Ivan Hiltpold

Ivan Hiltpold

Apr 16, 2018

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We made it, THANKS TO YOU!!!

Last week, with your help, the campaign was funded! I would like to take this chance to thank our donors for their support. To date, we have collected $4095 that will be used to monitor birds attached by insect-induced plant volatiles.

The crowd funding platform has been an encouraging method to fund research because each donation indicates the appreciation and support for our project and idea. Not only did we get monetary support, but we also received many constructive feedbacks, many of you read (and liked) our lab notes and shared our story within their network.

With a little less than 1000 page reads (on Apr. 16), 25 of those translated to pledges that carried us to our goal. THANK YOU!!!! You made this exciting project a reality and we owe you big things for that.

This is now that things actually start. Stay tuned for more Lab Notes when we will get data from the field...

Ivan


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About This Project

We all know that birds have a great vision, right?

But what if they could also smell?!

We demonstrated that foraging birds exploit volatiles emitted from crop plants damaged by insects. This knowledge opens new avenues in using birds in sustainable insect pest management.

We are expanding this project to determine which bird species respond to these cues agricultural, forest and wetland environments.

Blast off!

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