28 Insects That Look Like Bees | NDSU Agriculture and Extension
https://www.ndsu.edu/agriculture/extension/publications/insects-look-bees
... the insects that mimic bees including flies, wasps and moths, and which ones are pollinators. Some examples of bee mimics described are hover flies, ...
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29 (PDF) The Relationship between Morphological and ...
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/259918652_The_Relationship_between_Morphological_and_Behavioral_Mimicry_in_Hover_Flies_Diptera_Syrphidae
Those hover fly species that engage in behavioral mimicry (mock stinging, leg waving, wing wagging) were all large wasp mimics within the genera ...
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30 The Mimetic Flight Behavior of Hoverflies - Biomechanics
https://www.ecologycenter.us/biomechanics/the-mimetic-flight-behavior-of-hoverflies.html
Because they are seeking different rewards from the flowers and in different quantities, the most likely explanation is that this is a case of ...
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31 How to identify hoverflies | BBC Wildlife Magazine
https://www.discoverwildlife.com/how-to/identify-wildlife/how-to-identify-hoverflies/
Many hoverflies are wasp or bee mimics. For example, some drone flies in the genus Eristalis look like honeybees, Volucella inanis resembles ...
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32 Why many Batesian mimics are inaccurate - Journals
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2016.1585
Hoverflies have been a major focus for studies of inaccurate mimicry, as the taxon comprises a large number of species, many of which are ...
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33 Hoverfly | Insect mimicry | Eating nectar in flowers - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ko8xkPetmno
Nov 5, 2020
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34 Why does poor mimicry work? - ScienceNordic
https://sciencenordic.com/behaviour-birds-evolution/why-does-poor-mimicry-work/1400358
Hoverflies mimic the appearance of wasps to avoid being eaten. But even to our untrained eyes they seem to be doing a shoddy job. So why does it ...
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35 Hoverflies: No, They're Not Bees | Bio-Aerial Locomotion
https://blogs.bu.edu/bioaerial2012/2012/12/05/hoverflies-no-theyre-not-bees/
Because of their appearance, they can often be mistaken for a bee or a wasp. This acts as a form of camouflage and helps the hoverfly avoid ...
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36 Flower Flies or Hover Flies: Bee Mimic Extraordinaires
https://www.backyardecology.net/flower-flies-or-hover-flies-bee-mimic-extraordinaires/
The reason they are so often overlooked is because they are extraordinary mimics, usually of bees or wasps. Their mimicry is so good, ...
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37 Hoverfly - Prairie Pest Monitoring Network
https://prairiepest.ca/tag/hoverfly/
Hoverflies are un-BEE-lievably good mimics of bees and yellow jacket wasps! Mimicry is used by insects in several ways. Some insects, like the ambush bug ...
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38 Syrphidae) By Arash Rashed A t
https://curve.carleton.ca/system/files/etd/e190ef90-98e2-4c09-be75-d55afd36bfc6/etd_pdf/a51f79e44c9fdbcb340ae2414fc9c89d/rashed-evolutionandmaintenanceofbatesianmimicrywith.pdf
Mimicry in hover flies (Diptera: Syrphidae): a field test of the competitive mimicry hypothesis ... 5.4.2 Do Wasp Mimics Sound Like Wasps on Attack?.... 110.
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39 Curious Questions: Do the disguises of hoverflies really keep ...
https://www.countrylife.co.uk/nature/curious-questions-disguises-hoverflies-really-keep-safe-predators-196436
Hoverflies mimic bees, wasps and all manner of other insects in order to put off predators — but does their subterfuge really work?
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40 We our hover flies. They mimic bees and wasps with their ...
https://www.facebook.com/walovesnature/videos/we-our-hover-flies-they-mimic-bees-and-wasps-with-their-black-and-yellow-stripes/1648716431965136/
› ... › Videos
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41 Beneficial insects in the garden: #28 Hover, Flower, or Syrphid ...
https://aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu/galveston/beneficials/beneficial-28_hover_or_syrphid_flies.htm
Adult hover flies are important pollinators and can be found feeding at flower blossoms or around aphid colonies, where they lay their eggs. The larvae of hover ...
