Herbivory in spiders: the importance of pollen for orb-weavers. by Benjamin Eggs, Dirk Sanders

“…We found that about 25% of juvenile orb-weaving spiders' diet consisted of pollen, the other 75% of flying insects, mainly small dipterans and hymenopterans. The pollen grains in our study were too large to be taken up accidentally by the spiders and had first to be digested extraorally by enzymes in an active act of consumption. …”
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TROPHIC AND REPRODUCTIVE ECOLOGY OF A NEOTROPICAL CHARACID FISH HEMIBRYCON BREVISPINI (TELEOSTEI: CHARACIFORMES) by CRISTIAN ROMÁN-P., CÉSAR ROMÁN-VALENCIA, DONALD C. TAPHORN

“…It is mainly a diurnal insectivore with a diet dominated by benthic dipterans (Chironomidae, Simuliidae, Psychodidae, Culicidae, Calliphoridae, Dixidae and Muscidae), hymenopterans (Formicidae and Vespidae) and ephemeropterans (Baetidae), as well as allochthonous prey and items eaten accidentally. …”
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Opportunistic insects associated with pig carrions in Malaysia by Heo, Chong Chin, Hiromu Kurahashi, Mohamed Abdullah Marwi, John Jeffery, Baharudin Omar

“…In this paper, we report dipterans from the family Micropezidae: Mimegralla albimana Doleschall, 1856, Neriidae: Telostylinus lineolatus (Wiedemann 1830); Sepsidae: Allosepsis indica (Wiedemann 1824), Ulidiidae: Physiphora sp. and a beetle (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae: Sphaeridium sp.) as opportunist species feeding on oozing fluid during the decomposition process. …”
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Non-target insects captured in tephritid fruit fly (Diptera: Tephritidae) surveillance traps in South Korea: a survey-based study by Ah-Ram Son, Soo-Jung Suh, Deuk-Soo Choi

“…Herein, based on a survey, we present a list of the species of non-target insects captured in the tephritid fruit fly surveillance traps. Keywords: Dipterans, Exotic pests, Monitoring, Pheromone lure, Protein lure…”
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The biology of flowering and structure of selected elements of Cornus alba L. flowers by Agata Konarska

“…The largest group of insects visiting the flowers of C. alba comprised Hymenoptera (mainly bees and andrenids), then ants, dipterans and beetles. They foraged the dogwood flowers most intensively between 11.00 and 15.00. …”
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A High-Quality Genome Assembly from Short and Long Reads for the Non-biting Midge Chironomus riparius (Diptera) by Hanno Schmidt, Sören Lukas Hellmann, Ann-Marie Waldvogel, Barbara Feldmeyer, Thomas Hankeln, Markus Pfenninger

“…The genome assembly and associated resources will be highly valuable to the broad community working with dipterans in general and chironomids in particular. …”
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The ‘dance’ of life: visualizing metamorphosis during pupation in the blow fly Calliphora vicina by X-ray video imaging and micro-computed tomography by Martin J. R. Hall, Thomas J. Simonsen, Daniel Martín-Vega

“…For the cyclorrhaphous dipterans, such as blow flies, this structure is the puparium, formed from the larval cuticle. …”
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Aquatic Insects and their Potential to Contribute to the Diet of the Globally Expanding Human Population by D. Dudley Williams, Siân S. Williams

“…Examples of existing practices are given, ranging from the extremes of including insects (e.g., dipterans) in the dietary cores of many indigenous peoples to consumption of selected insects, by a wealthy few, as novelty food (e.g., caddisflies). …”
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Genome-wide acceleration of protein evolution in flies (Diptera) by Tautz Diethard, Savard Joël, Lercher Martin J

“…We therefore suggest that <it>Tribolium </it>is better suited for comparisons between phyla than the widely employed dipterans.</p>…”
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Vertical stratification of selected Hymenoptera in a remnant forest of the Po Plain (Italy, Lombardy) (Hymenoptera: Ampulicidae, Crabronidae, Sphecidae) by Filippo Di Giovanni, Maurizio Mei, Pierfilippo Cerretti

