Sentences with phrase «hoverflies in»

For example, flower models of small blue models with a specific scent were highly attractive to hoverflies in Bangalore, but not so in Sikkim or in Uppsala.

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He was also a visiting research fellow at the University of São Paulo in Brazil, visiting in 1998 to study pollinator ecology, which included different species of bees and hoverflies, and again in 2003 to study wild bee ecology.

The researchers hope to see whether the American hoverflies, probably a different species, are moving in the same ways their European cousins do.

Hoverflies, which pollinate a wide range of plants, are the second most important group of pollinators in Europe after bees, Wotton says.

«The butterflies are getting turned around like in a tumble dryer, but the hoverflies just shoot straight over.»

Hoverflies also migrate in North America, in ways that are far less understood than in Europe.

Intrigued, Wotton set up camp at a spot in the Pyrenees at the border of Spain and France to study migrating hoverflies.

NOTHING BUT NET Butterflies, hoverflies and other migrating insects poured across the Col de Bretolet pass in the Swiss Alps on this day in September 2016.

Another spider that likes to blend in with its environment is the crab spider (Thomisus onustus), which hides among flower petals to nab bees, hoverflies, and other unsuspecting pollinators.

The experiments with the artificial models indicate that hoverflies prefer certain combinations of flower characteristics in specific environments.

Hoverfly pollinators visited buttercups in Thangu Valley, North Sikkim, one of the trans - continental sites chosen.

Using the results of their statistical analyses, the researchers then modelled a set of hypothetical flowers, whose attractiveness to hoverflies were then tested in Bangalore, Sikkim and Uppsala.

As global populations of domestic bee pollinators decline, it is of utmost importance for us to understand what factors attract wild pollinators such as hoverflies to flowers, and how these preferences differ in the face of environmental change.

These insects use a multimodal sensory mechanism — in other words, hoverflies require a combination of clues including shape, size, color and scent — to recognize flowers in different environments across the world.

Robert Raguso, a behavioral ecologist from Cornell University, uninvolved in this study, is excited about the unique and creative approach taken by the authors in «interviewing» hoverflies.

When Olsson from NCBS contacted her long - time friend and collaborator Karin Nordström at the University of Uppsala and Flinders University for help in identifying a hoverfly species, little did they know that this would be the beginning of a major project.

The researchers» work began with collecting observations on hoverfly behavior in three of these insects» natural habitats — tropical Bangalore, alpine Sikkim, and hemi - arboreal Uppsala.

As global populations of domestic bee pollinators decline, it is of utmost importance for us to understand the factors that attract wild pollinators such as hoverflies to flowers, and how these preferences differ in the face of environmental change.

A mesmerizing memoir of extraordinary brilliance by an entomologist, The Fly Trap chronicles Fredrik Sjöberg's life collecting hoverflies on a remote island in Sweden

The Guardian reports, «The dramatic decline in butterfly numbers indicates a wider loss of biodiversity, with other insects such as bumblebees, hoverflies, spiders and moths, as well as many plants and birds, disappearing along with the loss of traditional grassland.»