Tag Archives: Tachinidae

It’s not just what’s in the field, it’s what’s around it

I have taken a long hiatus from posting any news or other items on here (for no particularly good reason) and I thought I might try to do some catching up on news from the lab. In the next several … Continue reading

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Phylogeny of the Tachinidae World Tour, Part 1: South Africa

One of the major pursuits in the Stireman lab right now is to assemble and analyze a phylogeny of Tachinidae of the world. If you know what tachinid flies are (i.e., awesomely diverse parasitoid flies, again I refer you to … Continue reading

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Tachinid flies and the final frontier…

Forest canopies are often referred to as one of the “final frontiers” of biodiversity exploration. We know astonishingly little about what organisms and ecological interactions occur in forest canopies, primarily due to the difficulty in sampling and studying them. In … Continue reading

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