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National Moth Week was July 19-27, and the Summer 2025 gathering in Louisiana, July 19-27

Photos of insects and people from the 2024 BugGuide gathering in Idaho July 24-27

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Family Sphaeroceridae - Lesser Dung Flies

Copromyzinae · Limosininae · Sphaerocerinae

Subfamily Copromyzinae
small fly Lesser Dung Fly? Lesser Dung Fly small fly - male Copromyza sp? - Copromyza Copromyza sp? - Copromyza lesser dung fly - Lotophila atra - male Lesser Dung Fly - Lotophila

Subfamily Limosininae
small winter fly - Leptocera Sphaeroceridae - Coproica Spotted Fly - Poecilosomella angulata Fly IMG_5264 - Coproica ferruginata Wingless Fly? - Aptilotus Small active brachyceran fly with wings folded under abdomen tiny sphaerocerid - Leptocera - female Aptilotus concavus

Subfamily Sphaerocerinae
Fly - Ischiolepta Lesser Dung Fly - Ischiolepta Lesser Dung Fly - Sphaerocera curvipes Fly - Mesosphaerocera annulicornis Ischiolepta Copromyzinae? Parasphaerocera? - Parasphaerocera Parasphaerocera in April in Maryland - Parasphaerocera


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