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- January 4, 2012
- 02:39 AM
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The Good, the Bad, and the Zombees
by Morgan Jackson in Biodiversity in Focus
It’s not often that flies make headlines, and when they do it’s usually in a negative connotation (malaria, mosquitoes, black flies, etc). A new paper published Tuesday in PLoS ONE (Core et al, 2011) is certainly not helping this Detrimental Diptera Dillema (DDD), announcing that a species of scuttle fly (Phoridae) has been discovered parasitizing [...]
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Core, A., Runckel, C., Ivers, J., Quock, C., Siapno, T., DeNault, S., Brown, B., DeRisi, J., Smith, C., & Hafernik, J. (2012) A New Threat to Honey Bees, the Parasitic Phorid Fly Apocephalus borealis. PLoS ONE, 7(1). DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0029639
BROWN, B. (1993) Taxonomy and preliminary phylogeny of the parasitic genus Apocephalus, subgenus Mesophora (Diptera: Phoridae). Systematic Entomology, 18(3), 191-230. DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3113.1993.tb00662.x
- April 11, 2011
- 01:13 AM
- 866 views
The Fly Tree of Life – Big Science, Big Results?
by Morgan Jackson in Biodiversity in Focus
This post is going to be longer and a little more technical than normal; feel free to jump in and out, or just check out some of the photos on your way to the conclusions. Although I may come across as critical and occasionally cynical at times, I’m not picking on anyone just to be [...]... Read more »
Wiegmann BM, Trautwein MD, Winkler IS, Barr NB, Kim JW, Lambkin C, Bertone MA, Cassel BK, Bayless KM, Heimberg AM.... (2011) Episodic radiations in the fly tree of life. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 108(14), 5690-5. PMID: 21402926
- January 28, 2011
- 10:42 PM
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Uninvited (but very cool) houseguests – Guest Post
by Morgan Jackson in Biodiversity in Focus
Today’s special guest blogger is Jess Vickruck, a PhD candidate at Brock University. Jess studies twig nesting bee diversity and the impacts of nest choice on their biology. When I first started my master’s project, my intention was to look at how nest choice affected fitness in twig nesting carpenter bees (genus Ceratina, family Apidae). [...]... Read more »
J.L. Vickruck, J.T. Huber, & M.H. Richards. (2010) Natural enemies of the bee genus Ceratina (Hymenoptera: Apidae) in the Niagara Region, Ontario, Canada. Journal of the Entomological Society of Ontario, 11-26. info:/
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