UK Muscidae & Fanniidae Study Group

[Steven Falk @StevenFalk1]

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[Steven Falk @StevenFalk1]

Thought I'd photographed a male of the frequent Limnophora riparia along the River Lune, Lancs during the @DipteristsForum summer meeting but the dark frons and pale vibrissal angles show it's the much rarer L. exuta. Male of riparia for comparison. @UKMuscidae

[UK Muscidae & Fanniidae Study Group @UKMuscidae]

Muscid Hydrotaea palaestrica ♂ from a bed of Amphibious Bistort, Reed Sweet Grass and sedges in East Yorkshire yesterday.

[Steven Falk @StevenFalk1]

Six more British Muscidae genera just added to my Flickr site: Limnospila, Macrorchis, Orchisia, Pseudolimnophora, Schoenomyza and Spanochaeta https://t.co/6d1AxxTx1p. Images & detailed species accounts. Biodiversity in the raw. Look at that colourful Schoenomyza litorella head.

[UK Muscidae & Fanniidae Study Group @UKMuscidae]

Muscid Hydrotaea palaestrica ♂ from a bed of Amphibious Bistort, Reed Sweet Grass and sedges in East Yorkshire yesterday.

[Steven Falk @StevenFalk1]

A new muscid genus just added to Falk Flickr https://t.co/2fZEVVkqrI. Lispe has 10 British representatives. They love the bare wet mud of upper saltmarsh, river banks and lake margins. Both adults and larvae are predatory. Adults have an elaborate courtship.

[UK Muscidae & Fanniidae Study Group @UKMuscidae]

Heading for mid-November and getting chillier, but still nice muscids out there...Limnophora riparia and Phaonia atriceps yesterday, beside an East Yorkshire canal.

[UK Muscidae & Fanniidae Study Group @UKMuscidae]

Helina evecta ♀ at woodland edge in East Yorkshire today...a common muscid early and late in the year.

[Andrew Jewels @jewels_andrew]

Still quite a few Striped Shieldbugs (Graphosoma italicum) around Abbey Gardens and Ninefields, Waltham Abbey, Essex today. Some groups still on the same patches of vegetation as the last few months but numbers now dropping in the colder weather and some groups have disappeared

[Steven Falk @StevenFalk1]

@xylota @ynuorg @DipteristsForum @UKMuscidae Lovely. Yes, you are right about lack of Fanniidae love Ian, so here are four from me: Fannia lustrator, F. mollissima, F. speciosa and F. sociella. I don't have a decent one of Lesser House Fly - need to fix that!

[UK Muscidae & Fanniidae Study Group @UKMuscidae]

Fantastic...any more Fanniidae fans out there with photos/records to share?!

[Steven Falk @StevenFalk1]

@xylota @ynuorg @DipteristsForum @UKMuscidae Lovely. Yes, you are right about lack of Fanniidae love Ian, so here are four from me: Fannia lustrator, F. mollissima, F. speciosa and F. sociella. I don't have a decent one of Lesser House Fly - need to fix that!

[Ryan Mitchell @RyanM_Sussex]

A few highlights from Union Wood, Co Sligo this afternoon Wiedemannia bistigma (Empididae), Agathomyia cinerea (Platypezidae), Paraplatypeza atra (Platypezidae) and Chelifera diversicauda (Empididae).

[Steven Falk @StevenFalk1]

@4peatssake2 @BrianE_Cambs @xylota @DoncasterDamian @ynuorg @DipteristsForum @AlchemillaMan It’s proving to be a bit more widespread and catholic in its occurrence than Peter thought. More here https://t.co/pgegpUKLKZ. Was particularly delighted to find a population at Sutton Park in Birmingham. Also found it in large numbers in coastal grazing marsh nr Lymington.

[UK Muscidae & Fanniidae Study Group @UKMuscidae]

@graemelyons I often get asked if I'm fishing, I say "yes, fly fishing" LOL 😆

[Dr Erica McAlister @flygirlNHM]

Prepare to have your mind BLOWN

This fly (Fannia sp) was found in the meat baited Shannon trap covered in Dermatobia hominis - The HUMAN BOTFLY

Botflies usually lay eggs on flies that feed on humans (as the eggs drop when feeding) and these are larvae!

#FySchool24

[Steven Falk @StevenFalk1]

2/x A dead Fin Whale was attracting lots of insects including the Sheepstrike Greenbottle Lucilia sericata and the Black Garbage Fly Hydrotaea aenescens, a New World species now naturalised in Europe because its 'red devil' maggots are used by fishermen.

[Ryan Mitchell @RyanM_Sussex]

Piezura pardalina Rondani, 1866 a fairly distinctive species of Fanniidae. This male was collected yesterday from Union wood, Collooney, County Sligo (Date:05.vii.2024). @UKMuscidae

[UK Muscidae & Fanniidae Study Group @UKMuscidae]

@lisajrwilliams @DipteristsForum @StaffsWildlife @StaffsEcology Yup, distinctive with its orange frons. Nice. 🙂

[Simon Knott @SJBKnott]

Common Ragwort (Jacobaea vulgaris) is such an important nectar source:
Conops quadrifasciatus mating pair, Macronychia dolini, Physocephala rufipes & Stictoleptura scutellata all feeding on Ragwort in Bengeo garden during last two weeks. @hertsbna