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Postle, A. (BSc., MSc. Entomology Ph.D. Entomology) -
Tony has had varied career - scientific and otherwise - working
as; postman, labourer, warehouse attendant, cleaner,
nightwatchman and Sydney taxi driver. In between these jobs he
has worked at the University of Queensland as a demonstrator in
insect taxonomy and morphology and at the Alan Fletcher
laboratories in Brisbane on biological control of weeds as well
as at various other institutions in Queensland, New South Wales
and Western Australia. He has studied the taxonomy of Culicoides
spp ants, termites, fruit flies, thrips and flower bugs. Tony has
also served as a research assistant at Curtin University
comparing invertebrate canopy fauna of jarrah and ironbark trees
in Western Australia and New South Wales. Tony joined the
Department in 1986 and is currently working as Quarantine
Entomologist in Broome with the Northern Australian Quarantine
Service monitoring populations on biting midges, fruit flies and
screw worm. He is a member of the Australian Entomological
Society, Queensland Entomological Society and the Western
Australian Insect Study Society.