Stalker was reading an article on the discovery of a fly that can’t fly. Attracted to the item, like a moth to a flame, or a fly to a strip of fly paper, Stalker reckoned that the fly in question looked very like one of the phorid flies that are the scourge of mushroom growers - although a lot of flies do look very alike to the untrained eye.
Anyway, this particular fly was a female Atherimorpha latipennis specimen collected by entomologists in Lesotho, and has no wings. The male of the species does have wings.
The fly was collected by two South African dipterologists - entomologists specialising in flies.
One of them was called John Midgley.
Now there’s an example of nominative determinism for sure!
