Okay, so that lady that works at the post office in your old neighborhood who asked where you've been?

Allie Ward and listen, I'm looking at you and I see you your arms are folded, you're glaring, you're saying make me like flies bitch and

maybe I will but we have our work cut out for us on this one. I'm not gonna lie. So it's good

I've enlisted one of the world's most charming and visible

Dipped orologists. He's done field work on several continents. He's named more species than you can literally shake a fly swatter at and

He lives and brings flies

Metaphorically but also probably literally on accident sometimes. He studied biotech for undergrad and then got a PhD in insect

Systematics and evolution and is now doing a postdoc fellowship at Australia's Commonwealth scientific and industrial research organizations

National insect collection

researching the evolution and classification of soldier flies which are stout little outside flies named after warriors because of spikes on their

Necks although workopedia notes that they are quote often rather inactive flies

So soldier flies you're my kind of flies. So this diptyrologist is also a TEDx speaker and a psychomer who's done a bunch of TV and radio

appearances and just wrote his first book eyes on flies for kids

It's due out in September and we're gonna get to him in just a moment

But first you thank you everyone at patreon.com

Sashologies for supporting the show for a dollar a month or more that allows you to submit questions that I could read with my mouth

Hopefully correctly and thanks to everyone rating and reviewing and subscribing

I read all your reviews because they matter to me and I pick one each week to read and

This week's is from Emily who loves trees who wrote one time

I was having a really bad day and was crying in my car who hasn't been there and decided to listen to allergies and the newest episode was

Happiness exactly what I needed always is by the way. This is the first review. I've left on any podcast ever

You deserve it Emily who loves trees happy to hand you that travel pack of Kleenex from the depths of my backpack

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