Slightly fuzzy picture of the muscid fly Phaonia subventa (Orange-bellied Bristleshin), a female sunbathing on a tree trunk this morning. Was looking out for these following the excellent talk by @ukmuscidae.bsky.social at yesterday's #DipteristsDay @dipteristsforum.bsky.social

The new chair of the @dipteristsforum.bsky.social is Mark Welch. Since retiring from rocks, he has turned his thoughts to flies. Phorids and mosquitoes.

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Zoe Adams tries to unravel the mysteries that are Cecidomyiidae

At the moment very little of sequences in Bold have a name associated with them - in fact less that 0.01 of them!!

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Olga carried out an extensive literature search to find out the European distribution of Stomorhina lunata - lots and lots of missing records discovered

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Next up is Olga Sivell talking about Stomorhina lunata - it used to be considered a vagrant but since 2013 its numbers have been good (a shout out of thanks to all the recorders)

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Vlad highlights the sinking of Lygistorrhinds into the Keroplatids - thanks to evidence discovered in the Burmese amber

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Afternoon of the #DipteristsDay starts with Vladimir Blagoderov talking fossil flies. Over the last 10 years more larval finds have occurred which gives more hints to their biology

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Bingo !!

First genitalia reference of the day!! Biology unknown but what a fly!!

Macrochis meditata
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@willleohawkes.bsky.social highlights some of the more unusual fly migrants including dragon riders (yep midges on the wings of dragonflies)

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@willleohawkes.bsky.social starts of the #DipteristsDay talking about Fly migrants

The flies dominate the skies