Dipterists Society
An International Society for Dipterology
The Dipterists Society has had an active program of meetings and other events for dipterists since 1989.
The inaugural issue of the Fly Times included an invitation to the first gathering of what would become the biennial Field Meeting of the North American Dipterists Society (now Dipterists Society), held every two years since at a field station to allow time and good habitats for collecting. These meetings are held at different localities and venues to provide an opportunity for dipterists to collect flies in a larger group situation and to exchange ideas during oral and poster presentations. We are interested to run more field meetings in different places as interest and voluteers allow!
With issue 3 of the Fly Times came an announcement for what has become a General Meeting of the Society, which is held as part of the annual meeting of the Entomological Society of America. Starting as an Informal Conference titled "Diptera Systematics", this was soon recognized as an annual meeting of the North American Dipterists Society (now Dipterists Society), and was given billing as such in the ESA meeting program.
We will also be starting an outreach program for the Society, as soon as time and resources permit.
Although there is not a formal affiliation between the Dipterists Society and the International Congresses of Dipterology (ICD), the Society hosts the web presence for the ICD, providing information on upcoming and past Congresses, as well as information about the Council of International Congresses of Dipterology and their proceedings.
Many other meetings of dipterists take place all over the world, and information about such meetings past and upcoming is or will be also presented here. This is not an exhaustive list, so please feel free to contact us if you think something should be added.
Event and outreach announcements will be made through these web pages, as well as the Fly Times and our Dipterists mailing list server.