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Assessing adaptive winter behaviors of beneficial arthropods, with a focus on the long-distance migratory ecology of Nearctic hover flies (Diptera: Syrphidae)
… the long-distance migratory ecology of Nearctic hover flies (Diptera: Syrphinae), while Chapter 3 examines the effects of field borders on arthropod natural enemy communities. Syrphid hover flies of the subfamily Syrphinae are an important group of arthropods. Adults are pollinators for a variety …
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BEES IN THE WOODS: SPRING ORCHARD POLLINATORS USE FOREST CANOPY POLLEN
… and extensive palynology of adult bee and hover fly digestive tracts. First, we report on surprisingly high pollinator activity, abundance, and diversity in the canopy, and a much higher proportion of female bees in the canopy. Bee and hover fly diets similarly revealed that canopy-caught …
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Inaugural studies of the life history and predator/prey associations of Heringia calcarata (Loew)(Diptera: Syrphidae), a specialist predator of the woolly apple aphid, Eriosoma lanigerum (Hausmann)(Homoptera: Eriosomatidae)
The life history of the aphidophagous syrphid fly, Heringia calcarata (Loew), a specialist predator of woolly apple aphid, Eriosoma lanigerum (Hausmann), was studied in Virginia from 2001 to 2003, under field and laboratory conditions. Pronounced differences in the chorionic sculpting of eggs of …