Teagan Mulford

Entomology themed flash, featuring a robber fly, vinegaroon, rolly polly, fairy moth, rat flea, batfly, and Ironclad beetle. All stylized in black and white with red accents.

Here is some of the insect flash on offer from @ladylucktattoopdx in Portland, OR by @summerhatfieldart! If you’re going to ESA 2025 book an appointment now to get some ink! See more at tinyurl.com/bugluck
@entsocamerica.bsky.social #insect #insecttattoo #entsoc2025 #esa #portland #teamdiptera

Bug Tattoos poster! Brought to you by @teamdiptera and @ladylucktattooPDX See flash designs here tinyurl.com/bugluck Contact lady luck or tagged artist on flash for bookings Designs start at 100 Lady Luck Tattoo 613 SE Morrison St, Portland OR 97214 (503)236-2833, portlandladyluck@gmail.com Tag pics of your ink to share! #teamdiptera

Ready for some BUG INK at #EntSoc2025?

See flash designs here tinyurl.com/bugluck and contact Lady Luck or the tagged artist on flash for bookings!

Tag pics of your ink to share! #teamdiptera

A woman standing in a fly onesie, complete with wings and large red eyes

This year for Halloween, to no one's surprise, I decided to rep #TeamDiptera and be a fly!

Is that a Promachus that I spot??? 😍

Alas, not that I'm aware of. Good luck in your search though!

Within the past 20 years! Ethanol stored is great, but I can get decent numbers from pinned specimens too ✨🪰

A poster saying "Wanted: Robber flies, Promachus and Allies. Wanted: freshly caught specimens of Promachus or other large robber flies for DNA extraction. Contact Teagan Mulford at teaganmulford@gmail.com with any questions or leads. Thank you! PC: Steve Collins"

Tired of doom scrolling? Want to help a PhD student out? Check your collection for Promachus (and friends) and I'll be forever indebted! If you need an excuse to get outside and go collecting this weekend, this is it! #Asilidae #Diptera

YouTube video by Piemations i'm a bug

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#bugs #insects #entomology #bugsky

Belgica antarctica - Wikipedia

Flies also are really diverse, and many are extremophiles, meaning they might be the only insect you notice closer to the poles. Specifically in Antarctica, the only insect that can survive year-round is a flightless midge! en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belgica... 🪰💕

A comprehensive review of long‐distance hover fly migration (Diptera: Syrphidae) This review summarises and synthesises 150+ years of global hover fly (Syrphidae) migration research to better understand the evidence of, mechanisms for and associated ecological and economic impac.....

Hm, then I'm not sure, but if it's seasonal, it could be migration: resjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Hilltopping (biology) - Wikipedia

High latitudes, like geographically, or like along elevation? If it's among elevational gradients, it could be a behavior called Hilltopping, which is this cool thing that many animals, but especially flies do! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilltop...

www.uoguelph.ca/nadsfly/Tach...

A mall, fluffy moth like fly sitting on a leaf. Its thorax is hairy grey with black wings and a few small patches of iridescent pale blue scales.

A small black fly sits on the bark of a tree facing down. Its eyes and face are mesmerizing with a pari of digital looking lines running across each eye.

Flies mating on a leaf. They have a large white face and jowls and small maroon eyes. The male is on top and is gently holding her eyes.

A thick yellow green fly with large maroon eyes rests on the underside of a thin leaf.

For the final night of #FlyWeek, just some cool-ass #flies.

moth fly #Psychodidae: #Setomima
aulacigastrid fly #Aulacigastridae
mating thick-headed flies #Conopidae: #Myopa
horse fly #Tabanidae: #Chlorotabanus

Happy World Bee Fly Day! Here is one of the most colorful bee flies I’ve encountered, Zinnomyia brincki. Collected in Namibia.

#FlyWeek #WorldBeeFlyDay #TeamDiptera

Anastoechus sp, bee flies sitting in the rain

A bee fly sitting in a hand

A bee fly on a woman's nose

Lordotus sp. Sitting on a creosote bush

Happy World Bee Fly Day! I'll take any chance to show off these cuties we found hiding out in the Creosote during a rain storm at Beaver Dam Wash in UT! Lordotus and lots of Anastoechus (iirc). #FlyWeek #Fliesarecool #WorldBeeFlyDay

An image showing images of someone swiping their net through smoke, and 2 flat-footed flies in the genus Microsania, with one having a cigarette in it's mouth, with text that says "Flat-footed flies in the genus Microsania are attracted to smoke!" (figure from Michal Tkoc et al. 2020)

Did you know some flies are attracted to smoke? If you love flies and you haven't swiped a net through campfire smoke, we really recommend it! #FlyWeek #FliesAreCool

An image of a Cecidomyidae with sunglasses on, with text reading "this fly may belong to the most speciose family in the animal kingdom! Several DNA metabarcoding studies have recovered remarkable diversity in the Cecidomyidae, hinting at over 1 million species yet to be described!"

One of the things that I love most about flies is their abundant diversity! Check out this Cecidomyidae! 😎 #FlyWeek

A piece of collage art, with the words "Flies are voluptuous" in the center, surrounded by cut out flies and fly stickers.

In honor of #FlyWeek here's a piece of collage art I made, highlighting some wise words from Dr. Riley Nelson, who taught me to love flies 🪰❤️ Thanks Riley!

A collage of robber fly art/crafts. From left to right, a stamp of a Proctacanthus, a clay robber fly, a stuffed Proctacanthus, a lino print of a robber fly, and a painted panel of (what I think to be) a Machimus!

For #WorldRobberFlyDay I'd like to show off some of the cool robber fly merch I've gotten from some super talented artists! The plush Proctacanthus is definitely one of my favorites, so she gets to sit on some of my favorite fly books! 😍 #FlyWeek #entomologistsareeasytogetgiftsfor

Two robbers (😍) and what looks to be an unlucky syrphid (💀)!

I'm sure most of my bullying comes from all the times their heads have just popped off while I'm trying to point them 😅

For #WorldRobberFlyDay here's an edit I made showcasing how cool these flies are 😎

Walz: If you say you love freedom but you don't believe freedom is for everybody, then the thing you love is not freedom, it is privilege.

5/ Some wings have evolved strategies to help reduce damage resulting from collisions. For example, we learned a few years ago that wasp wings have a flexible joint that acts like a reversible crumple zone, allowing the wing tip to easily bend out of the way when it hits things...

Why ‘de-extinct’ dire wolves are a Trojan horse to hide humanity’s destruction of nature Extinction is, for the time being, forever – and a symptom of our global economic system.

“It’s like claiming to have brought Napoleon back from the dead by asking a short French man to wear his hat.”

A short piece in The Conversation by me on why “de-extinction” is nothing of the sort, and bad, bad conservation.

theconversation.com/why-de-extin...

I am so pumped to show off all my fly memorabilia during Fly Week! 😎 (pun intended)

We are risking plunging the United States into a dark age of entomology next week. USDA programs are facing massive lay-offs next week and the public should be aware of the impact. If you care about food systems, forests, invasive species, this thread is for you. Read Below: 🧪 #entomology #science

A standee of Flick, a red chameleon from Animal Crossing, holding a Hercules beetle and bug net.

Sometimes when I get tired of staring at my computer screen, I stare at Flick instead. Anyone else have monitor friends?

pun with file cabinet showing different organisms "filed"

#taxonomistappreciationDay is today.. and we have not migrated the graphic! So here it is!