Posts Tagged: Harvard University Herbaria
Plants Keeping up with Climate Change Are Also Being Eaten More by Insects
Many plant species are leafing out and flowering earlier in response to rising temperatures, and...
Urban landscape entomologist Emily Meinke working with Dave Barrington, director of the Pringle Herbarium at the University of Vermont. (Photo by Aimée Classen)
Two herbarium specimens of Vaccinium corymbosum, highbush blueberry collected in the 1930s and housed at the Harvard University Herbaria. Within the image, there are several instances of insect herbivore chewing damage that exemplifies the damage quantified in this study. Link: https://bit.ly/3t7FL5S
Chewing damage on Carya ovata, the shagbark hickory. This is a common hickory in the Eastern United States and southeast Canada.