We invite you to the August SLA Webinar: “Biological control of phytophagous mites with predatory mites” The activity will be coordinated by Dr. Mario Eidi Sato (Biological Institute, Sao Paulo) who, together with his group of postgraduate students (Dr. Elias Soares de Figueiredo and Dr. Maria Cristina...

It is with great sadness that we report the death of Debra Creel, technician and assistant at Belleville ARS, which occurred on July 30. We share the obituary (see attached), courtesy of Dr. M. Gates, Research Leader, assistant Mr. A. Ulsamer and Dr. Ronald Ochoa, from the...

Registration for the course “Introduction to acarology: a vast world beyond allergies” is open from Friday 06/03. The corse is coordinated by Dr. Fernando de Castro Jacinavicius, who is a biologist and currently works in the Zoological Collections Laboratory (LCZ), with the Acarological Collection of the Butantan...

We’re back! We invite you to the 2022 Latin American Acarology Conference Cycle. In this cycle, the protagonists will be postgraduate students! The webinar will be about: DISTRIBUTION OF ORIBATID MITES IN THE PATAGONIAN STEPPE Speaker: DR. ROSA MARÍA MANZO (National University of Patagonia “San Juan Bosco”,...

We inform that from July 18 to 29, 2022, in the Entomology and Acarology Department of the “Luiz de Queiroz” Higher School of Agriculture (ESALQ) at the University of São Paulo (USP), in Piracicaba/SP, the VI TRAINING ON RECOGNITION OF MITES OF AGRICULTURAL IMPORTANCE, coordinated by Professors...

We inform that from July 18 to 23 of this year the course TAXONOMY, BIOLOGY AND IDENTIFICATION OF SOIL MITES will be held in Mar del Plata, Argentina. Its purpose is to initiate the students in the recognition of soil mites, to provide general elements of their...

The organizing committee of the IV Latin American Congress of Acarology, IV CLAc, to be held in Panama, communicates its postponement, since the sanitary and logistical conditions for its proper development are not met. The new proposed date is July 24-28, 2023. To know the availability of...

With great joy we share the second circular of the IV Latin American Congress of Acarology in which, among other news, the date is announced: from October 3 to 7, 2022, the modality: virtual and face-to-face, and an online form is provided to complete by those interested...

Dear partners, we share in the annex the Balance of what has been done by the current management of the Latin American Society of Acarology during the years 2020 and 2021. As the text is in Spanish, we mention the main points below: 1- COMMUNICATION In order...

The Argentine Society of Soil Biology and Ecology (SABES) announces the holding of the VII National Congress of Soil Biology (CONEBIOS VII) with the slogan “We are soil”, which will be held in April 2022 at the Convention Center, Sergio Karakachoff Building, of the National University of...