#snowfly — Public Fediverse posts

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”

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jun/02/snow-fly-in-us-and-canada-can-detach-its-legs-to-survive-research-shows

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

Allow #myself to #introduction #myself.

I am a #basic neuroscientist and Associate Professor at the University of Washington, where my lab studies how the brain senses and moves the body (#proprioception #motorcontrol).

I will mainly be tooting about the #research and accomplishments of the scientists in my lab, new and old #neuroscience papers that incite me, and efforts to improve the rigor and equity of science. I may slip in the occasional #snowfly pic.

I hope to use #ScienceMastodon for discovering new scientific #manna and for unexpected interactions with #Scientists and #PseudoScientists alike.

If you happen to find a snow fly (Chionea sp.) this winter there's a research team at the University of Washington that would very much like to receive it, ideally alive. The project website also has a great primer on the genus. #Diptera #Tipulidae #SnowFly #entomology

https://depts.washington.edu/snowflyproject/