Posts Tagged: Anurag Agrawal

High Honor for Cornell Professor Anurag Agrawal, UC Davis Alumnus

Congratulations to UC Davis doctoral alumnus Anurag Agrawal of Cornell University,...

Cornell University Professor Anurag Agrawal collecting data in Ithaca. He is a newly elected member of the National Academy of Sciences. (Courtesy Photo)

Cornell University Professor Anurag Agrawal collecting data in Ithaca. He is a newly elected member of the National Academy of Sciences. (Courtesy Photo)

A monarch, Danaus plexippus, foraging on a Mexican sunflower, Tithonia rotundifola, in Vacaville, Calif. The declining population of monarchs is troubling. Art Shapiro, UC Davis distinguished professor of evolution and ecology, says monarchs are on life support. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

A monarch, Danaus plexippus, foraging on a Mexican sunflower, Tithonia rotundifola, in Vacaville, Calif. The declining population of monarchs is troubling. Art Shapiro, UC Davis distinguished professor of evolution and ecology, says monarchs are on life support. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

A monarch caterpillar chewing on a stem of narrowleaf milkweed, Asclepias fascicularis, in a Vacaville pollinator garden. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

A monarch caterpillar chewing on a stem of narrowleaf milkweed, Asclepias fascicularis, in a Vacaville pollinator garden. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

A Bee-Line Toward the Tropical Milkweed

Honey bees just can't get enough of our tropical milkweed, Asclepias curassavica. We...

A honey bee forages on tropical milkweed, Asclepias curassavica, in a Vacaville pollinator garden on July 27. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

A honey bee forages on tropical milkweed, Asclepias curassavica, in a Vacaville pollinator garden on July 27. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

A honey bee makes a beeline for the tropical milkweed,Asclepias curassavica. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

A honey bee makes a beeline for the tropical milkweed,Asclepias curassavica. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Honey bee nectaring on the tropical milkweed. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Honey bee nectaring on the tropical milkweed. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Up, up and away toward the next tropical milkweed blossom. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Up, up and away toward the next tropical milkweed blossom. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Honey bee takes flight, returning to her colony. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Honey bee takes flight, returning to her colony. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

About Those Milkweeds and Their Toxicity...

Cornell University evolutionary ecologist Anurag Agrawal, who received his doctorate in population...

Anurag Agrawal and his friend, a monarch butterfly. (Jason Koski, Cornell University Photography)

Anurag Agrawal and his friend, a monarch butterfly. (Jason Koski, Cornell University Photography)

Evolutionary Ecology of Plant Defenses

It will be like "old-home week" when Anurag Agrawal returns to the University of California, Davis,...

Anurag Agrawal, professor of evolution and ecology at Cornell, returns to the UC Davis campus Jan. 18 to give a seminar.

Anurag Agrawal, professor of evolution and ecology at Cornell, returns to the UC Davis campus Jan. 18 to give a seminar.

Prized Award

A nice prize! Evolutionary ecologist Anurag Agrawal (right), who received his doctorate in...

Monarch Butterfly

RESEARCH PROJECTS in the Anurag Agrawal lab at Cornell include the biology of the monarch butterfly. This butterfly is drenched from a rainstorm. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

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