NEWS — from the field and lab…

8 October 2025

Congratulations!!! Maddie Sheppard won the President’s Prize in the student competition in recognition of excellence in scholarly communication of entomological research. Great job, Maddie!

6 October 2025

Rylee, Maddie, Mugdha and Paige are in Calgary this week to present their research at the Annual Meeting of the Entomological Society of Canada. Hope you have a wonderful time!

2 June 2025

We welcome our summer students – Ian Murdoch, Liam Henderson and Carolyne Bryant to our lab. We hope you have a great work experience helping out with all the projects!

13 February 2025

Deepa gave a departmental seminar in Prague on her work on forest insect invasions. There was a great turnout and plenty of discussion following the talk. https://forestinvasion.cz/en/r-20693-news-hive-project-en/ecology-of-forest-insect-invasions.html.

11 February 2025

Deepa is at an invasive species working group meeting at the Czech University of Life Sciences in Prague. https://forestinvasion.cz/en/r-20695-about. Lots of brain-storming and discussions on why species invasions are asymmetric between Europe and North America!

16 January 2025

We welcome Shawn Donovan to our group! He is working on modelling salvage biomass from insect disturbed forests as an alternate energy source for northern communities.

20 November 2024

We welcome Abby Malayny to our group! She is helping with insect identification and sample processing this winter.

11 October 2024

We had a lab retreat for our research group. It was a nice day away from the lab and office where we had a group discussion on what we envision the future holds for us. We played games and enjoyed a delicious dinner cooked by a resident chef of Harvey, NB. It was a great way to get to know each other better.

12 September 2024

Alex’s paper from his MSc  “No evidence for pronounced mate-finding Allee effects in the emerald ash borer (Agrilus planipennis Fairmaire)” is just published in NeoBiota, doi: 10.3897/neobiota.95.127287″. Congratulations and well done, Alex!

6 September 2024

A new paper is out this week that stemmed from an international working group on invasive species. “Why so many Hemiptera invasions”. Here’s the link: http://doi.org/10.1111/ddi.13911.

3 September 2024

As we enter the fall semester, Mugdha and Paige are starting their MSc programs at UNB-Biology. Nice work getting your projects going this summer and good luck with your courses this semester!

27 August 2024

As August draws to a close this week, the sunlight shifts slightly in the woods, signaling that fall is just around the corner. Despite this, the insects remain active, keeping us busy with data collection. It’s been a hectic but rewarding summer, full of successes that will serve as a solid foundation for the next season!

25 August 2024

Deepa spent the week in Kyoto, Japan, attending the International Congress of Entomology. She was delighted that her PhD supervisor, John Borden, had received the Certification of Distinction for Outstanding Achievement in Entomology! Since John was unable to attend the meeting in person, Deepa was pleased to accept the award on his behalf. Congratulations, John!

21 August 2024

Deepa co-organised a IUFRO joint working party meeting in Tokyo, Japan this week. She presented a paper “Does climate change exacerbate spruce budworm outbreaks?”. She also networked with collaborators and brainstormed ideas for new projects on invasive species ecology and management.

14 August 2024

Rylee is at the Acadian Entomological Society Meeting in Corner Brook, NL this week. He is speaking about his work entitled “Phylogeography and pheromone variation in the spruce beetle (Dendroctonus rufipennis Kirby)”. Enjoy the meeting!

21 June 2024

Deepa is at the IUFRO World Congress in Stockholm. She co-organised a session on “Global forests in a hotter and drier world: Assessing forest damage and tree mortality from climate change accelerated insect outbreaks and infectious diseases”. Lots of new ideas and potential collaborations!

3 June 2024

We have two new summer students who will start their MSc programs at UNB Biology in Fall 2024. Welcome to Mugdha Stone and Paige Grabka! We hope you have an exciting field season!