... (Hymenoptera: apidae) and its presumed mimic, the dronefly Eristalis tenax (Diptera: syrphidae) . J. Exp. Biol. 204 , 139 - 145 . 10.1242/jeb.204.1.139 Kane , S. A. , Fulton , A. H. and Rosenthal , L. J. ( 2015 ). When hawks attack: animal-borne video studies of goshawk pursuit...

...Yanpeng Liu; Mao Sun SUMMARY The time courses of wing and body kinematics of three freely hovering droneflies ( Eristalis tenax ) were measured using 3D high-speed video,and the morphological parameters of the wings and body of the insects were also measured. The measured wing kinematics was used...

...Yvonne C. Golding; A. Roland Ennos; Malcolm Edmunds ABSTRACT It is generally accepted that the dronefly Eristalis tenax is a Batesian mimic of the honeybee Apis mellifera . Previous work has established that the foraging behaviour of droneflies is more similar to that of its model than...