Fly School returns!
Fly School III will be held in the beautiful Soltis Center in Costa Rica from 1-12 August 2024. Students from around the world will be instructed on how to collect, prepare, and identify flies.
The application period is now open, so put in your Application for Fly School today! Space will be limited. Applications will be open through Sunday, 3 December 2023.
Please visit the Fly School website on the North American Dipterists Society website and the official Fly School website for most up-to-date information. If you have questions, please contact us at dipteracourse@gmail.com
Please contact us to have any past events added to this list!
Central European Dipterological Conference
(The First of these was concurrently the 16th Seminar of Czech and Slovak Dipterists, which had been held every two years since 1969, with this conference thereafter taking over for that one)
- Eighth, Kežmarské Žľaby, High Tatra Mountains, Slovakia, 28–30 September 2015
- Ninth, Kostelec nad Černými lesy, Czech Republic, 12–14 September 2017
- Tenth, Kežmarské Žľaby, High Tatra Mountains, Slovakia, 23–25 September 2019
International Congress of Entomology
(Rather than list the Congresses, starting in 1910, here is a history of the Congresses through XXIV in 2010)
- XXV, Orlando, Florida, USA, 25—30 September 2016 (Program book)
- XXVI: Helsinki, Finland, 17—22 July 2022
International Symposium on Fruit Flies of Economic Importance
- First: Athens, Greece, 16—19 November 1982 (Proceedings)
- Second: Crete, Greece, 16–21 September 1986 (Proceedings)
- Third: Antigua, Guatemala, 14–20 October 1990 (Proceedings)
- Fourth: Sand Key, Florida, USA, 5–10 June 1994 (Proceedings)
- Fifth: Penang, Malaysia, 1–5 June 1998 (Proceedings)
- Sixth: Stellenbosch, South Africa, 6–10 May 2002 (Proceedings)
- Seventh: Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, 10–15 September 2006
- Eighth: Valencia, Spain, 26 September–1 October 2010 (Proceedings and Abstracts)
- Ninth: Bangkok, Thailand, 12–16 May 2014 (Proceedings, Program, and Abstracts)
- Tenth: Tapachula, Chiapas, Mexico, 23–27 April 2018
- Eleventh: Sydney, Australia, 13–18 November 2022 (Scientific Program, Interactive Scientific Program)
International Symposium on Syrphidae
- First: Germany, 2001
- Second: Alicante, Spain, 16–19 June 2003 (Abstracts)
- Third: Leiden, Netherlands, 2–5 September 2005 (Abstracts, PDF's available for some presentations)
- Fourth: Espoo, Finland, 29 June–3 July 2007
- Fifth: Novi Sad, Serbia, 18–22 June 2009
- Sixth: Glasgow, United Kingdom, 5–7 August 2011 (Alternative website)
- Seventh: Siberia, Russia, 2013
- Eighth: Monschau, Germany, 4–8 June 2015 (Abstracts)
- Ninth: Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil, 28 August–1 September 2017 (Alternative website)
- Tenth: Lesvos, Greece, 8–12 September 2019 (Alternative website, Abstracts)
- Eleventh: Barcelonette, France, 5–10 September 2022 (Alternative website, Abstracts)
All-Russian Dipterological Symposium
(First through Fifth were All-Union)
- First: St. Petersburg (then Leningrad), Russia, 6–8 April 1976
- Second: Voronezh, Russia, 13–15 September 1978
- Third: Bila Tserkva, Ukraine, 15–17 September 1982
- Fourth: Almaty, Kazakhstan, 17–19 September 1986
- Fifth: Novosibirsk, Russia, 1990
- Sixth: St. Petersburg, Russia, 21–25 April 1997 (dedicated to the memory of A.A. Stackelberg)
- Seventh:
- Eighth:
- Ninth: St. Petersburg, Russia, 28–30 August 2012 (dedicated to the memory of V.F. Zaitsev)
- Tenth: Krasnodar, Russia, 23–28 August 2016
Past meetings of interest to Simuliidae specialists
from the British Simuliid Group
