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Insect of the week: 17 July 2023
Mantibaria sp., Scelionidae: Scelioninae: MantibariiniThe genus Mantibaria is nearly cosmopolitan, a recent record from the neotropics (Central and South America) is thought to represent an accidental...
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Consultancy to Design and Deliver A PHD Supervision Course for Rsif Alumni...
REQUEST FOR EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST (CONSULTING SERVICES – FIRM CONSULTANCY)[KENYA] 21/07/2023 Project Name: The Regional Scholarship and Innovation Fund...
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Individual Consultant to Conduct an Independent Technical Evaluation of The...
REQUEST FOR EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST (CONSULTING SERVICES – INDIVIDUAL SELECTION) [KENYA] 21/07/2023 Project Name: The Regional Scholarship and Innovation Fund...
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Insect of the week: 24 July 2023
Colletidae: Hylaeinae: Hylaeus sp.This is Hylaeus species, a bee. Some years ago I would have thought otherwise. “Is it really a bee?” I’d have asked. It doesn’t look like a bee. Bees are densely hairy...
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Individual Consultant to facilitate development of a Scholarships and Grants...
REQUEST FOR EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST (CONSULTING SERVICES – INDIVIDUAL SELECTION) [KENYA]Project Name: The Regional Scholarship and Innovation Fund (RSIF) for Applied Sciences, Engineering and...
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Individual Consultant to Review Rsif Doctoral Programs at the Rsif African...
REQUEST FOR EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST (CONSULTING SERVICES – INDIVIDUAL SELECTION) [KENYA] Project Name: The Regional Scholarship and Innovation Fund (RSIF) for Applied Sciences, Engineering and...
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Insect of the week: 31 July 2023
If Fred Astaire was an insect. (Afromyia wittei Vanschuytbroeck, Sphaeroceridae, Sphaerocerinae).This week’s insect, Afromyia wittei, is an adult fly of the family Sphaeroceridae, in the subfamily...
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Insect of the week: 7 August 2023
Megaprosternum sp. nov. (Hymenoptera: Bethylidae: Scleroderminae)If Baeus sp. (our first insect of the week) is the living embodiment of roundness, then Megaprosternum is flatness itself. A rare genus...
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Insect of the week: 14 August 2023
Xyphorachidia (Hymenoptera: Chacididae): Haltichellinae In 1951 J.R. Steffan described an insect collected in Senegal by the French entomologist J. Vuillet. Steffan considered the specimen different...
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Insect of the week: 21 August 2023
Insects of the week (38). Anthidiini species (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Megachilidae) and Samba species, Hymenoptera, Apoidea, MelittidaeThis week we look at two very interesting bee species. Each...
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23rd Annual Workshop of the Horticultural Association of Kenya (HAK)
The objective of HAK (http://www.hakenya.net) is to promote horticultural science in Kenya through the generation, dissemination and exchange of horticultural information and technologies among...
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Insect of the week: 28 August 2023
Seladonia cf. jucunda (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Halictidae)Seladonia is a moderately large genus of mostly pollen-collecting bees. There are 65 species, found worldwide except in Australia which has but...
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Insect of the week: 4 September 2023
A leafhopper’s nightmare; Pseudodryinus townesi (Olmi),FamilyDryinidae, Subfamily Dryininae.Dryinidae are parasitoid wasps of true bugs belonging to the order Hemiptera, suborder Auchenorrhyncha. While...
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icipe Announces Appointment of New Director General
5 September 2023THE INTERNATIONAL CENTRE OF INSECT PHYSIOLOGY AND ECOLOGY (icipe)ANNOUNCES APPOINTMENT OF NEW DIRECTOR GENERALDr Abdou Tenkouano, a national of Burkina Faso, has been appointed the new...
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Insect of the week: 11 September 2023
Insect of the week (41), Aoridus species,FamilyEulophidae, Subfamily EuderinaeAoridus is our insect of the week (41). Its name is probably derived from the Latin Aoridus (embellished, shining). This...
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Norad to provide core funding to icipe
13 September 2023 View in browserNorad to provide core funding to icipe, thus strengthening longstanding partnership,and boosting research and capacity development for food security in Africa The...
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Insect of the week: 18 September 2023
Insect of the week (42), Myrmecoclytus orientalis Adlbauer (Cerambycidae: Lamiinae: Acanthocinini)Okay. Enough of these little wasps for now. Not all tiny insects are wasps. Let’s consider a beetle for...
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Insect of the week: 25 September 2023
Insect of the week (43), Monacon sp. (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea: PerilampidaeBack to the wasps. This week we spotlight the genus Monacon, a small genus of 27 species in the old world Paleotropics of...
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Insect of the week – 5 December 2022
This is a beautiful adult female of the fly genus Cladoderris, probably C. convexa (family Platystomatidae).The elaborate markings on the body and wings of this species probably serve to camouflage the...
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