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Wasp Beetles (Clytus arietus) are often seen resting on log piles like this one BBO Wildlife Trust's Crookham Common The Wildlife Trusts Thames Valley Environmental Records Centre

Here today, gone tomorrow – short-lived Green Drake Mayflies (Ephemera danica) were emerging last week in Newbury. This one landed on the glass door at our office BBO Wildlife Trust The Wildlife Trusts Thames Valley Environmental Records Centre

Off to the Gower next week and hope to see the magnificent Pied-winged Robberfly (Pamponerus germanicus) at Whiteford Burrows. All of Britain's robberflies are covered in our #FliesofBritainandIreland bit.ly/4dqQI8Z Steven Falk Gail Ashton 💚🪲🌍 Rory Dimond 🌼🪰🌼🐝🌼🦟 The Wildlife Trusts

This rare orchid, spotted by @trufflehogwalk growing on a verge nr Chinnor has just been confirmed as a Lizard Orchid (Himantoglossum hircinum), a spectacular plant when in flower (right). Great find! BBO Wildlife Trust BSBI: Botanical Society of Britain & Ireland Thames Valley Environmental Records Centre Natural England #orchids

Out at Whiteford Burrows on the Gower on Monday, where I spotted this magnificent beast, the rare Strandline Beetle (Eurynebria complanata) – just the one seen lurking by a washed-up log along the strandline Buglife The Gower Society Steven Falk The Wildlife Trusts

Four Soldierflies seen at BBO Wildlife Trust's Parsonage Moor, Cothill today - Top: left Pygmy Soldier, right Delicate Soldier. Bottom: left Orange-horned Green Colonel, Clubbed General Steven Falk Dr Erica McAlister Rory Dimond 🌼🪰🌼🐝🌼🦟 Dipterists Forum Thames Valley Environmental Records Centre bit.ly/4dqQI8Z

A Drinker moth (Euthrix potatoria) caterpillar in the fen at BBO Wildlife Trust's Parsonage Moor, nr Abingdon BC Upper Thames Thames Valley Environmental Records Centre The Wildlife Trusts

Delicate pink carpets of Bog Pimpernel (Lysimachia tenella) were flowering in the fen at BBOWT's Parsonage Moor, nr Oxford ... but in the damp marshy grassland at Whiteford Burrows on the Gower there were 1000s. Wonderful! BBO Wildlife Trust BSBI: Botanical Society of Britain & Ireland WildlifeKate Thames Valley Environmental Records Centre The Gower Society

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We've just started laying out THE WILDLIFE OF THE AVALON MARSHES by Alison Uren. Richly illustrated throughout, the book takes you on a monthly journey around Somerset's wonderful Avalon Marshes nature reserves showcasing the wildlife found there Somerset Wildlife Trust BTO RSPB

#FliesofBritainandIreland is now 70% complete bit.ly/4dqQI8Z A nice wetland hoverfly, the Waisted Duckfly (Anasimyia contracta) seen at BBO Wildlife Trust's Parsonage Moor, Cothill today - a top site for wetland flies Steven Falk Dr Erica McAlister Rory Dimond 🌼🪰🌼🐝🌼🦟 Dipterists Forum Thames Valley Environmental Records Centre

Our latest Pisces Publications title THE BEETLES OF OXFORDSHIRE by Jonty Denton & John Campbell has just been published – the cover features the longhorn beetle Agapanthia villosoviridescens. Visit naturebureau.co.uk/bookshop & order your copy now Thames Valley Environmental Records Centre BBO Wildlife Trust NHM Coleoptera

Like most scathophagid 'dung flies', it has nothing to do with dung. The larvae are probably aquatic predators. You can find out more about scathophagids (and other flies) in the forthcoming NatureBureau book.

Here are two spreads to temp you from the Dung Flies Scathophagidae pages of our #FliesofBritainandIreland book bit.ly/4dqQI8Z (maps still to be done) for publication this autumn. Steven Falk Dr Erica McAlister Gail Ashton 💚🪲🌍 Rory Dimond 🌼🪰🌼🐝🌼🦟 Thames Valley Environmental Records Centre BBO Wildlife Trust Dipterists Forum

The recent Dipterists Forum field meeting based at Glen Affric was a great success, and we covered a fair bit of north-east Scotland. I've placed some photos of locations and insects seen in a Flickr folder here: flickr.com/photos/6307520…

On the home run now for our #FliesofBritainandIreland book bit.ly/4dqQI8Z – Steven Falk has now completed the text for the Anthomyiidae & we've started laying out the intro pages Dr Erica McAlister Gail Ashton 💚🪲🌍 Rory Dimond 🌼🪰🌼🐝🌼🦟 Thames Valley Environmental Records Centre BBO Wildlife Trust Dipterists Forum

Our latest book The Wildlife of the Avalon Marshes by Alison Uren is now on pre-pub offer @£19.95 from naturebureau.co.uk/bookshop The cover features Bearded Reedling, Bittern & Great White Egret 3 of the area's iconic species rspb Somerset Wildlife Trust Avalon Marshes

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Although we're nearing completion of our Photographic guide to #FliesofBritainandIreland I couldn't resist sharing this beauty seen in southern France, the hypnotic Band-eyed Dronefly Eristalinus taeniops, although it has been recorded in Britain it is not native Steven Falk

2 flies from BBO Wildlife Trust's Hitchcopse Pit - Lispe tentaculata (top) likes the damp ground near the pond while Miltogramma germari can be seen on the dry sandy floor of this disused quarry. Find out more about them here bit.ly/4dqQI8Z Steven Falk Gail Ashton 💚🪲🌍 Dipterists Forum