De quarantainemaatregelen overal ter wereld hebben ons wakker geschud. Mij alvast. Hoe de wereld op minder dan een half jaar tijd...
Author Archives: Danny Haelewaters

[News] New species of fungus sticking out of beetles named after the COVID-19 quarantine
A major comprehensive study on Herpomycetales and Laboulbeniales, two orders of unique ectoparasitic fungi associated with insects and...

Een nieuwe soort voor de wetenschap dankzij Twitter
Een onderzoeker kreeg via Twitter een foto van een miljoenpoot onder ogen en zag wat niemand anders zag: kleine schimmeltjes. Sociale...

2019 in numbers
2019 top 10 posts by view: Parasites of parasites: blood-sucking bat flies infected with enigmatic Laboulbeniales fungi Genetische...

In fieldwork, other humans pose as much risk to LGBTQIA+ people as the elements
BUT THERE ARE STEPS ALLIES CAN TAKE TO HELP. Many of us biologists conduct fieldwork in diverse places, from Alaska to the tropics, from...

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,...

Review published!
My colleague, André De Kesel from the Meise Botanic Garden in Belgium, and myself wrote a review article about Hesperomyces virescens,...

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)...