Common Tachinid

Tachina fera

The Common Tachinid is a friendly fly that helps nature by eating pests. They have fuzzy bodies and can be found buzzing around gardens and fields.

Hábitat: Grasslands

Aspecto

The Common Tachinid has a robust, bristly body, often grey or dark with pale stripes on its thorax and a distinct reddish-orange tip on its abdomen. It possesses prominent bristles all over its body, making it look much hairier and spikier than a typical housefly.

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Common Tachinid

Categoría

Insectos

Rareza

Common

Peligro

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Datos interesantes

Many tachinid flies use a special tube called an ovipositor to lay eggs right inside their host!

Some tachinid flies can even drop their eggs on plants, hoping a host will eat them!

Their eggs are tiny, white, and often look like little grains of rice stuck on a host.

There are over 8,200 different kinds of tachinid flies all around the world!

Habilidades especiales

Common Tachinid can lay its eggs directly onto or into other insects, ensuring its young have food.

Common Tachinid has stiff bristles covering its body that might help deter predators or navigate dense foliage.

Common Tachinid has a life cycle that helps control pest populations by parasitizing caterpillars.

Medidas y detalles

Envergadura: 12-25 mm
Tamaño: 6-13 mm
Esperanza de vida: 14-30 días
Velocidad de vuelo: 15 km/h
Cantidad de patas: 6

Dieta y alimentación

Adults sip nectar, but their young are tiny insect warriors that eat other insects from the inside!

Diferencias por edad: Adults drink flower nectar, but their larvae live inside and consume caterpillars or other insect larvae.

Alimentos principales

Nectar
Caterpillars
Beetle Larvae

Conexiones ecológicas

parasitizes

Gypsy Moth

Lymantria dispar

Their larvae develop inside the moth caterpillars.

parasitizes

Cabbage White Butterfly

Pieris rapae

The fly's larvae feed on the butterfly's caterpillars.

parasitizes

Cabbage Moth

Mamestra brassicae

A known host for the tachinid larvae to grow.

eaten by

Garden Spider

Argiope aurantia

Adult flies can become prey for these orb-weaving spiders.

Rasgos

Peludo

Peludo describe a los animales que poseen una cubierta densa de pelo o pelaje suave.

Social

Los animales sociales viven en grupos organizados, cooperando para obtener beneficios de supervivencia como la búsqueda de alimento, la defensa y la cría de descendencia.