Labs and Friends

Gerard Talavera's Lab in fieldwork mode

Roger Vila's Lab, in Barcelona

The Pierce Lab at the Harvard Forest

With the russian friends from V. Lukhtanov's team

Our closest collaborators

The Polyommatinae butterflies present a remarkable life history diversity

The painted lady butterfly (Vanessa cardui) is an amazing migratory traveller

The endemic new ant species Lasius balearicus was discovered from the summits of Mallorca Island

Leptidea butterflies display amazing levels of cryptic diversity and chromosome evolution

Fieldwork

At the riversides of the Niger, in northern Benin

On a hilltop at sunset, somewhere in the Sahelian Chad

Collecting in the Altai Mountains

Joined collecting trip with Alexander and Vladimir Lukhtanov and Roger Vila in Kazakhstan

A field trip in the Bale Mountains, southern Ethiopia

Collecting together with some little friends in Ethiopia

Collecting migratory butterflies at French Guiana's beaches

Visiting a collection in French Guiana

At Mogalakwena Reserach Centre, in Limpopo, South Africa

A road trip throughout Kenya, with Elena Plana

At Mpala Conservation Area, in Laikipia, Kenya

The Butterfly Rock Band, performing in South Africa (with V. Dinca, R. Voda and R. Vila)

With the legendary living fossil Welwitschia mirabilis, in the Namibian deserts

The Grand Canyon, in Arizona

MCZ, Cambridge MA, after crossing the US from Oregon

Sampling in the vast North American prairie

Wild travelling in Namibia, with Roger Vila

Somewhere in Thailand forests

In the Tibetan region of Qinghai, with Yi Wang

In Chengdu, with Yi Wang and Zhengyang Wang

Found a Dragon Ball in Japan!

Sampling the mountains in northern Thailand

Little great help in Puebla, Mexico

In Sonora coast, Mexico, with Rebeca, René and Fernando

With Rebeca Izquierdo, visiting forests in Chihuahua, Mexico

With Sämi Schär, sampling flies, termites, ants and butterflies in Morocco

At the volcanic summits of Hawaian islands

In Argentina, with Luis Volkmann, Roger Vila and Lucas Kaminski

Sampling migratory insects in the beach, near Barcelona

In the Catalan Pyrennees, near my hometown. With Kristýna Pospíšilová, Petr Nguyen and Roger Vila

Hat exchange with Tom, in Murchinson Falls NP, Uganda

GT lab members, sampling in central Catalonia

Moth capturing attempts in the coast of Barcelona

Sampling in Cypruss, with Megan Reich

PhyloMigration Lab 2022, at the Institut Botànic de Barcelona (IBB)

Phylomigration Lab 2023, at IBB after a TV session

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