Amanda Duckwall, who was awarded the Alumni Scholarship Award by the Department of Biology for her excellence in academics, is conducting undergraduate research in the lab this summer. She is studying the indirect effects of invasive plant species on insect pupal survivorship via white-footed mouse activity. She completed her first experiment this Friday and Saturday, estimating survivorship of pupae of the eastern tent caterpillar, Malacosoma americanum.  She is seen here with Humberto Dutra in the most beautiful natural area in Missouri, the August Busch Wildlife Area.