Crabro peltarius (I reckon) busy catching flies along #DiggerAlley RSPB Minsmere 🌍 Sneaky little "Burrow Watcher" fly sneaks in after her, clearly up to no good. 2nd fly is huge - one for Dr Erica McAlister 😃Wait for the end to see the wasp punch into the hole! Steven Falk Prof Seirian Sumner

Did you know there are over 400 species of velvet ants in the US? Despite their name they are actually not ants they are wingless wasps and the new field guide to velvet ants of North America is available starting tomorrow at your favorite bookstore.

New paper out! Does the culling of large herbivores have any indirect impacts on other species? Yes, we found ground-dwelling beetle populations were negatively impacted after the culling of sika deer on Nakajima Island in Japan. academic.oup.com/ee/advance-art…

I got too close to this hawk moth (Sphingidae: Hippotion scrofa, I think) and it flashed some warning colouration at me! 😡🚨 Had no idea that moths could do this, but it is SO adorable ♥️

Sweeping some fungus yesterday and I collected some stalk-eyed Drosophilidae - love these little hammerhead flies Dipterists Society Operation Wallacea Natural History Museum #Fieldwork #Peru #Diptera

What a stunner!

Thick Headed Fly - Myopa Clausa Found at Croome NationalTrust A weird looking critter! Worcs Wildlife Trust The British Nature Guide Amateur Photographer BBC Wildlife

A spider on the beach! Fab colours. I love how it blends in with the sand. Often hard to spot at first, but beaches are crawling with biodiversity 🥰

17 MILLION insects migrate through a 30m Pyrenean mountain pass every autumn! They fly through the mountains on their remarkable journeys from northern Europe (including the UK) into Spain and beyond for the winter! Our new paper is out right now: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/epdf/10.10… 🧵

Starting my long road trip from Melbourne to Townsville to begin my postdoc at James Cook University with Jenni Donelson!

Cooooool Plagiocephalus latifrons (Henderson’s, 1909) - 1 of the many stalk-eyed flies & a dam fine specimen caught by Leshon Lee at #FlySchool24 There are many fly families with stalk eyed spp -some with antennae at end of stalks, but others the antennae still on head

Hhh I didnt know this but some Tabanid mothers guard their eggs. The Golden-haired Horse Fly Goniops chrysocoma found in North America is one such species. (image from iNaturalist © pgwamsley) #FlySchool24 @Bertonemyia

A funded PhD project on invasive species, phenotypes, and flies! 🪰🪰🪰 Ang is an incredible & supportive supervisor. Anyone interested - apply!

Fitness consequences of population bottlenecks in an invasive blowfly doi.org/10.1111/mec.17…

New paper out of the lab led by @EntoSamm in collaboration with Scott Clem, PhD, based on an undergrad project by Blair Fitz A worldwide review of Syrphidae migration: doi.org/10.1111/een.13… The review is open access+summarizes over 150 years of work on syrph migration!

I recently found this copy of Flies of the British Isles by Colyer & Hammond in the local bookshop here in Falmouth, Cornwall. A beautiful mid 20th century book, and those illustrations...!

What’s this fabulous long legged #tabanidae? Seen in the #BlueMountains, #NSW, #Australia

(1) Fresh out the Science oven! 🔥 My 4th (final-ish) PhD chapter is published in Wiley Ecology & Evolution! We found small founding populations are better predicted when we factor in landscape & timing. School of Biological Sciences, Monash ChappleLab Mo Camacho-Cervantes #invasionBiology onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ev…

Still adjusting to the heat and humidity of North Queensland but a recent highlight was getting to see fireflies for the first time. Got a shot of one on my hand - such amazing creatures! #WildOz #firefly #bioluminescence