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42 Bee mimics – insects that look like bees but are not
https://friendsoftheearth.uk/bee-count/insects-that-look-like-bees
Hoverflies (Syrphidae) · Bee-flies (Bombylius) · Parasitic flies (Tachinidae) · Wasps (Aculeata) · Bee beetle (Trichius fasciatus).
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43 To bee or not to bee – why some insects pretend to be ...
https://theconversation.com/to-bee-or-not-to-bee-why-some-insects-pretend-to-be-dangerous-65299
Many of their larvae (the baby hoverflies that look like maggots) crawl around on plants feeding on the aphids that would otherwise eat our ...
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44 Syrphid flies | UMN Extension
https://extension.umn.edu/beneficial-insects/syrphid-flies
Adults are similar in size and color to wasps and bees. They mimic these insects as a form of protection from predators. Syrphid flies do not bite or sting.
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45 Pollinator of the Month: Hoverfly - Bee the Change
https://beethechange.earth/blog/2019/7/29/pollinator-of-the-month-hoverfly
How They Pollinate: Hoverflies are “incidental” yet crucial pollinators. The adults hover – as their name suggests – like hummingbirds over ...
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46 An Illustrated Study in Mimicry and Cryptic Coloration in Insects
https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1034&context=entodistmasters
Müllerian mimicry is common among stinging Hymenopterans (Bees, Wasps, and Ants). ... in color and relative shape hover flies are easily mistaken for wasps.
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47 Bee Mimics: Their Buzz is Worse Than Their Sting
https://northernwoodlands.org/outside_story/article/bee-mimics-buzz-worse-than-sting
Bee and wasp mimics are exhibiting Batesian mimicry, named after English naturalist Henry Walter Bates. They've evolved colors and behaviors ...
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48 Bees Mimicry - Brisbane Insects
https://www.brisbaneinsects.com/brisbane_insects/BeesMimicry.htm
Their bodies are medium to slender. On their abdomen there are the yellow-black wasps pattern and the narrow waist mimic pattern. Hover Flies ...
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49 Archive - November 2020 - Kids for Conservation
https://www2.illinois.gov/dnr/outreach/kidsconservation/Pages/ArchiveNov2020.aspx
Harmless hoverflies mimic the appearance of wasps and are often seen at the same flowers as wasps. Hummingbird clearwing moths (Hemaris thysbe) and ...
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50 It's a Bee! It's a Wasp! No, It's a Hover Fly! - SDSU Extension
https://extension.sdstate.edu/its-bee-its-wasp-no-its-hover-fly
Hover flies may resemble stinging wasps or bees, but they are completely harmless and play multiple, beneficial roles, including pest ...
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51 The Great Pretender: The Hoverfly - deBugged - Rentokil
https://www.rentokil.co.uk/blog/wasp-or-hoverfly/
There's a good reason why some bugs disguise themselves as another insect – it tricks predators like birds into thinking they are dangerous.
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52 Hornet mimic hoverfly | Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust
https://www.gloucestershirewildlifetrust.co.uk/wildlife-explorer/invertebrates/flies/hornet-mimic-hoverfly
Many species of hoverfly mimic bees and wasps with their markings in order to gain some protection from predation. The hornet mimic hoverfly is also known as ...
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53 Information Sheet 11, Mimicry in Nature
https://cals.arizona.edu/pubs/insects/ahb/inf11.html
Some examples of insects that mimic bees and wasps are: Flies (bee flies, hover flies, flower flies). Beetles (black-and-yellow locust borer, ...
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54 ID Guide Hoverflies - British Naturalists' Association
https://bna-naturalists.org/id-guide-hoverflies/
The larger species are often brightly coloured and very common. Many any of these have ornate body patterns, often of black and yellow, said to mimic wasps and ...
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55 Flower Flies - Maryland.gov
https://news.maryland.gov/dnr/2018/05/01/habichat-flower-flies/
This mimicry coupled with buzzing noises often make flower flies less appealing to predators like birds. Unlike most bees, however, flower flies ...
