Small grass fly
The small grass fly is a tiny fly, only 2 to 5 millimetres long. Its wings end in sharp points, like little spears. You can find it on damp lawns and in ditches.
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Fun facts
It comes in two colours: light tan or black.
Males are very rarely seen. The mothers can have babies all by themselves, without a father.
It belongs to a family called spear-winged flies, because of the pointed tips of their wings.
It lives in the northern parts of the world: Europe, Asia and North America.
Most asked questions about Small grass fly
?How big is the small grass fly?
Only about 2 to 5 millimetres long, smaller than a grain of rice.
?Where does the small grass fly live?
In Europe, Asia and North America, usually on damp lawns and in ditches.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Lonchoptera bifurcata
- Group
- Flies and mosquitoes
- Family
- Lonchopteridae
- Classification
- Insecta > Diptera > Lonchopteridae
- Lives on
- Europe, Asia, North America
Where the facts come from
- Lonchoptera bifurcata (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 Sanja565658. CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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