Besides a sharp decrease in the total biomass of flying insects in German nature reserves, the diversity of species has also declined. Researchers from Radboud University have shown that this applies ...

A photograph shared online has helped scientists identify a hoverfly species that had remained a mystery for years. The insect, named ‘Monoceromyia ndidiae’, was photographed in the Dominican Republic ...

National Museums Scotland and RBGE digitise 700,000 natural history specimens, including a 127-year-old hoverfly, to support biodiversity research in Scotland.

Hoverfly larvae are blind but locate aphids using chemical cues like honeydew and physical contact. They use sharp mouth hooks and external digestion to liquefy and suck out their prey. As adults, ...

Hoverflies that hibernated as adults are beginning to emerge on warm sunny days to feed. Marmalade has a distinctive orange-yellow colour and it comes in a number of varieties to suit individual ...

Many species of flower-visiting insect are in trouble in Britain, according to a new report from the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology (CEH) near Oxford, which drew on almost 750,000 observations of ...

Researchers have reverse engineered the visual systems of hoverflies to detect drones' acoustic signatures from almost four kilometers away. The finding could help combat the growing use of ...

A photograph shared online has helped scientists identify a hoverfly species that had remained a mystery for years. The insect, named ‘Monoceromyia ndidiae’, was photographed in the Dominican Republic ...