The recent arrival of Tachina magnicornis in Suffolk and then later in Kent has created a quite tricky problem for us at the recording scheme.…
Back at the end of Summer 2023, around the same time as Tachina magnicornis began to be found in East Suffolk, Ivan Perry spotted another…
Many of you will know Steve well or at the very least have read his excellent publications on bees, among others. Steve is also an…
For the workshop I compiled a list of species that are new since Belshaw’s 1993 key (42 species) and then also marked onto it the…
This year we were invited by the Dipterist’s Forum to give another 2-day Tachinid Identification Course at the Field Studies Council’s Preston Montford centre. This…
We now have at least 2 species of the “Tachina fera group”: Tachina fera & Tachina magnicornis, and there is a suspicion that we might…
We now have 4 species of Cylindromyia in the UK with more and more photos of them cropping upp on social media so it seemed…
What is biological recording? Recording is a fun hobby that can get you out in your garden or any space near where you live and…
Back in 2019 we had a mini influx of phasiines which added 2 new species to the British list: Ectophasia crassipennis and Phasia aurigera. Ectophasia…
Just a quick note to say that Cylindromyia bicolor, a very distinctive tachinid, has been seen a few times this year at Rainham Marshes –…