Team Diptera 🪰🔍🦟🌻

Perhaps my most favorite thing I got from my trip to @EntsocAmerica! 😋🦋 @team_diptera

Using harmonic radar tags weighing less than a milligram, scientists show fruit flies can be closely tracked to reveal flight patterns in real-world environments. 🔗 Tiny Radar Tags Enable Novel Insights in Fruit Fly Dispersal entomologytoday.org/2024/12/13/har…

Four #flies from April (left) in the New Forest (Brachyopa bicolor & Volucella inflata) & June (right) at Hitchcopse Pit (Parydra coarctata & Lispe tentaculata) #FliesofBritainandIreland Pre-order bit.ly/4dqQI8Z @StevenFalk1 @gailashton @Ecoentogeek @BBOWT @NewForestNPA

Monograph Revision of the genus Calyxochaetus Bigot (#Diptera: Dolichopodidae: Sympycninae) --36 species are recognized, including 14 new species. mapress.com/zt/article/vie… #Taxonomy

Scenes from Monday, November 11, at Entomology 2024 in Phoenix, Arizona. #EntSoc24 (1/3)

Commitment!! Two students got an adult #bsf tattoo while in Arizona for ⁦@EntsocAmerica⁩ conference! ⁦@ErinHarris1649⁩ @KileySStout⁩

Just finished laying out the last few Hoverflies pages for our Photographic Guide to #FliesofBritainandIreland – to be published October 2025. Pre-order here bit.ly/4dqQI8Z @StevenFalk1 @gailashton @Ecoentogeek @flygirlNHM @BBOWT @TVERC1

Dagger Flies (Empididae) a fascinating group of flies with 103 species occurring in Ireland. I have now digitised the historic and more recent records which are now available online here: maps.biodiversityireland.ie/Dataset/366?or… I look forward to expanding this dataset over the coming years.

Thrilled to announce that Team Diptera is collaborating with an awesome Phoenix tattoo shop, Coven Tattoo, to offer a ton of entomology flash designs during ESA! What's "flash"? Pre-made designs available to anyone who signs up! Please take a look here: tinyurl.com/insect-coven

Helicosina, a new genus of Neotropical Limosininae (#Diptera: Sphaeroceridae) mapress.com/zt/article/vie… #Taxonomy

Six #newspecies of Chelipoda (#Diptera: Empididae) from Shennongjia, #China mapress.com/zt/article/vie… #Taxonomy

[#entomology] On the identity of the Afrotropical species of Mallota Meigen (Diptera: Syrphidae) ⤵️ ✒️ Marc De Meyer, Georg Goergen, @JohnMMidgley, Kurt Jordaens 🔗 DOI: doi.org/10.5852/ejt.20… #diptera #syrphidae #eristalinae #flowerfly #hoverfly #entomologist #dipterist

A little OTT today post wise, but it's been a good while since weemad went mad 🤣 Another single shot from Malaysia of a small robberfly, it was perched perfect but flew off after this image grrrr

The flash designs include lots of arthropods, not just flies, as an olive branch to the other orders 🤭 Coven Tattoo is on Instagram as @/coven.phx with an incredible array of art. Just message them to book! We hope you spread the word and enjoy your visit! See you at ESA! 🪰🦟

The different forms of the hoverfly Volucella bombylans can and do interbreed, and the offspring presumably segregate in a Mendelian fashion. However, there are three varieties so it must get complicated. It would make a fascinating study. I used this photo on the cover my book 'Courtship and mate-finding in insects', although these two flies have clearly found each other already!🤣

Volucella bombylans var. bombylans 20 May 24

@WillLeoHawkes @BrendanGodley @Buzz_dont_tweet @flygirlNHM Fly migration is just remarkable! I've just bought the stunning book on flies at #NewScientistLive and excited to learn more about them @flygirlNHM

#Insects have a wide-reaching influence in our world, from helping solve crimes, to being a food source & inspiring new technologies. Read @flygirlNHM's take on some of the fascinating ways that insects change our world 🔽 blog.publish.csiro.au/influential-in… #Metamorphosis @CSIROPublishing