Insect diversity @ McGill
The blog and website of the Wheeler lab and the Lyman Museum at McGill University. Posts about arthropods, natural history, taxonomy, ecology, science culture, and life (or something like it) in academia.
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Tag Archives: Bombyliidae
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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