(uit Forum Formicidarum nr. 17 (1), 2016) Onderzoek in de mycologische wereld brengt ons nog vaak leuke verrassingen. Er is sprake van...
Tag : Laboulbeniales
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...
A case of hyperparasitism on a Canadian woodpecker
A few weeks ago I was cc’d on an email of Meredith Blackwell from Louisiana State University. She had received an inquiry about an...
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...
Thompson Island, and the tale of my undergrads making it up to me
The day had taken a bad start. One of my undergraduate students had texted me, saying both of them would be too late and “we should...
Parasite host specificity related to host susceptibility to be killed?
In a previous post I introduced the Laboulbeniales: microscopic ascomycetous fungi that parasitize invertebrates, mainly beetles. The...
Microscopic fungal parasites reveal host’s behavior
Mycologists have long debated about which organisms should be or should be not counted as fungi. The Kingdom Fungi includes a lot of...
