Small yellow sally
The small yellow sally is a little stonefly that grows up in streams and small rivers. Its young live underwater and hunt other tiny animals. The grown-ups have wings and nibble pollen.
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Fun facts
It has one new family each year, so it grows from egg to grown-up in a single year.
Its young are yellowish to light brown, covered in bristles, with dark spots on the head.
Its young breathe underwater without the feathery gills that many other water bugs have.
Females are a bit bigger than males, with wings that spread up to 17.5 millimetres.
Most asked questions about Small yellow sally
?What does the small yellow sally eat?
The grown-ups eat pollen, while the young hunt tiny animals in the water.
?Where does the small yellow sally live?
Near streams and small rivers in most of Europe and in North America.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Siphonoperla torrentium
- Named by
- Pictet, 1841
- Group
- Other insects
- Family
- Chloroperlidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Plecoptera > Chloroperlidae
- Lives on
- Europe, North America
Where the facts come from
- Siphonoperla torrentium (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 Hectonichus. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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