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Rick M @rickmartin.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
A marmalade hoverfly perched on the yellow centre of a red and white dahlia 🌱 #FlyDay #FlowersOnFriday #FloralFriday #Bloomscrolling #EastCoastKin
A marmalade hoverfly perched on the yellow centre of a red and white dahlia
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DipteristsForum @dipteristsforum.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Fly Research & Conservation Virtual Symposium 21 Oct 2026 | 10:00 - 13:00 | Tickets £1 - £30 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1981718540... Featuring the brilliant minds of: @flygirlnhm.bsky.social Erica McAlister @denisewawman.bsky.social Denise Wawman Ian McGowan Meghan Barrett @biologicalrecording.co.uk
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Fly Research and Conservation Virtual Symposium
Join us during Insect Week to explore some of the latest research and conservation projects about true flies (Diptera).
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HoverflySpotterM.D @hoverflyspotter.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
🦇 In case you missed it 🦇 Na, na, na, na, na, na, na,na,na,na,na na,na,na,na,na Batmaaaaaan!. #Batman #Hoverflies #Flies #Insects #Pollinator #Nature #Biology #Wildlife #Diptera #Entomology #NaturalHistory #StayCurious #Autumn #NatureNotes hoverflyspotter.blogspot.com/2026/09/batm...
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Batman Hoverfly (Myathropa florea)
Discover the hoverfly with a superhero emblem, buoyant larvae that dive like miniature whales, and a surprisingly strong association with cemeteries.
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jtkindt @jtkindt.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I’ve never played Assassin’s Creed, but I imagine this is the vibe. (Promachus rufipes robberfly with bumblebee prey.) #bugsky #insects #diptera #accidentalrenaissance
Large fly with wings folded over its long body like a cloak, facing a wall with a black and yellow bumble bee belly up at its mercy, with the late evening sun casting dramatic shadows against the wall and providing a Tuscan color palette.  There is a long diagonal crack in the wall that originally confused me - it’s not part of either bug’s anatomy.
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Alex/Clef ✨🌿 Team Comedy 🎭 @fabledferns.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
last upload for a little while before i start my last year of grad school (!) to become a therapist (!!!) but i’ve had this idea floating in my head for a while based on my favorite insect, the stalk eyed fly! goofiest bugs in the world <3 #fly #insect #stalkeyedfly #entomology #diptera
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Brian Peterson @drbrianpet.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Flyday! This is a Bee Fly I know this because I am a fly expert We experts call them "Diptera" pretty much so the laypeople don't know what we're talking about Macro Photography
The little tiny fly is on one of the little wildflowers in my front yard
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Team Diptera 🪰🔍🦟🌻 @teamdiptera.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Want to learn a bit more about identifying calliphorids? Join Team Diptera on our discord, tomorrow! Link in Bio! #Fliesarecool #TeamDiptera #diptera
An event flyer with a light blue background reads "Team Diptera's 1st iNat ID-a-Thon!" at the top in bold black text. Centered over a yellow starburst is a close-up photo of a metallic green calliphorid fly with red circles and arrows highlighting anatomical features labeled "White calypteres???" and "No pollinosity???". The text at the bottom announces: "Join Bennett Grappone on Tuesday, September 8th at 5 pm PST as we clean up the observations for a highly observed but under-identified species of calliphorid fly! You might get lucky and find an extra rare species hiding in the observations!"
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Luxomancer 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @luxomancer.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
It's not just #Flyday, it's also #FreakyFriday 😁 These are #Flies in the genus Ozodiceromyia (I think...) #MacroPhotography #insects #Diptera #Nature #Awe and #Wonder #BugSex.
A photograph of two black and gray files mating as they rest on a white surface.  The smaller fly on the left has reddish eyes, a black thorax, and a black and light gray striped abdomen.  The fly on the right is larger, and has glossy black eyes, and a black thorax with a long black and gray striped abdomen.  They both have slender black legs.
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Dipterists Society @dipterists.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
We'll be hosting our 35th General Meeting @ #EntSoc26 (Nov. 10; Columbus, OH) and are looking for speakers! Presentations can be on anything related to #Diptera If you're interested please message @bertonemyia.bsky.social for a link to submit your talk info for consideration. Hope to see you there!
A golden yellow and black stalk-eyed Richardia fly sits on a white background next to the Dipterists Society logo. Underneath the fly it says "We're looking for you...to present!"
