#3883 · 🪰 flies & mosquitoes

Large Meadow Fly

🇳🇱 Grote fopwesp ·Chrysotoxum cautum

🪰 Flies & mosquitoes 📍 in the Netherlands

10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

1. © Marion Metzer · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © Marcello Consolo · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
3. © Marcello Consolo · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
4. © bigayon · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. © Kostas Zontanos · CC BY 4.0
6. Netherlands:© stellamaris8 · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. Enschede-Noord, Enschede, Nederland:© Bas van Hulst-Kuiper · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. Oosterhout, Nederland:© André Nagelhout · CC BY-NC 4.0
9. 7736 PJ Beerze, Nederland:© teddydolstra · CC BY-NC 4.0
10. Echt, Nederland:© Paul G. Schrijvershof · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

what is it?

Chrysotoxum cautum is a species of hoverfly. It is found in southern Britain and Europe East into the Palearctic but is normally encountered in small numbers. The larvae are thought to feed on root aphids. Adults are usually found on the edges of woodland or scrub or along hedgerows where they visit a wide range of flowers.

base stats

NL sightings 40iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 2,757iNaturalist observations

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).