#3881 · 🪰 flies & mosquitoes
Spotted-winged Drosophila
🇳🇱 Suzuki-fruitvlieg ·Drosophila suzukii
📍 Groesbeek, Nederland
📍 Groesbeek, Nederland
📍 Groesbeek, Nederland
📍 Gelderland, NL
📍 Groesbeek, Nederland
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Andrea Peterlongo · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © carnifex · CC BY 4.0
- 3. © Scott Gilmore · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. © Hans Holbrook · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 5. © solomon v. hendrix · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 6. Groesbeek, Nederland:© Herman Berteler · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. Groesbeek, Nederland:© Herman Berteler · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. Groesbeek, Nederland:© Herman Berteler · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. Gelderland, NL:© invasive_nerd · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. Groesbeek, Nederland:© Herman Berteler · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
Drosophila suzukii , commonly called the spotted wing drosophila , is a vinegar fly—closely related to Drosophila melanogaster (the common vinegar fly). D. suzukii , originally from southeast Asia, is becoming a major pest species in America and Europe, because it infests fruit early during the ripening stage, in contrast with other Drosophila species that infest only rotting fruit.
base stats
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).
fun facts
- Spotted 41 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 3,031 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Shōnen Matsumura in 1931 (95 years ago).
- Not originally Dutch: it was introduced to the Netherlands.
fact sheet
- English
- Spotted-winged Drosophila
- Nederlands
- Suzuki-fruitvlieg
- scientific name
- Drosophila suzukii
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Diptera
- family
- Drosophilidae
- in NL
- introduced
- sightings in NL
- 41
- sightings in Europe
- 988
- sightings worldwide
- 3,031
- GBIF records in NL
- 580
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1931 by Shōnen Matsumura
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 311582, Wikidata Q1336450, GBIF 5073820, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.