And our last artist for some sick BUG INK! Here is some of the flash on offer from @chuggalug.bsky.social in Portland, OR! If you’re going to ESA 2025 book an appointment now to get some ink! See more at tinyurl.com/bugluck @entsocamerica.bsky.social #insecttattoo #entsoc2025 #teamdiptera

Want to see more of the BUG INK flash on offer? Here is some of the flash on offer from Jeanine in Portland, OR by @summerhatfieldart! If you’re going to ESA 2025 book an appointment now to get some ink! See more tinyurl.com/bugluck @entsocamerica.bsky.social #insecttattoo #entsoc2025 #teamdiptera

If anyone colors a fly....show us! show us! 🪰✨ #diptera

You want some more flash for more BUG INK? Here is some of the flash on offer from Erika in Portland, OR by @summerhatfieldart! If you’re going to ESA 2025 book an appointment now to get some ink! See more at tinyurl.com/bugluck @entsocamerica.bsky.social #insecttattoo #entsoc2025 #teamdiptera

Here is some of the insect flash on offer from @ladylucktattoopdx in Portland, OR by @summerhatfieldart! If you’re going to ESA 2025 book an appointment now to get some ink! See more at tinyurl.com/bugluck @entsocamerica.bsky.social #insect #insecttattoo #entsoc2025 #esa #portland #teamdiptera

#MacroMonday! Look close to really appreciate the coolness of this #fly #macro #macrophotography #Diptera

A FLYing visit to the Fynbos, Western Cape, South Africa A fabulous opportunity to film in an incredible habitat (thanks BBC)- in terms of flora its unique but maybe not the most pristine in terms of disturbance. That didn't seem to perturb the flies...SO MANY BEEFLIES @dipterists.bsky.social

This year for Halloween, to no one's surprise, I decided to rep #TeamDiptera and be a fly!

Halloween News: Meet a new vampire fly (Hippoboscidae) 🧛‍♂🪰 1 of 10 species found on citizen-reported bird carcasses in Singapore: Even dead birds can have productive afterlives! See host records, annotated images, pictorial keys & DNA diagnostics here: doi.org/10.1155/jzs/...

Ready for some BUG INK at #EntSoc2025? See flash designs here tinyurl.com/bugluck and contact Lady Luck or the tagged artist on flash for bookings! Tag pics of your ink to share! #teamdiptera

Happy #Invertober day 8! Bee-killer robber fly (mallophora fautrix) #SciArt #Invertober2025

Soldierflies are much less well known than hoverflies but some species are highly colourful. Sargus bipunctatus ♀ today in Bengeo garden, large attractive woodland species & last soldierfly to appear during year. @uk-soldierflies.bsky.social @flygirlnhm.bsky.social #Stratiomyidae

North American Hoverflies! 🪰

Tabanus autumnalis, the Large Marsh TV Horsefly, a rather impressive beast. #Diptera #Tabanidae

Hoverflies on the move! 🚀 These tiny pollinators embark on incredible journeys, all sparked by hidden genetic switches in their larvae. Nature never ceases to amaze! 🌍✨ #Hoverflies #Syrphidae #Diptera #Flies #Insects #Pollinator #Nature #Knowledge #Biology #Wildlife

Anyone planning on any insect tattoos this EntSoc/ECN? 🪰 @entsocamerica.bsky.social @entcollnet.bsky.social

ALERT for #EntSoc2025: Bug tattoos are coming to ESA!! Team Diptera is partnering with Lady Luck tattoo in Portland to bring you some amazing insect flash that will be ready for your convention visit. Stay tuned for designs and check out @ladylucktattoopdx ! 🪰✨

I think I'll post my art here more often. :)) A bunch of fly doodles from a few weeks ago. It's fun playing around with bug anatomy and trying to stylise it. #diptera #bugart #bugs #insects

REMINDER: The deadline to submit a fly talk at ESA for the Dipterists Society is this Friday, October 10th. Please share and/or let me know if you'd like to submit!

Look at those lovely patterned wings!

Happy Fly-day. We made it! 🪰 Common lagoon fly (Eristalinus aeneus) on goldenrod leaf near the lagoon in Humboldt Park Thursday, Sept 11th, 2025 📸 Olympus OM-3 90mm ISO200 f11 1/250 #flyday #eastcoastkin #macroPhotography #macro #photography #nature #diptera #native #insects #chicago #parks #art

Double Dipteran for #FlyDay! A nice Syrphid #Fly plus a tiny mosquito, sharing a moment on Tansy flowers. #Diptera #Insects #Arthropods #Invertebrates #BugSky #SciArt #Macrophotography #PhotoHour

New preprint! Courtship choreography is stabilised among genetically isolated populations Check out the mesmerising courtship display of Apotropina ornatipennis (Diptera: Chloropidae) doi.org/10.1101/2025... with @bioblake.bsky.social, @angmcgaughran.bsky.social, @thekeithing.bsky.social, et al

