Bernauer lab takes on #entsoc25 in Portland! Sharing all our latest work on bumblebees and cranberry pollination! 🐝

Hey #ento folk- any ideas on what might be eating these tomatillos? Eau Claire, WI, found late August 2025. Thanks in advance!

Colors of summer

Feeling so lucky to have had the opportunity to meet many endangered Karner blue butterflies today. Such a little, beautiful thing flittering by. Also saw many other lovely pollinators 🦋🐝🌻

Saturday backyard pals

After finishing my first year of teaching as a new asst. prof it is so nice to have my brain back and to have the bandwidth to ask questions and ponder new research ideas ✨🧠

Is that a rusty patch queen in my yard?!!?! 🐝😍

Please share! Do you work at the intersection of plant volatiles and insect management? 🌿🪲
Submit to our special issue in Enviro Ent: Plant Volatiles in Insect Pest Management and Sustainable Agriculture. MS drafts due Aug '25, anticipated pub. Feb '26; DM for details!
@entothompson.bsky.social

Bernauer lab’s first conference outing has been a success! ✨🐝 Such a special experience for me as a new PI to have students presenting their work at a professional conference for the first time! Lincoln did not disappoint! #NCBESA @entsocamerica.bsky.social

Had a wonderful time sharing findings from my recent research with cranberry growers and researchers at Cranberry School today!

Excited to share that I’ll be starting as an Assistant Professor in Conservation Biology at UW-Eau Claire!🌼🌸

Super pumped to teach entomology and to research pollinator conservation with UWEC undergrads!! 🐝🪲🦋

Feeling very nostalgic about all the snow this week - the piles next to the driveway are big enough for building tunnels, like my brother and I did as kids, and yesterday walking around UW’s campus, I had two wipeouts, taking me right back to my undergrad days of snowy walks to class

Mak only comes in for lap snuggles when she knows it’ll get in the way of doing something important 🐱

Had an absolutely lovely time visiting @tamu.bsky.social Entomology this week! Thanks for the invite, Aggie Women in Entomology!! Great to hear about all the cool research going on here and to share what I’ve been working on! 🦋🐝🐜🪲

Anyone know what happened to this apple? Picked from a tree by yours truly about two weeks ago and then sat at room temp since. No other apples have cracked and not freezing temps.