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First BINCO Newsletter
We are very proud to present our first Binco newsletter. If you want to receive the next newsletter, fill in your name at the bottom of the frontpage and sign up. You can also send us an email (info@binco.eu) and we’ll put you on the list. Attention: newsletter is in Dutch
Announcement BINCO Quiz
On Saturday, January 14 we organize our first quiz in the Elizabeth refter in the ‘Heilig Hart Instituut’ in Heverlee. Subscribe a team (15 euros) via info@binco.eu. This quiz is organized for the benefit of an new educational project that we will be launched in Jambiani, Zanzibar. Start at 19:30!
BINCO visits the Oxford Museum of Natural History
During the first week of November, three of our members visited Oxford to study the collected insects from Cusuco National Park in Honduras. This collection was never before studied in detail and proved to be worth checking out. The pictures above give an impression on the work we did there.
BINCO gives a morning fieldcourse
The nature conservation organisation ‘Natuurpunt’ asked us to teach a field course in invertebrate surveying. It was a successful morning with the right animals at the right time and at the right place… To be repeated!
BINCO describes a new species of opilionid
In 2008 BINCO carried out a biodiversity survey of the inselberg ‘Savanna Roche Virginie’ in French Guiana. We discovered several invertebrate species new to science. One of the species we describe is a cypthothalmid, a small litter inhabiting harvestmen.
Cyphothalmids are often overlooked in biodiversity surveys due to their small size, cryptic mode of life and general resemblance to mites. The new species is named Neogovea virginie after the unique site where it was found and where many other species remain to be discovered. You can find the description here.
Critically endangered spider found in ‘Haachts broek’
Last summer we discovered an endangered spider In the ‘Haachts broek’ in Haacht . The spider has been named Drassyllus praeficus. This spider belongs to the family of the hunting ground spiders. Most members of this family are benthic creatures and the run at a tremendous speed, you can often see them running between stones and clods of earth. Usually they hide during the day under all kinds of material and they hunt at night. To identify the spiders we work together with the people of ARABEL, the Belgian Society for Arachnology.
The winners of our photo contest
The winners of our ‘In het oog, in het hart’ photo contest are known. Our jury selected three stunning pictures, submitted by Boris Godfroid and Wim Smets. The winning photos are displayed at the Zoological Museum in Leuven or can be accessed through this link. We congratulate the winners and thank all the participants for their high quality entries.