Last Friday I had the pleasure of helping out at the Natural History Museum’s yearly “Science Uncovered” event. For one evening the museum opens its…
At long last I am very pleased to say that the OPAL cabinet project is finished! Yesterday I collected the final batch of drawers from…
Whilst at the NHM last week Max Barclay kindly sorted me out with some new unit trays for the OPAL-funded cabinets. I have spent a…
Recently I had a few chances to go back to the NHM in London and work with the world Diptera collections – it was marvellous!…
One of my favourite flies from my recent NHM visits is the amazingly marked Bibiomima handlirschi, a rare phasiine tachinid from Central & South America.…
A few of the more dramatic specimens from the neotropics a sample kindly donated by Martin Hauser 🙂 Identifications were derrived by comparing ot material…
I have just spent a really fun day with 2 friends of mine, Becca & John, driving up to the Natural History Museum (NHM) in…
The funding hasn’t come through yet but I always planned to make a contribution myself so last Friday I bought the first 20 drawers from…
This is a strange dexiine tachinid with and extremely long proboscis and long antennae. The curl on this specimen’s antennae may have been caused by…