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Celebrating 100 issues of the Dipterists Forum Bulletin!

cover of spring 2025 Bulletin

The latest Dipterists Forum Bulletins are available to members. Our Autumn 2025 issue 100 represents a major milestone for everyone involved! As well as the usual updates and news items it includes a series of review articles, looking back over the 50 years since the first Bulletin, and forwards to what the future may hold.

There are also recording scheme newsletters for these groups:

  • Cranefly Newsletter 44
  • Empidid and Dolichopodid Newsletter 30
  • Hoverfly Newsletter 78
  • Muscidae & Fanniidae Study Group Newsletter 3
  • Sciomyzidae Newsletter 8
  • Tachinid update

Can you help us get to 200 issues? We welcome contributions of fly-related articles of interest to Bulletin readers. To find out more or send your material please contact us at bulletin@dipterists.org.uk. The deadline for the next issue is 16 January 2026.

Bulletin back issues are available to all. To ensure you receive the next one, join DF now!