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Syrphidae

Common names: hover flies, hoverfly, syrphid flies, syrphids

Taxonomy: Animalia > Arthropoda > Insecta > Diptera > Syrphidae

Roles: pollinator, study subject

ITIS TSN: 139621

Synonyms: Syrphidae, syrphids, hoverflies, Syrphids, syrphid flies, flower flies

External: RMBL Collections

Papers: 106 | Mentions: 110

Local Knowledge Graph (Top 74 entities)

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Publications (106)

student_paper

Predation of Aphids (Aphis asclepiadis) by Syrphid Flies on Osha (Ligusticum porteri)

2026Role: text_match

student_paper

Functional morphology of pollen capture in Syrphid flies (Diptera syrphidae): The effects of pile density and body region

2025Role: study subject

student_paper

Impact of Decreased Flower Attractiveness on Pollinator Visitation Rates and Pollinator Community Composition

2024Role: text_match

thesis

Interpopulation variation and optimal mating in the perennial herb, Polemonium brandegeei

2024Role: text_match

student_paper

Plant-Pollinator Interactions between Erigeron speciosus and Heterotheca villosa in Virginia Basin

Documents (1)

technical report

An Integrated Wastewater Treatment and Reuse System to Enhance Wildlife and Other Estuarine Values

Co-occurring Species

Bombus

Apidae61 shared papers

solitary bees

47 shared papers

Diptera

46 shared papers

Hymenoptera

44 shared papers

Beetles

44 shared papers

Delphinium

Ranunculaceae43 shared papers

Bombyliidae

Bombyliidae41 shared papers

Ipomopsis aggregata

Polemoniaceae35 shared papers

Lepidoptera

29 shared papers

Megachilidae

Megachilidae26 shared papers

2024Role: text_match

article

Current and lagged climate affects phenology across diverse taxonomic groups

2023Proceedings of the Royal Society BRole: text_match

student_paper

Determining pollinator behavior differences bumblebees and flies.

2023Role: text_match

article

Host plant phenology shapes aphid abundance and interactions with ants

2023OikosRole: text_match

student_paper

Hot and Cold: Assessing the Thermal Limitations of Bumble Bees in a Changing Climate

2023Role: text_match

student_paper

How beaver pond age affects aquatic invertebrates

2023Role: text_match

student_paper

Ant Behavioral Responses to Aphids Colonizing Ligusticum porteri

2022Role: text_match

student_paper

Effects of Floral Abundance, Pollinator Interactions, and Floral Morphology on Stigmatic Pollen Deposition

2022Role: text_match

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Life-history traits predict responses of wild bees to climate variation

2022Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological SciencesRole: text_match

thesis

Perturbations in plant-pollinator networks: Integrating theoretical and empirical approaches to understand responses to global change

2022Role: text_match

article

Simultaneous niche expansion and contraction in plant–pollinator networks under drought

2022OikosRole: pollinator

student_paper

The Effect of Snowmelt Timing on Pollinator Visitation to Subalpine Wildflowers

2022Role: text_match

student_paper

Comparing pollen distribution on pollinators to floral community composition in the East River Valley

2021Role: text_match

article

Experimental Test of the Combined Effects of Water Availability and Flowering Time on Pollinator Visitation and Seed Set

2021Frontiers of Ecology & EvolutionRole: text_match

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Open-top warming chambers reduce animal pollination of two subalpine herbs

2021Journal of Pollination EcologyRole: text_match

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Plant–pollinator interaction niche broadens in response to severe drought perturbations

2021OecologiaRole: pollinator

article

Advanced phenology of intraguild predators shifts herbivore host plant preference and performance

2020Ecological EntomologyRole: text_match

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Early snowmelt reduces aphid abundance Aphis asclepiadis by creating water stressed host plants Ligusticum porteri and altering interactions with ants

2020Arthropod-Plant InteractionsRole: text_match

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Effects of climate change on alpine plants and their pollinators

2020Annals of the New York Academy of SciencesRole: text_match

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Pollinator visitation rate and effectiveness vary with flowering phenology

