Common lagoon fly
The common lagoon fly is a shiny hoverfly with funny spotted eyes, covered in little black dots. Like other hoverflies, it can hang almost still in the air. It loves visiting yellow and white flowers.
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Fun facts
Its larvae can live in rock pools on the seashore full of rotting seaweed.
It zooms very fast and low over the plants.
Each wing is about 6.5 to 9 millimetres long.
In the male, the two big eyes touch each other on top of the head.
It spends the winter as a grown-up fly and flies from April to October.
Most asked questions about Common lagoon fly
?Is the common lagoon fly dangerous?
No. It is a hoverfly and cannot bite or sting.
?Where does the common lagoon fly live?
Almost all over the world, near lagoons, ponds, slow rivers, ditches and seashores.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Eristalinus aeneus
- Named by
- Scopoli, 1763
- Group
- Flies and mosquitoes
- Family
- Syrphidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Diptera > Syrphidae
- Lives on
- Europe, Asia, Africa, North America, South America, Australia and Oceania
Where the facts come from
- Eristalinus aeneus (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. CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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