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.

Today reached us the sad news that at the age of 87 the well-know Dutch collector Bob van Aartsen passed away on the moning of 1 July after a short illness. In addition to him being an avid collector and a leading specialist on Tephritidae, he was foremost an amiable man that will be hugely missed in the entomology community.