2020American Journal of BotanyRole: text_match

thesis

Adaptation and diversification of bluebells Mertensia spp., Boranginaceae

2019Role: text_match

thesis

Advanced phenology of higher trophic levels shifts aphid host plant preferences and performance

2019Role: text_match

student_paper

Does Aphis asclepiadis colony size mediate Formica rufa and Tapinoma sessile competition for mutualist aphids

2019Role: text_match

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Elevated temperatures alter an ant aphid mutualism

2019Entomologia Experimentalis et ApplicataRole: text_match

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Elevational cline in herbivore abundance driven by a monotonic increase in trophic level sensitivity to aridity

2019Journal of Animal EcologyRole: text_match

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Non-Bee Insects as Visitors and Pollinators of Crops: Biology, Ecology, and Management

2019Annual Review of EntomologyRole: text_match

student_paper

Observing pollinator trait variation in relation to niche breadth in seasons of high and low precipitation

2019Role: text_match

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Phenology as a process rather than an event: from individual reaction norms to community metrics

2019Ecological Monographs doi 10.1002/ecm.1352Role: text_match

student_paper

Pollinator Community Compositions Across Four Subalpine Plant Species

2019Role: text_match

thesis

Pollinator mediated reproductive consequences of altered co-flowering under climate change depend on abiotic context

2019Role: text_match

article

Progressive sensitivity of trophic levels to warming underlies an elevational gradient in ant–aphid mutualism strength

2019OikosRole: text_match

thesis

Snowmelt affects aphid (Aphis asclepladis) populations through soil moisture and host plant phenology

2019Role: text_match

thesis

The effects of climate change and biodiversity loss on mutualisms

2019Role: text_match

article

The function of floral orientation in bluebells: interactions with pollinators and rain in two species of Mertensia (Boraginaceae)

2019Journal of Plant EcologyRole: pollinator

student_paper

Comparing Plant-Pollinator Network Structure between Drought and Non-Drought Years

2018Role: text_match

thesis

Effects of Climate Change on Plants, Pollinators and Their Interactions

2018Role: text_match

student_paper

The Effects of Climate-Driven Changes in Co-flowering between Linum lewisii and Potentilla pulcherrima on Pollinator Services

2018Role: pollinator

article

Effects of road dust on the pollination and reproduction of wildflowers

2017International Journal of Plant SciencesRole: text_match

article

Multitrophic interactions mediate theÂ effects ofÂ climate change onÂ herbivore abundance

2017OecologiaRole: text_match

article

Phenological shifts of native and invasive species under climate change: insights from the Boechera Lythrum model

2017Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological SciencesRole: text_match

thesis

Plant-Pollinator Interactions and Environmental Change: Effects of Experimental Changes in Phenology and Water Availability on a Montane Wildflower

2017Role: text_match

article

Plant-pollinator interactions under climate change: the use of spatial and temporal transplants

2017Applications in Plant SciencesRole: text_match

student_paper

Assessing pollinatorsâ€™ contribution to the reproductive success of Mertensia ciliata

2016Role: text_match

thesis

Competitive context drives pollinator behavior: linking foraging plasticity, natural pollen deposition, and plant reproduction.

2016Role: text_match

student_paper

Effects of phenological stage and temperature on Ligusticum porteriâ€™s volatiles and trophic interactions

2016Role: text_match

student_paper

Impacts of early snow removal and frost on the reproductive success of Delphinium nuttallianum

2016Role: text_match

article

Phenological change in a spring ephemeral: implications for pollination and plant fitness

2016Global Change BiologyRole: text_match

thesis

Temporal ecology of a subalpine ecosystem: Plant communities, plant-pollinator interactions, & climate change.

2016Role: text_match

article

An altitudinal cline in UV floral pattern corresponds with a behavioral change of a generalist pollinator assemblage

2015EcologyRole: pollinator

student_paper

Effects of Bombus Pollinator Removal on Fly Foraging Behavior.

