waldgeist's Journal

Very windy, try and sunny - around +20°C. Unfortunately too windy for sharp and usefull fotos.
A lot of Phasiinae still around (expecially Phasia obesa and Ectophasia sp.), a lot of "green" flies (Lucillia sp, Neomyia sp, Pyrellia sp., ...), many Bellardia sp. and a few hoverflies - Eristalis tenax, Eristalix arbustorum, Sphaerophoria sp, Episyrphus balteatus and the ubiquitous Syritta pipiens (no photo, as they hover around all the time) - most on Erigeron sp. and Achillea sp.

Erigeron sp. seems to attract a lot Phasiinae, even some quite rare species.

Work from home is quite fine - one can go outside at noon, when insect activity, expecially flies, reaches its peak. Even on relatively cold, windy and cloudy days like Friday (4th) and Saturday (5th October). If temperature is something around +16, 17°C flies like to busk in the (invisible) sun on large leaves - in my case the leaves of the - now in the fall slowly decaying - pumpkin plants of my landlord. The growing mold on the leaves seems to attract quit a lot of flies. Erigeron and Achillea are still blossoming.

The tachinid collection Friedrich A. Wachtl (Diptera: Tachinidae)
https://www.zobodat.at/pdf/VeroeffFerd_84_0181-0236.pdf

Revision der Gattung Onesia Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830
https://www.zobodat.at/pdf/Beitraege-zur-Entomologie_14_0915-0938.pdf

Rote Liste der gefährdeten Tachiniden Steiermarks (Diptera, Tachinidae)
https://www.zobodat.at/pdf/MONO-NATURSCH_MN6_0131-0134.pdf

Tachinidae key
https://archive.org/details/biostor-97167

Observations on the distinctions between Polietes lardarius (Fabricius) and Polietes meridionalis Peris & Llorente (Diptera: Muscidae)
http://www.entomoljournal.com/archives/2016/vol4issue6/PartK/4-6-68-106.pdf

Calliphoridae key (UK)
http://www.stevenfalk.co.uk/files/21577/testkeytobritishblowflies132016.pdf
https://www.dipterists.org.uk/sites/default/files/download/Calliphoridae%20forensic%20species%202019.pdf