...Lina An; Alexander Neimann; Eugen Eberling; Hanna Algora; Sebastian Brings; Klaus Lunau ABSTRACT Droneflies, imagoes of the hoverfly Eristalis tenax , are known to possess a preference for yellow flowers, i.e. they prefer to visit yellow flowers and prefer to extend the proboscis to yellow colours...

...Bart R. H. Geurten; Roland Kern; Elke Braun; Martin Egelhaaf SUMMARY Hoverflies such as Eristalis tenax Linnaeus are known for their distinctive flight style. They can hover on the same spot for several seconds and then burst into movement in apparently any possible direction. In order to determine...

...Gang Du; Mao Sun SUMMARY We studied the effects of wing deformation on the aerodynamic forces of wings of hovering hoverflies by solving the Navier–Stokes equations on a dynamically deforming grid, employing the recently measured wing deformation data of hoverflies in free-flight. Three hoverflies...

...S. Bressin; P. G. Willmer ABSTRACT Water evaporation has a marked effect on the passive rates of body temperature change of eristaline hoverflies. It results in the equilibrium temperature of these flies being significantly lower than ambient temperature. Different values for the cooling...