Blotch-winged hoverfly
The blotch-winged hoverfly has a yellow-green back with long reddish hairs and a black, hairy tummy with pale patches. Each wing has a brown spot on it. Like other hoverflies, it can hang still in the air like a tiny helicopter.
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Fun facts
The brown spot on each wing gave it its name.
Its wings are only about 1 centimetre long.
Its larvae eat aphids, the little bugs that suck juice from plants.
It flies from May to August, and most of all in June.
It lives from Ireland and Spain all the way to Japan, and in North America from Alaska to New York.
Most asked questions about Blotch-winged hoverfly
?Can a blotch-winged hoverfly sting?
No. Hoverflies have no stinger, so it is completely harmless.
?What does a blotch-winged hoverfly eat?
The adults visit flowers, and the larvae eat aphids.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Leucozona lucorum
- Group
- Flies and mosquitoes
- Family
- Syrphidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Diptera > Syrphidae
- Lives on
- Europe, Asia, North America
Where the facts come from
- Leucozona lucorum (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0): what it looks like, where it lives, what it eats, sizes and fun facts, retold in simple words.
- Picture by Sandy Rae. CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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