May field work fun #blackflies

A piece of collage art, with the words "Flies are voluptuous" in the center, surrounded by cut out flies and fly stickers.

In honor of #FlyWeek here's a piece of collage art I made, highlighting some wise words from Dr. Riley Nelson, who taught me to love flies 🪰❤️ Thanks Riley!

Male Criorhina floccosa

Male Criorhina floccosa

Comm9n Carder Bee (Bombus pascuorum)

Hoverfly of the day in Gamlingay Wood LNR, S. Cambridgeshire, an ancient woodland, only a 10 minute stroll from my home.

A male Criorhina floccosa, an excellent Common Carder Bee (Bombus pascuorum) mimic.
Localised in mature woodland with plenty of dead wood, in which the larvae breed.

these are the only still photos I could get!

Can any bee people explain what this bee is doing? She’s been almost hovering like this in front of our deck for 15+ minutes! I *think* it’s a carpenter bee but I’m not confident (SW Ontario)
#bee #apidae

Do you guys think she’s ready for breakfast

Just had the best #thrift find of my life - a vintage llama wool coat 🥹🦙

Three otter kits in the Yellowstone river up on some rocks

Otter Kits in the Yellowstone River.

We've just published some brand new insect migration research in iScience!

We found that Marmalade hoverfly migrants are marathoners, not sprinters.

Led by Richard Massy of @uniofexeter.bsky.social

Full Paper: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Press release: news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-e...

I’ve fallen behind on my reading goal this year, looking for short book recommendations- any genre is welcome!

Side view photograph of an oddly proportioned reddish brown insect with yellow stripes standing alert on the end of a stick against a blurred natural background.

The wasp mantisfly, Climaciella brunnea, is not a wasp, a mantis, or a fly. It is instead a type of spider-eating lacewing that keeps itself safe by looking like it has a painful sting, which is does not.

Evolution continues to be marvelous. 🧪 #Entomology

Page from Darwin's notebooks (c. July 1837) with his first sketch of an evolutionary tree, and the words "I think" at the top. Photo: Wikimedia Commons

Happy Evolution Day! Today's the 165 anniversary of the initial publication of Charles Darwin's "On the Origin of Species" - and this is a page from his notebooks.
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Starlings and blackbirds at #LongPointPP last fall!

An image of two small flowers in bloom on a lawn. They have thin, white petals and yellow centers. their leaves are rounded and grass grows around them

november blooms in #LndOnt

disney exec: it’s about a guy who thinks he’s a monkey lol. probably don’t need anything too crazy for the soundtrack.

phil collins: [eyes glowing white, levitating above the ground] no

Honeybee swarm on #PeleeIsland !

A female Great-tailed Grackle sits on a concrete curb of a parking lot. Her back faces the camera with her head turned to the side, showing off her bright eye

A male Great-tailed Grackle sits in a twisted tree, his side towards the camera

A Cruve-billed Thrasher sits on top of a large tree, the photo is very zoomed so the quality is poor

Saw a few new lifers I saw while in Phoenix for #EntSoc24
Great-tailed Grackle (m&f), Curve-billed Thrasher, and a Verdin (not pictured)

Definitely a syrphid! Probably a Eupeodes species:)

Last week I presented by preliminary data on #Syrphidae migration in #SWOntario at @entsocamerica.bsky.social ‘s #EntSoc24

It was such a great experience and I met so many incredible researchers!