Adults of some Dolichopodinae have elongate mouthparts and are known to be anthophilous and feed on nectar. |
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At least seventy-one families of Diptera contain anthophilous species, and flies are pollinators of more than eleven hundred species. |
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This foraging profile overlapped with those of all anthophilous insect families, all bee subgenera, and all species of nectarivorous birds that were encountered. |
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We argue that blaming low fruit set on the performance of a discrete lineage of anthophilous insects as poor pollinia vectors must be approached with caution for two reasons. |
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