Furry mammals are the most common animals that Humans have domesticated. The first pet dogs (about 15,000 years ago), then cats (about 8000 years ago), and the many diverse farm animals around the world changed the course of human history. Strangely, insects are the most common animal on Earth and yet so few have been domesticated. If you think…
Month: May 2016
Tortoise beetles of Nicaragua
Dr. Jean-Michel Maes is an entomologist colleague who moved from Belgium to Nicaragua in 1983. He has become a formidable one-man biodiversity specialist, teacher, expert of numerous insect groups, and curator of Museo Entomologico de Leon, which he established……In other words, Jean-Michel is attempting to duplicate the effort of INBio in Costa Rica and STRI in…