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Vic Brown @viccbrown.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
For the sixth consecutive year, my garden has been graced by this incredibly rare and stunning hoverfly. A female Callicera spinolae (Ivy Longhorn) today. My first August record, and five days earlier than last year, which was the previous earliest record. #Diptera #Syrphidae #Flies #Entomology
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Gray @grays.art · 21/08/2026
Happy FlyDay. We made it! 🪰 Bee fly perched (Systoechus solitus) CREW pen flint strand Bonita Springs, Florida 8-19-26 Proboscis looks menacing, but harmless, for deep-access & hover-feeding, like humming birds. #flyDay #eck #diptera #flies #entomology #macro #threewordgenre #bugSky #nature #art
A profile macro shot of a fuzzy, golden-brown bee fly perched on a piece of dry bark. The insect has a round, intensely hairy body resembling a bumblebee, thin dark legs, and a prominent, needle-like proboscis extending forward from its head. Its translucent wings are spread slightly, catching iridescent green tones under warm lighting. The background features a soft green and brown blur.
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Martin Lavelle @martinlavelle.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
A female Locust blowfly, Stomorhina lunata, in #Plymouth garden on Mint flower, 24/8/26. Lovely eyes. #Diptera
A small-ish Fly hanging onto a white Mint flower. She has striped eyes and a hooped body.Same small-ish Fly hanging onto a white Mint flower. She has striped eyes and a hooped body.
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Team Diptera 🪰🔍🦟🌻 @teamdiptera.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Such an elegant fly ✨💕
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Team Diptera 🪰🔍🦟🌻 @teamdiptera.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
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Agnes: It's So Fluffy! (Despicable Me)
ALT: Agnes: It's So Fluffy! (Despicable Me)
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Tristan Ducharme @tisoffwork.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Fly appreciation post. For a long time my favourite taxon has been diptera or flies, mostly because of the immense variation. Here are 4 of my favourite recent fly shots. 1. Ringed Pixie 2. Antlered flutter fly 3. Eutreta noveboracensis 4. Hystricia abrupta 🌿📷🦋 #inverts #insects #wildlife
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SADIE 𓅐 @cicadie.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
GIRL DINNER ✨️🪰 #diptera #bugsky #asilidae #syrphidae #insect
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Team Diptera 🪰🔍🦟🌻 @teamdiptera.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Come join Team Diptera on our discord server (link in bio) for a Creature Feature! Thursday, August 20th, 5pm! 🪰
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Team Diptera 🪰🔍🦟🌻 @teamdiptera.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Come join Team Diptera on our discord server (link in bio) for a Creature Feature! Thursday, August 20th, 5pm! 🪰
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🐙🦑👁️one-eyed Guy enjoyer @toldentops.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Every group that stays this research center makes a painting to commemorate so of course I was put in charge to paint it. Really happy with the colors on this one. Its a periscelid dancing on top of a pantophthalmid, our two star flies found during the course! #flyschool2026 #diptera #art
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Matt Bertone @bertonemyia.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Back in civilization after 2 weeks in the Costa Rican jungle. It was an amazing experience full of spectacular flies (+other creatures) as well as a truly wonderful group of students & instructors. The memories made will last a lifetime. ☺️ 🥰 Can't wait for the next #Diptera adventure! #FlySchool2026
frit fly (Chloropidae: Acanthopeltastes) A small shiny black fly sits on a white backgroundfacing the viewer. Its wings are spread and it has four large spines coming out of the rear of the thorax.mantis shore fly (Ephydridae: Ochthera) A grayish black fly with large mantis-like forelegs sits on a white background facing left.horse fly (Tabanidae) A golden brown fly with a huge head made up of mostly eyes sits on a white background facing right, waving its front legs out.stilt-legged fly (Micropezidae) A thin black fly with long legs and a bright red head and striped eyes sits on a white background facing right, waving around its front legs.
