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Marx brothers mirror routine2/14/2023 ![]() ![]() Readers – please pitch in with your favourite scene, one that would inspire a 21 year old to go and delve about in the land of black and white… So as part of their general education, I will put an extract of one of the Marx brothers films onto the internal website associated with the course.īut which one? I’ve come up with four brief extracts, from Horse Feathers, Duck Soup (x 2) and A Night at the Opera. This turned out to be true – fewer than 10% of them knew the moustachioed one. I realised that I would have to explain *why* it’s called the Groucho fly, as most of the students would never have heard of Groucho Marx. The “cigar” is a pair of enlarged palps, probably used to detect prey. One of them is the Groucho fly (aka the hedgehog fly): A Hedgehog fly, aka Adejeania – a Peruvian caterpillar parasitoid. ![]() I closed with 10 minutes on my favourite flies, some of which we have featured here with stupendous photos by Stephen Marshall. I have just finished teaching to the second year Animal Diversity course here at the University of Manchester – I cover the invertebrates. ![]()
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