Large meadow fly
The large meadow fly is a hoverfly with a rather flat tummy. It likes sunny edges of woods, bushy places and hedges. There it buzzes from flower to flower, usually with just a few friends around.
How fast is it?
Fun facts
Like other hoverflies, it can hang almost still in the air.
Each of its wings is 10 to 13 millimetres long.
It visits many kinds of flowers, such as buttercups, wild garlic, hawthorn and brambles.
You can see it flying from May to July, or already in April in southern Europe.
It lives all the way from southern Britain to the Altai Mountains and Mongolia.
Most asked questions about Large meadow fly
?Is the large meadow fly dangerous?
No. It is a hoverfly, and hoverflies cannot sting or bite.
?When can you see the large meadow fly?
From May to July. In southern Europe it starts in April.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Chrysotoxum cautum
- Group
- Flies and mosquitoes
- Family
- Syrphidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Diptera > Syrphidae
- Lives on
- Europe, Asia
Where the facts come from
- Chrysotoxum cautum (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 Richard Bartz , Munich aka Makro Freak. CC BY-SA 2.5, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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