Lab Photos

Heimpel lab, Août 2017
Becky Boulton in Ecuador.

Becky Boulton in Ecuador, 2017.

Working in the lab, 2017

Microscope work looking at parasitoids on linden aphids, soybean aphids, ladybeetles, and Philornis downsi. Left to right: Komala Kanagala, Elsa Ubel, Michele Ricupero, Simon Heimpel, and Jacqueline Nuzzo, August 2017.

Ismael and Jacqueline

Jacqueline Nuzzo and Ismael Ramirez finding soybean aphids and parasitoids in St. Paul, Summer 2017.

Kelton Welch, James Miksanek, Becky Boulton, Matt O'Neal, George Heimpel, and Jonathan Dregni.

Dr. Matt O'Neal visits from Iowa State University, March 28, 2017. With Kelton Welch, James Miksanek, Becky Boulton, Matt O'Neal, George Heimpel, and Jonathan Dregni.

Kelton Welch, James Miksanek, and Matt O'Neal.

Kelton Welch and James Miksanek with Matt O'Neal in the Heimpel lab, March 2017.

Antonio Biondi, Lucia Zapala, and George Heimpel in Catania, Sicily, 2016.

Antonio Biondi, Lucia Zappalà, and George Heimpel in Catania, Sicily, 2016.

Lab 2015

Heimpel lab Spring, 2016. Becky Boulton, Joe Kaser, Mariana Bulgarella with Benito, Hannah Gray, Jonathan Dregni, Tony Charvoz, George Heimpel, Carmen, Nic, and Mirella Heimpel-Rossi.

Dave Ragsdale, Jeremy Chacon, George Heimpel.

Dave Ragsdale, Jeremy Chacon, and George Heimpel.

George Heimpel and Ismael Ramirez, May 2016 in Ecuador.

George Heimpel and Ismael Ramirez checking placement of fly puparia, testing ecological host range of Philornis parasitoids, Loma Alta,  Ecuador, 2016.

Cerro Blanco, 2015

Christian Barros, Martin Quiroga, Paola Lahuate, and George Heimpel at a beautiful field site just outside of Guayaquil, Ecuador, 2016.

Martin Quiroga and Ismael Ramirez, Loma Alta, Ecuador, 2016

Martín Quiroga and Ismael Ramirez, Loma Alta, Ecuador, 2016.

 

Mariana Bulgarella, George Heimpel, Martin Quiroga, Gabriel Brito in Cerro Blanco, Ecuador, 2015

Mariana Bulgarella, George Heimpel, Martín Quiroga, and Gabriel Brito in Cerro Blanco, Ecuador, 2015.

Gabriel Brito, Ecuador, 2015

Gabriel Brito, Ecuador, 2015.

George Heimpel and Zhishan Wu.

George Heimpel and Zhishan Wu, 2003.

Rob Venette, Thelma Heidel, and George Heimpel.

Rob Venette, Ruth Barta, and George Heimpel, 2006.

lab 2016

Welcome, from Joe Kaser, Kelton Welch, George Heimpel, Jonathan Dregni, James Miksanek (top row), and Hannah Gray, Becky Boulton, J.J. Weis, and Ismael Ramirez (bottom row).

Maxime Damiens

Maxime Damiens, measuring length and width of the eggs from aphid parasitoid Aphelinus certus, October, 2017

Mary Marek-Spartz

Mary Marek-Spartz measuring garlic mustard to prepare for a study of biological control using weevils. St. Paul, MN, 2017.

Matt Kaiser, Joe Kaser, October 2013

Matt Kaiser and Joe Kaser, October 2013.

Mark Asplen and Jeremy Chacon, 2014
Mark Asplen and Jeremy Chacón, St. Paul, MN, 2014
Experimental cages.

Soybean plants, soybean aphids, and parasitoid wasps: these are the cages which house our colonies.

Aphelinus glycinis

Aphlinus glycinis ovipositing in Aphis glycines, the soybean aphid.