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Teagan Mulford
@teaganmulford.bsky.social
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🪰PhD student at NAU, studying Asilidae! Generally obsessed with flies, sexual selection, insect systematics and taxonomy, and natural history collections!
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teamdiptera.bsky.social
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
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.
November 6, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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teamdiptera.bsky.social
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
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
October 31, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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This year for Halloween, to no one's surprise, I decided to rep #TeamDiptera and be a fly!
A woman standing in a fly onesie, complete with wings and large red eyes
November 1, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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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
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"
September 18, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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September 11, 2025 at 4:53 AM
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🦗 🦟 🦗 🦟 🦗 🦟 🦗

#bugs #insects #entomology #bugsky
i'm a bug
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August 11, 2025 at 12:21 AM
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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
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.
May 7, 2025 at 1:44 AM
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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
May 6, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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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
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
May 7, 2025 at 1:23 AM
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teamdiptera.bsky.social
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 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)
May 1, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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One of the things that I love most about flies is their abundant diversity! Check out this Cecidomyidae! 😎 #FlyWeek
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!"
May 1, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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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 piece of collage art, with the words "Flies are voluptuous" in the center, surrounded by cut out flies and fly stickers.
May 1, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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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
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!
May 1, 2025 at 3:36 AM
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For #WorldRobberFlyDay here's an edit I made showcasing how cool these flies are 😎
April 30, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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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.
April 24, 2025 at 12:23 AM
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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...
April 16, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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“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...
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.
theconversation.com
April 14, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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I am so pumped to show off all my fly memorabilia during Fly Week! 😎 (pun intended)
April 15, 2025 at 4:23 AM
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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
April 6, 2025 at 11:49 AM
teaganmulford.bsky.social
Sometimes when I get tired of staring at my computer screen, I stare at Flick instead. Anyone else have monitor friends?
A standee of Flick, a red chameleon from Animal Crossing, holding a Hercules beetle and bug net.
March 28, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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#taxonomistappreciationDay is today.. and we have not migrated the graphic! So here it is!
pun with file cabinet showing different organisms "filed"
March 19, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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friendly reminder!
watercolor of a cat in front of a desktop computer giving a thumbs up. Text above reads "YOU GOT THIS!"
March 7, 2025 at 1:49 AM
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savewildbees.bsky.social Sheila Colla, Ph.D @savewildbees.bsky.social · Mar 3
Happy #WorldWildlifeDay. A friendly reminder that livestock cannot replace native biodiversity, despite what you may have heard.
March 5, 2025 at 2:33 AM
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lenahallesaale.bsky.social Katrin Lena Schneider @lenahallesaale.bsky.social · Feb 28
Schwarzer Wollschweber,(Bombylius ater) Black Bee Fly
#flyfriday
A fly is seen from above, it is sitting on a green leaf. The fly has a black haired body, with little white patches on the abdomen. Its eyes are dark brownred and its wings are transparent with a dark shadow.
February 28, 2025 at 7:24 AM