It's not march of the penguins, but the great migration of flies is major force in ecosystems and economies. In a new paper, scientists make a compelling case for preserving migration corridors for hundreds of species of tiny flies. www.anthropocenemagazine.org/?p=236803

Lords of the flies: the unsurpassed level of ecological diversity within dipteran migrants. Read about it here news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-e... and in Biological Reviews here doi.org/10.1111/brv..... New research from @uniexecec.bsky.social with @willleohawkes.bsky.social & Myles Menz

It's published! The largest research work I've ever undertaken: Lords of the flies: dipteran migrants are diverse, abundant & ecologically important Published in Biological Reviews: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... Thanks so much to co-authors @koralwotton.bsky.social & Myles Menz 1/x

Our brief insect migration reccy to southern Spain is done now. Locations scouted and camera traps set up on Gibraltar to hopefully record fly migration as they arrive to Europe from Africa. @universityofexeter.bsky.social @koralwotton.bsky.social @antqueeny.bsky.social @davegrundy.bsky.social

Currently down here in Tarifa, S Spain. Hoping to see insects migrating across the straits from Africa into Europe. @exeter.ac.uk @koralwotton.bsky.social

New paper out today from our lab. doi.org/10.1098/rsob... We unpick the morphological 🧑‍🧒, physiological 🔬, behavioural 📟 and transcriptomic 🧬 differences contributing to female sex bias in migrating #hoverflies. See my work on flight performance in this paper 🪰💪🪽 @uniexecec.bsky.social