ArticleRoyal Society open science2019
Quantification of migrant hoverfly movements (Diptera: Syrphidae) on the West Coast of North America.
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- Lords of the flies: dipteran migrants are diverse, abundant and ecologically important.Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society · 2025Review
- Multiple factors contribute to female dominance in migratory bioflows.Open biology · 2025Article
- Isotope geolocation and population genomics inPNAS nexus · 2025Article
- Enhanced flight performance in hoverfly migrants.iScience · 2024Article
- Temperature during pupal development affects hoverfly developmental time, adult life span, and wing length.Ecology and evolution · 2023Article
- Genome-wide transcriptomic changes reveal the genetic pathways involved in insect migration.Molecular ecology · 2022Article
- Genome of the hoverfly Eupeodes corollae provides insights into the evolution of predation and pollination in insects.BMC biology · 2022Article
- Citizen Science Mosquito Surveillance by Ad Hoc Observation Using the iNaturalist Platform.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
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- Adaptive strategies of high-flying migratory hoverflies in response to wind currents.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2020Article
- Pollination by hoverflies in the Anthropocene.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2020Article
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Abstract
The seasonal migration of huge numbers of hoverflies is frequently reported in Europe from mountain passes or spurs of land. The movement of such large numbers of beneficial insects is thought to provide significant ecosystem services in terms of pollination and pest control. Observations from the East Coast of the USA during the 1920s indicate the presence of migratory life histories among some hoverfly species there, but 90 years have now passed since the last reported observation of hoverfly migration in the USA. Here, we analyse video footage taken during a huge northward migration of hoverflies on 20 April 2017 on the West Coast of California. The quantification of migrant numbers from this footage allows us to estimate the passage of over 100 000 hoverflies in half an hour over a 200 m section of headland in Montaña de Oro State Park (San Luis Obispo County). Field collections and analysis of citizen science data indicate different species from the previously reported
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