Orange-striped stonefly
The orange-striped stonefly is an insect that lives only in Great Britain. Its young grow up underwater, hiding between the stones of rivers and streams. The grown-ups live near the river banks.
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Fun facts
The males have very short wings. Scientists think this may help them in windy places, where flying could blow them away.
The females have full-sized wings.
Its young, called nymphs, live between stones in rivers and like water with lots of oxygen in it.
It spends the winter as a nymph. The grown-ups come out from March to June, and most of them in May.
It once lived in Ireland too, but nobody has found it there for many years, so it is thought to be gone from Ireland.
Most asked questions about Orange-striped stonefly
?Where does the orange-striped stonefly live?
Only in Great Britain, in rivers and streams. Its young live under water between the stones.
?What does the orange-striped stonefly eat?
The grown-ups eat bits of plants and hunt small water animals.
?Can the orange-striped stonefly fly?
The females can, but the males have very short wings.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Perlodes mortoni
- Group
- Other insects
- Family
- Perlodidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Plecoptera > Perlodidae
- Lives on
- Europe
Where the facts come from
- Perlodes mortoni (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 (c) Chris walker, some rights reserved (CC BY). CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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