Cool Stuff About Flies…
How the Fly Evades the Swatter
(link above to Science Friday®
provides additional links & credits for the Flash® video below)
Blow flies get virtual reality in flight simulator – Fly-O-Vision!
Phorid flies provide slow death from the skies! part 1 | part 2
Fly poetry by Giles Watson
Mosquito larvae portraits – art in real life
Flies on the eating and being eaten end of life – find them!
Antarctica’s chironomid midge
Robotic Spy flies
Remote Control Flies
Why Fruit Flies like Fizzy Drinks but not caffeine
Midges Reveal Past Climate
Insects to Solve Crimes
About Flies…
Diptera site at UC-Berkeley
Flies from Entophiles
Virtual Exhibit on Canada’s Biodiversity – Diptera
Diptera.info and photo gallery
Fly, mosquito, & midge research at CSIRO
Wikipedia on Flies and Fly Families
About Flies of Economic Importance…
Mosquitoes and Fruit flies from Scientific American
The Australian Bush Fly
Mosquitoes from University of California
Mosquitoes (Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit)
North American Dipteran Pollinators
In Praise of Blackflies – William H. Amos
SPLAT: New Fruit Fly Control
Black Dump Fly: Larval Predator of House Flies
Myiasis: fancy term for maggots living under the skin (yuck!!) from Bug Girl’s Blog
Bot Flies (Oestrididae)
Tumbu (Calliphoridae)
Maggot therapy (the flip side of myiasis; mainly Calliphoridae)
About Fly Families…
Asilidae (robberflies) including Euscelidia
Ceratopogonidae (biting midges)
Chironomidae
Culicidae (mosquitoes)
Milichiidae
Mydidae & Apioceridae
Phoridae (ant-decapitating & bee-killing flies)
Sarcophagidae (flesh flies)
Scenopinidae (window flies)
Tabanidae (horse flies)
Tachinidae
Tephritidae (fruit flies)
Therevidae (stiletto flies)
Tipulidae (crane flies)
see also extensive links to fly families in Wikipedia
For Young Dipterists
Diptera Safari – photo safari through the families of flies
“Ann” Anopheles Mosquito – her trade is dishing out malaria…
Fun with Flies!
Beyond Flies for Young Entomologists
Bug Fun from the University of Kentucky
Virtual Exhibit of Canadian Biodiversity – Insects especially Diptera
Bugscope!
Online Arthropod Activities for Different Grade Levels
Organizations, Societies, Groups Talking About Diptera…
American Mosquito Control Association
Entomological Society of America
North American Dipterists Society
Arbeitskreis Diptera (practice your German!)
List of Societies maintained by USDA Systematic Entomology Lab
Diptera Databases
FlyBase (database of Drosophila genome)
Biosystematic Database of World Diptera
Therevid WebMandala
Museum Collections Featuring Diptera
Dipteran Catalogs
Catalog of the Diptera of the Australian & Oceanian Regions
Ceratopogonidae of Costa Rica
Catalogue of the Fossil Flies of the World (Insecta: Diptera)
2001 Systematic Catalog of the Culicidae
Update of World Catalog of the Phoridae
British Insects: The Families of Diptera
Periodical Publications Devoted to Diptera
Studia Dipterologica (Journal) & Studia Dipterologica Supplement (monographs)