Only a couple days left to apply for this course!
We hope you consider it and we'd love to see you there for this amazing opportunity ππ¦π
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Illustrated logo with a square bottom and round top, light blue background showing a lake and trees in the background. Three flies, a robber fly, midge, and crane fly sit below the Dipterists Society logo. Bottom wording says "Itasca Biological Station"
Photo of a lake with a rocky shoreline, with clouds and trees in the background
We're excited to announce registration is open for the 19th Dipterists Society Field Meeting, to be held June 15β19th at the Itasca Biological Station in northern Minnesota!
For more information & to submit talks please visit: dipterists.org/field_meetin...
We look forward to seeing you there!
Just one week left to apply to Fly School IV!!!
The cover of The new βPhotographic guide to flies of Britain and Irelandβ
An open page from the new βPhotographic guide to flies of Britain and Irelandβ. Text for each species on the left with beautiful macro photos on the right.
Oh helloβ¦ itβs here! The new βPhotographic guide to flies of Britain and Irelandβ.
Steven Falk (not sure if heβs on BS?)
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@rdimond.bsky.social
Peter Creed
Forward by @flygirlnhm.bsky.social
It is an astonishing piece of work for such a diverse taxonomic group.
#diptera
sooooo... WHO is NEXT?!? π±ππ
π₯ #Diptera unit π¦πͺ° at #CNC in Ottawa under threat!!! π₯
Plz support the colleagues!!! Read the Open Letter and sign the petition here: diptera.de/CNC_Diptera/
#taxonomy #biodiversity #collection #museum #entomology #gnatsarecool #fliesarecooltoo #Canada #insects
A yellow round sticker with the words Let It Fly surrounded by 5 flies
Let it fly!! Check out this awesome fly art from jyoon_bug on instagram! πͺ°β€οΈ #Diptera #FliesAreAwesome
Macro photo of a small black soldier fly with fine silvery hairs standing in the middle of a yellow aster, its long proboscis sunk deep into the flower. The flyβs head is cone-shaped and tapers to a sharp point. (Nemotelus kansensis, Texas)
Heartbreaking: The Worst Insect You Know Has a Great Point
REMINDER: The deadline to apply for Fly School is 28 Feb.
Visit dipterists.org/fly_school.h... for info & application.
Photo by @bertonemyia.bsky.social
digital illustration of a long, hairy, yellowish-green fly with orange and black legs and white tuft on the end of its abdomen. below is a white egg sack with tiny white larvae emerging saying "γγ!"
#flybuary day 4! promachus yesonicus is called γ·γͺγ€γ’γ (shioyaabu, salt peddler "horsefly") in japanese because of the male's white tail. promachus are huge robber flies and are one of the few genera of asilids that lay frothy white egg masses. buy his salt or else.
#invertebrates #sciart
A yellow and black striped fly with dark patches on its wings, held out, feeding on dung while resting on a leaf.
πͺ° DEADLINE: Dipterists Society Travel and Research Grant applications are due by 9 February 2026
Please see the last issue of Fly Times (dipterists.org/assets/PDF/f...) or visit the Society's website for details: dipterists.org/grants_award...
Gosh I have photographed a lot of flies over the years.
A preserved micro bee fly with a hump back, long "beak", and large eyes.
π¨ Postdoc announcement π¨
Taxonomy of Neotropical Mythicomyiidae at Museu de Zoologia, Universidade de SΓ£o Paulo (MZUSP)
For more details follow this link: fapesp.br/oportunidade...
Photo: male Amydrostylus triadicophallus Lamas, Falaschi & Evenhuis, 2015 (Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil)
Ok so Iβve seen a lot of pinned insects in my time but Iβve NEVER seen wing rests for mosquitoes
The @unirdgento.bsky.social have been charged to give me data about these specimens in the @uniofreading.bsky.social collection because they are FABULOUS
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Call out to anyone with UK records of Sphaeroceridae not on NBN/iRecord. Looking at getting the best distribution possible for a new key, I realise this will be a 'best possible', but more the merrier. Please share @dipteristsforum.bsky.social @flygirlnhm.bsky.social @respublications.bsky.social
desk space in insect collection at Iziko South African Museum with view of Lions Head
assassin fly Anasillomos chrysopos with cicada prey
two male assassin flies of Acnephalomyia leukoros mounted on single card
assassin fly Teratopomyia cyanea - first species of Asilidae described from South Africa in 1781
#FlyFriday
visiting Iziko South African Museum in Cape Town today - great collection, great flies, (partial) view of Lions Head
assassin flies:
Anasillomos chrysopos with cicada prey
Acnephalomyia leukoros males
Teratopomyia cyanea - 1st species described from South Africa in 1781
#asiloidflies
Ahh the problem with common names
The original description of this image -'Fruit flies undergo a prelude of dances prior to mating'
It's a Tephritidae - a fruit fly. NOT Drosophila - what many refer to as a fruit fly (from family Drosophilidae aka Vinegar flies). Quite different (see image of cat)
Our new 416pp #FliesofBritainandIreland covering over 1300 species & with over 1500 photos is now being printed - due mid Feb 2026. You can still pre-order until 31 Jan bit.ly/4dqQI8Z
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Willistoniella sp., ropalomerid fly (Ropalomeridae). Photo taken at Fly School 2024 by @bertonemyia.bsky.social
Limoniinae,bobbing crane fly (Tipulidae). Photo taken at Fly School 2024 by @bertonemyia.bsky.social
Stilt-legged fly (Micropezidae). Photo taken at Fly School 2024 by @bertonemyia.bsky.social
Lauxaniid fly (Lauxaniidae). Photo taken at Fly School 2024 by @bertonemyia.bsky.social
Join us in Costa Rica for Fly School IV! Applications are now open. Visit dipterists.org/fly_school.h... for application & info. @dipterists.bsky.social @dipteristsforum.bsky.social @teamdiptera.bsky.social @flygirlnhm.bsky.social @bertonemyia.bsky.social @ariannatc.bsky.social @phorid.bsky.social
Neoempheria merlio Amorim & Oliveira sp. n. from Singapore
Happy New Fungus Gnats! π₯π¦π¦
Prof. Dalton Amorim and co-authors name 98 new species of Mycetophilidae from Singapore in a monograph just published in @integsyst.bsky.social
The paper can be downloaded for free from the following link: tinyurl.com/342cs43t
Enjoy!
