I #love how #science takes me to different places. Who would have thought this Colombian girl would be traveling all over the world?! #dreamcometrue
Goodbye #Namibia! Thank u for the breathtaking landscapes, friendly people and neat animals #ICD9_Namibia #ICD9
Beautiful flies! Check out the winners for best photo at #ICD9. My favorite is #1, a fly eating an amphipod (crunchy crustacean) #PredatorPreyInteractions
Wow, micro-CT images of fly larvae, beautiful! 3D virtual histology by Martin Hall... non-destructive technique w/ lots of potential! #ICD9 #ICD9_Namibia
Full room to hear about genital appendages in Lower Diptera by @gunnarkvifte: appendages are lost or fused & phylogeny does not necessarily recapitulate ontogeny #ICD9 #ICD9_Namibia
Insights on #AppliedEntomology by @MAMirandaTweet: flies of heath and economic importance in the Balearic Islands, even paradise has bad flies! 😉 #ICD9 #ICD9_Namibia
The smelly sex live of blowflies by Nathan Butterworth: how to find a mate at a busy party? Cuticular hydrocarbons may be important by it is prob more complicated! Multimodal #communication #ICD9 #ICD9_Namibia
Mosquito-Feeding frogs, feeding patterns and diversity by @PriyankaDeSilv3: Uranotaenia spp partition #frog community! #ICD9 #ICD9_Namibia
Blowflies on #frogs by Gerardo Arias: Lucila bufonivora giving toads a hard time! The larvae accumulate at the nostrils of the poor toads. As someone that has had blowflies I can sympathize! #frogs #ICD9 #ICD9_Namibia
Paleobiology of #frog-biting midges by @swarmofthought: All known Corethrellids come from amber & only 9 fossil spp described #ICD9 #ICD9_Namibia
We need more morphological characters to refine identification of frog-biting midges by Andre Amaral & Luiz Pinho ... let’s include more genitalia characters #ICD9 #ICD9_Namibia
Beyond frogs eating flies, these two groups interact in multiple ways by @gunnarkvifte: micro-predators, egg predators and myasis agents @PurdueEEB #ICD9 #ICD9_Namibia
Join us this afternoon for the Diptera interactions with amphibians! There will be lots of fun: #taxonomy #ecology species-interactions #frogs #neurophysiology #fossils and great discussions #ICD9 #ICD9_Namibia
Advances in Neotropical dipterology: the symposium is kicked-off by Colombian researchers Martha Wolf, Carolina Henao and Juliana Torres talking about Paramo flies! @MujerEnCiencia #womeninscience #ICD9
Bat flies! Tamara Szentivanyi says they are “little packages of bat blood” that can be used to look for #bat 🦇 pathogens. An interesting venue to decrease stress sampling blood directly
#batconservation #ICD9
So many specimens, so little time! Bringing the dead alive by @flygirlNHM ... an estimated 1.2 million mosquito specimens @NHM_London
Developing a non-destructive method to extract DNA on historic collections #ICD9
Elevated Atmospheric CO2 levels promote speciation in mosquitos by Chufei Tang: Correlation between higher CO2 levels and speciation rates in Anopheles but the how is unknown
Imagine what this could mean for the effect of #ClimateChange?! #ICD9
Trapping and phenology of Tabanidae by Gerard Duvallet: many traps available for stable flies, huge variation in their efficiency!
Screen w/sticky surface trap 11,000 specimens in a day Downside: lots of bycatch including birds #ICD9 #ICD9_Namibia
Gall midges, tiny flies from a highly-specious group. Netta Dorchin: specialization leads to diversification in this group
Found a gall? Netta can tell you who made it!
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