We are hiring a Senior Research Officer to help us establish and run a biodiversity discovery facility. Get in touch if you'd like to know more. jobs.anu.edu.au/jobs/senior-re…

Curator/Curatorial Assistant post in Diptera at Natural History Museum 🪰 Skills needed include knowledge of Diptera (preferably with calyptrates/acalyptrates), experience of specimen curation & working with museum collections 🪰 Closing date: 9am, 26th Feb 2024 careers.nhm.ac.uk/templates/CIPH…

Tabanidae: Diachlorus. Several neotropical horse flies are host specific on large reptiles

I'm surprised how many people are responding positively to my photo of a moth fly, even though most people encounter them in indoor drains. In nature they live in natural collections of stagnant water like hollow trees and logs, so sometimes I find them alongside my shrimp

Some high res diagnostic images of the very common Australian drosophilid fly—Scaptomyza australis—just published McEvey 2024 doi.org/10.6084/m9.fig…

Phaeomyiidae

アナグマの死骸のそばにて (久々のポスト)

Might be the cutest bug I’ve ever seen

Yes everyone should study lauxaniid flies

Acroceratitis plumosa Hendel, 1913 (family #Tephritidae).

#Diptera

Druid communing with nature -> clusiid laying eggs

Cleitamia astrolabei, Platystomatidae

10 PhD projects available in the new ARC Training Centre in Plant Biosecurity PBTC. Recieve a $40,000 p/y tax-free scholarship and work with academic, government, and industry partners. Open to Australian and international students. EOIs due 30 September 2024.

First images of one of the rarest #Drosophilidae flies: Poliocephala microabdomina from New Guinea and Australia doi.org/10.6084/m9.fig…

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taxonomic impediment: a shortage of taxonomists, not the lack of technical approaches academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/art…

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