EBIO's Mitton and Scott find mountain pine beetles are doubling their reproductive cycle
Jeffry Mitton, an EBIO professor at CU, and one of his Ph.D. candidates, Scott Ferrenberg, have found that mountain pine beetles have developed the ability to reproduce twice instead of once a year. Mitton and Ferrenberg are the first to report this, attributing the reproductive change to climate warming, and their detailed findings will be in the May 2012 issue of The American Naturalist. The American Society of Naturalists has already given the work some extra buzz. Their article on the topic can be found . The Boulder Daily Camera wrote an on the pair, and Colorado Public Radio also gave some attention to this research. Listen !