Kicking off the field season with aspen leaf-miner work

Newly unfurled aspen leaves with the Swan mountains in the background

Our field work has finally begun this Spring at the beautiful MPG North property! We are actively searching aspen trees at our field sites for leaf-miner presence. Though rain and generally colder spring temperatures have delayed the budding of aspen leaves, we hope we'll have a pretty great season! We'll be measuring thermal performance in leaf miners and wasp parasites (if we can find them!)