#Bloemfontein residents, we are aware of the technical difficulties that are current being experienced. We have escalated this to our backhaul provider. They have located a break on their network and are working on a resolution. Updates will be provided as we receive them. #sadv

We finally got around to cleaning out our Ento storeroom at the museum. It is now officially out of the 70s and at least middle 90s in terms of content! #nomoreclutter #museums

Hot off the press, volume 3 of the Manual of Afrotropical Diptera! Ashley Kirk-Spriggs just reported that it was delivered to their publishers today! Congratulations to Ash, and to all the authors and contributors on such an epic work! Can’t wait to get a copy of our own!#diptera

🎂This time next year, we'll be celebrating the 80th birthday of renowned #entomologist & former Director of the KwaZulu-Natal Museum (KwaZulu-Natal Museum): Dr Jason Londt with a Festschrift at our journal! Welcome to make your contribution! #Entomology #Diptera ℹ️ blog.pensoft.net/2022/04/20/fes…

Busy training 12 early career entomologists to ID flies (particularly pollinating families) in KZN, 🇿🇦. Ten days of collecting, pinning and identification. Part of the DIPTATEACH project, a collab between KwaZulu-Natal Museum The AfricaMuseum and Albany Museum, funded by National Research Foundation of South Africa & Belspo

After lots of fun in the field, today was mainly spent identifying #flies using the Manual of Afrotropical #Diptera family key. We have lots of specimens from the KwaZulu-Natal Museum and The AfricaMuseum collections to add to what was collected yesterday! National Research Foundation of South Africa Belspo

DIPTATEACH 2022 is winding down, we spent the day finishing identifications, but managed to sneak out and enjoy the winter sunshine as well. #flies #diptera National Research Foundation of South Africa Belspo KwaZulu-Natal Museum The AfricaMuseum

The genesis of life. Watch this salamander grow from a single cell to a complete complex organism with a beating heart. This process was over 3 weeks 📹 van IJken x.com/abakcus/status…

Slightly early for #flyfriday, but having just finished fieldwork for the austral summer, it feels appropriate. oNgoye forest in KZN, where we turned up the first Myolepta for RSA and the first female Mesembrius ingratus ever. A great end! Thanks to all who helped this year!

Spending #flyfriday at the National Museum in Bloemfontein with Burgert Muller working through a few 1000 flies from Lesotho. With a bit of special focus on the Atherimorpha latipennis (Rhagionidae), busy describing the female for the first time. #diptera #flies #fly

Тhe first description of the female of Amphoterus braunsi, redescription of the males of A. braunsi and A. cribratus, and description of a #NewSpecies, A. londti: doi.org/10.3897/afrinv… #JasonLondtFestschrift #Diptera

What do you call a fly without wings? OK, it's got little stubby wings, but a fly that can't fly is still pretty cool! High altitude (>3000m) habitats make for strange adaptations!

A great little grouo of #flies for #flyfriday, and on top of that we have another new species sonce printing the poster! But Genevieve Theron is more organized than I am. It was up at #ICDX but I forgot to take a photo. Maximizing viewership with tactical reuse!

The fly that can’t fly: entomologists make fascinating discovery in Lesotho theguardian.com/environment/20…

🇿🇦 A #newspecies of Afrotropical water snipe has been discovered in South Africa and is described in a revison of the genus Atrichops. 👉 Read more: doi.org/10.3897/afrinv… #taxonomy #Athericidae

More news about the work I get up to, and I guess it shows that exploring without clear direction can still turn up interesting finds

We have a bunch of beekeepers in with Imaging and Analysis (including Jane Medwell) who’ve made my afternoon.. BRAULIDAE - iPhone images of some of the amazing SEM images (care also of Alex Hyde) of these kleptoparasitic bee-riders What a fabulous way to start the Weekend #flyfriday

European Red List of insect taxonomists - Publications Office of the EU europa.eu/!7R4ff4

#Collections are truly priceless | Science editorial science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… #herbaria #museum

✨Spotlight on Siyabonga Zamisa from KwaZulu-Natal Museum. He will be participating at the Emerging Leaders Workshop. Learn more about him here: t.ly/jpRNQ