Tag Archives: flies
FLIES ON A CRAB
September 2007 Essay from Current Biology about the varied lives of flies – including the three species that live in land crabs…
Filed under Ecology (scientific), Insects
AWESOME FLY FACT
March 2007 Let’s say I killed 52 flies when I was in France, 11 years ago. What would have happened to those flies if I hadn’t been around? At 12 generations a year, let’s suppose that 132 generations would have been born, … Continue reading
Filed under Insects
BEHAVIOURAL ECOLOGY MEETS NEUROBIOLOGY
March 2007 Article from PLoS (open access, by definition) explaining that there is a trade-off between performance and energetic costs in electrical signals recorded from single photoreceptors in different fly species. Big blowflies can transmit more information than tiny Drosophila, but their photoreceptors use … Continue reading
