We also meet with the Insect Behaviour Group every week for an informal session where people talk about their projects, ideas, or just what is happening in the field of insect behaviour. These meetings are usually co-ordinated by one of the graduate students but all are welcome to attend. We move to QUBS every June and set up auditory and behaviour experiments in the station's laboratories. The area that QUBS sits on has an unusually diverse insect fauna and allows us to use populations of wild insects to understand their natural behaviour. Working here is a pleasant summer-long experience but it requires a three month period away from Toronto.
Students work in the lab on a variety of projects as well as gathering data for their own project.
At the end of the summer, the students bring their data back to the lab at Erindale and continue their analyses and interpretation before writing them up as a formal report in the spring. Surlykke, A., Filskov, M., Fullard, J.H., Forrest, E . 1999. Fullard, J.H. and Dawson, J.W. 1999. The neurometamorphosis of the ear in the gypsy moth, Lymantria dispar and its homologue in the earless forest tent caterpillar moth, Malacosoma disstria . The gleaning attacks of the northern long-eared bat, Myotis septentrionalis , are relatively inaudible to moths.