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Monthly Archives: December 2011
Thinking about history
It’s the end of another year – a time for looking back as well as looking forward. It’s been a year of change in the Lyman Museum and a good year. The insect collection continues to grow so fast that … Continue reading
Posted in Lab and Field News, Uncategorized
Tagged collection, conferences, fieldwork, publications
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More than ten reasons flies are great. Part II
Diptera are fascinating insects – diverse, bizarre, economically and medically important – but underappreciated by most people other than dipterists. We launched this series in an earlier post with a selection of five randomly selected reasons flies are great. In … Continue reading
Posted in In the Collection
Tagged arctic, Braulidae, Chloropidae, Diopsidae, Diptera, ecology, natural history
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a new paper on some new neighbours
We’ve just described some new species. That’s not news – thousands of new species are described every year by taxonomists from around the world. What is a little more interesting in this case is that these particular new species are … Continue reading
Posted in Research News
Tagged Chloropidae, Diptera, new species, publications, taxonomy
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