Paul Reeves Photography: Rat-tail Maggot Fly (Genus Anasimyia)

NATURE - Arthropods - Hoverflies

Rat-tail Maggot Fly (Genus Anasimyia)

Taylor Creek Park, Toronto, ON.

July 27th, 2020. (5441)

American Hoverfly  | Bare-eyed Mimic Fly  | Black-shouldered Drone Fly  | Broad-banded Hornet Fly  | Common Drone Fly
Common Thick-legged Fly  | Eastern Band-winged Hoverfly  | Eastern Calligrapher  | Eastern Catkin Fly
Emarginate Smoothtail  | European Drone Fly  | Four-lined Hornet Fly  | Globetail Hoverfly  | Hairy-eyed Mimic Fly
Hornhand Sedgesitter  | Long-nosed Swamp Fly  | Many-tufted Sedgesitter  | Margined Calligrapher  | Narcissus Bulb Fly
Narrow-headed Marsh Fly  | Oblique Stripetail  | Rat-tail Maggot Fly  | Sedgesitter  | Shiny Bog Fly  | Short-haired Leafwalker
Small Black Drone Fly  | Thick-legged Hoverfly  | Transverse-banded Flower Fly  | Tufted Globetail
Wasp-like Falsehorn  | Yellow-haired Falsehorn  | Yellow-legged Flower Fly

There is no common English name for this genus of hoverflies, but the tribe the genus
belongs to—Eristalini—are known as Rat-tail Maggot Flies.

Rat-tail Maggot Fly

Rat-tail Maggot Fly