Associate Professor of Forest Insect Science. If you are a tree, our lab is trying to keep you safe.
University of Minnesota
Joined September 2015
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Congrats to our PhD student @HShanovich on recognition as a rising dynamo in applied entomology by @EntsocAmerica with the 2020 Larry Larsen award. Nice work Hailey! @UMN_Entomology @CFANS
ESA congratulates the winners of its 2020 awards, recognizing scientists, educators, and students who have distinguished themselves through their contributions to entomology. Winners will be honored during #EntSoc20, Nov. 11-25. Meet the award winners at entsoc.org/esa-names-winners…
Our PhD student Dora Mwangola headlines today's grad student feature from @UMN_Entomology ! Dora's urban forestry work against #EAB partners with several cities across MN and is supported by @UMNMITPPC
Next up is on the #EntVocate2020 agenda is #InvasiveSpecies and we have Dora Mkabili Mwangola, a PhD candidate in the Forest Ent lab with @BugsNTrees.
She is researching how to protect ash trees from EAB!
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Tree-munching insects likely to survive cold mprnews.org/story/2019/02/11… via @mprnews
As we emerge from #PolarVortex2019 let us remember the brave insect biological control agents that perished with #EAB. After lessons of cold winter 2013-14, Minnesota efforts funded by @mnenrtf have since focused on a hardier biocontrol species.
In the cold winter of 2013-14, #EAB experienced pockets of 60% mortality in the #TwinCities that set populations back nicely. #PolarVortex2019 has been colder, but still won’t eradicate #EAB.
Bring on the #coldsnap! Overwintering #gypsymoth mortality occurs at -27F, and #EAB mortality from -20 to -30F. Remember, actual temps, not windchill.
Good news/bad news: This cold spell is wreaking havoc on egg masses of the invasive gypsy moth... unless they are insulated under the snow pack. "Cool" new work from our group last week in Journal of Biogeography onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
Coddling moth, apple maggot, and plum curculios conquered. My first #Rubinette apple has ripened.
I should tweet at least once a century. Happy birthday today to one of our favourite postdocs @bugsintrees
Surprise guest cicada at kids camp tonight. Impromptu experiment from youth camper concerned about hunger: can it eat goldfish crackers?
Sabbatical photo of week: lodgepole pine seedling in Sirex emergence hole in Patagonia. Life after death :-) #HappyEaster
Just found the premium in my wainscoting from @Menards - ambrosia beetle galleries! #ForestInsects #cool
That looks like @bugsintrees serving our region with @femforester @BugsNTrees at today's Walker, MN Silviculture Meeting #MNforesthealth teapawt.net/femforester/status/826…
Delicious nationalism: new @TimHortons schoolin' @DunkinDonuts here in Twin Cities strib.mn/2jSf02r #OhCanada
I feel sad when people won't sit next to me on a flight. teapawt.net/ljhaavik/status/817089…
Lab microwave is spotless this morning. Why? I asked person responsible. #stresscleaning post election
Lab midterm today in Forest Entomology 4251. Our TA set up a break station at stop #8.
