#3796 · 🪰 flies & mosquitoes

Heineken Fly

🇳🇱 Gewone snuitvlieg ·Rhingia campestris

🪰 Flies & mosquitoes 📍 in the Netherlands

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

1. © S. Rae · CC BY 4.0
2. © Mike Kerry · CC BY 4.0
3. © Mickaël Villemagne · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. 8421 Oldeberkoop, Nederland:© wleurs · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. Diemer Vijfhoek, Diemen, North Holland, NL:© Healthy Yards · CC BY 4.0
6. 6255 Noorbeek, Netherlands:© Tia l'Amie · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. Vijlen, Netherlands:© Tia l'Amie · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. 7274 Geesteren, Nederland:© Bas van Hulst-Kuiper · CC BY-NC 4.0
9. Oldenzaal, Netherlands:© djhiker · CC BY-NC 4.0
10. Groesbeek, Nederland:© Herman Berteler · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

7 in). It is common across the Palearctic from March until November. It has a broad orange abdomen with a black line along the sides (the black line is absent along the sides of Rhingia rostrata ), and has the distinctive long snout of all Rhingia species. Rhingia campestris is the main pollinator for many plant species and due to its long...

base stats

NL sightings 165iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 4,782iNaturalist 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 165 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: the #45 most seen of the flies & mosquitoes in NL.
4,782 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by Johann Wilhelm Meigen in 1822 (204 years ago).