Dr Bryan Lessard

@BrytheFlyGuy

Entomologist | Parks Australia | SciComm | CSIRO TEDx alumni | Named Beyoncé & RuPaul 🪰| Ngunnawal country | I❤🦋🦟🐞🦗 🏳

Canberra, Australia
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    14 Sep 2021

    Category is: new species extravaganza! Introducing the soldier fly, serving charisma and uniqueness, one of 150 new species named by in the last year!

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  2. Retweeted
    May 12

    Hello, I wrote a book entitled, Australia's Incredible Insects and copies have arrived today! I feel like a proud parent. I've started fulfilling pre-orders of the book and have more available on my website: You can also find it in all good bookstores!

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    Apr 24

    The Kangaroo Island Assassin Spider has been listed as Critically Endangered, the KI Micro Trapdoor Spider as Endangered. These are the 1st South Australian invertebrates to be listed under the EPBC Act. This is important. 1/4

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  4. Apr 21

    Something for your feel good friday! Girls like Lyra can love frogs, spiders and insects AND become a kick ass ! 👩🏽‍🔬🐸🕷️🐝💥

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    What do you do when a little kid called Lyra gets told 'girls don't like creepy crawlies'? You call your friends, like for backup.
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  5. Mar 22

    Creepy, cute, or both? 🤔 This shortnose chimaera fish is not only shooting you a smile, but it's a new species collected from the southern Indian Ocean. 🐟

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  6. Mar 22

    Great question! Apparently there's a spider beetle (genus Gibbium) with fused elytra (the hardened outer wings) that can't fly. Anyone know of any others?

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    Question from my 7yo for There are birds that have wings but cannot fly. Are there insects with wings that cannot fly?
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  7. Mar 14

    Check out the big feathery antennae on this beetle! Looks like a close match to the Feather-horned Beetle (Rhipicera femorata)

    Luckily, I'm mates with and he tells me: "I think it's a buprestid beetle. I've never seen one so stunning!" Will you look at its antennae?! Sadly not alive when found it. But a beauty nonetheless.
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  8. Mar 13

    Why do some ants lick bums? 😜🐜 Listen to the 🦆 podcast to find out!

    Look who has turned up outside my door again!? The bum-licking the ants! 🦆
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  9. Retweeted
    Mar 8

    Worried about protecting yourself and family from Japanese encephalitis virus? Here is a thread about how you can choose and use insect repellents (and other strategies) most effectively to prevent mosquito bites...with links to my articles on these topics🧵

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  10. Mar 8

    Serving cute and fuzzy fly love 😍

    buen día! Preciosa mosca colibrí (Lasia sp.) descansando en una hoja. Como ya sabemos, estas extraordinarias moscas son acrobatas áreas y polinizadoras de la flora nativa como las Alstroemerias y las Salpiglossis 🌺🌸 check this 😊😊
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    Mar 8

    I had the immense privilege of helping to describe one of the most beautiful fish species, Cirrhilabrus finifenmaa. Check out the recap of this exciting discovery from

    Hot off the press in , meet Cirrhilabrus finifenmaa, the Rose-Veiled Fairy Wrasse. This is the first species description out of the Maldives funded by the Rolex Awards for Enterprise to , as well as his on going Hopes for Reefs Initiative. (1/11)
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    Feb 28

    The🦆 takes on HOLLYWOOD. A 🧵 about this 👇 episode of What the Duck?!

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    Feb 26

    Mosquito-borne Japanese encephalitis virus has been detected in NSW and Victoria. This is a highly unusual discovery and care should be taken to avoid exposure to mosquito bites. See alerts from and

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    Feb 25

    Good to see the RuPaul soldierfly getting a name check from Graham Norton this evening 📺 👏

    Category is: new species extravaganza! Introducing the soldier fly, serving charisma and uniqueness, one of 150 new species named by in the last year!
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    Feb 22

    Spider wasps may look scary, but they're an important part of Australia's ecology! knows how to handle these huntsman hunting heroes and can't wait to see them collected in Malaise traps across !

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    Feb 21

    The very funny made the mistake of asking me if I’d like to talk about insects and David Attenborough for 40 minutes on his podcast😂 I had a blast! 🐝🐞🪰🐛🦋🪲🦟

    Episode 4 of Thank God for David Attenborough now available with the incredible from Sydney University talking all things insects! An awesome chat about communal ants, dancing bees & general bug consciousness!
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    Feb 21

    I'm encouraging people in Australia to upload any pictures of leaf miners (or suspected leaf miners!) onto this project. This will contribute to research on their diversity and occurrence across Australia.

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  18. Retweeted
    Feb 17

    There's still a lot of ways to be involved in Insect Investigators if you're not a chosen school. We have many resources available for teachers (lesson plans, worksheets, iNaturalist species discovery projects). Go to: to find out how you can take part!

    http://insectinvestigators.com.au/resources/
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    Feb 17

    Watch with on worldwide now! ! !

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    Feb 16

    Listened to this on the way up the Kuranda Range Road with nowhere to pull over to tweet to : 'Dairy farm? More like a derriere farm.' (Probably makes more sense in context.) Are you really better than a bum-licking ant?

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    Feb 15

    Taxonomists are scientists that discover and describe new species. Our team of invertebrate taxonomists hope to put a name to the face of every beetle, bug and bee we find. 🐞🦗🐝 We have a stellar team that have volunteered to be a part of Insect Investigators this year!

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