Eristalis

The bushes near Carleton Beck exuded the deep sonorous zoom sound of queen red-tailed and buff-tailed bumblebees, and all around the lee side of the thicket were the hoverflies known technically as Eristalis intricarius.

Country diary: Claxton, Norfolk 2011

It turns out that various ancient peoples mistook swarms of drone flies large, bee-like hoverflies of the genus Eristalis for bee swarms.

Creationism really is a science stopper - The Panda's Thumb 2010

Eristalis splendens, _Leguillon, Voy.aut. du Monde_; _Macq.

Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology Various

(Eristalis), often seen hovering over flowers, and presenting a curious likeness to hairy bees.

The Life-Story of Insects 1902

The larva of Eristalis is one of the most remarkable in the whole order, the 'Rat-tailed maggot' found in the stagnant water of ditches and pools.

The Life-Story of Insects 1902

Enabled thus to breathe dissolved air, the Chironomus larva needs not, like the Culex or the Eristalis, to find contact with the atmosphere beyond the surface-film.

The Life-Story of Insects 1902

Some insects, like the drone-fly (Eristalis tenax), force the air through the tiny air-passages in their sides, and as these passages are closed by little plates, the plates vibrate to and fro and make sound-waves.

The Fairy-Land of Science Arabella B. Buckley 1884

Bees and wasps are dreaded for their sting, and they are copied by harmless flies of the genera Eristalis and Syrphus, and these mimics often occur in swarms about flowering plants without damage to themselves or to their models; they are feared and are therefore left unmolested.

Evolution in Modern Thought Gustav Schwalbe 1880

The singular rat-tailed pupa-case of Eristalis (Fig. 77) lives in water, and when in want of air, protrudes its long respiratory tube out into the air.

Our Common Insects A Popular Account of the Insects of Our Fields, Forests, Gardens and Houses 1872

The larva is much like the puparium or pupa case, here figured, which closely resembles that of Eristalis, in possessing along respiratory filament, showing that the maggot undoubtedly lives in the water, and when desirous of breathing, protrudes the tube out of the water, thus drawing in air enough to fill its internal respiratory tubes

Our Common Insects A Popular Account of the Insects of Our Fields, Forests, Gardens and Houses 1872