2015Role: text_match

student_paper

Effects of early snowmelt and frost on plant-pollinator interactions.

2015Role: text_match

thesis

The evolutionary ecology of ultraviolet floral pigmentation

2015Role: text_match

student_paper

Associational effects of E. speciosus and E. elatior on their pollinators and seed predators.

2014Role: text_match

student_paper

Frost Sensitivity of Subalpine Plants in the Colorado Rocky Mountains: The Effects of Seasonality, Water Content, and Phylogeny

2014Role: text_match

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Selection of trait combinations through bee and fly visitation to flowers of Polemonium foliosissimum

2014Journal of Evolutionary BiologyRole: text_match

student_paper

Genetic variation in plant functional traits as drivers in arthropod community structure

2013Role: text_match

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Maintenance of temporal synchrony between syrphid flies and floral resources despite differential phenological responses to climate

2013Global Change BiologyRole: study subject

article

Mechanisms underlying plant sexual dimorphism in multi-trophic arthropod communities

2013EcologyRole: text_match

student_paper

Effects of floral diversity and density on fly (Diptera:Bombyliidae and Syrphidae) floral foraging fidelity in subalpine meadows

2012Role: study subject

article

Influence of macronutrient imbalance on native ant foraging and interspecific interactions in the field

2012Ecological EntomologyRole: text_match

student_paper

Single-visit pollination efficacy of psithyrus insularism and megachile on chamerion augustifolium

2012Role: text_match

student_paper

Syrphid fly distributions along an elevation gradient in and around the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory (RMBL)

2012Role: study subject

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Butterflies show flower colour preferences but not constancy in foraging at four plant species

2011Ecological EntomologyRole: text_match

student_paper

Diptera behavioral response to targeted Bombus removal

2011Role: text_match

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Seasonal change in a pollinator community and the maintenance of style length variation in Mertensia fusiformis (Boraginaceae)

2011Annals of BotanyRole: text_match

student_paper

A study of correlational selection through floral manipulations of Polemonium foliosissimum (Polemoniaceae)

2010Role: text_match

thesis

Plant–Pollinator interactions in a changing climate

2010Role: text_match

student_paper

Species Interactions in Arthropod Communities: Density Dependence and Ant Interactions on Aphid Per Capita Population Growth

2010Role: text_match

student_paper

Bumblebee foraging on vertical inflorescences: optimal or not?

2009Role: text_match

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The effects of nutrient addition on floral characters and pollination in two subalpine plants, Ipomopsis aggregata and Linum lewisii

2009Plant EcologyRole: text_match

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The importance of interannual variation and bottom-up nitrogen enrichment for plant-pollinator networks

2009OikosRole: text_match

thesis

Bottom-up effects of nutrient enrichment on plants, pollinators, and their interactions

2008Role: text_match

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Pollen limitation and cleistogamy in subalpine Viola praemorsa

2008BotanyRole: text_match

student_paper

THE EFFECTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE ON THE TIMING AND ABUNDANCE OF DIPTERA IN A SUBALPINE MEADOW

2008Role: study subject

student_paper

The effect of sampling effort on species richness estimates of flower visitors

2007Role: text_match

student_paper

Hybridization and pollinator behavior in Castilleja (Orobanchaceae)

2006Role: text_match

article

Impact of insect pollinator group and floral display size on outcrossing rate

2006EvolutionRole: text_match

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Self-sterility in Ipomopsis aggregata (Polemoniaceae) is due to prezygotic ovule degeneration

2006American Journal of BotanyRole: text_match

article

Temporal and spatial variation in pollination of a montane herb: a seven-year study

2005EcologyRole: text_match

thesis

The structure of plant-pollinator interactions in montane meadow environments

2004Role: text_match

article

Environmental influences on the phenology and abundance of flowering by Androsace septentrionalis (Primulaceae)

2003American Journal of BotanyRole: text_match

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Protogyny, Pollination, and Sex Expression of AndromonoeciousPseudocymopterus montanus(Apiaceae, Apioideae)

