Definitions
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- n. Any of various flies from the family Syrphidae that hover in the air and feed on the nectar of flowers.
Etymologies
Examples
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So, the hoverfly is a pollinator and beneficial insect.
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I've since learned this is a type of hoverfly, a species that specializes in flowers and is an important pollination agent for plants not serviced by bees or butterflies.
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This floral extravaganza, splashed across the green canvas of a meadow, has been shaped and coloured, magnified and titivated by the past choices made by animal eyes: bee eyes, butterfly eyes, hoverfly eyes.
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She had a hoverfly (waspy looking), two craneflies (mosquitoey looking), a giant tarantula hawk wasp, and a delicate baby scorpion.
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A curious shrill noise came from her, like the screaming of a gnat or hoverfly; but no words, never any words.
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Because these insects prefer aphids as food for their larvae, the orchid helpfully produces three different chemicals that mimic aphids' alarm signals, all of which attract hoverfly females.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
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They include the white eye-stripe hoverfly (Paragus albifrons), so rare that it was thought to be extinct until recently; and Mellet's downy-back beetle (Ophonus melletii), which has only been sighted in Britain five times in decades.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
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There are about 250 species of hoverfly in Britain, and a couple do a good job mimicking honey and bumble bees.
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Aphid infestation on rose and predated by hoverfly larva.
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It is, however, a potential threat to our native ladybirds and other aphid predators such as lacewings and hoverfly larvae.
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph
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