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I am writing a report on the diptera found in my local park, and I wanted to make it as appealing as possible, so that the wardens and volunteers will be curious enough to read it and take an interest in their flies. I've surveyed the park for the past couple of years, and always received the most generous help with IDs from the members of diptera.info. Since I am going to get a modest fee for writing the report, I thought I should funnel some of it in Paul's direction to help fund and improve diptera.info.

I've come up with a scheme whereby you can help me, just as a bit of fun really. I am going to ask permission to add links in the report to some of the photos in the gallery. For every photo that you give me permission to link to, I will donate 1 euro to diptera.info. I will also donate 20 euros myself as a sort of subscription. I know this won't add up to an enormous amount of money, but every little helps.

Everyone who gives permission will of course be properly acknowledged in the report. I need to know by the end of the year if I can include a link to your image, as the report will be delivered early January, and I will let you know how much we raise in total :).

The photos I would like to link to are:

Jorge: Lonchoptera bifurcata (3); Geomyza tripunctata female (4)
Wilde: Odontomyia tigrina (4)
Ben Hamers: Pachygaster atra (1); Anomoia purmunda (1)
Markop: Melanostoma mellinum (1)
Lynkos (Sarah): Melanostoma scalare (1)
Dipdip (Maja): Dasysyrphus albostriatus female (1); Eristalis pertinax male (3)
Nikita: Episyrphus balteatus female (5); Sicus ferrugineus female (1); Sepedon sphegea female (2)
Gerard Pennards: Eupeodes luniger female (1); Syrphus ribesii female (1); Eristalis arbustorum female (1); Syritta pipiens female (1); Opomyza germinationis female (1)
Carnota: Meliscaeva auricollis male (1)
Pierre Duhem: Syrphus ribesii female ovipositing (1); Nemopoda nitidula female (1); Calliphora vicina (1)
Fernando: Sphaerophoria scripta male (3)
Crex: Syrphus ribesii larva (2); Syrphus vitripennis female (1)
Hubert Polacek: Syrphus larva (1)
Alvesgaspar: Xanthogramma pedisequum male (1); Lucilia sericata female (1)
Frank Koehler: Cheilosia vulpina male (1); Volucella zonaria male (4); Anthomyia pluvialis male (1); Pollenia rudis male (1); Scathophaga furcata male (2)
Valter: Eristalis tenax male (4)
Amaira (Anne-Marie Bjorn): Myathropa florea male (1)
Blowave: Merodon equestris vars equestris x flavicens copula (1)
Guenter: Volucella inanis larva (1)
Tony Irwin: Volucella inanis male (1)
Black (Dima): Opomyza florum female (1); Tephritis conura male (2)
Jan Zwaaneveld: Coenosia testacea (1)
Chas Macey: Coenosia tigrina female (1)

Many thanks to all who wish to contribute image links.

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Hello Susan,
Yes, you can use mine! :D
greetings,

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Yay, that's 5? for Paul's beer fund...err... Diptera.info ;)

Seriosly, what a great idea, Susan! Get paid, make the product better, support the hard-working Paul. Win-win-win.

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Good idea. You can use my photos (my name --> C-G Magnusson)

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Hahaaa, you're just jealous you're not providing any money for our favouriute hobby! :D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D;)

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I recently got a donation for that from another site where I gave support. enough for 24 bottles. I think I might finished those during the next summer holidays if i were to buy the beer. ;)

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Yes, of course you can use the Volucella inanis larva if its useful for you B)

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Yes, of course you can use my photos.
And by the way this silly "Dipdip" is only there because I did't succeed in registering the first time and tried several times with different names. My real name is Maja Beutler-Vatter.
With regards Maja

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Susan,

Of course you can use my photos.
Very good idea, the whole matter...

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Susan, you can use my Meliscaeva photo.
Greetings :)

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Hi Susan - Yes, please use the Volucella pic. This is going to be a great-looking report! B)

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The "beer" fund is now up to 37 euros - very many thanks to all who have given me permission - I think having access to these great photos will improve the report immensely.

I think that some of the people I asked are away at present, or do not log on to the forum very much at the moment. Therefore, if you have a photo in the gallery of any of the species requested and are happy for me to link to it, do let me know and we can boost the fund that way. The deadline is the end of the year to let me know.

The intention is to make it a perfectly serious record of the species seen during the year, but I'm also planning to include some nice catchy species accounts - things like Tony's comment about Anomoia purmunda's solvent sniffing habit and some good gruesome stuff about any of the forensic species - so watch out if you've ever made an off hand comment on diptera.info :D - you might get quoted (I promise to credit everyone and not misquote people). The park is a fabulous little wildlife oasis in a fairly run down area of London, and the wardens are fantastic, so I am pleased to be able to support them with a report that people might actually read rather than just skim through.

Can I request that Paul spends the money on decent beer and not on that Fosters rubbish?:p

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For this purpose you can also use my other photos on diptera.info if you like B)

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yep. Of course!!! :)
Paul must buy a KGB anti-hangover :D (with so many beers....) :|
http://en.wikiped...wiki/Ru-21

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A hangover from maybe one beer a month? They must have slipped me some other KGB stuff then! :D

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"A hangover from maybe one beer a month"... or did you want to say "minute"? :D :P

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That is what you (want to) hear after your umpteenth beer I presume. :P

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Very good idea Susan. I have no photos you could link to, but this was a very good reminder for making a personal donation!

And Paul, keep up the good work! Thank you for all your time and effort!

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Oporto wine, you mean. :P lol

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You may believe that, we don't! :P

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This is not Quantum Physics. :P

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The report is now done and sent off to the client. I used a total of 19 links to images in the gallery, so with my ?20, this is ?39 for Diptera.info. Paul - I will transfer the dosh on the weekend. I've never used PayPal before, so just in case it requires bad language and lots of exasperated hand gestures to make it work I would rather be at home, with the time to spend on it.

A huge thank you to everyone who helped me with both images and IDs.

If anyone would like to see the finished product, I am happy to send it out. PM me with your email address as the report is a 4Mb pdf. Don't expect it to contain anything earthshattering though - it is a simple report of the year's survey visits, showing what was seen when, with brief species accounts cribbed from some of the obvious references (hopefully all properly acknowledged), written by someone who doesn't have very much experience at writing such things (ie me), so I am sure it could be better.

Now that I have sent it to the client, I have naturally found 3 typos and 2 sentences that could have been worded better. Heh ho ;)

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An advance thank you to you and all those who allowed their images to be used. :D

If so desired, I can make the report available for download through the site...

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Oo er :o - making it available to the whole world? That's a bit scary! Out of courtesy I will ask the Friends of Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park, who provided the funding for my fee, if they are happy for it to be a download from Diptera.info. I suspect they will want to put it up on their own site, and may prefer that. They do tend to take a long time to upload stuff though, so I will send the report to those who have asked me now anyway.

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Then put here the link. ;)