News

New: contents list for Dipterists Digest

A list of the contents of Dipterist

New index to family identification key

In the membership area of this website DF members can download a key to fly families, written by Stuart Ball, with subsequent additions by John and Barbara Ismay.

The poetry of mosquitoes

Introduction to cranefly recording

World Craneflies Day!

Bee-fly Watch - latest news

Bee-fly Watch is run by the Soldierflies and Allies Recording Scheme. Some updates to the latest results for 2020 are now availble via the Bee-fly Watch results page.

Diptera checklist updated to 1 May 2020

Thanks to Peter Chandler for providing the latest update to the Checklist of Diptera of the British Isles. It can be downloaded from the Checklist page.

Recording and Covid-19

We hope that those of you fortunate enough to have gardens will record the flies you see there: much useful information can be collected in this way.

Draft key to UK Sarcophagidae (Flesh flies)

Bursaries for summer field meeting

This year's summer field meeting, due to be held at Falmouth, has now been cancelled because of the coronavirus situation. We hope to hold the meeting at the same venue in 2021.