Fly Research & Conservation Virtual Symposium 2026 Tue 23 Jun 2026 | Online | £30 or pay what you can Explore the latest fly ecology, conservation science & practical case studies. Live Q&A, expert talks & all resources available after the event 🌍 🧪 Book here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1981718540...

Next International Congress of Dipterology (ICDXI, ICD11) will be held in Zagreb, Croatia, between 11-16 July 2027 - details icd11.biol.pmf.hr - first registration deadline at end of February 2027 #Diptera #Flies #ICDXI

The official website for the 11th International Congress of Dipterology (ICDXI) has launched! icd11.biol.pmf.hr We'd love to see you in Croatia in 2027. 🇭🇷🪰🦟

We are searching for a new Department Head of Entomology at Virginia Tech. Come work in lovely Blacksburg with some pretty cool people and spectatular students. Please repost and spread the word. Review Date 4/26/26. jobs.apply.vt.edu/jobs/profess...

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 😊🦟🎉 bsky.app/profile/dipt...

APPLY NOW folks. An amazing experience to learn more about the taxonomy of flies, undertake fieldwork in a tropical forest, and chat ecologies with experts in the evenings. #perfect forms.gle/ggaCi1my5zqj...

We're excited to announce registration is open for the 19th Dipterists Society Field Meeting, to be held June 15–19th 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!!!

Oh hello… it’s here! The new ‘Photographic guide to flies of Britain and Ireland’. Steven Falk (not sure if he’s on BS?) @gailashton.bsky.social @rdimond.bsky.social Peter Creed Forward by @flygirlnhm.bsky.social It is an astonishing piece of work for such a diverse taxonomic group. #diptera

One week left to apply for this year's Fly School, happening in July in Costa Rica! Fly School happens every other year, so the next opportunity won't be until 2028. Application and more info at dipterists.org/fly_school.h...

I’ve been a supporter of @wwf.org.uk for over 40 years & I think it’s the first time I’ve seen flies in their magazine! Hoverflies (& 100000s more spp) are not just excellent pollinators as adults, as the larvae are either recyclers of organic waste or predators of your garden pests 🤓🪰

#FlyFriday assassin fly Neolophonotus sp. (Asilidae: Asilinae) with small flesh fly (Sarcophagidae) prey - photographed on a coastal dune in foggy/overcast weather at McDougall's Bay, Northern Cape, South Africa - 31 January 2026 #asiloidflies

The deadline for the BEST COURSE is coming up - please do apply and join us in the jungle This course is amazing - flies, Costa Rica, more flies, excellent tutors, yet more flies, great experience and EVEN MORE FLIES

Dipterology has been handed a major blow: as a result of the Federal Gov.'s Work Force Adjustment Program, research on Diptera (true flies) at the Canadian National Collection, a hub of excellence in this field, is being discontinued Please sign the letter to support our fly friends & colleagues! ❤️

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

🪰 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.

🚨 Postdoc announcement 🚨 Taxonomy of Neotropical Mythicomyiidae at Museu de Zoologia, Universidade de São 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 I’ve seen a lot of pinned insects in my time but I’ve 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 @royentsoc.bsky.social @entcollnet.bsky.social

After being rather busy and after much procrastination, today I started on the outline for a new Sphaeroceridae key; this may take a while (a couple of years maybe)! Copromyzinae first, pic of Alloborborus pallifrons @flygirlnhm.bsky.social @sjthomasbotany.bsky.social @dipteristsforum.bsky.social

A SEM scan of 3D preserved cuticle of a solider fly larva(Stratiomyidae) from Miocene of Slovenia. Beautifull pattern of Calcium Carbonate "scales" armoring the larva is well visible. #FossilFriday #Fossils🪰⚒️🦖

A long-awaited review of the 400+ fly genera of Hermann Loew is finally out (yep, that's a younger Hermann Loew sans moustache). h/t to Joachim Ziegler for the archival research on his bio and making contact with Loew's great granddaughter to get the portrait. www.mapress.com/zt/article/v...

The photos by @bertonemyia.bsky.social that I shared in the original post were too low resolution to do them justice. High resolution versions of the images can be found at flic.kr/p/2qhLuLf flic.kr/p/2qggWyp flic.kr/p/2qgcns8 flic.kr/p/2qggWwv

What a time to be alive!! #FliesofBritainandIreland coming out SOON @dipteristsforum.bsky.social @teamdiptera.bsky.social @dipterists.bsky.social

Looking forward to the course and to being back in Costa Rica with you!

