Discovered by a team of German scientists while on a trip to the Philippines, Cardiocondyla pirata was found living under a rock—literally. PhD student Sabine Frohschammer from the University of Regensburg and her colleague Bernhard Seifert from Senckenberg Museum of Natural History Gorlitz were searching for Cardiocondyla ants in a shady streambed when she saw individuals that didn’t look like any other known species.
On April 19, 2012, Karen Needham, Rob Curtiss, and Chris Stinson of UBC Beaty Biodiversity Museum joined Jennifer Heron, Invertebrate Specialist with the BC Ministry of Environment, and the Oregon Spotted Frog (OSF) Recovery Team for a day of field wor
Needing a gift for Mother’s day? Would you like a new way to express your horticultural skills? Looking for a pet that doesn’t need a leash? Look no further! This Saturday, build your own beautiful algal pet with Ellie Duffield. Learn tips and tricks f
Dr. Wayne Maddison, Director of Spencer Entomological Collection at the Beaty Biodiversity Museum recently returned from an expedition in Borneo in search of jumping spiders. This series shares his entomological adventures in the wild. For the next fiv
Recently, Patrick Lewis, director of the UBC Biodiversity Collections, was pleased to host a visit with Dr. Murray Newman and wife Kathy on a visit of the Beaty Biodiversity Museum. Dr. Newman is an inspirational person who has been recognized for his
It’s time that I introduce you to the guests of honor of my posts, the jumping spiders, known to biologists by the name “Salticidae”. Imagine a miniature cat, 5 millimeters long, spotting prey with keen eyesight, walking carefully toward the prey, then
Things were downright frigid in the museum as collections staff prepared for the first multi-collection conservation freezing cycle in the new walk-in freezer. By bringing carefully packaged specimens through a deep freeze-thaw cycle lasting several da
The Beaty Biodiversity Museum is part of the Global Plants Initiative, an international effort to digitize and share type specimens from Herbarium collections. Type specimens are the ones used to officially describe a species in scientific literature,
UBC researchers have signed on in the #SciFund challenge to crowdfund—raise funds through the internet—and to build public interaction and outreach for their research. One of the participants is Lindsay Aylesworth, a PhD student with Project Seahorse a
We know that the familiar big animals like lions or polar bears specialize on large terrains of habitat like African savannahs or Arctic ice, but perhaps most people don’t realize that smaller creatures specialize at a much smaller scale. To a small sp
