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Morgan Jackson, PhD

@bioinfocus.bsky.social

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Entomologist fascinated by flies (#Diptera), biodiversity & taxonomy. Telling the story of biodiversity, one species at a time. He/Him. Profile pic: Kerascoët

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Morgan Jackson, PhD @bioinfocus.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Well that’s disappointing, they haven’t enabled any of the insects except for the bee, plus the spider and the scorpion. The spider is really quite fun…

Emoji Kitchen mashup of the spider emoji and the shark emoji, showing a shark with multiple eyes and 8 legs sprouting from its belly. And hair? Look, it’s a mess

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Morgan Jackson, PhD @bioinfocus.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Meet the Valley Grasshopper (Oedaleonotus enigma) a species restricted in Canada to the southern Okanagan Valley in British Columbia. Last week it was listed as Endangered by COSEWIC due to significant habitat loss from human housing developments. Photo by James Miskelly (CC-BY-NC) via iNaturalist.

Grey-blue grasshopper with white mottling patterns sitting on a muddy rock.

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Morgan Jackson, PhD @bioinfocus.bsky.social · 03/05/2024

Kinglets and Butterbutts in the birch tree, Black flies dancing in the breeze, Dandelions and strawberries bloom beneath blue skies. Spring has returned to my yard.

Blue skies streaked with white whispy clouds, like a lazy paintbrush trailed from side to side

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Morgan Jackson, PhD @bioinfocus.bsky.social · 20/03/2024

If you’re at all curious about insects and want to get ready for the coming bug season, a new and totally free app is available today for Apple users! Bugdex is an extraordinarily well-designed, illustrated & animated introduction to insect biology and diversity apps.apple.com/ca/app/bugde...

Home Screen of Bugdex showing the contents of the App, including a Guide, a Bug Bestiary, a walk through of Bug Gear, and the Basics of Insect Biology

Menu screenshot showing a snippet of the insect orders included in the app, with high quality photos that cycle while you watch in app

A screenshot of the “how to identify a fly” section of Bugdex, showing how the app walks a user through the important physical characteristics to look for when identifying insect orders. A green blow fly is illustrated with its wings’ spread widely showing off

A screenshot of the guide to insect collecting gear that details what materials can be helpful for collecting and studying insects, and illustrated video guides to how you can use those tools to catch and observe insects

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Morgan Jackson, PhD @bioinfocus.bsky.social · 16/08/2023

One of our students is curating our millipedes and came across a museum det label code I’ve never seen before; does anyone have any idea what the “La iii” means? I seem to remember an old HTML webpage that had tons of these label marks translated, but I can’t find it…

Specimen vial filled with ethanol and showing a white paper determination label that reads “Lamyctes fulvicornis Mein. La iii det. E.H.Eason 1986”. The “iii” is stylized with a line separating the dots from the lines of the I’s

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