Talk:Eupeodes corollae

Latest comment: 14 years ago by Howcheng in topic Commas

File:Hoverfly January 2008-6.jpg to appear as POTD soon

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Hello! This is a note to let the editors of this article know that File:Hoverfly January 2008-6.jpg will be appearing as picture of the day on June 27, 2010. You can view and edit the POTD blurb at Template:POTD/2010-06-27. If this article needs any attention or maintenance, it would be preferable if that could be done before its appearance on the Main Page so Wikipedia doesn't look bad. :) Thanks! howcheng {chat} 16:34, 26 June 2010 (UTC)Reply

A male Eupeodes corollae hoverfly. Male hoverflies are easily recognized by the holoptic eyes, touching at the top of the head, and males of this species have different abdomen markings than females. This species is very common in Europe, where it has been used experimentally to control the population of aphids and other scale insects.Photo: Joaquim Alves Gaspar

Commas

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The article states that males have "square commas" on the abdomen. What does this mean? I did a Google search for "comma insect anatomy" and "comma hoverfly" but was not able to turn up anything of note. Is this perhaps supposed to mean "comma-shaped markings"? howcheng {chat} 16:35, 26 June 2010 (UTC)Reply