Nature of the hoverfly and butterfly - David Attenborough - BBC wildlife
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Uploaded by BBCWorldwide on Feb 9, 2007
David Attenborough examines how the hoverfly interacts with its environment. From the BBC.
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Funny looking guy. Beautiful flowers. Great video!
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i want to know this name of hoverfly like stevemchope
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what? Does conspecific coevolution scare you? Or is it non-harmful, non-bothersome insects that can pollinate rare, beautiful flowers?
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Hello David Attenborough or BBC host.
This is a very interesting clip.
But can you tell me the name (scientific name or at least the genus)
of this extraordinary "hoverfly".
From the distance I somehow doubt, that this is really a member of the family
"Syrphidae". It seems to be a "hovering fly", thats true, but all the member of Syrphidae, does have a total different mouthpiece - and a lot of families of Insects
or classified also by the way their mouthparts are arranged.
All the bes
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irises and hoverflies sitting in a tree
K-I-S-S-I-N-G
well... you know what i mean!!!
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Gene Simmons fly.
1 year ago 2
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that little dudes burnin some serious energy off
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this is outrageous. i can't believe a flower and an insect were created like this for each other!
By the way Bwakkie, this is in fact a hover fly. Bee flies are very, very small and they look like bees.
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@ Joyananda: such things happen quite often in nature. It is called co-evolution and takes a long time to develop.
mfwg74 2 years ago 8
There are countless examples of this phenomenon in nature. All you need to do is look! (on nature programs)
RGMorgan 2 years ago 3