Now, through their collaborative work
on hoverflies, the two teams have found an answer.
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.
Not exact matches
Scientists like Menz are fanning out across the globe to track butterflies, moths,
hoverflies and other insects
on their great journeys.
This month, Menz and Wotton are visiting Montaña de Oro State Park
on California's Central Coast, where last year an entomologist reported spotting a rare
hoverfly migration.
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.
Hoverflies navigate unerringly across Europe for more than 100 kilometers per day, chowing down
on aphids that suck the juice out of greening shoots.
Food webs are made up of many dynamic feeding relationships; for example herbivore aphids feed
on Ground Elder and are themselves eaten by
hoverfly larvae.
Olsson and Nordström hope to continue their studies
on how
hoverflies and other generalist pollinators perceive flowers, and the factors affecting these pollinators» preferences.
This helped them gather data
on the characteristics of flowers that
hoverflies found attractive and those that they found unattractive.
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