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A Werewolf Public Service Announcement: Brothers and sisters, the occasional brawl is good for the soul and the strength of the pack. Just save the lethal stuff for other species. (Art by LycanthropeHeart, Noxyfer, , and Drelteo)

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2023-03-10

This Bolbophyllum is from W J Hooker's A Century of Orchidaceous Plants (1849). In writes how the dark delicate hairs are thought to lure the dipteran pollinators of these tiny flowers by imitating a fly mating swarm

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2021-04-30

Just spotted a hashtag and was reminded of my first encounter with a last year as it crawled out from a clothes peg.

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2020-04-10

Here we have a bumblebee robberfly, also known as an assassin fly. It hunts beetles, grasshoppers and spiders, as well as any other invertebrate it can get its claws on!

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2020-04-03

This louse-fly (aka Hippobosca rufipes) started its life in Botswana. It would normally eat cow and horse blood, but it ended up hitching a ride to St Albans on some meat!

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2020-03-13

The rather wonderful Pasquale Ciliberti, who manages the collection at has a soft spot for the smaller flies. And I mean small...can you see the flies on the pin? It’s Culicoides pungens - a tiny fluffy biting midge

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2020-01-24

Crater Fossils from Brazil from 110 million years ago. These fly specimens are amazing & are part of the impressive fossil insect collection behind the scenes, which is actively being worked on & developed thanks to David Grimaldi & co-workers

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2019-11-23

The Lance fly, Lonchaea fraxina, is 1 of a just few British species exclusively associated with dead Ash trees (Fraxinus excelsior). With Ash dieback killing off our trees, this fly may benefit temporarily, but it’s future long-term looks uncertain.

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2019-11-01

This week for we bring you a MALE blowfly (Calliphoridae): Cynomya mortuorum. Referred to as the Yellow-faced blowfly, and also “fly of the dead” due to it’s association with carrion.

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2019-04-13

and for Artists and Original painting of a stable fly by Amadeo J. E. Terzi, (1872-1956).

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2017-03-04

lends his talents to this beautiful rendition of San Diego

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2016-07-16

When we grow up, we want to be bounty hunters. I wonder why... https://t.co/ROc4YCr7vg

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2016-02-20

Ok a specimen from the coll's Formosia moneta

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2015-06-12