Great to hear @sjthomasbotany.bsky.social talk at #DipteraDay2025 on 'The Chloropidae UK and Ireland Flickr Group'. Check out the recording of this on our YouTube channel and see how you can make use of and add to this great resource!
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Great end to Day 1 of #DipteraDay2025 A meal with friends.
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For those unable to attend the #DipteristDay2025 in person, see you online. Link below 🪰

What a treat! @zoologymuseum.bsky.social Collection visit underway for @dipteristsforum.bsky.social Dipterist Day.

Delighted we have @pemberleybooks.bsky.social joining us at our Dipterist Day 2025 at @zoologymuseum.bsky.social this Saturday. Always a wonderful day! Join us in person, all welcome or via Zoom. Book here: dipterists.org.uk/events/dipte...

Can't make the @dipteristsforum.bsky.social Dipterist Day 2025 in Cambridge this Saturday 15th November - fear not! Sign up through the link in the page below and we'll send you the recordings. The wonders of Modern technology...
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It's that time of year again, Dipterists Forum 'Dipterists Day & AGM' 🪰

Nov 14th 2025- a day in the Museum of Zoology, Cambridge Diptera collections

Nov 15th 2025 - Dipterists Day and AGM

For more details please go to dipterists.org.uk/events/dipte...

We have a great line up of speakers, exhibits and a visit to the Cambridge Diptera Collections can be arranged. Flies are so important so come and join us to find out what we can do to help you whether you are an old hand at diptera or new to this fantastic group of insects. See you there Lin!

Thanks to DF member Donald Smith for compiling a new guide and identification key for the family Piophilidae (sometimes called Cheese Skipper Flies and allies), available to download from the DF membership area - ANOTHER good reason to join DF! dipterists.org.uk/news/new-gui...

Newsflash for all fans of spiny-winged #flies (Heleomyzidae): thanks to @suillia.bsky.social for providing updated versions of two identification keys, now available from the Heleomyzid Recording Scheme page on our website: dipterists.org.uk/heleomyzid-s... #Diptera

New on the DF website: Diptera checklist updated to the latest version (Oct 2024), and Dipterists Digest contents updated to include vol. 31 part 2. Many thanks to Peter Chandler for compiling these documents. See the links under the "Resources" menu dipterists.org.uk/home

Zoe Adams tries to unravel the mysteries that are Cecidomyiidae

At the moment very little of sequences in Bold have a name associated with them - in fact less that 0.01 of them!!

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Olga carried out an extensive literature search to find out the European distribution of Stomorhina lunata - lots and lots of missing records discovered

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Next up is Olga Sivell talking about Stomorhina lunata - it used to be considered a vagrant but since 2013 its numbers have been good (a shout out of thanks to all the recorders)

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The first #DipteristDay was held at the Natural History Museum, london 30 years ago.

These six phenominal dipterists were on the original list and are still going strong 🪰🪰🪰

Mike Ashworth highlights the Muscidae and Fanniidea working group - check out the latest news letter in the Bulletin

Flies are good!

@willleohawkes.bsky.social starts of the #DipteristsDay talking about Fly migrants

The flies dominate the skies

The day before the AGM and Dipterists day at the #NaturalHistoryMuseum in London is collections day. Fly visitors are welcomed into the collection to rummage through the drawers

The society secretary Jane Hewitt was loving the Platypezidae

Dipterists Day and AGM at the Natural History Museum, London, UK

Please come along or join online to head some great fly talks docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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