Yellow-spotted macrophya
The yellow-spotted macrophya is a sawfly, a cousin of wasps and bees. The female is black with bright yellow spots and bands, while the male is almost all black. You can often find it on flowers at the edge of a forest in early summer.
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Fun facts
Its larvae are very fussy eaters. They only munch the leaves of blackberry and raspberry bushes.
It especially likes the white flowers of hogweed.
The male's back legs are mostly black with white tips, while his other legs are pale yellow.
You can meet it from low land all the way up into the mountains.
Grown-ups are out mostly from May to July.
Most asked questions about Yellow-spotted macrophya
?What does the yellow-spotted macrophya eat?
Grown-ups drink nectar and eat pollen, honeydew and small insects. The larvae eat blackberry and raspberry leaves.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Macrophya montana
- Group
- Wasps and hornets
- Family
- Tenthredinidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Hymenoptera > Tenthredinidae
- Lives on
- Europe, Africa, Asia
Where the facts come from
- Macrophya montana (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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