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Eurasian Smoothwing

Scaeva pyrastri

10,824 observations in the source records

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What the records say

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in Alaska.January 1,469, February 1,085, March 1,700, April 2,674, May 3,855, June 4,204, July 4,499, August 3,869, September 2,840, October 2,120, November 1,159, December 905.
United States30,681
Alaska30,378
United Kingdom1,572
England1,344
Germany981
France742
Denmark438
Spain348
Austria324
Italy302

Counts show where people looked, not only where it lives.

Traits

Physical

  • ExoskeletonHas a hard external skeletonFrom its classification

Group and habits

  • Animal pollinatorDescends from an animal lineage whose members commonly pollinate flowers.Inferred from its group

Classification

KingdomAnimals · Animalia
PhylumArthropods · Arthropoda
ClassInsects · Insecta
OrderFlies · Diptera
FamilyHover Flies · Syrphidae
GenusScaeva

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