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Team Diptera 🪰🔍🦟🌻 @teamdiptera.bsky.social · 1d

Love the fly diversity present here 😍

Team Diptera 🪰🔍🦟🌻 @teamdiptera.bsky.social · 1d

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 ! 🪰✨

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BIRD @thatonecreature.bsky.social · 6d

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

Seven rough drawings of flies on a grey background. The flies are drawn in a non realistic way.

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Matt Bertone @bertonemyia.bsky.social · 6d

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!

Matt Bertone @bertonemyia.bsky.social · Sep 10

**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.

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Team Diptera 🪰🔍🦟🌻 @teamdiptera.bsky.social · 10d

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Team Diptera 🪰🔍🦟🌻 @teamdiptera.bsky.social · 15d

Look at those lovely patterned wings!

Plazi @plazi-species.bsky.social · 23d

#NewSpecies!
New shore fly from #czechrepublic just landed:

Scatophila hirsovae

Treatment: treatment.plazi.org/id/03C51867-...
Publication: doi.org/10.37520/aem...
#ActaEntomologica #ScatophilaHirsovae

#FAIRdata
#OA #biology #biodiversity #nature #conservation #entomology #insects #diptera #fly

Scatophila hirsovae, habitus, latero-oblique view.

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Gray @grays.art · 16d

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

Close up of fly facing us with yellow eyes with red polka dots.

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G-Lau 🇨🇦 @g-lau.bsky.social · 16d

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

Photo showing two insects on yellow blower heads. The larger insect is a Syrphid Fly, with its characteristic yellow and black colors mimicking those of a wasp of bee. The eyes are large and reddish in color, with many reflections on the multiple facets. To its right on the photo, a small mosquito is perched on another flower head. The plant on which they both stand is Tansy, with its multiple yellow button-like flower heads. Each flower head is made of dozens of tiny flowers reduced to stamens and pistils. The flower heads form a scattered structure, increasing in height from bottom to top of the photo. Watermark identifying photographer as Geneviève Laurin.

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Nathan Butterworth @butterworthbugs.bsky.social · Sep 11

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

The courtship display of Apotropina ornatipennis (Diptera: Chloropidae) from Australia

YouTube video by Nathan

youtu.be

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Plazi @plazi-species.bsky.social · Sep 12

#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

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PhotoMaze 🇸🇪 @photomaze.bsky.social · 28d

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

The besinning of the end of summer, and the flies survive

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Brian Peterson @drbrianpet.bsky.social · 24d

#InsectThursday!

This is a bee fly
on a dandelion
in my front yard

#macro #macrophotography
#Diptera

Looks like an orange hairy bee but acts like a fly

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Team Diptera 🪰🔍🦟🌻 @teamdiptera.bsky.social · Sep 11

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Peter Barnes @infinite8horizon.com · Sep 11

Australian tiger crane fly

#ColorADay #YellowThu
#photography #insects #diptera #macro #CraneFly #EastCoastKin

A large, VERY long-legged crane fly with black and yellow markings sitting on a leaf. (Nephrotoma australasiae)

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Matt Bertone @bertonemyia.bsky.social · Sep 10

**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.

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Petra Korlević @petrathepostdoc.bsky.social · Sep 10

OBLIGATORY DIPTERA

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

medieval drawing of three flies flying, but they are grey tubular things on a pink background with white dots.

the text below is
fly
three flies flying

medieval drawing of an extremely detailed fly, down to the corect number of legs and body parts with two bright yellow wings

text below
fly
common house fly

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Luxomancer 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @luxomancer.bsky.social · Aug 9

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

A macro photo of the head and forebody of a black fly. The fly's large eyes are metallic pale green with manly irregular dark iridescent stripes.

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Enrique Gil Alcubilla @enriquegilal.bsky.social · Aug 11

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

Fotografía de la mosca Philipomyia aprica.

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AJCann @ajcann.bsky.social · Aug 18

Phasia barbifrons, a parasitoid of shieldbugs. Also keen on Goldrod for refuelling.

#Diptera #Bugs #Hemiptera #VC55 #OlympusTG6

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Enrique Gil Alcubilla @enriquegilal.bsky.social · Aug 7

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

Fotografía de una "mosca asesina" de la familia de los asílidos predando sobre un saltamontes.

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Lisa Williams @lisawilliams30.bsky.social · Aug 7

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

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Colin Purrington @colinpurrington.bsky.social · Aug 7

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...

Fly larvae inside Tougher Than Tom's Mosquito TNT

YouTube video by Colin Purrington

www.youtube.com

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Bath Nature @bathnature.bsky.social · Aug 7

Kite-tailed Robberfly (Machimus atricapillus). This aerial acrobat is a predator of flying insects, and can easily catch an unsuspecting hoverfly.
In #Bath #Somerset #UK.
#nature #wildlife #wildlifephotography #naturephotography #ukwildlife #bathnature #insect #ukwildlife #entomology #diptera #fly

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Armando Rosario-Lebrón @rosariolebronentomology.com · Jul 20

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

Macrophotograph of a Peacock Fly (Callopistromyia sp) resting on a slightly weathered metal beam. The fly holds its patterned wings upright in an elaborate, fan-like display, appearing almost butterfly-like. Each wing is intricately marked with shades of dark brown, black, white, and subtle hints of iridescent blue, creating a mosaic-like camouflage pattern. The fly’s body is robust and heavily speckled in shades of brown, black, and cream. Bright, vivid orange-red eyes stand out distinctly on its head, along with delicate antennae and fine bristles visible along its legs and thorax. The textured metal beam beneath it has faint scratches and rust streaks, providing contrast that highlights the detail and coloration of the insect.

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Armando Rosario-Lebrón @rosariolebronentomology.com · Jul 22

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 🌿

A macrophotograph of a Geron sp. fly (Long Legged Fly) perched delicately atop clusters of vibrant yellow goldenrod flowers. The fly has a distinctly humpbacked posture, with thin, wiry legs and a slender proboscis resembling a tiny cane. Its fuzzy, golden-brown body contrasts beautifully against the bright blooms. Prominent reddish-brown compound eyes stand out clearly, and its delicate, transparent wings rest neatly along its body. The background softly blurs into shades of green and gold, highlighting the fine details of both the insect and the flowers.

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