Trapping spotted lanternfly with bottles!?
By now most of us have seen or heard of people using empty water bottles to catch spotted lanternflies. I was skeptical of how easy…
Category: urban ecology
Dr. Helmus is interviewed by The New York Times!
iEcoLab’s very own Dr. Helmus is back in the news again—this time with The New York Times! The article, published last week, discusses the spotted…
Timothy makes the most of staying inside!
iEcoLab graduate student Timothy Swartz had his field work plans derailed by COVID-19, but he’s still had quite a busy summer! Timothy originally planned on…
Highlighting iEcoLab’s summer undergraduates
This summer the iEcoLab has a very strong, large group of undergraduates working on a variety of projects. New students that joined the lab this…
NBC interviews Dr. Helmus about spotted lanternfly… again!
Local news station NBC 10 interviewed Dr. Helmus about the spotted lanternfly invasion on Monday night. This is his second interview with NBC 10 about…
Payton and Timothy present at the 2020 IALE-NA conference
iEcoLab graduate students Payton Phillips and Timothy Swartz each presented at the North American Regional Association of the International Association for Landscape Ecology (IALE-NA) annual…
Four new iEcoLab publications
Since the start of 2020, the iEcoLab has had four new publications! The first was led by Tyler Tran with Dr. Helmus and Dr. Behm,…
Ticks and You
iEcoLab graduate student Payton Phillips has spent the 2019 summer sampling the forest fragments of southeastern Pennsylvania for mammals and ticks. She is researching how…
Where are all the birds?
Urbanization is transforming the face of the earth, where natural habitat is converted to habitat dominated by human activities. How does biodiversity respond to such…