I added a new forum Misidentifications in Gallery to report any errors you might find in the Gallery. Admittedly, you can report such in the Comments as well but these go unnoticed by many members. So, please, use the forum when ever necessary. (I hope not too often.)

David Hunt would like to draw your attention to the 2007/2008 short-course programme in Environmental Palaeoecology and Aquatic Ecology being offered by the Environmental Change Research Centre, University College London. This programme is in collaboration with Queen Mary College (QMUL) and the Centre of Ecology and Hydrology (CEH). Registration is now open and the courses available include: [See: Read more]

Call for cooperation between dipterists! A new communication tool for expert networks developed by the European Distributed Institute of Taxonomy (EDIT), WP6.

Irina Brake, The Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD.

A new article (or rather a short note with a call for material) by Jan M?ca (on ascomycete fungi of the Laboulbeniales on Diptera) was added today.

A new article by Cor Zonneveld (on the wood frass collecting behaviour of bombyliids and Anthrax trifasciatus in particular) was added today.