Door 23: Who is walking on the snow? – Not just snow scorpionflies!
Door 9 of this advent calendar was focusing on snow scorpionflies (genus Boreus), little noticed but very interesting group of insect whose adults are active in... Read more.
Door 9: Who is walking on the snow? – Snow scorpionflies, of course!
Winter in Scandinavia is not considered an insect collecting season. Snow and ice are good for skiing and skateboarding, not for butterfly hunting. At winter, northern... Read more.
Door 14: A miracle of long distance dispersal? A wingless beetle species occurring on distant subantarctic islands
One of the most remarkable beetle species occurring in the Falkland Islands is Leptusa (Halmaeusa) atriceps (Waterhouse, 1875), presented on the photo above (photo... Read more.
Door 3: Beetles of the Falkland Islands
The Falkland Islands is an archipelago located in the Southern Atlantic at ca. 52°S, on the Patagonian shelf about 480 km from the South American coast. The archipelago... Read more.
Door 23: Insect survey in the Mozogo Gokoro National Park, Cameroon
In Summer 2023, our ANTENNA project team composed of entomologists from the University of Buea, University of Maroua and University of Oslo surveyed insect fauna... Read more.
Door 21: Insects are fun!
Among my favorite papers of 2022, as always, are the quarterly contributions to the American Entomoligist by May R. Berenbaum: “Terms of Art and Terms of Arthropods”... Read more.
Door 14. The largest animal genus just got larger.
Today, most biologists would agree that there is no objective criterion to determine the rank of a supraspecific taxon. As a result, comparing how many species different... Read more.
Door 4: Do you like floods?
When floods are mentioned, what first comes to mind is a disastrous catastrophe wrecking houses, devastating crops and, occasionally, even costing human lives. Yet,... Read more.
Animal of the month: Intertidal and littoral rove beetles (Insecta: Coleoptera: Staphylinidae)
Insects are not particularly diverse in the marine and coastal habitats. This contrasts strikingly with their dominance in most terrestrial ecosystems. Yet, certain... Read more.
Identification of African staphylinid beetles
Identification of African staphylinid beetles can be challenging. Many genera have never been revised, and descriptions of their species are scattered in different... Read more.