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Jenny Jandt

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    Jenny Jandt
    @TheWaspLady
    Oct 16, 2024
    Check out the cover on the latest issue of Journal of Economic Entomology! That's my wasp from our study on wasps as biocontrol agents, published in this issue! My first journal cover. I'm so happy. academic.oup.com/jee/issue/117/5 @Amy_L_Toth @Zoology_Otago @EntsocAmerica @NZEntoSoc
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    Jenny Jandt
    @TheWaspLady
    Sep 3, 2024
    Check out the article that @Amy_L_Toth and I wrote for @ConversationEDU about our recent pub (w/ Erin McCall) in J Econ Entomol. I'm hopeful to take advantage of the wasps already in the Pacific now! theconversation.com/wasps-can-be-p… @Zoology_Otago @OtagoEntoSoc @NZEntoSoc
    Wasps can be pests in NZ – but they have potential to be pest controllers too
    From theconversation.com
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    Jenny Jandt
    @TheWaspLady
    Jul 26, 2024
    "What good are wasps for anyway?" I'm so proud of our @IowaStateU #TothLab team (@Amy_L_Toth and Erin McCall) for resurrecting this #WaspLove study. Read for the science, skim for the pics, or... @EntsocAmerica @NZEntoSoc @Zoology_Otago
    Wasps, plants, and caterpillars in the hoop house in Study 1. A) Photo of “wasp side.” Inset: container of 4th–5th instar caterpillars, all of similar color and size, before they are placed on the broccoli plants. B) Polistes metricus on a broccoli plant, after having captured and killed a caterpillar (arrow). Photo was taken moments after restocking plants with caterpillars. C) P. metricus feeding caterpillar...
    Native Polistes wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespidae) hold potential as biocontrol agents for lepidopteran...
    From academic.oup.com
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    Jenny Jandt
    @TheWaspLady
    Mar 30, 2024
    So I'm in the yarden, and I see these beautiful caterpillars on my kowhai. "Kowhai moths?!?" I wonder. So iNaturalist.org to the rescue! Kowhai moths indeed. They can stay. Check out that webbing. So cool. @MBNZTorg @NZEntoSoc @Zoology_Otago @OtagoEntoSoc
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    Jenny Jandt
    @TheWaspLady
    Jan 31, 2024
    Today, we went to the beach to hunt for #BugoftheYear2024 nominee, Black Cockroach-hunter #wasplove! We found them frolicking & burrowing in the sand, & saw a wasp that looks like a damselfly! Have you voted yet? bugoftheyear.ento.org.nz @Zoology_Otago @OtagoEntoSoc @NZEntoSoc
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