#3818 · 🪰 flies & mosquitoes
Face fly
🇳🇱 Herfstvlieg ·Musca autumnalis
🪰 Flies & mosquitoes 📍 in the Netherlands
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what is it?
Musca autumnalis , the face fly or autumn house-fly , is a pest of cattle and horses.
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 106 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 5,760 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Charles De Geer in 1776 (250 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Face fly
- Nederlands
- Herfstvlieg
- scientific name
- Musca autumnalis
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Diptera
- family
- Muscidae
- sightings in NL
- 106
- sightings in Europe
- 1,549
- sightings worldwide
- 5,760
- GBIF records in NL
- 11,979
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1776 by Charles De Geer
relatives· Muscidae
#3780 📷 10Noon Fly
🇳🇱 Schorsvlieg
Mesembrina meridiana
👀 238 in NL
#3802 📷 10Graphomya maculata
Graphomya maculata
👀 145 in NL
#3861 📷 10Small False Greenbottle
Neomyia cornicina
👀 52 in NL
#3908 📷 7Stable Fly
🇳🇱 Stalvlieg
Stomoxys calcitrans
👀 33 in NL
#3933 📷 10Common House Fly
🇳🇱 Huisvlieg
Musca domestica
👀 22 in NL
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 318496, Wikidata Q1075544, GBIF 1524801, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.