The Darwin room @fieldstudiesc.bsky.social #PrestonMontford ready for the @dipteristsforum.bsky.social workshop. #jamesmcgill #mikeashworth and #stephenfalks presenting on all things #muscidae. #newkey & more available to members via dipterists.org.uk Membership from £8 per year #bargain #resources
‘I don’t know why I’m here’ @entmikeashworth.bsky.social starts his lecture on the Introduction to Muscidae’
He’s here because he’s amazing & has done a fab job of producing a genera guide to UK Muscids. Also he has a great sense of humour
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Shout out by @entmikeashworth.bsky.social for Bristol Museums collection that he has been rooting through and imaging
It’s this Muscids anniversary, collected by local man Fonseca - a phenomenal dipterist
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Although out of date before it even published, the uK provisional assessment of Calypterate flies is worrying
Almost half the Muscids are of concern. As @entmikeashworth.bsky.social highlights that’s why the @dipteristsforum.bsky.social courses are essential to provide training for correct id’s
It’s an excellent feeling to identify flies
Muscidae aren’t my group so the @ukmuscidae.bsky.social @dipteristsforum.bsky.social workshop is brilliant for me
Using both @entmikeashworth.bsky.social and James McGills new keys, this is Polietes hirticus - a northern spp (this one from Cumbria)
Muscidae from the Audcent collection @Bristol Museum has flies from other great collectors of the time. Here is a pair, female (left) and male (right) of Villeneuvia aestuum collected by H W Andrews in 1908 from Stradbally Bay on the coast of Ireland. Amazingly well preserved for over a century old!
A side view of the fly on a tree trunk, head upwards, with red eyes, grey thorax and orange abdomen and legs.
Slightly fuzzy picture of the muscid fly Phaonia subventa (Orange-bellied Bristleshin), a female sunbathing on a tree trunk this morning. Was looking out for these following the excellent talk by @ukmuscidae.bsky.social at yesterday's #DipteristsDay @dipteristsforum.bsky.social
Steven Falk has just added six more British Muscidae genera to his Flickr site: Limnospila, Macrorchis, Orchisia, Pseudolimnophora, Schoenomyza and Spanochaeta flickr.com/photos/63075.... Images & detailed accounts for each species. Biodiversity! Look at that colourful Schoenomyza litorella head!
Fannia canicularis, have work to do but procrastinating, so here's a fly! www.dipteraid.co.uk #fanniidae #calyptrates #dipteraidentificationservices #insectimaging #bespoketrainingcourses
a horse fly entirely covered in white hairs, with huge brown eyes that make up most of the head and clear wings, resting on bark
Feeling nostalgic, thinking it's time to post some old favorites for the BlueSky community >>>
One of the most stunning #flies (maybe insects in general) I've seen: #Leucotabanus annulatus, a horse fly (Tabanidae). Males are naturally white, while females are a bit more drab gray/brown. Raleigh, NC
Flies numbers in the uk
Musca autumnalis
Mike Ashworth highlights the Muscidae and Fanniidea working group - check out the latest news letter in the Bulletin
Flies are good!
Lispocephala fuscitibia a special #Muscidae of New Forest valley mires. Added to the UK list by Steven Falk a few years ago. Not sure if it's been found outside the New Forest in the UK
Stomoxys flies (Diptera, Muscidae) are competent vectors of multiple livestock hemopathogens www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.10....
Het was leuk om deze vlieg in de vlucht te kunnen fotograferen, al is ie nog wat vaag. Eén van de stuk of tien mannetjes die tussen het heen en weer vliegen door een tijdje stil in de lucht bleven hangen. Het is een van de pakweg drie soorten Morellia die hier voorkomen, een Muscidae (Echte vlieg).
Phaonia rufiventris, East Devon woods last week. Not uncommon but a great looking fly #muscidae #houseflies #dipteraid #dipteraimaging
Macrochis meditata
Bingo !!
First genitalia reference of the day!! Biology unknown but what a fly!!
Macrochis meditata
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The #DipteristsForum AGM and Dipterists Day at the Natural History Museum, London on the 16th Nov 2024
In person or online - here talks, chat flies, see some specimens
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I think Graphomya are my fav houseflies - Mike Ashworth talks Muscids and Fanniids at the #DipteristDay
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And they have just joined bsky: @ukmuscidae.bsky.social - great talk from Mike