Tag: costa rica

Research Confirms First Bed Bug Infestation in Costa Rica in Over 20 Years

A bed bug infestation hadn’t been seen in Costa Rica since the late 1990s—until now. Researchers at the University of Costa Rica have confirmed that specimens collected from a home near San Jose in 2017 are indeed bed bugs and, surprisingly, of the temperate-zone species Cimex lectularius and not the tropical bed bug, Cimex hemipterus.

Entomology Today January 23, 2020 7 Comments

An Opportunity to Study Bees and Pollination in Costa Rica

By Gerrit van de Klashorst The importance of bees and other pollinators for natural and agricultural ecosystems has been well documented. But during the past decades, pollinators have been in […]

Researchers Describe New Species of Phorid Fly and New Identification Method

Scientists from the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles have described a new distinctive fly species of the highly diverse genus Megaselia. The study, published in the Biodiversity Data Journal, […]

277 New Wasp Species Discovered in Costa Rica

Costa Rica reveals astonishing biodiversity of braconid wasps, with 277 new species of the tribe Heterospilini described in the latest special issue of the open access journal ZooKeys. This is […]