June 2000 Collecting Trip to Tunisia
by Martin Hauser
Arriving at the new airport in Tunis, I immediately realized that there have been a lot of changes in the past five years since my last visit to this beautiful North African country. After bargaining for a rental car in the airport, my friend Christian Schmid-Egger, a hymnopterist from Germany, arrived to join me for one of my two weeks in Tunisia. We decided to collect first in southern Tunisia, because Christian expected to find the most interesting Hymenoptera there. I wanted to spend the second week in the north.