterfly InformaticsElise, Leslie and Anngely all made it to the Stand up for Science rally on the mall on March 7th!
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April 07, 2025: Ries lab stands up for science!
March 06, 2025: Groundbreaking study
PUBLISHED: STATE OF USA BUTTERFLIES
Today, Science published major results of our work with the USGS Powell Center “Status of Butterflies in the United States” working group, which found dramatic declines in many...
January 24, 2025: Insect Decline RCN
This week, lab members are participating in the Status of Insects RCN annual virtual meeting, hearing from researchers around the world. Grace is presenting a poster on local adaptation across...
Read moreNovember 22, 2024: First in-person winter workshop for the adaptopod collaborative
Our collaborative group focused on how insects adapt to climate change had our first winter workshop in person (instead of zoom) in Phoenix as part of the 2024 Entomological Society meeting. Our group discussed our research project to date and...
Read moreOctober 01, 2024: Leslie participates in panel on pesticides and pollinators at NY Climate Week
Leslie traveled to NY Climate Week to participate in this panel on pesticides and pollinators (our...
Read moreJuly 11, 2024: Our first Baltimore Checkerspot caterpillar of the season hatches!
This little guy hatched from an egg clutch found by Anngely in a MD site and these hatchlings will help us determine how well they can survive on invasive English plantain. In this part of their range - moms do not lay on plantain (but they do in...
Read moreJune 20, 2024: New collaborative article shows the dangers of neonicotinoids
After many years of work, a collaborative article between Leslie and scientists from Michigan State University and Iowa State shows the negative impacts of insecticides in general and neonicotinoids in particular. The study was...
Read moreJune 14, 2024: The Ries Lab gets a private tour
On June 11, Bob Robbins - the head curator of Lepidoptera at the Smithsonian's Museum of Natural History - gave our lab a tour of the collections (huge and overwhelming) - and also showed us some specimens of particular interest. Thanks Bob!!...
June 14, 2024: Digging up host plants for Anngely's first season!
Anngely is digging up invasive plantain to keep in our lab garden - this will be fed to experimental caterpillars along with their native hostplant - white turtlehead. Now all we need are caterpillars!
April 23, 2024: First field trip of the season - successful!
Our first collecting trip of the season was to Green Ridge State Forest to catch silvery blues for our study of genetic patterns across our species' range. We were able to find five individuals for our study and discovered a beautiful park that...
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