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Piezura pardalina Rondani, 1866 a fairly distinctive species of Fanniidae. This male was collected yesterday from Union wood, Collooney, County Sligo (Date:05.vii.2024). UK Muscidae & Fanniidae Study Group

2/x A dead Fin Whale was attracting lots of insects including the Sheepstrike Greenbottle Lucilia sericata and the Black Garbage Fly Hydrotaea aenescens, a New World species now naturalised in Europe because its 'red devil' maggots are used by fishermen.

Prepare to have your mind BLOWN This fly (Fannia sp) was found in the meat baited Shannon trap covered in Dermatobia hominis - The HUMAN BOTFLY Botflies usually lay eggs on flies that feed on humans (as the eggs drop when feeding) and these are larvae! #FySchool24

the infrequently recorded montane #Empididae Rhamphomyia albosegmentata; the uncommon, mainly northern #Hybotidae Platypalpus commutatus; the #Mycetophilidae fungus gnat Sciophila fridolini new to Scotland 2/4

Bog-trotter Brian Eversham @xylota Damian Allen YNU Dipterists Forum Mark Lynes It’s proving to be a bit more widespread and catholic in its occurrence than Peter thought. More here flickr.com/photos/6307520…. Was particularly delighted to find a population at Sutton Park in Birmingham. Also found it in large numbers in coastal grazing marsh nr Lymington.

A few highlights from Union Wood, Co Sligo this afternoon Wiedemannia bistigma (Empididae), Agathomyia cinerea (Platypezidae), Paraplatypeza atra (Platypezidae) and Chelifera diversicauda (Empididae).

Still quite a few Striped Shieldbugs (Graphosoma italicum) around Abbey Gardens and Ninefields, Waltham Abbey, Essex today. Some groups still on the same patches of vegetation as the last few months but numbers now dropping in the colder weather and some groups have disappeared

@xylota YNU Dipterists Forum UK Muscidae & Fanniidae Study Group Lovely. Yes, you are right about lack of Fanniidae love Ian, so here are four from me: Fannia lustrator, F. mollissima, F. speciosa and F. sociella. I don't have a decent one of Lesser House Fly - need to fix that!

Fantastic...any more Fanniidae fans out there with photos/records to share?!

Helina evecta ♀ at woodland edge in East Yorkshire today...a common muscid early and late in the year.

Heading for mid-November and getting chillier, but still nice muscids out there...Limnophora riparia and Phaonia atriceps yesterday, beside an East Yorkshire canal.

A new muscid genus just added to Falk Flickr flickr.com/photos/6307520…. Lispe has 10 British representatives. They love the bare wet mud of upper saltmarsh, river banks and lake margins. Both adults and larvae are predatory. Adults have an elaborate courtship.

Muscid Hydrotaea palaestrica ♂ from a bed of Amphibious Bistort, Reed Sweet Grass and sedges in East Yorkshire yesterday.

Six more British Muscidae genera just added to my Flickr site: Limnospila, Macrorchis, Orchisia, Pseudolimnophora, Schoenomyza and Spanochaeta flickr.com/photos/6307520…. Images & detailed species accounts. Biodiversity in the raw. Look at that colourful Schoenomyza litorella head.

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Thought I'd photographed a male of the frequent Limnophora riparia along the River Lune, Lancs during the Dipterists Forum summer meeting but the dark frons and pale vibrissal angles show it's the much rarer L. exuta. Male of riparia for comparison. UK Muscidae & Fanniidae Study Group