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The layouts for our Photographic Guide to #FliesofBritainandIreland are moving on apace with over 100 pages now laid out BBO Wildlife Trust Thames Valley Environmental Records Centre #30DaysWild from The Wildlife Trusts Gail Ashton 💚🪲🌍 Rory Dimond 🌼🪰🌼🐝🌼🦟 Steven Falk Dr Erica McAlister Dipterists Forum

#InsectWeek The Slovak edition of 'An Identification Guide to Garden Insects of Britain & North-west Europe' on display at Martinus, the top bookshop in Bratislava Dominic Couzens Gail Ashton 💚🪲🌍 #gardeninsects #insectbooks #Bratislava #bookshops #treesofBritain

Nothing makes me happier than when a leafcutter bee decides she’s too cool for leaves, and builds her best using petals, instead 💚💗

What’s the collective noun for Green Party MPs? 💚💪🏆

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Craneflies must be contenders for the title of least-loved insect’ = “Like Craneflies because they are great bird food for starlings.” - so much I find sad about this article Cranefly Recording Scheme - (& this isn’t Tipula oleracea. amp.theguardian.com/environment/ar…

Just been for a look around Twitter and I’m a bit alarmed by how many climate breakdown deniers there are . Something is afoot .

Just about to start laying out the hoverfly pages for #FliesofBritainandIreland - with around 200 hoverfly species included this could take a while. We'll be launching the pre-publication later this autumn for publication in Autumn 2025 Steven Falk Gail Ashton 💚🪲🌍 Rory Dimond 🌼🪰🌼🐝🌼🦟

Flies play critical roles in the ecosystem, as coprophages and detritivores.

My Entomoloknitting was selected to be shown at the EntSoc2024 juried art exhibition in Phoenix!!!!! It’s my first art exhibition ever!!!!

We're delighted that Dr Erica McAlister Dr Erica McAlister has agreed to write the Foreword for our #FliesofBritainandIreland to be published Autumn 2025 - the book is moving on apace with the Robberflies pages now laid out Gail Ashton 💚🪲🌍 Steven Falk Rory Dimond 🌼🪰🌼🐝🌼🦟 Dipterists Forum BBO Wildlife Trust

Very, very much looking forward to the publication of this 🤓😎😉🦟🪰 Great authors, great images, great flies Dipterists Forum AES - amentsoc.org Royal Entomological Society British Ecological Society BENHS BBC Wildlife

Absolutely chuffed to bits that the OG Fly Queen will be opening this marvellous book for us 🪰 👑

Have you spotted an egg-shaped gall on Creeping Thistle like this one seen on Hinksey Fields, Oxford? It's caused by the larvae of the beautiful little Thistle Gall Fly (Urophora cardui) #FliesofBritainandIreland BBO Wildlife Trust Thames Valley Environmental Records Centre BSBI: Botanical Society of Britain & Ireland Gail Ashton 💚🪲🌍 Rory Dimond 🌼🪰🌼🐝🌼🦟 Steven Falk

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INSECTS! This is a super book and I’m proud to have made an author contribution to championing these vitally important creatures for a better world 🪲 🌎 🌳 Buy your copy here: uk.bookshop.org/p/books/res-in… #insects Royal Entomological Society

#FliesofBritainandIreland PRE-PUB OFFER NOW ON –Order here bit.ly/4dqQI8Z & SAVE £8 on published price. Meet us at the AES Exhibition Sat 28 Sept at Kempton Park Racecource where we'll be previewing pages from the book Gail Ashton 💚🪲🌍 Rory Dimond 🌼🪰🌼🐝🌼🦟 Steven Falk Dr Erica McAlister

It’s publication day for ‘An Insect A Day’ by Dominic Couzens Dominic Couzens and Gail Ashton 💚🪲🌍! Uncover the inside world of the critter kingdom with this fascinating detailed daily anthology. Available online and from other good booksellers.

I’m bowing out of here for now, but not deleting - just in case things change and the little blue bird sings once more. I’m in other places (🔵🧵📷) and fairly easy to find, if you haven’t already - see you there!

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 Steven Falk Gail Ashton 💚🪲🌍 Rory Dimond 🌼🪰🌼🐝🌼🦟 BBO Wildlife Trust New Forest NPA