General news and comments about true flies (Diptera) and the Dipterists Forum
Erica McAlister has contributed a post for Mark Avery's blog, entitled "Why Flies?":
It's really well done and full of delight in Diptera, and judging by the comments seems to have struck a chord with many people. More support for flies must be a good thing!
The next meeting of the Devon Fly Group is indoors at Woodah Farm this Saturday 2nd March 2019.
You don't have to bring anything except your lunch, but any exhibit or something to talk about would be welcome. We begin presentations at 11am. Tea and coffee will be provided.
Woodah Farm is near Doddiscombleigh in the Teign valley (SX847867, EX6 7PR).
Ah ha! I have found Martin's instructions, so I am now trying to make a clickable thumbnail again.
Just trying out image upload to see if it's possible to generate a small thumbnail image that can be clicked to enlarg
The female of Pegomya rufina has boomerang-shaped structures on each side of the ultimate tarsomere of all legs. The function of these are unknown. 
I am testing the adding of a photo of Pegomya rufina (Fall.) (Anthomyiidae). It is a caudal view of the hypopygium.
Could we have (sometime) printer friendly instructions to upload photos? I have in mind something like a checklist without empty spaces or screenshots.
I'm just posting this to try and galvanise the forums into action.
Roger Morris passed me a box full of Lonchaeidae at last weekend's Empid & Hybotid workshop. In the box was a male Earomyia viridana. A species and in fact genus I have not encountered in about a decade of collecting, so thanks Roger!
If you look under the "Local groups" heading in the main menu you'll see some county and regional DIptera groups, and we've now added a section for general local groups that include flies within a general coverage of invertebrates. If your insect or invertebrate group is missing from this list please let us know!