Short-tailed aphideater
Eupeodes pomus
The short-tailed aphideater is a small hoverfly from North America. It loves flowers and is often seen resting on them. Its name tells you what its babies like to eat: aphids.
Lives in
North America, on flowers in gardens and meadows
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. Hoverflies cannot sting or bite you.
What does it eat?
The grown-up fly drinks sweet nectar and eats pollen from flowers. Its larvae have been seen eating aphids.
How fast is it?
A person walking about 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
A kid running fast about 13 km/h (8.1 mph)
Short-tailed aphideater about 14 km/h (8.7 mph)
A grown-up on a bike about 25 km/h (16 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
Hoverflies can stay almost perfectly still in the air while they fly.
2
Grown-up hoverflies are also called flower flies, because they spend so much time on flowers.
3
Flowers give it two kinds of food: sweet nectar for energy and pollen full of protein.
you asked
Most asked questions about Short-tailed aphideater
?Is the short-tailed aphideater dangerous?
No. It is a harmless hoverfly that cannot sting.
?What does the short-tailed aphideater eat?
The adults eat nectar and pollen from flowers. The larvae eat aphids.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Eupeodes pomus
- Group
- Flies and mosquitoes
- Family
- Syrphidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Diptera > Syrphidae
- Lives on
- North America
Where the facts come from
- Eupeodes pomus (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 no rights reserved Depicted place: Canterbury, Tuckahoe, VA 23238, USA ( 37°36′07″N 77°36′07″W / 37.6018156763°N 77.6019391883°W / 37.6018156763; -77.6019. CC0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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