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Teagan Mulford @teaganmulford.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

The Laphria with a noise maker is, hands-down, one of my greatest creations ✨

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Team Diptera 🪰🔍🦟🌻 @teamdiptera.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Oh no! Batman is covered in ectoparasites! Check out those bat flies! 🦇🪰 #FlyWeek

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Teagan Mulford @teaganmulford.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

I promise I was lurking over on the @teamdiptera.bsky.social account this Fly Week! Here is my meager offering to the Asilidae- some of the lovely robber fly I've been given, and one piece I've made💕🪰 #FlyWeek (besides all the memes which you should totally check out!)

A linocut print of a robber fly (Ceraturgus?), gifted

A lovely Holcocephala fusca, tattooed on my arm!

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Team Diptera 🪰🔍🦟🌻 @teamdiptera.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

Here is some of the insect flash on offer from @ladylucktattoopdx in Portland, OR by @summerhatfieldart! If you’re going to ESA 2025 book an appointment now to get some ink! See more at tinyurl.com/bugluck @entsocamerica.bsky.social #insect #insecttattoo #entsoc2025 #esa #portland #teamdiptera

Entomology themed flash, featuring a robber fly, vinegaroon, rolly polly, fairy moth, rat flea, batfly, and Ironclad beetle. All stylized in black and white with red accents.

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Team Diptera 🪰🔍🦟🌻 @teamdiptera.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

Ready for some BUG INK at #EntSoc2025? See flash designs here tinyurl.com/bugluck and contact Lady Luck or the tagged artist on flash for bookings! Tag pics of your ink to share! #teamdiptera

Bug Tattoos poster! Brought to you by @teamdiptera and @ladylucktattooPDX

See flash designs here tinyurl.com/bugluck
Contact lady luck or tagged artist on flash for bookings
Designs start at 100

Lady Luck Tattoo
613 SE Morrison St, Portland OR 97214 (503)236-2833, portlandladyluck@gmail.com

Tag pics of your ink to share! #teamdiptera

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Teagan Mulford @teaganmulford.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

This year for Halloween, to no one's surprise, I decided to rep #TeamDiptera and be a fly!

A woman standing in a fly onesie, complete with wings and large red eyes

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Teagan Mulford @teaganmulford.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

Tired of doom scrolling? Want to help a PhD student out? Check your collection for Promachus (and friends) and I'll be forever indebted! If you need an excuse to get outside and go collecting this weekend, this is it! #Asilidae #Diptera

A poster saying "Wanted: Robber flies, Promachus and Allies. Wanted: freshly caught specimens of Promachus or other large robber flies for DNA extraction. Contact Teagan Mulford at teaganmulford@gmail.com with any questions or leads. Thank you! PC: Steve Collins"

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Matt Bertone @bertonemyia.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

For the final night of #FlyWeek, just some cool-ass #flies. moth fly #Psychodidae: #Setomima aulacigastrid fly #Aulacigastridae mating thick-headed flies #Conopidae: #Myopa horse fly #Tabanidae: #Chlorotabanus

A mall, fluffy moth like fly sitting on a leaf. Its thorax is hairy grey with black wings and a few small patches of iridescent pale blue scales.

A small black fly sits on the bark of a tree facing down. Its eyes and face are mesmerizing with a pari of digital looking lines running across each eye.

Flies mating on a leaf. They have a large white face and jowls and small maroon eyes. The male is on top and is gently holding her eyes.

A thick yellow green fly with large maroon eyes rests on the underside of a thin leaf.

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Allan Cabrero, Ph. D. @ento-allan.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Happy World Bee Fly Day! Here is one of the most colorful bee flies I’ve encountered, Zinnomyia brincki. Collected in Namibia. #FlyWeek #WorldBeeFlyDay #TeamDiptera

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Teagan Mulford @teaganmulford.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Happy World Bee Fly Day! I'll take any chance to show off these cuties we found hiding out in the Creosote during a rain storm at Beaver Dam Wash in UT! Lordotus and lots of Anastoechus (iirc). #FlyWeek #Fliesarecool #WorldBeeFlyDay

Anastoechus sp, bee flies sitting in the rain

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Team Diptera 🪰🔍🦟🌻 @teamdiptera.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Did you know some flies are attracted to smoke? If you love flies and you haven't swiped a net through campfire smoke, we really recommend it! #FlyWeek #FliesAreCool

