March 31st - Midges galore!

Heyo, fly folk!

This week, we will be transitioning to our new format, as proposed and accepted by the regulars of the group last Sunday: Once a month (or so), we will have regular Zoom workshops, like this one. In the future, these Zoom meetings will ONLY BE ANNOUNCED THROUGH THE EMAIL LIST, so sign up now if you aren't already! In other weeks, I will post a journal with an identifying goal for you or something that I think you should think about.

Our meeting this week is also the beginning of a series on Chironomidae, sparked by some rigorous identifying work that @zoology123, @mabuva2021, and I have been doing. We will be identifying members of the genus Axarus in the Chironominae, beginning with an overview of the common subfamilies and then looking at diagnoses for this genus and its members. We hope to see you there!

Date & Time: 8 PM EDT on Sunday, March 31st.

Join here: Meeting Link

Meeting ID: 874 5687 3015

Passcode: diptera

Resource: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1dpFfbNdqFitqgefpTKceMofwf8rDXsX5/edit#slide=id.p5

Identify Link we will use: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/identify?order_by=random&place_id=1,6712&taxon_id=247591&lrank=genus