Just laying out the Craneflies pages for our Guide to #FliesofBritainandIreland to be published next year. Here's just 4 of the pages showing the spectacular comb-horn craneflies. Rory Dimond 🌼🪰🌼🐝🌼🦟 Gail Ashton 💚🪲🌍 Steven Falk Dr Erica McAlister Dipterists Forum BBO Wildlife Trust Chris Packham

We have lots of Hairy-footed Flower Bees in our garden each spring and sometimes this large Common Mourning Bee, a cuckoo of the Flower Bees puts in an appearance BBO Wildlife Trust Thames Valley Environmental Records Centre

Couldn't make up my mind which insect to photograph - an Orange-tip or a fresh Dahliana geniculata mosquito (with its white 'knees' seen today BBO Wildlife Trust's Thatcham Reedbeds. I think I preferred the fly #FliesofBritainandIreland Rory Dimond 🌼🪰🌼🐝🌼🦟 Gail Ashton 💚🪲🌍 Dr Erica McAlister Chris Packham

Having some fun sorting out pix for the back cover illustration for our photographic guide to #FliesofBritainandIreland in prep for publication in Autumn 2025 Gail Ashton 💚🪲🌍 Rory Dimond 🌼🪰🌼🐝🌼🦟 Steven Falk Dr Erica McAlister BBO Wildlife Trust Dipterists Forum

Honey bee, bumblebee & wasp or hoverflies? Brilliant mimicry helps protect these 3 hoverflies from predators - left-right Eristalis tenax, Pocota personata & Chrysotoxum cautum #FliesofBritainandIreland Gail Ashton 💚🪲🌍 Rory Dimond 🌼🪰🌼🐝🌼🦟 BBO Wildlife Trust

A carpet of Rue-leaved Saxifrage covering bare ground in South Hinksey, Oxford - a small plant but always a welcome sight here every spring Thames Valley Environmental Records Centre BSBI: Botanical Society of Britain & Ireland wildflowerhour BBO Wildlife Trust

Spotted this tiny (5-6mm long) Cheilosia hoverfly nectaring on a patch of forget-me-nots in our garden in Oxford today. Hairy eyes and dark legs - any idea which species anyone? Steven Falk Gail Ashton 💚🪲🌍 Rory Dimond 🌼🪰🌼🐝🌼🦟 #FliesofBritainandIreland Dipterists Forum

Fabulous #FliesofBritainandIreland - the warm wind and sunshine brought out the spring hoverflies in our garden in Oxford today - here's a selection of those seen BBO Wildlife Trust Thames Valley Environmental Records Centre Gail Ashton 💚🪲🌍 Rory Dimond 🌼🪰🌼🐝🌼🦟 Steven Falk Dr Erica McAlister

Now the Gorse is in flower look out for these tiny flies, collectively known as St Mark's Flies. The males are often seen perched on flowers, like this one at Castlemorton Common, nr Malvern #FliesofBritainandIreland Gail Ashton 💚🪲🌍 Rory Dimond 🌼🪰🌼🐝🌼🦟 Steven Falk Worcs Wildlife Trust Malvern Hills Trust

Explore the wonders & wildlife of the New Forest in this new 320-page hardback book The Nature of the New Forest to be published in October - pre-publication offer now on SAVE £10 on published price order here bit.ly/3xfmHcM Woodland Trust🌳 Hampshire & Isle of Wight Wildlife Trust BSBI: Botanical Society of Britain & Ireland

Spotted this Gonia picea tachinid fly on the Malverns Hills yesterday - the summit of North Hill is where large numbers of these flies can be seen hilltopping Gail Ashton 💚🪲🌍 Rory Dimond 🌼🪰🌼🐝🌼🦟 Steven Falk #FliesofBritainandIreland Worcs Wildlife Trust Malvern Hills Trust

A great day out searching rabbit holes for the strange green glow of the moss Goblin Gold (Schistostega pennata) on Midsummer Hill on the Malvern Hills today - found it in the same rabbit hole where I first saw it 7 years ago BBSBryology Worcs Wildlife Trust Malvern Hills Trust

We're excited that Steven Falk Steven Falk has now joined co-authors Gail Ashton Gail Ashton 💚🪲🌍, Rory Dimond Rory Dimond 🌼🪰🌼🐝🌼🦟 & NatureBureau's Peter Creed to produce our NEW Photographic Guide to FLIES OF BRITAIN & IRELAND to be published later in 2025 Dipterists Forum Dr Erica McAlister

You know when spring has arrived when you spot a gorgeous furry female Tawny Mining Bee (Andrena fulva). The much smaller male is just as impressive with his fearsome mandibles - find out more in James Power's THE BEES OF SUSSEX bit.ly/3PlKoX2 Sussex Wildlife Trust 🦔 Sussex Biodiversity

Still lots of Common Whitlowgrass in flower along streets in Oxford and on an old footbridge by the Hinksey Stream BBO Wildlife Trust Wild Oxfordshire Thames Valley Environmental Records Centre BSBI: Botanical Society of Britain & Ireland

Fabulous #flies - there was a tiger basking in the sunshine in our garden in Oxford on Saturday - although common it's always hard to resist photographing a Tiger Hoverfly (Helophilus pendulus) BBO Wildlife Trust Thames Valley Environmental Records Centre #FliesofBritainandIreland Gail Ashton 💚🪲🌍 Rory Dimond 🌼🪰🌼🐝🌼🦟 Dr Erica McAlister

Marvelous #mosses - Spring sunshine brought out the best in this carpet of male and female Juniper Haircap (Polytrichum juniperinum) yesterday at BBO Wildlife Trust's Greenham Common BBSBryology Thames Valley Environmental Records Centre

Cracking on with the Bee-flies now for our new #PhotographicGuidetoFliesofBritainandIreland . This Dark-edged Bee-fly was seen BBO Wildlife Trust's Greenham Common. Dipterists Forum Gail Ashton 💚🪲🌍
Rory Dimond 🌼🪰🌼🐝🌼🦟 Dr Erica McAlister

Fabulous #flies - my first sighting of this tiny Flat-footed fly Polyporivora ornata seen yesterday at BBO Wildlife Trust's Dry Sandford Pit, ne Abingdon. The similar Polyporivora picta has a black scutellum rather than grey as in ornata Thames Valley Environmental Records Centre Gail Ashton 💚🪲🌍 Rory Dimond 🌼🪰🌼🐝🌼🦟 Wild Oxfordshire

In prep for 2025 from NatureBureau's Pisces Publications - we've started the layout for an exciting new first-ever Photographic Guide to Flies of Britain & Ireland. With 1500 photos the book will feature over 1200 species Dipterists Forum Gail Ashton 💚🪲🌍 Rory Dimond 🌼🪰🌼🐝🌼🦟 Dr Erica McAlister