A major comprehensive study on Herpomycetales and Laboulbeniales, two orders of unique ectoparasitic fungi associated with insects and...
Author Archives: Danny Haelewaters

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)...

Diversity on a stick, and other fungi
While I should be working on my PhD thesis, things have been crazy around our Boston Harbor Islands project. End of 2012, I started a...