@linbrice.bsky.social
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A dipterist's dipteron, the elusive Borboropsis puberula. The only member of the family in the UK. Restricted to the Scottish Highlands. This one from Ben Lawers is probably the 7th UK record.
#Diptera #Entomology @dipteristsforum.bsky.social
#Diptera #Entomology @dipteristsforum.bsky.social
November 20, 2025 at 5:04 PM
A dipterist's dipteron, the elusive Borboropsis puberula. The only member of the family in the UK. Restricted to the Scottish Highlands. This one from Ben Lawers is probably the 7th UK record.
#Diptera #Entomology @dipteristsforum.bsky.social
#Diptera #Entomology @dipteristsforum.bsky.social
Hey @davebriceflies.bsky.social .bringing you a present from @flygirlnhm.bsky.social
#sphaeroceridae
#diptera
#entomology
#sphaeroceridae
#diptera
#entomology
November 14, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Hey @davebriceflies.bsky.social .bringing you a present from @flygirlnhm.bsky.social
#sphaeroceridae
#diptera
#entomology
#sphaeroceridae
#diptera
#entomology
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I'm currently updating and making corrections to the Ephydridae key prepared for the @dipteristsforum.bsky.social workshop. Please let me know if you've noticed any errors or anything that might need updating. Comments, DM or email to sjthomasbotanyATgmail.com please.
#Diptera #entomology
#Diptera #entomology
November 8, 2025 at 10:25 AM
I'm currently updating and making corrections to the Ephydridae key prepared for the @dipteristsforum.bsky.social workshop. Please let me know if you've noticed any errors or anything that might need updating. Comments, DM or email to sjthomasbotanyATgmail.com please.
#Diptera #entomology
#Diptera #entomology
Looking forward to my first visit to @dipteristsforum.bsky.social Dipterist Day in Cambridge. Great group of people and non members welcome: dipterists.org.uk/events/dipte...
Dipterists Day 2025 - Cambridge | Dipterists forum
dipterists.org.uk
November 2, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Looking forward to my first visit to @dipteristsforum.bsky.social Dipterist Day in Cambridge. Great group of people and non members welcome: dipterists.org.uk/events/dipte...
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Nearing the end of a challenging job from Tenerife, just 90 Sarcophagidae to go! 😥 At least this one doesn't look like all of the others; Miltogramma aurifrons. Still available for ID and imaging projects, UK and Europe dipteraid.co.uk/specimeniden...
Please share if possible
Please share if possible
August 30, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Nearing the end of a challenging job from Tenerife, just 90 Sarcophagidae to go! 😥 At least this one doesn't look like all of the others; Miltogramma aurifrons. Still available for ID and imaging projects, UK and Europe dipteraid.co.uk/specimeniden...
Please share if possible
Please share if possible
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More flies; Coenosia ruficornis (Muscidae), Empis femorata (Empididae) & Hybos culiciformis (Hybotidae). #flies #dipteraid #dipteraimaging Available for ID and imaging projects, please see dipteraid.co.uk/specimeniden... dipteraid.co.uk/macrophotogr... Please share if possible
August 4, 2025 at 8:29 AM
More flies; Coenosia ruficornis (Muscidae), Empis femorata (Empididae) & Hybos culiciformis (Hybotidae). #flies #dipteraid #dipteraimaging Available for ID and imaging projects, please see dipteraid.co.uk/specimeniden... dipteraid.co.uk/macrophotogr... Please share if possible
Have just ID'd my first Ephydrid from our survey trip to S'Albufera Nature Reserve in Mallorca. Thanks to @sjthomasbotany.bsky.social and David Gibbs for the recent @dipteristsforum.bsky.social Ephydrid workshop, the key is great! Thanks to @davebriceflies.bsky.social for his patient tutorage too.