An image showing images of someone swiping their net through smoke, and 2 flat-footed flies in the genus Microsania, with one having a cigarette in it's mouth, with text that says "Flat-footed flies in the genus Microsania are attracted to smoke!" (figure from Michal Tkoc et al. 2020)

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Team Diptera 🪰🔍🦟🌻 @teamdiptera.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

One of the things that I love most about flies is their abundant diversity! Check out this Cecidomyidae! 😎 #FlyWeek

An image of a Cecidomyidae with sunglasses on, with text reading "this fly may belong to the most speciose family in the animal kingdom! Several DNA metabarcoding studies have recovered remarkable diversity in the Cecidomyidae, hinting at over 1 million species yet to be described!"

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Teagan Mulford @teaganmulford.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

In honor of #FlyWeek here's a piece of collage art I made, highlighting some wise words from Dr. Riley Nelson, who taught me to love flies 🪰❤️ Thanks Riley!

A piece of collage art, with the words "Flies are voluptuous" in the center, surrounded by cut out flies and fly stickers.

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Teagan Mulford @teaganmulford.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

For #WorldRobberFlyDay I'd like to show off some of the cool robber fly merch I've gotten from some super talented artists! The plush Proctacanthus is definitely one of my favorites, so she gets to sit on some of my favorite fly books! 😍 #FlyWeek #entomologistsareeasytogetgiftsfor

A collage of robber fly art/crafts. From left to right, a stamp of a Proctacanthus, a clay robber fly, a stuffed Proctacanthus, a lino print of a robber fly, and a painted panel of (what I think to be) a Machimus!

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Teagan Mulford @teaganmulford.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

For #WorldRobberFlyDay here's an edit I made showcasing how cool these flies are 😎

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Walz: If you say you love freedom but you don't believe freedom is for everybody, then the thing you love is not freedom, it is privilege.

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Andrew Mountcastle @mounty.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

5/ Some wings have evolved strategies to help reduce damage resulting from collisions. For example, we learned a few years ago that wasp wings have a flexible joint that acts like a reversible crumple zone, allowing the wing tip to easily bend out of the way when it hits things...

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Rich Grenyer @grenyer.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

“It’s like claiming to have brought Napoleon back from the dead by asking a short French man to wear his hat.” A short piece in The Conversation by me on why “de-extinction” is nothing of the sort, and bad, bad conservation. theconversation.com/why-de-extin...

theconversation.com

Why ‘de-extinct’ dire wolves are a Trojan horse to hide humanity’s destruction of nature

Extinction is, for the time being, forever – and a symptom of our global economic system.

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Teagan Mulford @teaganmulford.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

I am so pumped to show off all my fly memorabilia during Fly Week! 😎 (pun intended)

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Armando Rosario-Lebrón @rosariolebronentomology.com · 06/04/2025

We are risking plunging the United States into a dark age of entomology next week. USDA programs are facing massive lay-offs next week and the public should be aware of the impact. If you care about food systems, forests, invasive species, this thread is for you. Read Below: 🧪 #entomology #science

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Teagan Mulford @teaganmulford.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Sometimes when I get tired of staring at my computer screen, I stare at Flick instead. Anyone else have monitor friends?

A standee of Flick, a red chameleon from Animal Crossing, holding a Hercules beetle and bug net.

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Chris Mah @echinoblog.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

#taxonomistappreciationDay is today.. and we have not migrated the graphic! So here it is!

pun with file cabinet showing different organisms "filed"

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Gwen!!! @poodlewool.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

friendly reminder!

watercolor of a cat in front of a desktop computer giving a thumbs up. Text above reads "YOU GOT THIS!"

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Becca Clement, PhD @drbeccasbugs.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Eight months ago, I packed up my life and moved across the country for a job with USDA. After seven years of study and training, I was excited to use the skills I had developed—and excited to serve my country in a way that mattered—protecting our nation’s food crops from insect pests. (1)

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME Congress didn’t pass a law requiring NIH-funded trials to include women until 1993. Drug trials with government funding only started including women in the NINETIES And that’s only drug trials! And not ones with private funding! Health research FAMOUSLY excludes women.

