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…
Recently Ryan Mitchell has been having great success in finding a rather rare tachinid called Parasetigena sylvestris (see above). I just wanted to publish this…
Recently I had the very great pleasure of keying out some odd little tachinids that had been reared from sawfly larvae by John Petyt [collected…
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…