Male	Female
Couple

Length: 5-12mm;
Wingspan: 15-18mm

Egg	Larva	Pupa	Adult
September	September - June	?	All Year (Earliest: 24.2)

Biotopes:	Meadows	Spruce Forest Edge	Buildings
Food: (Larva)	Lumbricidae
Food: (Adult)	Dung	Dead Mammalia, Aves Juices	Several Asteraceae Nectar, Pollen	Chaerophyllum temulum Nectar, Pollen
	Heracleum sphondylium Nectar, Pollen	Galanthus nivalis Nectar, Pollen	Stellaria graminea Nectar, Pollen	Epilobium angustifolium Nectar, Pollen
	Galium mollugo Nectar, Pollen	Myosotis arvensis Nectar, Pollen	Salix caprea Nectar
Predators:	Mellinus arvensis	Oxybelus uniglumis

Nature Spot: Awkward Clusterfly - Pollenia rudis
The Piedpiper: Pollenia rudis (Cluster Fly)
Insektenbox: Pollenia rudis

Pictures © 2003, 2005, 2007, 2012 J.K. Lindsey

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