May 26, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Have just ID'd my first Ephydrid from our survey trip to S'Albufera Nature Reserve in Mallorca. Thanks to @sjthomasbotany.bsky.social and David Gibbs for the recent @dipteristsforum.bsky.social Ephydrid workshop, the key is great! Thanks to @davebriceflies.bsky.social for his patient tutorage too.
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Scarce Muscid, Nr Buxton, R. Wye, low veg, buttercups. Phaonia villana @dipteristsforum.bsky.social Field Trip 2025 @ukmuscidae.bsky.social @lancefly.bsky.social
Diptera ID services available for UK, North, Central and Southern Europe. www.dipteraid.co.uk Please share, thanks
Diptera ID services available for UK, North, Central and Southern Europe. www.dipteraid.co.uk Please share, thanks
May 21, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Scarce Muscid, Nr Buxton, R. Wye, low veg, buttercups. Phaonia villana @dipteristsforum.bsky.social Field Trip 2025 @ukmuscidae.bsky.social @lancefly.bsky.social
Diptera ID services available for UK, North, Central and Southern Europe. www.dipteraid.co.uk Please share, thanks
Diptera ID services available for UK, North, Central and Southern Europe. www.dipteraid.co.uk Please share, thanks
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Celebrating a major milestone this week. 🎉
My first issue as editor of the British Mycological Society’s Field Mycology publication is now online and available #OpenAccess for all to read.
➡️ fieldmycology.org
Please read and share!
My first issue as editor of the British Mycological Society’s Field Mycology publication is now online and available #OpenAccess for all to read.
➡️ fieldmycology.org
Please read and share!
May 2, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Celebrating a major milestone this week. 🎉
My first issue as editor of the British Mycological Society’s Field Mycology publication is now online and available #OpenAccess for all to read.
➡️ fieldmycology.org
Please read and share!
My first issue as editor of the British Mycological Society’s Field Mycology publication is now online and available #OpenAccess for all to read.
➡️ fieldmycology.org
Please read and share!
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Citizen science surveys of car license plates reveals *alarming* decline in UK #insect populations
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘Alarming’ bug splat decline on UK cars raises fears for flying insect numbers
Annual survey of numberplates from more than 25,000 journeys reveals 63% fall in squashed bugs since 2021
www.theguardian.com
May 1, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Citizen science surveys of car license plates reveals *alarming* decline in UK #insect populations
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Picture-winged Flies pages are now laid out for our NEW #FliesofBritainandIreland due Autumn 2025 - pre-order now at bit.ly/4dqQI8Z & save £££s on published price @gailashton.bsky.social @bbowt.bsky.social
@dipteristsforum.bsky.social @the-wildlifetrusts.bsky.social
@flygirlnhm.bsky.social
@dipteristsforum.bsky.social @the-wildlifetrusts.bsky.social
@flygirlnhm.bsky.social
May 1, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Picture-winged Flies pages are now laid out for our NEW #FliesofBritainandIreland due Autumn 2025 - pre-order now at bit.ly/4dqQI8Z & save £££s on published price @gailashton.bsky.social @bbowt.bsky.social
@dipteristsforum.bsky.social @the-wildlifetrusts.bsky.social
@flygirlnhm.bsky.social
@dipteristsforum.bsky.social @the-wildlifetrusts.bsky.social
@flygirlnhm.bsky.social
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Simulium reptans, male with large and small facets to the eyes; females feed on mammals inc. humans.
Anyone ecologists needing help with diptera backlog from this year? Or planning lots of diptera work next year, please contact me if I can help.
Please share, ta!
www.dipteraid.co.uk
Anyone ecologists needing help with diptera backlog from this year? Or planning lots of diptera work next year, please contact me if I can help.
Please share, ta!
www.dipteraid.co.uk
January 13, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Simulium reptans, male with large and small facets to the eyes; females feed on mammals inc. humans.
Anyone ecologists needing help with diptera backlog from this year? Or planning lots of diptera work next year, please contact me if I can help.
