An orange ant stands alert amid several waxy looking ant larvae and pupae, while two small gray flies spin overhead.
A native Pheidole dentata big-headed ant, attacked by a pair of ant-decapitating phorid flies at UT’s Brackenridge field lab.
Two flies a small distance away from each other grasp grass blades above the ground after emerging from bee nests.
A fly grasping a blade of grass is still soft and with shriveled wings. It has just emerged from a bee nest below.
A view of a heavy-bodied brown fly with large red eyes sitting on the tip of a leaf blade.
A grayish brown fly with a yellow face and reddish eyes rests on a white background. It has a long beak held under and behind its head
Most surprising find @ bee aggregation '26 were lots of thick-headed #flies emerging! They're parasitoids of adult bees, grabbing them mid-air to inject eggs into the abdomen. Eww but cool! (I guess not if you're a bee 😂) Here's one on a flower: flic.kr/p/2ocMhfV
#Conopidae: #Zodion
NC, USA
Ohhhh tomorrow you can listen to Lee Davies and myself talking flies and fungi with Sue Perkins & Sara Pascoe
Nature Table - Tuesday April 14th - 6.30pm on BBC Radio 4 🪰🍄
Much fun was had recording this 😎
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
Gaze upon the beauty of this mosquito wing this #Flyday 🪰💕
Many true flies (Diptera) feed on aphids and other sucking insects, making them beneficial predators!
Fly Research & Conservation Virtual Symposium 2026
Tue 23 Jun 2026 | Online | £30 or pay what you can
Explore the latest fly ecology, conservation science & practical case studies. Live Q&A, expert talks & all resources available after the event 🌍 🧪
Book here:
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Next International Congress of Dipterology (ICDXI, ICD11) will be held in Zagreb, Croatia, between 11-16 July 2027 - details icd11.biol.pmf.hr - first registration deadline at end of February 2027
#Diptera #Flies #ICDXI
The official website for the 11th International Congress of Dipterology (ICDXI) has launched! icd11.biol.pmf.hr
We'd love to see you in Croatia in 2027. 🇭🇷🪰🦟
We are searching for a new Department Head of Entomology at Virginia Tech. Come work in lovely Blacksburg with some pretty cool people and spectatular students.
Please repost and spread the word. Review Date 4/26/26.
jobs.apply.vt.edu/jobs/profess...
Amazing!
Only a couple days left to apply for this course!
We hope you consider it and we'd love to see you there for this amazing opportunity 😊🦟🎉
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APPLY NOW folks.
An amazing experience to learn more about the taxonomy of flies, undertake fieldwork in a tropical forest, and chat ecologies with experts in the evenings.
#perfect
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Illustrated logo with a square bottom and round top, light blue background showing a lake and trees in the background. Three flies, a robber fly, midge, and crane fly sit below the Dipterists Society logo. Bottom wording says "Itasca Biological Station"
Photo of a lake with a rocky shoreline, with clouds and trees in the background
We're excited to announce registration is open for the 19th Dipterists Society Field Meeting, to be held June 15–19th at the Itasca Biological Station in northern Minnesota!
For more information & to submit talks please visit: dipterists.org/field_meetin...
We look forward to seeing you there!
Just one week left to apply to Fly School IV!!!
The cover of The new ‘Photographic guide to flies of Britain and Ireland’
An open page from the new ‘Photographic guide to flies of Britain and Ireland’. Text for each species on the left with beautiful macro photos on the right.
Oh hello… it’s here! The new ‘Photographic guide to flies of Britain and Ireland’.
Steven Falk (not sure if he’s on BS?)
@gailashton.bsky.social
@rdimond.bsky.social
Peter Creed
Forward by @flygirlnhm.bsky.social
It is an astonishing piece of work for such a diverse taxonomic group.
#diptera
One week left to apply for this year's Fly School, happening in July in Costa Rica! Fly School happens every other year, so the next opportunity won't be until 2028.
Application and more info at dipterists.org/fly_school.h...
I’ve been a supporter of @wwf.org.uk for over 40 years & I think it’s the first time I’ve seen flies in their magazine!
Hoverflies (& 100000s more spp) are not just excellent pollinators as adults, as the larvae are either recyclers of organic waste or predators of your garden pests 🤓🪰
assassin fly eating a small flesh fly
assassin fly eating a small flesh fly
flowering plant on coastal dune
coastal dune habitat
#FlyFriday
assassin fly Neolophonotus sp. (Asilidae: Asilinae) with small flesh fly (Sarcophagidae) prey - photographed on a coastal dune in foggy/overcast weather at McDougall's Bay, Northern Cape, South Africa - 31 January 2026
#asiloidflies
The deadline for the BEST COURSE is coming up - please do apply and join us in the jungle
This course is amazing - flies, Costa Rica, more flies, excellent tutors, yet more flies, great experience and EVEN MORE FLIES
Dipterology has been handed a major blow: as a result of the Federal Gov.'s Work Force Adjustment Program, research on Diptera (true flies) at the Canadian National Collection, a hub of excellence in this field, is being discontinued
Please sign the letter to support our fly friends & colleagues! ❤️
REMINDER: The deadline to apply for Fly School is 28 Feb.
Visit dipterists.org/fly_school.h... for info & application.
Photo by @bertonemyia.bsky.social
A yellow and black striped fly with dark patches on its wings, held out, feeding on dung while resting on a leaf.
🪰 DEADLINE: Dipterists Society Travel and Research Grant applications are due by 9 February 2026
Please see the last issue of Fly Times (dipterists.org/assets/PDF/f...) or visit the Society's website for details: dipterists.org/grants_award...
A preserved micro bee fly with a hump back, long "beak", and large eyes.
🚨 Postdoc announcement 🚨
Taxonomy of Neotropical Mythicomyiidae at Museu de Zoologia, Universidade de São Paulo (MZUSP)
For more details follow this link: fapesp.br/oportunidade...
Photo: male Amydrostylus triadicophallus Lamas, Falaschi & Evenhuis, 2015 (Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil)
Ok so I’ve seen a lot of pinned insects in my time but I’ve NEVER seen wing rests for mosquitoes
The @unirdgento.bsky.social have been charged to give me data about these specimens in the @uniofreading.bsky.social collection because they are FABULOUS
@royentsoc.bsky.social @entcollnet.bsky.social
Image of a Lesser Dung Fly (Sphaeroceridae)
After being rather busy and after much procrastination, today I started on the outline for a new Sphaeroceridae key; this may take a while (a couple of years maybe)! Copromyzinae first, pic of Alloborborus pallifrons @flygirlnhm.bsky.social @sjthomasbotany.bsky.social @dipteristsforum.bsky.social
A SEM scan of 3D preserved cuticle of a solider fly larva(Stratiomyidae) from Miocene of Slovenia. Beautifull pattern of Calcium Carbonate "scales" armoring the larva is well visible. #FossilFriday #Fossils🪰⚒️🦖
A long-awaited review of the 400+ fly genera of Hermann Loew is finally out (yep, that's a younger Hermann Loew sans moustache). h/t to Joachim Ziegler for the archival research on his bio and making contact with Loew's great granddaughter to get the portrait.
www.mapress.com/zt/article/v...
The photos by @bertonemyia.bsky.social that I shared in the original post were too low resolution to do them justice. High resolution versions of the images can be found at
flic.kr/p/2qhLuLf
flic.kr/p/2qggWyp
flic.kr/p/2qgcns8
flic.kr/p/2qggWwv
What a time to be alive!! #FliesofBritainandIreland coming out SOON
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