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Join us tomorrow evening (Tues 27th Oct) for an hour and half of learning on how to survey for flies. Getting the fieldwork right dictates the quality of the rest of the project ✅ www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/surveying-... @davebriceflies.bsky.social @flygirlnhm.bsky.social @biologicalrecording.co.uk

Excited to announce the publication of my new book chapter on fly (Diptera) pollination! Here I compile nearly 250 published papers and summarize major aspects of myophily, including ecological, economic, and conservation significance. #pollination #Diptera #unsungheroes doi.org/10.1016/B978...

Terellia has some serious antenna game! Why are they bristly, why not! Fascinating discovering at today's Picture Wing Fly course with @tanyptera.bsky.social #diptera #entomology

Happy Fly-day. We made it! Virginia flower fly (Milesia virginiensis) on side-of-the-road wild goldenrod (Solidago) Mathews County, Virginia 10-13-26 Grand wasp mimic in autumn shadow #FlyDay #eck #macro #nature #threeWordGenre #art #macroPhotography #native #flies #pollinators #bugsky #diptera

A post in honour of #FlyDay This rather large horse fly (Tabanidae) was making the most of the sunshine and spring flowers last weekend. These flies can be a bit of a challenge on warm days when out and about in the Aussie bush. #ausinverts #diptera #wildoz #inaturalist #fly #Tabanidae

Happy #FlyDay! Enjoy a marg and a fly this Friday 🪰💕

A Butterbutt Fly for #flyday, Belvosia borealis, a Tachinid that parasitizes Ceratomia hawk moths. #insects #diptera #gardening 🌱 #bugsky

A marmalade hoverfly perched on the yellow centre of a red and white dahlia 🌱 #FlyDay #FlowersOnFriday #FloralFriday #Bloomscrolling #EastCoastKin

Fly Research & Conservation Virtual Symposium 21 Oct 2026 | 10:00 - 13:00 | Tickets £1 - £30 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1981718540... Featuring the brilliant minds of: @flygirlnhm.bsky.social Erica McAlister @denisewawman.bsky.social Denise Wawman Ian McGowan Meghan Barrett @biologicalrecording.co.uk

🦇 In case you missed it 🦇 Na, na, na, na, na, na, na,na,na,na,na na,na,na,na,na Batmaaaaaan!. #Batman #Hoverflies #Flies #Insects #Pollinator #Nature #Biology #Wildlife #Diptera #Entomology #NaturalHistory #StayCurious #Autumn #NatureNotes hoverflyspotter.blogspot.com/2026/09/batm...

I’ve never played Assassin’s Creed, but I imagine this is the vibe. (Promachus rufipes robberfly with bumblebee prey.) #bugsky #insects #diptera #accidentalrenaissance

last upload for a little while before i start my last year of grad school (!) to become a therapist (!!!) but i’ve had this idea floating in my head for a while based on my favorite insect, the stalk eyed fly! goofiest bugs in the world <3 #fly #insect #stalkeyedfly #entomology #diptera

Flyday! This is a Bee Fly I know this because I am a fly expert We experts call them "Diptera" pretty much so the laypeople don't know what we're talking about Macro Photography

Want to learn a bit more about identifying calliphorids? Join Team Diptera on our discord, tomorrow! Link in Bio! #Fliesarecool #TeamDiptera #diptera

We'll be hosting our 35th General Meeting @ #EntSoc26 (Nov. 10; Columbus, OH) and are looking for speakers! Presentations can be on anything related to #Diptera If you're interested please message @bertonemyia.bsky.social for a link to submit your talk info for consideration. Hope to see you there!

For the sixth consecutive year, my garden has been graced by this incredibly rare and stunning hoverfly. A female Callicera spinolae (Ivy Longhorn) today. My first August record, and five days earlier than last year, which was the previous earliest record. #Diptera #Syrphidae #Flies #Entomology

Happy FlyDay. We made it! 🪰 Bee fly perched (Systoechus solitus) CREW pen flint strand Bonita Springs, Florida 8-19-26 Proboscis looks menacing, but harmless, for deep-access & hover-feeding, like humming birds. #flyDay #eck #diptera #flies #entomology #macro #threewordgenre #bugSky #nature #art

A female Locust blowfly, Stomorhina lunata, in #Plymouth garden on Mint flower, 24/8/26. Lovely eyes. #Diptera

Such an elegant fly ✨💕

Fly appreciation post. For a long time my favourite taxon has been diptera or flies, mostly because of the immense variation. Here are 4 of my favourite recent fly shots. 1. Ringed Pixie 2. Antlered flutter fly 3. Eutreta noveboracensis 4. Hystricia abrupta 🌿📷🦋 #inverts #insects #wildlife

GIRL DINNER ✨️🪰 #diptera #bugsky #asilidae #syrphidae #insect

Come join Team Diptera on our discord server (link in bio) for a Creature Feature! Thursday, August 20th, 5pm! 🪰

Come join Team Diptera on our discord server (link in bio) for a Creature Feature! Thursday, August 20th, 5pm! 🪰

