Black-footed drone fly
The black-footed drone fly is a hoverfly with a shiny black body and yellow bands and spots on its tummy. It is about 1 to 1.5 centimetres long. You often see it sitting on flowers.
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Fun facts
Its larvae live in water and belong to the rat-tailed kind, named after their long tail.
Hoverflies got their name because they can stay almost still in the air while flying.
Its legs are black and yellow, but its feet are almost all black, which gave it its name.
Only in the males do the two big eyes touch each other on top of the head.
Most asked questions about Black-footed drone fly
?Can the black-footed drone fly sting?
No. It may look a bit like a bee, but it has no stinger.
?What does the black-footed drone fly eat?
The adults drink nectar and eat pollen from flowers. The larvae filter food from the water.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Eristalis hirta
- Named by
- Loew, 1866
- Group
- Flies and mosquitoes
- Family
- Syrphidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Diptera > Syrphidae
- Lives on
- North America, Europe
Where the facts come from
- Eristalis hirta (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 Andrew Reding. CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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