The Flight Heights of Chalcid Wasps (Hymenoptera, Chalcidoidea) in a Lowland Bornean Rain Forest: Fig Wasps are the High Fliers 1

By S. Compton, M. Ellwood, Andrew J. Davis, K. Welch. 2000

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A ‘Goldilocks’ hypothesis for dispersal of biological control agents (2011, background): “As mean wind directions were northeasterly, these data are consistent with windaided movement of females above the flight boundary layer (a common mode of emigration for small insects such as whiteflies, aphids and fig wasps; Taylor 1965; Byrne et al. 1988; Compton et al. 2000).”
Use of stable carbon and nitrogen isotopes in insect trophic ecology (2015, background): “Many insect groups are known to vertically segregate from the forest floor to the canopy (e.g. fig wasps, Chalcidoidea) (Compton et al. 2000).”
Dispersal of fig pollinators in Asian tropical rain forests (2006, background): “A similar pattern was also recorded in a separate study at Danum Valley, northeast Borneo (> 400 km from Lambir) (Compton et al. 2000, 2005), suggesting it is a general phenomenon.”