Pellucid Hover Fly

Volucella pellucens

The Pellucid Hover Fly is a friendly insect that looks like a tiny bee but is harmless. It loves to fly around flowers and helps plants by spreading pollen.

Hábitat: Urban areas

Aspecto

The Pellucid Hover Fly is a large, strikingly marked fly with a glossy black body and a broad, translucent white or yellowish band across its abdomen. Its wings have a distinctive dark, smoky patch near the front, making it visually different from many other hoverflies.

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Pellucid Hover Fly

Categoría

Insectos

Rareza

Common

Peligro

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Datos interesantes

Baby Pellucid Hover Flies act as secret clean-up crews inside the nests of wasps!

Pellucid Hover Flies can fly backwards and sideways with incredible speed and control!

Their name "pellucid" means clear or see-through, referring to a bright band on their body!

These flies have huge, compound eyes that wrap around their heads for amazing vision!

Habilidades especiales

Pellucid Hover Fly can hang perfectly still in the air because of its rapid wing beats, which helps them scout for flowers or mates.

Pellucid Hover Fly has larvae that can live hidden inside wasp and bumblebee nests, helping them grow safely and secretly.

Pellucid Hover Fly has a black and white striped body that helps them look like a stinging wasp or bee to scare away predators.

Pellucid Hover Fly can drink nectar and collect pollen from many flowers, helping plants make new seeds.

Medidas y detalles

Envergadura: 24-32 mm
Tamaño: 12-16 mm
Esperanza de vida: 14-28 días
Velocidad de vuelo: 10-20 km/h
Cantidad de patas: 6

Dieta y alimentación

Adults sip sweet nectar and pollen from flowers, while larvae are messy eaters in social insect nests.

Diferencias por edad: Yes, adults feed on nectar and pollen, while larvae consume detritus and sometimes host larvae within social insect nests.

Alimentos principales

Nectar
Pollen
Nest detritus
Wasp larvae
Bumblebee larvae

Método de búsqueda

Foraging

Conexiones ecológicas

depends on

Common Wasp

Vespula vulgaris

Larvae grow in their nests.

depends on

Buff-tailed Bumblebee

Bombus terrestris

Larvae also develop in their nests.

pollinates

Hogweed

Heracleum sphondylium

Adults visit its flowers for food.

eaten by

Great Tit

Parus major

Adults can be food for birds.

Rasgos

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.

Herbívoro

Este rasgo caracteriza a los organismos cuya dieta consiste total o principalmente en material vegetal.

Imán para polinizadores

Describe plantas que son particularmente atractivas y beneficiosas para una amplia variedad de organismos polinizadores.

Diurno

Los animales diurnos están activos principalmente durante el día y suelen descansar o dormir por la noche.

Miniatura

Relativo a especies que son significativamente más pequeñas que lo típico o promedio de su tipo.

Adaptado a la ciudad

Esta característica de hábitat indica especies que pueden coexistir con los humanos en entornos urbanos y suburbanos, utilizando estructuras artificiales y espacios verdes.