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…
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…
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…
Just a quick note to say that Cylindromyia bicolor, a very distinctive tachinid, has been seen a few times this year at Rainham Marshes –…
With the spread of the invasive Oak Processionary Moth (Thaumetopoea processionea) there has been a lot of interest in its parasitoids. Both tachinid parasitoids are…
Back in 2020 Andy Halstead got in touch with me to pass on some tachinids that he had reared in Surrey from tent webs of…
Exciting news this week from Steve Falk who, while examining specimens caught in Scotland this year, noticed a different-looking Gymnocheta from the Cairngorms. He ran…
Clytiomya continua has been on the British list for quite some time and located in the North Essex / South Hertfordshire area. But it was…