Natural pest control in agriculture is more promising if there are sufficient other landscape elements near a field that provide additional food for predatory insects. It is also good to grow several ...

Treed field borders supplied more than 33 times more hoverflies to canola fields than grassy borders, the research shows.

Critically endangered pine hoverflies have been found to be breeding successfully in new populations around the Cairngorms. In Britain, the majority of the insects were only known to inhabit one ...

Lavender flowers attract ladybugs, lacewings, and hoverflies, among numerous other pollinators. Adult ladybugs can eat 50 aphids a day while hoverflies and lacewings are predaceous during their larval ...

A third of British wild bees and hoverflies are in decline, according to a new study. If current trends continue, some species will be lost from Britain altogether, the scientists say. The study ...

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Sturgeon County farmers should plant more trees around their canola to attract yield-boosting fake bees, recent research ...

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

The ABC has begun its quest to find out which native six-legged marvel is Australia's most popular insect for 2024. Six ...

The Bramble (Rubus fructicosus) or Dris in Irish, refers to any rough tangled prickly shrub, specifically the briar or ...

Out walking on a glorious sunny autumn day, I stop to consult the map and am immediately aware of the musical hum of insects. Putting down my ...

Treed field borders supplied more than 33 times more hoverflies to canola fields than grassy borders, the research shows. The family of flies, which resemble bees and wasps, move between the ...