A field journal for members of the Echinacea project. We're field biologists with limited memory. We post details of events and activities that we can't fit easily on a datasheet, but that we might want to remember.
- A little pollen poll
- Amy's poster
- Stipa planting photos
- Aphid and ant presentation
- The camera lives on...
- Teaching about prairie remnants
- Hegg Lake 2009
- done flowering
- Halverson Data, Head harvesting, and Landfill species list (in progress)
- Stipa is done (and so am I!)
- Searching Caroline's Hegg Lake Plot
- sites and ID's pollinator comp 09
- Seedling re-finds
- Diedre and Jake's posters
- Pollinating Cirsium
- software for counting seeds in images
- Histogram of pollen sizes
- Mimi's Last Day- long ago, but not forgotten!
- pollen storage data
- How many do you see?
- Files for Gretel to make visor forms AND a reminder for Stuart
- Allegra's pollination data .csv file
- Pollen measurements - bad and good news.
- Fun with the Internets!
- Baggie collection this week?
- Aphid Search Data
- Good news!
- Monday 8/10/09 Team Echinacea Picnic Potluck
- Measurements of pollen
- Oh the things you will find ... doing rechecks
- Amorpha Pollen
- demo equipment
- shrivel data
- Common Garden Measuring 2009
- Staples 2009
- where to plant Stipa
- bike ride
- 2 new graphs--what to do?
- News from the big city
- Breeding Systems Update
- More Stipa
- Warren R.I.P.
- Teucrium found
- Compiled pollinator observation/capture data
- species richness in floral neighborhoods
- Pressed plants and painted bracts
- Giant Cribbage Board?
- Baggins
- pollen load progress
- more pollinator pictures
- So many styles, so little time
- Pollinator Comp. Data for analysis
- locations for Stipa
- Plant collecting
- Finally, a post about what those purple mesh baggies are all about...
- Plan for the week
- pollen viability and identifying distinct plants in the recruitment expt (I)
- Observations on Thursday
- Remnant assignments
- Pollinator collection and pollen load analysis (this is Amanda!)
- A picture is worth a thousand words, or one Flog post
- Pollen viability at different temps
- Things to check in recruitment zones
- Stipa spartea seed picture
- Greetings from the Lab...
- Planting Stipa in CG
- FNC and Coreopsis pollinators
- Orchid hunting trip
- Life with Team Echinacea
- Peak Day Celebration
- We've hit the peak!--Common Garden Flowering 2009
- Measuring plants in the CG
- co-flowering species
- lists of random numbers for visors
- Revised FNC protocol
- Team Echinacea
- Visitors to the Echinacea flog
- Are Echinacea siblings compatible?
- Merci buckets yall
- For next week
- New link for pollen pictures
- Powerpoint of Pollen Slides
- where?
- mycorrhizae
- Transect Searching in Staffanson
- For Tomorrow
- info on flagged plants
- another list of flags in random order
- Thanks for playing; here's your consolation prize
- Pollinator collection updates
- Handles revealed
- Field Protocol for Daniel and Amy
- First Image
- visiting flags
- Combined Protocols for PONS Project
- I need helpers for my project too!
- And even more...
- Even more species
- Name that pollen
- Come back, Candyman!
- Where is Asclepias viridiflora?
- 4th of July fun
- Stipa spartea collection
- Mr. Staffanson's Neighborhood
- As Promised
- More species to look for
- spp coordinates
- Updates for pollinator competition experiment
- A Chivalrous Reply
- It's so Exciting!
- Looking for a tall white hermaphrodite...
- Nobody outblogs Amanda Gallinat
- Fun for flog visitors
- Penguin outflogs them all
- Bike gang and project progress
- up close of Echinacea floral structure
- potential sites to assess Competition for Pollinators
- Allegra's options
- Form Outline for Search
- Sampling Sites
- pops for sampling tissue
- wanted: digital camera for microscopes
- find spittlebug spittle masses
- Week 3 plans
- Week 2
- Remnants Being Searched
- Joke of the day...
- M's partially revised proposal
- Breeding systems
- We have weather!
- Common Garden Status & Creatures Tended by Ants
- Seedling searches finished!
- National Pollinator Week
- Revised Plan
- Biking adventure
- Possible Aphid Proposal
- CSA farm nearby
- M's proposal
- The most over-the-top proposal since Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes
- First week, seedling search procedures, and project proposal
- Echinacea at the 2009 Evolution meeting
- A time for new beginnings
- Kensington Runestone Days
- Hello from Kensington!
- You can call me "M"
- mowing the CG
- a good year for cuckoos
- a good day for cuckoos
- specialized camera stand
- GPS points
- plants flagged at lf site for seedling search
- seedlings found!
- Burns of recruitment plots
- Seedling searches at Hegg Lake
- Locating Research Populations
- Seedling search at Hegg Lake
- spring!
