A. Generally speaking, old-fashioned single flowers are most attractive and nourishing to beneficial insects. Single ...

including flower-visiting groups such as: blow flies (Calliphoridae), bee flies (Bombyliidae), hover flies (Syrphidae), noseflies (Rhinidae) and march flies (Tabanidae). Blow flies often get a bad ...

But many other insects - including beetles, flies, moths and butterflies - also visit flowers to feed on nectar and pollen ... Named for their distinctive hovering flight, stripey yellow-and-black ...