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Not just bees and butterflies: Beetles and other brilliant bugs are nature's unsung pollinators
stripey yellow-and-black hover flies (Syrphidae) are often mistaken for bees. Hover flies are potential pollinators of ...
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A syrphid fly, also known as a hover fly, hovers over a flower. Syrphid fly larvae eat aphids and mealybugs, and the adults are pollinators. Photo by Jack Kelly Clark, courtesy UC ANR.