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Posted on 09-10-2009 21:12
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Just goes to prove that some people have much too much spare time on their hands Wink
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Anyway,

here is the real classic (as in Fly-Times 41):


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so long,
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Jere, I'm very impressed!
I even checked that both flies on picture N2 are really males.
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"100 things to do with a dead clusterfly". Thanks, Kahis.
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I passed it on to my friends on Facebook, and they passed it on again. Then I found about a dozen lnks to it on twitter yesterday, so it si very popular now. Pfft
 
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Another classic piece of artwork is Lewis Trondheim's comic-strip "La Mouche". Highly recommendable!
 
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14.05.13 09:30
A partial catalogue of types @ MZH (Zool. Mus. Helsinki) by yours truly Smile http://www.luomus.
fi/elaintiede/hyon
teiset/tyypit/dipt
eratypes.html

04.05.13 11:19
OK, Paul! Smile

03.05.13 22:20
@milos: I need to check. Perhaps I have.

02.05.13 11:25
Thank you for your quick reply Smile

02.05.13 08:59
does anyone have Agromyzidae from Afrotropical region please

30.04.13 16:38
schulterbeulen = humeri kreutzborsten = crossed bristles

30.04.13 16:30
can anyone translate the german words schulterbeulen and kreutzborsten please? Wink

17.04.13 11:04
Anyone knows right away how many species of Diptera there are in Europe? Thanks.

14.04.13 23:28
Smile ok, Johanna!

14.04.13 23:27
Grin...what you prefer, we can discus this, during some good wine, cheese and many new pinned flies!

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