Carbonifera goldenrod gall midge
Asteromyia carbonifera
This tiny fly is a gall midge that lives on goldenrod plants. Its babies grow inside a little blister on the leaf called a gall. To make it, the mother teams up with a fungus.
Lives in
North America, on goldenrod plants
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. It does not bite or sting.
What does it eat?
Its larvae grow inside a gall that a fungus makes on goldenrod leaves.
How fast is it?
A person walking about 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
Carbonifera goldenrod gall midge 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
A female can lay up to 300 eggs at a time.
2
The mother collects tiny bits of a fungus and leaves them on the plant together with her eggs.
3
The fungus grows into the gall where the larvae live, so the fly and the fungus help each other.
you asked
Most asked questions about Carbonifera goldenrod gall midge
?What is a gall midge?
A tiny fly whose larvae live inside a gall, a little bump or blister that grows on a plant.
?Where does this gall midge live?
On goldenrod plants, where its larvae grow inside galls on the leaves.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Asteromyia carbonifera
- Group
- Flies and mosquitoes
- Family
- Cecidomyiidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Diptera > Cecidomyiidae
- Lives on
- North America
Where the facts come from
- Asteromyia carbonifera (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 Beatriz Moisset. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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