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So it WAS a Dipteran after all! 🤩🤩🤩
I feel so validated right now! 💙💙💙

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2022-08-05

November's cover image drawn by author Petra Korlević to accompany her article on DNA retrieval and sequencing of pinned historic Dipteran vectors: https://t.co/p2yZqXv8Gq Check out for a video of the process!

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2021-11-18

This Bolbophyllum is from W J Hooker's A Century of Orchidaceous Plants (1849). In writes how the dark delicate hairs are thought to lure the dipteran pollinators of these tiny flowers by imitating a fly mating swarm

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2021-04-30

my dipteran children !!

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2016-10-02