- Way extended field season
- last day of flowering? take two
- last day of flowering?
- Demography
- Landfill plant pictures
- Common Garden Phenology Update: The end is near
- I never tire of the landfill
- Lani and Denise's posters
- Echinacea baking
- late in '08 -- phenology status
- Virgin Mary Vegetables
- Speaking of killing and bees
- Bee Killers on the Loose
- New Evidence Implicates Spider in Bee Disappearances
- Could it be?
- Bee Team, way better than the A Team
- Common Garden Flowering Update
- Protocol for end of flowering in CG
- Bee Killer Behind Bars; Claims to Have Been Railroaded
- Have you seen crown rust?
- More Common Garden Invertebrates
- Team Chicago home safe
- Plant identifying
- pollinator competition update
- Half-way through the summer
- Common Garden Flowering Progress Report
- Excitement on the prairie
- Bee photos
- The horrors, I mean wonders, of Hegg
- flowering phenology in CG
- busy day
- Flowering Echinacea plants in the Common Garden
- Bee Shenanigans Shake Common Garden (All Night Long)
- more bee painting
- Measure plants in the CG 2008
- Marking Bees
- Find the Seedlings!
- Landfill collecting
- the great pollination competition- my independent project
- Will it ever flower?
- The Bee Team
- Denison Campus of Echinacea U.
- Flowering plants in the common garden
- Seedling search 2008, phase I completed
- A lesson in punctual flowering
- Chemical Warfare
- Hard at work
- Skink emerges from a beer can
- Thank goodness for YouTube
- Another Profile
- Hii
- Bucket alternative
- Introduction
- Intro
- Introduction
- Project Ideas
- Field work, May 2008
- house moving
- Back
- Dataset review back in Illinois
- cookies
- last day
- rainy morning, sunny afternoon - Aug 23
- over and out
- I made it home safely
- Map of flowering plants in main Common Garden
- Updates
- New paper
- Pictures
- jardÃn de mi madre
- Fishing in Minnesota
- Best Moment of the Summer
- Off the subject of Echinacea.
- Hegg Lake 2006 versus 2007
- Ground markers
- Rachel's Species Survey List
- Rained out
- Measuring plants at Hegg Lake
- Categories in Pendragon CG Monitor Forms
- Tough Team Echinacea
- First week and half in Minnesota
- Wasp Video
- Heat, Humidity, and Harry Potter
- Massive picture update
- So You're Telling Me They're Not Bees?
- Echinacea slideshow
- Orchid Hunting
- Initial Bee Data
- Andy and the monster plant
- Wu-tang cloud
- measuring stuff
- Link to Measuring Protocol
- Videos
- Good news for science at the Chicago Botanic Garden
- Friday the 13th
- the internets are back
- Bee Painting Protocol
- Updates from the Bee Team
- KAP Equipment
- Team KAP update
- Common Garden Management Notes
- Ideas for highway corridors
- Internet down at Andes
- weeding
- Aerial photos of the common garden...
- Shenanigans update
- There Are Animals Among Us...
- Andy's Inspiration
- Ants in my pants (and by in my pants, I mean on my mind)
- Updates and Corrections
- Profile: Rachel Mills
- The camera went up!
- Independence day picnic
- herb & ray
- Weather Forecast
- Reminders about video team
- Fluctuating Asymmetry!
- Florivory
- Marking bees
- Bee Team Strikes Back
- Preliminary protocol for bee/ant visits during phenology
- Profiler: Andy McCall
- Plans for the week
- Recap
- Profile: Josh Drizin
- Amy Alstad, part deux
- Jameson
- You gotta love me: Profile of Colin Venner
- virgin prairie makes me hot
- Profile: Julie Nicol
- Altering portable power units AKA "The hackjob"
- First day of serious video!
- Fluctuating Asymmetry?
- More KAP goodness
- Hardware Hacking!
- No more binoculars
- Go Team
- Pollinator Protocol
- Microsatellites in Echinacea... they do exist
- Draft protocol for videorecording pollinators
- Asymmetry measurement ponderings
- Late entry
- Go fly a kite!
- Battery madness
- To do list
- Just when I thought I knew the plant
- Reporting from the Raj Mahal...
- KAP: Kite Aerial Photography
- Mosquitoes
- More data to collect tomorrow and reminders....
- Colin
- Shenanigans
- Ominous clouds and JERP at the Bunny Hill
- yes
- Common Garden maintenance
- today
- exhaustion
- Concerning Echinacea.
- what time is it?
- The Insect-Plant BLOG of Sweden....
- Off to a great start
- pictures from the field
- Bugs and plants
- Andy's Problems
- More pictures
- And Then There Was Turkey.
- Andy's Wild Ride to Minnesota
- Pictures from Staffanson, Echinacea gets scraped
- first day
- arrival & move in
- before summer