Albert Cardona · @albertcardona
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Also at The Atlantic by the hand of no less than the legendary Ed Yong!
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2023/05/snow-flies-insects-glaciers/674240/
Freeze-tolerant flies that shed legs as a last-ditch effort to survive when these freeze. The hottest topic of the moment.
#diptera #insects #entomology #snowflies #snowfly
Albert Cardona · @albertcardona
1810 followers · 2737 posts · Server mathstodon.xyzNice 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”
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!
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Hitech Guru · @hitechguru
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