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Dave Brice
@davebriceflies.bsky.social
Fascinated by insects, especially flies, studies Sphaeroceridae. Diptera identification services, morphological illustrations, and high-quality imaging. Bespoke identification training is also available.
@linbrice.bsky.social just updated the Website, it's been a busy 18 months dipteraid.co.uk/projects/ looking ahead to next year already. Anyone ecologists needing help with diptera backlog from this year? Or planning lots of diptera work next year, please contact me if I can help.
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November 6, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Nearing the end of a challenging job from Tenerife, just 90 Sarcophagidae to go! 😥 At least this one doesn't look like all of the others; Miltogramma aurifrons. Still available for ID and imaging projects, UK and Europe dipteraid.co.uk/specimeniden...
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August 30, 2025 at 2:31 PM
More flies; Coenosia ruficornis (Muscidae), Empis femorata (Empididae) & Hybos culiciformis (Hybotidae). #flies #dipteraid #dipteraimaging Available for ID and imaging projects, please see dipteraid.co.uk/specimeniden... dipteraid.co.uk/macrophotogr... Please share if possible
August 4, 2025 at 8:29 AM
Just felt liking putting on some fly piccies! 🙂 Rhipidia maculata; Dioctra linearis and Ravinia pernix. www.dipteraid.co.uk #flies #entomology #dipteraimaging
July 31, 2025 at 10:27 AM
A large Tolmerus species from Tenerife, haven't worked out which one yet! @flygirlnhm.bsky.social It's a biggy, c.18mm, research here we come. www.dipteraid.co.uk #dipteraid #dipteraimaging #tenerife #canaryislands Still available for any imaging or diptera identification work, Please share
July 30, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Came across a magnificent Sweet Chestnut tree on our walk this morning, small Border Terrier for scale 😊
July 30, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Garden buzzing, Red-tailed Bumblebee, hoverflies including Scaeva pyrastri, Eristalis tenax, Syritta pipiens and Melanostoma .spp; other Diptera, mostly Neomyia .sp on flowering herbs + 2 Gatekeeper butterflies @flygirlnhm.bsky.social #smallgarden. 4 x 4.5m, 3 years ago was bare walls and gravel
July 23, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Last full day @kneppwilding.bsky.social teaching done, so a little time to get some determinations done; not had to do this with wasps trying to eat the flies before! @dipteracourse.bsky.social @kneppwildlandfdn.bsky.social #outdoorlab www.dipteraid.co.uk
July 18, 2025 at 3:14 PM
@kneppwilding.bsky.social Day 2 week 2, it's raining so pinning flies caught in preparation y'day evening. Silence as the concentration levels build 😊 Out this afternoon, bug pots, ID and catch and release, to learn Orders. @flygirlnhm.bsky.social
@kneppwildlandfdn.bsky.social www.dipteraid.co.uk
July 15, 2025 at 9:33 AM
@kneppwilding.bsky.social @opwall.bsky.social no invertebrate teaching this morning so out looking at plants and habitats; grasses are interesting (difficult to ID)! Good fun but back to flies this afternoon, Malaise traps to move, samples to sort & determine @flygirlnhm.bsky.social
July 14, 2025 at 12:59 PM
@kneppwilding.bsky.social teaching day four, Lesson 1 - check apples before eating when camping. Volunteers did brilliantly today in scorching heat, collecting sorting and identifying to a good mix of Orders. @flygirlnhm.bsky.social @kneppwildlandfdn.bsky.social www.dipteraid.co.uk #teaching
July 10, 2025 at 6:40 PM
@kneppwilding.bsky.social Day 3 teaching; but not teaching this morning, so out helping another staff member survey a pond (ID'ing plants, carrying stuff and writing down what I'm told to)! 😅 Worse ways to spend a sunny morning. Now back to sample processing. @flygirlnhm.bsky.social
July 9, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Day 2 @kneppwilding.bsky.social Lesson 1, how to put your head in a net 🙂 Sweep netting, sorting and pinning followed by Malaise trap sample ID . @flygirlnhm.bsky.social @kneppwildlandfdn.bsky.social outdoor classrooms with loads of practical learning! www.dipteraid.co.uk #learning #invertebrates
