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Teagan Mulford
@teaganmulford.bsky.social
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🪰PhD student at NAU, studying Asilidae! Generally obsessed with flies, sexual selection, insect systematics and taxonomy, and natural history collections!
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Teagan Mulford @teaganmulford.bsky.social · 19d
Alas, not that I'm aware of. Good luck in your search though!
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Teagan Mulford @teaganmulford.bsky.social · 20d
Within the past 20 years! Ethanol stored is great, but I can get decent numbers from pinned specimens too ✨🪰
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Teagan Mulford @teaganmulford.bsky.social · 20d
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
A poster saying "Wanted: Robber flies, Promachus and Allies. Wanted: freshly caught specimens of Promachus or other large robber flies for DNA extraction. Contact Teagan Mulford at teaganmulford@gmail.com with any questions or leads. Thank you! PC: Steve Collins"
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Team Diptera 🪰🔍🦟🌻 @teamdiptera.bsky.social · 27d
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✨ Lane Ylem Elhaz ✨ @lyelhaz.bsky.social · Aug 11
🦗 🦟 🦗 🦟 🦗 🦟 🦗

#bugs #insects #entomology #bugsky
i'm a bug
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Teagan Mulford @teaganmulford.bsky.social · Aug 8
Flies also are really diverse, and many are extremophiles, meaning they might be the only insect you notice closer to the poles. Specifically in Antarctica, the only insect that can survive year-round is a flightless midge! en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belgica... 🪰💕
Belgica antarctica - Wikipedia
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Teagan Mulford @teaganmulford.bsky.social · Aug 8
Hm, then I'm not sure, but if it's seasonal, it could be migration: resjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
A comprehensive review of long‐distance hover fly migration (Diptera: Syrphidae)
This review summarises and synthesises 150+ years of global hover fly (Syrphidae) migration research to better understand the evidence of, mechanisms for and associated ecological and economic impac.....
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Teagan Mulford @teaganmulford.bsky.social · Aug 8
High latitudes, like geographically, or like along elevation? If it's among elevational gradients, it could be a behavior called Hilltopping, which is this cool thing that many animals, but especially flies do! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilltop...

www.uoguelph.ca/nadsfly/Tach...
Hilltopping (biology) - Wikipedia
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Matt Bertone @bertonemyia.bsky.social · May 7
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
A mall, fluffy moth like fly sitting on a leaf. Its thorax is hairy grey with black wings and a few small patches of iridescent pale blue scales. A small black fly sits on the bark of a tree facing down. Its eyes and face are mesmerizing with a pari of digital looking lines running across each eye. Flies mating on a leaf. They have a large white face and jowls and small maroon eyes. The male is on top and is gently holding her eyes. A thick yellow green fly with large maroon eyes rests on the underside of a thin leaf.
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Allan Cabrero, Ph. D. @ento-allan.bsky.social · May 6
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
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Teagan Mulford @teaganmulford.bsky.social · May 7
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
Anastoechus sp, bee flies sitting in the rain A bee fly sitting in a hand A bee fly on a woman's nose Lordotus sp. Sitting on a creosote bush
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Team Diptera 🪰🔍🦟🌻 @teamdiptera.bsky.social · May 1
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
An image showing images of someone swiping their net through smoke, and 2 flat-footed flies in the genus Microsania, with one having a cigarette in it's mouth, with text that says "Flat-footed flies in the genus Microsania are attracted to smoke!" (figure from Michal Tkoc et al. 2020)
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Team Diptera 🪰🔍🦟🌻 @teamdiptera.bsky.social · May 1
One of the things that I love most about flies is their abundant diversity! Check out this Cecidomyidae! 😎 #FlyWeek
An image of a Cecidomyidae with sunglasses on, with text reading "this fly may belong to the most speciose family in the animal kingdom! Several DNA metabarcoding studies have recovered remarkable diversity in the Cecidomyidae, hinting at over 1 million species yet to be described!"
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Teagan Mulford @teaganmulford.bsky.social · May 1
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!
A piece of collage art, with the words "Flies are voluptuous" in the center, surrounded by cut out flies and fly stickers.
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Teagan Mulford @teaganmulford.bsky.social · May 1
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
A collage of robber fly art/crafts. From left to right, a stamp of a Proctacanthus, a clay robber fly, a stuffed Proctacanthus, a lino print of a robber fly, and a painted panel of (what I think to be) a Machimus!
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Teagan Mulford @teaganmulford.bsky.social · Apr 30
Two robbers (😍) and what looks to be an unlucky syrphid (💀)!
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Teagan Mulford @teaganmulford.bsky.social · Apr 30
I'm sure most of my bullying comes from all the times their heads have just popped off while I'm trying to point them 😅
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Teagan Mulford @teaganmulford.bsky.social · Apr 30
For #WorldRobberFlyDay here's an edit I made showcasing how cool these flies are 😎
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · Apr 24
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.
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Andrew Mountcastle @mounty.bsky.social · Apr 16
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...
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Rich Grenyer @grenyer.bsky.social · Apr 14
“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...
Why ‘de-extinct’ dire wolves are a Trojan horse to hide humanity’s destruction of nature
Extinction is, for the time being, forever – and a symptom of our global economic system.
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Teagan Mulford @teaganmulford.bsky.social · Apr 15
I am so pumped to show off all my fly memorabilia during Fly Week! 😎 (pun intended)
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Team Diptera 🪰🔍🦟🌻 @teamdiptera.bsky.social · Apr 15
T- minus 16 days till #FlyWeek! 🪰
A poster with a Dolichopodidae in the center reading: Fly Week "like shark week, but with flies" April 30th- May 6th. Post your favorite two-winged wonders using the hashtag #FlyWeek. Brought to you by @teamdiptera.
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Armando Rosario-Lebrón @rosariolebronentomology.com · Apr 6
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
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Teagan Mulford @teaganmulford.bsky.social · Mar 28
Sometimes when I get tired of staring at my computer screen, I stare at Flick instead. Anyone else have monitor friends?
A standee of Flick, a red chameleon from Animal Crossing, holding a Hercules beetle and bug net.
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Chris Mah @echinoblog.bsky.social · Mar 19
#taxonomistappreciationDay is today.. and we have not migrated the graphic! So here it is!
pun with file cabinet showing different organisms "filed"
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