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Like anything, membership is the starting point - you really need to start networking - going on field meetings and meeting up with people and swapping info. Come to a few BENHS workshops at Dinton Pastures, even if they are in groups that you're not instantly interested in, because you'll get to meet a lot of really friendly and useful people :) Ian McClean recently told me that we're doing another tachinid workshop next Spring ... so that would be a good one to bring some specimens along to ;)

Basically when you're starting out catch lots of specimens, pin them up, and then when you start working on them you'll have material to test the keys and you'll work out what you are interested in and what's too difficult to work on :)

Oh ... and you have mail ;)