A dipterist's dipteron, the elusive Borboropsis puberula. The only member of the family in the UK. Restricted to the Scottish Highlands. This one from Ben Lawers is probably the 7th UK record. #Diptera #Entomology @dipteristsforum.bsky.social

Hey @davebriceflies.bsky.social .bringing you a present from @flygirlnhm.bsky.social #sphaeroceridae #diptera #entomology

I'm currently updating and making corrections to the Ephydridae key prepared for the @dipteristsforum.bsky.social workshop. Please let me know if you've noticed any errors or anything that might need updating. Comments, DM or email to sjthomasbotanyATgmail.com please. #Diptera #entomology

Looking forward to my first visit to @dipteristsforum.bsky.social Dipterist Day in Cambridge. Great group of people and non members welcome: dipterists.org.uk/events/dipte...

Nearing the end of a challenging job from Tenerife, just 90 Sarcophagidae to go! 😥 At least this one doesn't look like all of the others; Miltogramma aurifrons. Still available for ID and imaging projects, UK and Europe dipteraid.co.uk/specimeniden... Please share if possible

More flies; Coenosia ruficornis (Muscidae), Empis femorata (Empididae) & Hybos culiciformis (Hybotidae). #flies #dipteraid #dipteraimaging Available for ID and imaging projects, please see dipteraid.co.uk/specimeniden... dipteraid.co.uk/macrophotogr... Please share if possible

Have just ID'd my first Ephydrid from our survey trip to S'Albufera Nature Reserve in Mallorca. Thanks to @sjthomasbotany.bsky.social and David Gibbs for the recent @dipteristsforum.bsky.social Ephydrid workshop, the key is great! Thanks to @davebriceflies.bsky.social for his patient tutorage too.

Scarce Muscid, Nr Buxton, R. Wye, low veg, buttercups. Phaonia villana @dipteristsforum.bsky.social Field Trip 2025 @ukmuscidae.bsky.social @lancefly.bsky.social Diptera ID services available for UK, North, Central and Southern Europe. www.dipteraid.co.uk Please share, thanks

Celebrating a major milestone this week. 🎉 My first issue as editor of the British Mycological Society’s Field Mycology publication is now online and available #OpenAccess for all to read. ➡️ fieldmycology.org Please read and share!

Citizen science surveys of car license plates reveals *alarming* decline in UK #insect populations www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Picture-winged Flies pages are now laid out for our NEW #FliesofBritainandIreland due Autumn 2025 - pre-order now at bit.ly/4dqQI8Z & save £££s on published price @gailashton.bsky.social @bbowt.bsky.social @dipteristsforum.bsky.social @the-wildlifetrusts.bsky.social @flygirlnhm.bsky.social

Simulium reptans, male with large and small facets to the eyes; females feed on mammals inc. humans. Anyone ecologists needing help with diptera backlog from this year? Or planning lots of diptera work next year, please contact me if I can help. Please share, ta! www.dipteraid.co.uk

Fieldwork for @bbs-birds.bsky.social starts next week! Whether it is out on surveys, or just a walk in the countryside, make sure to guard against tick bites! #TickAwarenessWeek

Dolichopus diadema, from marshy areas on s'Albufereta NNR Mallorca 2023, showing the extended ventral part of the face. #dolichopodidae #ecology #dipterid #imaging Now taking on clients for Diptera identification from UK, North, Central and Southern Europe. www.dipteraid.co.uk Please share. thanks

On Monday our instagram account was hacked and then deleted. We received a ransom note to recover it; obviously we couldn't and wouldn't pay, and therefore lost thousands of followers. Meta support was useless. But we're BACK with a new account: @littletollerbooks. Can you follow us there and share?

Latest Family determined from s'Albufereta in Mallorca 2023. Dolichopodidae done! Quite challenging in places but here is Thinophilus flavipalpis, quite a set of palps! New to the Balearics I think unless anyone has more up to date info. ID work done in the UK too! www.dipteraid.co.uk

In Puerto Rico there are 29 species of Chiton & its thought the area with the greatest diversity of polyplacophores in the Caribbean. I believe this one is Acanthopleura granulata, commonly called the West Indian fuzzy chiton (as if I could love them any more!!)

