Dusky-winged hover fly
Ocyptamus fuscipennis
The dusky-winged hover fly is a hoverfly that lives all over North America and in Cuba. Like other hoverflies, it can hang still in the air. Its larvae are little hunters that eat aphids.
Lives in
North America and Cuba
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. Hoverflies cannot sting.
What does it eat?
Adults visit flowers. The larvae hunt aphids, including the brown citrus aphid.
How fast is it?
A person walking about 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
A kid running fast about 13 km/h (8.1 mph)
Dusky-winged hover fly about 14 km/h (8.7 mph)
A grown-up on a bike about 25 km/h (16 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
In Puerto Rico its larvae eat aphids that harm orange and lemon trees.
2
Adults have been seen visiting the yellow flowers of a rare plant called Tennessee yellow-eyed grass.
3
It lives across North America and also on the island of Cuba.
you asked
Most asked questions about Dusky-winged hover fly
?Can the dusky-winged hover fly sting?
No. Hoverflies cannot sting at all.
?What does the dusky-winged hover fly eat?
Adults visit flowers, and the larvae eat aphids.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Ocyptamus fuscipennis
- Group
- Flies and mosquitoes
- Family
- Syrphidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Diptera > Syrphidae
- Lives on
- North America
Where the facts come from
- Ocyptamus fuscipennis (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 skitterbug. CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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