Every group that stays this research center makes a painting to commemorate so of course I was put in charge to paint it. Really happy with the colors on this one. Its a periscelid dancing on top of a pantophthalmid, our two star flies found during the course! #flyschool2026 #diptera #art

Back in civilization after 2 weeks in the Costa Rican jungle. It was an amazing experience full of spectacular flies (+other creatures) as well as a truly wonderful group of students & instructors. The memories made will last a lifetime. ☺️ 🥰 Can't wait for the next #Diptera adventure! #FlySchool2026

🧪🧵 🪰 🐜🪲🐞🦗🐛🦋🪳🦟 Were there patterns in what groups we found? 🪰🪰🪰🪰🪰🪰🪰🪰🪰🪰🪰🪰🪰🪰🪰🪰🪰🪰🪰🪰🪰🪰🪰🪰🪰🪰A LOT OF FLIES 🪰🪰🪰🪰🪰🪰🪰🪰🪰🪰🪰🪰🪰🪰🪰🪰🪰🪰🪰🪰🪰🪰🪰🪰🪰🪰🪰🪰🪰🪰🪰🪰🪰🪰🪰🪰🪰🪰🪰🪰🪰🪰🪰🪰🪰🪰🪰🪰🪰🪰🪰🪰🪰🪰🪰🪰🪰🪰🪰🪰🪰🪰 (and also loads of Hymenoptera, Coleoptera and Hemiptera). doi.org/10.1139/gen-... @gdfcf.bsky.social @rpuschen.bsky.social

🪰 Argyra diaphana ♂ - Long-legged Fly a gorgeous, but rather small, fly handheld focus stack of 57 shots in the field using natural light #fly #ukwildlife #diptera #argyra #insect #photography #macro #nature #scotland

Happy #flyfriday! Looks like a moth but it's a bee fly, genus Lephidophora, apparently a kleptoparasite of solitary vespid and sphecid wasps. Apparently these can be seen in Georgia but are more common up north. Black Rock Forest, NY last month. #BugSky #flyday #BugShot #diptera

Love this from #FlySchool2026 student @toldentops.bsky.social! 🥰 #Lauxaniidae is one of the most diverse acalyptrate #fly families. Larvae are associated w/leaf litter, thus super abundant/diverse in forests. They are HIGHLY variable so every time a student finds one they think it's a new family 😂

Check out this extraordinary female Eucelatoria sp (Tachinidae). She possess a sharp piercer that she tucks up underneath her when not being deployed, for oviposition - you can see her ovipositor nestled in this penetrating sheath! Badass lady! @dipteracourse.bsky.social #FlySchool2026

TGI #flyfriday! This pufftail fly has what I'd call a wide stance. I've never seen anything from this genus (Sphegina) in Georgia; this was in Trondheim, Norway this June. #flyday #diptera #bugsky

OK I thought Scutops was cute, but OMG #NEOscutops is amazing! 😍 I'm now convinced #Periscelididae is, per species, the weirdest family of flies (more evidence from another genus to drop later). #FlySchool2026 Costa Rica [And yes, @americanbeetles.bsky.social, it's cool partly because of beetle]

Heads up folks Some Tabanidae that were sampled from the Canopy Tower at the Soltis Center, Costa Rica These images show both differences in eye patterns & antennal branching. Sadly the eye patterns disappear as they desicate so images are important #FlySchool2026 @dipteracourse.bsky.social

Diptera is 2 wing unless they are 0 wing and also convergent evolution into mite size and hitchhike on bee en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braula_...

Gold star for this silver soldier #fly 🌟 Diptera are seriously amazing 🤩 🥰 #Stratiomyidae: #Artemita argentea Soltis Center, Costa Rica @flygirlnhm.bsky.social @dipteracourse.bsky.social @riccardi-p.bsky.social

A stack of flies (Empis livida and some poor unfortunate) What happens in the under shrubbery stays in the under shrubbery focus stack of 23 shots - handheld and captured in natural light #fly #ukwildlife #diptera #tiger #photography #macro #nature #scotland

Helophilus pendulus, ‘The footballer’, from Edward Donovan’s ‘The natural history of British insects’, vol. 1 (London, 1792). S391.c.79.1 @theulspeccoll.bsky.social #Hoverflies #Diptera

This is what my camera roll looks like during #FlySchool2026 (and as it did during Fly School III in 2024) 😂

Oooh, is that a new acalyptrate? NOPE. LAUXANIID. Thanks to @toldentops.bsky.social for sharing this #FlySchool meme with all of #TeamDiptera! 🪰✨

The mint chocolate chip flavor of flies [I imagine] 😋 #Stratiomyidae: #Promeranisa #FlySchool2026 Costa Rica

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Be a dipterist. Be in Costa Rica for #FlySchool2026. See a muscoid #fly perching on a leaf. Tell student so they can collect it. Success!! Wait a minute 🤔 That's not a fly, but weevil mimicking one! This was so convincing, even rapidly moving & poking its wings out 🥰 #Curculionidae: cf. #Mnemynurus