#snowflies — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #snowflies, aggregated by home.social.
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Nice to see a major newspaper pick up entomology news:
“Snow fly in US and Canada can detach its legs to survive, research shows”
“Flies chilled to sub-zero temperatures amputate one or more of their six limbs to protect their internal organs”
Featuring @tuthill no less!
“It’s gruesome”, he says—ah the wonders of the insect world.
The paper: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.05.29.541388v1.full.pdf
By the way John; care to tell us about daddy long legs? To me that’s an opillion, a kind of spider. Not a fly!
#insects #entomology #SnowFlies #SnowFly #Diptera #CraneFlies
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Nice to see a major newspaper pick up entomology news:
“Snow fly in US and Canada can detach its legs to survive, research shows”
“Flies chilled to sub-zero temperatures amputate one or more of their six limbs to protect their internal organs”
Featuring @tuthill no less!
“It’s gruesome”, he says—ah the wonders of the insect world.
The paper: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.05.29.541388v1.full.pdf
By the way John; care to tell us about daddy long legs? To me that’s an opillion, a kind of spider. Not a fly!
#insects #entomology #SnowFlies #SnowFly #Diptera #CraneFlies