Two new species of sphecid or thread-waisted wasps have been described by UPLB entomologists as homage to Filipino scientists who blazed the taxonomic trail for Philippine Hymenoptera. Hymenoptera is a large order of insects, which includes sawflies, wasps, bees, and ants.

Prof. Kristine O. Abenis and Dr. Ireneo L. Lit, Jr, faculty at the Institute of Biological Sciences, in an interview, were elated to share that their taxonomic review of the wasp collections of the UPLB Museum of Natural History revealed previously unidentified species belonging to the genus Chalybion. 

The all-important "Catalogue of oribatid mites (Acari: Oribatida) from the Malay Archipelago" has been published by taxonomy and systematics journal Zootaxa as a monograph, authored by Professor Emeritus Leonila A. Corpuz-Raros, curator of the UPLB Museum of Natural History, and fellow acarologist Dr. Sergey Ermilov of Tyumen State University, Tyumen, Russia.

Effective 17 March until 12 April 2020, the UPLB Museum of Natural History shall be closed in line with UPLB Office of the Chancellor Memo No. 48. Services such as tours, access to collections, biological specimen identification and others which require physical entry to the Museum is now suspended until further notice. Protocol for scientific name verification services for UPLB students through online means shall be announced as soon as possible.

The UPLB Museum of Natural History, UPLB Zoological Society and the Philippine Eagle Foundation bring you the highly acclaimed film, Bird of Prey. Catch it on the following dates and venues:

FREE SCREENINGS
SyenSaya @ Baker Hall, University of the Philippines Los Baños 
August 28, 2019 | 2:00 PM
August 29, 2019 | 9:30 AM

The 11th International Meeting of the Asian Network of Research Resource Centers will be held in the Philippines on 16-19 October 2019 inside the beautiful campus of the University of the Philippines Los Banos!

For important information on the conference, please go to the home site at https://sites.google.com/up.edu.ph/2019-anrrc

When we think of rodents and mice, we usually think of them as gnawing critters which will bite into anything they can fancy on. We hate them and consider them as pests, specially when they are inside our homes. But these two new species of mice, the first discovered in Mt. Labo, Camarines Sur and the second, in Mt. Mingan, Aurora are not the typical rodents we know.