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Erica McAlister is an acknowledged expert at the top of her field and a skilled writer who masterfully imparts knowledge while entertaining the reader with her enthusiasm and wit. With immense value for students and non- specialist general readers with an interest in the subject, The Inside Out of Flies is an ideal and unreservedly recommended addition to personal reading lists, as well as community, college, university, and specialist or corporate library collections.-- (01/31/2020) Erica McAlister is the flies' best friend--knowledgeable, experienced, passionate about both her chosen field and turning others on to the mysteries and magic of the Diptera... McAlister eschews anything like a standard text-book approach, telling stories instead, often about the fascinating and highly variable extremes exhibited by this large and disparate group... The result is a fresh appreciation of these arcane animals that all too often are seen from the working end of a fly swatter or can of repellent.-- (11/28/2020) Readers may not come to love these creatures, but they will likely grow to see them as more than simply germ-laden pests. Recommended for most libraries.-- (02/01/2021) Not only is her subject matter engrossing and outlandish, but McAlister is also enthusiastic and witty...The Inside Out of Flies is much more than just a carnival of the bizarre. McAlister introduces plenty of serious biology here and mines the research literature for little-known but captivating nuggets... McAlister is an inspired spokeswoman for dipterology and entomology more generally, combining a heartfelt sense of wonder at the small things around us with a knack for popularizing science. The Inside Out of Flies, together with its predecessor The Secret Life of Flies, are must-read books for anyone interested in insects.-- (08/21/2020) Flies are among the most underrated animals on our planet, but McAlister is on a mission to change that... Her adoration for flies is utterly infectious and her accessible accounts of cutting-edge research are interspersed with amusing anecdotes that will be sure to induce a giggle.-- (10/01/2020) Flies are not filthy . . . they are always cleaning themselves, notes entomologist Erica McAlister's caption for a photo of a fly maintaining its antennae -- one of many eye-popping images in her erudite, irresistible natural history of the insects. She agrees with naturalist Pliny, who wrote two millennia ago that insects display nature's exhaustless ingenuity . Consider Ephydra hians, which scuba-dives in alkaline lakes -- using hydrophobic hairs that trap an air bubble like an external lung -- to lay its eggs on the lake bottom.-- (09/22/2020)

Flies are among the most underrated animals on our planet, but McAlister is on a mission to change that... Her adoration for flies is utterly infectious and her accessible accounts of cutting-edge research are interspersed with amusing anecdotes that will be sure to induce a giggle.-- (10/01/2020) Flies are not filthy . . . they are always cleaning themselves, notes entomologist Erica McAlister's caption for a photo of a fly maintaining its antennae -- one of many eye-popping images in her erudite, irresistible natural history of the insects. She agrees with naturalist Pliny, who wrote two millennia ago that insects display nature's exhaustless ingenuity . Consider Ephydra hians, which scuba-dives in alkaline lakes -- using hydrophobic hairs that trap an air bubble like an external lung -- to lay its eggs on the lake bottom.-- (09/22/2020)

Flies are not filthy . . . they are always cleaning themselves, notes entomologist Erica McAlister's caption for a photo of a fly maintaining its antennae -- one of many eye-popping images in her erudite, irresistible natural history of the insects. She agrees with naturalist Pliny, who wrote two millennia ago that insects display nature's exhaustless ingenuity . Consider Ephydra hians, which scuba-dives in alkaline lakes -- using hydrophobic hairs that trap an air bubble like an external lung -- to lay its eggs on the lake bottom.-- (09/22/2020)

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Erica McAlister is Curator of Diptera (flies) at the Natural History Museum, London She has studied in France, Australia and Costa Rica and her work with diptera has taken her all around the world She has presented the popular BBC Radio 4 series Who's the Pest? and participated in a New York Times, Science Facebook Live interview which has been viewed over 134,000 times She lives in the UK

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