How fungus gnats, and their names, can make science more inclusive. Believe it or not! scientistseessquirre... 🧪🌍🪲🪳

The Laphria with a noise maker is, hands-down, one of my greatest creations ✨

Oh no! Batman is covered in ectoparasites! Check out those bat flies! 🦇🪰 #FlyWeek

I promise I was lurking over on the @teamdiptera.bsky.social account this Fly Week! Here is my meager offering to the Asilidae- some of the lovely robber fly I've been given, and one piece I've made💕🪰 #FlyWeek (besides all the memes which you should totally check out!)

Here is some of the insect flash on offer from @ladylucktattoopdx in Portland, OR by @summerhatfieldart! If you’re going to ESA 2025 book an appointment now to get some ink! See more at tinyurl.com/bugluck @entsocamerica.bsky.social #insect #insecttattoo #entsoc2025 #esa #portland #teamdiptera

Ready for some BUG INK at #EntSoc2025? See flash designs here tinyurl.com/bugluck and contact Lady Luck or the tagged artist on flash for bookings! Tag pics of your ink to share! #teamdiptera

This year for Halloween, to no one's surprise, I decided to rep #TeamDiptera and be a fly!

Tired of doom scrolling? Want to help a PhD student out? Check your collection for Promachus (and friends) and I'll be forever indebted! If you need an excuse to get outside and go collecting this weekend, this is it! #Asilidae #Diptera

🦗 🦟 🦗 🦟 🦗 🦟 🦗 #bugs #insects #entomology #bugsky

For the final night of #FlyWeek, just some cool-ass #flies. moth fly #Psychodidae: #Setomima aulacigastrid fly #Aulacigastridae mating thick-headed flies #Conopidae: #Myopa horse fly #Tabanidae: #Chlorotabanus

Happy World Bee Fly Day! Here is one of the most colorful bee flies I’ve encountered, Zinnomyia brincki. Collected in Namibia. #FlyWeek #WorldBeeFlyDay #TeamDiptera

Happy World Bee Fly Day! I'll take any chance to show off these cuties we found hiding out in the Creosote during a rain storm at Beaver Dam Wash in UT! Lordotus and lots of Anastoechus (iirc). #FlyWeek #Fliesarecool #WorldBeeFlyDay

Did you know some flies are attracted to smoke? If you love flies and you haven't swiped a net through campfire smoke, we really recommend it! #FlyWeek #FliesAreCool

One of the things that I love most about flies is their abundant diversity! Check out this Cecidomyidae! 😎 #FlyWeek

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!

For #WorldRobberFlyDay I'd like to show off some of the cool robber fly merch I've gotten from some super talented artists! The plush Proctacanthus is definitely one of my favorites, so she gets to sit on some of my favorite fly books! 😍 #FlyWeek #entomologistsareeasytogetgiftsfor

For #WorldRobberFlyDay here's an edit I made showcasing how cool these flies are 😎

Walz: If you say you love freedom but you don't believe freedom is for everybody, then the thing you love is not freedom, it is privilege.

5/ Some wings have evolved strategies to help reduce damage resulting from collisions. For example, we learned a few years ago that wasp wings have a flexible joint that acts like a reversible crumple zone, allowing the wing tip to easily bend out of the way when it hits things...

“It’s like claiming to have brought Napoleon back from the dead by asking a short French man to wear his hat.” A short piece in The Conversation by me on why “de-extinction” is nothing of the sort, and bad, bad conservation. theconversation.com/why-de-extin...

I am so pumped to show off all my fly memorabilia during Fly Week! 😎 (pun intended)

We are risking plunging the United States into a dark age of entomology next week. USDA programs are facing massive lay-offs next week and the public should be aware of the impact. If you care about food systems, forests, invasive species, this thread is for you. Read Below: 🧪 #entomology #science

Sometimes when I get tired of staring at my computer screen, I stare at Flick instead. Anyone else have monitor friends?

#taxonomistappreciationDay is today.. and we have not migrated the graphic! So here it is!

friendly reminder!

Eight months ago, I packed up my life and moved across the country for a job with USDA. After seven years of study and training, I was excited to use the skills I had developed—and excited to serve my country in a way that mattered—protecting our nation’s food crops from insect pests. (1)

ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME Congress didn’t pass a law requiring NIH-funded trials to include women until 1993. Drug trials with government funding only started including women in the NINETIES And that’s only drug trials! And not ones with private funding! Health research FAMOUSLY excludes women.

Tension rises as we await the 1st #BeeFlyWatch sighting of 2025! Judging by the weather where I am at the moment it's going to be a while yet ... but as soon as you do start seeing bee-flies please get a photo & add a record - full details + ID guides available at dipterists.org.uk/bee-fly-watch

Let's celebrate #DarwinDay by reminding ourselves that everyone has moments when they feel worse for wear. Darwin wrote to Charles Lyell in 1861: "But I am very poorly today & very stupid & hate everybody & everything." www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/DCP-L... So, hang in there, #academicsky! 🧪

I made some FLY Valentines, if I do say so myself!

So, a lab member caught a jumping spider. Adorable. Then, we realized the spider had been parasitized. Spider dies and we get this chunky fly. So, as scientists, we ask the obvious question... Which is cuter, host or parasite? My lab is split. I am team spider!!! #Spider #Ecology #Bugsky #Lablife

Somewhere between these two, my spirit lies.

It feels like there's a program running in the background of my human CPU that's draining the battery and I can't force quit it.

The people have spoken, heres more wheelbug

Make this year the year of the fly!! 🪰

I'm at a loss for words. When it comes to times like these, I think of this quote. Keep doing good and supporting your community, y'all. 🫂

May I present: the Flyble! Decorated by my wonderful husband, it's where I put all my most used print outs and physical copies of keys 🪰

Let me introduce ourselves, Team Diptera is a group of students, researchers and enthusiasts who got together with the intent to tell the world about how wonderful flies are! Our goals are to promote the diversity and importance of flies through science, art and general education!

I am learning more about the world now, thanks to my antennae and proboscis

Bought myself this sticker for my laptop and I love it so much #wasps #parasitoid 😂 www.etsy.com/shop/ThatWas...

My favorite part of winter break is that any work I do feels so much more substantial, because no one is "expecting" it! And, I get to hang out with the best cat in the world!

Fly-on-Fly-Fffffffriday! A desert robber #fly caught a #midge & rested patiently while I took MANY pics. Always a neat scene, though I wouldn't want to be that prey getting venom pumped into my neck and digested 😬 Phoenix, AZ, USA (November) #Asilidae #Chironomidae #absoluteflyolence