#NewSpecies! New dance fly from #portugal just landed: Chillcottomyia ovaticornis Treatment: treatment.plazi.org/id/EFC88F6D-... Publication: doi.org/10.3897/evol... #EvolutionarySystematics #ChillcottomyiaOvaticornis #FAIRdata #biodiversity #nature #conservation #entomology #diptera #fly #dance

The beginning of the end of the summer is here, and the flies are the survivors. There are 8000 fly species in Sweden, around 30% of all swedish insect species, but probably around 75% of the insect biomass. #diptera #flies #fly #flugor #sunset #insects #naturephotography #macro #naturephotography

#InsectThursday! This is a bee fly on a dandelion in my front yard #macro #macrophotography #Diptera

Australian tiger crane fly #ColorADay #YellowThu #photography #insects #diptera #macro #CraneFly #EastCoastKin

**Attention fly enthusiasts!** We're looking for presenters for the Dipterists Society General Meeting at ESA @entsocamerica.bsky.social in Portland, OR (November 11th) If you're interested in giving a talk, please DM me for a link to submit a title/abstract. Deadline to submit is October 10th.

OBLIGATORY DIPTERA seems they come in TUBE and OVERLY DETAILED WHY DID THE MONK DRAW IT SO DETAILED

Happy Fly-eye Day! 😁 the Black Soldier Fly, Hermetia illucens, and it's amazing eyes. #fujifilm X-S10, #Laowa 65mm #Macro #MacroPhotography #photography #Invertebrates #insects #Diptera

Los ojazos de la Philipomyia aprica. #insectos #insects #macro #mosca #fly #diptera #photography #nature #naturaleza #fotografia

Phasia barbifrons, a parasitoid of shieldbugs. Also keen on Goldrod for refuelling. #Diptera #Bugs #Hemiptera #VC55 #OlympusTG6

Los asílidos o moscas asesinas son potentes predadores. Como puede verse en la foto. De todos modos, como os podéis imaginar, lo de "asesina" es una cualidad exclusivamente humana. #insectos #insects #macro #mosca #fly #diptera #photography #nature #naturaleza #fotografia

A #Dolichopodidae fly, possibly Dolichopus signatus, but they are a very hard family to ID to species, from #RSPBMiddletonLakes, 01/08/25 @dipteristsforum.bsky.social @suillia.bsky.social #Diptera

Diptera people what are these? Found inside a Tougher Than Tom's Mosquito TNT. I'm trying to rear them up but am not sure what they'd like in terms of substrate for pupation. Swarthmore, PA. 🌿🧪🪰 #diptera #flies #insects #entomology www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Qpz...

A Peacock Fly (Callopistromyia sp.) showing off the beautiful display on those wings! They strut around waving their wings and doing a little wiggle, an amazing behavior right in your own backyard. #Invert #Diptera #bugsky 🌿 #entomology

Geron sp. (A type of "Long Legged Fly", named from the Greek for "old man" because they're tiny humpbacked fellows that look like they're carrying little canes. Larvae parasitize on other insects because of course they do, but adults are dainty flower feeders. #Diptera #entomology #bugsky 🌿

📎 New species alert: Ceriana ecuadorensis, a wasp-mimicking flower fly from #Ecuador, just described! Collected at 1400 meters in Zamora-Chinchipe. Only the 3rd #Ceriana from #SouthAmerica — distinguished by unique antennal morphology. 📄 doi.org/10.4289/0013... #Diptera #NewSpecies #Taxonomy

Behold! The gnarly-but-neat nasal bot (snot?) fly maggot! This sp. lives in the sinuses/throats of deer feeding on mucous etc. The larva is from a taxidermist & was shared by Ezra Bailey ☺️ Adults look like bees & shoot larvae into noses: bugguide.net/node/view/26... #Diptera #Oestridae #Cephenemyia

A very obliging female Cistogaster globosa fly, seen at Tameside Nature Reserve, #Staffs 21/07/25, one of my favourite flies #Tachinidae @dipteristsforum.bsky.social #Diptera #fly

Happy Fly-day July 25th, 2025 Thick-headed fly (Physocephala tibialis) A harmless wasp mimic shown here on common milkweed. #flyDay #macro #photography #nature #diptera #native #insects #flies #bugs #art #chicago

Every morning she went out on the patio, as she always did. There were all her Hoverflies on the Chicory; every single one. She threw wide her arms. She said: “Good morning, my fine wingèd friends!” #sideways #BlueskyArtShow 📷 #photography #Diptera #hoverflies

Knockdown of mirror in fruit fly wings results in the loss of a proximal-posterior lobe called the “alula” – a membranous structure present exclusively in some #Diptera like fruit flies (doi.org/10.1242/dev....). (4/6)

Any Dipterist's out there, does this look like Phasia aurigera to you? Picture taken today in S.Hants garden also lots of Ectophasia crassipennis about too. #Diptera #flies

Flies exhibit some really cool behaviors! Check out this conopid taking on a bee! 🪰v.🐝!