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56 Flower Flies - USDA Forest Service
https://www.fs.usda.gov/wildflowers/pollinators/pollinator-of-the-month/flower_flies.shtml
For some species, this mimicry confers more than just protection while they are foraging. Flies in the genus Copestylum, for example, use their disguise to ...
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57 Hoverflies | Bees of Georgia
https://native-bees-of-georgia.ggc.edu/?page_id=475
Hoverflies (Order Diptera: Family Syrphidae) ... Syrphid flies are sometimes called flower flies or hoverflies. Many species mimic bees and are often confused ...
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58 Hoverflies / RHS Gardening
https://www.rhs.org.uk/biodiversity/hoverflies
Hoverflies with this feeding habit include the species in the genus Volucella which are bumblebee or wasp mimics as adults and at 2cm in length includes the ...
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59 Batesian Mimicry - an overview | ScienceDirect Topics
https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/immunology-and-microbiology/batesian-mimicry
Batesian mimicry, in which palatable species mimic the warning color patterns of unpalatable species, also occurs in groups such as hoverflies that mimic bees ...
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60 Hornet Mimic Hoverfly - Friends of Heene Cemetery
https://www.heenecemetery.org.uk/species/hornet-mimic-hoverfly/
The Hornet Mimic Hoverfly is a large hoverfly with a wingspan up to 4cms. As its name suggests, it mimics a hornet - by size, by appearance and by flight. It ...
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61 Climate-induced phenological shifts in a Batesian mimicry ...
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1813367115
... is not the case in one of the best-studied examples of mimicry in which hoverflies (mimics) imitate stinging wasps and bees (models).
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62 As Hoverflies Grow, So Do Their Acting Skills
https://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/27/science/as-hoverflies-grow-so-do-their-acting-skills.html
Researchers have found that the insects, which look like wasps and bees but do not sting, seem to more closely mimic stinging insects the ...
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63 Hoverfly: Pollinator With Superpowers
https://wisconsinpollinators.com/OtherPlnatr/Hoverfly.aspx
Many Hoverflies, which don't sting, mimic bee species that do making predators think twice before grabbing them. The superficial similarity continues since ...
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64 Hoverflies - All-Ireland Pollinator Plan
https://pollinators.ie/record-pollinators/hoverflies/
Among other Irish species Chrysotoxum fasciatum is a very convincing mimic of social wasps (Vespula) and Volucella bombylans similarly resembles bumble bees ( ...
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65 Bee mimics: Buzz worse than their sting - Burlington Free Press
https://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/story/news/local/2015/06/12/bee-mimics-buzz-worse-sting/71076050/
Bee and wasp mimics are exhibiting Batesian mimicry, named after English naturalist Henry Walter Bates. They've evolved colors and behaviors ...
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66 Exquisite behavioural mimicry: fly acts like a wasp
https://whyevolutionistrue.com/2014/01/17/exquisite-behavioural-mimicry-fly-acts-like-a-wasp/
A purpose-built phylogeny for the hover flies was used to control for potential lack of independence due to shared evolutionary history. Those ...
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67 Hornet mimic hoverfly | Cumbria Wildlife Trust
https://www.cumbriawildlifetrust.org.uk/wildlife-explorer/invertebrates/flies/hornet-mimic-hoverfly
Many species of hoverfly mimic bees and wasps with their markings in order to gain some protection from predation. The hornet mimic hoverfly is also known as ...
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68 High-flying hover flies: entomologists report for the first time ...
https://www.esa.org/blog/2022/07/19/high-flying-hover-flies-entomologists-report-for-the-first-time-that-some-north-american-hover-flies-migrate/
Hover flies like this one mimic bees and wasps, though they have only two wings. Bees and wasps have four wings. Like bees, they are also ...
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69 Is it a bee or a hoverfly? | Urban Bees Blog
https://urbanbees.co.uk/blog_1/?p=3358
The Hornet mimic hoverfly is a big, scary looking insect. As its name suggest its appearance is hornet-like. Although it's harmless, if in doubt ...
