The seductive dance of Ontario's female flies, featuring hairy legs and inflatable abdomens, all in a captivating exchange of copulus for cuisine. Nature's dinner-and-a-show in its rawest form. 🕺🍽️ #OntarioNature #DancingFlies #BugSex #Documentary #CBCGem
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Can’t wait to see you there @andykat2 @WidowWeb @rosalindmurray @dtgwynne and non-Tweeps Andrew Mason & Terrence Chang
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With Deborah Parks of Red Trillium films! Have worked with her on two films @FirstAnimalsDoc @bugsexthedoc
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Excited to meet up with crew, Red Trillium folks, and others from The Nature of Things at a celebration tonight for David Suzuki. Watching #TNOT has a huge influence on me as a kid! Still can't believe I got to host an episode and be involved in creating @bugsexthedoc !
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#UofT researchers illuminated the bizarre, grisly and complicated world of bug sex for an episode of @CBC's Nature of Things — join them and director Andrew Gregg as they screen segments from the documentary and answer your questions on the mystifying mating habits of insects🕷
ALT Featured Event U of T Alumni Reunion Let's Talk about Bug Sex! Thursday, June 1 from 6:30 to 9:00 p.m. UTSC, AC223, ARC Lecture Theatre Maydianne Andrade, Professor, Biology UTSC Terrence Chang, PhD Candidate, Biology, UTSC & EEB, UTSG Andrew Gregg Documentary Film Director, Writer and Producer, Red Trillium Films Darryl Gwynne, Professor Emeritus, Biology, UTM Andrew Mason, Professor Chair, Biology, UTSC Rosalind Murray, Assistant Professor, Biology, UTM
Exploring the Credit River looking for those elusive dance flies! 💃🪰🕺
Stream Bug Sex now on @CBCGem
If you haven't watched it yet...
Stream 'Bug Sex: It's Complicated' on @cbcgem
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Pictured: Dr. Marlene Zuk, Ph.D. candidate Aarcha Thadi and Dr. John Rotenberry looking for #Crickets in #Hawaii 🦗 🔍 👀
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Dr. John Rotenberry studied the ecology/population biology of birds in arid shrublands & grasslands for 40+ years. In recent years, his research includes impacts of parasitoid flies on ecology, behaviour & the evolution of Pacific field crickets alongside partner Dr. Marlene Zuk.
Can we get a round of applause for our crew who journey around the globe to capture amazing footage? We couldn't do it without them. 👏 👏 👏
All smiles on this trip to Hawai'i with DOP Michael Grippo & AC Mike Code. 🎬 🎥
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The Toronto Star on March 10, 2023 🍌🪰
"Fruit flies have been studied for decades, with Charles Darwin, considered the “father of evolution,” being one of their biggest fans, partly due to their fast reproduction rates and, presumably, their love of sex." ow.ly/p43950Npzcz
#TheSilenceOfTheCrickets: A Thread. 1/3.
By the early 00s, male Pacific field crickets in Hawaii have gone completely quiet. 🦗🔕
Dr. Marlene Zuk wanted to know why.
Turns out their well-known chirping drew attention from more than just potential mates.
#RiskyBusiness #BugSex
#TheSilenceOfTheCrickets: A Thread. 3/3.
Males became mute from structural changes to wing shape, which formerly created recognizable chirps when rubbed together.
However, these flatwing males may be parasite-free, but how do they find a mate without singing?
It's still #TBD.
#TheSilenceOfTheCrickets: A Thread. 2/3.
To secure the next generation of offspring, parasitic flies hacked the acoustic signalling system of crickets, zeroed in on the sound's origins, & deposited sticky larvae onto the male crickets, eventually killing them.
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Aarcha Thadi— @IISERPune graduate & PhD student in the Dept of Ecology, Evolution & Behaviour at UMN, studying how reproduction is altered in Hawaiian #crickets under extreme/novel conditions with Prof Marlene Zuk. 🌋
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