January 2012
5 posts
November 2011
1 post
October 2011
1 post
June 2011
4 posts
Check the updated version of the UPRM-INVCOL...
Visit http://invcol.uprm.edu/ and browse our new menu!
You will find updated information about our researchers and associates along with new quality photographs of some of our specimens.
Searchable database is coming soon!
Andrés on TV (well, sort of)
Congratulations anyway! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BbaTvft7_sg
Two awesome websites for Puerto Rican insects
1. Father Sánchez: http://www.kingsnake.com/westindian/
2. Alfredo Colón: http://alfredocolon.zenfolio.com/
Andrés descubrió una cucaracha paisa
See the entertaining newspaper article here; by our very own Andrés Vélez.
March 2011
14 posts
February 2011
17 posts
New Collection Server Is On-Line →
Several updates are due as the new semester has begun. We will fill them in bit by bit. The first is that we have now set up the new collections server which is being populated with the Specify database and the invertebrate collection website. Both still need work but things are moving forward. The URL is http://invcol.uprm.edu/.
December 2010
2 posts
November 2010
4 posts
International Colloquium on Biodiversity and...
On November 8-9, I participated as an invited speaker in the International Colloquium on Biodiversity, Taxonomy and Systematics in the 21st Century, sponsored by the Instituto de Biología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. The colloquium was organized by Dr. Francisco Vergara-Silva who put together an outstanding line-up of speakers providing different angles on these topics, and leading to...
October 2010
5 posts
Second trip to Las Cucharas (night collecting)
On Thursday the Insect Morphology graduate course visited Las Cucharas once more to collect large bugs for the dissecting practices. Unfortunately there are no photos available, since we went at night (and also got viciously attacked by mosquitoes). Nevertheless the collecting was productive again, particularly for entimine weevils (with probably close to 10 species overall).