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70 Insect of the Week (Aug 12) - Doppelgangers: Hoverflies vs ...
http://prairiepestmonitoring.blogspot.com/2019/08/insect-of-week-aug-12-doppelgangers.html
Hoverflies are un-BEE-lievably good mimics of bees and yellow jacket wasps! Mimicry is used by insects in several ways. Some insects, like the ...
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71 bee-flies
https://www.msnucleus.org/membership/ngss/third_ngss/03bees_flies.html
Hover Flies (left) may sometimes confused with stinging bees or wasps because of their mimic color. Their bodies are medium to slender.
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72 Undeniably Interesting Facts About Hoverflies - Animal Sake
https://animalsake.com/interesting-facts-about-hoverflies
Batesian mimicry is a survival tactic employed by a relatively harmless species to escape potential predators by exhibiting the appearance of a harmful species.
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73 Hornet-Mimic Hoverfly
https://similarbutdifferentanimals.com/2020/07/03/hornet-mimic-hoverfly/
The Hornet-Mimic Hoverfly sips nectar and pollen from flowers. The female lays her eggs in the nests of hornets and social wasps. The eggs hatch ...
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74 Penney et al (2014) Am Nat.pdf - White Rose Research Online
https://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/80035/1/Penney%20et%20al%20%282014%29%20Am%20Nat.pdf
morphological mimicry in hover flies (Diptera: Syrphidae), a group well known for both ... bee and wasp mimics is weak at best (Rashed et al. 2009).
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75 Multi-trait mimicry of ants by a parasitoid wasp - Nature
https://www.nature.com/articles/srep08043
Many species of predators co-occur with ants; cursorial spiders are among the most abundant. The parasitoid Gelis agilis shows remarkable ...
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76 These bats imitate hornets to avoid being eaten by owls
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/bats-imitate-hornets-to-avoid-being-eaten-by-owls
Flower-loving hoverflies evolved to look just like stinging, unpalatable wasps. These are all examples of Batesian mimicry, an evolutionary ...
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77 Interesting Insects: Hover flies - UT Crops News -
https://news.utcrops.com/2015/07/interesting-insects-hover-flies/
Like bees, they are significant pollinators. However, these flies neither sting nor produce honey. Some of the flies in this family mimic wasps, ...
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78 Hover flies | Exopest
https://www.exopest.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Fact-Sheet-Hover-flies-t.pdf
Hover fly mimic wasps and this can include having a warning coloration of yellow and black, a narrow waist like a wasp and even the ability to mimic the.
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79 Hover Flies | Forest Society
https://forestsociety.org/something-wild/hover-flies
While hover flies do NOT sting and are completely harmless, their hovering and dark and light stripes mimicry protects them from falling ...
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80 Hornet mimic hoverfly | Dorset Wildlife Trust
https://www.dorsetwildlifetrust.org.uk/cy/node/1000
The hornet mimic hoverfly is mainly orangey-yellow on the abdomen, with dark bands and a dark brown thorax. It is our largest hoverfly. It can be distinguished ...
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81 Polymorphic mimics: flies that look like bumblebees
https://rcannon992.com/2018/06/29/polymorphic-mimics-flies-that-look-like-bumblebees/
So it's easy to see why a fly might want to look like a bee or a wasp: they would gain protection from being preyed upon. Resembling dangerous ...
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82 Hover Fly Mimics Bald-faced Hornet
https://naturallycuriouswithmaryholland.wordpress.com/2015/08/05/hover-fly-mimics-bald-faced-hornet/
There are certain species of hover flies that mimic stinging wasps, including yellow jackets and bald-faced hornets (see photo).
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83 This Bee Look-Alike Has No Sting - Purdue Extension
https://extension.purdue.edu/news/county/whitley/2021/08/This-Bee-Look-Alike-Has-No-Sting.html
Hover flies are aptly named because they can hover around people. They mimic the look and behaviour of bees, and by doing so they scare some ...
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84 The evolution of imperfect mimicry in hoverflies
https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/OutputFile/1021498
unprofitable food by small insectivorous birds, whereas honeybees and especially wasps are categorized as noxious food. The hoverfly mimics. Resemblance.
