In this episode we talk flies with Dr Erica McAlister, Senior Curator of Diptera (true flies) at the Natural History Museum in London. She is also president of the Amateur Entomologists’ Society, and author of the The Secret Life of Flies and her new book The Inside Out of Flies.Erica answers listener questions on flies and tells us about some of the amazing species found in this group of insects, explaining why they deserve much more love and credit than they currently get from us humans.In news we talk about Botanists discovering a new variety of broomrape in a supermarket car park, the shocking state of English rivers with 0% now in good condition and the ‘rule of six’ exemption for those killing wildlife, but not those trying to watch or photograph it.
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