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🍁 Alex Smith 🍁 @alexsmithants.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
🧪🧵 🪰 🐜🪲🐞🦗🐛🦋🪳🦟 Were there patterns in what groups we found? 🪰🪰🪰🪰🪰🪰🪰🪰🪰🪰🪰🪰🪰🪰🪰🪰🪰🪰🪰🪰🪰🪰🪰🪰🪰🪰A LOT OF FLIES 🪰🪰🪰🪰🪰🪰🪰🪰🪰🪰🪰🪰🪰🪰🪰🪰🪰🪰🪰🪰🪰🪰🪰🪰🪰🪰🪰🪰🪰🪰🪰🪰🪰🪰🪰🪰🪰🪰🪰🪰🪰🪰🪰🪰🪰🪰🪰🪰🪰🪰🪰🪰🪰🪰🪰🪰🪰🪰🪰🪰🪰🪰 (and also loads of Hymenoptera, Coleoptera and Hemiptera). doi.org/10.1139/gen-... @gdfcf.bsky.social @rpuschen.bsky.social
Figure S2. Frequency of BINs for most Orders and Families collected across in 28 localities from 2017 to 2023, using Malaise traps.Figure S2. Frequency of BINs for most Orders and Families collected across in 28 localities from 2017 to 2023, using Malaise traps.image of the parasitoid tachind fly Santarosamyia woodrum (female paratype) from Part of: Fleming AJ, Smith MA, Hallwachs W, Janzen D (2025) A new genus and a new species in the tribe Eryciini (Diptera, Tachinidae) from Area de Conservación Guanacaste in north-western Costa Rica. Biodiversity Data Journal 13: e161853. https://doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.13.e161853
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iain @glaikitsheep.org · 10/08/2026
🪰 Argyra diaphana ♂ - Long-legged Fly a gorgeous, but rather small, fly handheld focus stack of 57 shots in the field using natural light #fly #ukwildlife #diptera #argyra #insect #photography #macro #nature #scotland
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jtkindt @jtkindt.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Happy #flyfriday! Looks like a moth but it's a bee fly, genus Lephidophora, apparently a kleptoparasite of solitary vespid and sphecid wasps. Apparently these can be seen in Georgia but are more common up north. Black Rock Forest, NY last month. #BugSky #flyday #BugShot #diptera
Fly with tongue sticking into on small daisy-like flower.  Fly has black and pale yellow/green feathery hairs on its body, feathery antennae, narrow dark wings spread to the side, humped body and blocky feathered rump.
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Matt Bertone @bertonemyia.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Love this from #FlySchool2026 student @toldentops.bsky.social! 🥰 #Lauxaniidae is one of the most diverse acalyptrate #fly families. Larvae are associated w/leaf litter, thus super abundant/diverse in forests. They are HIGHLY variable so every time a student finds one they think it's a new family 😂
Plate showing variety of flies in the family Lauxaniidae specimens.A yellow fly with striped eyes  sits on a leaf and waves at the camera.A dark fly with half black wings, the tips, sits on a leaf.A gray fly with large eyes stands tall on a leaf.
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Erica McAlister @flygirlnhm.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Check out this extraordinary female Eucelatoria sp (Tachinidae). She possess a sharp piercer that she tucks up underneath her when not being deployed, for oviposition - you can see her ovipositor nestled in this penetrating sheath! Badass lady! @dipteracourse.bsky.social #FlySchool2026
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Tom Astle @tjalamont.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Friday #Flyday! Here's a romantic pair of ambush bugs (Phymata sp.) on a dinner date. But check out the fly's abdomen. See it? The dark-light patches are opposite on the left vs. right sides. Cool mutation? Gynandromorph? Just a fancy fly? @flygirlnhm.bsky.social @bertonemyia.bsky.social #BugSky 🐙🌿
A macro photo of a pair of ambush bugs, yellow with brownish patches, feeding on a black and white fly they have caught in a yellow flower. The fly's abdomen shows an unusual pattern; the light and dark patches mirror each other on the left vs. right sides of the midline, that is, an area that's dark on the left is light on the right, and vice-versa.
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jtkindt @jtkindt.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
TGI #flyfriday! This pufftail fly has what I'd call a wide stance. I've never seen anything from this genus (Sphegina) in Georgia; this was in Trondheim, Norway this June. #flyday #diptera #bugsky
fly with long thin dark body, thin wings folded over abdomen, large dark red eyes, short antennae (which look to me similar to syrphid antennae), prominent white halteres, normal looking forelegs and midlegs, and hind legs that are about twice as long and twice as thick as the rest of the legs and that are spread out way to its sides.
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Matt Bertone @bertonemyia.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
OK I thought Scutops was cute, but OMG #NEOscutops is amazing! 😍 I'm now convinced #Periscelididae is, per species, the weirdest family of flies (more evidence from another genus to drop later). #FlySchool2026 Costa Rica [And yes, @americanbeetles.bsky.social, it's cool partly because of beetle]
A small round beetle-like fly with a shiny black body and bright red head walks on a leaf. Dorsal view. A small round beetle-like fly with a shiny black body and bright red head walks on a leaf. Lateral view facing left. A small round beetle-like fly with a shiny black body and bright red head walks on a leaf. Lateral view facing right. A small round beetle-like fly with a shiny black body and bright red head sits on a white background. Lateral view facing left.
