Hoverflies

Hoverflies are a species that appear in the JumpStart 3D Virtual World series.

Appearance
Hoverflies resemble insects that are fairly large. They have two main body types. The first type is slightly smaller with a striped mushroom-like head, two dot-like eyes, two long feet, and propeller-like wings atop its head. The second type has a larger bulbous body that is all one color, large round eyes with colored irises, and two leaf-like wings at the end of its body. They can come in many different colors, such as yellow, green, blue, and pink.

Characteristics
Hoverflies simply fly around and don't make any attempts to interact with the player, making them easy to catch. Although they can appear harmless for this reason, Ivy considers them to rather pesky and says that Hoverflies ruin the grass in her meadows.

In the Games
Hoverflies only appear in JumpStart 3D Virtual World: The Legend of Grizzly McGuffin, JumpStart 3D Virtual World: Trouble in Town, and JumpStart 3D Virtual World: Quest for the Color Meister. In all of these games, Hoverflies appear in specific gameplay segments where the player can catch them. These include catching games played with Eleanor in Friendship Park, catching tournaments which occur in Ivy's Meadow, and other catching challenges which take place in Meadow Hills or Meadow Lake. During these catching segments, the entire area will be swarmed by Hoverflies, and the player can run up to any Hoverfly and catch it with a net by pressing the spacebar. Objectives can be to catch all of the Hoverflies in the area, catch a certain number of Hoverflies, or to catch as many as possible.