By Press release submission |
Apr 22, 2022
The story reads like the plot line to the yet-undeveloped series, “CSI: Native Plants.” Investigators Dr. Nick Ruppel and student research assistants Teresa Weir ’22, Mackenzie Dingus ’22, and Allison Ortiz ’23 track bees, butterflies, and other native pollinators by staking them out and swabbing the surface of flowers they touch to collect the DNA they may have left behind.