“…Our study reveals that the bulk of the community of Spheciformes of the understory consists of species predating dipterans and spiders, while species associated with the canopy are mainly predators of sap-sucking honeydew producers and epiphyte grazers, like aphids, thrips, and barkflies. …”
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Male mating biology by Howell Paul I, Knols Bart GJ

“…The study of male mating biology in other dipterans has improved the success of operational SIT programmes. …”
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Entomopathogenic fungi for mosquito control: A review by Ernst-Jan Scholte, Bart G.J. Knols, Robert A. Samson, Willem Takken

“…Virtually all insect orders are susceptible to fungal diseases, including Dipterans. Fungal pathogens such as Lagenidium, Coelomomyces and Culicinomyces are known to affect mosquito populations, and have been studied extensively. …”
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Sarracenia carnivorous plants cannot serve as efficient biological control of the invasive hornet Vespa velutina nigrithorax in Europe by Marie-Anne Wycke, Romaric Perrocheau, Eric Darrouzet

“…Our results show that these plants trapped more dipterans than other taxa, and they do not attract many hornets. …”
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EFFECT OF INSECTICIDES ON PREDATORS AND PARASITOIDS OF SOYBEAN PESTS by DÉCIO LUIZ GAZZONI, IVAN CARLOS, MAURÍCIO MIGUEL

“…The determination index of parasitoid versus total dipteranspopulation was r2=0.99, meaning that the insecticide effect over the total dipterans and the population of parasitoidsof this orders was the same. …”
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Zoobenthos of the Kem’ river, White sea drainage basin (composition, abundance and trophic structure) by Igor Baryshev

“…Zoobenthos of the rapids was more diverse, the bulk of it made up of amphibiotic insects at the larval stage – mayflies<br />of the family Baetidae (Ephemeroptera), caddisflies of the families Hydropsychidae and Rhyacophilidae, stoneflies (Plecoptera), dipterans of the subfamily Orthocladiinae. The backwaters are poorer in species diversity, the species of chironomids of the subfamily Chironominii predominate. …”
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Regulatory Mechanisms of Vitellogenesis in Insects by Zhongxia Wu, Libin Yang, Qiongjie He, Shutang Zhou

“…JH acts as the principal gonadotropic hormone to stimulate vitellogenesis in basal hemimetabolous and most holometabolous insects. 20E is critical for vitellogenesis in some hymenopterans, lepidopterans and dipterans. Furthermore, microRNA (miRNA) and nutritional (amino acid/Target of Rapamycin and insulin) pathways interplay with JH and 20E signaling cascades to control insect vitellogenesis. …”
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Stylogaster eggs on blow flies attracted to millipede defence secretions in Tanzania, with a stab at summarising their biology (Diptera: Conopidae &amp;amp; Calliphoridae) by Arn Jensen, Freja Odgaard, Pierfilippo Cerretti, Thomas Pape

“…The lifecycle of Stylogaster is summarised and discussed with a particular focus on dipteran egg-carriers.…”
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Status of and future research on thermosensory processing by Makoto eMizunami, Hiroshi eNishino, Fumio eYokohari

“…In contrast, the antennae of fruit flies and other dipterans possess oppositely responding warm and cold receptor neurons. …”
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Pest consumption in a vineyard system by the lesser horseshoe bat (Rhinolophus hipposideros). by Unai Baroja, Inazio Garin, Joxerra Aihartza, Aitor Arrizabalaga-Escudero, Nerea Vallejo, Miren Aldasoro, Urtzi Goiti

“…Overall, 395 arthropod prey species belonging to 11 orders were detected; lepidopterans and dipterans were the most diverse orders in terms of species. …”
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Comparative dietary analysis of Eurycheilichthys pantherinus and Pareiorhaphis hystrix: two Loricariidae species (Ostariophysi, Siluriformes) from Campos Sulinos biome, southern Br... by Tatiana S Dias, Clarice B Fialho

“…Eurycheilichthys pantherinus fed mainly on immature aquatic insects, such as Dipterans and Ephemeropterans, and was classified as insectivore. …”
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