biodiversity researcher - discovering fly species - deciphering their evolutionary history - natural history collections + digitization + data - #asiloidflies - deserts - photography - views mine
ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4816-2909
Torsten Dikow
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Pinned Insect Digitization Conveyor at Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History explained - how to digitize 325,000+ pollinating insect specimens fast, safely, and in high quality
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specimen data are being transcribed from label photos + added to records - photos will become CC0/public domain for everyone to use for biodiversity research
photos also making their way to @gbif.org - see www.gbif.org/occurrence/6...
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slowly but surely, specimen photos are becoming publicly available - Syrphidae 2,561 specimens with photos, Conopidae with 1,869, Bombyliidae with 6,499 today
explore them at collections.nmnh.si.edu/search/ento/
add family or genus
add "Skeletal record created as part of USNM-MDPP-POL project" in record status at bottom
search
such as USNMENT02161625 n2t.net/ark:/65665/3...
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Exciting mass digitization project at Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History | >325,000 pinned specimens of pollinating insects are being digitized on a conveyor system developed by Picturae
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How many adult pygmy backswimmers can dance on the head of a(n insect) pin?
Apparently just one, but look how adorable it is!
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Interesting new tool to extract phylogenies from images (Tremble). It is crazy that this is still something we have to do. doi.org/10.1093/bioi...
574 likes, 24 comments - smithsonian on May 28, 2026: "One in every three bites of food you eat depends on pollinators! 🪲
Heard the buzz? Our @SmithsonianNMNH and Smithsonian Digitization Program O...
This is very preliminary, but this is an overview of every species in the Open Tree of Life, colour coded by whether their position in the tree is based on taxonomy only (dark colour) or includes phylogenetic information (blue). Phylogenetic coverage is sparse, mostly plants and vertebrates.
Teneral Physocephala rufipes ♂ found today on flowerbed wall in Bengeo garden, fascinating then to watch it change to its full adult colour over next hour.
P.rufipes is most wasp-like of conopid parasitoid flies. @flygirlnhm.bsky.social
Torsten Dikow
Torsten Dikow
Torsten Dikow
Torsten Dikow
Torsten Dikow
AbstractSummary. Phylogenetic trees are ubiquitous and central to biology, but most published trees are available only as visual diagrams and not in the ma
