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Scott Clem

@clemlab.bsky.social

Assistant Professor of Community Ecology at Illinois State University. Entomologist and lover of all things biodiversity. Enthusiast of hover flies and insect migration.

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Gwen Pearson @bug-gwen.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

I love that this medical entomology professor turned a "we found a weird bug" moment into a teaching exercise and a paper for her class. (1/2) www.udel.edu/udaily/2026/...

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The mystery of a well-traveled kissing bug | UDaily

University of Delaware study details the finding of the first known live kissing bug in Europe

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Erica McAlister @flygirlnhm.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Bats and bat-flies Last night I tagged along to collect Nycteribiids from Daubenton’s bats. Great to see these dipteran weirdoes - flies with no wings, no eyes & giving birth to live young. 😎🪰 @dipteristsforum.bsky.social @royentsoc.bsky.social

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Team Diptera 🪰🔍🦟🌻 @teamdiptera.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Is your child texting about FLIES? What acronyms are they using? 🧐 #FlyWeek

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Scott Clem @clemlab.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

The hover flies are emerging here in the Midwest! I simply love this video of Eupeodes caught on a ring camera, emailed to me by a member of the public 😂 #Syrphidae #Diptera #falsespring

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Scott Clem @clemlab.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Spring is right around the corner and the beautiful rotten smell of skunk cabbage is in the air! A fascinating local example of sapromyophily - flowers that smell stinky to attract fly (and beetle) pollinators. #diptera #pollination

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🌻OK MR. SUNSHINE!🌻 @entobiologist.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

the clem lab declares this month #flybuary starting with the tiger cranefly nephrotoma lugens!! nephrotoma can be found on all continents but is most diverse in the holoarctic, asia, and the afrotropics. larvae in the soil can sometimes damage plants. #invertebrates #sciart

traditional marker drawing of an orange and black cranefly

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Erica McAlister @flygirlnhm.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

Day 13 #InsectAdvent & have you decorated the tree yet? What about this tree? This in fact the hairy whorls of a male Chaoborid or Phantom midge’s antennae. Packed full of sensors, this ‘tree’ is more than a mere decoration @royentsoc.bsky.social @dipterists.bsky.social

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