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Submission 2023<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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Submitted by:<\/td>Natalie LaForest<\/td><\/tr>
Department:<\/td>Agricultural, Food & Nutritional Science<\/td><\/tr>
Faculty:<\/td>Agricultural, Life & Environmental Sciences<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

When people think of what lives below our feet, they commonly think of ‘dirt’, but within the soil, there may be more organisms living within it. Just a handful of dirt can contain millions of living things ranging from microorganisms which cannot be seen without the help of a microscope to microorganisms which can be seen with the naked human eye. Common microorganisms in the soil include voles, earthworms, ants, centipedes, and in some parts of the world – the infamous cicada, which in its 17-year lifecycle only spends a few weeks above ground as an adult. My research looks at ground beetles (Coleoptera: Carabidae) that spend most of their life within or along the soil surface. Most species are valuable predators in agroecosystems, where they eat a variety of agronomic pests, including weed seeds and insect pests. I am determining which ground beetle species are present in different agroecosystems in Alberta through pitfall traps and what pests they consume through molecular gut content analysis. Pictured here is a ground beetle species known as Carabus granulatus, taken at South Campus at the Prairie Urban Farm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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