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icipe e-bulletin: Volume 13, Issue No. 2, 2023
Dear Friends and Colleagues We are very pleased to present this icipe newsletter, which covers the period July – December 2023. Click here to view: Volume 13, Issue No. 2, 2023 (pdf) This issue is...
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Insect of the week: 18 December 2023
Insect of the week (55) Ptyleus sp. (Hemiptera: Homoptera: Cercopoidea: Aphrophoridae) This week’s image is of a species of Ptyleus, a genus in the family Aphrophoridae (spittlebugs or froghoppers). It...
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Insect of the week: 9 January 2023
Netomocera (Chalcidoidea: Diparidae)A study in red. A palette of varying shades of red tending to orange in some places, to reddish brown in others. A beautiful little female wasp. Netomocera is a...
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Dr Abdou Tenkouano assumes office as the Director General of icipe
16 January 2023 | FRENCH VERSIONWe are pleased to announce that Dr Abdou Tenkouano assumed office as the new Director General of the International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology (icipe), on...
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Insect of the week: 22 January 2023
Dirhinus, Quadrhinus group (Chalcididae: Dirhininae), an oxymoronic wonder.As an advocate for popularising the insect diversity of Kenya (we have Elephant, Loxodonta africana, and Lion, Panthera leo,...
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Insect of the week: 29 January 2024
Hamma sp. (Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha: Membracidae)Membracidae: a rhapsody of form and, probably, function. Scrolling through images of membracid species is like watching an evolutionary parade of...
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‘BRAINS’: integrating bean, fruit trees and beneficial insects farming and...
Five million smallholder farmers; 2.5 million consumers, value chain actors and entrepreneurs in Africa;to benefit from ‘BRAINS’, a new innovative, climate-smart, women and youth favourable initiative...
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Event and Travel Management Services
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Insect of the Week: 5 February 2024
Glossina fuscipes (Diptera: Hippoboscoidea: Glossinidae)This week’s insect is Glossina fuscipes, a riverine tsetse fly species found throughout central Africa and as far east as western Kenya. They are...
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Insect of the week: 12 February 2024
The Great migration of the wildebeest in MaraThe Great migration of wildebeest, one of the seven natural wonders of the world that plays out every year in the month of July and August between Kenya and...
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Insect of the week: 12 February 2024
Calymmochilus sp. (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea: Eupelmidae: Eupelminae)Calymmochilus is a small (12 species) but beautiful and interesting genus of the moderately large family Eupelmidae (900 species),...
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Insect of the week: 19 February 2024
Leucospis sp. (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea: Leucospidae)The subject of the insect of the week (64) is Leucospis sp., an intriguing genus of (mostly) large, colourful wasps which are ectoparasitoids of...
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Request for Quotation- Photography, Videography and Virtual Conference...
REQUEST FOR QUOTATION (NON-CONSULTING SERVICES)[KENYA]Project Name: The Regional Scholarship and Innovation Fund (Rsif) for Applied Sciences, Engineering and TechnologyGrant No.:...
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With the support of Sida, icipe and partners launch seminal One Health...
With the support of Sida, icipe and partners launch seminal One Health initiativeThe Accelerate-One Health project will leverage on existing expertise and partnerships in Ethiopia and Kenya to respond...
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Insects for the Green Economy Conference
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Insect of the week: 4 March 2024
Paederus sp. (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Paederinae: Paederini)This week we bow to the wishes of Thomas Dubois who would like to see less of the tiny wasps and more of the beetles in the Insect of the...
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Insect of the week: 25 March 2024
Gasteruption (Hymenoptera: Evanioidea: Gasteruptiidae)Gasteruption (ghost wasps) is the largest genus of the small wasp family Gasteruptiidae. Worldwide there are only about 500 species in the family,...
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New grant for malaria transmission blocking research
Researchers from the International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology (www.icipe.org) have been awarded a USD 3 million grant by Open Philanthropy (www.openphilanthropy.org), to advance pioneering...
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Early career researchers to receive grants from Elsevier
Two early career researchers at the International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology (www.icipe.org) have been awarded travel sponsorship grants by Elsevier (https://www.elsevier.com/). Elsevier...
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Insect of the week: 1 April 2024
Tabanus sp. (Diptera: Brachycera: Tabanidae)Today’s insect is probably familiar to most of us. I’m referring to Tabanus sp. (Horseflies). With their strong proboscis they have been known to ruin an...
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