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

Just out. Lots of muscid info packed into 1,341 pp. archive.org/details/be18...

As the Arctic warms, mosquitoes—and the diseases they carry—float north. A recent study finds Jamestown Canyon virus and snowshoe hare virus present in mosquitoes in Arctic and sub-Arctic regions of North America.

First for me - walking through the galleries with a Demijohn and a model of a Piophilidae Today we deinstall Creepy Crawlies and models/specimens are off to quarantine

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!

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

Taxonomic and faunistic comments on European Scatophila Becker (Diptera: Ephydridae), with descriptions of four new species Free download: doi.org/10.18476/202... #Diptera #Ephydridae #shoreflies @flygirlnhm.bsky.social @smnstuttgart.bsky.social @bioone.bsky.social

A new species of Ptilodexia (Diptera: Tachinidae: Dexiinae) from Ecuador, with a key to the South American species Free download: doi.org/10.18476/202... #Diptera #Tachinidae #flies #bristleflies @leibnizlib.bsky.social @smnstuttgart.bsky.social @bioone.bsky.social @flygirlnhm.bsky.social

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

A new species of phorid fly described by Fly School III alumnus Valerio Caruso and others

First record of Paragus karnaliensis (Diptera: Syrphidae) from India, with notes on Indian species of the genus Paragus Free download: doi.org/10.18476/202... #hoverflies #flowerflies #flies #India @smnstuttgart.bsky.social @bioone.bsky.social @flygirlnhm.bsky.social

Learn more about #diptera Funding available for Summer field meeting 2026 #fieldcraft #entomology #pollinators #foodwebs #detritivores Application deadline is 5th Jan. Email [email protected] @britentsoc.bsky.social @dipterists.bsky.social @royentsoc.bsky.social @flygirlnhm.bsky.social

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 🪰 you can click here: youtu.be/sgGlXNOct9I?... Amazing!

Day 24 of #InsectAdvent and the flying reindeer have arrived! Oh no they haven’t… It’s a Ricardia sp (Richardiidae) that I collected from Honduran Cloud Forest, one of the many species of antlered flies. @royentsoc.bsky.social @dipterists.bsky.social

Day 23 of #InsectAdvent As the angels spread their wings, so do the flies. Rhamphomyia marginata (Empididae) are found across Europe & unusually for animals, it is the females that form the flirty swarms. Maybe not such angelic behaviour 😉 @royentsoc.bsky.social @dipterists.bsky.social

my modest collection of flies with WIDE heads 🙇 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 21 of #InsectAdvent Christmas is a time of over-eating. But we're not the biggest feasters. Hermetia illucens (Black-Soldier fly) larvae are capable of eating up to 2x its own body mass in food per day - the best bio recyclers consuming our waste @royentsoc.bsky.social @dipterists.bsky.social

One of the highlights from Fly School last year!

Day 19 of #InsectAdvent Santa has a sac full of presents, so does Villa cingulata but hers is full of sand. Her sac is at the end of her abdomen & here she is twerking to get the sand to coat her eggs (on exit) to prevent desiccation - cool mum 😎 @royentsoc.bsky.social @dipterists.bsky.social

Just in time for the holidays, a little gift: FLY TIMES Issue 75 (Fall 2025)! 🪰 📰 🎁 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!** dipterists.org/assets/PDF/f...

Day 18 of #InsectAdvent - LET IT SNOW Chionea (Limoniidae) are a genus of wingless craneflies commonly called Snow flies (not found in UK but 'strongly suspected' that they are here...). Adults can be seen scuttling across the snow in the winter @royentsoc.bsky.social @dipterists.bsky.social

Day 17 of #InsectAdvent.. Big day is almost upon us. Have you hung your baubles yet? What about this specimen belonging to the most bauble of flies Celyphidae (beetle flies or beetle-backed flies). Mostly metallic with their enlarged scutellum grown over their abdomen @royentsoc.bsky.social

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 @dipterists.bsky.social @royentsoc.bsky.social

Day 13 #InsectAdvent & have you decorated the tree yet? What about this tree? This in fact the hairy whorls of a male Chaoborid or Phantom midge’s antennae. Packed full of sensors, this ‘tree’ is more than a mere decoration @royentsoc.bsky.social @dipterists.bsky.social

Day 14 #InsectAdvent & Christmas cards are being sent/ received Can you imagine having to write a card to this soldierfly - Parastratiosphecomyia stratiosphecomyioides. It has the longest name in the Animal Kingdom. Luckily the address is short.. @royentsoc.bsky.social @dipterists.bsky.social