Insect diversity @ McGill
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Monthly Archives: October 2011
“why so many specimens?”
I was giving a tour of the museum last week to some alumni who were back on campus for Homecoming and somebody asked me that question. The Lyman Museum has in the neighborhood of three million specimens, but we have … Continue reading
High flies: arctic to alpine
It’s a widely known pattern in biology that higher latitudes are similar to higher elevations in many ways – as we go toward the poles or toward mountain summits we see similar changes in life zones, we cross a tree … Continue reading
Posted in Lab and Field News
Tagged alpine, Bombyliidae, Diptera, ecology, fieldwork, flies, Northern Biodiversity Program, Syrphidae
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