Wright State researcher finds first fossil of "higher" fly

Because there are so many of them, flies have plenty of scope to be helpful or to be a nuisance.

Yet flies, along with other insects, are of primary interest to professor John O. Stireman, Ph.D., in the Department of Biological Sciences with the College of Science and Mathematics. Stireman's focus on insects is due to their immense taxonomic and ecological diversity. They offer countless opportunities to examine a wide range of ecological and evolutionary questions. 

Stireman with collaborators P. Cerretti (U. Roma), T. Pape (U. Copenhagen), J.E. O’Hara (CNC), and others, recently published