Fly Times Issue 48, April 2012 - North American Dipterists Society

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(left) Park visitors learned about the world of insects at BioBlitz educational programs.
(right) Graduate students assisted with the 2011 BioBlitz.
And if you are interested in astronomy and have some extra time to spend at the park, the park's
Astronomy Festival (http://www.nps.gov/grba/planyourvisit/2012-astronomy-festival.htm) will be held
June 14-16, and the community Snake Valley Festival will be held June 15-17.
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Informal annual North American Dipterists Society meeting
Entomological Society of America
Knoxville, Tennessee, November 11-14, 2012
Keith Bayless
Department of Entomology, North Carolina State University,
Raleigh, NC 27695, USA; kmbayles@ncsu.edu
This year’s Entomological Society of America meeting in Knoxville will host a symposium for the
North American Dipterists Society. This is a traditional, although unfortunately sporadic as of late,
opportunity for Dipterists to share any aspect of the study of flies in a more casual setting, usually
on Tuesday evening. NADS is a member symposium this year, as it was in 2010, so, along with a
chance to discuss Society business, talks and presenters can be included in the official program. If
any Dipterists are attending ESA and would like to give a talk, please send me an email. Successful
past presentations have ranged from travelogues to research updates to reviews of various fly
clades. If you would like your talk to be listed in the official program, please send me an email with
the title and authors by May 11 th (Ed. – my bad, too late). Due to the informal nature of this event,
I welcome talks after that date, up until the symposium starts, but they may not make it into the
program. If you want to show a poster instead, send me an email and we might work it out. Hope
to see you there.