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  • Common Snout
  • Gemeine Schnauzenschwebfliege, Feld-Schnabelschwebfliege
  • Laidunnokkanen
  • toryjka łąkowa
  • Ängsnäbbfluga

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhingia_campestris Rhingia campestris is the main pollinator for many plant species and due to its long snout it can forage on tubulous flowers. Larvae are associated with cow dung. Adults males feed on nectar, while adult females feed on protein rich pollen, reflecting the cost of developing eggs.

One of our commonest and most distinctive hoverflies. With its long snout, it can only be confused with R. rostrata which has a greyer thorax and an abdomen lacking the dark median stripe and lateral margins of campestris.

The larval habitat is very unusual for a hoverfly - cow pats and possibly other forms of dung. Adults are very mobile and will turn up in a range of habitats, often some distance from obvious breeding sites, and can be particularly abundant along sheltered woodland rides visiting flowers such as Bluebell, Bugle and Ground-ivy, which their long mouth-parts can penetrate. Adults are occasionally observed hovering at a height of 1-2 metres. The flight period typically extends from mid spring until early autumn.

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