We announce, within the SLA Conference Cycle, that the June webinar will address the topic MICROBIAL BIOLOGICAL CONTROL OF PHYTOPHAGUS MITESAND TICKS: state of the art, challenges and perspectives for Latin America. It will have the speakers Prof. Dr. Italo Delalibera Jr. (ESALQ, SP, BR) and Prof....

We inform those interested that in the month of August the postgraduate course Biology, Ecology and control of Varroa destructor will be given, depending on the Secretaría de Investigación y Posgrado de la Universidad Nacional del Nordeste, Argentina. The general objective of the course is to promote...

Mites are small animals, very successful in nature, with an impact on different environments, including human health and productive activities. This situation raises the need to promote its study. In order to bring knowledge about different topics of Acarology, from the Latin American Society of Acarology (SLA),...

In our May webinar we will talk about oribatid soil mites. For the presentation of this topic we have as guests Dr. Elizabeth Franklin (Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia-INPA, Manaus, Brazil) who will talk about the ecology and taxonomy of oribatids in the Amazon region, and...

With great joy we share the First Circular of the IV Latin American Congress of Acarology (IV CLAc), to be held in Panama in September 2022. Under the motto “Integrating disciplines we face challenges”, the M.Sc. Sergio Bermúdez, President of the Congress, announces its holding and reports...

The Latin American Society of Acarology invites you to the April webinar: VARROOSIS IN BEES: SITUATION IN NICARAGUA AND ARGENTINA. This meeting will feature the speakers Dr. Christiane Düttmann (Nicaragua) and Dr. Constanza Brasesco (Argentina) and will be coordinated by Dr. Matias Maggi (Argentina). The appointment will...

Continuing with the SLA monthly conference cycle, we present: STATE OF KNOWLEDGE ABOUT TARSONEMIDOS AND TENUIPALPIDOS IN LATIN AMERICA: CHALLENGES AND PERSPECTIVES. Coordinated by Ing. Agr. Marisa Regonat, the lectures will be held by Drs. José Marcos Rezende (UNESP, BR) and Elizeu Castro (UNESP, BR). The appointment...

On the occasion of International Women’s Day, from the Latin American Society of Acarology, we honor the women who, with determination and perseverance, managed to walk the path of acarology in different Latin American countries. These women scientists, with their careers, full of valuable research, discoveries and...

The IX Symposium of the European Association of Acarologists (EURAAC), which should have been held in 2020 and was suspended due to the pandemic, has been rescheduled to take place in Bari (Italy) from July 11 to 15, 2022. As soon as we have more information we...