Peak season now for male Long-horned Bees Eucera longicornis around Prawle, Devon. A Misumena vatia flower crab spider was eyeing one up but didn't catch the bee.
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New paper published from Tenerife bdj.pensoft.net/article/1818... not an author but very happy to have helped with Diptera Identification for the project. Increasing numbers of invertebrates of different Orders being discovered around Mt Teide. #diptera #Tenerife #Teide @dipteristsforum.bsky.social
New paper published from Tenerife bdj.pensoft.net/article/1818... not an author but very happy to have helped with Diptera Identification for the project. Increasing numbers of invertebrates of different Orders being discovered around Mt Teide. #diptera #Tenerife #Teide @dipteristsforum.bsky.social
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Nanananananananana - Bat Fly!
Myanthropa florea - the 'batman' hoverfly
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When your terrier watches @bbcspringwatch.bsky.social Polecats are fascinating, as are Storks, Buzzards, Badgers......... 🙂
Times Obituary for Peter Chandler today, written by close friend, Dr Ian F.G. McLean.
Dr McLean said:
"I am so pleased that Peter should receive this accolade, he was very helpful to many Dipterists and always disarmingly modest about his outstanding contributions to the study of flies".
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Xanthogramma stackelbergi ♂ today in Bengeo garden, striking woodland hoverfly recorded far less frequently than common X.pedissequum.
Photos show major ID features: little darkening on wings below pterostigma, 4 yellow spots on side of thorax & yellow membrane below T3-5. @flygirlnhm.bsky.social
Dave Brice
Bath friends, we need one more of you coming to this ecology tour of Warleigh Nature Reserve tomorrow. Go on. It’s fun and I’ll turn up for a cameo between bashing balsam. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ecology-to...
The Teide National Park is a high-mountain ecosystem characterised by a high temperature and solar radiation, together with low humidity. Aside from these extreme conditions, a rich biota inhabits the...
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The Teide National Park is a high-mountain ecosystem characterised by a high temperature and solar radiation, together with low humidity. Aside from these extreme conditions, a rich biota inhabits the...
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