Please don’t mow or spray the dandelions. They are a lifeline for pollinators including bees, butterflies, hoverflies. They support over 50 insect species. Our little film shows the life in a small patch 🐝🌼🦋
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Can we please have a shout out for hoverflies? These unsung heroes may not be as flamboyant as butterflies or as cute as bumblebees, but they’re important pollinators that also help control pests like aphids.
How to help hoverflies and other pollinators:
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Great day yesterday post 1, starting off at Long Melford with Darren Underwood highlights being 2 Scarce Fungus Weevils (Platyrhinus resinosus), Ramsons Hoverflies (Portevinia maculata), Crucifer Shieldbugs (Eurydema oleracea) & Herb Paris

#hoverflies . Bring buzzed yesterday be a curious hoverfly. #garden ing #garden #flowers of Twitter

In a rare synergy of sun and warmth, I watched a ♂ Melanostoma scalare feeding on pollen from a Welsh Poppy (Meconopsis cambrica) blazing away in my garden. He spent a good half hour foraging in this one flower. - Montrose, Angus #hoverflies

A few more images from my visit to RSPB Saltholme: snad martins, moorhens, hoverflies - Helophilus pendulus and Eristalis sp. teesbirds RSPB RSPB England Natural England NE NorthYorksBirdNews JoanT 🇬🇧 Nick Wright

Day 88: Wavy Bittercress

An edible low-growing plant that butterflies, moths and hoverflies love.

This plant has been used medicinally and it's seeds can be roasted and used as a substitute for coffee.

#frome_valley_year

Not just a pretty space: as well as reducing water flow into drains &, thereby, sewage discharge, SuDS can reduce flood risk, road runoff, improve urban cooling. This one includes larval foodplants for butterflies & moths, nectar for bees, hoverflies & ladybirds.

🌍 Curious about the vocabulary of nature? Explore the rich & varied language of #biodiversity !🐝
‌Even if bees are the most well-known, other animals such as hoverflies, wasps, moths, bats, butterflies & more are also #pollinators . 🦋
According to ipbes⬇️
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Some hoverflies! I believe Sphaerophoria scripta (?) and Eupeodes corollae (?) (8/)

Hoverflies having a rest on Marsh Marigold flowers during a cloudy spell at Divis/Black Mountain, Belfast (28 April)

Our new paper is out! 🐝🌼

'Partitioning the contribution of bees with different traits and hoverflies to flower-visitor interaction networks'
doi.org/10.1016/j.ecol…

Thanks to Prof. Shoko Sakai, JSPS 独立行政法人日本学術振興会（学振） and Kyoto University for hosting me in Japan.

#pollinators #ecology

🌿🔵 Experience the beauty of bluebell season at Hagbourne Copse, near Blagrove! These blooms are vital for local wildlife, attracting butterflies, bees, and hoverflies. Please stay on designated paths and avoid picking the flowers. 🦋🐝

Hoverflies are amazing

Also there was a ♀ Platycheirus albimanus engaged in the typical 'head down, ass up' technique for getting at Dandelion nectar. She got absolutely caked in pollen; a few breaks were needed for a wee clean. Job done from the plant's perspective - Montrose, Angus #hoverflies

Some scarce hoverflies enjoying the Creeping Willow at Sheskinmore, Co. Donegal recently: Cheilosia nebulosa and Cheilosia psilophthalma. The latter only has four Irish records, mostly from unimproved grassland where the larvae develop in Mouse-ear Hawkweed.

SHOUT OUT! #HOVERFLIES !!💮🌸🏵🌼🌻⚘️☘️🌱🌺💚😃

Big thanks Andrew/Steve for excellent presentation Spring Hoverflies at Laundry Garden
Many thanks for your support for Road To Nature Group with venue once again Tredegar House NT/YG Tŷ Tredegar
Looking at specimens under digiscope kindly funded by SEWBReC cuppa,biccies & nature chitchat💚

Things warmed up a bit today! Sunshine brought bees, wasps & hoverflies out in the garden. The dandelion flowers were smothered. Yesterday's sulking, soggy magpie seems to have taken up residence in the garden. Two pairs of swallows now claiming stable nest sites! Yay!

7/12.🪲 METHOD OF CONTROLLING APHIDS
Natural predators: Many insects and animals, like ladybugs 🐞, lacewings, and hoverflies, enjoy munching on aphids.