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Periscelis wheeleri, the most grumpy old man fly I've ever seen
A new genus and new species of Mycetophilidae from Singapore. Paper authored by Fly School instructor Dalton Amorim, Fly School I alumnus @derschwingfliegen.bsky.social, and others
An orange yellow fly with long legs and antennae sits on a gray background. It has dark stripes on the legs, iridescent green eyes, and four large dark spots on the wings, laid out in a diamond shape.
An orange yellow fly with long legs and antennae sits on a scale encrusted twig background. It has dark stripes on the legs, iridescent green eyes, and four large dark spots on the wings, laid out in a diamond shape.
An orange yellow fly with long legs and antennae sits on a scale encrusted twig background. It has dark stripes on the legs, iridescent green eyes, and four large dark spots on the wings, laid out in a diamond shape.
An orange yellow maggot sits on a scale encrusted twig background, among numerous scale insects.
Don't let this delicate little muppet fly fool you - larvae are voracious predators of armored scale insects! A member of the "gall" midge family, it has abandoned plant feeding for a meat-based diet (like many others).
#Cecidomyiidae: #Dentifibula viburni
Host = white prunicola scale; #Diaspididae
Louse flies with unhatched puparia
My first louse (flat) flies of the year! Stenepteryx (Crataerina) hirundinis puparia (Diptera: Hippoboscidae) with flies emerging about 5 months early. I probably should have kept them somewhere cooler!
Processing the contents of a vacuum sampling session. Copyright Nigel Jones
Learn more about #diptera Funding available for Summer field meeting 2026 #fieldcraft #entomology #pollinators #foodwebs #detritivores
Application deadline is 5th Jan. Email enquiries@dipterists.org.uk
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Enjoy a lovely walk through a Colombian mountain-top forest with @tshahan.bsky.social! We suggest watching the whole video (youtu.be/sgGlXNOct9I?...), but if you want to skip to the flies πͺ° you can click here: youtu.be/sgGlXNOct9I?...
Amazing!
my modest collection of flies with WIDE heads π
a hammer-headed Richardia (Ecuador),
a stalk-eyed Chaetodiopsis (Mozambique),
a pointy-eyed Ophthalmoptera (Colombia),
and an antlered Richardia (Colombia)
why though? male-male competition? sexual selection? chime-in if you know!
Day 20 of #InsectAdvent
Nearly there, eyes on the prize of Christmas Day. Talking of eyes, some of the best eyed creatures are stalk-eyed flies including Plagoiocephalus latifrons (image @bertonemyia.bsky.social) we saw in Costa Rica
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Cover photo - Male Diostracus prasinus Loew (Dolichopodidae) from Kephart Prong Trail in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, North Carolina, USA. This species has fascinatingly pubescent palpi which shimmer in the light and are used for courting interactions. Photograph by Zachary Dankowicz. Cover of the issues shows a long-legged fly standing on a natural surface staring at the camera. It has green eyes with diffuse reddish stripes and a metallic green thorax. It has a pair of bright white, flat palps around the mouth.
Just in time for the holidays, a little gift: FLY TIMES Issue 75 (Fall 2025)! πͺ° π° π
Check it out for all the latest Diptera/fly news.
**Don't forget to check out the call for grant applications through the society too!**
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Day 16 #InsectAdvent
The Nativity story is set in a stables in Bethlehem where the People were surrounded by animals, not all of them welcome. The stable fly Stomoxys calcitrans (Muscidae) gives the gift of a painful 'bite' to all attending mammals
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Day 15 #InsectAdvent
And even the flies are getting festive. Sporting massive antlers akin to Moose or Reindeer, Phytalmia sp (Tephritidae) males, will use them to fight for their right.......to PARTY (with the opposite sex...)
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