When my undergraduate student Warre started his project in February studying microscopic fungal ectoparasites of bat flies, I knew that...
Tag : Panama
Capturing bats to find fungi on flies
IT WAS THE FOURTH NIGHT of fieldwork in the Chucantí Nature Reserve cloud forests in the Darién Province. The expedition at Chucantí...
New fungal taxa from a Panamanian cloud forest
I realized that it took me about two years to get back online on my website. Oops. The hardest part was then figuring out how to do this,...
An interesting ladybug larva in Panama
LAST YEAR I WAS IN PANAMA to give a lecture (Introducción a los Laboulbeniales: hongos ectoparásitos estrictos de artrópodos)...
Expecting the unexpected: Looking for lady beetles and their parasites
THAT MORNING WE DECIDED TO work in a radically different way. No more collecting in the highlands of Chiriquí. No more collecting in...
In the field: Panama, pt. 3
This is my third time in Panama and again: I am having a blast! In collaboration with the Bat Lab in Gamboa my students and myself went...
In the field: Panama, pt. 2
This is my before-last day in Panama. It was the second time I was here for collecting purposes, and I had yet another blast. When I came...
De jacht op vleermuizen en hyperparasitaire schimmels
Vandaag is het zover: na maandenlange voorbereidingen om bij Dr. Rachel Page‘s collectievergunning toegevoegd te worden is het...
In the field: bats in Panama
Tonight is the night – I waited a long time but tonight we will finally go out and collect some bats! Phyllostomid bats, to be...
