maggots. Eristalis is a large genus of around 99 species, and is subdivided into several subgenera and species groups (Eristalomyia, Eristalis, Eoseristalis...

Eristalis tenax, the common drone fly, is a common, migratory, cosmopolitan species of hover fly. It is the most widely distributed syrphid species in...

Bill Gates' flower fly (Eristalis gatesi) is a flower fly endemic to Costa Rica named after Bill Gates. Another fly found in similar habitats was named...

Northeastern North America. ISBN 9780691189406. "Eristalis transversa". GBIF. Retrieved 2019-09-23. "Eristalis transversa species Information". BugGuide.net...

commonly encountered rat-tailed maggot is the larva of the drone fly, Eristalis tenax. It lives in stagnant, oxygen-deprived water, with a high organic...

Gates, Bill Gates' flower fly (Eristalis gatesi). It is similar in appearance to Eristalis circe Williston, 1891 and Eristalis persa Williston, 1891, but...

Eristalis pertinax is a hoverfly in the family Syrphidae. It was first described by Giovanni Antonio Scopoli in 1763 and is found in Asia and Europe....

mimicry. Despite this, hoverflies are harmless to humans. Drone flies, Eristalis tenax, are an example of a species of hoverfly who exhibit Batesian mimicry...

Eristalis abusiva is a European species of hoverfly. It is similar to Eristalis arbustorum. The wings are 8-9.5 mm in length. The scutellum is shiny....

Eristalis arbustorum, the European drone fly, is an abundant Northern Hemisphere species of syrphid fly, originally officially described by Linnaeus in...