Dave Brice

Today we’re making a dead hedge using wood from pruned fruit trees and a downed elder.

Dead wood habitats are extremely important for a whole host of species. We never burn wood or brash or take it off site; it gets turned into dead hedges or log piles.

Look who is giving a Royal Institute Lecture 😉...on flies..can you believe it....

Very excited to be giving a talk about the Life Cycles of Flies - the vast and splendid adaptations undertaken by these little marvels..

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An excellent morning with the Devon Fly Group at their indoor meeting. Topics ranging from potential flies of Atlantic Rain Forest in UK to key entomologists in the history of Dolichopodidae. Great group who get so much done! #localgroups @guyshrubsole.bsky.social @teamdiptera.bsky.social

The Large Scabious Mining Bee Andrena hattorfiana needs our help...plant more scabious everywhere there is suitable soil for the bee to nest in

Work to help my Flora Guardian plant Creeping Marshwort in Norfolk. Needs all the help it can get, Endangered status.

Let's hear it for the Sphagnum mosses, sundews and butterworts! Go peat free.

Nice! Never seen one either.

That would be great, and really interesting!

Limnellia surturi...a rather smart, rather little shore fly (Ephydridae) on sand outside a rabbit burrow at Cali Heath @yorkswildlife.bsky.social reserve yesterday. Looks to be a new VC record. #Ephydridae #shoreflies @dipteristsforum.bsky.social @ynuorg.bsky.social

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Wheatfen reserve needs a new warden! Details of the job and how to apply can be found here: wheatfen.org/about-us/car...

One week left to apply for this year's Fly School, happening in July in Costa Rica! Fly School happens every other year, so the next opportunity won't be until 2028.

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I’ve been a supporter of @wwf.org.uk for over 40 years & I think it’s the first time I’ve seen flies in their magazine!

Hoverflies (& 100000s more spp) are not just excellent pollinators as adults, as the larvae are either recyclers of organic waste or predators of your garden pests 🤓🪰

Things significantly improving in the insect world...Melinopterus prodromus, Oecothea fenestralis, Piezodorus lituratus (looking rather like some weird sheep?!) and Scathophaga furcata at Cali Heath @yorkswildlife.bsky.social reserve today. @dipteristsforum.bsky.social @ynuorg.bsky.social

The deadline for the BEST COURSE is coming up - please do apply and join us in the jungle

This course is amazing - flies, Costa Rica, more flies, excellent tutors, yet more flies, great experience and EVEN MORE FLIES

While I can be of no help, but what a spectacular metasoma! Wasps are so often so unnecessarily beautiful! #hymenoptera #wasps #wasplove

Two men standing behind a desk in a marquee. On the desk is a range of skulls, including some with large deer antlers. The banner behind the desk shows the NNNS logo.

NNNS will have a stand at the Norwich Science Festival 2026 on Saturday 21st Feb, which is a nature themed day. There will be plenty of free activites from a range of nature themed groups and suitable for children and families as part of the explorium. For more info see norwichsciencefestival.co.uk

Roger Morris and I are picking out Muscidae from the British collection ahead of the upcoming @dipteristsforum.bsky.social field course for a photo shoot!

Trying to get those awkward features imaged to aid the keys and (hopefully) identifications

So far, we found 16 insects with #Laboulbeniales ectoparasitic microfungi, out of 361 screened ones — marking a prevalence of 4.4%. Not bad at all! Go #TeamLaboul! @taxonexpeditions.bsky.social

Definitely scammy, just instant blocking, a pain though. Hopefully, they've stopped now.

Is anyone else getting hammered by friend requests from America, all pushing UK Driving licences and some sort of card? I've had to block around 20 in the past hour.

I am working with #citizenscientists this weekend in the @taxonexpeditions.bsky.social entomological collection, to screen insects for the presence of ectoparasitic microfungi. This project is supported by @msafungi.bsky.social. #TeamLaboul #Laboulbeniales

No time like the present!😁

🙂I'll have to write a book, maybe.....🤔

Image of the book, British Dolichopodidae by Martin Drake. The cover showing Poecilobothrus nobilitatus

Long awaited timely arrival. 60 Dolochopodids arrived last week to determine for a Bioscan project, so this should be a great help. @respublications.bsky.social

Sphaeroceridae?

This wonderful publication has just dropped through the letter box, full of great pieces including the Presidential address by Nick Owens 'How wildflowers work: an entomologists view'. Fantastic organisation producing great work 👏 @norfolknats.bsky.social

Rock hard working type terrier in her little pink coat. 🙂 To be fair, the weather was pretty horrific

OK, thanks, another mystery solved

OK, not a birder beyond what I see when out, so maybe a daft question. What does cy stand for in 2cy? Often wondered 🤔 (Can only do adult gulls, but not that many 🙂)