Abstract
Water insects were crawling or swimming at the ’zoete waters’, a pond near Leuven, where a young teacher organized practical exercises for the students in zoology. It was my first direct contact with Philippe Lebrun, the beginning of a long story ...
Highlights
The digitalization of Acarologia papers prior to 2000 was supported by Agropolis Fondation under the reference ID 1500-024 through the « Investissements d’avenir » programme (Labex Agro: ANR-10-LABX-0001-01)
Jean Lebrun, was teaching botany at the same university located in Leuven (UCL)
Philippe Lebrun was already used to collecting Carabidae near Brussels
Summary
The digitalization of Acarologia papers prior to 2000 was supported by Agropolis Fondation under the reference ID 1500-024 through the « Investissements d’avenir » programme (Labex Agro: ANR-10-LABX-0001-01). These minute animals ("de petite taille" to quote the title of his first acarological publication), in the Meerdaal forest was another story. In 1968, after several publications on soil mites, he submitted his D.Sc. thesis at UCL under Prof.
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