Please share, ta!
www.dipteraid.co.uk
Anyone ecologists needing help with diptera backlog from this year? Or planning lots of diptera work next year, please contact me if I can help.
Please share, ta!
www.dipteraid.co.uk
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Fieldwork for @bbs-birds.bsky.social starts next week! Whether it is out on surveys, or just a walk in the countryside, make sure to guard against tick bites! #TickAwarenessWeek
March 28, 2025 at 7:16 AM
Fieldwork for @bbs-birds.bsky.social starts next week! Whether it is out on surveys, or just a walk in the countryside, make sure to guard against tick bites! #TickAwarenessWeek
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Dolichopus diadema, from marshy areas on s'Albufereta NNR Mallorca 2023, showing the extended ventral part of the face. #dolichopodidae #ecology #dipterid #imaging Now taking on clients for Diptera identification from UK, North, Central and Southern Europe. www.dipteraid.co.uk
Please share. thanks
Please share. thanks
March 28, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Dolichopus diadema, from marshy areas on s'Albufereta NNR Mallorca 2023, showing the extended ventral part of the face. #dolichopodidae #ecology #dipterid #imaging Now taking on clients for Diptera identification from UK, North, Central and Southern Europe. www.dipteraid.co.uk
Please share. thanks
Please share. thanks
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On Monday our instagram account was hacked and then deleted. We received a ransom note to recover it; obviously we couldn't and wouldn't pay, and therefore lost thousands of followers. Meta support was useless. But we're BACK with a new account: @littletollerbooks. Can you follow us there and share?
March 28, 2025 at 1:46 PM
On Monday our instagram account was hacked and then deleted. We received a ransom note to recover it; obviously we couldn't and wouldn't pay, and therefore lost thousands of followers. Meta support was useless. But we're BACK with a new account: @littletollerbooks. Can you follow us there and share?
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Latest Family determined from s'Albufereta in Mallorca 2023. Dolichopodidae done! Quite challenging in places but here is Thinophilus flavipalpis, quite a set of palps! New to the Balearics I think unless anyone has more up to date info. ID work done in the UK too! www.dipteraid.co.uk
March 13, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Latest Family determined from s'Albufereta in Mallorca 2023. Dolichopodidae done! Quite challenging in places but here is Thinophilus flavipalpis, quite a set of palps! New to the Balearics I think unless anyone has more up to date info. ID work done in the UK too! www.dipteraid.co.uk
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In Puerto Rico there are 29 species of Chiton & its thought the area with the greatest diversity of polyplacophores in the Caribbean.
I believe this one is Acanthopleura granulata, commonly called the West Indian fuzzy chiton (as if I could love them any more!!)
I believe this one is Acanthopleura granulata, commonly called the West Indian fuzzy chiton (as if I could love them any more!!)
March 11, 2025 at 8:41 PM
In Puerto Rico there are 29 species of Chiton & its thought the area with the greatest diversity of polyplacophores in the Caribbean.
I believe this one is Acanthopleura granulata, commonly called the West Indian fuzzy chiton (as if I could love them any more!!)
I believe this one is Acanthopleura granulata, commonly called the West Indian fuzzy chiton (as if I could love them any more!!)
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So. Many. Fiddler crabs
Left/right - it doesn’t matter what side but one is always an enlarged claw or major cheliped, & they are used for drumming/waving when they see a female.
The smaller one is for feeding so they have to work twice as hard as the females who have 2 similar small sized claws
Left/right - it doesn’t matter what side but one is always an enlarged claw or major cheliped, & they are used for drumming/waving when they see a female.
The smaller one is for feeding so they have to work twice as hard as the females who have 2 similar small sized claws
March 11, 2025 at 10:09 PM
So. Many. Fiddler crabs
Left/right - it doesn’t matter what side but one is always an enlarged claw or major cheliped, & they are used for drumming/waving when they see a female.