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Soldierflies and Allies Recording Scheme @uk-soldierflies.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Tension rises as we await the 1st #BeeFlyWatch sighting of 2025! Judging by the weather where I am at the moment it's going to be a while yet ... but as soon as you do start seeing bee-flies please get a photo & add a record - full details + ID guides available at dipterists.org.uk/bee-fly-watch

dipterists.org.uk

Bee-fly Watch | Dipterists forum

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Joanna Bagniewska @joannabagniewska.com · 12/02/2025

Let's celebrate #DarwinDay by reminding ourselves that everyone has moments when they feel worse for wear. Darwin wrote to Charles Lyell in 1861: "But I am very poorly today & very stupid & hate everybody & everything." www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/DCP-L... So, hang in there, #academicsky! 🧪

Darwin wrote:
"But I am very poorly today & very stupid & hate everybody & everything."

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Teagan Mulford @teaganmulford.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

I made some FLY Valentines, if I do say so myself!

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Trinity Walls @feelinginspidered.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

So, a lab member caught a jumping spider. Adorable. Then, we realized the spider had been parasitized. Spider dies and we get this chunky fly. So, as scientists, we ask the obvious question... Which is cuter, host or parasite? My lab is split. I am team spider!!! #Spider #Ecology #Bugsky #Lablife

Life cycle of a hunchback fly that parasitizes spiders.
Credit: Thomas Cassar

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Somewhere between these two, my spirit lies.

Nigel thornberry throws his hands into the air, in a "can you believe this beautiful world" way

Miss Frizzle throws her hands into the air, sitting in the drivers seat on the magic schoolbus, with liz the jackson's chameleon on her lap

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

It feels like there's a program running in the background of my human CPU that's draining the battery and I can't force quit it.

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Isopod Fan Account @bedupolker.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

The people have spoken, heres more wheelbug

An anatomically realistic wheel bug on a penny wheel bike. The bug has prominent wheel shaped spines on it's back and a little bowler hat.

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Teagan Mulford @teaganmulford.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Make this year the year of the fly!! 🪰

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💖 max, local garbage boy stink man 💖 @freckledcryptid.bsky.social · 06/11/2024

I'm at a loss for words. When it comes to times like these, I think of this quote. Keep doing good and supporting your community, y'all. 🫂

A tweet from Justin McElroy: "I'm gonna wake up and keep trying to do good and so are you and nobody gets to vote on that."

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Teagan Mulford @teaganmulford.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

May I present: the Flyble! Decorated by my wonderful husband, it's where I put all my most used print outs and physical copies of keys 🪰

The spine of a binder, reading The Flyble in cut out letters

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Team Diptera 🪰🔍🦟🌻 @teamdiptera.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Let me introduce ourselves, Team Diptera is a group of students, researchers and enthusiasts who got together with the intent to tell the world about how wonderful flies are! Our goals are to promote the diversity and importance of flies through science, art and general education!

A hand holding a white bee fly on it's thumb

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Grobian Syboe @grobiansyboe.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

I am learning more about the world now, thanks to my antennae and proboscis

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Michelle Bos @bugstorm.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

Bought myself this sticker for my laptop and I love it so much #wasps #parasitoid 😂 www.etsy.com/shop/ThatWas...

Cartoon drawing of caterpillar and parasitic wasp cocoons

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Teagan Mulford @teaganmulford.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

My favorite part of winter break is that any work I do feels so much more substantial, because no one is "expecting" it! And, I get to hang out with the best cat in the world!

A grey cat, laying on a sofa, staring at the camera

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Matt Bertone @bertonemyia.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Fly-on-Fly-Fffffffriday! A desert robber #fly caught a #midge & rested patiently while I took MANY pics. Always a neat scene, though I wouldn't want to be that prey getting venom pumped into my neck and digested 😬 Phoenix, AZ, USA (November) #Asilidae #Chironomidae #absoluteflyolence

a small silver gray robber fly perching on a twig grasping and feeding on a midge that it has jabbed in the neck. blue background

a small silver gray robber fly perching on a twig grasping and feeding on a midge that it has jabbed in the neck. anterior left side view

a small silver gray robber fly perching on a twig grasping and feeding on a midge that it has jabbed in the neck. showing the faces

a small silver gray robber fly perching on a twig grasping and feeding on a midge that it has jabbed in the neck. lateral view

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