#3815 · 🪰 flies & mosquitoes

Small Spotty-eyed Drone Fly

🇳🇱 Weidevlekoog ·Eristalinus sepulchralis

🪰 Flies & mosquitoes 📍 in the Netherlands

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

1. © Vladimir Bryukhov · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © Marcello Consolo · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
3. © Rob Westerduijn · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © Bart Wursten · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. Graafland, Groot-Ammers, Zuid-Holland, NL:© no rights reserved · CC0
6. Egmond-Binnen, Netherlands:© Remco Hofland · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. Graafland, Groot-Ammers, South Holland, NL:© no rights reserved · CC0
8. Amsterdam Nieuw-West, Amsterdam, Nederland:© peterschiphof · CC BY-NC 4.0
9. Aerdt, Nederland:© Benno te Linde · CC BY-NC 4.0
10. De Weere, Netherlands:© thegreatdodo · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

Eristalinus sepulchralis is a European species of hoverfly. The species are brownish-white from a close up, and look like a wasp. From a distance though, they are yellowish-black coloured, and look like a bumble bee. The species can be found throughout Europe in the Baltic states, North Europe, Central, Southern and Western Europe and across the Palaearctic to Kamchatka, Japan, China and India. Finland, Great Britain, Hungary, Ireland, Norway, and the Netherlands.

base stats

NL sightings 112iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 2,726iNaturalist 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).