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What Will Extreme Weather Events Mean for Texas’s Favorite Bugs?
The answer matters for people, too, given how insects affect whole ecosystems.
![A photo of a monarch butterfly on a yellow flower](https://cns.utexas.edu/sites/default/files/uploads/images/default/3-2-monarch-butterfly.jpg)
Texas Field Station Network Catalyzes Collaborations Across Field Sites
The recently announced largest-ever gift to the college is helping to bring new research synergies.
![Natural landscape with orange brown grasses in the foreground, trees in the middle distance and a mountai top with telescope domes in the distance](https://cns.utexas.edu/sites/default/files/uploads/images/default/ts_mcdonald_observatory-20_1200x800.jpg)
UT Entomologists Collaborate on Insect-Inspired Album
An award-winning composer came to class and had scientists lend an ear, resulting in music that’s all the buzz.
![A young treehopper photographed at the Brackenridge Field Laboratory polllinator garden is one of the insects that inspired a scientist-musician collaboraiton. Credit: Alex Wild](https://cns.utexas.edu/sites/default/files/uploads/images/default/3f8120a8-be6a-46c2-be48-b7f25ea1c396.png)