
thumb|Trichopoda plumipes on [[goldenrod]] thumb|thumbtime=13|Anasa tristis|squash bug with [[Tachinid fly eggs attached and a feather-legged tachinid fly, probably Trichopoda pennipes, quickly depositing another egg on it.]]
thumb|Trichopoda plumipes on [[goldenrod]] thumb|thumbtime=13|Anasa tristis|squash bug with [[Tachinid fly eggs attached and a feather-legged tachinid fly, probably Trichopoda pennipes, quickly depositing another egg on it.]]
Trichopoda is a genus of tachinid flies, commonly known as the feather-legged flies or hairy-legged flies. They are small, brightly coloured flies that congregate on flowers, feeding on nectar. The halteres are covered with yellow scales and there is a fringe of flattened hairs on the hind legs. The larvae are parasitoids of true bugs in the order Hemiptera, including stink bugs in the family Pentatomidae and leaf-footed bugs and squash bugs in the family Coreidae. They are found in North and South America.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).