Field Guide to the Flower Flies of Northeastern North America

Description

A groundbreaking guide to flower flies in North America This is the first comprehensive field guide to the flower flies (also known as hover flies) of northeastern North America. Flower flies are, along with bees, our most important pollinators. Found in a varied range of habitats, from backyard gardens to aquatic ecosystems, these flies are of

Jeffrey H. Skevington is a research scientist and Michelle M. Locke is a collection management technician with Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada at the Canadian National Collection of Insects, Arachnids, and Nematodes (CNC). Andrew D. Young is a postdoctoral fellow with the California Department of Food and Agriculture at the California State Collection of Arthropods. Kevin Moran is a doctoral candidate at Carleton University. William J. Crins is retired and spent much of his career working with the parks and protected areas program of the Ministry of Natural Resources in Ontario. Stephen A. Marshall is professor of entomology at the University of Guelph.

"Winner of the National Outdoor Book Award in Nature Guidebooks" "This is a beautiful book, big enough to include multiple photographs of all the known, and until recently, a few unknown flower flies, yet small enough to be carried into the field in a largish pocket or small satchel."---Randy Lauff, The Canadian Field-Naturalist "This is an excellent work resulting from considerable effort on the part of all the authors, supported by the contributions of numerous photographers. As the first popular treatment of any family of North American Diptera, it has set a remarkably high standard to follow. It should encourage interest there in Syrphidae and in Diptera in general."---Peter Chandler, Entomologist's Gazette "This book should certainly increase popular interest in these most beautiful and biologically significant flies in the study area covered, and hopefully even further afield. . . . The book promises to be very useful for specialists as well as general naturalists, especially for those involved in education and conservation."---Andrew Wakeham-Dawson, Entomologist's Monthly Magazine