July 8, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Day 1 teaching invert collection and sample processing @kneppwilding.bsky.social Mini kits prepped for the volunteers, keys printed, sample route planned but please stop the rain. Thanks 😊 @flygirlnhm.bsky.social @opwall.bsky.social
July 7, 2025 at 7:42 AM
First day at @kneppwilding.bsky.social ready for two weeks of teaching collection techniques and specimen processing. Been out exploring and introducing myself to the locals, White Stork, Purple Emperor, Purple Hairstreak a few of the early bonuses. @flygirlnhm.bsky.social @opwall.bsky.social
July 5, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Nancy watching Springwatch. @linbrice.bsky.social fascinated by the Badgers #Springwatch
May 28, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Scarce Muscid, Nr Buxton, R. Wye, low veg, buttercups. Phaonia villana @dipteristsforum.bsky.social Field Trip 2025 @ukmuscidae.bsky.social @lancefly.bsky.social
Diptera ID services available for UK, North, Central and Southern Europe. www.dipteraid.co.uk Please share, thanks
May 21, 2025 at 11:32 AM
When looking at a new sample I tend to go for the 'pretty' one first; very scientific 🙂 Empis digramma from i@dipteristsforum.bsky.social Spring Field trip 2025, Peak District. Swept from Buttercup @lancefly.bsky.social
Any ecologists requiring Diptera ID please contact me www.dipteraid.co.uk
May 20, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Been a busy few weeks [months], imaging on hold, here’s an Ephydrid from 2024, Hyadina guttata #ecology #dipteraid Planning ahead, if any ecologists have a need for Diptera ID services please let me know. Diptera ID UK, North, Central and Southern Europe. www.dipteraid.co.uk Please share. thanks
April 23, 2025 at 10:17 AM
Dolichopus diadema, from marshy areas on s'Albufereta NNR Mallorca 2023, showing the extended ventral part of the face. #dolichopodidae #ecology #dipterid #imaging Now taking on clients for Diptera identification from UK, North, Central and Southern Europe. www.dipteraid.co.uk
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March 28, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Latest Family determined from s'Albufereta in Mallorca 2023. Dolichopodidae done! Quite challenging in places but here is Thinophilus flavipalpis, quite a set of palps! New to the Balearics I think unless anyone has more up to date info. ID work done in the UK too! www.dipteraid.co.uk
March 13, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Looking forward to visiting s'Albufera and s'Albufereta reserves in Mallorca again soon, in the meantime Lispe nana (Muscidae) from shallow muddy areas on s'Albufereta 2023. @mmcminn.bsky.social www.dipteraid.co.uk #ecology #flies
March 11, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Comprehensive true flies ID service for ecological consultancies, landowners, govt agencies, conservation orgs; all sizes of projects undertaken.
1st fly this year (in the house), Hydrophoria linogrisea, Anthomyiidae, larvae found under bark, assumed predatory. www.dipteraid.co.uk #ecology #flies
March 3, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Playing with images of black and shiny flies for when I eventually get to writing a new key; hopefully. Alloborborus pallifrons (Sphaeroceridae; Copromyzinae) a smart small fly, very 'spikey'. Larvae develop in horse dung (usually), not a species I find often. www.dipteraid.co.uk #ecology #flies
February 18, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Pachygaster atra (Stratiomyidae), f. has orange antenna (males are black). From grassland on a hillfort in Devon. Wet woodland nearby. #ecology #flies #diptera
Ecologists, needing help with backlogs from last year? Planning diptera work next year? Please contact me www.dipteraid.co.uk
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February 12, 2025 at 1:13 PM