Experience and interest in agricultural research, biocontrol, entomology, nematology, and ecology 💗 | Grateful for every day on this 🌎

Michigan, USA
Joined May 2014
Ellie Darling, Ph.D. retweeted
Distribution of Pratylenchus spp. and Heterodera glycines in Michigan and combined reproduction on Peking and PI 437654 soybean | Plant Health Progress apsjournals.apsnet.org/doi/1…
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Ellie Darling, Ph.D. retweeted
When the rain gives you an opportunity to photograph a cuckoo wasp (Chrysididae), you had best seize it, because as soon as she’s dry she’ll be zipping around feeding on nectar and looking for something to parasitize. Boy are they pretty
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Ellie Darling, Ph.D. retweeted
One of the more impressive maternal caretakers of the arthropod world, the Oak Treehopper (Platycotis vittata). From the time the big momma in the middle laid eggs in her chosen oak branch until they were all grown up, she never left her offspring unattended
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Ellie Darling, Ph.D. retweeted
HymenoKeys, an interactive matrix keys system to identify #Hymenoptera families and Ichneumonidae subfamilies mapress.com/zt/article/view/… #Taxonomy
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I am building a research team - please check it out! sites.google.com/view/haarit…
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Ellie Darling, Ph.D. retweeted
I am excited and honored to share tales of our longstanding relationship with the insects around us -- on 22 January in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Please come if you can! aadl.org/node/633538
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Ellie Darling, Ph.D. retweeted
New paper out by grad student Sofia Simeto on our continuing efforts to explore the use of entomopathogens to control the emerald ash borer (EAB)- this paper on infecting EAB eggs doi.org/10.3390/f15122170 A MN Invasive and Terrestrial Plant and Pest Center funded project
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Six weeks late but, I’m happy to announce that I’ve taken a permanent position with USDA/APHIS as a Supervisory Entomologist in MI. Happy to say I get to play a small role in protecting the nations forests, and I couldn’t be more proud to work for an organization like the USDA ❤️
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Ellie Darling, Ph.D. retweeted
Thrilled to announce—my FIRST Ph.D. paper is OUT!!!!! 🎉Unveiling local dispersal of beech leaf nematode. Huge thanks to my advisor, Mihail Kantor, and incredible co-authors @PauloVieiraUS , Camelia Kantor, and Danielle Martin. Check it out👉doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone…
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Ellie Darling, Ph.D. retweeted
My first, first author article and look at how beautiful that figure came out 😍 Give it a read when you have time (it’s a short article over an amazing research paper!)
Excited to share our spotlight article on a new study by Wang et al., describing control of root-knot nematodes by expressing Bt proteins in leucoplasts. @AlisonCBlundell. Read the spotlight here: cell.com/molecular-plant/ful… and the original article here cell.com/molecular-plant/ful…
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Ellie Darling, Ph.D. retweeted
Did you know untreated firewood can carry hidden, tree-killing pests? 😱 What would you guess is the best way to protect our forests? A) Buy local firewood B) Use certified, heat-treated wood C) Don’t move untreated firewood D) All the above.
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Thank you for letting me be a part of this! I’m so glad to have had this opportunity! 💗
We want to send a huge thanks to @NewDarling for creating our very ambitious logos while starting her post-doc in California! Our goal was to incorporate plants vital to bees and prairies. The stickers and shirts were a huge hit!
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Watching the beautiful northern lights outside our home in Michigan! 🥰
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Awesome workshop at Kearney on the Biology and Identification of Phytoseiid Predatory Mites in Agriculture hosted by D. Sandipa Gautam, Dr. Beth Grafton-Cardwell, and David Haviland. Learned so much today! #tinycreatures
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Exploring and exploiting the rice phytobiome to tackle climate change challenges #review #PlantCommunications cell.com/plant-communication…
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Ellie Darling, Ph.D. retweeted
It's happening, and all are welcome to the first of six workshops on Visualizing Science! Online and free for all. (We do not have plans to record the workshops.) Please register here: tinyurl.com/SciVizWorkshop
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Are you a California hemp grower, or know one? Please fill out our CA hemp questionnaire and share! #cannabis #CannabisCommunity #hemp #pests #farm #californiaag #agriculture
Are you a California #hemp grower? Could you spare ten minutes to fill out a questionnaire on your pest pressure and management? If so, please visit, qualtricsxm6jvkldclg.qualtri… Thank you!🌱 please repost and share :)
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Super happy to have been able to share our work on arthropod pests and predators of California hemp fields and attend some awesome talks at the Cannabis Research Conference in Ft. Collins, CO. Thanks to the organizers for this neat event!
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Ellie Darling, Ph.D. retweeted
Active Nematologists @activeplantnema being represented at @SON_nemaweb #SON2024
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