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Plant-Insect Ecosystems

Student Competition 10-Minute Paper

Grad P-IE: Biocontrol - General 2

Mechanisms of long-distance hover fly (Diptera: Syrphidae) migration

Monday, November 1, 2021
12:06 PM - 12:18 PM MT
Location: Colorado Convention Center, Meeting Room 103-105
In-Person Student Competition

    Presenting Author(s)

  • C. Scott Clem

    Postdoc
    University of Georgia
    Athens, Georgia

Understanding the seasonal behaviors of North American hover flies (Diptera: Syrphidae) is a severely understudied, yet enormously significant area of research. The adult stages of most hover fly species are important pollinators for a variety of crops while many larvae are crucial biological control agents of soft-bodied pests like aphids. In a previous study, we found at least one hover fly species, Eupeodes americanus, exhibits long distance migration from Canada to the southeastern United States. Here we expand upon these findings to investigate morphological and physiological mechanisms of migration, discovering intriguing trends which may help explain this behavior.