What is the insect in the photo?
Posted by welshpete56@reddit | AskUK | View on Reddit | 7 comments
Posted by welshpete56@reddit | AskUK | View on Reddit | 7 comments
Flowerofthesouth88@reddit
First time I ever heard of it!
Alone_Fisherman_874@reddit
That’s a bee-fly
L-0-T-H-0-S@reddit
Bombylius major - a parasitic bee mimic fly. Specifically either a large bee-fly, dark-edged bee-fly or the greater bee-fly, going by your image.
welshpete56@reddit (OP)
Looks somewhere between a fly and a bee....furry body, sounds like a horsefly when moving, and just weird looking...
SomeHSomeE@reddit
The person who named the insect agrees with your 'it looks somewhere between a fly and a bee'. It's called a Bee Fly!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombyliidae
a-liquid-sky@reddit
A bee fly.
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