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Erica McAlister @flygirlnhm.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Heads up folks Some Tabanidae that were sampled from the Canopy Tower at the Soltis Center, Costa Rica These images show both differences in eye patterns & antennal branching. Sadly the eye patterns disappear as they desicate so images are important #FlySchool2026 @dipteracourse.bsky.social
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Steve @stevetypesstuff.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
I said to the woman sitting next to me “Sit still, there’s a fly in your hair”. Which meant “I’m just grabbing my phone to take a pic of the large venomous predator in your hair”! What a beauty! #Robberflies #Asilidae
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Petra Korlević @petrathepostdoc.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Diptera is 2 wing unless they are 0 wing and also convergent evolution into mite size and hitchhike on bee en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braula_...
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Braula coeca - Wikipedia
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Matt Bertone @bertonemyia.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Gold star for this silver soldier #fly 🌟 Diptera are seriously amazing 🤩 🥰 #Stratiomyidae: #Artemita argentea Soltis Center, Costa Rica @flygirlnhm.bsky.social @dipteracourse.bsky.social @riccardi-p.bsky.social
A fly covered with thick silver fur sits on a white background facing left. It's head is mostly red eyes with darker red squiggles, and it's wings are held out folder over each other sticking out the rear.
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iain @glaikitsheep.org · 01/08/2026
A stack of flies (Empis livida and some poor unfortunate) What happens in the under shrubbery stays in the under shrubbery focus stack of 23 shots - handheld and captured in natural light #fly #ukwildlife #diptera #tiger #photography #macro #nature #scotland
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Dr Jill Whitelock @jillwhitelock.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Helophilus pendulus, ‘The footballer’, from Edward Donovan’s ‘The natural history of British insects’, vol. 1 (London, 1792). S391.c.79.1 @theulspeccoll.bsky.social #Hoverflies #Diptera
Hand-coloured printed illustration of a yellow and black Hoverfly next to a pink flower.
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Matt Bertone @bertonemyia.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
This is what my camera roll looks like during #FlySchool2026 (and as it did during Fly School III in 2024) 😂
Phone camera roll full of photos of flies taken through the microscope
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Team Diptera 🪰🔍🦟🌻 @teamdiptera.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Oooh, is that a new acalyptrate? NOPE. LAUXANIID. Thanks to @toldentops.bsky.social for sharing this #FlySchool meme with all of #TeamDiptera! 🪰✨
Meme with a Lauxaniid fly, top text: you think you got a different acalyptrate? WRONG!!!! bottom text: Its another Lauxaniid!!!! add it to the pile!!!!
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Matt Bertone @bertonemyia.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
The mint chocolate chip flavor of flies [I imagine] 😋 #Stratiomyidae: #Promeranisa #FlySchool2026 Costa Rica
A fly stands on a white background facing right. It is mint green with brown stripes on the thorax and a pointed face with long thick antennae.
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Matt Bertone @bertonemyia.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
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Team Diptera 🪰🔍🦟🌻 @teamdiptera.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Check out this lovely flag from Muchow, Germany, featuring a lovely fly! Why a fly? Well, in flag design there is a practice called "canting" where elements that sound like place names are used in the heraldry! In this case "Mucha" means fly! Seems like a place I'd want to visit... #FliesAreCool
a yellow flag, with a red section in the center, holding a yellow coat of arms with a red fly and two crossed blue scythes
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Dipterists Society @dipterists.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
If you're enjoying these posts (and #flies 🪰 in general) please visit our website: dipterists.org You can become a member and find out how you can join Fly School in the future. We'd love to see you!
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Matt Bertone @bertonemyia.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Be a dipterist. Be in Costa Rica for #FlySchool2026. See a muscoid #fly perching on a leaf. Tell student so they can collect it. Success!! Wait a minute 🤔 That's not a fly, but weevil mimicking one! This was so convincing, even rapidly moving & poking its wings out 🥰 #Curculionidae: cf. #Mnemynurus
A weevil with red around its neck, resembling the eyes of a fly. It has large brown eyes and a long yellow proboscis curving under the body. It's on a white background facing the viewer.A weevil with red around its neck, resembling the eyes of a fly. It has large brown eyes and a long yellow proboscis curving under the body. The wing cover are mottled brown and white. It is on a white background facing left.A weevil with red around its neck, resembling the eyes of a fly. It has large brown eyes and a long yellow proboscis curving under the body. The wing cover are mottled brown and white. It is on a white background facing away.A weevil with red around its neck, resembling the eyes of a fly. It has large brown eyes and a long yellow proboscis curving under the body. The wing cover are mottled brown and white, and the wings are sticking out the back. It is on a white background facing away from the viewer.
