How could spider silk and agricultural yield be potentially connected...
Who?
Margot Charette, undergraduate student at McGill University in Environment
Yifu Wang, undergraduate student at McGill University in Environmental Biology
Christopher Buddle, Associate Professor at McGill University and supervisor of this research
in collaboration with Macdonald Student-run Ecological Gardens (MSEG)
What?
We aim to study the effect of spider silk on plant productivity in agricultural ecosystems using kale as a test crop.
When?
July and August 2013
Where?
McGill University Macdonald campus, Saint-Anne-de-Bellevue, Qc.
Why?
Because it has been previously shown in many studies that spiders and cues left by spiders have an effect on arthropod's herbivore behavior and we aim to push the specific research about silk a step further to know if spider silk could be an interesting component of efficient integrated pest management systems.
How?
The following blog posts will answer that question!
Hi, I was wondering if you could share a link to the research you refer to about spider and herbivore behaviour? Or maybe add it as a hyper link to the text itself for those interested?
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