Dr Tanya Latty

PhD, insect ecology (University of Calgary).

I have a life-long interest in all things invertebrate related. I have worked on a variety of insects including dragonflies, bark beetles, velvet worms, hoverflies, soldier flies, ants, honey bees, stingless bees, bumblebees and solitary bees. I particularly enjoy interdisciplinary collaborations with non-biological disciplines such as computer science, engineering, and mathematics and social sciences.. I am passionate about insect conservation, behaviour and ecology.

Current PhD and Msc Students

Joseph McCormick

Current honours students

Songyu Chai

Eliza Crossley

Claire Duncan

Past lab PhD, Msc and honours Students:

Brett O’Keefe: Unravelling the pollination system of threatened Genoplesium orchids (honours)

Emily Schroder: Where have all the Christmas beetles gone? (honours)

Amelie Vanderstock: Cross-pollinating insect and community resilience in urban environments (PhD)

Yolanda Hanusch: Promoting functional diversity of flower feeding insects (PhD)

Arisa Hosokawa: Behavioural variability in slime moulds (PhD)

Caitlyn Forster: Assessing the impact of empty flowers on foraging behaviour in three bee species (PhD)

Lucinda ‘Indi’ Dunn: Sustainable pest management in Cambodian rice fields (PhD)

Manuel Lequerica Tamara: The Ecology, Behaviour and Evolution of Syrphid Flies (Diptera: Syrphidae) in an Urbanisation Gradient (PhD)

Francisco Garcia Bulle Bueno: stingless bee ecology (PhD)

Manuel Lequerica Tamara: Urban insect ecology (Msc)

Joshua Christie: The evolution of mitochondrial inheritance (PhD)

Arianna Bottineli (Uppsala University): Networks in biological systems (PhD)

Past honours students (note, has not been updated since 2019)

Honours students (Faculty of Science):

Christopher Tompkins: The response of ant communities to periodic flooding

Perrin Tasker: Parasitism in native bee nesting habitats

Arisa Hosokawa: Urban ecology of slime moulds

Matthew Byatt: The impact of antropogenic translocations on the genetic architecture of native stingless bees

Danya Luo: The economics of meat ant transportation networks

Madeline Ruth De Montfort: Urban bee ecology

Honours/ 4th year project students (Faculty of Agriculture and Environment):

Lily Logan: Bioconversion of poultry waste streams using soldier fly larvae

Rafael Rafael Cuginotti De Oliveira: Developing a system for feeding stingless bees over the winter

Stephanie Mackillop: Bioconversion of low quality food waste by native and exotic soldier fly larvae

Langland Lo:  Reducing food wastes with soldier flies

Zoe Paisley:  Movement behaviour of Helicoverpa caterpillars in cotton fields

Lisa Paisley: Competitive interactions in Helicoverpa caterpillars

Anastasia Moore: Enhancing crop pollination in community gardens

Edwina Murray: Moth assemblages in conventional and transgenic cotton

Lucinda Dunn:  Hoverflies as biological control agents and pollinators in urban agricultural systems

Anastasia Moore: The effect of attractive plants on crop pollination in community gardens

Kade Denton:  Nesting material preferences and species identification of native Australian bees in the Sydney basin

Sharna Holman: Testing the critical exposure period required for developing tolerance to BT toxin

Honours students (Faculty of Veterinary Science):

Nicolle Davis: Pollination networks in urban community gardens