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hoverfly
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n. Any of various fly from the family (l mul Syrphidae) that hover in the air and feed on the nectar of flowers.
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Hoverflies , sometimes called flower flies , or syrphid flies , make up the insect family Syrphidae . As their common name suggests, they are often seen hovering or nectaring at flowers ; the adults of many species feed mainly on nectar and pollen , while ...
Usage examples of hoverfly.
Is that brown worm on your rosebuds really a threat to the perfect flower you hoped to get, or is it a hoverfly larva hunting down the rose aphids alighting from the sky?
The MegaMall owned the casters, and until the MegaMall decided that discretion was unnecessary, the casters would keep their hoverflies on a tight rein.
There were mechanical eyes set to follow her, of course, mounted on hoverflies and flitterbugs-but as soon as they entered the water they were mopped up by a shoal of electronic fish.
There were beetles, gnats, hoverflies, tabanad flies, mosquitoes, wasps and bees.
Two hundred and eighteen metres, and Daniel had shot the swooping hoverfly straight through its compound eye.