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
Discreet and alert, park rangers spend 24 hours a day, 365 days a year on the lookout for threats to the forest and animals of Barro Colorado Nature Monument
What do playing the banjo and recording katydids have in common? We join Sharon Martinson on Barro Colorado Island to find out.
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.
The diverse community of students working in the Panamanian tropics learn from each other during STRI’s two-day fellowship symposium.
For these four women, the Smithsonian Institute’s internship program represented an opportunity to explore their research questions in the field
