Pollinators in Blackcurrant Orchards: Complementary Roles of Sown and Spontaneous Flower Strips and Limited Spillover of Small Wild Bees Within Fields [PDF]
Ecology and EvolutionAgricultural intensification threatens pollinators and associated ecosystem services through pesticide use and the loss and fragmentation of natural habitats.
Mathieu Lachaise +2 more
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Quantification of migrant hoverfly movements (Diptera: Syrphidae) on the West Coast of North America [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2019 The seasonal migration of huge numbers of hoverflies is frequently reported in Europe from mountain passes or spurs of land. The movement of such large numbers of beneficial insects is thought to provide significant ecosystem services in terms of ...
Brian V Brown, Myles Menz, Karl Wotton
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Adaptations in wing morphology rather than wingbeat kinematics enable flight in small hoverfly species [PDF]
eLifeDue to physical scaling laws, size greatly affects animal locomotor ability and performance. Whether morphological and kinematic traits always jointly respond to size variation remains poorly known.
Camille Le Roy +3 more
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Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, 2022 The hoverfly Eristalinus arvorum (Fabricius, 1787) (Diptera: Syrphidae), which belongs to the tribe Eristalini, is well known as a pollinating agent for crops and flowering plants in agricultural and natural ecosystems.
Liang Cao +4 more
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Remote Sensing, 2021 Habitat degradation, mostly caused by human impact, is one of the key drivers of biodiversity loss. This is a global problem, causing a decline in the number of pollinators, such as hoverflies. In the process of digitalizing ecological studies in Serbia,
Mirjana Radulovic +2 more
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Sexual dimorphism in sensorimotor transformation of optic flow [PDF]
eLifeMotion vision underpins a wide range of adaptive behaviours essential for individual and species survival. In hoverflies, some visual behaviours are sexually dimorphic, including for example male high-speed pursuit of conspecifics matched by improved ...
Sarah Nicholas +6 more
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Do Mimic Hoverflies Spatially Match Their Bumblebee Models? Evidence From a Polymorphic Mimicry System [PDF]
Ecology and EvolutionBatesian mimicry enables harmless species to evade predation by resembling defended models. Although mimicry theory predicts that mimics should broadly co‐occur with their models, increasing evidence suggests that mimic–model associations may extend ...
Blessing Chidinma Umeh +2 more
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Understanding the mechanism of facilitation in hoverfly TSDNs. [PDF]
PLoS Comput BiolMany animals use visual motion cues to track and pursue small, fast-moving targets, such as prey or conspecifics. In target-pursuing insects, including dragonflies and hoverflies, Small Target Motion Detector (STMD) neurons are found in the optic lobes and are believed to be presynaptic to Target Selective Descending Neurons (TSDNs) that project to ...
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Evaluation of Selected Plant Essential Oils for Aphid Pest Control in Integrated Pest Management [PDF]
InsectsAphids are major agricultural pests, feeding on plant sap and transmitting viruses to economically important crops. The use of synthetic pesticides is increasingly restricted due to stricter regulations aimed at protecting both human and environmental ...
José Luis Casas +3 more
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Endangered palsa mire hoverflies (Diptera, Syrphidae) in northern Sweden [PDF]
Mires and Peat, 2022 The hoverfly species Platycheirus torei Barkalov, 2013 is recorded from Europe for the first time. It was collected in a palsa mire in Seitajaure, northern Sweden, representing a westward extension of its potential range by 3,500 km.
Jeroen van Steenis
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