For when you're writing your letter to Santa this year. #upturnedmicroscope

Discovery of snakeworm gnats in Alaska: a new species of Sciara Meigen (Diptera: Sciaridae) based on morphological, molecular, and citizen science data (by Thalles Lavinscky et al.): doi.org/10.18476/2023.…

Exciting news in biodiversity research! This groundbreaking study delves into the mysterious tibial organ of grass flies and jackal flies, shedding light on its ultrastructure and function (thread 🧶) 🦟 🪰 doi.org/10.1007/s00435… #ScientificDiscovery #Entomology #Chloropidae

We are in the #radio - SWR: our collection manager Björn Rulik b.rulik about winter midges - Wir sind im #radio - SWR: Collection Manager Björn Rulik b.rulik über plötzlich auftauchende Wintermücken: swr.de/swr1/rp/winter… #MuseumKoenigBonn… #Insekten #Artenvielfalt

Express DNA barcoding published! We combine DNA leaching, NextGenPCR, and MinION to go from specimens to barcodes in hours without breaking the bank. Say hello to fast pest identification, food authentication and species sorting in the field. doi.org/10.1111/1755-0… Oxford Nanopore

🐝🐢🦥🐺🪱🦋🐬🐆 We invite you: "Workshop for networking taxon experts": September 20 + 21, 2024 at LIB - Museum Koenig Bonn. Register now: surveymonkey.com/r/YF58GHV (Places are limited, language: German) @FoerTax Biodiversity Genomics Europe (BGE) @GBOLIIIDarkTaxa #taxonomy #collections #networking

My UK Flesh Flies 🪰 account was locked because I entered ‘2016’ as year of birth when prompted by X to add a birthdate. This was the year the page and Sarcophagidae Recording Scheme were created. Please help me get the page back by reposting and bringing this to the attention of X 🙏🏻

Dark Taxon Science: In a tale of two realities, we here try to foster an epoch of biodiversity enlightenment while being threatened by the shadows of mass extinction: megabarcoding shows that two dark taxa in the Baihua Mountains behave very differently! doi.org/10.1101/2024.0…

today & tomorrow: #BonnerWissenschaftsnacht Meet us at booth no. 1, Münsterplatz! explore #Biodiversity #Research @GBOLIIIDarkTaxa LIB #MuseumKoenig #GBOL

Just about to head to Radnorshire to spend a weekend with the Dipterists Forum folks looking for flies It’s the best sort of weekend. Lots of informed & interesting fly folks studying & discussing all things Diptera For more info about these trips dipterists.org.uk/home

Hey #Hymenoptera & #Apidae folks... we need some help in identification of a wild #bee observed in the #Atacama... any hint is highly welcome... reply here, to Tim Böhnert or at iNaturalist below... 🐝🐝🐝 #Chile #pollination inaturalist.org/observations/1…

Are you ready?!? tomorrow #WocheDerUmwelt will start... with @GBOLIIIDarkTaxa & LIB looking forward to 2 incredible days at #SchlossBellevue in #Berlin... meet us at tent no. 100... #biodiversity #WdU2024

Unsere News zur Woche der Umwelt zusammengefasst: leibniz-lib.de/20240605-woche… About the Week of Enviroment here: leibniz-lib.de/en/20240605-en… 🐦‍⬛🐝🐞🐢🦀🐆 @GBOLIIIDarkTaxa @FoerTax KennArt.Artenkenntnis Leibniz-Forschungsnetzwerk Biodiversität #WochederUmwelt DBU #Forschungsmuseum #Biodiversität

Need a face to your #Diptera specialist?!? 🤔 The #Dipterist’s Gallery with over 4.3k portraits is available now!!! 😎 Big thanks to Neal Evenhuis 🪰🪰🍺🍺🥏🥏 !!! 👍 #gnatsarecool 🦟 #fliesarecooltoo 🪰 hbs.bishopmuseum.org/publications/p…

#CETAF undersigns the open letter to the European representatives attending @COP16Colombia. It invites them to push for free and open access to Digital Sequence Information. Letter here 👉cetaf.org/elementor-1034… Thanks to LIB Leibniz-Gemeinschaft for the initiative! #FAIRdata

Yeah... 🤩 there it is: Priscoearomyia bausenbergensis sp. nov. 🪰 #fliesarecooltoo #Lonchaeidae #Niederzissen #Brohltal

„Priscoearomyia bausenbergensis“ stammt - wie der Name vermuten lässt - aus Niederzissen. blick-aktuell.de/Berichte/Neue-…

We are proud and happy to present the first clinical study on #physicalplasma application in wildlife. So far there is almost no data available for #veterinaryresearch. #physicalplasmamedicine #woundhealing doi.org/10.1038/s41598…

Dear #Diptera friends!!! Voting is finally open for New Zealand’s #Bug of the Year: bugoftheyear.ento.org.nz/vote-here-2025/ ---> we count on you to vote “FLY” 🦟 <--- #Diptera #batfly #Mystacinobia zelandica #fliesarecooltoo #Mystacinobiidae #Oestroidea #Calyptrata

"Illuminating Entomological Dark Matter with DNA Barcodes in an Era of Insect Decline, Deep Learning, and Genomics" Who uses insect DNA barcodes for which taxa? The usual suspects dominate... Now in Annual Review of Entomology: doi.org/10.1146/annure…