Double-banded plushback
The double-banded plushback is a hoverfly from America with a black and yellow body. Its face is hidden under thick, snow-white hair. You can often spot it sitting on flowers.
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Fun facts
Hoverflies got their name because they can hang almost perfectly still in the air while flying.
It is also called a flower fly, because it spends so much time on flowers.
Its babies grow up in water. They are rat-tailed larvae, with a long tube at the back that works like a snorkel.
Its back legs have thick, swollen thighs.
Most asked questions about Double-banded plushback
?Can a double-banded plushback sting?
No. It is a fly and has no sting, even though its colours look a bit like a wasp.
?What does a double-banded plushback eat?
The grown-ups drink nectar and eat pollen from flowers. The babies live in water and filter food out of it.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Palpada agrorum
- Named by
- Fabricius, 1787
- Group
- Flies and mosquitoes
- Family
- Syrphidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Diptera > Syrphidae
- Lives on
- North America, South America
Where the facts come from
- Palpada agrorum (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 Judy Gallagher. CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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