Flies and Cicadas — with Scarabs Berger, Collman and Pehling

Our planned April program was unex­pectedly scuttled, so stalwart Scarabs stepped into the breach!

Last summer, David Berger did a one-man expedition to Illinois to see the mass cicada emergence for himself. Hear his adventures... and misadventures!

Sharon Collman and Dave Pehling have a basic introduction to the order Diptera, "To Know a Fly." Dave and Sharon, long-time Scarabs and retired WSU educators, will team for this presentation. Flies have only two wings but diverse body forms and every imaginable lifestyle: from house guests to bloodsuckers to predators to aquatic rat-tailed maggots. They are used in medicine, as food for poultry and, yes, people, and as biological control agents. They even save wildlands by making life miserable for us destructive humans.

Scarabs' new Zoom Czar, Matt Neumann, has created a special link you can click to get to each month's Scarabs session, regardless if the specific meeting ID changes. You should get this link (or it will become visible) if you RSVP here (passcode is 816620). If you attend by phone, you'll need the old-fashioned numerical Zoom code, and anyone doing that should refer to their print newsletter (or, if not a subscribing member, contact us well ahead of time please!). Go to Zoom not long before the meeting starts, otherwise the link may not be active. And if anything about this new system misfires, tell us so we can trouble-shoot for next time!