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🐝 Ants, Bees & Wasps

Spotted-eye Hover Fly

Eristalinus taeniops

About

A large hover fly with distinctively striped compound eyes and a bee-like body. It is an excellent pollinator found throughout Africa.

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Did You Know?

Its larvae are rat-tailed maggots that breathe through a telescoping siphon while living in stagnant water.