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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 +2 more
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Journal of Applied Entomology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Flies (Diptera) are important pollinators in global agriculture, yet little is known about how intraspecific trait variation influences their pollination performance. We compared morphological traits, foraging behaviour and pollination‐related performance metrics between laboratory‐reared (hereafter lab‐reared) and wild populations of ...
Abby E. Davis +8 more
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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 +4 more
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Diversity of Hoverflies (Diptera, Syrphidae) in Darab damask rose rain-fed plain, Fars province, Iran [PDF]
نامه انجمن حشرهشناسی ایرانDiversity, community structure, and estimation of flower fly species richness (Diptera: Syrphidae) were measured in Darab damask rose plain, Fars province, Iran.
Abbas Mohammadi-Khoramabadi +2 more
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Hover flies (Diptera: Syrphidae) of Khaf, South-east Khorasan-e Razavi Province, Iran [PDF]
Iranian Journal of Animal Biosystematics, 2016 The purpose: A survey was conducted to identify the hover flies in South-east Khorasan-e Razavi Province, Iran during 2011-2012. Basic methodology: These species were collected by sweeping net on flowers as pollinators.
Elahe Shojaei Hesari +2 more
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Assemblages of flower-visiting insects in clear-cuts are rich and dynamic
European Journal of Entomology, 2021 Clear-cuts in production forests provide an open, sunny environment, with an abundance of nectar, as well as exposed soil and woody debris. This makes them a potential habitat for several groups of insects that typically use open habitats like grassland,
Per MILBERG +2 more
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Journal of Applied Entomology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The use of insectary plants to provide alternative food and shelter resources for enhancing natural enemy activity has been established as a common practice in IPM. Candidate flowering plant species have been screened and evaluated for their contribution to enhance life parameters of beneficial insects.
Francesc Gómez Marco +6 more
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Physiological Entomology, EarlyView.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 +3 more
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A new record of flower flies (Diptera: Syrphidae) for the fauna of Iran [PDF]
Journal of Insect Biodiversity and Systematics, 2018 During the study of flower flies (Diptera: Syrphidae) associated with colza (Brassica napus) fields in Sari (Mazandaran Province, Iran) in 2015–2016, a total of six species i.e.
Narges Zamani +2 more
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Six new species of the genus Eumerus Meigen, 1822 from Iran (Diptera, Syrphidae) [PDF]
Journal of Insect Biodiversity and Systematics, 2022 View on Scopus Six new species of the genus Eumerus Meigen, 1822 are here described from Iran. The new species and their four related groups are as follows: E. nadoosheni Gilasian & van Steenis sp. nov. of the Eumerus barbarus group; E.
Ebrahim Gilasian +2 more
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