Guest blog post: New ectoparasite records from Honduras came from bats recorded since 2015

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Tagged arachnology, Araneae, ectoparasites, Honduras, spidersLeave a comment

March 23, 2021

Guest blog post by Manfredo Alejandro Turcios-Casco Since its foundation in 2015, the research team “The Big Bat Theory” has filled important information gaps regarding bats and their ectoparasites in Honduras. We started as just bachelor students mist-netting bats in our university (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Honduras- UNAH) in our free time. Then we studied […]

New species of fungus sticking out of beetles named after the COVID-19 quarantine

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Tagged Coronavirus pandemic, COVID-19, ectoparasites, ectoparasitic fungi, fungal species, fungu, fungus, Laboulbeniomycetes, MycoKeys, mycology, quarantenaeLeave a comment

August 3, 2020

A major comprehensive study on Herpomycetales and Laboulbeniales, two orders of unique ectoparasitic fungi associated with insects and other arthropods (class Laboulbeniomycetes) in Belgium and the Netherlands was published in the open-access, peer-reviewed scholarly journal MycoKeys.