Socrates Letana

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“An unexamined fly is not worth leaving.” 🪰
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A new bot fly species of Cuterebra (Diptera: Oestridae) from Ecuador | Zootaxa

Opinion 2245 (Case 3407) Drosophila Fallén, 1823 (Insecta, Diptera): Drosophila funebris Fabricius, 1787 is maintained as the type species

https://biostor.org/reference/284334

Opinion 2245 (Case 3407) Drosophila Fallén, 1823 (Insecta, Diptera): Drosophila funebris Fabricius, 1787 is maintained as the type species

Published in The Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature, in 2010, in volume 67, issue 1, pages 106-115

🦟🪰 10th International Congress of Dipterology
#ICDXReno #Diptera
taxonomy meme
Eornithoica grimaldii NEL & GARROUSTE & ENGEL 2023, sp. nov. - Plazi TreatmentBank

Comparative #anatomy of the #insect #tracheal system, part 1. Introduction, #apterygotes, #Paleoptera, #Polyneoptera (Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, no. 459):
http://hdl.handle.net/2246/7313
Comparative anatomy of the insect tracheal system, part 1. Introduction, apterygotes, Paleoptera, Polyneoptera (Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, no. 459)

“The reason most public transportation is seen as ‘losing’ money is precisely because it charges for trips. If you don't charge fares, suddenly it can't ‘lose’ money. It just costs money, the same as the roads.”

This random comment has given me my new favourite argument for removing fares from public transit.

Video: Behind the scenes of UC Davis Bohart Museum of Entomology
https://youtu.be/SaTIDdJYbH0
Behind the Scenes at the UC Davis Bohart Museum of Entomology

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“This WWII weapons #bunker has a new mission: Sheltering a scientist’s #insect #collection
🐝🐞🦟🐜🐛🪰🕷️🦋🪲🕸️🪳🦂

https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2022-12-24/this-weapons-bunker-is-now-home-to-a-dead-bug-collection

This weapons bunker is now home to a dead bug collection

When a collection of bugs floating in specimen bottles outgrew his laboratory, a scientist moved them into an abandoned weapons bunker.

Los Angeles Times