GEORGIA MOUNTAINTOPS //  01

In May of the year 2000, Dr. Dahlem and Monty & Grace Wood traveled to the mountains of northern Georgia on an expedition to collect the elusive mountaintop species of flies in the families Sarcophagidae and Tachinidae.  Many of the sites we visited were first reported in an article by Harold Rodney Dodge and John M. Seago: Sarcophagidae and other Diptera taken by trap and net on Georgia mountain summits in 1952.  Ecology 35(1): 50-59, January 1954.  Locality information for particular species of Sarcophagidae can be found in another article by Harold R. Dodge: A new sarcophagid genus with descriptions of fifteen new species (Diptera).  Annals of the Entomological Society of America  49(3): 242-263. May, 1956.