New citrus pest discovered in the Western Cape
Two researchers, one of them a research fellow at the Department of Botany and Zoology at Stellenbosch University, were the first to recognise a plague affecting plants in the Western Cape and has...
View ArticleAnother harmful whitefly establishes itself in South Africa
The exotic Pomegranate or Ash whitefly, which can severely damage garden shrubs, apple and pear trees, olive trees, citrus and pomegranate trees, was noticed recently for the first time in South Africa...
View ArticleSU scientist receives Molteno Award
Dr Ted Oliver, an honorary research fellow of the Department of Botany and Zoology, has been honoured with a Molteno Gold Medal from the Cape Tercentenary Foundation for his lifelong research on the...
View ArticlePanel discusses climate change at BotZoo research meeting
How serious must we take climate change and what can be done about it? These questions were raised when the topic of climate change was debated during a special session of the Annual Research Meeting...
View ArticleEvolutionary geneticist recognised as world leader
Prof Terry Robinson, a zoologist from Stellenbosch University searching for genetic clues about the most primitive of African mammals, the Afrotheria, has been awarded an A2 rating from the National...
View ArticleC•I•B celebrates International Year of Biodiversity with lecture series
In celebration of the International Year of Biodiversity, the DST-NRF Centre of Excellence for Invasion Biology (C·I·B) at Stellenbosch University is hosting a series of public lectures, starting on 18...
View ArticleBotzoo, CIB students share knowledge at National Science Week
Students from the Department of Botany and Zoology and the DST-NRF Centre of Excellence for Invasion Biology (C·I·B) at Stellenbosch University took part in the National Science Week festivities at the...
View ArticleThe truth about endangered giant sable lies in its genetics, SU researchers says
Despite looking almost identical at first glance, a big group of sable antelope found in Western Zambia are not, to the dismay of conservationists, members of the same subspecies as the critically...
View ArticleHow bees and fungi made orchids
South African orchids and bees have helped a Stellenbosch University botanist, Dr Anton Pauw, and his international collaborators to shed light on the question of how one ancestral orchid species...
View ArticleSU biotechnologist, zoologist among NSTF finalists
Two researchers of the Stellenbosch University Department of Botany and Zoology in the Faculty of Science, invertebrate zoologist Prof Savel Daniels and medicinal plant biotechnologist Dr Nox Makunga,...
View ArticleSU zoologist helps compile comprehensive family tree for mammals
A Stellenbosch evolutionary geneticist has added his knowledge of Africa’s most ancient mammals to an international study in which the most comprehensive family tree for mammals yet has been compiled....
View ArticleConservation Biology student receives prize in Scotland
A doctoral student in zoology, Bernard Coetzee, came up trumps at the recent Third European Congress of Conservation Biology (ECCB), which was held in Glasgow in Scotland. He won the award for the best...
View ArticleMarine biologist’s new children’s book now available
Did you know that a sea-star feeds by pushing its stomach out through its mouth and placing it directly over its prey? Or that octopuses are quite clever? Or that Columbus’ crabs are sky blue? These...
View ArticleSU botanists contribute to magnum opus on Cape orchids
The who’s who of South Africa’s botanical research community gathered in Kirstenbosch recently for the launch of a hefty 6,7kg book on the Cape’s orchids, to which researchers from Stellenbosch...
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