Master's student Maggie Hartman has received the 2021 SARE grant for her proposal entitled, "Dragonflies as potential biological control on farms: prey assessment using a DNA approach." Her two objectives are 1) to compare richness and abundance of assemblages of adult species of dragonflies and damselflies among farms and crops and 2) to compare prey composition using next generation sequencing of dragonfly feces between upland farm habitat and near water habitat. She plans to defend in 2022, at which point she will publicly present her results about the dragonflies and damselflies she loves so dearly. Check out her presentation in the spring for an update on her research.
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