An Orchid Beetle Discovered
New beetles highlightorchid connection
Junio 13, 2014
In a remote Bolivian forest, a Smithsonian researcher discovers the first beetle species that live on orchids.
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Panama’s Plentiful Plants
An invitation from Mireya Correa
Agosto 23, 2013
The director of Panama’s herbaria invite visiting researchers to use these valuable resources of Panama’s astounding plant biodiversity.
Profile: Donald Winsdor
What is merdigery?
Septiembre 28, 2012
Some beetles have a rather inventive, if unsavory, way of fending off predators.
Tracking nutrient blasts
How do natural and human-discharged nutrient pulses impact tropical marine ecosystems?
Marzo 14, 2018
Nutrient upwelling season in the Bay of Panama and water quality tests from 20 previously unmonitored rivers provide a Panamanian researcher with clues about how nutrient addition impacts coastal ecosystems.
Thesea dalioli
New soft coral species discovered in Coiba, Panama
Octubre 04, 2018
Scientists named new blood-red species of octocoral in honor of philanthropist Ray Dalio.
Interesting Chemistry
Innovation by ice cream bean relatives explains biodiversity
Marzo 14, 2019
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.
Cloud habitat
Mysterious cloud forest bees and their microbes - Part I
Abril 08, 2019
Three adventure-seekers meet in the clouds, each with their own reasons to learn more about mysterious jewel-like bees.
Parents Unknown
Mysterious Larvae Discovered in Panama’s Two Oceans
Mayo 14, 2019
These ghostly larvae float freely in seawater, while their parents live on the sea floor and usually go undetected. Genetic studies of larvae provide clues that there are more species to be discovered
Pheromone talk
The queen gets to keep her daughter
Mayo 23, 2019
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
A fishy past
The marine fossil explorer
Junio 13, 2019
The Panamanian scientist Carlos De Gracia discovered the largest known marlin fossil, helped improve the classification of these ancient species and now seeks to understand how the fish of millions of years ago reacted to changes in the ocean similar to those we are experiencing today
