{"id":2593,"date":"2012-11-23T12:05:51","date_gmt":"2012-11-23T17:05:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/?p=2593"},"modified":"2012-11-23T17:09:57","modified_gmt":"2012-11-23T22:09:57","slug":"black-fly-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/23\/black-fly-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Fly Day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div id=\"attachment_2594\" style=\"width: 660px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/23\/black-fly-day\/simulium-sp-from-ecuador\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2594\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2594\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2594\" title=\"Simulium sp from Ecuador Black fly Simuliidae\" src=\"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Simulium-sp-from-Ecuador20090509.jpg\" alt=\"Simulium sp from Ecuador Black fly Simuliidae\" width=\"650\" height=\"432\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Simulium-sp-from-Ecuador20090509.jpg 650w, http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Simulium-sp-from-Ecuador20090509-500x332.jpg 500w, http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Simulium-sp-from-Ecuador20090509-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2594\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Simulium sp. from Ecuador (Simuliidae) feasting on my blood. Ironically, being bitten by this hungry little lady was more fun than fighting hungry crowds at the mall would be today&#8230;<\/p><\/div>\n<p>You can thank black fly expert <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rom.on.ca\/en\/collections-research\/rom-staff\/doug-currie\" target=\"_blank\">Dr. Douglas Currie<\/a> of the Royal Ontario Museum for this awesome pun:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" width=\"550\">\n<p>@<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bioinfocus\">bioinfocus<\/a> @<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/pselaphinae\">pselaphinae<\/a> @<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jmedeccf\">jmedeccf<\/a> Black Friday?I prefer Black Fly Day!<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Doug Currie (@DouglasCurrie1) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DouglasCurrie1\/status\/271964435973804032\">November 23, 2012<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Related, Doug will be hosting a special <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rom.on.ca\/en\/activities-programs\/events-calendar\/curators%E2%80%99-corner-arctic-adventures\" target=\"_blank\">Curators&#8217; Corner meet &amp; greet at the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto from 11:00-4:00 tomorrow (Nov. 24, 2012)<\/a>, where he&#8217;ll be talking about Arctic biodiversity, black flies and climate change. Check it out if you happen to be in the area, I&#8217;m sure it&#8217;ll be a bloody good time!<\/p>\n<p><strong>UPDATE<\/strong>: Behold the power of social media! After tweeting back and forth with Doug Currie &amp; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/CMBuddle\" target=\"_blank\">Chris Buddle<\/a> about #BlackFlyDay, one of the tweets was picked up by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/CBCR2Shift\" target=\"_blank\">Tom Allen<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/music.cbc.ca\/#\/Shift\" target=\"_blank\">DJ for CBC Radio 2&#8217;s afternoon radio show SHIFT<\/a>, who then scheduled a portion of his afternoon playlist around Black Flies! I&#8217;m not sure whether today&#8217;s episode will be archived (I&#8217;ll embed it here if I find it later), but you can listen live to hear Tom Allen discussing #BlackFlyDay at about 5:20 EST (2:20 PST) on CBC Radio 2 (here&#8217;s the <a href=\"http:\/\/music.cbc.ca\/#\/stream\/station\/radio2\/pacific\" target=\"_blank\">West Coast broadcast online for those not living in Vancouver<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You can thank black fly expert Dr. Douglas Currie of the Royal Ontario Museum for this awesome pun: @bioinfocus @pselaphinae @jmedeccf Black Friday?I prefer Black Fly Day! &mdash; Doug Currie (@DouglasCurrie1) November 23, 2012 Related, Doug will be hosting a special Curators&#8217; Corner meet &amp; greet at the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto from 11:00-4:00 <a href='http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/23\/black-fly-day\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130],"tags":[460,598,294],"class_list":["post-2593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cool-science","tag-bad-pun","tag-diptera","tag-simuliidae","category-130-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2593"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2598,"href":"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2593\/revisions\/2598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}