Andrzej 22 December 2008 20:18:55

Great idea !, and lot of wonderful landscapes

jorgemotalmeida 22 December 2008 20:13:36

Andrzej I intend to visit many mountains in next year. Serra da Estrela, Serra do Caramulo, Serra de Montesinho, Sierra Nevada in Spain, Sierra de Valdelinares and so on!

Andrzej 22 December 2008 20:08:56

unfortunately Heleomyzids are mountainous group in the tropics ... but in the Palaearctic are not rare

jorgemotalmeida 22 December 2008 20:05:29

Nikita caught some mythicomyiids flies for me. And acrocerids if possible. My first lovers.

coffinfly 22 December 2008 18:25:13

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to everyone!

Paul Beuk 22 December 2008 08:40:10

Depends on whether you have your sunglasses on or not.

jorgemotalmeida 21 December 2008 21:46:22

thanks Andrzej. but the maxwell equations are from the light side not the dark side. ehehe

Igor Grichanov 21 December 2008 17:08:47

Ah, so many Dolis for one week. Sorry, I studied Moscow ZooMuseum last week (2nd time for the last 30 years). Russian paradox.

Andrzej 21 December 2008 16:10:43

Welcome, Jorge !!! from the dark side...

jorgemotalmeida 20 December 2008 11:08:22

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year for all lovers of Diptera!

jorgemotalmeida 20 December 2008 01:35:52

and Nikita is in Thailand again... so lucky guy! And where is Tony T? He used to take awesome photos.

jorgemotalmeida 20 December 2008 00:34:00

FINALLY!! hooray! diptera again!!! what hapinness!!!!

firefly 16 December 2008 00:40:54

Good night

Gordon 09 December 2008 12:43:43

Drowned ants, even drowned in Coca Cola, will revive if dried out as well.

Roger Thomason 09 December 2008 00:03:55

No Tony, they crawled out from the salt and flew away..True story..see PM.

Tony Irwin 08 December 2008 21:46:42

I think Roger is suggesting that the flies are dead, and that the ashes or salt are simply producing an inanimate reaction in the dead tissues, causing the legs to move.

Roger Thomason 08 December 2008 19:57:57

I wasn't suggesting anyone should try it. It was stupid then, and is still stupid.

wchinyanga 08 December 2008 19:39:23

thanks rogerthomason , i'll try it again that method,,but i need the reason why

Roger Thomason 07 December 2008 00:07:53

More than "one great miracle", works with salt too. Conned a few pints in the pub doing it.Belated sorry to all flies involved.

wchinyanga 06 December 2008 13:48:57

How?.Take some white ashes and put the dead fly in it… keep on blotting inthe ashes and covering and un covering it for 5mins or more . It is sosurprising that you will start to see some movements of