Group photos

Alejandra Gage, Alyssa Kinman, Shannon Collins, Pablo Lopez after getting ice cream in 2021

Lab end-of-semester party, fall 2021

Ethan, Nick, Aidan (© Avery Pearson), Sarah, Abbey, Viktorya, Monze (© Marie Muniz) and Julian (© Abbey Schedler) with their favorite references for finding insect traits

 

 

 

 

At work in the lab

Marie tests bees' odor learning abilities using fmPER

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

John and Brandon test bees' visual learning abilities

 

 

 

 

 

 

Rob identifies insects collected as voucher specimens

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Jada and Brand work on our plant field guide (© Avery Pearson). Note the beautiful insect-print microscope cover made by Abbey in the background.

 

 

 

 

At work in the field

Brand and Elinor (© Ahna Hubnik, UNT), and Isaac and Laura (© Shannon Collins) count flowers and vegetation cover

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Set of traps for passively sampling insects

Shannon looks for insects visiting flowers (© Laura Taylor)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Avery hanging out with a longhorn (© Marie Muñiz). Can we teach the cows to collect data?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Photos © Elinor Lichtenberg unless otherwise specified