Studying the ecology and evolution of invertebrates🪰🦐🐌🦂 | Postdoc @MonashBiol | he/him
Australia
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Is there a sicker sex?
New paper in Proc B @RSocPublishing with @mattd_hall @MonashBiol
doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2023.25…
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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
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(1) Fresh out the Science oven! 🔥 My 4th (final-ish) PhD chapter is published in @WileyEcolEvol! We found small founding populations are better predicted when we factor in landscape & timing. @MonashBiol @chapple_lab @mo_cace #invasionBiology
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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...!
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New paper out of the lab led by @EntoSamm in collaboration with @Allograpta5401, based on an undergrad project by @BlairFitzSci
A worldwide review of Syrphidae migration: doi.org/10.1111/een.13373
The review is open access+summarizes over 150 years of work on syrph migration!
Fitness consequences of population bottlenecks in an invasive blowfly doi.org/10.1111/mec.17492
A funded PhD project on invasive species, phenotypes, and flies! 🪰🪰🪰
Ang is an incredible & supportive supervisor. Anyone interested - apply!
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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
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Cooooool
Plagiocephalus latifrons (Henderson’s, 1909) - 1 of the many stalk-eyed flies & a dam fine specimen caught by @flyliceresearch 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
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Starting my long road trip from Melbourne to Townsville to begin my postdoc at James Cook University with @DrJDonel!
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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/d…
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Crabro peltarius (I reckon) busy catching flies along #DiggerAlley @RSPBMinsmere Sneaky little "Burrow Watcher" fly sneaks in after her, clearly up to no good. 2nd fly is huge - one for @flygirlNHM 😃Wait for the end to see the wasp punch into the hole!
@StevenFalk1 @WaspWoman
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 🥰
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Thick Headed Fly - Myopa Clausa
Found at @NTCroome
A weird looking critter!
@WorcsWT @Britnatureguide @AP_Magazine @WildlifeMag
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Sweeping some fungus yesterday and I collected some stalk-eyed Drosophilidae - love these little hammerhead flies
@dipterists @opwall @NHM_London #Fieldwork #Peru #Diptera
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 ♥️
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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.
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