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title: "Yellow-shouldered Drone Fly"
description: "Eristalis stipator — Owady i pająki. Eristalis stipator, the yellow-shouldered drone fly, is a species of hoverfly native to North America."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/pl/animal/yellow-shouldered-drone-fly
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Yellow-shouldered Drone Fly

> Eristalis stipator — Owady i pająki. Eristalis stipator, the yellow-shouldered drone fly, is a species of hoverfly native to North America.

- Scientific name: *Eristalis stipator*
- Category: `insects` (Owady i pająki)
- Habitats: unknown
- iNaturalist observations: 8894
- Wikidata: [Q13612717](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q13612717)
- iNaturalist taxon: [425250](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/425250)

## Names

- en: Yellow-shouldered Drone Fly

## Countries with the most observations

US (7769), CA (429), MX (125)

## Summary

Eristalis stipator, the yellow-shouldered drone fly, is a species of hoverfly native to North America. It is abundant in western North America, with a few scattered records in the east. It flies from mid-May (or as early as February in the south of its range) to early November, and is known to hilltop.

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eristalis_stipator

## Photo

![Yellow-shouldered Drone Fly](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/yellow-shouldered-drone-fly/medium.jpg)

Photo: Jesse Rorabaugh · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/167807320

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/yellow-shouldered-drone-fly?lang=pl` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).