So. Many. Fiddler crabs Left/right - it doesn’t matter what side but one is always an enlarged claw or major cheliped, & they are used for drumming/waving when they see a female. The smaller one is for feeding so they have to work twice as hard as the females who have 2 similar small sized claws

Looking forward to visiting s'Albufera and s'Albufereta reserves in Mallorca again soon, in the meantime Lispe nana (Muscidae) from shallow muddy areas on s'Albufereta 2023. @mmcminn.bsky.social www.dipteraid.co.uk #ecology #flies

www.dipteraid.co.uk/its-all-abou... a mini blog to break up the day. From a site in East Devon that hopefully I will get to spend more time at this year. @flygirlnhm.bsky.social the type of 💩 is important 🙂 #ecology #dipteraidentification #Sepsidae #flies

How has the humble notebook been an essential tool for celebrated thinkers throughout history? Our upcoming free exhibition, Naturalists' Notebooks, explores how naturalists recorded our world from the 18th century to today. Open Tuesday 11 March until Saturday 20 September 2025. bit.ly/43kBXmC

Comprehensive true flies ID service for ecological consultancies, landowners, govt agencies, conservation orgs; all sizes of projects undertaken. 1st fly this year (in the house), Hydrophoria linogrisea, Anthomyiidae, larvae found under bark, assumed predatory. www.dipteraid.co.uk #ecology #flies

Across the UK, farmers are proving that farming and nature can thrive together. But they can’t do it alone. If the UK Government slashes funding, we risk undoing all this progress.

Well , at least we made the shareholders some more money . #BP

Young #WildlifeRecorders (age 11-20 years old) deserve recognition for their efforts! Why not encourage them and celebrate their input, by nominating them for the NBN Young Person’s Award 2025? buff.ly/40IJdWG Closes: 21 April #NBNawards25 #MakingDataWorkForNature

Blog post about the human pressures on local Willow Tits as they begin to sing. #ukbirding #birds

Swotting up for the @dipteristsforum.bsky.social #ephydrides #trueflies Workshop next weekend. Looking forward to learning from the experts! dipterists.org.uk/news/more-sp... #frogface

How's that for a sap run! #lanzarote

Tension rises as we await the 1st #BeeFlyWatch sighting of 2025! Judging by the weather where I am at the moment it's going to be a while yet ... but as soon as you do start seeing bee-flies please get a photo & add a record - full details + ID guides available at dipterists.org.uk/bee-fly-watch

Playing with images of black and shiny flies for when I eventually get to writing a new key; hopefully. Alloborborus pallifrons (Sphaeroceridae; Copromyzinae) a smart small fly, very 'spikey'. Larvae develop in horse dung (usually), not a species I find often. www.dipteraid.co.uk #ecology #flies

We're looking forward to the new Flower-Insect Timed Count season starting on 1 April #pollinators - find out more at our webinar with @festofnature.bsky.social on Sunday 23 Feb (still some places left) bsky.app/profile/poms... and see also the PoMS website ukpoms.org.uk/fit-counts

Pachygaster atra (Stratiomyidae), f. has orange antenna (males are black). From grassland on a hillfort in Devon. Wet woodland nearby. #ecology #flies #diptera Ecologists, needing help with backlogs from last year? Planning diptera work next year? Please contact me www.dipteraid.co.uk Please repost

A nice challenge today, small Sphaeroceridae from a cave in the Philippines, it took a while but fun! Found ID from a 1968 paper on Hawaiian species. Meet Spinilimosina rufifrons. Needed dissection, distinctive bits helped. #ecology #flies www.dipteraid.co.uk Open for sub-contract ID work, pse share

Latest Diptera ID work done, so here's a Sphaerocerid; Gigalimosina flavipes, in limestone caves and woodland, mostly caught in pitfall traps and light traps. Under pressure to get survey reports completed? Need specialist ID support? Pse contact me. #diptera #ecology www.dipteraid.co.uk Pse share