Color differences
Mysteries of a golden beetle
Octubre 24, 2018
Human sisters may look extremely different from one another. What does that have to do with gold, black and red beetles?
Human sisters may look extremely different from one another. What does that have to do with gold, black and red beetles?
Not only does it take energy to make weapons, it may take even more energy to maintain them. Because leaf-footed bugs drop their legs, it is possible to measure how much energy they allocate to maintaining this appendage that males use to fight other males.
Join us to celebrate a few of the discoveries made in 2018.
How flexible are bird brains in response to hormones?
The diverse community of students working in the Panamanian tropics learn from each other during STRI’s two-day fellowship symposium.
The back and forth relationship between insects and their food plants may drive tropical biodiversity evolution according to work on Barro Colorado Island’s 50 hectare plot.
Three adventure-seekers meet in the clouds, each with their own reasons to learn more about mysterious jewel-like bees.
The Smithsonian’s first marine lab on Panama’s Caribbean coast invites visitors and researchers to experience the diversity of marine ecosystems within a protected space.
Parasitoid wasps lay their eggs on a spider’s back. This team proposes that by injecting the spider host with the molting hormone, ecdysone, the wasp induces the spider to make a special web for the wasp’s pupa.
Why did some bee species become social, while the majority have remained solitary? On Barro Colorado Island, a bee that adopts both strategies interchangeably, may unlock the evolutionary origins of sociality in insects