Insect diversity @ McGill
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Tag Archives: Ephydridae
Ten thousand pins
I was updating our database of Diptera holdings in the museum this week and thinking about the enormous range in numbers of specimens in some families (see my earlier post on “why so many specimens?”). The Lyman Collection is very … Continue reading
Posted in In the Collection
Tagged Agromyzidae, Chloropidae, collection, Diptera, Ephydridae, Phoridae
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More than ten reasons flies are great
Our insect collection has its roots in an amateur collection. Predictably, that means our holdings are very strong in two orders popular with collectors – butterflies and moths (Lepidoptera) and beetles (Coleoptera). We had, at last count, about 130,000 pinned … Continue reading
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Tagged Diptera, ecology, Ephydridae, flies, natural history, Phoridae
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