Back at the end of 2024 Leanna at the Tanyptera Project, based at Liverpool World Museum, invited us to come and run a tachinid workshop…
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…
In Andersen’s 1996 book “The Siphonini (Diptera: Tachinidae) or Europe” he made several changes to the names of Siphona spp., which have proved a bit…
Tachinid Times #26 has some very interesting articles on a few projects around the world to compile DNA phylogenies of tachinids. One such is by…
Today Matt & I attended “Big Nature Day” at the Natural History Museum, in London – a day for wildlife organisations to show what they…
Had a very good record recently, sent in by Phil Porter, of Phytomyptera nigrina. Richard Davidson took the specimen at Whisby Nature Park on 22nd…
It has taken a while to get the camera hooked up to the microscope because it is quite a complicated process, involving lots of adapters…
Had a nice record from Tristan Bantock on the 17th – a Tachina lurida, seen on Parkland Walk near Crouch Hill tube station. They look…