The smaller one is for feeding so they have to work twice as hard as the females who have 2 similar small sized claws
Left/right - it doesn’t matter what side but one is always an enlarged claw or major cheliped, & they are used for drumming/waving when they see a female.
The smaller one is for feeding so they have to work twice as hard as the females who have 2 similar small sized claws
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Looking forward to visiting s'Albufera and s'Albufereta reserves in Mallorca again soon, in the meantime Lispe nana (Muscidae) from shallow muddy areas on s'Albufereta 2023. @mmcminn.bsky.social www.dipteraid.co.uk #ecology #flies
March 11, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Looking forward to visiting s'Albufera and s'Albufereta reserves in Mallorca again soon, in the meantime Lispe nana (Muscidae) from shallow muddy areas on s'Albufereta 2023. @mmcminn.bsky.social www.dipteraid.co.uk #ecology #flies
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www.dipteraid.co.uk/its-all-abou... a mini blog to break up the day. From a site in East Devon that hopefully I will get to spend more time at this year. @flygirlnhm.bsky.social the type of 💩 is important 🙂
#ecology #dipteraidentification #Sepsidae #flies
#ecology #dipteraidentification #Sepsidae #flies
It's all about the poo! - dipteraid.co.uk
Sepsis duplicata showing the setae on mid and hind femurs - Copyright Diptera Identification Service 2025
www.dipteraid.co.uk
March 6, 2025 at 11:30 AM
www.dipteraid.co.uk/its-all-abou... a mini blog to break up the day. From a site in East Devon that hopefully I will get to spend more time at this year. @flygirlnhm.bsky.social the type of 💩 is important 🙂
#ecology #dipteraidentification #Sepsidae #flies
#ecology #dipteraidentification #Sepsidae #flies
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How has the humble notebook been an essential tool for celebrated thinkers throughout history? Our upcoming free exhibition, Naturalists' Notebooks, explores how naturalists recorded our world from the 18th century to today.
Open Tuesday 11 March until Saturday 20 September 2025.
bit.ly/43kBXmC
Open Tuesday 11 March until Saturday 20 September 2025.
bit.ly/43kBXmC
March 4, 2025 at 5:12 PM
How has the humble notebook been an essential tool for celebrated thinkers throughout history? Our upcoming free exhibition, Naturalists' Notebooks, explores how naturalists recorded our world from the 18th century to today.
Open Tuesday 11 March until Saturday 20 September 2025.
bit.ly/43kBXmC
Open Tuesday 11 March until Saturday 20 September 2025.
bit.ly/43kBXmC
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Comprehensive true flies ID service for ecological consultancies, landowners, govt agencies, conservation orgs; all sizes of projects undertaken.
1st fly this year (in the house), Hydrophoria linogrisea, Anthomyiidae, larvae found under bark, assumed predatory. www.dipteraid.co.uk #ecology #flies
1st fly this year (in the house), Hydrophoria linogrisea, Anthomyiidae, larvae found under bark, assumed predatory. www.dipteraid.co.uk #ecology #flies
March 3, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Comprehensive true flies ID service for ecological consultancies, landowners, govt agencies, conservation orgs; all sizes of projects undertaken.
1st fly this year (in the house), Hydrophoria linogrisea, Anthomyiidae, larvae found under bark, assumed predatory. www.dipteraid.co.uk #ecology #flies
1st fly this year (in the house), Hydrophoria linogrisea, Anthomyiidae, larvae found under bark, assumed predatory. www.dipteraid.co.uk #ecology #flies
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Across the UK, farmers are proving that farming and nature can thrive together. But they can’t do it alone.
If the UK Government slashes funding, we risk undoing all this progress.
If the UK Government slashes funding, we risk undoing all this progress.
February 26, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Across the UK, farmers are proving that farming and nature can thrive together. But they can’t do it alone.
If the UK Government slashes funding, we risk undoing all this progress.
If the UK Government slashes funding, we risk undoing all this progress.