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Management of dry calcareous grasslands drives pollinator communities through availability of key forage plants

Journal of Applied Ecology, Volume 63, Issue 6, June 2026.
Pollinator conservation in calcareous grasslands should prioritize enhancing local patch quality while promoting landscape heterogeneity, including woody SNH. To improve forage quality, our analytical approach supports targeted grassland management in selecting key forage plants, promoting complementary and diverse floral assemblages that support ...
Gabrielle McLaughlin, Anina Knauer, Matthias Albrecht   +2 more
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Visual approach computation in feeding hoverflies

Journal of Experimental Biology, 2018
ABSTRACT On warm sunny days, female hoverflies are often observed feeding from a wide range of wild and cultivated flowers. In doing so, hoverflies serve a vital role as alternative pollinators, and are suggested to be the most important pollinators after bees and bumblebees.
Thyselius, Malin, Gonzalez-Bellido, Paloma T, Wardill, Trevor J, Nordström, Karin   +3 more
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Plant–pollinator interactions in apple orchards from a production and conservation perspective

Conservation Science and Practice
In an agricultural landscape, production and conservation ideally go hand in hand. In a win‐win scenario, conservation measures, such as hedges and flower strips, provide support for biodiversity and crop production for example by increased pollination ...
Anne‐Christine Mupepele, Vivien vonKönigslöw, Anna‐Maria Bleile, Felix Fornoff, Jochen Fründ, Alexandra‐Maria Klein   +5 more
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Sweet alyssum (Lobularia maritima L.) enhances aphidophagous insects and increases yield in field broad bean – agronomic aspects [PDF]

Journal of Plant Protection Research
Sweet alyssum (Lobularia maritima L.) is known as an insectary plant with great potential in enhancing the occurrence and diversity of beneficial insects in different crops. However, agronomic aspects of the introduction of this plant are still not fully
Barbara Lucyna Domagała, Janina Gospodarek, Dominik Domagała, Ewelina Piasna-Słupecka, Mariola Drozdowska, Iwona Paśmionka   +5 more
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The pollination ecology and mouthpart morphology of a pollen‐feeding fly Incurviseta cf. maculifrons (Diptera: Lauxaniidae) in the Australian Alpine

Physiological Entomology, Volume 51, Issue 2, Page 214-225, June 2026.
The Lauxaniid fly Incurviseta cf. maculifrons (Malloch, 1925) is a locally abundant but poorly understood flower visitor in the Australian Alpine. We describe the flower visitation, pollen transport, pollen diet and mouthpart morphology of I. cf. maculifrons using field observations, pollen analyses and scanning electron microscopy. I. cf.
Tomas Mitchell‐Storey, Francisco Encinas‐Viso, Joshua Botti‐Anderson, Joanne M. Bennett   +3 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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Déjà Vu in Merodon Taxonomy (Diptera: Syrphidae): Unveiling Hidden Species Inside Merodon caudatus and M. ottomanus Taxa

Insects
Two new species groups within the avidus-nigritarsis lineage of the hoverfly genus Merodon Meigen are here defined and assessed, i.e., the Merodon caudatus and Merodon ottomanus groups. Within the M.
Ante Vujić, Laura Likov, Nataša Kočiš Tubić, Mihajla Djan, Antonio Ricarte, Santos Rojo, Celeste Pérez-Bañón, Jelena Ačanski, Andrijana Andrić, Tamara Tot, Snežana Radenković   +10 more
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Two new hoverfly species of the Merodon desuturinus lineage (Diptera: Syrphidae: Merodontini)

European Journal of Taxonomy
The hoverfly genus Merodon Meigen, 1803 (Diptera: Syrphidae) comprises five monophyletic lineages. Here, we describe two new species of the murorum species group and melanocerus species group from the desuturinus lineage. One species, Merodon spinolobus
Laura Likov, Ante Vujić, Snežana Radenković, Ljiljana Šašić Zorić, Mihajla Djan, Kurt Jordaens, Sonja Mudri-Stojnić   +6 more
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Biology and population dynamics of Scaeva albomaculata (Diptera: Syrphidae) in almond orchards of Shahrekord, Iran [PDF]

نامه انجمن حشره‌شناسی ایران, 2008
Biology of Scaeva albomaculata (Macquart) was investigated on Brachycaudus amygdalinus (Schouteden) as a prey in laboratory conditions (20 ± 2 ºC and 45 ± 5 % RH).
S. H. Nourbakhsh, E. Soleymannejadian, A. R. Nemti   +2 more
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Mimcry and the hoverflies [PDF]

, 2000
Hoverflies (Diptera: Syrphidae) vary widely in their mimetic associations, comprising wasp-mimetic, bee-mimetic and non-mimetic species. Social wasp mimics are dominated by 'imperfect mimics' which outnumber their supposed models (Hymenoptera: Vespidae) by large factors.
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