Congrats, @loveyouleafyou.bsky.social! What a beautiful field site 🤩

Finished up the annual sampling and a spray treatment for @joe-atkinson.bsky.social and I @bugnet.bsky.social sites out at Fowlers Gap. Blue skies and red earth always a great backdrop for fieldwork

Our paper on unifying theory around biodiversity–consumer relationships (pathogens & herbivores) is now out in TREE!

I hope it helps those navigating the forest of theories & hypotheses in this space to see more clearly 🤓

Check out @fletcher-h.bsky.social great summary of the paper here 👇

Postdoc position available with one of our BugNet collaborators! Fletcher is great, check it out 👇👇

Check out what our @bugnet.bsky.social PhD student Julien Bota is doing at our experimental sites in Davos! @slfdavos.bsky.social

And finally with all the people from both BugNet meetings. Thanks to everyone for joining and the vivid discussions!

Want to join or learn more about BugNet? Join our BugNet info meeting with
@annekempel.bsky.social
online on Wednesday, January 29th 2025 at 9am CET or 3pm CET. Register here for the info meeting: www.bug-net.org 🌱 🌐

Next Tuesday comes round two for those that could't make it today – we are already looking forward to see you then! 🐛🌱🦠🐌

What's the impact of herbivores and pathogens on plant communities? That's what we investigate in our global Bug-network with many collaborators from across the world! Today we had our global meeting - what a great BugNet-spirit! Thank you all for joining!

BugNet is growing! Explore our field sites and collaborator network here: www.bug-net.org/collaborators/

Starter pack about researchers interested in plant-herbivore and plant-pathogen interactions! This list is by far not complete - so please help me to get it extended. Leave suggestions or self-nominations in the comments and I'll add you.
go.bsky.app/4JR67t6

BugNet family meeting at the World Biodiversity Forum in Davos with @annekempel.bsky.social, Eric Allan, Jana Stewart, Sergio Rasmann and @bota-jb.bsky.social #WBF2024 🌱🐛🐌

🫖 Teatime in @BugNet_research! Lots of green an roibos tea is packed and shipped to our collaborators to test the importance of aboveground insect🐛 , fungal pathogens🦠 and molluscs🐌 for decomposition 🍵

A very warm welcome to our @bugnet.bsky.social intern Léon Lepesant who will join our team @slfdavos.bsky.social for this summer!

The @slfdavos.bsky.social
@bugnet.bsky.social team well represented #Biology24Zurich. Come to the poster of our master student Trix Junghardt to learn about first insights about drivers of herbivore and pathogen damage in alpine plant communities!
-with @annekempel.bsky.social

Welcome to our brand new BugNet-Bluesky account! @annekempel.bsky.social @suzeveringham.bsky.social and @bota-jb.bsky.social are skeeting here about latest news from the BugNet research network 🐛🌱🦠🐌