OK class: which is the male (♂️) and which is the female (♀️)? [BTW - these are the smallest members of this family of flies I have ever seen!] #FlySchool2026

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The hammerhead condition has evolved numerous times in flies, resulting in various flavors. Last time we found an extreme one (flic.kr/p/2qeN7Hz) but this example is a bit more tame (still lovely, though! ❤️) [Coll.: Khong Lunaria] #FlySchool2026 Costa Rica #Richardiidae: #Richardia cf. telescopica

2025 haben europäische Flüsse einen neuen Rekord aufgestellt, 603 Hindernisse wurden aus ihnen entfernt. Das ist ein wichtiger Schritt für mehr Umweltschutz.

It may be surprising to some that there are thousands of undescribed species just sitting in museums awaiting description. One of the main reasons this problem exists is that taxonomy is undervalued and underfunded, a trend that coincides with the devaluing of studies on natural history.

🚨 #MUSEUMJOBS KLAXON🚨 We're looking for a Senior Digitiser and two Digitisers to work across @zoologymuseum.bsky.social & @camplantsci.bsky.social to help create biodiversity data for the researchers who need it, through #DiSSCoUK. 1. www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/senior-... 2. www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/digitis...

My comments on the new @nationalacademies.org report on climate change & extreme weather attribution. The TLDR statement: If anything, the academy understates the strength of the science linking increasingly extreme weather events to climate change: michaelmann.net/comments-on-...

Comments on National Academy of Sciences Report on Climate Change & Extreme Weather Event Attribution | Michael E. Mann

The National Academy of Sciences has put out a new report assessing the state of understanding of the science of extreme weather attribution, an area of […]

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Kolumne: Die Leute, die gestern noch behauptet haben, die Erderhitzung sei kein Problem, erklären jetzt die Leute für doof, die sich nicht auf die Erhitzung vorbereitet haben. Nun will die Anti-Klimaschutz-, die Anti-Wärmepumpen-Fraktion es schon immer gewusst haben.

We gave thanks & celebration on Monday for Peter Chandler - an extraordinary man, a great dipterist & a kind & generous spirit Check out the 10 year old Peter’s answers in his I-Spy entomology book- they made me smile & feel grateful to have known such a great man @dipteristsforum.bsky.social

Maria Sibylla Merian (1647–1717) was a pioneering naturalist, entomologist & scientific illustrator whose meticulous artwork & observations: 🦋 Revolutionized the study of insects 🐜 Laid early groundwork for #ecology 🐞 Permanently changed how we understand insect life It's #InsectWeek #WomenInSTEM

Hier ein paar gesammelte Fakten zum Antworten auf die „früher war es auch schon heiß“-Trottel, die aktuell alle sozialen Medien mit ihren Dissonanzreduktionsversuchen vollmüllen.

Is this how they’re going to keep the algae out?

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Just when you think it can’t get more weird….. Fencing going up around Reflecting Pool

How many adult pygmy backswimmers can dance on the head of a(n insect) pin? Apparently just one, but look how adorable it is! #NaturalHistoryCollections #FocusStacking #Pleidae

Teneral Physocephala rufipes ♂ found today on flowerbed wall in Bengeo garden, fascinating then to watch it change to its full adult colour over next hour. P.rufipes is most wasp-like of conopid parasitoid flies. @flygirlnhm.bsky.social

This is very preliminary, but this is an overview of every species in the Open Tree of Life, colour coded by whether their position in the tree is based on taxonomy only (dark colour) or includes phylogenetic information (blue). Phylogenetic coverage is sparse, mostly plants and vertebrates.

Pinned Insect Digitization Conveyor at Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History explained - how to digitize 325,000+ pollinating insect specimens fast, safely, and in high quality www.instagram.com/reel/DY46nMb...

Smithsonian on Instagram: "One in every three bites of food you eat depends on pollinators! 🪲 Heard the buzz? Our @SmithsonianNMNH and Smithsonian Digitization Program Office are digitizing 325,000...

574 likes, 24 comments - smithsonian on May 28, 2026: "One in every three bites of food you eat depends on pollinators! 🪲 Heard the buzz? Our @SmithsonianNMNH and Smithsonian Digitization Program O...

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Interesting new tool to extract phylogenies from images (Tremble). It is crazy that this is still something we have to do. doi.org/10.1093/bioi...

Treemble: a graphical tool to generate Newick strings from phylogenetic tree images

AbstractSummary. Phylogenetic trees are ubiquitous and central to biology, but most published trees are available only as visual diagrams and not in the ma

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Die Energiewende im Master studieren und noch Fragen? Dann kommt heute zum Online-Masterinfotag: 👉 um 16 Uhr.

#FlyFriday #InternationalBiodiversityDay #BiodiversityDay Exciting mass digitization project at Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History | >325,000 pinned specimens of pollinating insects are being digitized on a conveyor system developed by Picturae #USNMDiptera

Not all bees are honey-bees. 🐝 Wild bees are most of the +20k bee species in the world. 🌍 They are essential for biodiversity and food systems, yet are declining in many regions. 🏡 On #WorldBeeDay, let’s #SaveTheBees guided by ILK practices: more flower diversity and habitat preservation. 🧪

#weltbienentag Neben der Honigbiene leben in 🇦🇹 rund 700 Wildbienenarten, ~500 davon allein in #Wien Lebensraumverlust, Monokulturen & Pestizide setzen vielen Arten zu. Gemeinsam schützen: 🌿 heimische Pflanzen 🌸 Blühflächen & naturnahe Grünräume 🐝 keine chemisch-synthetischen 🌿schutzmittel

Love a tastefully pinstriped fly

Have you ever heard of ground beetles? There are around 40,000 named species - and many more yet to be discovered. However, at a time when the world is changing rapidly, waiting for a name might be too late. Find out how a new approach could change that 👇 www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/new...

How the world’s missing beetles could save the rainforest | Natural History Museum

By speeding up the process of describing new species, scientists can help to protect the precious places they live.

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🕷️ A comprehensive review of pseudoscorpion dispersal via hitchhiking on flies has been conducted, incorporating records spanning over 260 years. ➡️ Check out our guest blog post, written by Jana Christophoryová of Comenius University Bratislava: blog.pensoft.net/2026/05/13/t...

Tiny Hitchhikers in a Big World: How pseudoscorpions travel on flies | Blog

A new study published in ZooKeys offers the most comprehensive synthesis of pseudoscorpion–Diptera phoresy, including new European records.

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#FlyWeek Beautiful Miltogramminae flesh fly (Sarcophagidae) photographed in Namaqualand, South Africa in January

Don’t want to let #WorldRobberflyDay pass without sharing another badass creature, this one is a Gnat Ogre, genus Holcocephala. #flyweek #insects #invertefest

Reposting another image for #WorldRobberFlyDay, because who doesn’t love a nice Gnat Ogre?! (Holcocephala sp., and yes, that is their common name) #NaturalHistoryCollections #FocusStacking #AsiloidFlies

Got a shot yesterday of one of North America’s rarest robber flies, the Texas micropirate fly Townsendia pulcherrima. Almost forgot it was #WorldRobberFlyDay, running out of time to post this.

#WorldRobberFlyDay Oceanian Leptogastrinae: male Mesoleptogaster meriel Evenhuis, 2006 (Leptogastrinae, AAM-007710) from Fiji - Viti Levu Island - specimen from Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum #asiloidflies

#WorldRobberFlyDay Oceanian Asilidae: female Maira sp. (Laphriinae, USNMENT01115088) from Vanuatu - Espirito Santo Island #asiloidflies