The AES holds it annual exhibition at Kempton Park, usually on the first Saturday in October. The is *the* place to meet friends, buy equipment, books and livestock
In 2006 I was introduced to the Moscow museum by Nikita Vikhrev. In the brief time I had to look around I concentrated on the museum's tachinid collection and took lots of photos to get a feel for the condition of the collection.
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Looking along the corridor towards the stairs12 viewsMost of the collection is still housed in wooden cabinets. However, recently Nikita Vikhrev, Andrey Ozerov & Dimitry Gavryushin have been working hard to modernise the entire Diptera collection and already one can see the fruits of their labours.
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One of the tachinid index pages21 viewsA carefully prepared index accompanies the tachinid collection. The tachinid specimens are ordered in a fairly haphazard way but the index provides a quick lookup to anything in the collection.
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