Rhagio lineola ♀️ from pine woodland near Knockananna, Wicklow earlier this week.

Talking flies means talking veins. Modern interpretation means saying goodbye to one of the anal veins. Science never stops & continuous adjustments are made as our knowledge/understanding increases Fly School Dipterists Society Dipterists Forum #FlySchool24

Tipulidae ecology is very interesting but sadly many are predated upon by vertebrates before they have a chance to shine - a fact that fisherfolk’s have taken advantage off… Fly School Dipterists Forum #FlySchool24

A ♀ Fucellia (Anthomyiidae) seaweed fly from the beach at South Landing, Flamborough today. Hugely abundant at the top of the beach around the strand line. Yorkshire Wildlife Trust - Marine - Living Seas YNU Dipterists Forum

The small tachinid fly Phania funesta, seen RSPB Middleton Lakes 02/08/24 Chris Raper Dipterists Forum #Tachinidae #Diptera

I think this is the fly Philophylla caesio, a fly that mines nettles. Seen RSPB Middleton Lakes 02/08/24 Dipterists Forum Ian Andrews Ryan Mitchell #Diptera

A Lauxaniidae fly, maybe Tricholauxania praeusta? Seen RSPB Middleton Lakes 02/08/24 Dipterists Forum Ian Andrews Steven Falk Ryan Mitchell #Diptera #Lauxaniidae

A Chlorops fly, how pretty! Seen RSPB Middleton Lakes 02/08/24 Dipterists Forum #Diptera

Toad Blowfly (Lucilia bufonivora)...adults were common at the Yorkshire Arboretum on an YNU meeting back in June and today results of that were seen. The toad is still alive, but larvae are feeding away within the nostrils. Dipterists Forum

Old school vs new school when it comes to Dipteran wing vein terminology.. Very handy diagram by David Grimaldi highlighting the name changes for the participants at #FlySchool24 Fly School Dipterists Society Dipterists Forum

Magnificent beasts - Just started laying out the Robberfly pages for our 400-page Photographic Guide to #FliesofBritainandIreland to be published Autumn 2025. Pre-pub offer starts later this year Dr Erica McAlister Steven Falk Gail Ashton 💚🪲🌍 Rory Dimond 🌼🪰🌼🐝🌼🦟 BBO Wildlife Trust Dipterists Forum Thames Valley Environmental Records Centre

A few more flies from patch of terrestrial Amphibious Bistort by the Pocklington Canal in East Yorkshire...Helina allotalla (Muscidae), Physocephala rufipes (Conopidae), Sarcophaga vagans (Sarcophagidae) and Dolichopus cilifemoratus (Dolichopodidae). YNU Dipterists Forum

EcoRecord Nature inFocus Wild-Bee Sussex Biodiversity The British Nature Guide Little Green Space 🐝 Buglife RSPB The Living Coast UNESCO Biosphere BBC Wildlife The Wildlife Trusts NBN Trust Dipterists Forum NHM Diptera Dr Erica McAlister @Benfieldvalley Urban Rewilding 🦊 River Len Maidstone @RichardfoxBC MFGWP UK Wildlife

Our 1st Locust Blowfly - Stomorhina lunata (a female) of 2024 seen on the 14th in our Northants garden. Our earliest sighting and seen for the 3rd year running here so likely to breeding. Still only a handful of sightings in the County.

Scathophaga furcata from Radnorshire Dipterists Forum spring field trip; makes a change from S. stercoraria although there were lots of those too. Still room for more sub-contracted ID work if anyone is overwhelmed with flies to determine! dipteraid.co.uk #dungflies

NatureBureau Dr Erica McAlister Steven Falk Gail Ashton 💚🪲🌍 Rory Dimond 🌼🪰🌼🐝🌼🦟 BBO Wildlife Trust Dipterists Forum Thames Valley Environmental Records Centre The Robberfly Genome Note WellcomeOpenResearch just went live! For all the #DNA sequence information, visit here: wellcomeopenresearch.org/articles/9-453

Mid-August and the fungi are appearing in the woods, so it must be Suillia Season! 🥳 Time to get out there and record those spiny-winged flies #heleomyzidae. One of many Suillia variegata today at North Cliffe Woods Yorkshire Wildlife Trust reserve. YNU Dipterists Forum

Brian Eversham It would be interesting to have a revisit survey of where Skiddy found it on #Thorne Moors SSSI Great photo of the enigmatic Phaonia jaroschewski by Ian Andrews

Review of Boyd Barr’s Light Transmission Base for entomological dissecting Read about this very useful piece of kit here: dipterists.org.uk/forum/review-b… Dipterists Forum

Thrilled to catch a Rare close up view, Male Four-banded Beegrabber Conops quadrifasciatus, a less common Thick headed fly. Whilst Males feed & breed, Females catch their host Red-tailed Bumblebees mid-air larva become endoparasites The Wildlife Trusts Dipterists Forum Woodland Trust🌳