ArticleProceedings. Biological sciences2021
Hoverflies use a time-compensated sun compass to orientate during autumn migration.
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- The study of social animal migrations: a synthesis of the past and guidelines for future research.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2025Pooled it
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- Lords of the flies: dipteran migrants are diverse, abundant and ecologically important.Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society · 2025Review
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- Spatiotemporal computations in the insect celestial compass.Nature communications · 2025Article
- Migrating hoverflies as potential food source for co-migrating insectivorous birds.Royal Society open science · 2025Article
- Programmable LED Array for Evaluating Artificial Light Sources to Improve Insect Trapping.Insects · 2025Article
- Multiple factors contribute to female dominance in migratory bioflows.Open biology · 2025Article
- Enhanced flight performance in hoverfly migrants.iScience · 2024Article
- The most remarkable migrants-systematic analysis of the Western European insect flyway at a Pyrenean mountain pass.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2024Article
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- The efficiency of varying methods and degrees of time compensation for the solar azimuth.Biology letters · 2023Article
- Varieties of visual navigation in insects.Animal cognition · 2023Review
- Migratory hoverflies orientate north during spring migration.Biology letters · 2022Article
- Genome-wide transcriptomic changes reveal the genetic pathways involved in insect migration.Molecular ecology · 2022Article
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Abstract
The sun is the most reliable celestial cue for orientation available to daytime migrants. It is widely assumed that diurnal migratory insects use a 'time-compensated sun compass' to adjust for the changing position of the sun throughout the day, as demonstrated in some butterfly species. The mechanisms used by other groups of diurnal insect migrants remain to be elucidated. Migratory species of hoverflies (Diptera: Syrphidae) are one of the most abundant and beneficial groups of diurnal migrants, providing multiple ecosystem services and undergoing directed seasonal movements throughout much of the temperate zone. To identify the hoverfly navigational strategy, a flight simulator was used to measure orientation responses of the hoverflies
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