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Tritrophic experiments with plants, herbivorous insects and birds – Part 10: Birds can both see and smell systemically herbivore-damaged pines

September 22, 2020 · by Elina Mäntylä | in Fieldwork, Tritrophic experiments | tagged avian, aviary, bird, booth, branch, ecology, experiment, insect, larva, olfaction, ornithology, pine, sawfly, smell, vision | Leave a comment

In this study we showed that insectivorous birds can both see and smell cues of herbivore-damaged pines.

7th Conference of the Czech Society for Ecology

September 11, 2019 · by Elina Mäntylä | in Conferences | tagged biology, conference, congress, czech, ecology, Olomouc | Leave a comment

My thoughts, tweets and photos from the Conference of the Czech Society for Ecology in Olomouc, Czech Republic on 4-6 September 2019. Part 3/3 of my 3 weeks in row of conferences.

The 12th European Ornithologists’ Union Congress 2019

September 10, 2019 · by Elina Mäntylä | in Conferences | tagged biology, bird, Cluj, conference, congress, ornithology, Romania | 1 Comment

My thoughts, tweets and photos from EOU 2019 in Cluj-Napoca, Romania on 26-30 August 2019. Part 2/3 of my 3 weeks in row of congresses.

The 2019 Congress of the European Society for Evolutionary Biology

September 9, 2019 · by Elina Mäntylä | in Conferences | tagged biology, conference, congress, evolution, Finland, Moomin, Turku | 1 Comment

My thoughts, tweets and photos from ESEB 2019 in Turku, Finland on 19-24 August 2019. Part 1/3 of my 3 weeks in row of congresses.

Identifying predators of artificial plasticine caterpillars

May 20, 2019 · by Elina Mäntylä | in Fieldwork | tagged caterpillar, herbivore, plant, plasticine, predator | Leave a comment

Identifying the predators of artificial plasticine caterpillars can be difficult but quite often possible. I will provide here some examples of marks by different predators in Finland and in Papua New Guinea.

Tritrophic experiments with plants, herbivorous insects and birds – Part 9: Study about the attraction of birds to pines induced by pine sawfly oviposition

November 24, 2018 · by Elina Mäntylä | in Tritrophic experiments | tagged avian, aviary, bird, booth, branch, ecology, experiment, insect, light reflectance, ornithology, oviposition, pine, sawfly, volatile | Leave a comment

Post about our study of the attraction of birds to pines with pine sawfly oviposition.

First fieldwork trip to Papua New Guinea

June 11, 2018 · by Elina Mäntylä | in Fieldwork | tagged biology, birds, ecology, Fieldwork, insect, Papua New Guinea, science, tree | Leave a comment

Some notes and photos from my first fieldwork trip to the tropics.

European Conference of Tropical Ecology

April 6, 2018 · by Elina Mäntylä | in Conferences | tagged biology, conference, congress, ecology, France, Paris, tropics | Leave a comment

My thoughts and feelings of the conference

The fourth quarter of my #365papers

September 30, 2017 · by Elina Mäntylä | in #365papers | tagged article, science, Twitter | Leave a comment

The fourth quarter of my #365papers challenge.

The 11th European Ornithologists’ Union Conference

September 4, 2017 · by Elina Mäntylä | in Conferences | tagged biology, birds, conference, congress, Finland, ornithology, Turku | 1 Comment

Thoughts and tweets from the EOU 2017 conference

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