Volucella Bombylans, Flesh Fly and Gnat in Colour.
IPClark
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This is the first type of this hover fly I have ever seen in person so to speak. I did think first of all it was a bee... but it landed and stayed still. I knew then it couldn't be a bee 
- I think it's Volucella Bombylans. If not, very closely related.
Cold or tired flesh flies will happily pose. Other times, they'll flee the minute you're within 3 or 4 ft.
....bonus water droplet in the bottom left
I almost never kept this but I saw the potential purely down to the colours in it.
- I think it's Volucella Bombylans. If not, very closely related.Cold or tired flesh flies will happily pose. Other times, they'll flee the minute you're within 3 or 4 ft.
....bonus water droplet in the bottom left
I almost never kept this but I saw the potential purely down to the colours in it.
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haha, I'd contemplated a parasitoid wasp but couldn't be overly sure from this perspective.
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