Small yellow-legged robber fly
Dioctria linearis
The small yellow-legged robber fly is a slim fly from Europe and Asia. Robber flies are hunters of the insect world. They grab other insects with their legs and eat them.
Lives in
Europe and Asia
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless to people. It is a small fly that hunts insects.
What does it eat?
It catches other small insects.
How fast is it?
A person walking about 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
Small yellow-legged robber fly about 8 km/h (5 mph)
A kid running fast about 13 km/h (8.1 mph)
A grown-up on a bike about 25 km/h (16 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
It is active in the daytime and rests at night.
2
It is very hard to tell apart from its close cousins. Experts use special books with drawings to tell which one it is.
3
Like all flies, it has only two wings, not four.
you asked
Most asked questions about Small yellow-legged robber fly
?Is the small yellow-legged robber fly dangerous?
No. It is a small hunting fly and not dangerous to people.
?What does a robber fly eat?
Other insects, which it catches with its legs.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Dioctria linearis
- Group
- Flies and mosquitoes
- Family
- Asilidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Diptera > Asilidae
- Lives on
- Europe, Asia
Where the facts come from
- Dioctria linearis (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 This image is created by user B. Schoenmakers at Waarneming.nl , a source of nature observations in the Netherlands.. CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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