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Matt Bertone @bertonemyia.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Sometimes you've gotta go metallic to mimic your model! This common tropical hover #fly at the top is a convincing mimic of the local orchid #bees in the genus #Euglossa (bottom). #FlySchool2026 #Syrphidae: #Ornidia obesa Soltis Center, Costa Rica
Two metallic green winged insects on a white background, one at the top and one at the bottom. The top one is a hover fly and the bottom is an orchid bee.
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Matt Bertone @bertonemyia.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Spectacular catch on the 1st day of #FlySchool2026 by student Sangjin Han! This massive timber fly was flying around the lobby of the Soltis Center last night. At over 2"/5 cm this is the largest live fly I've ever seen 😳 Larvae bore in wood. Amazing! 🥰 #Pantophthalmidae: #Pantophthalmus Costa Rica
A large brown fly with yellow-tipped legs and pointy orange antennae sits facing right on a white background.A large brown fly with yellow-tipped legs and pointy orange antennae sits facing right on a white background. A human finger is resting above it to show the large size.A large brown fly with yellow-tipped legs and pointy orange antennae sits facing toward the viewer on a white background.
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NullPointer 🍄 @nuiipointer.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
A better look at the hypno-eyes #flies #diptera #naturephotography
Close up of the head and thorax of a black soldier fly. The eyes are gray but with a hypnotic pattern of dark blue squiggles. The antennas are relatively long for a fly, and flattened. The thorax is black and mostly bald, with some white hair around the edges.
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NullPointer 🍄 @nuiipointer.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
The complete idiot’s guide to IS IT A BEE OR A FLY?* * results not guaranteed. #diptera #flies #hymenoptera #bees
The complete idiot's guide to
IS IT A BEE OR A FLY?

1. EYES
fly: huge compound eyes covering most of the head
bee: smaller eyes on the sides of the head
validity: POOR

2. ANTENNAS
fly: little triangle between the eyes
bee: jointed antennas, longer
validity: OK

3. WINGS
fly: 2 (or fewer)
bee: 4
validity: GOOD*
*except I never learned to count :(
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Martin in the UK @izzythedog.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
#MacroMonday Thick-legged Hoverfly (Syritta Pipiens) with its dangly legs and at rest having a scratch. #pollinators #Diptera #Nature #Insects #Macro #MacroPhotography #Photography
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Phil Saunders @beardybirder.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
This absolutely stonking male Tabanus sudeticus was loitering in the Upton garden this evening. I never fail to be amazed by the size of these huge horseflies #Diptera #AbsoluteUnit
A male Tabanus sudeticus (Dark Giant Horsefly), with huge buff-brown compound eyes, backswept brownish wings, and a dark brown abdomen decorated with buff triangles down the midline, rests, facing upwards, on textured black matting.
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Socrates Letana @socletana.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
One of the California-endemic predaceous assassin flies is the Antioch hammertail (Efferia antiochi), and is associated with restricted habitats such as the Antioch Dunes. This species was last documented in the 1950s. Lost species? We do not know…yet. 🪰 #Diptera #Asilidae
Lateral view of a pinned male Antioch hammertail museum specimenSignage at the entrance of Antioch Dunes National Wildlife Refuge, California.One of the open landscape at the Antioch Dunes.Landscape overviewing the San Joaquin River at the Antioch Dunes.
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PhotoMaze 🇸🇪 @photomaze.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Daily biodiversity: Dexiosoma caninum, a parasite fly #Tachinidae #parasitefly #Dexiosomacaninum #Dexiosoma #Diptera #biodiversity #biologiskmångfald #bjärenatur #PL10040/4.5-6.3 #INaturalist #macro
The parasite fly Dexiosoma caninum
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Ian Andrews @suillia.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Senotainia conica (Small Shadower Fly) at Cali Heath @yorkswildlife.bsky.social reserve, lurking around Oxybelus uniglumis nests outside rabbit burrows, waiting to lay an egg on the wasp's diptera catch. Rabbit droppings make perfect watchpoints! @dipteristsforum.bsky.social @ynuorg.bsky.social
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