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Dedicated to showing off the most ecologically diverse super radiation of animals πŸͺ° New outreach team of Dipterists 🦟 Fly photography, pubs, and art πŸ§¬πŸ”¬

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Joined July 2024
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Team Diptera πŸͺ°πŸ”πŸ¦ŸπŸŒ» retweeted
Perhaps my most favorite thing I got from my trip to @EntsocAmerica! πŸ˜‹πŸ¦‹ @team_diptera
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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. πŸ”— Tiny Radar Tags Enable Novel Insights in Fruit Fly Dispersal entomologytoday.org/2024/12/…
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Team Diptera πŸͺ°πŸ”πŸ¦ŸπŸŒ» retweeted
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
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Team Diptera πŸͺ°πŸ”πŸ¦ŸπŸŒ» retweeted
Monograph Revision of the genus Calyxochaetus Bigot (#Diptera: Dolichopodidae: Sympycninae) --36 species are recognized, including 14 new species. mapress.com/zt/article/view/… #Taxonomy
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Scenes from Monday, November 11, at Entomology 2024 in Phoenix, Arizona. #EntSoc24 (1/3)
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Team Diptera πŸͺ°πŸ”πŸ¦ŸπŸŒ» retweeted
Commitment!! Two students got an adult #bsf tattoo while in Arizona for ⁦@EntsocAmerica⁩ conference! ⁦@ErinHarris1649⁩ @KileySStout⁩
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Team Diptera πŸͺ°πŸ”πŸ¦ŸπŸŒ» retweeted
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
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Team Diptera πŸͺ°πŸ”πŸ¦ŸπŸŒ» retweeted
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/… I look forward to expanding this dataset over the coming years.
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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
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Team Diptera πŸͺ°πŸ”πŸ¦ŸπŸŒ» retweeted
Helicosina, a new genus of Neotropical Limosininae (#Diptera: Sphaeroceridae) mapress.com/zt/article/view/… #Taxonomy
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Team Diptera πŸͺ°πŸ”πŸ¦ŸπŸŒ» retweeted
Six #newspecies of Chelipoda (#Diptera: Empididae) from Shennongjia, #China mapress.com/zt/article/view/… #Taxonomy
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Team Diptera πŸͺ°πŸ”πŸ¦ŸπŸŒ» retweeted
[#entomology] On the identity of the Afrotropical species of Mallota Meigen (Diptera: Syrphidae) ‡️ βœ’οΈ Marc De Meyer, Georg Goergen, @JohnMMidgley, Kurt Jordaens πŸ”— DOI: doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2024.958… #diptera #syrphidae #eristalinae #flowerfly #hoverfly #entomologist #dipterist
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Team Diptera πŸͺ°πŸ”πŸ¦ŸπŸŒ» retweeted
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 – at Glasgow, Scotland
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Team Diptera πŸͺ°πŸ”πŸ¦ŸπŸŒ» retweeted
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! πŸͺ°πŸ¦Ÿ
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Team Diptera πŸͺ°πŸ”πŸ¦ŸπŸŒ» retweeted
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!🀣 – at Scarborough, England
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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
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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! πŸͺ°πŸ¦Ÿ
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Volucella bombylans var. bombylans 20 May 24 – at Scarborough, England
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Team Diptera πŸͺ°πŸ”πŸ¦ŸπŸŒ» retweeted
Fly migration is just remarkable! I've just bought the stunning book on flies at #NewScientistLive and excited to learn more about them @flygirlNHM
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Team Diptera πŸͺ°πŸ”πŸ¦ŸπŸŒ» retweeted
#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 πŸ”½ blog.publish.csiro.au/influe… #Metamorphosis @CSIROPublishing
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