Talk:Bill Gates' flower fly

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Isn't this just an expanded april's fool ?

• www.sel.barc.usda.gov seems to be the common source for all accounts about this fly on the Web;
• they give extended information on the other rare flys they list in [1], but only minimal information on BG's or PA's flys (*), and end with: a full published account may be found in the April 1997 issue of the Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington.
  • (*) though this may be because most of the interest of these flys lies in their name...

Someone confirm or infirm that suspiscion ? Could someone look up these proceedings ? --FvdP 20:08, 23 February 2006 (UTC)

If it was an april fool's joke, I'd expect them to refer to Gates' contributions to Hemipterology, not Dipterology. The article describing the new flies is referred to in this article by the same author (link does not work; but it is in Google's cache; [2]). I think it is legitimate. Eugene van der Pijll 20:59, 23 February 2006 (UTC)

Thank you. The article you reference looks indeed serious. I wonder what Gates & Allen contributed to dipterology, though (and both of them at that). The choice of their names may be a bit of a joke. --FvdP 19:29, 1 March 2006 (UTC)

My assumption is that the name is based on a play on the word "bug". Spikebrennan 17:40, 7 February 2007 (UTC)

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