{"id":2316,"date":"2020-09-23T14:55:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-23T21:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news\/stories\/from-l-a-to-taiwan-usc-students-hunt-down-insects-to-better-understand-ecology\/"},"modified":"2024-07-29T11:35:50","modified_gmt":"2024-07-29T18:35:50","slug":"despite-pandemic-students-collect-insects-to-understand-ecology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news\/stories\/despite-pandemic-students-collect-insects-to-understand-ecology\/","title":{"rendered":"From L.A. to Taiwan, USC students hunt down insects to better understand ecology"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n    \n                                \n\n  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--article-hero \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--article-hero\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n<div class=\"inner-wrapper\">\n          \n<div class=\"f--field f--image\">\n\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n              \n      <img\n                            data-src=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2023\/04\/story-3317-768x432.jpg\"\n          data-srcset=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2023\/04\/story-3317-768x432.jpg 768w\"          data-sizes=\"(min-width:1200px) 75vw, (min-width:768px) 83vw, 100vw\"          class=\"lazyload\"\n        \n                  alt=\"From L.A. to Taiwan, USC students hunt down insects to better understand ecology\"\n        \n        \n                                      \/>\n\n    \n    \n  \n  \n\n<\/div>\n  \n      <div class=\"image-caption\">\n          \n<div class=\"f--field f--description\">\n\n    \n  Using appropriate precautions, Julie Hopper, far left, and her students gathered on the USC campus to research the impacts of pesticides on biodiversity. 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minutes into conversation with Julie Hopper, a lecturer in <a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/environmental-studies\/\">environmental studies<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/bisc\/\">biological sciences<\/a> at the USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, and you\u2019ve probably touched on a blitz of topics, anything from the evolutionary impact of trophy hunting on big horn sheep to the sex changes of parrotfish.<\/p>\n<p>Much of this information comes from her academic background, which is impressively diverse. She majored in biology at the University of California, Santa Barbara, intent on becoming a marine biologist. A course in parasitology changed her mind.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was like, \u2018Screw fish; parasites are awesome!\u2019\u201d she says.<\/p>\n<p>She then dived up and down the coast of California studying parasites in aquatic species.<\/p>\n<p>Next, she earned her Ph.D. at the University of California, Berkeley while researching insect population control. Recently, she was a post-doctoral scholar at the <a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/labs\/caron\">Caron Lab<\/a> at USC Dornsife, researching algal bloom parasites.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/migration-uploads\/BugStudies_Hopper_InStoryA-3317.jpg\" alt=\"A detailed entomology display features various insect specimens organized by order, pinned next to a phylogenetic tree chart.\" width=\"250\" height=\"700\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students in Julie Hopper&#8217;s ecology class create their own insect collections. (Photo courtesy: Julie Hopper)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Her work there hit a serious obstacle: A year-long experiment failed due to contaminated samples. She hasn\u2019t let it dampen her spirits. This past summer she returned to research, looking at an <a href=\"https:\/\/juliehopper.wordpress.com\/2020\/08\/11\/the-invasive-polyphagous-shothole-borer-beetle-and-the-fastest-most-intense-summer-experiment-ever\/\">invasive beetle and fungus that attack many native California trees<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Her resilience has proven useful during the pandemic as professors are pushed into unexpected challenges. Forced to abandon her usual in-person activities for her Ecology 315 course, like tracking down parasites from snails in wetlands or examining cricket behavior in the lab with her students, Hopper got creative.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bug hunters abroad<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Every semester, Hopper\u2019s students get a chance to play Charles Darwin. Throughout the term they snare insects while on class excursions, then pin and label specimens onto a board. By the conclusion of their classes, each has a keepsake insect collection.<\/p>\n<p>Hopper was determined to retain this tradition, even in a pandemic that was making field trips almost impossible. And while rows of pegged bugs might make some a little squeamish, Hopper argues that fundamental scientific concepts like natural selection spring from the study of these rather morbid displays.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow did famous naturalists come up with their theories? It was through collections. You collect organisms, compare them and make hypotheses about why they look the way they do,\u201d explains Hopper.<\/p>\n<p>With her students scattered across the globe, she outfitted home collection kits so that students could hunt in their own backyard. Pins, boxes and an aspirator (used to safely suck bugs into a jar) were packed by Hopper and handed out to those near campus.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/migration-uploads\/BugStudies_InStoryB-3317.jpg\" alt=\"A cricket in a glass tube labeled in Chinese and roman characters.\" width=\"250\" height=\"580\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Yunqian Hsu has been catching bugs for Hopper&#8217;s class in Taiwan, comparing urban and rural biodiversity. (Photo courtesy: Yunqian Hsu)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Students farther afield, like Yunqian Hsu, an animation and digital arts major at the <a href=\"https:\/\/cinema.usc.edu\/\">USC School of Cinematic Arts<\/a>, received theirs in the mail. Hopper shipped Hsu\u2019s all the way to Kaohsiung City, Taiwan.<\/p>\n<p>Hsu is now trapping insects near her home in the city and at her grandmother\u2019s house in the countryside township of Dashe. She\u2019s been comparing the diversity of insects between rural and urban areas.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve collected several butterflies and two dragonflies at my grandmother\u2019s [home],\u201d says Hsu \u201cI also caught a cricket at an elementary school in my\u00a0neighborhood. Catching insects is fun, and through the process of identifying them, I learned the amazing diversity of them that I never knew before.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bugs among us<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Some activities in Hopper\u2019s class can remain the same, with appropriate modifications. On a recent September morning, students gathered on campus (masked and distanced) to study the impact of surrounding vegetation and pesticide use on arthropod biodiversity. Hopper worked with USC Facilities Management Services to locate areas where landscaping crews had recently sprayed pesticides and compared those to areas without recent pesticide application.<\/p>\n<p>Students mixed soap and water together in red Solo cups, dug holes and placed the cup traps in the hollow. Unsuspecting insects or isopods like pill bugs tumble into the liquid where students retrieve them later for research. Returning to campus, even for a brief afternoon, was an enjoyable break from Zoom for students like Jared Khan, a <a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/bisc\/b-s-in-quantitative-biology\/\">quantitative biology<\/a> major.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt gives me the chance to get out of the house and walk around campus \u2014 something I never thought I\u2019d miss so much,\u201d says Khan.<\/p>\n<p>Curious what kind of insects make campus their home? \u201cDefinitely a lot of the invasive Argentine Ant,\u201d says Hopper. These are the same little bugs that merrily invade picnics on McCarthy Quad.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Adapt and fight on<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Hopper isn\u2019t done coming up with ways her students can learn and grow despite a pandemic. She\u2019s hoping her class can present their research projects at the annual <a href=\"https:\/\/ahf.usc.edu\/events\/symposium\/\">Undergraduate Research Symposium<\/a> this spring.<\/p>\n<p>That would mean that students like Khan could showcase their course work to a larger audience. His final project for Hopper\u2019s class will be on his research under <a href=\"https:\/\/nhm.org\/person\/bell-kayce\">Kayce Bell<\/a>, assistant curator of terrestrial mammals at the <a href=\"https:\/\/nhm.org\/\">Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County<\/a>, examining lice and pinworms found on chipmunks.<\/p>\n<p>All this adjusting hasn\u2019t phased Hopper, who is just grateful for a chance to be teaching what she loves. Demonstrating how to operate a butterfly net while wearing a face mask may not have originally been on her plan for the semester, but Hopper has readily pivoted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn teaching, you\u2019re constantly learning new things,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The coronavirus pandemic didn\u2019t stop students in Julie Hopper\u2019s ecology class from catching and studying insects from yards and fields all around the 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