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I found this at Dancers End near Tring, I am not sure at all which group this belongs to but suspect the eyes are distinctive enough to point to an ID.

The fly was small max 8mm, habitat tall grassland including hogweed and marjorum, on chalk.  

Would be grateful for any pointers.

Second poor photo only to show general body shape.

Can anyone identify this please?

Does this look ok for P. cunicularia? From Rye Harbour NR, Easy Sussex, 20th May 2020. Thanks

I ran this fly through the scathophagid key and it seems to come out easily enough as C. decipiens, but it is not a species I have come across before and there seem to be very few images on the interweb! Just wondering if anybody with a bit more experience could tell me yay or nay. During drying the femora have flattened and twisted making them look more swollen than they were in life. From 25th April, Rye, East Sussex

Hi

I usually focus on hoverflies, but couldn't help but notice this fly on the leaves in my garden pond yesterday 8/6/2020. I think it's a Doli, but could anyone confirm?

For the recorders, my postcode is M33 4AN

Cheers

Nev

I found this fungus gnat in my Orkney garden yesterday. I've keyed it to Keroplatidae. Using Mike Hackston's Keroplatidae key I seemed to get to Orfelia but that's not with any confidence. Is it possible to identify this fly any further beyond Keroplatidae (assuming that bit's correct) from the attached pictures? 

Many thanks,

Barrie

I should know these but I don't! Can anyone help please?

Jim

Hi, new to the dipterists forum, hope this post is allowed, and in the right spot.

Saw numbers of lovely Volucella bombylans in my (very wild) garden yesterday, but also photographed two very distinctive looking flies which I can't ID. I try to ID whatever I see and then add to irecord, so would really appreciate any help available.

Not the best photographs, but just enough detail to make out the flies in this close group of around 20 individuals (seen on Chislehurst Common, Kent, ~1.5m off the ground beside an oak) are carrying an object. In some cropped images it looks like another smaller individual and in one it looks held facing backwards.

I found what i hope is a distinctive Cranefly, unfortunately i did not collect a specimen.

I thought it might be Tipula rufia but no dark stripe on the thorax, could it be a Lunatipula sp?

I'm just starting to learn craneflies so any pointers would be helpful.

It was in scrub in a mozaic of chalk grassland, scrub and surrounded by deciduous woodland. seen 12/5/20  it was one of the largish craneflies.

thank you

Sue