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		<title>I&#8217;m Dreaming of A #BlackFlyDay</title>
		<link>http://www.biodiversityinfocus.com/blog/2015/11/27/im-dreaming-of-a-blackflyday/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2015 14:00:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Morgan Jackson]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[American Thanksgiving not only marks the beginning of left-over turkey sandwich season, but has also come to represent the official start of the Holiday Season™. Traditionally rung in with the rampant purchasing of sale-priced items, the beginning of Holiday Season™ is now celebrated instead with Black Fly Day. This year, in preparation for ugly sweater parties <a href='http://www.biodiversityinfocus.com/blog/2015/11/27/im-dreaming-of-a-blackflyday/' class='excerpt-more'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Black Fly Day? How about Cyto Monday!</title>
		<link>http://www.biodiversityinfocus.com/blog/2014/11/28/black-fly-day-how-about-cyto-monday/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Nov 2014 07:14:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Morgan Jackson]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When identifying insects, the further you want to identify them, generally the smaller the morphological characteristics you need to look for are. For instance, to recognize the taxonomic order Diptera, you need only count the number of pairs of wings an insect has (usually&#8230;), but to identify a fly to species, you may need to <a href='http://www.biodiversityinfocus.com/blog/2014/11/28/black-fly-day-how-about-cyto-monday/' class='excerpt-more'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Mammoths of the South Pacific: Did Humans Drive A New Species of Black Fly to Extinction? #BlackFlyDay</title>
		<link>http://www.biodiversityinfocus.com/blog/2013/11/29/mammoths-of-the-cook-islands/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Nov 2013 20:14:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Morgan Jackson]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On the island of Raivavae, one of the Austral Islands in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, buried deep beneath the surface of a swamp in mud accumulated at the foot of a stream for thousands of years, scientists have found all that remains of a unique new species of Black Fly (Simuliidae): larval head <a href='http://www.biodiversityinfocus.com/blog/2013/11/29/mammoths-of-the-cook-islands/' class='excerpt-more'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Black fly larvae live in running water, not you</title>
		<link>http://www.biodiversityinfocus.com/blog/2013/03/10/black-fly-larvae-live-in-running-water-not-you/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Mar 2013 23:56:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Morgan Jackson]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear io9, I appreciate all the work you do to bring science news to a large and enthusiastic audience, and I&#8217;m a frequent reader myself, but as they say, with great power comes great responsibility. Unfortunately in a recent post one of your authors blew it in a big way. In &#8220;Too many fly bites <a href='http://www.biodiversityinfocus.com/blog/2013/03/10/black-fly-larvae-live-in-running-water-not-you/' class='excerpt-more'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Tuesday Tunes &#8211; Blackfly &#8211; Wade Hemsworth &amp; The McGarrigle Sisters</title>
		<link>http://www.biodiversityinfocus.com/blog/2011/06/28/tuesday-tunes-blackfly-wade-hemsworth-the-mcgarrigle-sisters/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jun 2011 04:01:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Morgan Jackson]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This Friday is Canada Day, and what better entomological representation of Canada than the scourge of the Great White North, the black fly! Well, I suppose grylloblattids are a better choice, but so far no one has written a song about them, so black flies will have to do! (The Grylloblattidae are a group of <a href='http://www.biodiversityinfocus.com/blog/2011/06/28/tuesday-tunes-blackfly-wade-hemsworth-the-mcgarrigle-sisters/' class='excerpt-more'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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