Day: April 2, 2025

College of Sciences and Arts Entomologist Celebrates Releasing Third Volume on Fruit Flies

Thomas Werner, center, poses outside with Jasmine Segar, left, and Jessica Kreais, right, two campers he met on his travels studying fruit flies. The campers hold copies of volumes 1 and 2 of the Encyclopedia of North American Drosophilids.
Thomas Werner, center, is celebrating his third encyclopedic volume of North American fruit flies in an upcoming book release celebration at the Van Pelt and Opie Library at Michigan Tech. He met the two campers Jasmine Segar, left, and Jessica Kreais, right, while collecting fruit flies in 2023. Both of them joined Werner and his family on their next trip in 2024. (Photos courtesy of Thomas Werner.)

Thomas Werner, a North American fruit fly expert, entomologist and biological sciences professor of genetics and developmental biology is celebrating the release of his latest volume documenting fruit flies across the continent—and Huskies are invited.