diptera

It's cool to see examples comparing the agility of a 4 winged insect compared to 2 wing/diptera.

The bacteria carried by Diptera were isolated using culture-based techniques, identified and characterized by antimicrobial susceptibility testing.

This particular species feeds on Lepidoptera mainly, but Diptera are the second group most preyed upon (45% of diet, including mosquitoes).

I hate the entire order of diptera (flies, mosquitoes, gnats), personally.

A total of 19,937 individual insects were collected with Diptera being the most abundant (73.6% of the total), followed by Hemiptera (13.9%), Hymenoptera (4.7%), Lepidoptera (2.9%), and Coleoptera (2%).

In one family in Order Diptera (flies) that I examined, less than 1/3 of the Genuses had any observations, and in one of the genuses that did have a decent number of observations, those were assigned to only 12% of the species in that genus.

> We found “strong evidence” for pain experiences in adults of two orders, Diptera (flies and mosquitoes) and Blattodea (cockroaches and termites).

Something to consider is that BTI kills many species of Diptera, not just mosquitoes.

Can you name one terrestrial ecosystem that works currently without any Diptera?.

> In multiple lineages, the substitutions A119S and A119N preceded substitutions to 111 and 122 (Hemiptera, Hymenoptera, Diptera).