Staff
QSBG entomology consists of a team of 10 research and support staff:
in addition to collaborating with more than 100 researchers internationally
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Chaweewan is an advisor to QSBG on entomology and manager of TIGER project in Thailand.
Chayanit is responsible for Diptera sorting for the TIGER project.
Processing and sorting of insects for the TIGER project.
Interested in the biology and ecology of Trichoptera of QSBG. Somyos is currently studying for his PhD at Chiang Mai university.
Wirat conducts research on firefly taxonomy and ecology in northern Thailand. Wirat completed a thesis on the "Population ecology of the firefly
Pyrocoelia praetexta". Wirat is also responsible for the imaging of Culicidae and Coleoptera.
Wichai worked as sorting manager for the Darwin Initiative project with duties including general insect sorting and management of Culicid data. Wichai master's thesis was on the "Life history and morphology of some blackflies species at Mae Aeb Nai village, Ban Luang subdistrict, Chomthong District, Chiang Mai province". Wichai has a general interest in aquatic Diptera and recently completed a project titled "Habitat survey of mosquitoes in automobile tyre and application of giant mosquito larvae in the reduction of
Aedes larvae.
Manager of the TIGER project's sorting pool at QSBG. He also sorts all taxa that are not Hymenoptera or Diptera. Besides these duties he is currently completing a Master's degree: "Taxonomy of Gasteracanthine spiders in Thailand".
Processing and sorting of insects for the QSBG entomology, complete Bachelor's degree of entomology at Chiang Mai University, special problem was conduct on "Efficiency of some insecticides for controlling Lipaphis erysimi (Kaltenbach) infesting Kale".
