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Not sure but 3x should do it and would be much more usuable with large samples, there is one for £18.99 might give that a try.

RFI: does anyone out there use one of those large angle-poised magnifying glasses for sorting through pitfall trap samples? Was thinking of getting one, and as ever there's a vast range available, so wondered if anyone had recommendations. What magnification do you use? Thanks.

Can't help with suggestions, but great idea. Always struggling with too high magnification through the microscope.

Coenosia ruficornis (Muscidae) Head and thorax form above

Empis femorata (Empididae) a predatory fly and pollinator with long prboscis and huge 'bits'

Hybos culiciformis (Hybotidae) anothyer predatory fly showing sharp, stiff proboscis

More flies; Coenosia ruficornis (Muscidae), Empis femorata (Empididae) & Hybos culiciformis (Hybotidae). #flies #dipteraid #dipteraimaging Available for ID and imaging projects, please see dipteraid.co.uk/specimeniden... dipteraid.co.uk/macrophotogr... Please share if possible

Coenosia ruficornis (Muscidae) Head and thorax form above

Empis femorata (Empididae) a predatory fly and pollinator with long prboscis and huge 'bits'

Hybos culiciformis (Hybotidae) anothyer predatory fly showing sharp, stiff proboscis

More flies; Coenosia ruficornis (Muscidae), Empis femorata (Empididae) & Hybos culiciformis (Hybotidae). #flies #dipteraid #dipteraimaging Available for ID and imaging projects, please see dipteraid.co.uk/specimeniden... dipteraid.co.uk/macrophotogr... Please share if possible

A goose honks, a water vole jumps — and then relaxes for a casual scratch.

Captured on one of our trail cameras.

We’re working protect water voles like this across Cornwall. 💚

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Just felt liking putting on some fly piccies! 🙂 Rhipidia maculata; Head of a cranefly with pectinate antenna

Just felt liking putting on some fly piccies! 🙂 Dioctra linearis, head of an Asilid fly (Robber Fly)

Just felt liking putting on some fly piccies! 🙂Ravinia pernix. Head of a parasitiod fly (Tachinidae)

Just felt liking putting on some fly piccies! 🙂 Rhipidia maculata; Dioctra linearis and Ravinia pernix. www.dipteraid.co.uk #flies #entomology #dipteraimaging

A large 18mm Robberfly, (Tolmerus .sp) from Tenerife, Canary Islands. Yet to be identified.

A large Tolmerus species from Tenerife, haven't worked out which one yet! @flygirlnhm.bsky.social It's a biggy, c.18mm, research here we come. www.dipteraid.co.uk #dipteraid #dipteraimaging #tenerife #canaryislands Still available for any imaging or diptera identification work, Please share

A large 18mm Robberfly, (Tolmerus .sp) from Tenerife, Canary Islands. Yet to be identified.

A large Tolmerus species from Tenerife, haven't worked out which one yet! @flygirlnhm.bsky.social It's a biggy, c.18mm, research here we come. www.dipteraid.co.uk #dipteraid #dipteraimaging #tenerife #canaryislands Still available for any imaging or diptera identification work, Please share

A massive ancient Sweet Chestnut tree from a Devon estate with a small Border Terrier showing how huge it actually is.

Came across a magnificent Sweet Chestnut tree on our walk this morning, small Border Terrier for scale 😊

A small garden with tomato plants, flowering herbs and flowers with Red-tailed Bumblebee, hoverflies including Scaeva pyrastri, Eristalis tenax, Syritta pipiens and Melanostoma .spp; other Diptera, mainly Lucilia .sp on flowering herbs and 2 Gatekeeper butterflies 4 x 4.5m, 3 years ago was bare walls and gravel

Garden buzzing, Red-tailed Bumblebee, hoverflies including Scaeva pyrastri, Eristalis tenax, Syritta pipiens and Melanostoma .spp; other Diptera, mostly Neomyia .sp on flowering herbs + 2 Gatekeeper butterflies @flygirlnhm.bsky.social #smallgarden. 4 x 4.5m, 3 years ago was bare walls and gravel

A microscope with a box of mounted and labelled flies ready for determining

Last full day @kneppwilding.bsky.social teaching done, so a little time to get some determinations done; not had to do this with wasps trying to eat the flies before! @dipteracourse.bsky.social @kneppwildlandfdn.bsky.social #outdoorlab www.dipteraid.co.uk

Oh after the badger excitement of this morning I didn’t think today could get more ecologically exciting

I. Was. Wrong

I have a Lampyris noctiluca in my garden. A glow worm. A GLOW WORM

Op Wallacea volunteers learning to pin flies; four people working with microscopes

