Mini-hydrophilid conclave begins....

The lab will be hosting two other hydrophilid workers for extended stays in the next couple months: Martin Fikacek from the Czech National Collection and Adriana Oliva from the Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales in Buenos Aires. Each will be staying for 3-4 weeks to work on some collaborative projects. Martin arrived back on 17 August and has been busy sorting and describing all kinds of neat new terrestrial hydrophilids in our collection. Adriana arrives in early September. Will the museum be able to contain this much water scavenger beetle energy at one time? We shall see. Welcome Martin and Adriana!