#3764 · 🪰 flies & mosquitoes

Orange-spined Drone Fly

🇳🇱 Puntbijvlieg ·Eristalis nemorum

🪰 Flies & mosquitoes 📍 in the Netherlands

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

1. © Denis Doucet · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © Steven Mlodinow · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © Stuart Tingley · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. Beek-Ubbergen, Netherlands:© Lars Willighagen · CC BY 4.0
5. Veldhoven, Nederland:© dgcurrywheel · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. Ubbergen, Netherlands:© Lars Willighagen · CC BY 4.0
7. Leens, Borg Verhildersum, 9965 TH Leens, Nederland:© Paul G. Schrijvershof · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
8. The Loonse en Drunense Duinen National Park, Udenhout, North Brabant, NL:© no rights reserved · CC0
9. 1093 ED Amsterdam, Nederland:© Marleen Schouten · CC BY-NC 4.0
10. Theo Mann-Bouwmeesterlaan, The Hague, South Holland, NL:© Laurel J. Ramseyer · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

Eristalis nemorum is a species of hoverfly. It is found in the Palearctic (Fennoscandia South to Iberia, the Balkans and Italy, Ireland eastwards through Central Europe into Turkey and Russia and on into the Russian Far East, Siberia and Japan) and in the Nearctic (Quebec south to Colorado).

base stats

NL sightings 519iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 8,359iNaturalist 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).

fun facts

Spotted 519 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: the #13 most seen of the flies & mosquitoes in NL.
8,359 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named in 1758 (268 years ago).