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Author: ChrisR

Tachina fera vs magnicornis vs tetramera

by ChrisRPosted onMarch 11, 2025March 11, 2025

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.…

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Catharosia albisquama

by ChrisRPosted onFebruary 14, 2025March 11, 2025

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…

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Steve Falk’s Galleries

by ChrisRPosted onMay 10, 2024May 10, 2024

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…

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Post Preston Montford thoughts…

by ChrisRPosted onFebruary 18, 2024April 18, 2025

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…

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Preston Montford February 2024

by ChrisRPosted onFebruary 10, 2024February 13, 2024

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…

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Distinguishing Tachina fera group species

by ChrisRPosted onSeptember 9, 2023February 12, 2024

We now have at least 2 species of the “Tachina fera group”: Tachina fera & Tachina magnicornis, and there is a suspicion that we might…

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Distinguishing Cylindromyia spp.

by ChrisRPosted onAugust 27, 2023February 12, 2024

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…

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Biological recording FAQ

by ChrisRPosted onJuly 30, 2023August 1, 2023

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…

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Phasiine expansion update (WIP)

by ChrisRPosted onJuly 26, 2023August 29, 2023

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…

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Cylindromyia bicolor new to Britain

by ChrisRPosted onJuly 24, 2023July 24, 2023

Just a quick note to say that Cylindromyia bicolor, a very distinctive tachinid, has been seen a few times this year at Rainham Marshes –…

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