Category Archives: Observations
Squash Bees Are Pollinating Your Pumpkins and Zucchini
from the Frank Lab Website August 17, 2015 For years, I have felt rather sheepish for never having seen a squash bee. As native bees go, these fetching little stripey, round-faced bees get a lot of press. They’re common and … Continue reading
Cities as a glimpse of the future
from the Frank Lab Website August 27, 2014 This is an essay I wrote about my recent research on cities and climate change; the results were just published in Global Change Biology. About a year ago, I found myself sitting … Continue reading
This bench is habitat
from the Frank Lab Website May 22, 2014 A few weeks ago, while I was sitting on a bench on campus eating lunch, a female carpenter bee startled me by flying up directly between my knees. She looked me in … Continue reading
Vacation Invertebrates
October 17, 2011 While trekking in the Annapurna region of Nepal on vacation, we saw some curious invertebrates. Here are their portraits. If anybody knows (a) what the millepedes are up to and/or (b) whether that snail engulfing its own … Continue reading
Ant Video
These videos show Camponotus femoratus ants interacting with Peperomia macrostachya seeds. (The small ants are Crematogaster levior, which live in the same nests with Ca. femoratus.) Ultimately, the Ca. femoratus carry the seeds back to their nests and the plants … Continue reading