A decade-long study tallies the numbers of pest-eating, flower-pollinating hoverflies that travel to the UK every year, and illustrates their important ecological roles in southern Britain. After a ...

Crops such as apples need the help of pollinators to make fruit. In UK orchards, apple trees are pollinated by many different insect species. One study found more than 25 different bee and hoverfly ...

Male hoverflies are outflown by females when it comes to long-distance migration, new research shows. Marmalade hoverflies leave northern Europe each autumn to escape the cold winter. The study ...

It's not clear if hoverflies are harmed by the viruses or are simply carriers, but, either way, they could be moving them around the countryside and over long distances, say UK researchers.

Female marmalade hoverflies dominate long-distance migrations from northern Europe, with about 90% reaching southern points like Spain, compared to an equal male-to-female ratio in Denmark.

‘With simple features like sand banks and log piles you can bring so much diversity to a small area,’ says Sam Thomas, our UK Biodiversity Officer. In fact, he says you can make a hoverfly lagoon with ...

Taxonomic resources for EU Pollinator Monitoring Scheme for hoverflies (Lot 2) (Diptera, Syrphidae), acronym ‘TAXO-FLY’, following the contract signed between the ...