{"id":66,"date":"2021-10-13T19:37:51","date_gmt":"2021-10-13T16:37:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/users.utu.fi\/taesho\/?page_id=66"},"modified":"2024-01-23T09:06:29","modified_gmt":"2024-01-23T07:06:29","slug":"tapani-hopkins","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/users.utu.fi\/taesho\/en\/","title":{"rendered":"Tapani Hopkins"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"I study tropical parasitoid wasps at my home in K\u00e5llby (western Finland) and at the Zoological Museum of the University of Turku<\/a>. This involves over 100 000 wasps I collected in Uganda<\/a> (get in touch if you want to study them!), and wondering how there can be so extraordinarily many species on our planet.<\/p>\n

Whenever I’m at the university, you’ll find me on the indoors balcony of the museum. Look for vast piles of tropical insect boxes etc and you’ll find me buried somewhere underneath them. You can also contact me by email<\/a> and follow what I’m doing in the blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"Bluesky<\/a> @tapani-hopkins<\/a> \u00a0 \"\"<\/a> 0000-0002-2256-0098<\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0\"\"<\/a> Google Scholar<\/a> \u00a0 \u2709\ufe0f<\/a> Contact details<\/a><\/p>\n

What are parasitoid wasps?<\/h3>\n

\"Wasp<\/a><\/p>\n

The Darwin wasps (Ichneumonidae) are perhaps the most diverse animal family on earth: they are everywhere<\/strong> from Greenland to New Zealand, there may be over 100 000 species, wherever you go they’ll be there in large numbers..<\/p>\n

..yet most people have never heard of them.<\/p>\n

The short version is that they look like wasps but aren’t. The longer version involves telling the fascinating tale of how they live:<\/p>\n