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A break from oil palm

September 16, 2020arthropods, field work, spiders, Uncategorized

This blog was written by Jake Stone, a 3rd-year PhD student in the Insect Ecology Group. On our most recent ESSTA (Ecological and Social studies in Smallholder Tropical Agriculture) research trip to Malaysia we had the opportunity to visit Rimba, an NGO that carries out important ecological and conservation work…

I just spent four months studying spiders in Sumatra, Indonesia

May 30, 2018arthropods, field work, pest control, research, spiders

This blog post was written by Insect Ecology Group member Michael Pashkevich. Michael is a first-year PhD student who enjoys all-things spiders, cooking/eating delicious food from his hometown (New Orleans, Louisiana, USA), and spending time with his baby nephew. It’s been nearly four months since I was last in Cambridge.…