This is very cool. A second example of #bees as seed dispersers, this time orchid bees and stingless bees carrying vanilla seeds (previously only known from Australian stingless bees and a eucalypt species #seeddispersal #plantinsect https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(22)01831-0
Cool #fasciation on our #Casuarina. Dozens of these tiny brown #beetles (maybe nitidulids?) ran out of it, could be the cause #PlantInsect

I have a #PhDposition open on Climate Change effects on plant-enemy interactions starting early 2023! If you are interested in #PlantInsect #Interaction and #PlantPathogen #Interactions, and how they are altered by #ClimateChange have a look! https://apply.refline.ch/273855/1408/pub/1/index.html

The position is within our #BugNet project, will be co-supervised by Eric Allan and in close collaboration with @rr_junker and Jake Alexander.
#Job #PhD

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PhD in „Climate change effects on plant-enemy interactions”

The Group Mountain Ecosystems within the Research Unit Alpine Environments and Natural Hazards investigates how climate change and land use affects the diversity and functioning of alpine ecosystems and is looking for a

Eidg. Forschungsanstalt WSL