Yellow-girdled brusheye
The yellow-girdled brusheye is a hoverfly with yellow bands on its dark body, so it looks a bit like a wasp. Its eyes are covered in tiny hairs. It lives high up in the trees but flies down to visit flowers.
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Fun facts
Each of its wings is about 7 to 10 millimetres long.
It flies from April to October, and two families of brusheyes grow up in one year.
You see the most of them in late May and early June, and again in late August and early September.
Its babies are little hunters that eat other insects' babies.
Most asked questions about Yellow-girdled brusheye
?Is the yellow-girdled brusheye a wasp?
No. It is a hoverfly with wasp-like stripes, and it has no sting.
?Where can I see a yellow-girdled brusheye?
In woods, clearings and parks in Europe and Asia, often on yellow or white flowers.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Dasysyrphus tricinctus
- Group
- Flies and mosquitoes
- Family
- Syrphidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Diptera > Syrphidae
- Lives on
- Europe, Asia
Where the facts come from
- Dasysyrphus tricinctus (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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