“Saxifraga umbrosa” adorned with Brilliant Colours by the Selection of Syrphidæ

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Jul 1880

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Nature, Volume 22, Issue 558, pp. 219 (1880).

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AMONG Diptera the most assiduous visitors of flowers are certain Syrphidæ, which, elegantly coloured themselves, are fond of splendid flower-colours, and, before eating pollen or sucking nectar, like to stop a while, hovering free in the air, in front of their favourites, apparently fascinated, or at least delighted, by the brilliancy of their colours. Thus I repeatedly observed Syrphus balteatus hovering before the flowers of Verbascum nigruim often Melanostoma mellina, and Ascia podagrica before Veronica chamœdrys in the Alps the lank Sphegina clunipes before Saxifraga rotundifolia, and in my garden Ascia podagrica before Saxifraga umbrosa.

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