1. Struggling with identification of bees/pollinators and various other tricky insects groups? It has been my life's mission to make things easier, so check out this chain. Firstly, Steven Falk Flickr: It's a virtual museum and field adventure.

RT @DuncanWestbury: Do you still need convincing?

RT @whistling_joe: Looks like one of the Colletes sp Plasterer bees along #DiggerAlley @RSPBMinsmere .@StevenFalk1 @RSPBEngland @Natures_Vo….

RT @FishMushy: A great combination of a Median Wasp checking out a lovely Narrow Lipped Helleborine 😊 @B_Strawbridge @StevenFalk1 https://t….

RT @pmnogue: ⁦@bumble_being⁩ ⁦@B_Strawbridge⁩ ⁦@StevenFalk1⁩ this beautiful lean machine was exploring the Mason and Leafcutter nest tubes….

RT @FishMushy: Great to find Andrena hattorfiana today enjoying a good scabious year over Surrey chalk downland @B_Strawbridge @StevenFalk1….

RT @nikkigammans: Were at the @kentcountyshow for the next three days in the Garden Life Pavilion. Pop in for a chat about our bumblebees,….

RT @InterspeciesFa1: Facial Approximation based on Atapuerca 5, a Homo heidelbergensis, or primitive neanderthal, man from Sima de los Hues….

RT @ScotPollinators: National Museums Scotland has one of the largest and most diverse museum collections in the world. They are looking to….

RT @Sulkalmakh: Facial reconstruction of Homo Longi, a Denisovan from Harbin, China. Recently confirmed as a Denisovan. He possessed a mass….

RT @botany_beck: Spellbound by this amazing spectacle! A mass of stunning Seaholly set within a golden carpet of Kidney Vetch & punctuated….

RT @NatureBureau: On the home run now for our #FliesofBritainandIreland book – @StevenFalk1 has now completed the t….

One of the highlights was photographing tiny predatory empidid flies with @RyanMitchell. Only about 2 in a 100 images came out okay but I snapped 100s. Some of the most challenging photography I've ever done.

The recent @DipteristsForum field meeting based at Glen Affric was a great success, and we covered a fair bit of north-east Scotland. I've placed some photos of locations and insects seen in a Flickr folder here:

Photographed this Macroplea on a water lily leaf at Coire Loch in Glen Affric (a boggy loch). Does not look quite right for either appendiculata or mutica. Any views @Coleopterist @bugmanjones?

RT @SJBKnott: There are beetles, there are large beetles & then there are giants. Prionus coriarius ♂ last night on back of house in Benge….

RT @ScotPollinators: If you are in London in the coming months you might enjoy the World of Wasps exhibition at the UCL Grant Museum of Zoo….

Like most scathophagid 'dung flies', it has nothing to do with dung. The larvae are probably aquatic predators. You can find out more about scathophagids (and other flies) in the forthcoming @NatureBureau book.

Finally photographed the iconic Ernoneura argus 'dung fly' on the banks of Loch Garten on Saturday after several unsuccesful attempts. It occurs at just a few upland lochs, mostly in Scotland. The green lochside scum is the remains of pine pollen and the algal bloom it creates.

RT @vickihird: Is that a hornet or is nature playing tricks on you?

RT @FishMushy: Amazed to see regular males and one female, shown here, visiting my garden meadow cranesbill for nectar, hope they are findi….