Jarrett Byrnes focuses on posts in ecology, environmental sciences, and evolution. He blogs at I’m a chordata, urochordata! This week, he comes to you live from the Long Term Ecological Research Network All Scientists Meeting in Estes Park, CO.
- I’ve always thought that carnivorous pitcher plants were pretty baddass. However, Kevin Emmerson points out that recent works shows that in addition to eating insects, they also function as toilets for tree-shrews. I leave the punning to you.
- Stingless Brazilian bees have the typical queen-worker hierarchy. But in these hives, if the queen dies and is succeeded by one of her daughters, the workers stop being diligently subservient, and begin reproducing as well, this becoming parasites on the next generation.
- While wetland mitigation projects are going full steam ahead in Florida, recent work cited by Rob Goldstein over at Conservation Maven shows that evaluation criteria are more than a little sketchy in many cases.
