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Comment on Warburg Reserve – 18th July 2010 by ChrisR

ChrisR — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 10:02:17 +0000

Thanks – I’ll update the photo

Comment on Warburg Reserve – 18th July 2010 by ChrisR

ChrisR — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 10:01:50 +0000

Hi Nigel – thanks for that corrections – I’ll update the photos. It was just me being too lazy to look the Chrysotoxum up – serves me right! I also forgot to update the strat – my PC has been broken for a while and I am still waiting for the replacement … never buy a Dell if you really have to have a PC quickly … grrrr.

Comment on Warburg Reserve – 18th July 2010 by Nigel Jones

Nigel Jones — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 16:37:13 +0000

Hi Chris your Chrysotoxum is festivumm – I have not seen one for a couple of years, so quite a nice find.

Comment on Warburg Reserve – 18th July 2010 by Ian Andrews

Ian Andrews — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 09:53:58 +0000

Great photos! I dream of such species up here in the cold north!

I think the Chrysotoxum is festivum, not cautum (very different markings).

Going back to 3rd July, I think the Stratiomys is potamida, not chamaeleon (yellow bars look thin and more like this).

Ian

Comment on Moor Copse – 3rd July 3020 by ChrisR

ChrisR — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 08:07:24 +0000

Hi Ian … yes you are correct – I was chatting about it to a friend the other day and realized my mistake – then promptly forgot to update the blog and change the name – doh! Thanks for reminding me – I will change it now

Comment on Moor Copse – 3rd July 3020 by Ian Andrews

Ian Andrews — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 07:03:30 +0000

Chris

Great pics, as always!

Yout Stratiomys is potamida, isn’t it? Yellow stretching across tergite 3. Commoner species than chamaeleon.

Ian

Comment on About Me by irene palmer

irene palmer — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 18:51:50 +0000

Very nervous about doing this Chris. We have corresponded some years ago. Both my husband John and I have had serious illnesses in recent yeats but we continue to warden Downe Bank for Kent Wildlife Trust. I’m on the Steering Group to make ‘Darwin’s Landscape Laboratory’ a WHS (The UK Nomination to UNESCO this year. For my sins, I’ve also become a Vice-president of Kent Wildlife Trust and President of the South London Botanical Institute. Inevitably, as Downe Bank was Darwin’s Orchis Bank, orchid pollination has interested us for some years. I’m currently preparing a lecture ‘Sex and deception in orchids’ and would love to have some of your euglossine bee images – would that be possible? We could scan the web images (with your permission, but you might be able to send me the 3 lovely Euglossa sp. shown from above. Darwin is all about the web-of-life, so I want to show some of the insects and in this case, both orchids and other flowers the bees visit (brazil nut) + macaw. I’m toning the title down for the future and calling it ‘The weird and wonderful world of orchids’. Luckliy we maanaged to travel quite a bit before insurance got prohibitive. Pleased to see you’re still very active. I still have some of your graphs from Hartslock. All good wishes, Irene

Comment on A new Estheria sp. by Jorge Almeida

Jorge Almeida — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 15:59:55 +0000

That’s fantastic news! Of course I will collect much more!!! Maybe I have 1-2 here in my collection! I will check it soon. In next month hopefully I will find these new tachinids!

Comment on Moor Copse – 12th June 2010 by anki

anki — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 20:51:12 +0000

Hello, you helpt me with a fly on diptera.info, thanks for that.

great pictures you take, just love them.

have a nice evening

Comment on Acrocerid #2 (Lasia sp.) by Jorge Almeida

Jorge Almeida — Sat, 24 Apr 2010 12:15:30 +0000

Chris… this is not Lasia!!! Check here my reasons:
http://www.diptera.info/forum/viewthread.php?thread_id=29490