The society aims to promote the study, recording and conservation of true flies (Diptera). Our focus is on the British Isles, but we foster links with dipterists throughout Europe and further afield.
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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
Nanananananananana - Bat Fly!
Myanthropa florea - the 'batman' hoverfly
Thanks for the image @davebriceflies.bsky.social
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".
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...
A couple of Volucella fly species visiting bramble flowers at Knaith, Lincs, today.
Volucella zonaria (Hornet Hoverfly) and
Volucella pellucens.
Tree Bumblebee (Bombus hypnorum) there also.
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Look out for these tiny flies lurking around your bee hotel. Known as the Houdini Fly Cacoxenus indagator it lays an egg in a sealed mason bee tube, then escapes leaving its egg to develop into a cleptoparitic larva. Find out more here bit.ly/4dqQI8Z @dipteristsforum.bsky.social @bbowt.bsky.social
Drino lota, a tachinid fly whose larvae are parasitoids of Elephant Hawk-moth caterpillars. A regular denizen each year of the Rosebay Willowherb at Cali Heath @yorkswildlife.bsky.social reserve. @dipteristsforum.bsky.social @ynuorg.bsky.social
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Dave Brice
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Considering the bad storms and high winds here last week it was amazing to see literally hundreds of hoverflies feeding in the poppies and on many other flowers at NT Kingston Lacy today
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Fan-bristled Robberfly - Dysmachus trigonus and beetle prey #UKwildlife
Off to lead walks in the Wyre Forest, nr Bewdley at the weekend - should see Dippers along the Dowles Brook. Great for wildflowers and insects (Pearl-bordered Fritillary and Logjammer Hoverfly) too @worcswt.bsky.social
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Brian Hedley
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Ian Andrews
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I absolutely love this photo I have taken of the robberfly Dioctria baumhaueri with its wasp prey! Seen at Houghton Hall, #Norfolk, 25/05/26 @uk-soldierflies.bsky.social @dipteristsforum.bsky.social #Diptera #Hymenoptera @norfolknats.bsky.social
