Chalcidoid wasps are fundamental to ecosystem dynamics and agriculture, and include many parasitoids of plant-feeding bugs. John Noyes' latest tremendous volume on Costa Rican species now freely available with 254 new species in 21 new genera www.nhm.ac.uk/our-science/our-work/biodiversity/taxonomic-monographs-on-neotropical-hymenoptera.html

We're looking for a new head of our molecular labs at the NHM in London! https://careers.nhm.ac.uk/templates/CIPHR/jobdetail_2870.aspx #Museums #Genomics #Jobs

236 pieces of plastic from one Flesh-footed Shearwater chick found dead in the colony on Lord Howe Island. Sadly, not the record. #LHIadventure

Reptile style - evolution and diversity of swimming in marine ichthyosaurs, plesiosaurs and others from Susana Gutarra @nhmscience & al https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/pala.12645

Imaging the Rhino bot fly (amongst others today). Arguably one of the most endangered species on the planet but ignored by most! A striking fly that’s really quite large! What a fabulous creature

@nhmscience #collections #flies #diptera #botflies #digitisation #imaging

NEW PAPER! In @AvianAce shows Leach's Storm-petrels on Gull Island, Newfoundland declined by 6% per yr and gulls ate 118,000–143,000 Leach’s Storm-petrels in 2012 alone! Highlights the complexity of managing declining predator AND prey species https://ace-eco.org/vol18/iss1/art5/ #ornithology

BBSRC Fellowship Scheme is open! If anyone wants to turn their skills towards plastics & wildlife (methods, pathology, disease) get in touch! Maybe building off our recent paper on #plasticosis (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0304389423003722) #PlasticPollution #postdocjobs

https://www.ukri.org/opportunity/bbsrc-discovery-fellowships-2023/

Some great books about flies for #FlyFriday!

Flies: The Natural History and Diversity of Diptera, by Stephen A. Marshall https://www.fireflybooks.com/catalogue/adult-books/nature-and-science/insects/product/10637-flies-the-natural-history-and-diversity-of-diptera

Field Guide to the Flower Flies of Northeastern North America
Jeffrey H. Skevington, et al.
https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691189406/field-guide-to-the-flower-flies-of-northeastern-north-america

The Secret Life of Flies, by Erica McAlister ( @flygirlNHM )
https://www.fireflybooks.com/index.php/catalogue/product/11384-the-secret-life-of-flies

The Inside Out of Flies, by Erica McAlister
https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-inside-out-of-flies-erica-mcalister/14507633?ean=9780228102878

#fly #flies #diptera #insects #arthropods #nature

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Coverage of our latest @AdriftLab #PlasticPollution paper in The Guardian #ornithology #plasticosis https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/mar/03/plasticosis-new-disease-caused-by-plastics-discovered-in-seabirds

Oh for the love of #flies it’s #TaxonomyTuesday

These amazing females are Clitelloxenia assmuthi & these #Phorids are termitophilous - they live with, & some feed on, termites

This is one of the 190 recorded termitophilous & other termite-associated Phorids - one of the most ecologically diverse family of animals on the planet!

@nhmscience #collection

Plasticosis - the impacts of plastics on seabirds - new research from Alex Bond @TheLabAndField & @AdriftLab featured in the Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/mar/03/plasticosis-new-disease-caused-by-plastics-discovered-in-seabirds and the original paper https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0304389423003722

the Natural History Museum is part of the European #DiSSCo initiative: linking digitised natural science collections to create a large scientific infrastructure. An essential part of this is to link UK natural science collections in museums and other partners as DiSSCo_UK. We have created a video as an introduction https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPM7_nwhfp0