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Why Flies Are Pollinators, Too!
Will all the pollinators please stand up! Or do a fly-by like the Blue Angels or a crawl-by like...
A bee fly, genus Villa, collecting pollen on a Mexican sunflower (Tithonia). (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Honey bee (left) and a syrphid fly, aka hover fly or flower fly, sharing a Tithonia. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Caught on the Cosmos
Cosmos flowers are somewhat like Libras. They balance. In fact, the word, ...
Syrphid on Cosmos
Close-Up
Hovering
Hover flies do know how to hover. Like a helicopter with spinning...
Hovering
Nectaring
Painting?
