Learn about flies

Is this Tephritis ruralis please? Beds. 28 March 2022. Looks right, especially wing, but only T3 has basal hairs black.

Is this Tephritis divisa please? Beds.

This tiny fly from the recent FSC DIptera families course looks like a candidate for Forcipomyia bipunctata, based purely on overall appearance. Are there any similar species?

Is this Egle rhinotmeta please? Herts wet woodland.

Hi All. I've just added Scathophagidae to my Flickr site. The link is here: 

This photo was sent to me recently and appears to be Mydaea sp insofar as the bulge in the mediastinal vein is present.

Hi all. I have been photographing flies in my North Devon Garden for two years now and there are a  lot more than I thought there were ! Even the ones I thought were straight forward eg Bluebottles and Greenbottles are more varied that I thought. So I am a beginner but I am slowly starting to learn more about them but do rely on trying to ID from photos which does make it extra hard but still interesting. I I record any I can ID and have a lot of help from the Hoverflies and Diptera facebook pages with this .