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Enhanced flight performance in hoverfly migrants

iScience
Summary: Many animals undergo seasonal migrations in which they travel long distances aided by variations in morphology, physiology, and behavior. Here, we compare the flight characteristics, measured in a tethered flight mill, of autumn migratory and ...
Richard Massy, Will Hawkes, Scarlett Weston, Toby Doyle, Karl R. Wotton   +4 more
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THE PHENOLOGY OF OCCURRENCE OF DOMINANT PREDATORY SYRPHIDAE (DIPTERA) SPECIES IN APPLE ORCHARDS AND ON THEIR EDGES

Acta Scientiarum Polonorum: Hortorum Cultus, 2017
The blooming wild plants in the vicinity of orchards may attract adult Syrphidae to these cultivations. Hence in 2008–2010 studies were conducted around Czempiń (western Wielkopolska) which covered the occurrence of the imagines of 5 dominant predatory ...
Hanna Piekarska-Boniecka, Idzi Siatkowski, Joanna Zyprych-Walczak, Paweł Trzciński, Marta Rzańska-Wieczorek   +4 more
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Flower strips enhance the abundance and biocontrol services of predatory arthropods in a pear orchard

Biological Control
Habitat management, such as the planting of companion plants, enhances biodiversity and biological control in agricultural systems. Here, we focused on the abundance, spillover, and biocontrol abilities of predators in pear crops with companion flower ...
Guodong Han, Xingrui Zhang, Zhiping Cai, Yunli Xiao, Feng Ge   +4 more
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High temperatures adversely affect the hoverfly Episyrphus balteatus(Diptera: Syrphidae) fitness and aphid prey consumption

Turkish Journal of Zoology, 2022
Grégoire Noel, J. Caetano, S. Blanchard, Antoine Boullis, F. Francis   +4 more
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Urban Green Space as a Reservoir of Predatory Syrphids (Diptera, Syrphidae) for Aphid Control in Cities

Agronomy
The occurrence of predatory Syrphidae (hoverflies) in green areas of cities and their role as biological control agents is determined in this work. During the study, 751 adults belonging to 21 species were captured in Moericke’s traps and with sweep nets,
Elżbieta Wojciechowicz-Żytko, Maja Dobińska-Graczyk   +1 more
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THE OCCURRENCE FREQUENCY OF Syrphidae (Diptera) SPECIES IN APPLE ORCHARDS AND ON THEIR EDGES

Acta Scientiarum Polonorum: Hortorum Cultus, 2013
The study was aimed at determining the attractiveness of neighbouring habitats for Syrphidae (Diptera). The frequency of Syrphidae occurrence in apple orchards and on their edges was studied in 2008–2010.
Hanna Piekarska-Boniecka, Idzi Siatkowski, Paweł Trzciński   +2 more
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Diversity, Abundance, and Foraging Behaviour of Insect Pollinators in Litchi (Litchi chinensis Sonn.) under Hot and Subhumid Conditions

Psyche: A Journal of Entomology
Insect pollinators and flowering plants have a long-standing, coevolutionary, mutualistic relationship. One such example is the litchi tree (Litchi chinensis Sonn.), a fruit crop that relies on insect pollination.
Pooja Kumari, Jaipal Singh Choudhary, Debjani Dey, Mahesh Kumar Dhakar   +3 more
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Host plant effect on functional response and consumption rate of Episyrphus balteatus (Diptera: Syrphidae) feeding on different densities of Aphis gossypii (Hemiptera: Aphididae)of Aphis gossypii (Hemiptera: Aphididae)

Journal of Crop Protection, 2013
One of the most important predator-prey interactions is functional response which its type and parameters are affected by different factors including host plant characteristics.
Maryam Sobhani, Hossein Madadi, Babak Gharali   +2 more
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Episyrphus balteatus: Ricarte Sabater, A.R. & Nedeljković, Z.

The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, 2020

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Predatory potential and developmental ability of aphidophagous larvae of Episyrphus balteatus (De Geer) (Diptera: Syrphidae) in relation to variable aphid – host plant combinations in Eastern Uttar Pradesh, India

Journal of Entomology and Zoology Studies
R. N. Samuel
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