(Latin: Syrphus ribesii) Hoverfly, Syrphus ribesii During the late summer of some years the house may be swarming with enormous numbers of rather attractive insects, resembling small wasps. These are hoverflies which on a sunny day can be seen hovering almost motionless in the air, and suddenly darting off so quickly that it is very difficult to follow them with the eye. Like all the true flies they have only one pair of wings, whereas the wasps…
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Rat-tailed maggots
…pupate. It can only pupate in a dry place. After pupation, the fully grown hoverfly emerges from the pupa. A hoverfly is a large fly, with a hairy body. Biology and behavior Rat-tail maggots gather in mud where they feed on microorganisms. They also eat decayed, organic material. This organic material usually decays due to unfavorable conditions, which in short means lack of oxygen or nutrients in the water. Here, the breathing tubes are especiall…
Drone fly larva
…long ‘tail’ and look somewhat like tiny grey mice. From the pupa emerges a hoverfly, but unlike those •already mentioned, this species is remarkably like a honey bee (see p. 31). Some hoverfly larvae can live in carrion and these have given rise to the very old story that bees can come forth from the rotting carcase of an ox. The myth appears to have been old in the time of the ancient Egyptians where both the bull and the bee were sacred animals,…
Index
…longhorn faeces House martin House mouse droppings House sparrow Housefly Hoverfly Human flea Hyle sinus fraxini Hvlobius abietis Hylotrupes bajulus Ichneumons lnachis io Indian meal moth lsoptera Itch mite lxodes ricinus Jackdaw Jet black ant scent Kalotermesfiavicollis Kestrel Khapra beetle Kleemannia plumigera Lacewing Larder beetle Large white butterfly Lasioderma serricorne Lasius fuliginosus Lasius niger Lepidoptera Lepinotus inquilinus Lep…