As part of an ongoing research project on the pollination networks in European heathlands, the objective of this study was to assess the insect visitor guild on Calluna vulgaris (L.) Hull (Ericaceae). We focused the study on a region renowned for its largely well-preserved heathlands, the Cévennes National Park, Southern France. In 2013, flower visitors were observed over 3 d per site, in four ...

Abstract The aim of the research was to study diversity hoverflies (Syrphidae: Diptera) living in areas under influence heavy metal emissions (Cd, Zn and Pb). Although area Olkusz Ore-bearing Region (OOR), where partially conducted, belongs contaminated regions, a relatively high species richness Syrphids has been noted. During period, total 1,180 syrphids, belonging 165 were caught, which cons...

Ongoing biodiversity decline impairs ecosystem processes, including pollination. Flower visitation, an important indicator of pollination services, is influenced by plant species richness. However, the spatio-temporal responses of different pollinator groups to plant species richness have not yet been analyzed experimentally. Here, we used an experimental plant species richness gradient to anal...

This article presents the emergent objects research project Hoverflies – an investigation into hyper-physical interfaces where we explore how the traditional idea of ‘user’ might be supplanted by the notion of the ‘participant-performer’. The concepts of play, composition and embodiment were central to the consideration of design by thinking through performance knowledge. Play frames as articul...

To better understand the relationship between biodiversity and ecosystem functioning, it is increasingly accepted that focus of study needs to shift from taxonomic identity diversity functional traits displayed by species within a community. Such an approach allows be grouped according particular characteristics. Increasingly viewed as extremely important group model organisms, hoverflies have ...

After heavy rainfalls in late Apr. of 2010 in Tehran, an epizootic occurred amongst hoverflies (Eupeodes corollae Fabricius) population in green spaces of Iranian Research Institute of Plant Protection, caused by an entomopathogenic fungus. Infected flies fixed to the upper parts of whitetop (Lepidium draba L.) and small tumbleweed mustard (Sisymbrium loeslii L.) plants with their proboscis and...