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Eupeodes corollae is a very
common European species of hoverfly.
Adults are 6–11
millimetres (0.24–0.43 in) in body length.
Males and
females have different...
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latifolia ) tend to be white, night-opening, large, and
showy with
tubular corollae and a strong,
sweet scent produced in the evening, night, or
early morning...
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significance and
represents victory or authority. The term
corolla and/or
corollæ appears in a
chapter title in
Pliny the Elder's
Naturalis Historia: "Who...
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extensively since Charles Darwin postulated a
theory of the
origin of
elongated corollae and
corolla tubes. A
corolla of
separate petals,
without fusion of individual...
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Eupeodes corollae...
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unilocular and one-seeded.
Blown cloves are
expanded flowers from
which both
corollae and
stamens have been detached.
Exhausted cloves have most or all the oil...
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carpenter bees "rob"
nectar by
slitting the
sides of
flowers with deep
corollae.
Xylocopa virginica is one
example of a
species with such
nectar robbing...
- (Fluke, 1952)
Eupeodes (Macrosyrphus)
confrater (Wiedemann, 1830)
Eupeodes corollae (Fabricius, 1794)
Eupeodes curtus (Hine, 1922)
Eupeodes diminutus (Matsumura...
- to 2,000 ft and over long distances. Some
hover flies like
Metasyrphus corollae have been
known to
undertake long
flights in
response to
aphid po****tion...
- flowers. Like hummingbirds, it
feeds on
flowers which have tube-shaped
corollae. It
should not be
confused with the
moths called hummingbird moths in North...
