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    destroy crops, and hoverfly maggots are often used in biological control. This includes one of the most common widespread hoverfly species, Episyrphus...
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    Sikorsky R-4 (redirect from HNS Hoverfly)
    Hoverfly". National Museum of the United States Air Force. Retrieved: 25 July 2016. Gunston 2005, p. 88. Mondey 2005, p. 29. "Sikorsky R-4B Hoverfly"...
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    Sikorsky R-6 (redirect from R-6 Hoverfly II)
    In Royal Air Force and Royal Navy service, it was named the Hoverfly II. The R-6/Hoverfly II was developed to improve on the successful Sikorsky R-4....
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    Episyrphus balteatus, sometimes called the marmalade hoverfly, is a relatively small hoverfly (9–12 mm) of the Syrphidae family, widespread throughout...
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    sometimes referred to as the Batman hoverfly, is a very common European and North African species of hoverfly. Adults may be seen on flowers from May...
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    Sphaerophoria scripta, the long hoverfly, is a species of hoverfly belonging to the family Syrphidae. This species has a worldwide distribution. It can...
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    Baccha (redirect from Baccha (hoverfly))
    Baccha is a genus of hoverflies in the subfamily Syrphinae. They are typically moderate sized with wasp-like bodies. Their larvae are predatory, often...
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    Eupeodes americanus, the American hoverfly, is found throughout North America and inhabits meadows, and fields with flowers and foliage. Adults feed on...
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    with many hoverflies resembling bees and wasps, ants and some species of tephritid fruit fly resembling spiders. Some species of hoverfly are myrmecophilous—their...
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  • XR-1 (experimental helicopter) Sikorsky R-4B "Hoverfly" (general helicopter) Sikorsky YR-4B "Hoverfly", version of R-4, known as HNS-1 in Navy service...
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  • usage: the Western wood-vase hoverfly and the Moccas hoverfly Stubbs, Alan E. & Falk, Steven J. (1983). British Hoverflies: An Illustrated Identification...
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    Callicera spinolae, also known as the ivy hoverfly or golden hoverfly, is a species of syrphid fly within the genus Callicera and family Syrphidae. It...
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    Hoverflies mating...
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    Ferdinandea is a genus of syrphid flies or hoverflies in the family Syrphidae. There are about 16 described species in Ferdinandea. These 16 species belong...
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    produce eggs. The name "thick-legged hoverfly" comes from the fly's distinctively broad femora. A thick-legged hoverfly has a wing length ranging between...
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    Hoverfly at work...
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    A. ursinum is the primary larval host plant for a specialised hoverfly, ramsons hoverfly (Portevinia maculata). The flowers are pollinated by bees. Allium...
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    Chrysotoxum octomaculatum, the broken-banded wasp-hoverfly, is a species of hoverfly within the genus Chrysotoxum and family Syrphidae. It has been placed...
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    Melanostoma scalare, the chequered hoverfly, is a very common species of hoverfly. The European Melanostoma species are not well understood at present...
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    Kent (November 2011). "Floral resources enhance aphid suppression by the hoverfly Eupeodes fumipennis". Entomological Society of America Annual Meeting 2011...
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    Scaeva pyrastri, common name the pied hoverfly, is a species of hoverfly. These hoverflies are present in most of Europe, the Near East, the East Palearctic...
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    Syrphid hoverfly misdirects predators by mimicking a wasp, but has no sting....
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    | National Air and Space Museum". Retrieved 2024-02-03. "Sikorsky R-4B Hoverfly". National Museum of the United States Air Force™. Retrieved 2024-02-03...
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    Marmalade hoverfly, pollen on its face and legs, sitting on a rockrose....
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    Melangyna novaezelandiae (commonly referred to as the "large hoverfly") is a hoverfly endemic to New Zealand. It is a generalized pollinator of a large...
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  • largest producer of helicopters in the U.S. during the war by making the A Hoverfly II, the most advanced helicopter design of the war. Other wartime products...
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    Melangyna viridiceps is an Australian hoverfly, known as the common hover fly. It is one of the two most common hoverflies in Australia, alongside Simosyrphus...
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    A hoverfly of the subgenus Eristalis (Eoseristalis)...
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    Doros (fly) (redirect from Doros (hoverfly))
    Doros is a genus of hoverflies. They are large slender flies, that mimic solitary wasp in slow flight. They have very limited flight period. Doros aequalis...
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    Adult hoverflies often hover over the plants they visit Western aphideater Large-tailed aphideater Narrow-headed marsh fly Thick-legged hoverfly Bee flies...
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