๐˜“๐˜ถ๐˜ค๐˜ช๐˜ฐ๐˜ญ๐˜ข ๐˜ด๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜จ๐˜ข๐˜ฑ๐˜ถ๐˜ณ๐˜ขโ€” From Scientific Discovery to Musical Masterpiece

July 01, 2022
Tags : LKCNHM News, New Species

It all started when Dr Wan Faridah Akmal Jusoh, Research Fellow at LKCNHM, was looking up on Luciola singapura, on the internetโ€”Singaporeโ€™s recent addition of a new firefly species, which […]

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Firefly tourism takes flight, sparking wonder and concern

March 12, 2021
Tags : Research

MEDFORD/SOMERVILLE, MASSACHUSETTS (March 11, 2021) โ€“ Researchers from the IUCN Species Survival Commission (SSC) Firefly Specialist Group published the first comprehensive review of major firefly tourism sites worldwide, examining how […]

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New species of firefly discovered in Singapore

March 08, 2021
Tags : Collections, LKCNHM, LKCNHM News, Museum, New Species, publication, Research

SINGAPORE, (March 08, 2021) – Researchers from the Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum, National University of Singapore, have discovered a new species of firefly from the last remaining freshwater […]

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From Dungun to Leiden: For the love of fireflies

April 16, 2020
Tags : LKCNHM, Museum, People, Research

This post is written by Dr. Wan Faridah Akmal Jusoh, Research Fellow at LKCNHM, for the Vereniging Nederland-Maleisie Newsletter (article republished with permission). I was born and raised in Dungun, a beautiful coastal district of the north-eastern peninsular Malaysian state of Terengganu. Unlike what you are probably imagining, I did not grow up by

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