Have always wanted to see a Bombardier Beetle (Brachinus crepitans) but didn't expect that it would turn up on the wall by front door! Hoped for a good photo but it was way too fast for me. This is the beetle that famously is able to spray noxious fumes from its back end to ward off predators.

Ten years ago the superb hoverfly Callicera aurata briefly visited my garden, and today it was back on the same flowers - what a fabulous fly #InsectWeek #pollinators #ento #Diptera

A spectacular display of tadpoles at Lightwood @derbyswildlife.bsky.social reserve today, during the @dipteristsforum.bsky.social field trip 😀 🐸

Enjoyable day with @dipteristsforum.bsky.social in Derbyshire looking for flies - we found one or two 😃 these are dance flies (Empididae) doing their thing 🕺 💃