<div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Dear all,</span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Last couple of years Frank Van
de Meutter and I worked on a field guide to Syrphidae of Belgium and the
Netherlands. We are happy to announce that we finished the book and upcoming
January 31 the book will be published.</span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">The book covers 384 species
that occur in the region or could turn up there. For every species there is an
account including identification, similar species and ecology, accompanied by
flight diagrams and accurate maps. But more important, every species account
has detailed colour photos from the imago and other important characters. The
book is full colour, has almost 400 pages, has a key, over 1.700 detailed macro
photographs including unseen detailed photos of eg. genitalia of Paragus,
Sphaerophoria, etc. Unfortunately for most of you the book is in Dutch, but the
scientific names will help, and even without knowing Dutch the book is worth
buying given the photos. To get an impression of the book, see attachments or
look at some sample pages here: </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><a href="https://www.veldshop.nl/en/veldgids-zweefvliegen.html" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-GB">https://www.veldshop.nl/en/veldgids-zweefvliegen.html</span></a></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></p>

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the book at my own shop:</span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">The price is € 34,95 only, for
shipping costs to your country see: </span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">If you order, we ship right
away when the book is published later this month.</span></p>

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the book let us know.</span></p>

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<span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Frank Van de Meutter and
Sander Bot</span>    <br></div>