Yellow cereal fly
The yellow cereal fly is a small, rusty-yellow fly with reddish eyes. Its see-through wings are a little yellow and have smoky brown spots. It loves fields of grain, and that is where its babies grow up.
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Fun facts
Its larvae are called stem borers, because they live and eat inside plant stems.
The larvae can be found in early spring, and the grown-up flies are out from late May until October.
It can harm winter grain crops like wheat, barley and rye.
It has a few dark bristles on its back.
Most asked questions about Yellow cereal fly
?Is the yellow cereal fly harmful?
Not to people. But its larvae eat the stems of wheat, barley and rye, so farmers see it as a pest.
?How big is the yellow cereal fly?
It is only 3.5 to 5 millimetres long, smaller than a grain of rice.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Opomyza florum
- Group
- Flies and mosquitoes
- Family
- Opomyzidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Diptera > Opomyzidae
- Lives on
- Europe
- Also known as
- Grass fly
Where the facts come from
- Opomyza florum (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 Hectonichus. CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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