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How do you name an insect? Bry the Fly Guy explains.

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How do you name an insect? Bry the Fly Guy explains.

More than two-hundred new species have been named in the CSIRO collections during the past year. Included in this diverse array are seventy-three ants, thirty-eight beetles and twenty-one flies, and several extinct species perfectly preserved in 100 million year old Burmese amber.   Lish Fejer spoke to Entomologist Dr. Bryan Lessard aka Bry The Fly Guy.

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Canberra, Invertebrates - Insects and Arachnids
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