Bill and I discovered this fly. It was the first example of a parasitoid/predator using the sexual signal to locate it’s host/prey. The pressure from the fly revealed two sex strategies that male crickets can take. Males can sing a lot and mate a lot but get parasitized. Quiet “satellite” males don’t sing, but “hang around’ to intercept the females flying into the singing male. We continued to study the cricket, but others picked up the “thread” and studied the fly, and it’s unique ear.
NPR Ormia ear helps with new hearing aids.
Since then, whole labs started and PhD students continue down the path of new knowledge at various universities and other flies have been found attacking other acoustical insects.
Back when I was teaching, I open my doors to special education students. Data collected and a paper was written by Jack Cawley about our inclusion work.
Google search of "Including Students With Disabilities Into the General Education Science Classroom
Dan, Bill and Me.
Chicanos in Education
Region 19
Daily Kos Crickets in the Classroom
Me in the Daily Texas student newspaper!
National Hispanic diversity on science
St. Olaf College students studying Ormia
Hispanic, Latina, Chicana women in science
Hispanic, Latina, Chicana women in science