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Rishona Vemulapalli @rishonavemulapalli.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

I am happy to share my first publication is out in the scientific world. Based on my undergraduate honours biology thesis research at Queen’s University (2024), we explore how urbanization and host-plant gardens impact the occupation of its specialist herbivores. You can check it out here! 🌿🐛

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Graydon Gillies @graydongillies.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

Published now with @rishonavemulapalli.bsky.social! We investigated how urbanization might inhibit species interactions between common milkweed and specialized herbivores, and how milkweed in garden habitat might ameliorate these negative effects. resjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Common milkweed gardens increase occupancy by monarch butterflies and other specialist herbivores towards an urban centre

We surveyed 119 stands of common milkweed (Asclepias syriaca) across an urbanisation gradient to investigate how restored garden habitat might ameliorate the negative effects of urbanisation on spec...

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Rishona Vemulapalli @rishonavemulapalli.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

Thank you for being my greatest support from start to finish Graydon. My successes are shared with yours and I wouldn’t have wanted it any other way!

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