2002International Journal of Plant SciencesRole: text_match

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Experimental manipulation of plant density and its effect on pollination and reproduction of two confamilial montane herbs

2001OecologiaRole: text_match

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Flies and flowers: taxonomic diversity of anthophiles and pollinators

2001Canadian EntomologistRole: text_match

article

North American dipteran pollinators: assessing their value and conservation status

2001Conservation EcologyRole: text_match

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Conservation of insect diversity: a habitat approach

2000Conservation BiologyRole: study subject; example family

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Pollen presentation and pollination syndromes, with special reference to Penstemon

2000Plant Species BiologyRole: text_match

chapter

Invertebrates in Freshwater Wetlands of North America: Ecology and Management

1999Role: text_match

chapter

Invertebrates in Freshwater Wetlands of North America: Ecology and Management

1999Role: text_match

article

Generalization in pollination systems, and why it matters

1996EcologyRole: text_match

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Floral mimicry by a plant pathogen

1993NatureRole: text_match

article

Anthophilous fly distribution across an elevation gradient

1992American Midland NaturalistRole: text_match

article

Resource allocation: exploring connections between foraging and life history strategies

1992Functional EcologyRole: text_match

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Pollination biology in the Snowy Mountains of Australia, with comparisons with montane Colorado, USA

1988Australian Journal of EcologyRole: text_match

article

The effect of nectar guides on pollinator preference: experimental studies with a montane herb

1985OecologiaRole: text_match

article

Competition for bumblebee pollinators in Rocky Mountain plant communities

1980EcologyRole: text_match

article

Effective mutualism between sequentially flowering plant species

1979NatureRole: text_match

article

Optimal foraging in bumblebees: rule of movement between flowers within inflorescences

1979Animal BehaviourRole: text_match

article

Patchiness in the dispersion of nectar resources: evidence for hot and cold spots

1979OecologiaRole: text_match

Syrphidae

Local Knowledge Graph (Top 74 entities)

Publications (106)

Predation of Aphids (Aphis asclepiadis) by Syrphid Flies on Osha (Ligusticum porteri)

Salticidae and Flowers: Are Alpine Jumping Spiders Accidental Pollen Vectors

Within-day Variation in Pollinator Activity on Frasera speciosa in a Mast Year

Elevated extinction risk in over one-fifth of native North American pollinators

Functional morphology of pollen capture in Syrphid flies (Diptera syrphidae): The effects of pile density and body region

Impact of Decreased Flower Attractiveness on Pollinator Visitation Rates and Pollinator Community Composition

Interpopulation variation and optimal mating in the perennial herb, Polemonium brandegeei

Plant-Pollinator Interactions between Erigeron speciosus and Heterotheca villosa in Virginia Basin

Documents (1)

An Integrated Wastewater Treatment and Reuse System to Enhance Wildlife and Other Estuarine Values

Co-occurring Species

Bombus

solitary bees

Diptera

Hymenoptera

Beetles

Delphinium

Bombyliidae

Ipomopsis aggregata

Lepidoptera

Megachilidae

Current and lagged climate affects phenology across diverse taxonomic groups

Determining pollinator behavior differences bumblebees and flies.

Host plant phenology shapes aphid abundance and interactions with ants

Hot and Cold: Assessing the Thermal Limitations of Bumble Bees in a Changing Climate

How beaver pond age affects aquatic invertebrates

Ant Behavioral Responses to Aphids Colonizing <i> Ligusticum porteri </i>

Effects of Floral Abundance, Pollinator Interactions, and Floral Morphology on Stigmatic Pollen Deposition

Life-history traits predict responses of wild bees to climate variation

Perturbations in plant-pollinator networks: Integrating theoretical and empirical approaches to understand responses to global change

Simultaneous niche expansion and contraction in plant–pollinator networks under drought

The Effect of Snowmelt Timing on Pollinator Visitation to Subalpine Wildflowers

Comparing pollen distribution on pollinators to floral community composition in the East River Valley

Experimental Test of the Combined Effects of Water Availability and Flowering Time on Pollinator Visitation and Seed Set

