Hooded dryomyza
The hooded dryomyza is a common brown and orange fly with big red eyes. It likes damp, shady places with low plants. It helps nature clean up, because its young feed on dead little animals and old mushrooms.
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Fun facts
Males guard a small dead animal where females come to eat and lay eggs. The bigger males usually win the fights over the best spots.
Males care more about guarding a female than guarding their spot.
In the lab, scientists raised its larvae on hamburger meat and dead earthworms, but they could not grow on rotting lettuce or pumpkin.
In the lab, males lived from about one month to almost six months.
You are most likely to see it from May to September.
Most asked questions about Hooded dryomyza
?Is the hooded dryomyza dangerous?
No. It is a harmless fly that does not bite or sting.
?How big is the hooded dryomyza?
Usually about 12 millimetres long, a medium-sized fly.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Dryomyza anilis
- Group
- Flies and mosquitoes
- Family
- Dryomyzidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Diptera > Dryomyzidae
- Lives on
- North America, Europe, Asia
Where the facts come from
- Dryomyza anilis (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 TristramBrelstaff. CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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