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85 Hover flies - Illinois Extension
https://extension.illinois.edu/blogs/flowers-fruits-and-frass/2017-07-20-hover-flies
They mimic bees and or wasps for protection against predators such as birds. They are easily distinguished from bees because they are shiny and ...
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86 Yellowjacket Hover Fly, Vol. 7, No. 20
https://extension.msstate.edu/newsletters/bug%E2%80%99s-eye-view/2021/yellowjacket-hover-fly-vol-7-no-20
Aunt Lucy was attacked and intimidated by a large wasp-like insect that kept ... There are lots of species of hover flies, and most mimic bees or wasps and ...
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87 Harmless Hoverflies
https://www.lboro.ac.uk/media/media/services/sustainability/downloads/support-species-hoverflies.pdf
They generally mimic bees and wasps – insects that sting and also taste unpleasant, so are avoided by predators.
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88 Wasps, hornets and hoverflies in Maidenhead
https://www.maidenheadpestcontrol.co.uk/blog/pest-control-blog/wasps-hornets-and-hoverflies-in-maidenhead/
There is something to be said of watching the insects and understanding their behaviour to help you identify what is a pest or not; for example ...
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89 Bug of the Day: Hoverflies - UF/IFAS Blogs - University of Florida
https://blogs.ifas.ufl.edu/entnemdept/2018/04/03/bug-day-hoverflies/
They generally mimic bees or wasps and have yellow and black striping or spots. Some are quite small, many times smaller than honey bees, ...
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90 Batesian-Müllerian mimicry ring around the Oriental hornet ...
https://jhr.pensoft.net/article/81380/download/pdf/
2019) and is common among hoverflies (Howarth and Edmunds 2000; Hassall et al. 2019). On the other hand, for the Batesian mimics, temporal ...
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91 Hoverfly biology - De Gruyter
https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9781400866021-005/pdf
One instantly recognisable genus of British hoverflies, Rhingia, is exceptional however ... wasp . Hoverfly biology. Great Pied Hoverfly Volucella pellucens.
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92 The buzz on how climate change impacts nature's mimicry ...
https://cordis.europa.eu/article/id/120204-the-buzz-on-how-climate-change-impacts-natures-mimicry-system
EU-funded researchers are studying how a changing climate affects hoverflies, which mimic bees and wasps, and the evolutionary consequences ...
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93 Cognitive Dimensions of Predator Responses to Imperfect ...
https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.0050339
Note that species C–F do not closely resemble any wasp species. The three hoverfly species differ in wing and body shape, antennal length, ...
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94 Hoverflies are imperfect mimics of wasp colouration - SEARCH
https://primo.qatar-weill.cornell.edu/discovery/fulldisplay?docid=cdi_openaire_primary_oai_dnet_dedup_wf_001_34f1fdc9f7cea541b868168440d0c6ab&context=PC&vid=974WCMCIQ_INST:VU1&lang=en&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&adaptor=Primo%20Central&tab=Everything&query=creator%2Cexact%2C%20Gilbert%2C%20Francis%2CAND&facet=creator%2Cexact%2C%20Gilbert%2C%20Francis&mode=advanced&offset=10
Many Batesian mimics are considered to be inaccurate copies of their models, including a number of hoverfly species which appear to be poor mimics of bees ...
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95 Hoverflies picture gallery - First Nature
https://www.first-nature.com/insects/d-syrphidae.php
› insects › d-syrphidae
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96 Hoverflies: The underrated winter pollinator - PlantingSeeds
https://www.ps.org.au/content/articles/2021/7/14/hoverflies-the-underrated-winter-pollinator
While humans mimic the trends of the famous, the hoverfly gets its tips and tricks from better known pollinators - bees and wasps.
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97 When is a wasp not a wasp? When it's a hoverfly | UK news
https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2004/aug/03/sillyseason.science
Hoverflies are also, not surprisingly, more skilled at hovering and do it - along with flying sideways - more than wasps. Mass migrations happen ...
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