Between 18 and 21 September 2026, TEE Lab Project Officers Ng Wan Lin and Marx Yim were invited to Nanning, China, to attend the 2026 China-ASEAN Young Scientists Dialogue on Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Biodiversity. Photo credit: World Association for Young Scientists (WAYS) Hosted by the World Association of Young Scientists (WAYS), the Guangxi Association for Science and Technology, and the Guangxi Academy of Sciences, the dialogue brought together young scientists an

The Tropical Ecology and Entomology (TEE) Lab from Asian School of the Environment, College of Science, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore recently joined the BioBlitz at Gardens by the Bay, bringing together field surveys, community engagement, and new technologies to explore and showcase Singapore’s fascinating invertebrate biodiversity. As part of the BioBlitz, our team led dragonfly and damselfly surveys around the Gardens. Participants joined our survey leads t

From 10-11 June 2026, TEE Lab PhD student Zann Teo Jiexin spent some time working with Dr Teruo Ochi and Dr Masahiro Kon in Osaka, Japan, to describe some new species of dung beetles in Singapore. I was extremely privileged to visit the private collection of Dr Teruo Ochi, which is possibly one of the most comprehensive collections of dung beetles in our region. I was gifted a signed copy of Dr Ochi's thesis, which I will treasure throughout the rest of my academic journey! I

Hi, I am Bertram, a Year 3 undergraduate studying Environmental Earth Systems Science in ASE. At the end of my Year 2 undergraduate studies, it was finally time for my credit-bearing internship. And as someone who enjoys research and insects, there was no better place for me to intern than the TEE Lab (thank you Prof Eleanor!). Being an intern in the TEE Lab meant that I got to help out with multiple different projects, from DNA extraction and photographing tiny beetles to cu

Southeast Asia is a hyper-diverse and rapidly urbanizing region. However, the impacts of urbanization on the region's insect communities are still greatly understudied. In our recent publication in Biotropica's Special Issue: Urban Ecosystems, Ecology, and Evolution in the Tropics 2026, we investigated the impacts of urbanization on Singapore's dung beetle communities - an ecologically important and ideal bioindicator group. Deployed flight-interception trap and baited pitfal