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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

Is there enough visible here to id this as A. imbrida? Assuming I'm counting the right ones it seems to have the requisite number of setae on the hind tibia and the 5th sternite looks right to my eyes (again assuming I'm looking at the right bits!) From Rye Harbour NR, East Sussex on the 5th May

Rather mangled specimen which I can't put through the key step by step cos many of the features of the legs are missing.  Rather small, length = 4.6 mm. Hairy eyes and long bristles at tip of cercal plate could be Lasiomma seminitidum?  Beds.  11 March 2020.  Swept from riverside willow.

Hi,

I have collected two small flies from alder / birch woodland (approx 5mm wing length). I was wondering if they are Anthomyiidae.

Any help much appreciated!

Hi folks. I've just joined DF and this is my first post. Apologies for picture quality -  I've got a phone and a 40x microscope at my disposal.

This is an Anthomyid from a melon-baited bottle trap in my garden, Barton-upon-Humber (out on 20-4-20, in 1/5/20). I've never had a go at one of these before, but I'm using the key by Ackland, Bentley & Brighton. Its a female and I'm at couplet 6. Is the feature 'a series of widely spaced coarse setae' (and thus making it Fucellia sp.) shown in my photo down the microscope? I'm not sure.