• the fly bee

i saw this thing on the balcony at work yesterday, and i snapped a shot of it:

theflybee.jpg

is it a bee or is it a fly?

???

what is it??!?!

Posted by davin on June 2, 2004 6:01 PM | Permalink

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GRAVATAR

it's a saw fly! and what a totally stellar shot of one, wow.

GRAVATAR

so much for that mystery! hehe. thank you sir.

GRAVATAR

ewwwww ewwwww... it's a BUG and it better not land on me... ewwwww!

( but if I wasn't so grossed out, I'd probably think it was a pretty cool photo! )

Posted by shy me | June 2, 2004 7:46 PM
GRAVATAR

Yep, definitely a fly! My husband thinks it's a hover fly, though, but he wasn't totally sure. I'll have to send this link to my father-in-law; he's an entomologist and he never stops talking about flies. He'd love that shot.

GRAVATAR

That is a fantastic example of mimicry. A little defenseless fly looks like something to be weary of. Nice shot.

GRAVATAR

Sweet!

I want to feed it to my spider. :D

Posted by neil | June 3, 2004 9:54 AM
GRAVATAR

How very odd. I saw one the same day and wondered the same thing myself. I decided "fly" and promptly shoed it.

GRAVATAR

That's a super fly, man. Superfly!

GRAVATAR

10th comment

yay

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