Open-top warming chambers reduce animal pollination of two subalpine herbs

Plant–pollinator interaction niche broadens in response to severe drought perturbations

Advanced phenology of intraguild predators shifts herbivore host plant preference and performance

Early snowmelt reduces aphid abundance <i>Aphis asclepiadis</i> by creating water stressed host plants <i>Ligusticum porteri</i> and altering interactions with ants

Effects of climate change on alpine plants and their pollinators

Pollinator visitation rate and effectiveness vary with flowering phenology

Adaptation and diversification of bluebells <i>Mertensia</i> spp., Boranginaceae

Advanced phenology of higher trophic levels shifts aphid host plant preferences and performance

Does <i>Aphis asclepiadis</i> colony size mediate <i>Formica rufa</i> and <i>Tapinoma sessile</i> competition for mutualist aphids

Elevated temperatures alter an ant aphid mutualism

Elevational cline in herbivore abundance driven by a monotonic increase in trophic level sensitivity to aridity

Non-Bee Insects as Visitors and Pollinators of Crops: Biology, Ecology, and Management

Observing pollinator trait variation in relation to niche breadth in seasons of high and low precipitation

Phenology as a process rather than an event: from individual reaction norms to community metrics

Pollinator Community Compositions Across Four Subalpine Plant Species

Pollinator mediated reproductive consequences of altered co-flowering under climate change depend on abiotic context

Progressive sensitivity of trophic levels to warming underlies an elevational gradient in ant–aphid mutualism strength

Snowmelt affects aphid (<i>Aphis asclepladis</i>) populations through soil moisture and host plant phenology

The effects of climate change and biodiversity loss on mutualisms

The function of floral orientation in bluebells: interactions with pollinators and rain in two species of <i> Mertensia </i> (Boraginaceae)

Comparing Plant-Pollinator Network Structure between Drought and Non-Drought Years

Effects of Climate Change on Plants, Pollinators and Their Interactions

The Effects of Climate-Driven Changes in Co-flowering between <i>Linum lewisii</i> and <i>Potentilla pulcherrima</i> on Pollinator Services

Effects of road dust on the pollination and reproduction of wildflowers

Multitrophic interactions mediate theÂ effects ofÂ climate change onÂ herbivore abundance

Phenological shifts of native and invasive species under climate change: insights from the <i>Boechera Lythrum</i> model

Plant-Pollinator Interactions and Environmental Change: Effects of Experimental Changes in Phenology and Water Availability on a Montane Wildflower

Plant-pollinator interactions under climate change: the use of spatial and temporal transplants

Assessing pollinatorsâ€™ contribution to the reproductive success of <i>Mertensia ciliata</i>

Competitive context drives pollinator behavior: linking foraging plasticity, natural pollen deposition, and plant reproduction.

Effects of phenological stage and temperature on <i>Ligusticum porteriâ€™s</i> volatiles and trophic interactions

Impacts of early snow removal and frost on the reproductive success of <i>Delphinium nuttallianum</i>

Phenological change in a spring ephemeral: implications for pollination and plant fitness

Temporal ecology of a subalpine ecosystem: Plant communities, plant-pollinator interactions, & climate change.

An altitudinal cline in UV floral pattern corresponds with a behavioral change of a generalist pollinator assemblage

Effects of Bombus Pollinator Removal on Fly Foraging Behavior.

Effects of early snowmelt and frost on plant-pollinator interactions.

The evolutionary ecology of ultraviolet floral pigmentation

Associational effects of E. speciosus and E. elatior on their pollinators and seed predators.

Frost Sensitivity of Subalpine Plants in the Colorado Rocky Mountains: The Effects of Seasonality, Water Content, and Phylogeny

Selection of trait combinations through bee and fly visitation to flowers of <i>Polemonium foliosissimum</i>

Genetic variation in plant functional traits as drivers in arthropod community structure

Maintenance of temporal synchrony between syrphid flies and floral resources despite differential phenological responses to climate