The noise of these species fills our days and nights, & there’s no complaint from me So much effort into finding a mate to finish their short adult lives - Cicadas are the opera singers of these forests. A freshly emerged adult here - of which there are 45 #CostaRica spp

We are not the only ones collecting at light traps….

This was an incredible find!

What a beauty! 😍

A tailless whip scorpion demonstrating that although it may look like it could inflict pain, it is in fact very docile and obviously, rather beautiful - the opposite of the other subject in the image😎👊😉 #FlySchool24 #Forest #Invertebrates

As #FlySchool24 finishes, the participants have turned their Dipterological skills to #art Call me impressed. @GeooRoojas painted the empids, Valerio Caruso painted the Dipteran Explosion, whilst the wings is a group composition! What talent Fly School Dipterists Society

Incredibly talented artists at Fly School! I was tempted to take pieces home with me, but they were left at the Soltis Center for staff and visitors to enjoy.

Goodbye #FlySchool24 🪰🦟🤓 Thank you #CostaRica for providing a glorious habitat & great hospitality Cheers Fly School Brian V. Brown @Bertonemyia Jim Hogue, Dave Grimaldi Jessica Gillung Paula Riccardi Dalton de Souza Amorim and all the fab participants

Very excited to see this published!! We did a global literature review of long-distance hover fly migration and found nearly 50 species that exhibit this fascinating behavior. There’s a lot of cool work out there, and also much left unknown! Check it out! #diptera Ecological Entomology

@Bertonemyia Jessica Gillung Paula Riccardi Brian V. Brown Fly School Dalton de Souza Amorim Excellent- bloody excellent

Very much looking forward to talking larvae - the fascinating but often ignored stage of a flies life cycle

[#entomology] Twelve new species of Platypalpus Macquart (Diptera: Hybotidae) from Morocco, with additional new records ⤵️ ✒️ Laila Zouhair, Patrick Grootaert, Kawtar Kettani 🔗 DOI: doi.org/10.5852/ejt.20… #diptera #hybotidae #NewSpecies #dipterist

[#entomology] New taxa and new records of Winnertziinae and Porricondylinae (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae) from Germany ⤵ ✒ Mathias Jaschhof 🔗DOI: doi.org/10.5852/ejt.20… #diptera #cecidomyiidae #gallmidges #newgenus #newspecies #dipterist

Today is peak science communication Off to New Scientist #NewScientistLive to talk the science behind the animation of #LloydoftheFlies - i may have a crush on the hardytardies Followed by this evening the Tanyptera Project online talk on the mighty MAGGOTS - tickettailor.com/events/tanypte…

Thrilled to announce that Team Diptera is collaborating with an awesome Phoenix tattoo shop, Coven Tattoo, to offer a ton of entomology flash designs during ESA! What's "flash"? Pre-made designs available to anyone who signs up! Please take a look here: tinyurl.com/insect-coven

[#entomology] On the identity of the Afrotropical species of Mallota Meigen (Diptera: Syrphidae) ⤵️ ✒️ Marc De Meyer, Georg Goergen, John Midgley, Kurt Jordaens 🔗 DOI: doi.org/10.5852/ejt.20… #diptera #syrphidae #eristalinae #flowerfly #hoverfly #entomologist #dipterist

A lovely example of cross museum collaborations playing detective - Natural History Museum NHM Diptera and Natural Sciences NMS #FlyFriday

[#entomology] A revision of the Afrotropical hover fly genus Afroxanthandrus Kassebeer, 2000 (#Diptera, #Syrphidae), with the description of 2 new species and one new synonymy ⤵️ ✒️ John Midgley et al. 🔗 DOI: doi.org/10.5852/ejt.20… #flowerflies #biodiversity #NewSpecies

Hope to see you Dipterists Society meeting on Tuesday, November 12 at #EntSoc24 in Phoenix! Join in person or virtually. Visit dipterists.org/annual_meeting… for more info, including the Zoom link.

Come by the Dipterists Society meeting this evening if you're at #EntSoc24 or join virtually!