#3777 · 🪰 flies & mosquitoes

Pellucid Hover Fly

🇳🇱 Ivoorzweefvlieg ·Volucella pellucens

🪰 Flies & mosquitoes 📍 in the Netherlands

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what is it?

Volucella pellucens (also called the Pellucid Fly ) is a hoverfly. It occurs in much of Europe, and across the Palearctic to Japan.

base stats

NL sightings 269iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 20,817iNaturalist 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 269 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: the #26 most seen of the flies & mosquitoes in NL.
20,817 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named in 1758 (268 years ago).