Definition of "hoverflies" [hoverflies]

• Plural form of hoverfly. (noun)

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• "Three quarters of butterfly species were declining, while there was little "robust science" on what was happening to other insect pollinators such as hoverflies, the researchers said."
• "Several hours later I called back at the same spot and found them – the droning flowers, the endless bees, the hoverflies and grass snakes – all still in their places."
• "The bushes near Carleton Beck exuded the deep sonorous zoom sound of queen red-tailed and buff-tailed bumblebees, and all around the lee side of the thicket were the hoverflies known technically as Eristalis intricarius."