@kneppwilding.bsky.social Day 2 week 2, it's raining so pinning flies caught in preparation y'day evening. Silence as the concentration levels build 😊 Out this afternoon, bug pots, ID and catch and release, to learn Orders. @flygirlnhm.bsky.social
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A group of ecologists working on habitat classification by Identifying plants

@kneppwilding.bsky.social @opwall.bsky.social no invertebrate teaching this morning so out looking at plants and habitats; grasses are interesting (difficult to ID)! Good fun but back to flies this afternoon, Malaise traps to move, samples to sort & determine @flygirlnhm.bsky.social

An apple with a large hole in the side containing a Hornet

@kneppwilding.bsky.social teaching day four, Lesson 1 - check apples before eating when camping. Volunteers did brilliantly today in scorching heat, collecting sorting and identifying to a good mix of Orders. @flygirlnhm.bsky.social @kneppwildlandfdn.bsky.social www.dipteraid.co.uk #teaching

Day 3 teaching; but not teaching this morning, so out helping another staff member survey a pond (ID'ing plants, carrying stuff and writing down what I'm told to)! 😅 Worse ways to spend a sunny morning. Now back to sample processing. Picture of a pond, with trees surrounding it, an island of sedge and loads of waterlilies.

@kneppwilding.bsky.social Day 3 teaching; but not teaching this morning, so out helping another staff member survey a pond (ID'ing plants, carrying stuff and writing down what I'm told to)! 😅 Worse ways to spend a sunny morning. Now back to sample processing. @flygirlnhm.bsky.social

Day 2 @kneppwilding.bsky.social Lesson 1, how to put your head in a net 🙂 Sweep netting, sorting and pinning followed by Malaise trap sample ID . @flygirlnhm.bsky.social @kneppwildlandfdn.bsky.social outdoor classrooms with loads of practical learning!

Day 2 @kneppwilding.bsky.social Lesson 1, how to put your head in a net 🙂 Sweep netting, sorting and pinning followed by Malaise trap sample ID . @flygirlnhm.bsky.social @kneppwildlandfdn.bsky.social outdoor classrooms with loads of practical learning! www.dipteraid.co.uk #learning #invertebrates

Mini collection and sampling kit for Op Wallacea volunteers, Pooter, tweezers, collection pots and pinning tray

Day 1 teaching invert collection and sample processing @kneppwilding.bsky.social Mini kits prepped for the volunteers, keys printed, sample route planned but please stop the rain. Thanks 😊 @flygirlnhm.bsky.social @opwall.bsky.social

First day at @kneppwilding.bsky.social ready for two weeks of teaching collection techniques and specimen processing. Been out exploring and introducing myself to the locals, White Stork, Purple Emperor, Purple Hairstreak a few of the early bonuses. @flygirlnhm.bsky.social #flies #teaching

Tamworth sow disturbing the ground nicely in one of the wetter places

First day at @kneppwilding.bsky.social ready for two weeks of teaching collection techniques and specimen processing. Been out exploring and introducing myself to the locals, White Stork, Purple Emperor, Purple Hairstreak a few of the early bonuses. @flygirlnhm.bsky.social @opwall.bsky.social

The sap-run dwelling larva of Brachyopa insensilis is one of the more distinctive in the genus and can be identified in the field, especially with a 10x hand lens. Other hoverfly species also inhabit sap runs, so if your larva doesn't match this one, the references provided may assist. #hoverflies

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A first report of the detection of Avipoxvirus genomic sequences in louse flies (Diptera: Hippoboscidae) | Parasitology | Cambridge Core A first report of the detection of Avipoxvirus genomic sequences in louse flies (Diptera: Hippoboscidae)

and the third, the first detection of Avipoxvirus in two species of louse flies in the UK with additional phenological data that would support their role as vectors: www.cambridge.org/core/journal... 4/5

Understanding Invertebrate Assemblages Learn how to use Pantheon to inform invertebrate conservation and understand habitats with tutor Martin Harvey.

Learn to use Pantheon to analyse invertebrate data & inform conservation! Join us at the Natural History Museum, London on 20 Aug. With specialist tutor @kitenet.bsky.social . £80. Book now: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1372660337...

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Nancy watching Springwatch. @linbrice.bsky.social fascinated by the Badgers #Springwatch

A picture taken through clear water, showing lots of small green spheres coating the bottom.

I've been sent some images of green spheres from a dyke in the River Ant section of the Norfolk Broads in case I recognised the species - presumably either algae or cyanobacteria. Unfortunately I don't know the answer, does anyone recognise them? @brianecambs.bsky.social @freshwaterbio.bsky.social?

Have just ID'd my first Ephydrid from our survey trip to S'Albufera Nature Reserve in Mallorca. Thanks to @sjthomasbotany.bsky.social and David Gibbs for the recent @dipteristsforum.bsky.social Ephydrid workshop, the key is great! Thanks to @davebriceflies.bsky.social for his patient tutorage too.