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Keith Bayless

@thekeithing

Genomics, systematics, evolution of flies. @CSIRO Australian National Insect Collection. IG: the_keithing

 Canberra
Joined August 2013
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Dune flies have 41 different dance moves. Changing even one of them is rarer than you'd think. @thekeithing @CSIRO @Deakin theconversation.com/a-waltz-…
A waltz over evolutionary timescales: why it’s so hard for animals to invent a new mating dance

A waltz over evolutionary timescales: why it’s so hard for animals to invent a new mating dance

Dune flies have 41 different dance moves. Changing even one of them is rarer than you’d think.

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For seven years, he searched Australia's stinkiest toilets – now it's a kids book | Region Canberra

For seven years, he searched Australia's stinkiest toilets – now it's a kids book | Region Canberra

When you're out camping in the bush with Dr Keith Bayless and he says he's going to the toilet, chances…

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Chentomology@czbugsart14 Nov 2024
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taxonomic impediment: a shortage of taxonomists, not the lack of technical approaches academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/…
The taxonomic impediment: a shortage of taxonomists, not the lack of technical approaches

The taxonomic impediment: a shortage of taxonomists, not the lack of technical approaches

For almost 30 years, there have been active discussions about the taxonomic impediment and the challenge this represents to address the current human-induc

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鶉亀虫@Uzurakamemusi10 Oct 2024
zootaxaで記載された
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Shane McEvey@SMcEvey9 Sep 2024
First images of one of the rarest #Drosophilidae flies: Poliocephala microabdomina from New Guinea and Australia doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.…
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10 PhD projects available in the new ARC Training Centre in Plant Biosecurity @ARC_PBTC. Recieve a $40,000 p/y tax-free scholarship and work with academic, government, and industry partners. Open to Australian and international students. EOIs due 30 September 2024.
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Cleitamia astrolabei, Platystomatidae
François Brassard (@ant__frank) profile pictureFrançois Brassard@ant__frank1 Aug 2024
Do you also see spiders on the wings of these mating flies? 🇵🇬 2023
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Druid communing with nature -> clusiid laying eggs
gonta (@Ninthredo) profile picturegonta@Ninthredo21 Jul 2024
クチキバエの産卵撮れた
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#Diptera
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NAKAYA, N. and M. MARUYAMA: First Record of the Termitophilous Scuttle Fly Clitelloxenia audreyae Disney, 1997 (Diptera: Phoridae: Termitoxeniinae) from Japan JJSE 30(1): 107-108. #Coleoptera zoobank.org/References/FAA01…
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Acroceratitis plumosa Hendel, 1913 (family #Tephritidae).
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Yes everyone should study lauxaniid flies
Marshal Hedin (@marshalhedin) profile pictureMarshal Hedin@marshalhedin2 Jul 2024
I wish we'd all look more closely at these sorts of things
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Might be the cutest bug I’ve ever seen
KJ (@f_najas) profile pictureKJ@f_najas23 Jul 2020
NEW SPECIES !! 😃 Glad to annouce that our paper, a new species of planthopper genus Hemisphaerius (Hemiptera: Issidae) from Thailand, is published now! Full text is available here: bit.ly/2CDsdtS #issidae #hemiptera #insect #newspecies #entomology #taxonomy
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gonta@Ninthredo31 May 2024
アナグマの死骸のそばにて (久々のポスト)
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Phaeomyiidae
mouuuusa (@muakbno) profile picturemouuuusa@muakbno6 Apr 2018
桑の木の根元にとまっていた大きめのきれいな色のハエ、何バエでしょうか
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Shane McEvey@SMcEvey27 Mar 2024
Some high res diagnostic images of the very common Australian drosophilid fly—Scaptomyza australis—just published McEvey 2024 doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.…
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Mossworm@Mossworm123 Feb 2024
I'm surprised how many people are responding positively to my photo of a moth fly, even though most people encounter them in indoor drains. In nature they live in natural collections of stagnant water like hollow trees and logs, so sometimes I find them alongside my shrimp
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Tabanidae: Diachlorus. Several neotropical horse flies are host specific on large reptiles
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NHM Diptera@NHM_Diptera9 Feb 2024
Curator/Curatorial Assistant post in Diptera at @NHM_London 🪰 Skills needed include knowledge of Diptera (preferably with calyptrates/acalyptrates), experience of specimen curation & working with museum collections 🪰 Closing date: 9am, 26th Feb 2024 careers.nhm.ac.uk/templates/…
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