Burgert Muller

Flies flies everywhere.

[NSCF_SA🇿🇦 @NSCF_SA]

✨Spotlight on Siyabonga Zamisa from @kznmuseum. He will be participating at the Emerging Leaders Workshop. Learn more about him here: https://t.co/ZR5oHj18gp

[Scott Miller @PNGmoths]

#Collections are truly priceless | Science editorial https://t.co/hRVqvfidAv #herbaria #museum

[Dr Erica McAlister @flygirlNHM]

We have a bunch of beekeepers in with @NHM_IAC (including @JaneMedwell) who’ve made my afternoon..

BRAULIDAE - iPhone images of some of the amazing SEM images (care also of @alexhydephoto) of these kleptoparasitic bee-riders

What a fabulous way to start the Weekend #flyfriday

[Burgert Muller @FlyguyZA]

European Red List of insect taxonomists - Publications Office of the EU https://t.co/qlkUDKfD4Y

[John Midgley @JohnMMidgley]

More news about the work I get up to, and I guess it shows that exploring without clear direction can still turn up interesting finds

[African Invertebrates @AI_Journal]

🇿🇦 A #newspecies of Afrotropical water snipe has been discovered in South Africa and is described in a revison of the genus Atrichops.

👉 Read more: https://t.co/l0kXUoYfgg

#taxonomy #Athericidae

[Burgert Muller @FlyguyZA]

The fly that can’t fly: entomologists make fascinating discovery in Lesotho https://t.co/bbadp9A5i6

[John Midgley @JohnMMidgley]

A great little grouo of #flies for #flyfriday, and on top of that we have another new species sonce printing the poster! But @Gen_Theron is more organized than I am. It was up at #ICDX but I forgot to take a photo. Maximizing viewership with tactical reuse!

[John Midgley @JohnMMidgley]

What do you call a fly without wings?

OK, it's got little stubby wings, but a fly that can't fly is still pretty cool!

High altitude (>3000m) habitats make for strange adaptations!

[African Invertebrates @AI_Journal]

Тhe first description of the female of Amphoterus braunsi, redescription of the males of A. braunsi and A. cribratus, and description of a #NewSpecies, A. londti: https://t.co/o8W8KF4Be4

#JasonLondtFestschrift #Diptera

[John Midgley @JohnMMidgley]

Spending #flyfriday at the National Museum in Bloemfontein with @FlyguyZA working through a few 1000 flies from Lesotho. With a bit of special focus on the Atherimorpha latipennis (Rhagionidae), busy describing the female for the first time.

#diptera #flies #fly

[John Midgley @JohnMMidgley]

Slightly early for #flyfriday, but having just finished fieldwork for the austral summer, it feels appropriate. oNgoye forest in KZN, where we turned up the first Myolepta for RSA and the first female Mesembrius ingratus ever. A great end!

Thanks to all who helped this year!

[Science girl @sciencegirl]

The genesis of life. Watch this salamander grow from a single cell to a complete complex organism with a beating heart. This process was over 3 weeks

📹 van IJken
https://t.co/W7GG6CA0Au

[John Midgley @JohnMMidgley]

DIPTATEACH 2022 is winding down, we spent the day finishing identifications, but managed to sneak out and enjoy the winter sunshine as well.

#flies #diptera
@NRF_News @belspo @kznmuseum @africamuseumbe

[John Midgley @JohnMMidgley]

After lots of fun in the field, today was mainly spent identifying #flies using the Manual of Afrotropical #Diptera family key. We have lots of specimens from the @kznmuseum and @africamuseumbe collections to add to what was collected yesterday!
@NRF_News @belspo

[John Midgley @JohnMMidgley]

Busy training 12 early career entomologists to ID flies (particularly pollinating families) in KZN, 🇿🇦. Ten days of collecting, pinning and identification. Part of the DIPTATEACH project, a collab between @kznmuseum @africamuseumbe and @MuseumAlbany, funded by @NRF_News & @belspo

[African Invertebrates @AI_Journal]

🎂This time next year, we'll be celebrating the 80th birthday of renowned #entomologist & former Director of the KwaZulu-Natal Museum (@kznmuseum): Dr Jason Londt with a Festschrift at our journal!
Welcome to make your contribution!
#Entomology #Diptera
ℹ️ https://t.co/gXlQAgc5Z2

[Burgert Muller @FlyguyZA]

@Zaffageek It makes my gpu cry.

[Dipterists Society @dipterists]

Hot off the press, volume 3 of the Manual of Afrotropical Diptera! Ashley Kirk-Spriggs just reported that it was delivered to their publishers today! Congratulations to Ash, and to all the authors and contributors on such an epic work!
Can’t wait to get a copy of our own!#diptera

[Burgert Muller @FlyguyZA]

@MysticPotatoZA @azjenco I think it's sequel should be called Venom.