




Eristalis stipator
The Yellow-shouldered Drone Fly is a friendly insect that looks a bit like a bee! It helps flowers grow by spreading pollen while it visits them for food.
生息地: Urban areas
The Yellow-shouldered Drone Fly is a fuzzy, medium-sized insect with a bee-like appearance, sporting distinctive yellow patches on the sides of its black-haired thorax, resembling 'shoulders'. Its abdomen is banded with alternating yellow and black stripes, and it has large, reddish-brown eyes that nearly meet on top of its head, characteristic of many hoverflies.





カテゴリ
昆虫レア度
Common
危険度
1/5 · 非常に低い
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Even though it looks like a bee, this clever fly only has two wings, while real bees have four!
Its babies, called 'rat-tailed maggots,' can live in very murky, polluted water using their long snorkel tail!
Scientists use drone flies to study how real bees pollinate plants because they visit similar flowers.
Their giant eyes let them see almost every direction at once, making them incredibly difficult to sneak up on!
Yellow-shouldered Drone Flies have a black and yellow fuzzy body that helps them mimic bees or wasps, scaring away predators.
Yellow-shouldered Drone Flies can hover perfectly still in the air and change direction instantly, making them hard to catch.
Yellow-shouldered Drone Fly larvae have a long, retractable 'tail' that helps them breathe air while underwater.
Adults sip sweet nectar and pollen from flowers, while their larvae munch on decaying stuff in water.
年齢による違い: Larvae filter-feed on decaying organic matter in water, while adults feed on nectar and pollen from flowers.
Daucus carota
Adult flies visit and pollinate its flowers.
Rudbeckia hirta
Flies collect nectar and pollen from its blooms.
Cyanocitta cristata
Adult flies can be prey for insectivorous birds.
Misumena vatia
Spiders ambush flies visiting flowers.
柔らかい体毛や毛皮が密集して体を覆っている動物の特徴を表します。
社会性動物は組織的な群れで生活し、採餌、防衛、子育てなど、生存に有利になるよう協力し合います。
空中性の生き物は、生涯の大部分を空中で過ごし、狩りや渡り、巣作りなど様々な活動を飛びながら行います。
カラフルとは、生物や物体が明るくはっきりとした多様な色合いを見せることを指します。
多種多様な花粉媒介者(ポリネーター)にとって特に魅力的で有益な植物を表します。
食事のすべて、または大部分が植物で構成されている生物が持つ特徴です。
昼行性の動物は主に日中に活動し、通常は夜間に休息や睡眠をとります。
この生息地の特性は、人工の建造物や緑地を利用し、都市や郊外の環境で人間と共存できる種であることを示しています。
花粉を運び、植物の受粉と繁殖を助ける生物のことを指します。
まだ別名はありません。
危険度
1/5 · 非常に低い
Don't touch insects without asking an adult, but you can watch them from a distance!
18-28 mm
10-15 mm
20-45 日
15 km/h
Adults sip sweet nectar and pollen from flowers, while their larvae munch on decaying stuff in water.
Urban areas
Foraging
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