The process where flowering plants are fertilised by the transfer of male pollen to the female stigma by animals, air or water currents. Diptera are very significant pollinators, often more so than Hymenoptera, but they are often named, only to family, incorrectly, or not at all.
Link:Flower visitors Guide: Some of the most common insects found on flowers in Montgomery and Bucks Counties, Pennsylvania, U.S.A. is a very attractive "Hometown" site with a section on pollination
http://hometown.aol.com/flowervisitors/index.html
For those specialists not active on Facebook, I just ask to consider to join our group on FB. Please, be aware that it is not necessary at all to be active on FB outside the diptera group. Actually, n
We received requests to get permission to ask for ID in our Facebook group, https://www.facebo ok.com/groups/1798 95332035235/
Until now we pointed to diptera.info, but since Paul's passing we not
Appreciate it, Tony Irwin! I got the hint to use the key next to Langton and Pinder key for females of Chironomidae. So no specific queries, except the keys...
I will keep this on my list and hope th
Anyone has "Chironomidae of the Holarctic region. Keys and diagnoses. Part 3. Adult Males Entomologica Scandinavica Supplement 34"?
smolwaarneming@gma il.com
http://hometown.aol.com/flowervisitors/index.html